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Life Is Far Too Short To Drink Cheap Beer - 10 Ways To Maximize Your Beer Value - Personal Finance Advice

First, stop thinking of beer as a commodity. It’s not toilet paper, or screws, or an all-you-can-eat buffet. Stop thinking of beer in terms of the bland, yellow, fizzy beverages foisted on the American public by huge brewing conglomerates. Not just the big American brewers, who have spent countless marketing dollars convincing most of us that beer is supposed to be bland, yellow, and fizzy, but also their overseas counterparts who offer essentially the same product but use the additional marketing message that theirs is better because it’s imported.

I really couldn’t resist posting this. The editor wrote another article recently about saving money on beer, as well. As I know beer is something like a food group to students, it seems apt.

Personally, I’m not that fond of beer. I prefer wine, liquor and port. Now if someone would just show me how to get a good deal on that stuff!

MindfulInk has dealt with alcohol a bit before though, in our post: Drinking in College (Rules to Drink By)