Another Beer Thread

[Fragony]

Indeed, Czech pils in general beats every other pils out there, whatever country it may be from.

Try Brand, it's Dutch but Chech-style . With Hertog Jan the best Dutch beer.

[Moros]

Try Brand, it's Dutch but Chech-style . With Hertog Jan the best Dutch beer.

Didn't try out Brand yet. I know Hertog Jan and while it's more than decent, I'm of the opinion that La Trappe Quadrupel is much, much better.

[Reverend Joe]

I'll vouch for Yuengling as well; it's a remarkably good beer considering the size of the brewery.

What I'm wondering, though, is how you guys (my fellow Americans, mainly, as I imagine the Europeans have much easier access to a wide variety of beers) have so much money to blow on all these expensive beers. Do you guys never drink, or just stick to liquor to get drunk, or what?

Oh, and one other thing:

And you would think that most knowledgable brewers would know this. However, a majority of the Continental lagers are shipped to the US in green bottles, making them pretty much undrinkable. You have to search for a store that keeps them in the case boxes, picking up a six-pack just sitting on the shelves is a big mistake. Most British ales get shipped in brown bottles, and are generally free of teh skunk.

I thought that foreign breweries just brewed all their beer over here, specifically because it's so hard to ship.

[Centurion1]

good beer is a must no matter the price and oftentimes imported beer is much better than the homegrown stuff because the industry here is so commercialized.

plus not everyone drinks beer to get drunk or uses cheap beer fort hat purpose. the best experience (according to my father; im not legal to enjoy this kind of drinking yet) is just sitting outside after work with a GOOD beer.

[Meneldil]

I've started collecting beer labels a month ago or so, and have consequently been trying quite a lot of different brands.

Here are my current favorite:

Chimay Bleue (Belgium)
Leffe Triple (Belgium) The best "industrial" beer I've found so far
Kwak (Belgium)
Abbatiale Triple (France)
Columba (Corsica)
Moosehead (Canada)
Fin du Monde (Québec)

[drone]

Moosehead (Canada)

[AlexanderSextus]

Yeah. I don't know much about American beer, but I was that far as well.

Contrary to what Europeans (and even a lot of Americans) may believe, Here in the United States, we DO have very good beers. The thing is that they are a very small part of the market over here, compared to our yucky and/or bland beers.

Dogfish Head, as Ice mentioned, is a good beer company, as is Sam Adams, (though they have a couple flops, STAY AWAY from the cranberry lambic), Sierra Nevada makes Ales that would bring an Englishman to tears. General rule of American Beers, Go for the SMALL companies. You'll spend more money, but the beer will be very good.

For a cheap beer, Try Yuengling, like I said before, or Pabst. Pabst is the lowest I'll go. It's not what I would call a good beer, but at least the taste is not OFFENSIVE like "budweiser"(I put it in quotes because Czechvar is the REAL Budweiser)