Posted on 08/04/2015 10:46:30 AM PDT by C19fan
Today’s discerning beer drinkers might be convinced that America’s watery, bland lagers are a recent corporate invention. But the existence of American beers that are, as one industry executive once put it, “less challenging,” has a much longer history. In fact, Thomas Jefferson, himself an accomplished homebrewer, complained that some of his country’s beers were “meagre and often vapid” nearly 200 years ago.
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Love Rolling Rock. Also Rickards Red.
“Then drink water.”
I drink beer flavored club soda.
It’s like fornicating in a canoe. ******* close to water.
I second that and would like to put my name down as committee chairman!
Microbreweries and brew pubs are your friend.
Alexander Keith. Canada’s great beer secret. And I hope it stays that way.
What does sex in a canoe and a Coors Lite have in common? They’re both f*ing next to water.
“The number one beer in Canada is Bud. The number two beer in Canada is Coors Light.”
Yuck! I despise them both! Horrible brewskis!
I stand (and perhaps keel over) with you. I’m not much for hoppy, yeasty beers. Can’t stand dark beers or ale. Give me MGD, Dos Equis Lager, or even Pabst Blue Ribbon!
There are a LOT of great beers. As with wine, look for SMALL brewers/winemakers. Just like finding a restaurant, if the owner is on site you are probably in for a good experience; if the owner and/or brewmaster (or winemaker) are where you buy it your odds of getting something great are very high
Alaskan Amber brewed in Juneau. It’s an alt style ale and my favorite.
I very much like all the viscous micro’s (IPA’s and the like), but they don’t like me. I get terrible indigestion from them. The so-called American ‘dishwater beers’ suit me fine. I look for craft and quality in whiskey anyway.
Do the still make Pabst Blue Ribbon?
Yes, they do! That was Clint’s beer in Gran Torino!
Maybe because no one wants to drink syrup for a beer when it is hot out? I am looking to drink a refreshing, cooling, beer, not drink a meal like some of the heavier beers are.
Exactly, not a loaf of bread.
Or watery porridge.
Uh, try Japanese beer. 4 brands that all taste the same.
My battalion sergeant major had spent nearly twenty years in Germany; when he retired everyone asked how was he going to get accustomed to American beer after all those years drinking that wonderful German beer made under the world’s oldest continually enforced law: der Reinigungsgesetz.
He replied he was going to take a German beer & start adding Clorox.
;^)
FRiend, you have not lived until you partake of the golden liquid produced in Rochester ...Genesee Beer.
Unlike most american beers, Genny is made the old fashioned way. Brewed in the aged kidneys and livers of unemployed New Yorkers, collected in acclimatized bladders and bottled DIRECTLY from the production spigot.
the best part is that one bottle will last indefinitely as you simply copy the original process, refrigerate and enjoy the pristine mountain fed waters of the Genesee River once again.
And having kept the place in business singlehandedly in my misspent youth, trust me when I say it.
Perhaps the only better beer on the planet is Iron City Beer. Which I have seen hardened multi decade alcoholics throw away as it was simply refined for their discerning pallate.
Kidding aside, Genny id pretty good for rot gut beer. Iron City ...I wasn’t kidding. I watched an alky throw a case of it in a dumpster as it made him puke.
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