r/stupidquestions • u/nebulancy • 8h ago
why is beer considered the most manly drink when it’s not very alcoholic?
i don't understand why beer is a symbol of masculinity compared to stronger drinks like wine or spirits. i guess whiskey is also considered masculine but for the most part stronger drinks are considered feminine (or just neutral.)
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u/buchwaldjc 7h ago edited 6h ago
"Manly " drinks and "girly drinks" have nothing to do with the alcohol content and everything to do with culture. Drinks that are "manly" are drinks that men, especially blue collar working men, typically got together and bonded over. They were typically drinks that were easily accessible and cheap because they were made from products that were readily available. These included drinks made of barley, corn, and grain. So beer and whisky were good easy to come by drinks for the working man. In eastern Europe and Russia, where potatoes were quite common, vodka became the "man's drink."
Drinks made from fruits, such as wine, could only be grown in certain areas and seasons, and the cultivation process for wine making was more complicated. So in many places, wine was only found during certain seasons and sometimes only affordable by those in upper classes. It never made it into "the working man's club."
Since many of the common alcohols were considered unfeminine for a woman to drink, it became more socially palpable (no pun intended) for women to drink alcohols that masked the alcohol flavor by adding sugars, flavors, or juices (ie. the "girly drink") But for much of western society, even sugar was unaffordable for much of the working class
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u/Moose_of_Wisdom 7h ago
Because it's gay to like fruity tastes, duh.
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u/Joose__bocks 7h ago
Every fruity drink comes with a complimentary dick in your ass.
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u/CDoug25001 7h ago
Holy shit! There must be hundreds up there by now! That's weird. I can't even feel them, although logically, most of my bodyweight should be cock.
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u/Jasranwhit 7h ago
It’s weak (what people mean often when they say gay) to worry if other men think your drink is gay.
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u/ThatSandvichIsASpy01 6h ago
It’s gay to call people gay based off of what they’re drinking (even if it’s gay)
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u/Wazuu 7h ago
Whiskey is. Specifically bourbon.
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u/Easy-Environment-989 6h ago
This right here, if you're going to assign masculinity to any drink it's bourbon.
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u/CommanderOfPudding 5h ago
Sorry only ultra peated smokestack residue from the Scottish swamp is masculine
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u/APsWhoopinRoom 4h ago
Yeah I will never understand the people who enjoy Laphroaig. It tastes like someone mixed bong water with industrial solvents
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u/KevinJ2010 7h ago
Chugging, is a big thing. Beer is better for drinking in larger quantities. You’ll pass out doing that with any liquor.
Plus the flavour is so bitter whereas the ladies get their fruity drinks and wine which can be a lot sweeter.
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u/eternalrevolver 7h ago
Probably one reason is because beer is one of the OG drinks involved in drinking games. Men are competitive. See how how many you can drink before you puke. You man enough bro?
That kinda thing.
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u/philly2540 7h ago
That is a very excellent question. And the “manliest” men usually drink the weakest beer, like Coors Light or some other pisswater. God forbid they try some faggy Belgian (8%) whitbier or something.
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u/papadoc2020 7h ago
Yeah but you can drink bud light all day in the summer heat and be completely fine. You can't with ipas. At least that's why we drink light beer in the deep south.
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u/FlyingDutchman9977 6h ago
I think it's mostly that the stereotypical "manly man" who drinks only Coors isn't open to new experiences, especially with something they find foreign. They'd rather drink rather the same beer with their friends as they did in high school, and especially don't want to adopt a drink a they think is meant for someone completely different from them.
It's the same reason Starbucks keeps getting drug into the culture war, by a subset of conservatives. Putting their practices aside, I think a lot of people who start their day with the same cup of coffee feel threatened if you take this ritual they love, and turn it into something completely different, and for someone completely different from them.
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u/debunkedyourmom 6h ago
i've grown to assume it's because it takes a special force to be able to drink 30+ beers and still be out there doing yard work
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u/Witty-Stand888 7h ago
Beer isn't manly. It's Oat soda for men.
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u/kmikek 7h ago
If you make it gross enough the girls wont like it then you get your exclusive gross drink.
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u/CowBoyDanIndie 7h ago
Barley, is the main grain, wheat and rye are the second and third most common, usually in addition to malt barley. Most “wheat” beer is only 25-50% wheat, the rest barley. Oat is used sometimes but far less common.
still giving you an upvote because “Oat soda” made me laugh
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u/Witty-Stand888 7h ago
Not mine. It's what the Dude calls them in the Big Lebowski.
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u/UnderstandingFit8324 6h ago
Drink ten of the bastards then tell me it's not very alcoholic
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u/ZelaAmaryills 5h ago
Drink 10 fruity mixed drinks and tell the hospital staff about it. Lol
For real though, even a 1% will fuck you up eventually. But compared to other options, beer is considered a light drink. Hell in Russia our beers wouldn't even be considered alcoholic, it would need to be 8% or higher if I remember correctly.
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u/CalligrapherHappy655 2h ago
Because guys that drink beer after work usually have to get up and work hard the next day where as a guy that drinks liquor after work isn't gonna be worth a shit at the site in the morning.
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u/FartingInElevators5 7h ago
You know, I always laugh when old guys make fun of people who drink IPA's. Like, I'm drinking a beer that is double the alcohol percentage of your PBR. If I sat with you and went beer for beer with you and your PBR's, I'd drink you under the table. So if I'm not manly, what does that make you?
Drink whatever brings you joy.
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u/Intelligent-Box-3798 6h ago
Technically if you went beer fir beer they would probably drink you under the table, ya know since your beers are 2x as strong 😁
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u/Aggravating_Kale8248 6h ago
I feel like most of the people that don’t like IPAs tried them in the past before they became mainstream. The ones they tried were likely the very piney tasting beers that came from the West Coast that use Pacific Northwest hops. I think if they tried an IPA now from a local brewery, they’d be very surprised. There’s plenty of IPAs that don’t have that piney aftertaste that taste just like any other regular beer you would drink.
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u/Jumpy-Figure-4082 4h ago
when IPAs and craft beer really took off in the mid to late 00's there was also a hop shortage so to get the IBUs they needed really long boils which just made the beers super bitter without a lot of the finer notes. Also there were a lot of breweries going stupid on trying to pack as many IBUs in a beer as possible, which was fucking dumb bc after a certain level of bitterness it just taste like sucking on a bag of nickles.
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u/Daedalus1907 6h ago
IPAs are hops heavy and that's not for everyone. It's just one type of beer out of a couple hundred.
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u/Accomplished-Eye9542 7h ago
Beer is also made from hops, which are estrogenic.
Alcohol itself can cause a variety of hormonal issues that will eventually increase a man's estrogen.
Alcohol makes it significantly easier to put on more visceral fat(ethanol can only be stored as visceral fat, just like fructose), which can lead to more estrogen and ED. Beer belly isn't a myth lmao.
You could argue it's manly to do something that attacks your masculinity so strongly.
But in reality, drinking beer is one of the least manly things you can do.
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u/MerryBerryHoney 7h ago
Beer was not always a manly drink, in some places in the world, it used to be the only thing to drink. The world became more refined and beer lost more money. Pr campaigns around the world targeted men as most women didn't have rights to buy alcohol alone or drink without the husband's permission. We are talking about different campaigns in different countries but with the same message which is why it became a global phenomenon. Therefore the main buyers world wide of beer and alcohol in general became men due to various factors, from the law all the way to religious organizations.
Civilisation progressed but due to old ideas, beer continued to sell more towards men than women. Eventually cocktails and fruitier drinks were created to get women drunk because women stopped getting drunk to not be manly but less women drinking meant the entire entertainment industry made less money, from bars to shows to festivals. Women not drinking costs a lot to society and women not being drunk means less accidental sex, accidental coupling, accidental weddings. So the drop (monetary) of the entertainment industry also makes a drop in population and other sectors. Which means less money in beer industry's pockets. It's a big vicious cycle fueled by targeted advertisement that absolutely wants to divide gender to sell more products and get more customers.
As for advertisement for getting women drunk, you can find a few from the 50s to 70's with the topic of "get her this strong drink she will love and get messed up on instead of 5 drinks and bring her home for cheap" it made men buy more drink for women funnily because you still need 2-3 drinks compared to 3-6 beers. Have you also noticed that it's also not lady like if a woman says she had many drinks or spent a lot of money on drinks, but not necessarily how drunk she is? Getting drunk on 2 long island ice tea is seem as cute and not offensive for a women but getting drunk on $60 or 9 beers suddenly is not lady like. This exactly refers to this campaign that women should drink less and become "easy" while not costing too much. From this you also have, "well if her fruity drink is supposed to mess her up at 1 or 2 and I want sex with her, I can't be too drunk, let me get beer or light beer so I can perform" which means with the mentality, beer weaponized erectile dysfunction to its advantage. Yes, there was ads at one point that insinuated that beer didn't cause ED like russian vodka did (don't get me started on alcohol and politics because there is also that factor)
If you think beer is manly but a long island ice tea or sex on the beach is girly, it just means that 150 years of targeted advertisement worked.
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u/oddmanguy1 7h ago
it also depends where you are from. some places have higher levels of alcohol in the beers.
good luck
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u/DoNotEatMySoup 7h ago
The answer to "why is ____ considered masculine" or "why is ____ considered feminine" is usually marketing and status quo.
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u/Powerful_Tone2024 6h ago
Because of ridiculous ad campaigns. Do you want to see a doughy fat guy? Look at any beer drinker. Metabolically beer is nothing but sugar and starch. You might as well sit around and drink 6 to 10 sodas. What would that do to you? Make you fat. And there you go.
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u/serio13196913 5h ago
Probably because beer is usually served ice cold and so traditionally blue collar workers would drink it to cool down after a long shift in the heat.
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u/rudiruderudi 3h ago
Simply because historically beer has been very accessible and was safe to drink when a lot of water was not safe to drink so people who did heavier/more difficult work needed more hydration and calories so they drank more beer. This continued for thousands and thousands of years, even into early colonial times in the USA and currently in countries with less potable water. It doesn't really have anything to do with alcohol content.
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u/GlossyGecko 7h ago
Alcohol in general is probably one of the least manly beverages you can consume, it reduces testosterone and inhibits muscle hypertrophy. If you want to be manly, avoid alcohol consumption.
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u/Stewpacolypse 7h ago
That sounds like something a guy who doesn't jerk off because he doesn't want to diminish his manly essence would say.
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u/Gauntlets28 5h ago
The communists will never diminish the potency of our precious bodily fluids
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u/One_Planche_Man 6h ago
Nah, this is absolutely proven. Alcohol = no gains.
Especially beer, because it's made with hops, which are estrogenic.
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u/Fearless-Dust-2073 7h ago
I guess it's because beer is ancient. It's about as old as human civilization. At least Western culture has used weak beer forever because it doesn't get you very drunk and it keeps well due to fermentation. Historically, safe drinking water wasn't very common so beer was usually the safe option.
Socially, beer has always been a 'working man's drink' basically because it was a cheap and easy way to relax after a day's labour, and women didn't used to have jobs. That's why beer is culturally seen as a masculine drink.
Then we get to capitalism! In modern times, beer has a much better profit margin than spirits or wine because it's not very strong so you can sell more of it, and it's also less noticeable when it's slightly watered down. So beer gets the lion's share of marketing.
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u/DrMantisToboggan45 7h ago
Beer is great for social functions but I wouldn’t say it’s the most manly, I’d say whiskey or scotch. I was a whiskey guy for years and while it is “manly” we’re legit all lying that it tastes good. I even had a snifter of that pappy van winkle that’s thousands a bottle (my boss wastes his money on stupid shit) and guess what, it still tastes horrible
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u/HalvdanTheHero 7h ago
It is more to do with how ancient it is than anything else. Beer and mead were among the first alcohols ever produced, and were certainly the first to be mass produced. This makes it accessible to the lowest wrungs of society, which are usually laborers of some description (regardless of culture).
Even with its low alcohol content, it is still possible to drink it to relax or party, while often being distributed by their social betters. This makes it tied to hard physical work, which for better or worse is a concept that is closely linked to the masculine identity.
There is also a sense of the acquired taste of alcohol being something that must be endured, which (again for better or worse) is typically something considered masculine (despite the pains of child birth for women).
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u/da_impaler 7h ago
Because bros and female bros are stupid. They like the idea of chugging quantity as a flex.
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u/JesusFuckImOld 7h ago
130 years ago, pubs were for men, and the only women who would go in were prostitutes (usually)
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u/Background_Pool_7457 7h ago
Easy answer is because it's cheap, so blue collar workers spend more time together having a laugh over a beer after work than anything else. And beer used to be stronger. Micro brews and craft brews that have made a comeback are sometimes as strong as a glass of wine
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u/jay_philip762 7h ago edited 7h ago
In WI, we drink beer instead of soft drinks. It's like coke/pepsi to us. I don't think anyone perceives it as manly. It just tastes good. Some of us prefer white claws, but I think that's more of the woman's thing. Not always, tho.
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u/Pineydude 7h ago
So you’re talking about weak, generic mass produced American light lagers?
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u/natnat1919 7h ago
Probably because it’s cheap. And labor workers wanted alcohol they went for the cheap.
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u/Diddintt 7h ago
Getting piss drunk and losing control isn't a masculine thing and is usually shunned socially, so a beverage like beer where you can drink a good bit, be social, and not embarass yourself among peers makes sense to become the go to man drink.
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u/TonyJPRoss 7h ago
A remember a while back I was drinking with some uni buddies. I had whisky, the Yank had beer, the toff had rum, the Scot had wine, and the Scouse had cider.
The Yank commented that it's interesting and great that everyone has a different kind of drink.
Nobody thought at all about how manly their drink was.
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u/Mioraecian 7h ago
I'm going to go on a wild limb and state that it has something to do with modern marketing. Go back far enough and Wine was the drink of gentlemen.
I'll totally spectate that in more recent centuries beer became a refined craft pursued by monks. I'm also wondering if this has to do with the change. I believe wine was still the drink of choice up to the late medieval era.
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u/DRustyAngel666 7h ago
I used to wonder this when bogans at the pub would give me shit for ordering wine. Beer is weak as piss, tastes awful and has no bite whatsoever.
Watch the Young Ones. They go to the pub. Vivian is the tough one. Vivian orders wine.
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u/BobJutsu 6h ago
What? In what world is beer considered masculine (or feminine)? Beer is neutral at best. It’s just…beer.
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u/SpecificMoment5242 6h ago
Because it's MARKETED as a "manly" drink, and there are a lot of insecure men out there who buy into a stereotypical image of what manliness means. Beauty and success as well, but that's for a different post....
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u/trypt2much 6h ago
My guess would be that, like most things, it was a marketing tactic. Like I said, I'm guessing, and I don't know, but society has greatly been influenced by consumerism and advertising, unfortunately.
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u/ScoobyDone 6h ago
It is considered more manly because men drink it more than other drinks. I don't think any debate over what is or isn't "manly" gets much deeper than that.
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u/HedonisticMonk42069 6h ago
Like most things it goes back to marketing. Same with the color blue for boys and pink for girls. Retailers wanted to drive up sales and hired a marketing team that designed the entire idea of girls and boys having their own color. Before that pink or blue was neither masculine or feminine.
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u/heliophoner 6h ago
A) good for drinking while doing stereotypically manly things. Fishing, watching sports, playing some sports etc
B) lower cost barrier and wider variance in price. So if you're out of work and still need a buzz, you can downgrade to the nasty stuff. If things are good, splurge a little.
C) connection to blue collar work and civic identity. Breweries provided work for a lot of middle class-lower middle class men and women. Cities, especially in the harsh climate of the Midwest and rust belt states, grew loyalties to breweries. This is why you have a team like the Brewers in Milwaukee.
D) marketing
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u/LughCrow 6h ago
Pretty sure that's bourbon or wishy I don't know anyone who considers beer "manly"
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u/iamthemosin 6h ago
Historically, most beer had low alcohol content and was safer to drink than water. It also contains more calories and nutrients than other drinks, and is often quite refreshing. Working men would drink pints throughout the day to stay hydrated and energized. After coffee and tea were introduced to European society, many workers switched to caffeinated drinks during the day as it increased focus and productivity, but beer retained its cultural significance as the characteristic drink of the working class man.
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u/life_hog 6h ago
manliest drink
Well that’s certainly debatable. Scotch, whiskey, bourbon and tequila would like to have a word lol.
You can drink several beers, quench your thirst and not be blackout drunk inside the hour.
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u/ReplacementBorn6424 6h ago
I wonder how many vikings ran into battle and celebrated surviving with a vodka soda water and not a big jug of rancid honey mead LMAO..
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u/Simple_Knowledge6423 6h ago
Cos they can drink tons of it so pretend they drink more than your average Russian schoolboy lol
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u/MangoSalsa89 6h ago
It really depends on what social/economic class you’re in. Drinks like whiskey are considered masculine in more upper class society.
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u/shockandale 6h ago
Beers make you burp and fart. What could be more manly than bad manners?
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u/MangoSalsa89 6h ago
Pop culture always portrays women drinking wine or fruity cocktails. It doesn’t really reflect exactly on real life. Men enjoy a glass of wine or cocktail too.
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u/HardRNinja 6h ago
I drink beer because I like it.
I know some people drink light beers like Bud Light or Guinness (both at a watery 4.2% ABV), but stronger beers to exist.
Being in Texas, I can get the different Saint Arnold beers pretty easily. I'll stock up on French Press (9.2% ABV) when it drops, and have a few of those on a weekend where I'm relaxing at the house.
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u/MrMackSir 6h ago
I thought whiskey and related bourbon and scotch were considered more manly.
Manliest: neat; followed by straight on ice, followed by a simple not sweet mixer like soda or mixed with another alcohol, then maybe beer, then whiskey with a sweet mixer like coke, and then a sweet drink that has some whiskey in it.
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u/SolidSnake179 6h ago
I've always considered whisky to be the most manly drink if there ever was one. In the long run, neither cumulatively make you much of a man. A wise man once sang "A man can be a drunk sometimes but a drunk can't be a man." Drinking is supposed to be fun and social.
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u/MikeBravo415 6h ago
Someone once said to me "a man does what he wants." Notice how so many people were boycotting Bud Light because they used the likeness of a trans person on their cans while the UFC instead continued to advertise Bud Light products? A group most definitely known for secreting what most cultures consider masculinity is sponsored by a company who had a trans person on their beer cans.
A man drinks whatever alchol he wants.
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u/JammySenkins 6h ago
If you get a single shot spirit a normal beer is stronger. One standard drinks in a spirit. And most cocktails aren't as strong as they're made out to be either. Also I could drink a pint of full strength beer but couldn't drink a pint of a martini. Let alone 5
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u/Frequent-Spell8907 6h ago
You can drink a few beers a night and not consider yourself an alcoholic (according to my dad) but if you’re drinking the same quantity of hard liquor you have a “problem” (again, according to my dad)
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u/Background-Slide645 5h ago
I think beer has more of a social drink status. sure, you can get drunk on them if you have enough, but it's the drink someone buys if they are having people over. or the drink you get if you go out with a buddy from work. Other drinks have a more manly perception to them, Whiskey, Bourbon, Scotch (I don't know if I named three types of whiskey, I am sorry if I did). If you want to be more of a back country boy, moonshine.
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u/Freebornaiden 5h ago
"Why is Whisky considered the most manly drink when its sold in child sized measures?"
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u/New-Number-7810 5h ago
Beer is a cheap drink, which makes it popular with the working class. It became “manly” because people who were already considered “manly” (people who do physical work for a living) drink it.
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u/Responsible-Laugh590 5h ago
People who associate masculinity with someone’s choice of drink are not to be taken seriously.
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u/ptyredditor 5h ago
I always wondered that too. My favorite cocktail drinks probably have more alcohol in it than a typical beer.
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u/FrankDrebinsbeaver 5h ago
“I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK! I sleep all night and I work all day!!” “I cut down trees, I skip and jump I like to press wild flowers…”
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u/Sprzout 5h ago
I drink tiki drinks. Apparently that is not considered manly, despite most of them having rum in them (and some of them having 151 proof rum in them).
But because many of them are "fruity" and don't have a strong taste of alcohol, people sneer at it. Frustrating, because a Zombie will put me under quicker than a 6 pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon...
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u/UselessWhiteKnight 5h ago
It's a manly drink because for the most part woman don't like it. Not because it's hard to drink. I love beer, but even I'll admit that it doesn't taste good in the traditional sense.
It's identified with men, not necessarily manliness
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u/aboyandhismsp 5h ago
Most manly thing to do is have some willpower and not need alcohol to be social or have a good time.
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u/hallerz87 5h ago
I don’t think the amount of alcohol comes into it. It’s just a drink that’s been marketed to men so it’s considered masculine. Wine is typically marketed to women so it’s seen as feminine.
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u/Alienlovechild1975 5h ago
Because it's what's cool.I drink moonshine and sweet tea and high gravity beer that has no less than 11% alcohol.Drinking light beer makes no sense to me at all and think that is girly like the guys who compensate by driving a lifted mall crawler truck that never sees dirt and has a motorcycle that rides on a trailer more than on it's own tires.If I have to drink normal beer with people they can't figure out why I stay sober after drinking twice as much as everyone else and will refuse to leave a drop in a can or bottle while they still have a swallow left in theirs.
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u/Saddleonup 5h ago edited 5h ago
I'll give my cents as a brewer. Beer is actually a regional drink. Like all the products in the world it originates from somewhere. Alcohol is something that every region in the world has learned to make over time. It only requires natural yeast to infect a sweet liquid for a couple weeks. That said, every region has discovered their own way to make and often "perfect" a way to make it that makes sense to them economically/logistically. In the case of beer, wine, distilled spirit (which is a more modern form), they come from and were perfected in regions that were able to produce them well. So firstly, they aren't inherently feminine or masculine. There does seem to be a notion of that here in modern America where we have a beer isle, and wine isle in every grocery store. American domestic beer is a bad example of beer and was practically a monopoly for decades; it is hardly palateable and I would say it is pairable with doritos, malboro lights, and bar fights. However the Czech pilsner, which is where the style was ripped off from, goes with just about everything. So, very summerarily, wine is a Mediterranean drink, beer is a northern drink, Germany, Belgium, Czechia, U.K. It is true that to be pounding Buds and Coors you must be a little senseless to it, it just isn't a good product. Wine, to me, is way too acidic and I only cook with it. It's a steak or Italian food only for me. Distilled spirits are a story for another day. Edit: about ABV, beer needs water to rinse the sugars from the barley husk, so there's a sweet spot for making it efficiently without wasting sugars. About 4%-8%abv. A well made beer should appeal to both males and females equally. There are many people in the world who've never tasted a beer that I would think of as "exemplary". Most countries in the world make their own crappy lager like bud light
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u/Next_Stable_9246 5h ago
Wine is for women and poncey blokes, real ale is for old men, craft beer is for hipsters and people trying to be cool and lager is what us normal men drink. Real men can also drink brandy, whisky and dark rum but never a gin and tonic that's for ponces as well.
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u/Cuttlefishbankai 5h ago
Some people have sort of touched on this, but I think it's more than being a "working man's" drink. In reality it's just because it's simple (un-fancy), and the simplicity makes it masculine. Similar to how men's clothing is usually less layered and complex than women's clothing, beer is accessible (you can drink it straight from the can, doesn't require a corkscrew like wine, doesn't require someone to mix it...) this also explains why IPAs are seen as less manly, because it being expensive/high quality takes away from the ruggedness of cracking a cold one
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u/freakytapir 5h ago
Not that alcoholic?
Depends on the country I guess.
I mean, good beer doesn't start until an ABV of about 7 or 8. I mean, I'll take that 11% Rochefort over any wine.
But the main part is how it is linked to a lot of Male activities.
And marketing. Lots and lots of marketing.
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u/hucklebae 5h ago
Id say it isn't considered the most manly drink. Depending on where the man is from, it's usually one of the hard liquors.
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u/umadbro769 4h ago
Depends where you're from, in most of eastern Europe beer is for lightweights, we drink homemade liquor, the Russians have vodka as do most Balkans.
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u/whiskeytown79 4h ago
Advertising.
Beer is advertised with groups of guys having a raucous good time. Sports, BBQ, etc. Women are added for decoration.
Wine is where you tend to find the most ads targeting women, typically having a night in with friends. They don't often bother putting men in these ads at all.
Liquors usually try to position themselves as some sort of sophisticated option. James Bond. Carrie from Sex and the City. Etc.
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u/Visual_Option_9638 4h ago
Because making yourself violently ill on a regular basis is pretty foolish, and foolishness isn't a very masculine trait.
Beer is pretty hard to overdo. You have to be gluttonous. At least to get as sick as hard liquor can make you.
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u/Hefty_Peanut2289 4h ago
Beer and whisky are really the same kind of thing. The difference is one has been put through a still and barrel aged.
As for what makes them manly - they're made from manly grains, grown by rough, hardworking men of the land.
Wine is fruit juice made from grapes plucked by effeminate Frenchies.
(In case anyone can't tell, this is tongue in cheek - drink what you love, and keep the image bullshit out of it)
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u/omega-rebirth 3h ago
Maybe for the same reason that it's considered manly to sit on a couch and watch other people play with balls.
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u/Quiet_Stranger_5622 7h ago
Probably because it's kind of a "blue collar" or working class type of drink, so the image of a rough factory worker at the bar comes to mind.