Pretentious faggots, ain't nobody fuck with the real?
I'm definitely not pretentious when it comes to beer drinking... I'll drink just about any beer, though the ones I brought up earlier are top favorites.
I grew up driking 8-ball (anyone remember the 64 oz jug?), and I remember drinking St. Ides when it first came out... also I remember Schlitz making "Red Bull" malt liquor.
There was one that I loved that the entire universe seemed to hate with a passion (and I can't say I blame them, because looking back on it, it sounds utterly horrible)... it was something that Colt 45 put out called "Cool Colt," which was a slightly minty/mentholated malt liquor. I remember when Cool Colt met it's demise, the liquor stores around here were practically giving them away... you could buy a 40 for a quarter... I was stoked, being that it was my preferred drunk drink, and I was a broke as fuck college student.
I also have a hypothesis that those of us that grew up drinking OE, Ides, King Cobra, and all of the other malts probably have a better appreciation for beer versus cats that grew up drinking flavorless shit like Lite. I mean, for us that went through the malt phases, we'll typically try anything, wheras someone weened on Lite can't even drink a Michelob without flinching.