Another Beer Thread

[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)