[HardCoreDawg]

Rickard's Red or a Sleeman's Honey Brown.....goooood stuff!

[canuckns]

Ruxpercnd Ruxpercnd:

Not sure that Black Butte Porter is anymore a micro-brew. It is distributed in several states, in bottles and on tap. The Milwaukee beers were blue collar beers... Now things have changed and we got some good stuff going thanks to all the Microbrews that led the way.

I still think it would classify as a micro-brew. I can get Bell's Two Headed on tap at several pubs in the Chicago area as well as out of state, but it's still not so popular to be called main stream, IMO.

[Ruxpercnd]

I used to like Guiness... still good. But prefer the freshness of porters. Guiness is served too warm. I like colder stuff. Love the Guiness in cans with that big plastic ball in the can... to stir up the sediment.


I did some work in a beer factory... I computed overfill amounts based on testing... had do compute additional Federal Excise Tax on the overfill amounts. Yes, the Feds were that anal about getting their tax. The old Olympia Brewery in Washington... Made from pure well water. I think I counted that we bottled 78 different labels/size combinations of beer there... Yes, they just take a recipe and bottle it up for whomever. This outfit was shut down because it was too small capacity. Now the big guys use 100,000 gallon tanks. 10,000 gallon tanks were not worth the effort.

[USCAdad]

I love McMinnimans brews as well. They have hords of little brew pubs through Washington and Oregon. In some they brew in very small batches maybe a hundered gallons. There's no reason not to have small breweries.

[norad]

Alexander Keiths India Pale Ale:
http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/alexander- ... -ale/1518/

Not real high ratings.... one guy said:

"Tis a rather pale beer with not too much to stick on top on it. Smells a bit like alcohol. Unlike a ’real’ IPA, this is not hoppy at all. Not to say that it is bad because of this or anything, but rather to say that the beer is significantly less hoppy than what I expected. It has a rather bready and yeasty flavour though. With a little spice thrown in the mix. Finishes off skunky. Run of the mill mediocre beer. "


Must be an acquired taste.

Now, are you all putting this beer above real American Beer?????

Funny, this won second place in a contest. I'll have to find the link - obviously the author doesn't know a good beer!

[TheFoundersIntent]

CapeApe CapeApe:

Then perhaps someone could explain why our southern gentlman get liquored up after 6 CDN beer and
us Northern fur bearing gentleman drink a 24 of the US grade A water and go looking for more...LOL

Only fools would drink 24 bottles of watery beer. I would change beers after one.

[TheFoundersIntent]

I've drank many different kinds of beer from different countries. I have found Sam Adams to be very good for the price, I have had better beers, but those were rare imports from Germany. Sam Adams is very available, reasonable in price, and offers a good variety of which all are of at least desent quality.

[Ruxpercnd]

Alaskan Amber: http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/alaskan-amber/13/

5% (American) 6.25% (Canadian) Alcohol. Now Alaskan Amber is one of the few beers that I will drink out of a bottle. When I go to some kind of bar that doesn't have real beer, then hopefully they will have Alaskan Amber.

It rates 78% overall, probably just a little higher than most Canadian beer.

Review: "....The label described this beer as an "Alt Style," and while this seemed a bit of a disconnect to me, I thought this beer was quite good. Appearance was a brilliant red-brown with great amounts of white head with good staying power. Aroma was malty, and a bit reminiscent to me of the way a bock smells. Flavor was also "bock malt" flavor with lots of unexpected chocolate taste. Mouthfeel was good but almost coarse and chalky, which seemed to help rub the chocolate taste into my taste buds. I found this beer to be highly drinkable..... "

It so sold in 11 States:
Alaska , Arizona , California , Idaho , Illinois , Montana , Nevada , Oregon , Tennessee , Washington , Wyoming

.... So, it think it is out of the Micro Brew Category. Yes, it is hard to beat American Beer.



Now Fat Tire Ale is down closer to Canadian beer: only a 52% overall rating, but a smidge higher than normal alcohol content (approx 6.626% Canadian). Canadians would probably find this American beer to their liking.

Fat Tire Ale is distributed in 25 States plus Manitoba! Yes... it qualified in Canada! http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/new-belgium-fat-tire/424/

[sasquatch2]

What I recall is the fun we had introducing US servicemen to Foster's (Australian) Beer.

[Toro]

Gentlemen

Molson, Labatts, Coors, Bud

Its all just cooking beer, barely worthy of latrine washing.

But there are a many worthy Canadian and American micro-brews on both sides of the border - fine beers, not the cooking beers, which being caught with one is akin to being found with a cheap $10 hooker in a back street off East Hastings.

[BAT119]

you can buy a lot of beer for 10 bucks ! I always feel like Homer Simpson in a 5 cent donut shop when I buy beer in the USA.

[martin14]

you should.. American beer is really crap.. lived in Michigan for a year and was constantly going back to buy Canadian.. and then i moved to Europe.. that was the end of North America for me...

let the Yanks make nukes.. they're good at that.. beer by the Euro please

[mtbr]

Canadian beer is crap! Canadians are too drunk to realize it.

[Toro]

Canadian beer better than American beer?

Pfft!

All nations need their myths, and this is one of them.

Bud/Miller/Labatt/Molson. Its all cooking beer anyways.

[SprCForr]

Beer? my favourite.