I have hated watery, tasteless piss water for years, but when you are young and broke your choices are limited.
We do a movie night at my place about once a quarter and the grub is pizza and beer. Everyone brings a random cool sounding beer that they have to go find. It is always fun. Can't remember most of the names of those beers, but many have tasted pretty good
Microbrew is the fun stuff, and now in the North Coast magazine I picked up at the Mendocino Brewing Co. when I was up there, I saw a new term: NANOBrewerey. Not sure what that is, but it sounds tasty (if a bit trendy).
My current general drinking beer is Longboard. Easy to find, easy to drink and pretty tasty.
http://konabrewingco.com/beers/longboard-lager/