Corona with lime is tasty on a hot day with Mexican food. Like jlgreco said, though, at that point it tastes less like "beer" and more like "Corona with lime" - good, but not good beer.
Maybe you do didn't notice, but it wasn't our survey, and we had nothing to do with its design. I agree that the design is not great, but c'mon, this is just for fun. When you can select multiple answers, the percentages no longer total 100 across options, only within each option vs all respondents.
When somebody asks me if I want a Budweiser, Coors Lite, etc. I reply I like beer, not alcoholic water.
I usually tend to go for beer in the category of porters and stouts, and ales some times. Negra Modelo is what I drink when I don't have so much choice, but I live near Portland, OR. so beer selection is usually not a problem around here.
If there is one thing I have learned in this life, it is that locals always think their region has a better than average beer scene.
The reality of the situation is that (without exception that I am aware of) if you are close enough to a major city to be able to say that you are near that city with a straight face, then your beer selection is going to be just fine.
I would say with hesitation that this applies to larger geographic regions as well. States, 'coasts', perhaps even countries and continents.
(If I have learned anything else in life, it is that you should always be gracious when someone offers you a beer.)
Hmm, the theme of the two best beer jokes. Monty Python's (pre-microbrew) "How is American beer like making love in a canoe? It's fucking close to water." – and the old brewer's joke which goes like this (I'll use your examples): A Budweiser salesman, a Coors salesman, and an Anchor Steam salesman meet in the hotel bar at a beer convention. The Budweiser man says, "I'll have a Budweiser." The Coors man says, "I'll have a Coors." The Anchor Steam man says, "Just water for me." The other two look at him and say "What? Just water?" "Well," he says, "since you guys aren't having beer I won't either."
How does this compare to human beings in general (and then for men vs women)... I would imagine if you looked at data outside of developers, you'd see pretty much the same results, especially when taking into account the male bias in developer culture.
This was a something people claimed? I demand another poll that asks if they've heard of the phrase 'all developers love beer' and think it's a common belief!
True, good point, caffeine and coffee really go hand-in-hand with the coder life - I switched from coffee to green-tea about 5 years back myself though.
Actually, depending on the type of pot and how you are wired it can be an upper or a downer (it's actually classified a hallucinogen). There are two strains - sativa and indica's - and for some the indica will knock you on your butt while the other will actually give you an odd focused, upbeat kind of buzz. Not that I would know personally, ahem...
This is meaningless without comparing to non-developers, or the general population. For all we know from this data, developers may like beer less than non-developers. Combine this with the problems cited by jmduke, and I'm not sure it is enhancing the reputation of the "developer focused industry analyst firm" that published it. Yes, I have no sense of humor.
Even without the contrast (impossible given this particular dataset since the survey wasn't given to a control), it's still interesting. Here's why -- when you consider the broader context of the outlash against beer/alcohol at conferences, notice that only 5% of developers said they hated beer. That apparently means a tiny minority of people could have an outsized influence on conference behavior. Note that this survey wasn't given purely to conference-goers, so it's not selection bias.
I'm curious if this is partly because of it being a male dominated profession. I would assume polls of other professions with such chromosome skew would produce similar results.
I am a developer and yes I do like beer. I am a human, who would have thought? I also like long walks and holding hands with girls on the beach, then having sex. I hate the stereotype that makes it seem like developers are different to ordinary people, some of the developers I work with you wouldn't even be able to pick that they're developers, they don't walk around in Github t-shirts, wearing glasses and throwing words like release cycle and debugging around.
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Puts things in perspective.
So easy to do so much better.
If you have a strong sense of smell, the skunkiness is overpowering and nauseating.
There are so many examples of decent light lagers out there that it's hard to understand the love people have for Corona
Sometimes I want a nice stout or porter, sometimes I want a lighter lager, sometimes I want a glass of red wine, and sometimes I want a corona.
The skunkiness certainly comes across to me, but I don't find it particularly more off-putting than the fragrance of a particularly pungent cheese.
Either that or we're not "real" developers. :)
...I'll show myself out.
That said, I might suggest you like bacon even more than me, since you want it to stay alive.
Issues:
1. An ordinal scale with subjective verbiage?
2. An ordinal scale with no natural middle (there are six options!)?
3. An ordinal scale with 'select all that apply'?! How does that even work?
4. The percentages add to more than 100%! That's not how percentages work. At least normalize the scale -- or change the Y axis.
There's nothing wrong with trying to promote your analysis firm (I like RedMonk!) but at least try and, you know, have good analysis.
* Delirium
* Anchor Steam
* Carlsberg
* Negra Modelo
Contrary to popular belief, Budweiser, Coors Lite, et. al. are not actually beers but rather beer-flavored water that also contains alcohol.
The reality of the situation is that (without exception that I am aware of) if you are close enough to a major city to be able to say that you are near that city with a straight face, then your beer selection is going to be just fine.
I would say with hesitation that this applies to larger geographic regions as well. States, 'coasts', perhaps even countries and continents.
(If I have learned anything else in life, it is that you should always be gracious when someone offers you a beer.)
Hmm, the theme of the two best beer jokes. Monty Python's (pre-microbrew) "How is American beer like making love in a canoe? It's fucking close to water." – and the old brewer's joke which goes like this (I'll use your examples): A Budweiser salesman, a Coors salesman, and an Anchor Steam salesman meet in the hotel bar at a beer convention. The Budweiser man says, "I'll have a Budweiser." The Coors man says, "I'll have a Coors." The Anchor Steam man says, "Just water for me." The other two look at him and say "What? Just water?" "Well," he says, "since you guys aren't having beer I won't either."
* Darkstar Festival
* Darkstart Solstice
* Harvey's Sussex Best
* Langham LSD
* Green King IPA
* Hornblower
* Riptide
* Green King Abbot Reserve
* Brighton Stout
For Lagers I'd go Polish (Tyskie FTW)
But then, here in Brighton we're spoiled for choice.
Out of interest, in the USA can you get stuff like Anchor on tap? Or do you have to buy bottles? Because I much prefer casks to keg.
(I'm a hopeless caffeine addict and find that switching up my source helps.)
Actually, depending on the type of pot and how you are wired it can be an upper or a downer (it's actually classified a hallucinogen). There are two strains - sativa and indica's - and for some the indica will knock you on your butt while the other will actually give you an odd focused, upbeat kind of buzz. Not that I would know personally, ahem...