At 09:02 AM 5/15/00 -0700, Todd Houlette wrote:
>Obviously if you are complaining about the beer her in
>the US, you live in the wrong part of the US.
No, no, no. I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm definitely not talking
about microbreweries. Generally, even at their worst, they're still pretty
darned good (a favorite local of mine is the Triumph microbrewery located
on the Princeton campus in New Jersey).
What I was talking about was the "mainstream" US beers (Budweiser,
Coors, Miller, etc) vs. the mainstream Canadian beers (Molson, Labatte,
Moosehead*, etc). They all taste like crap, they're all brewed with crap,
and both US and Canadian beers have the same alcohol content (despite
common belief that Canadian beer is stronger).
>The Northwest by far has the best beer. I'll admit that we
>are spoiled with some of the best beer in the country
Agreed! While I haven't had a chance to sample any of it, Oregon's
microbreweries are near-legendary in the beer circles, or whatever,
heh. The one I hear mentioned most often is the Anchor microbrewery, if
that counts for anything. I'd love to try some of the stuff out there, but
it's difficult; i'm in Philadelphia.
Still, my general belief is that if I'm going to go for beer, I try
to get it from the places that use old recipes and have been around for a
long time, since they've known how to do it far longer than others
have. That's why I usually use Europe as my main source. While Yuengling
may be "America's Oldest Brewery," they're still a few thousand years
behind the Belgian monasteries :)
- Matt
