The question is..

That's not beer... it's Malt Liqour.

Game over.

:-)

Besides... aren't you a little young for drinking rot gut?

When you're ready... I'd recommend a beer that is made of better ingredients and has some nutritional value. ;-)

I like Guiness OK but it's not vegetarian... and now a days it's sorta just mass produced and kinda ok.

Over here in the USA there are a growing number of small breweries which are trying to make well made beers that are similar to the kinds of beer that never disappeared in other parts of the world.

For a while mass produced beers (like Coors) dominated the USA market and it was hard to purchase a well made beer no matter how hard you looked for one.

I recently worked with Mr Peter Coors of Miller Coors Brewery... and when he was asked if they could compete with the quality of the newer "craft" beers made in USA he simply said something to the effect of "no... we can't make beer like that and sell it at the price we need too."



I enjoy the better made varieties.

I was just joking about the age thing... my dad used to hand me a beer while barbecuing on Saturday afternoons when I was very young. By the time I got to college... drinking beer wasn't all that interesting. I think dad did ok by making it seem less glamorous and it saved me from a distraction that lots of people have to deal with when they are coming of age.

I still enjoy beer... but mainly for the taste... so I tend to be picky about what I choose.

BTW, Malt Liquor is really just an arbitrary legal term... lots of European beers have similar alcohol content and are called Ale, Bock, etc.

Over here the term Malt Liqour really means cheap, nasty, and get drunk fast... none of which have anything to do with taste or quality. That's why I was kidding you about the Colt45. It's thought of as the worst of the worst over here.


Anyways... Enjoy!!!

best regards,
mike

@mike

So that's why Colt doesn't even taste like beer, more like just alcohol wit hop, that's why I think I liked it, especially when I didn't have money and just wanted to sleep early. Best hop flavor IMO is San Miguel Pale Pilsen. Slightly more expensive than colt here, but it's a lot expensive in other countries. Better than Corona IMO. Never got to taste quality "craft" beers, since I can't find them anywhere. Even the Guiness was already a lucky find if you find some. Heinecken is sooooo expensive so I never got to taste it yet, since I also haven't got any recommendations that it is good. Looking forward to high and mighty though.

You may be surprised to learn that some of your local beers are very well made.

The difference between San Miguel and Corona is that San Miguel is made by an old German family that brought their tradition to the recipe.

Corona is corn beer... it's the Miller High Life of Mexican beer.

Heineken brought to USA is expensive hopped up rot gut. It is so bad that we are left to assume that it is the rot got of Holland and that the Dutch laugh at us when we drink it.

Many of the world famous beers have varied recipes to suit local tastes around the globe. So my opinion of Guinness or Heineken may not match someone else experience in other parts of the world.

For example; when I was a young man, Guinness was a dirt cheap beer, it was cheaper than Busch lite... and it was brought into Florida from the Bahamas... and it was very very good.

It was the brand surfing bums like myself would enjoy at the beach.

Now the stuff we get to buy in the USA is brewed/mixed/manufactured in Canada at the Labatts plant.

Guinness is the most expensive brand name beer on the shelf and it tastes like it is mass produced with a lack of love.

Luckily we have many better choices of small batch Porter and Stout once again.


My dad used to tell me that before prohibition every town in the USA had a small brewery. After the repeal of prohibition the breweries that came back had a large scale manufacturing mentality and the idea of low grade consistency out weighed the idea of quality. So, for many years you could only buy bad beer in the USA. Before prohibition, when my dad was a kid he would go down to the local brewery with a small bucket and get fresh tapped beer for his grand father almost every day. My great Grandpa would give him a nickel. The bucket of beer costs 4 cents and so my dad had a penny to buy a few pieces of candy on the way back home. To hear my dad explain it, the local beer was every bit as good as the luxury beers sold today... that was simply what beer was. If it wasn't good tasting it was bad beer.

That was all before multi million dollar advertising campaigns became the norm for marketing bad beer in the USA.

That sort of thing didn't happen in other parts of the world and so you will find that many countries have great beers that are made locally simply to suit the taste of people who enjoy good beer. San Miguel is a good example. It is just a good beer

I'll bet you have a a few local made choices that I would enjoy a whole lot.

Something to think about.

best regards,
mike

I meant any ones, not Antibes. Stupid iTouch spell checker

Can't call it a favourite exactly as I've only just been introduced to it, but have to say I found it more than acceptable....



might be of interest to you real ale guys.

I like real beer - if you can see through it then forget it.

When I had a home bar I always kept Drop Top on tap though MirrorPond and Younger's Special Bitter are also favorites.

The fish juice: isinglass

I'd be real interested in tasting your local newki.

Over here it has become hugely popular and it seems to have gotten sweeter and sweeter and seemingly flat in carbonation. I've stopped trying to enjoy it... it's almost like a stale sweet soft drink.

I expect it's quite different back in it's home turf.

Thoughts?

SeveredVesper


What is YOUR beer of choice?

Root.

I used to like Genesee Cream Ale.  That one is tough to find in CA, too.

Hey Strummy..

are those beers you posted bottled WITHOUT preservatives? I am assuming they are not exported , thus you drink them quickly.

When I lived in Germany I loved the local beers there(every state has a brewery and most cities), no preservatives in them. That sure does change the flavor. Even when I find some of the imports here from Deutchesland , they are loaded with them..

bapu

SeveredVesper


What is YOUR beer of choice?

Root.

BTW, I have never tasted real sarsaparilla/root beer in my life.

bapu

SeveredVesper


What is YOUR beer of choice?

Root.

Ah!  But that's a whole 'nother discussion in and of itself!
 
Personally, I prefer a Steelhead root beer made with vanilla and honey.  Yum!  (Though A&W straight from the keg is pretty darned wonderful too...)