If Music Could Talk

Wolter wrote:

rcs wrote:

matedog wrote:Sam Adams ran some ads a couple years ago about how green bottles are bad for beer so it seems pretty well known now at least.

oh, how wrong Sam Adams can be....

Rolling Rock is kinda meh. There. I said it.

so are you. There. I said it.

Wolter wrote:

rcs wrote:

matedog wrote:Sam Adams ran some ads a couple years ago about how green bottles are bad for beer so it seems pretty well known now at least.

oh, how wrong Sam Adams can be....

Rolling Rock is kinda meh. There. I said it.

You are too kind sir.

revbob wrote:

Wolter wrote:

rcs wrote:

matedog wrote:Sam Adams ran some ads a couple years ago about how green bottles are bad for beer so it seems pretty well known now at least.

oh, how wrong Sam Adams can be....

Rolling Rock is kinda meh. There. I said it.

You are too kind sir.

Well, any port in a storm, as evidenced by rule 3.

Wolter wrote:

rcs wrote:

matedog wrote:Sam Adams ran some ads a couple years ago about how green bottles are bad for beer so it seems pretty well known now at least.

oh, how wrong Sam Adams can be....

Rolling Rock is kinda meh. There. I said it.

I wouldn't rate it too high above Bud/Coors level. Look how light it is too. Beer shouldn't be that light unless it is cloudy. Or maybe summer.

matedog wrote:Look how light it is too. Beer shouldn't be that light unless it is cloudy. Or maybe summer.

or, you're having 12-15... then, you need 'em light....

rcs wrote:

matedog wrote:Look how light it is too. Beer shouldn't be that light unless it is cloudy. Or maybe summer.

or, you're having 12-15... then, you need 'em light....

True. And I agree with the Gutterman, there is a time and place for cheap light beer.

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If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

Red star 69 wrote:If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

revbob wrote:The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

Bingo.

revbob wrote:

Red star 69 wrote:If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

Very true. The microbrews are pretty popular nationwide which usually leads to a good choice of big micros and local micros and nearly every bar you go to. And for the record, they taste nothing like Budweiser and Coors. Another generalization: California and Colorado have the best microbrews.

matedog wrote:

revbob wrote:

Red star 69 wrote:If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

Very true. The microbrews are pretty popular nationwide which usually leads to a good choice of big micros and local micros and nearly every bar you go to. And for the record, they taste nothing like Budweiser and Coors. Another generalization: California and Colorado have the best microbrews.

Not that we had time to drink any before that incredibly wasted guy got us kicked out of Goose Island, but Chicago does NOT have any good microbrews that I know of.

revbob wrote:

Red star 69 wrote:If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

I like a few fairly common German imports. Bitburger being the one that stands out most.

Wolter wrote:

matedog wrote:

revbob wrote:

Red star 69 wrote:If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

Very true. The microbrews are pretty popular nationwide which usually leads to a good choice of big micros and local micros and nearly every bar you go to. And for the record, they taste nothing like Budweiser and Coors. Another generalization: California and Colorado have the best microbrews.

Not that we had time to drink any before that incredibly wasted guy got us kicked out of Goose Island, but Chicago does NOT have any good microbrews that I know of.

I remember drinking mostly Sam Adams Winter at the Cut the Crap Cougar bar. And then moving onto hard alcohol.

Wolter wrote:

matedog wrote:

revbob wrote:

Red star 69 wrote:If there is one good thing about living in Germany it´s go to be the wide range of good beer!
At the moment I´m into Köstritzer which is a light tasting black beer but a lot of breweries do seasonal beers... Mai Bock, Oktoberfest Bier, Märzer and so on.
The general opinion in Germany is that Americans can´t make decent beer... I tend to agree although I am also willing to believe that some of the small breweries probably churn out some drinkable brew.
When back in the UK I drink Stones best bitter.

The general opinion of Germans is wrong then. I've never been to Germany so I won't judge their beer making capabilities by the crappy stuff that gets imported over here (Becks, St. Pauli Girl, DAB, Lowenbrau and a host of others, usually just crappy lagers in green bottles). In my various trips outside of the US I've never come across an American made beer that I would drink so I can see how that misconception could be formed. When I was in Japan I saw cans of American made beer that I'd never heard of ans would never consider drinking.

Very true. The microbrews are pretty popular nationwide which usually leads to a good choice of big micros and local micros and nearly every bar you go to. And for the record, they taste nothing like Budweiser and Coors. Another generalization: California and Colorado have the best microbrews.

Not that we had time to drink any before that incredibly wasted guy got us kicked out of Goose Island, but Chicago does NOT have any good microbrews that I know of.

St. Louis has a great microbrew called Schlafly (nothing to do with Phyllis). I chalk it up to being the same kind of thing like when I lived in Salt Lake City. In a place that is so stifling, you are going to have a pretty decent underground/alternative scene. That's what Schlafly is to Budweiser (or should I say AB-InBev).