- Finally shows up at your local liquor store a year after it's announced.
- Takes up your entire fridge, even though last year's version fit quite nicely in the door rack. Even after you could *swear* you've dumped all of it down the toilet, for some strange reason you're still missing an entire shelf's worth of fridge space...
- Takes forever to drink, unless you use a top-of-the-line beer glass that was manufactured within the past 6 months.
- Is brewed from a different recipe every 2 years. (OK, maybe the recipe isn't *that* different... but wow, the new label sure looks good!)
- Mysteriously causes all of the other beer in your house to suddenly become undrinkable.
- Randomly gushes upon opening, until you purchase and install the 20 megabyte "Ale Service Pack #3." Once you install the Service Pack, the gushing problem goes away... but for some bizarre reason, all of the bottles now reek of DMS.
Microsoft Beer
Microsoft would start a massive ad campaign showing how Microsoft Beer drinkers attract good looking women and other beer drinkers as smelly old men...
Then they would twist the arms of their distributors and retail outlets to only distribute their beer, and the beer product...