Comment Re:and the beer is really good (Score 2) 528
The unusual quality that might irritate people used to Bud Light is called "taste", and is usually considered a good thing in beers.
It would be a tough call to choose between the so-called "flavor" of Beck's or Bitburger and the lack thereof of Bud Light.
Mercifully, in Germany and the US, you can get good beer. It accounts for a small fraction of nationwide sales (and a tiny fraction of exports) in either case, but it's there.
Germany is heavy on tradition, so most of the breweries that are good have been doing this a long time. The mass-market is newer and sucks. In the US, the closest thing to a worthwhile traditional beer is something like PBR or Narragansett. (The mass-market crap we got from a combination of German immigrants and industrialization.) So all of our good breweries are young and experimental. Either works, but sadly, neither makes a sizable dent in mass-market beer.