Warsteiner, an incredible beer and a reason to fly Lufthansa
Belgian Duvel, an ale, the the following two English ales: Harvey from Lewes and Old speckled hen
Warsteiner, an incredible beer and a reason to fly Lufthansa
Belgian Duvel, an ale, the the following two English ales: Harvey from Lewes and Old speckled hen
American Budweiser is truly awful beer. The Czech Budweiser is very good. Also the Speckled Hen on your list is excellent.
The nasty taste of mass produced American beers is in part the result of Prohibition. Before Prohibition beer was made by hundreds of small breweries who produced beers in local styles and with generally good quality. Prohibition closed most of these breweries with only the large brewers managing to survive. When Prohibition ended the large brewers wanted to produce beers quickly, cheaply and in quantity to meet the pent up demand and the public wasn’t very particular about what the beer tasted like as long as it had alcohol. Hence the American style lager beer became the standard with sales driven by advertising rather than major differences in product. This style was further solidified by the large brewers buying up smaller regional brewers until we have only the big three oligopoly.
The fiasco Bud Lite ad showed how tenuous the market had become. Bud Lite plummeted in sales and interestingly Mexican import beer Modelo now is a sales leader in the US market. Modelo is more traditionally brewed and isn’t the watery rice based beer like Bud Lite. The growth of small craft brewers also shows that the market especially with younger drinkers is abandoning the America lager style for better more diverse beer products.