Tuesday, September 22, 2009

A Tribute to Dos Equis, the Most Inoffensive Beer


Dos Equis goes with everything. Dos Equis neither adds nor subtracts from any experience above and beyond its status as cold, wet, and laced with alcohol. It will quench your thirst. It will cool your brow. And it will get you drunk. Beyond this, it simply tastes like beer. Completely indifferent beer.

You may think I'm trying to bash Dos Equis, but this is far from the truth. Dos Equis should be your go-to beer for nearly every occasion. Here's why: if your goal is to get drunk, there are beers for that. They come in cans. We all know them. Every single one is at least mildly offensive to the taste buds in some way. You're not drinking a Key Ice with dinner, is what I'm saying. Only if your food is deep fried or slathered in BBQ sauce or both are these beers acceptable compliments to your meal.

At the same time, if you're trying to drink some fine-ass beer, there's a whole world of microbrews, and the Deschutes and New Belgiums of the world are forever coming out with new tasty treats. And old ones. I just picked up a Biere de Mars and I'm going to drink it in a sensory deprivation chamber because that shit tastes GOOD.

But both ends of the extreme are few and far between in our post-college lives. The endless days of Keystone Light are behind us (right?) and we're not so grown up we can both afford and are pretentious enough to drone on about microbrews all the time.

So, for the 90% of the time when you want a beer that doesn't complicate your life, try Dos Equis. Just drink that shit all the time. But not really all the time because then you'd be an alcoholic. But drink it a lot.

Dos Equis: It goes down your throat