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What beer does Captain America drink?
Ok, this is bugging me (she says while drinking a Kilkenny). Any thoughts?
I'm not American and generally don't drink American beer. This isn't a matter of principle, but a sincere effort to protect my taste buds from the utter banality of industrial beer. For the record, I don't drink Canadian industrial beer either. Anyway, this leaves me ill-equipped to figure out Cap's favourite brew. I doubt he's a devoted micro brew drinker, though I could see him choosing to drink local. It seems to fit his essential American guyness that he'd drink American. (Although it should be noted that there isn't much in the way of non-local "American" beer left).
Googling shows that the most popular American beers in America, are Bud Light, Budweiser, Coors, Miller Lite, and Natural Lite. Popular "international" beers include Corona, Heineken, Labatt, Tecate and Guinness. And please, don't suggest PBR - its appeal is entirely based on its marketing as "alternative," and yeah. No.
So what say you flist, will you weigh in on this most important of questions? What beer does Captain America drink? ETA: Let's make this Ult and movie Cap, since I apparently forgot that 616 Cap doesn't drink. It's a sign that I need to reread some Cap. Oh, me.
I'm not American and generally don't drink American beer. This isn't a matter of principle, but a sincere effort to protect my taste buds from the utter banality of industrial beer. For the record, I don't drink Canadian industrial beer either. Anyway, this leaves me ill-equipped to figure out Cap's favourite brew. I doubt he's a devoted micro brew drinker, though I could see him choosing to drink local. It seems to fit his essential American guyness that he'd drink American. (Although it should be noted that there isn't much in the way of non-local "American" beer left).
Googling shows that the most popular American beers in America, are Bud Light, Budweiser, Coors, Miller Lite, and Natural Lite. Popular "international" beers include Corona, Heineken, Labatt, Tecate and Guinness. And please, don't suggest PBR - its appeal is entirely based on its marketing as "alternative," and yeah. No.
So what say you flist, will you weigh in on this most important of questions? What beer does Captain America drink? ETA: Let's make this Ult and movie Cap, since I apparently forgot that 616 Cap doesn't drink. It's a sign that I need to reread some Cap. Oh, me.
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Ultimate Steve Rogers probably drinks something like Sam Adams.
Budweiser, Coors, and Miller are just the most commercialized beers since they're the cheaper beers. *makes face*
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I wonder if movie!Cap will have the same history.
I need Ultimate Cap and Tony drinking fic. The potential for hilarity is high.
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I wish we knew more about the Cap movie. :/ I hope they follow 616 background. I love artist!Steve.
I need Ultimate Cap and Tony drinking fic. The potential for hilarity is high.
Well what are you waiting for! Go, write! *G*
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What an awesome excuse to fill this particular gap in my Cap education! ;)
I desperately don't want Ultimate Cap in the movie. I have a feeling though, that artist!Steve is more likely in the current political and economic climate. America's lost some of its taste for cowboy patriotism. I think it's getting back to a place where more complicated American masculinities are welcome.
Also, artist!Steve would be a nice fit for movie!Tony, who's got a serious flair for design. (Although he doesn't seem to think so... "I don't paint." Facetious, sure, but he identifies more as an engineer, programmer and scientist).
Well what are you waiting for! Go, write! *G*
It would help if I actually read Ultimates. :p
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Frankly, I think everything is a sign that everyone should reread some Cap. But that may just be me.
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Does Keith's count as industrial? I find I often go for that if it's on draft, kinda my safe choice, as I know what I'm getting, even if it's not my favourite.
Oh, and I must say, I do like Corona, and its clone (which I haven't seen in a while) Sol. I'm notorious among my friends for trying to do the thing where you put the slice of lime in the bottle and either doing it too quickly or too slowly and causing beer to be sprayed everywhere. *sigh* You can't take me anywhere.
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Steam Whistle ftw! But I haven't been to the brewery yet. D: Have you been to the indie thing they sponsor?
I go back and forth on Corona. I used to drink it all the time, way back, because that's what my friends drank, and they were my suppliers. ;) Then I got into ales and stouts for a while. Now I can drink Corona and enjoy it. You know, I want to try more Mexican beers...
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Is it cuz the commercials often feature and angry Scottish guy yelling at the viewer? (However annoying that may be.)
Corona was my gateway beer, but I still enjoy it. Before that, I was all about the vodka coolers. Smirnoff Ice and such. Wouldn't touch anything else for a while.
Have you been to the indie thing they sponsor?
What indie thing? (I'm almost always out of touch with cool events in the city, sadly.)
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They sponsor an indie club. I think it's above the Yonge/Dundas Hard Rock. I keep meaning to go, but never get around to it. Still, they've helped a lot of local bands get radio play.
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Huh, definitely never heard of that place before, but sounds like something I'd like. This summer I hope to not be as hermit-like as I have been lately, and catch some more live music.
It's not a live music place, but ever been to the Annex Wreck Room? They play an awesome mix of mainstream and indie stuff, and have old, wacky, and often foreign, children's shows projected onto a big screen. Only been there once, but IIRC the drinks were like three bucks before midnight.
Ultimate Steve Rogers
616 Steve Roger doesn't drink, bad triggers since his dad was an alcoholic.
Ultimates is good
Here's the link if you're interested.
Dutch Courage (http://community.livejournal.com/cap_ironman/289855.html).
Actually, I prefer writing Ultimates fic than 616 fic, because the characterisations are less nuanced than 616 fic. With 616 fic, I have to focus on a particular writer or story arc for my 'take' on the characters to work. I'm admittedly intimidated by 40 years of Steve Rogers in all his permutations.
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Re: Ultimates is good
But yeah, I can see how Ult could be freeing - there's less of a mess to contend with.
I'm bookmarking this fic for later reading. :)
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Re: Ultimate Steve Rogers
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I love live music. LOVE. But I tend to obsess, and when I'm in a class that's actually interesting, well, everything else tends to fall by the wayside. That's happened a lot in the last two years. D:
and then I remembered that I might've been sober at the time.
*g*
I hear you
In the comics, when he and Thor were having dinner at Tony's, he had a glass of wine.
Re: I hear you
(One issue: Yes he's an amazingly open and understanding guy, who's shown no kind of prejudice to other forms of life, but how would he feel about a friend turning himself into something inhuman? Like, if he thought that rather than enhancing himself, Tony was killing his soul.
Another issue: What if Tony was, in his view, deliberately turning himself into a massive threat to governments all over the world, and in particular the USA.)
So yeah.
That's so interesting!
I wanted to write a story re: post execute programme, but it was more Tony well... not necessarily losing his humanity, just becoming distant from it, and how it was a gateway to Civil War and blah blah blah cakes... but then I remember how deathly I'm afraid of 616 fic, and have only written three or four - compared to say, more Ultimates fic. So.... I'm in the sidelines waving the sign of "Just do it!"
Another issue: What if Tony was, in his view, deliberately turning himself into a massive threat to governments all over the world, and in particular the USA.)
Interesting, I'm really glad that you're one to write it, while I'll just be reading! I'm just staying in the shallow end of the fanfic pool right now, really.
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Actually he does. He's been shown to drink alcohol as recently as the Brubaker run and as far back as the early 100s issues of his solo title. Deep drinking of wine from a chalice, even.
So the unilaterial statement of "Steve doesn't drink" is false, and predicated upon the very ridiculous and unnecessary retcon to make Steve's father alcoholic.
"Steve has mentioned several times over the years that he doesn't drink because of his father." is is exaggerated, as there was no mention of Joe Rogers being an alcoholic until it served the plot quite belatedly into Captain America's history as a character.
Steve's also been shown several times over the years to be drinking in the 616 universe. He's far from an alcoholic, but the fact that he engages in casual social drinking IS canon, and every bit as much canon as that stupid "my father was an alcoholic" retcon of stupidity.
Sometimes, I honestly think the only canon that Steve/Tony fans read with regards to Captain America is The Confession and whatever makes its way into Iron Man crossovers.
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Don't bring this into my journal.
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I'd say he probably drinks whatever other people are drinking, to be sociable, but Steve seems like the kind of guy who would like supporting local breweries over big corporations. I'd go for something like Heineken if you were going name brand, because Lite beers and Budweiser in general really aren't very good beers. And Steve's been in Europe, where he would have experienced beer that didn't have American beer's noticeably lower alcohol content (which wouldn't make much a difference to him, since the super solider serum dramatically increases his resistance, but does affect the taste).
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