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Best Beers In America Ranked
The Indy Channel ^ | September 14, 2006

Posted on 09/14/2006 11:35:43 AM PDT by Abathar

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To: Dixie Yooper

well, it wouldn't surprise me, a "city" that makes the best and worst stuff around ;)


81 posted on 09/14/2006 12:44:14 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: toddlintown
I was once married to a growler.

I never married one, but I dated a few. You fill 'em up with beer and take 'em home. =]

82 posted on 09/14/2006 12:44:27 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: absolootezer0

You're right, I should! Where would I get some?


83 posted on 09/14/2006 12:45:19 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
I started my beer appreciation in Wisconsin, with Pabst....

Then moved to North Dakota and drank Hamms...after which I moved to Busch country and then the story gets a little vague and fuzzy....

Frankly, I just can't remember......:-)

I appear to have a lot of Coors in the refrigerator, so I guess I am drinking that now....Anyone who knows what happened to me in between....can FReep mail me so I can write my biography.

:-0

84 posted on 09/14/2006 12:47:18 PM PDT by Cold Heat (I just analyze it, I did not create the mess...so go pound sand:-))
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To: Oberon

its brewed in southwest MI, same brewery as the #10 on the list. if you have a local specialty beer store they might be able to get it, but its not regularly distributed in NC.
also, its a summer wheat beer, only brewed april- october.


85 posted on 09/14/2006 12:51:50 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Clint N. Suhks

"Wisconsin is IMHO is the beer capital of the world'

IMHO, Wisconsin is the friendlest state in the Union. Indiana runs a close 2nd, but their beer isn't much to write home about.


86 posted on 09/14/2006 12:52:26 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: gdani

"Merely speaking the truth."

I drink both sides of the argument, and write about them too.

If craft brewers realized how many BudCoorsMillers drinkers are turned off by their more fanatical customers and their pronouncements that industrial beer drinkers are stupid -- drink piss water/crap, etc., they might step in to smooth the aggresive nonsense from too many of their adoring beer geek fans.

80% of the beer drinking market hits the "American-style" pilsners. About 13% enjoys imports. Where's that leave the craft brewers?

If you want to see craft brewers make a bigger gain, a bigger following, belittling the guy who enjoys Coors Light will NOT sway him over to your point of view.

Coors and their Blue Moon line is growing and growing. People still think Leinenkugel is a little brewery in upper Wisconsin, though it's a SABMiller line. The traditional beer drinker will try something different if nutured, but not if he's confronted with some geek flamer screaming that he's an idiot for drinking BudCoorsMillers.

Years ago, craft brewers and their following used to boast that they weren't stuck-up like wine drinkers. Today, their followers can be worse than the biggest metro wine snob in the world.

There's any old saying about drawing more flies with honey...


87 posted on 09/14/2006 12:52:31 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Oberon

"You fill 'em up with beer and take 'em home. =]"

And they usually go flat and taste stale after just a few hours!


88 posted on 09/14/2006 12:53:42 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: toddlintown
"People still think Leinenkugel is a little brewery in upper Wisconsin, though it's a SABMiller line"

I think they still brew the original Leini in Chippewa Falls, but as far as the other 5 or 6 brews that Miller created and gave the Leinenkugel name to, who knows?
89 posted on 09/14/2006 12:58:29 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Abathar
The real best beer in America: Pearl in the bottle, with the puzzle in the cap.

90 posted on 09/14/2006 1:00:56 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Abathar
Where the heck is my Killians Irish Red !?!?????

It's IRISH!

91 posted on 09/14/2006 1:02:51 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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To: Dixie Yooper

"I think they still brew the original Leini in Chippewa Falls"

It's all brewed in the 10th Street plant in Milwaukee, as far as I know.

The Chippewa Falls operation is for the tourists.


92 posted on 09/14/2006 1:04:20 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: toddlintown

One is tempted to formulate some sort of comment about "great head" and growlers, but we shall permit better sense to prevail.


93 posted on 09/14/2006 1:07:26 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Abathar

 


94 posted on 09/14/2006 1:09:05 PM PDT by Fintan (I'm writing a novel...one tagline at a time.)
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To: Oberon

"One is tempted to formulate some sort of comment about "great head" and growlers, but we shall permit better sense to prevail."

After all, "It's all about the beer." :)


95 posted on 09/14/2006 1:10:13 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Horatio Gates

Hops are like oysters. An aquired taste. But once you learn to appreciate them, are like gold.

But any list that has Alaska Amber in its top beers is a list compiled by amateurs, IMO.


96 posted on 09/14/2006 1:15:29 PM PDT by pissant
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

kwel


97 posted on 09/14/2006 1:28:38 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Oberon

Some of those brews are so thick you don't need a glass, you almost need a spoon.


98 posted on 09/14/2006 1:32:12 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Abathar
An all-time favorite of mine is Dominion Imperial Stout, but they quit bottling it. Last time I checked it was a draft-only proposition, and seasonal at that...so go figure.

I sure liked it, though.

99 posted on 09/14/2006 1:47:31 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Dixie Yooper

I'm still pissed that they quit making Amber Light (my favorite beer ever).


100 posted on 09/14/2006 3:00:30 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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