Whether it be an American "light" beer in a tin can or a good pint of stout,
just enjoy it and quit whinging and knocking American beers like a bunch of
fecking Euro-wannabes. ;-)
Well I'll pick up this gage!
I think you have it wrong... We're reclaiming our heritage... Early
American brews WERE ales. Brewed
VERY locally. Each of these brews had its own character. Some was really
awful some was very good.
Most were middling. Modern pasturization and cooling really didn't exist.
Beer went bad. There were no
health codes so sometimes what got put into the product could make you
sick... or kill you.
The transition to the mass produced German style beers really came about
in the latter part of
the 19th century. This mass produced product was so cheap it crowded out
the local brews so the
local breweries went out of business (the one in my home town finally died
in the 70's). What is
sold in volume today is a pasturized, mass produced product that conforms
to a "standard". It's made
to ALLWAYS TASTE THE SAME. It's nort great. It's not awful. It has no
craft. It's boring. No magic.
This is the reason there's been a rennaissance going on with boutique
breweries.
I like the Ales and bitters. There are a nuber of domestic brews I like
(Goose Island, 3 Floyds ec.).
I'm particularly fond of the Ales that come from Wychwood Breweries in
Oxfordshire. Aparently so do
many other folks. Enough so that this "boutique brewery" is cranking out
>30,000 barrels of various
hand crafted brews a year.
One of the best domestic beers I've had recently is small batch brewed in
a little bar in Chilton
Wisconsin. You get whatever's on tap, and you can't take a 6 pack home...
unless you bring your
own bottles.
Greg Petrolati
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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