Reply With QuoteErdinger Weizen-Bock (Wheat-Bock) ..
I have just popped the cap of a grolsch, always reminds me of my day's in good old Deutschland when you could buy a crate of the stuff for less than a jar of coffee from the NAAFI!
Erdinger Weizen-Bock (Wheat-Bock) ..
Just had a very cold
and I may have to have another - it's been a long couple of days.
Cheers Royal,
I'd offer you some of my organic howegrown yellow striped heirloom tomato and schwartzbrot sammich, but you're well over the horizon and waay outside the wire ...
A virtual toast will have to do.
I'll buy you a beer anytime you're in town.
Cheers!Originally Posted by He219
Same goes if you cross the pond!
Hard choice:
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Hmmm ..
Damn HE, you and your damn sammiches...
Heineken, the aussie brewed stuff, the amsterdam brewed stuff just doesn't taste right...
I'm drinking Budweiser for the first time in my life. There was a batch of 0.5l cans (usually they sell 0.33l bottles everywhere which I don't like) in one store so I decided to give it a try and took two. It was bloody expensive though, something like 2.45 € a can! That's more that than most of the best Czech etc. beers.
Well, I expected it to be crap but I was positively suprised. OK, it doesn't really have any taste at all, but in my books that's better than having a bad taste. I've tasted quite enough of bad beers that take all your efforts to even finish the first pint/glass. You can definately drink this like water so no wonder it's so popular in the USA. I think the Finnish equivalent is Lapin Kulta, it also has a very pale taste that probably doesn't offend anyone and that has made it so popular.
Thing is they market it like its the amber nectar O.o
I never drank any Budweiser abroad, but I know the European stuff is brewed over there. I think it may have a higher alcohol content.
That's true about many of the light and cheap American beers. They are generally not bad, they are just so thin that they lack a distinct flavor.
You get into malt liquors, however, and they are just plain bad.
One thing i have always been wondering, why is it that most American beers are light and why is it so common to drink them?
Well, I don't think there's a simple answer. It's more likely a combination of things.
- Many Americans don't excercise often and try to justify their drinking habits by drinking light beer to avoid extra calories.
- Light beers are less filling, so you can drink more of them. Makes it a little easier to drink throughout an evening. Can also play into the machoism of drinking a lot. "I drank 18 beers las night, dude!" Kind of a trashy/Frat-**** thing to do, but if you're drinking a light beer with low alcohol content, it's easier to brag about the number you put down.
- They are cheaper than most flavorful beers and microbrews.
- During the prohibition in the 1930s many small breweries were shut down. Only those with the strongest financial backing and those that found ways to keep producing bootleg beer survived. After prohibition was repealed, the surviving breweries created enormous barriers to entry by buying out most of the competition (smaller breweries). For whatever reason, the main competitors were Coors, Miller, Budweiser and the like. I'm not positive, but I think it's safe to assume with a firm grasp on the entire US market the focus turned to mass production and low marginal costs, leading most breweries to focus on lighter beers that required less expensive ingredients and less time for fermentation and aging. It has only been within the last 20 or so years that the microbrew industry has had a chance to catch up from the halt in beer development that the US suffered as a result of the prohibition. The microbrews are almost without exception more flavorful, have more body, and have higher alcohol content than the tradition post-prohibition US beers.
Ummm... can't think of what else to say. As with anywhere I presume, there are those that drink to get drunk and those that sit down and truly enjoy a beer. The later group is what is fueling the resurgence in fine US brewed beers, as well as the demand for quality imports.
Thanks for the info mate, it's one of those small things i've always been wondering about, but what you stated makes perfect sense. However it's good to see fine US brewers making a come back.
About getting drunk, over here in holland i occasionally do it as well when going out in the town but we drink 5% beer or more all night long, mind you this happens rarely in my occasion, but "normal" beer has always been 5% over here so i think it's also a thing of "what you're used to".
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