Originally Posted by
erg79
Why "actually"? Shiner Bock is a good beer. Now, if you said you liked Natty Ice or something...
because it's mass-marketed and i find most mass-marketed american beers quite bad. there are some exceptions though (some Sam Adams / Brooklyn Lagers). i say this because I grew up near Shipyard/Red Hook and the quality went down when the volume went up.
by german standards Shiner Bock is quite a good bock and is mass-marketed, that's the long-winder answer to why I actually said actually.