[jlgreco]

Negative connotations as in "these are very bad beers", or negative connotations as in "anyone who drinks these must be wildly uncool"?

The first exists in the US, but the second doesn't really (outside a few circles typically called 'beer snobs' ;).

[te_chris]

The first, it also tends to extend to most american beer (excluding some of the bigger craft ones which have made it out of the states) and cars, in my personal experience. Although for a perverse few who idolise american culture, bud etc are aspirational, so each to their own I guess?