• Most of the Bud/Miller/Coors fit your description but pick up something from Stone Brewing or Great Lakes Brewing, or Victory Brewing (their Storm King Stout  bears very little resemblance to water) or even Boston Beer Company whose Halertau Imperial Pilsner qualifies as an alpha acid delivery vehichle.

    That’s absolutely correct. Over here in Europe, the only American beers you can get are Miller light, Bud light or things like that. So it’s no wonder they have a bad reputation. When I’ve been to California, there have been such wonderful things as Red Tail, Nevada Brew or Anchor Steam. Sure, they cost a bit more, but it’s absolutely worth those pennys. If you taste them, the question if American beers can match some Bavarian, Czech or Belgian brews boils down to personal taste and is no longer a matter of overall quality.

    @Jermo: The cultivating of the yeast really is the simplest part of it, as you in fact do it anyways whilst brewing. It’s just like having dough in the fridge all the time and always leave a little bit behind when baking, refilling with flour and water to use it again next time. And again. And again. Same as with yoghurt, if you do it yourself, or Sauerkraut.

  • '19 Moderator

    I might also mention that Budweiser is the only big mass grewer that is actualy “American”.  Coors is owned by Molsen Miller is Owned by South African Breweries etc


  • @dezrtfish:

    I might also mention that Budweiser is the only big mass grewer that is actualy “American”.  Coors is owned by Molsen Miller is Owned by South African Breweries etc

    It may not be so for long. There are talks of a buyout by InBev. That could make your only choice for American owned and brewed beer a craftbeer from a small brewery.

  • '19 Moderator

    That wouldn’t surprize me, I’m not a fan of Bud products anyway.  I saw a comercial a couple days ago for Pomegranate Raspberry, Lime Cactus and Tuscan Orange Grapefruit beer by Michelob ultra.

    Pomegranate Raspberry beer are you friggen kidding me?  Grapefruit in beer?  Anheuser-Busch should be bought by the french!


  • Lambics are pretty good, but I have to be in the mood for them.  I also would buy the authentic stuff and not a cheap knockoff…

  • 2007 AAR League

    my favorite beer, which i cant get here…. :-(

    ALASKAN amber-bottle.jpg

  • '19 Moderator

    Here you go brother, I hate to see a man not have his favorite brew:

    http://www.bevmo.com/productinfo.asp?sku=00000021441&No=10&N=168+41+0&Ne=309&Nr=Store%3A98&area=beer


  • @dezrtfish:

    That wouldn’t surprize me, I’m not a fan of Bud products anyway.  I saw a comercial a couple days ago for Pomegranate Raspberry, Lime Cactus and Tuscan Orange Grapefruit beer by Michelob ultra.

    Pomegranate Raspberry beer are you friggen kidding me?  Grapefruit in beer?  Anheuser-Busch should be bought by the french!

    That stuff is for folks who let marketing people tell them what to drink.


  • in my best Homer voice:

    “Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm…. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrr!”


  • Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to prosper.

    –Benjamin Franklin

    Beer when drank with moderation softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health.

    –Thomas Jefferson

    Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

    –Fredrick the Great
    No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.

    –John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough

    And where would we be without Homer?

    Alcohol, the cause and solution of all of life’s problems.

    And some wisdom from Papa.

    Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  • '19 Moderator

    “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
    -Humphrey Bogart

    “If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.”
    -David Daye

    “Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed - Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, ‘It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.’”
    -Deep Thought, Jack Handy

    “We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.”
    -Martin Luther

    “You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”
    -Dean Martin

    “I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.”
    -Homer Simpson

    “I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.”
    -Frank Sinatra

    “_… bread, meat, vegetables and beer.”
    -Sophocles’ philosophy of a moderate diet

    “Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
    -Kaiser Welhelm

    “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
    -Frank Zappa_


  • Hillarious DZ, you are the google Master…


  • @Der:

    Hillarious DZ, you are the google Master…

    That was sort of how I found mine too. Googled for “Beer Quotes” the one site had a bunch of exchanges between Norm and Sam or Woody. Although most of mine are also on a poster I have.

    I like this one from Oscar Wilde, “Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

    The other one from Ben Franklin, “There can not be good living where there is not good drinkng.”

    And from Sam Adams, “Let no man thirst for good beer.”

    I think DZ used a great one in the Sinatra one.

  • '19 Moderator

    Definatly no shortage of quotes about beer, Oscar Wilde has some good ones, but what do you expect from an Irish Poet?


  • Not really about beer per se, but I love this one from Dorothy Parker:

    I wish I could drink like a lady,
    I’ll have one or two at the most.
    Three and I’m under the table,
    Four and I’m under the host.


  • @dezrtfish:

    It’s also a rule in my house that the fridge will never be without at least one Guinness.

    Hopefully the Gunniess in the can.  Far superior head and taste as compared to the Gunniess in the bottle.

    If its yellow (or brown or black) and has bubbles I drink it  :-D

    This being new England I drink a lot of Sam.  Also a fan of Saranac which is a regional.  Love Yuengling (oldest Brewery in Ameica) when I can get my hands on it.  They dont distribute to CT, and my liver probably thanks them for it  :-D


  • Love Yuengling (oldest Brewery in Ameica).  We stock too much of it in NYC.  Thank God for that.
    PA isn’t to far from CONN.  They should be ashamed of themselves for not carrying such a american tradition.

    Yeungling , best poured in a pint glass, out of a can (super ice cold)…  No bottle yuck!!!
    Still love, Guinness, no doubt about it.  Kind of prefer it room temperature, such a frothy rich taste, like a good cup of espresso with the foam, of course.
    How bout’ Boddington’s from Engand.  The beer with the shakers in the can.


  • For some reason I don’t like Guinness very much out of the bottle either…but I do believe that is a slightly different Guinness (Extra Stout).

    Boddington’s is badass.  :-D  Do a half and half with Guinness…it’s great.


  • After gaining back the 20 pounds I lost last year,  I have had to give up my beloved Newcastle in exchange for lower calorie brews…

    Becks Light is the lowest calorie beer I can find, 67 calories per bottle… but you might as well drink water (it is the most bland beer I have ever tasted).

    I settled instead on Sam Adams Light…  removing about 1/3 of the calories that I drink…
    Not a bad brew.  And damn fine for a light beer!


  • @ncscswitch:

    I settled instead on Sam Adams Light…  removing about 1/3 of the calories that I drink…
    Not a bad brew.  And damn fine for a light beer!

    Agreed, if you like to actually taste beer, then Sam Light is a great choice

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