Do you know why american beer is like making love in a canoe?

I love hundreds of beers :grin: 290 rated and still going strong http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmmbeer/

I'm not American, but don't knock American beer just because the most popular taste is for water-flavored beers (ie. Budweiser, etc). There are a number of good American bews, just as there are a number of bad German, Belgian, Canadian, etc brews. Keep an open mind and try'em all, keep drinking the ones you like, stop drinking the onres you think that suck. Taste is all in your mouth :grin:
 
DiscipleOfThePit said:
I've yet to find an American beer that I enjoy.
If all you drink is the readily available commercial stuff, then yeah, you're going to get bad beer (unless you actually like your beer to taste like water). Many North Americans like quantity over quality, and as such Budweiser and Molson are the most popular brands, but it doesn't necessarily make them good. However, try an American brewery like Lagunitas, or a Canadian brewery like Unibroue, and you'll see that there are a lot of good beers out there, regardless of the country of origin. Try everything once, and the things you like, keep trying...
 
nafnikufesin said:
If all you drink is the readily available commercial stuff, then yeah, you're going to get bad beer (unless you actually like your beer to taste like water). Many North Americans like quantity over quality, and as such Budweiser and Molson are the most popular brands, but it doesn't necessarily make them good. However, try an American brewery like Lagunitas, or a Canadian brewery like Unibroue, and you'll see that there are a lot of good beers out there, regardless of the country of origin. Try everything once, and the things you like, keep trying...

Oh my God...THANK you NFF, I've found one of my favorite U.S.-brewed Czech-style pilsners again! I thought I'd lost it forever. Lagunitas! Their other brews kick ass, too. My favorite U.S. breweries are:
Sprecher
Lakefront
New Glarus
Great Dane
(shout out to WI)
Brooklyn
ANCHOR
Sierra Nevada
New Belgium
Victory
Summit
Portland
Rogue
Calgary's Big Rock is good, too

It's been said that the United States has the biggest variety of beer in the world, and I'd agree.
Disciple, you can probably only get U.S. macro corn/rice swill beers over there.