Damn, Sergeant Major. Your statement is terribly wrong in this day and age. It was true 20 years ago, but not any more...as even your own statement about micro brews alludes to.
This is the golden age for beer in the U.S. It is exactly because of the title wave of mirco brews that we have a plethora of wonderful beers to chose from these days.
Perhaps you meant in terms of national brands there is not much taste. But as some micro brews make their way into the mainstream even that does not hold true these days.
BTW....you don’t happen to live in Utah by any chance, do you. :-)
Yep. I like a lot of the microbrews available locally. I think bud and miller taste like water.
A good micro brew available in Pensacola and Fort Walton is available at McGuires Pub. It's their pale ale. Unfortunately you can't get it anywhere else - only in the pub.
I got spoiled when I was stationed in Germany for 6 years. Every little town had its own brewery and I tried as many as I could and never found one that I didn’t like. Germany actually has a federal law government what ingredients you can put in beer. Water, yeast, grain, and hops. No fruity flavors. The beer tastes like beer.
Even better, that wave is now extending to distilleries.