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    TwoMoreCutsKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:55pm

    I'm a beers geek and i'll say this, Sam Adam is far from bad beer and it serves a (noble) service. Compared to other craft breweries Sam Adams is not nearly as good. If you compared Sam Adams with Stone or Bells or Three Floyds, it's not close. But Sam Adams is a mass produced decent tasting beer. And it's a gateway of people for people to ditch the macro crap.

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      thecaptainstubingTwoMoreCuts
      7/08/13 8:02pm

      You have hit the nail on the head. They also do some decent craft variants, and some lousy ones - certainly as good or better than some other "macro micros" like Leinenkugel, Saranac or Troegs.

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      JohninLATwoMoreCuts
      7/08/13 8:07pm

      Exactly. It's like a gateway beer to craft beer. A stepping stone to Stone, if you will.

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    HoorayBeer!Kate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:27pm

    Why are there codes and regulations at all regarding this? seems a stupid law written in by religious backers to keep alcohol makers from making commercials with god in them. While along the lines of alcohol and religion, anyone know what kinda wine is used for the blood of christ at catholic mass? Shits delicious but google isn't telling me the answer.

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      lankypankyHoorayBeer!
      7/08/13 7:38pm

      I - an atheist - think that using religion to sell beer is really tacky. Forget the laws; it's just not in good taste to use god to shill your booze, particularly as many religious groups in the US view alcohol use or abuse as a sin.

      The wine is an interesting question. I grew up eating leftover communion bread (Protestant church, not Catholic, so this was acceptable); the weeks we had the sweet Hawaiian bread were the best. I can tell you that the red wine was whatever was on sale that week. I would guess that the red wine used in the Catholic eucharist would similarly be subject to the whims of whatever parish employee had been sent out to get it. After the priest literally turns it into blood (as the catechism dictates), it doesn't matter so much.

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      HoorayBeer!lankypanky
      7/08/13 7:43pm

      Sweet Hawaiian bread? We get the same stale bread every week every time. Perhaps I should look at other religions lol

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    TheOmbudsmanKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:21pm

    Likely many of those same commentors have no clue (or have a clue, but choose to ignore it, la-la-la-I-can't-hear-you style) about how our currency didn't have "In God We Trust" stamped on it until it was added in 1957 (if memory serves) and that the original Pledge of Allegience had no reference to God until it was later added as well.

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      DangerBadgerTheOmbudsman
      7/08/13 7:26pm

      Those were added to differentiate us from the heathen communists, basically.

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      token_liberalTheOmbudsman
      7/08/13 7:27pm

      Except that coins had In God We Trust for longer than that. The additions to paper currency and to the Pledge were in response to communism and were a direct result of the Red Terror. We wouldn't want America to be atheist like the godless commies, would we?

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    Not A SnortKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:24pm

    This is ridiculous. As a person of faith, I know that God drinks nothing but Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. Which He sips very slowly...on account of his age. And the price.

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      Cam/ronNot A Snort
      7/08/13 7:26pm

      Sadly, Jesus still can't afford 25-year PVW.

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      Sean BrodyNot A Snort
      7/08/13 7:35pm

      He drinks rye and you fucking know it!

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    GemmabetaKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:28pm

    So you mean that all those biblical references were not about grape juice?

    PS. I don't think the Bible mentioned beer, did it? It's always wine.

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      MagratMakeTheTeaGemmabeta
      7/08/13 7:39pm

      Beer didn't exist in the Roman empire when the New Testament was being written, that I'm aware of, at least not on a large scale and not in Palestine. I know historically it had existed in Egypt and Phrygia (western Turkey), but if it was still being made in the first century it didn't make it onto anyone's radar that I've ever read.

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      Cherith CutestoryMagratMakeTheTea
      7/08/13 8:30pm

      It existed and there are references to it in Roman works. But they definitely looked down upon it and associated it with barbarians. The Egyptians and the like did still brew it as did the Germans. It was not at all popular in any of the cultural centers. It was definitely not a Roman drink of choice. And that is using "Roman" very loosely to mean any "civilized" active citizen of the empire.

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    humanSuitcaseKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:19pm
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      TheStrategeristhumanSuitcase
      7/08/13 7:22pm

      This is fucking glorious.

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      HubcapJennyhumanSuitcase
      7/08/13 7:34pm

      Way to up the ante on those folks who photoshop celebrities into their parties.

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    Sean BrodyKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:34pm

    "beer advertising and marketing materials should not include religion or religious themes."

    Nice to know that beer commercials are kept to a higher standard than the goddamn founding text of the country.

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      KnaveOfDiamondsSean Brody
      7/08/13 7:59pm

      The founders... or at least Thomas Jefferson... was explicitly making a point by mentioning "the Creator" rather than "Jesus Christ". They were operating on a philosophy that would not be so popular with the very people complaining about the lack of invocation of the divine in our beer ads, today.

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      SILENTFROGFARTINGINTHEWOODSKnaveOfDiamonds
      7/09/13 12:21am

      In the Judeo Christian universe, there was little else they could have been referring to. And I'm pretty sure it was Christian. Europe had two things, Catholicism and Protestantism.

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    ManchuCandidateKate Bennert
    7/08/13 8:19pm

    If Sam Adams is "god's" brew then what is Satan's beer?

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      SnapchatmethatpussyManchuCandidate
      7/08/13 10:11pm
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    Cam/ronKate Bennert
    7/08/13 7:25pm

    Now if only the righteous Christian Patriots knew that so many of the Founding Fathers were goddamn lushes. Adams was a maltster, Washington owned America's largest whiskey distillery, and Franklin claimed that beer is proof that God wants us to be happy.

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      El_GodinezCam/ron
      7/08/13 7:43pm

      Franklin was right! So much so that I go to Beer Heaven at least twice a month!

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    Tyrant BigglesKate Bennert
    7/08/13 8:30pm

    Fox&friends is your old biddy aunt who tells you how awful you are.

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