Bad luck America

you know what septics are like, you could give them cats piss and they would argue its a new light beer.
 
I'm going to have to guess you're refering to the rice beer that's mass produced. I call it less-filling-tastes-great (yeah right)-won't-fill-you-up-swill-with-a-foamy-top.


Our micro-breweries and brew-pubs produce world class award winning beer. The other crap is cat piss.
 
Sorry mate, but the Yanks i've drank with couldnt outdrink a 4yr old girl. Your lack of good beer, with proper alcohol percentage is destroying your country .
 
British beer is cat piss too

A Romanian lady I used to work with sat there one night, knocking back whiskey like I've never seen anyone do, then said "your whiskey is pathetic, it is piss. you should try Romanian". I didn't try Romanian..
 
Guess again mate, I love Fred, and get it direct from the brewery.

http://www.hairofthedog.com/

http://www.hairofthedog.com/fred-detail.html

Fred is 15% direct otherwise it's 10%.

I'll have to bring some along when I visit.
 
There are plenty of smaller breweries in the USA which do great beer. It's the big national brands which are gnats' p1ss.

The trouble is that in a lot of places, you can only get the rubbish.
 
So if you can get powerful American beer, why cant Americans drink?

I dont trust people that cant outdrink my mum .
 
If you mean the majority of commercialy brewed beer. Then who cares what happens to those who drink that. There are far more important things in life.

Other than that it seems you don't know that much about American micro brews. Most of them are pretty damn tasty. You should try some... that is if you can get them in your country.

Last I checked... Fosters wasn't exactly a great beer.



Again - if you actually knew much about the variety of beers brewed in America instead of just parroting what you heard from your mates down at the pub then you'd know there are more American beers than just Budweisser and Coors.

My suggestion... get out more.
 
Generally speaking, it's only the shyte like Budweiser, Coors and Miller which are available in the UK. As far as anything vaguely decent goes, you can get Sam Adams in a few places, and the occasional 'micro-beer' is available in bottles in supermarkets - but that's very rare.

I think that's a pretty good parrallel. The Australian beers which have a large market outside Oz are the ones that most Aussies wouldn't touch with a bargepole; like Fosters and Castlemaine.


The way that beers like Budweiser get marketed over here, you'd think that everyone in the states loves the stuff. It's only when you go there that you see that the adverts don't quite tell the full story!

I'd imagine it's the same with any country. I bet plenty of Americans have some skewed notions of what Brit's eat, drink, wear, etc. based on the stuff they see on the telly over there!
 
Johnno,

Absolutely. I couldn't agree with what you said more.
I can remember at about 14 or 15 finding a shop that had a strange and very expensive ale called Chimay. We had someone buy us a few of them and they cost per bottle at the time about as much as a six pack of Coors or Millers Lite or Bud. We were blessed we realized that:

A) There was a use for the Belgians..

B) That mass market American beer was crap like we thought

C) That people were gettin' shafted by big American breweries who at that time had a very tight grip on the market.

Some of that has changed... first off it was the Americans who kicked off the micro-brew revolution. Partially because we couldn't get quality beer that had flavor or that could be drunk at warmer temperatures without tasting like piss. Out of the micro brews there were a lot of good things that happened. There are still a bunch of micro breweries in America that brew up quality ales, marzen bochs and hefferweizen.

You hit the nail on the head with mentioning the whole idea of what Americans think Aussies drink. Lord knows that most of them won't touch Fosters. It's what they pawn off on the yanks. And many Americans know that Bud sells like crazy in other parts of the world. Here in Hong Kong for instance... it's one of the most expensive beers going. Go figure.

Again - people who've been out and spent significant amounts of time outside of their country don't buy into the stereotypes because they know it's not neccessarily true. There are a ton of great Enlgish ales and beers that you can be sure we'll never see in America. The same goes for Belgian ales and other countries as well.

Of course this is all the more reason to have a passport.
 
The ones who realise that its a country in its own right, anyway.

As to Romanian whiskey, its not really any stronger and its incredibly harsh. Give me a good smooth Scotch whiskey over the Romanian stuff any time.
 
Thats why if I can afford it, I'll drink absinthe

Had some tasty microbrew while I was up in CT less than a month ago.. stout stout stuff.. like 10.5% alcohol... 4 pints and I'm crab walking to the parking lot.
 
Nothing says I love you like a pint of Jack Daniels Beer is for wusses and Brits....oh wait. LOL
 
all beer tastes like s**t in my opinion i just drink it for the effects.

I dont actually mind bud though...is that a bad thing?..
 
You were quaffing bottles of Chimay at fourteen?

That explains a lot.....




I think of American Budweiser as 'The beer for people who don't drink'.

You see them at the bar, the guys who only go into the pub when someone at work is leaving or having a birthday, and they're panicking over what to have..... then they remember the adverts, and ask for a bottle of 'Bud'. Then they spend the next hour and a half sipping from it with a rather sour look on their face.

I was amazed when American MAP'ers like AikiMac were talking about loving Newcastle Brown Ale. I was very surprised they'd HEARD of it - never mind actually drink the stuff!
 
in regards to people drinking Bud or Bud light at the club/pub.. Yeah I don't get that either. Waking up after a night of polishing off 2 cases of that crap leaves me with a taste in my mouth I'm sure most public restrooms at a construction site can relate to. Thats the reason I only drink Heineken and Stella Artois at clubs, or Red Stripe if they have it

Ewwww Newcastle? The only thing those are good for is plinking away at them with a .22 downrange..
 
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