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Why Is American Beer So Bland?
The Atlantic ^ | August 4, 2015 | Joe Pinsker

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Food; History
KEYWORDS: beer
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To: dennisw

Love Rolling Rock. Also Rickards Red.


61 posted on 08/04/2015 11:38:18 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: ctdonath2

“Then drink water.”

I drink beer flavored club soda.


62 posted on 08/04/2015 11:39:40 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats are parasites. It really is that simple.)
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To: dmz; saleman

It’s like fornicating in a canoe. ******* close to water.


63 posted on 08/04/2015 11:39:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: mulligan

I second that and would like to put my name down as committee chairman!


64 posted on 08/04/2015 11:40:19 AM PDT by jasbd1985
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To: ctdonath2

Microbreweries and brew pubs are your friend.


65 posted on 08/04/2015 11:40:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: C19fan

Alexander Keith. Canada’s great beer secret. And I hope it stays that way.


66 posted on 08/04/2015 11:41:00 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: C19fan

67 posted on 08/04/2015 11:41:28 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: dmz

What does sex in a canoe and a Coors Lite have in common? They’re both f*ing next to water.


68 posted on 08/04/2015 11:43:36 AM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: Poser

“The number one beer in Canada is Bud. The number two beer in Canada is Coors Light.”

Yuck! I despise them both! Horrible brewskis!


69 posted on 08/04/2015 11:44:52 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

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!


70 posted on 08/04/2015 11:46:06 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: C19fan
The writer is a moron.

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

71 posted on 08/04/2015 11:46:24 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: C19fan

Alaskan Amber brewed in Juneau. It’s an alt style ale and my favorite.


72 posted on 08/04/2015 11:47:26 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: C19fan

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.


73 posted on 08/04/2015 11:48:31 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: Kartographer

Do the still make Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Yes, they do! That was Clint’s beer in Gran Torino!


74 posted on 08/04/2015 11:49:07 AM PDT by navet97
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To: C19fan

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.


75 posted on 08/04/2015 11:49:08 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: CodeToad

Exactly, not a loaf of bread.


76 posted on 08/04/2015 11:52:09 AM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: skinndogNN

Or watery porridge.


77 posted on 08/04/2015 11:53:13 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: C19fan

Uh, try Japanese beer. 4 brands that all taste the same.


78 posted on 08/04/2015 11:55:15 AM PDT by struggle
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To: ctdonath2

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.

;^)


79 posted on 08/04/2015 12:10:43 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: prisoner6

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.


80 posted on 08/04/2015 12:12:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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