American beer is weak......... MYTH!

[Airscrew]

Creamo,  I could care less whether a beer is manly, bold or if it has an image.   I like taste.
Before germany I drank several different american beers,  Pearl, Lone Star, Old Milwakee, Schlitz, Hamms, Blatz, Pabetz, Bud, Coors, original Miller pilsner, MGD and Lite, Keystone (yuck, actually made me sick) Red Dog, Zeigenbock, Shiner Bock, and others.   They all tasted fine and most were cheap (in 79-80 I could get Hamms for $1.50 a 6pack,  Bud was $6 a case)

For me after germany, american will never be the same.

German beer will definitely kick your ass,  2 Paulianers = 6 pack of Bud.

But you're right,  beer is beer and I ain't never turned one down

[AKIron]

No one likes American beer. Does kinda make one wonder who it is that drinks all those millions of cans/bottles/glasses every day here in the US though.

[midnight Target]

Beer is Beer

Scotch is the nectar of the gods.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Beer is Beer

Scotch is the nectar of the gods.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Dowding]

No one likes American beer. Does kinda make one wonder who it is that drinks all those millions of cans/bottles/glasses every day here in the US though.

Good patriotic folk, obviously.
The problem with American beer is the partly the gas and the lack of taste, for me. I like a nice smooth beer that doesn't bloat you up.

Devious - I don't know where you get the idea that British beer equals lager. I don't think there are any British lagers in major circulation. But John Smiths, Boddingtons, Worthies, Theakston are the big mass produced beers over here. We import alot of lager like the god awful Fosters, and the not so bad Heineken and quite nice Stella and Kronenburg.

I like Belgian and German beer, but I rarely get the chance to drink it.

[Syzygyone]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Beer is Beer

Scotch is the nectar of the gods.

Scotch is too good for the God's.  They got all them other super powers anyway.  Scotch is for mortals so that they can bear the heavy weight of being mortal, and reading MiniDs posts!

[Airscrew]

Scotch is nothing,  childs play

Vodka is king.  A good vodka is smooth straight and mixes with anything, even milk

[GrimCO]

Ah C'mon,

Even the German beer in America takes like pisswater... The pasteurization process ruins the flavor of the beer. An example: Drink Becks here, then drink Becks in Germany. Although Becks is not the favorite beer of many Germans, its tastes A LOT better than the Becks we get here.

BTW, a good single malt Scotch buries vodka any day of the week in my book. Although I do like vodka.

[Dowding]

Same with Guiness - a pint of Guiness in Ireland is much better than a pint in England or anywhere else.

[bigUC]

I have tried many american brands, none have impressed me.  They all taste like they have been watered out (with somewhat impure water). Microbrewery beer is the same everywhere, both in europe and US.  Tastes somewhat less watered out than US stuff, but makes your stomach nervous if you drink too many. Inferior to a well made european beer. Not a good alternative.

Worst thing is that imported beer in the US often tastes like crap too.  Most of my favorite european brands was a bit "off", prolly beacuse of long  transportation and storage.  I was desperate after my first few weeks in D.C.  Finally my friendly liquorstore manager next door got hold of a few cases of dutch beer that wasn't ruined. I had him import that for the next three years, he didn't even put it out for sale in the shop.  I got my friends hooked on it too.  Was quite a sight every friday, when the norwegian colony bashed in, went into his cooler and carried out the weekends supply.  I think we did away with a pallet a month.  The name was "Three Horses", on almost every photo from my stay there's someone holding a bottle of it

[GrimCO]

Dowding, is it your laws in England that cause it to be so? In America, all beers have to be pasteurized by law. It absolutely ruins the flavor of the beer, but prevents any bacteria from forming. I suppose it's a good safeguard, but it sure does ruin the taste.

BigUC, it's not the prolonged shipping that causes European beers to taste bad here in the U.S.  It's that their beer has to be specially made for us using pasteurization.

[Frogm4n]

ole mil has nothing on natural lite. there is nothing like sucking down a 12 pack of natural lite and passing out at some crap hole of a beach in florida.

[Airscrew]

You know I'm not sure about that Grim,  The Bischoff pils I buy at HEBs central market seems to taste the same as what I drank in Germany, but after 5 years I cant be sure.  
Whats needed is a comprehensive comparison to gather up-to-date pertinent data on every american brewed beer, imported beers, and beers in the actual country where brewed.   I am willing to sacrifice my time, liver and brain cells further the advancement of brewerys everywhere by visiting each major and minor brewery and sample their beers.   Then have them deliver a case of each sample to a central location for the study.  I think about $200,000 should cover the costs and the study should take less than a year.

[GrimCO]

Originally posted by MajTom
You know I'm not sure about that Grim,  The Bischoff pils I buy at HEBs central market seems to taste the same as what I drank in Germany, but after 5 years I cant be sure.  
Whats needed is a comprehensive comparison to gather up-to-date pertinent data on every american brewed beer, imported beers, and beers in the actual country where brewed.   I am willing to sacrifice my time, liver and brain cells further the advancement of brewerys everywhere by visiting each major and minor brewery and sample their beers.   Then have them deliver a case of each sample to a central location for the study.  I think about $200,000 should cover the costs and the study should take less than a year.

Count me in, and BOTTOMS UP! hehehe

[Airscrew]

Now I'm thirsty................