Official Apology To The People

Discussion in 'Other KaW Discussion' started by -WillyTheDeuce-, Jul 9, 2015.

  1. You have deeply disappointed me..
     
  2. 100% support

    The scariest thing thats ever happen to me was during a Routine check-up the Doc found blood in my alcohol system.
     
  3. A dish washer?
     

  4. You're a genius. I'm surprised it took so long.
     
  5. Foam !!! 
     

  6. A really cheap wrist watch.
     
  7. Myself motorboating while chuggin' a pint.
     
  8. Well, honestly, no offense, but the US really has a bad reputation for crap beer. This is indeed due to mass scale production of lagers that are mostly tasteless (and I don't even talk about those "light" varieties, if you drive drink water and not that yellow soap water). Well, let's be honest, we all have those insipid commercial beers all over the world.

    However, I have been a few times to the US recently and have gotten great beer. Got excellent beer from Terrapin Beer Co, Georgia in a restaurant in Miami last year for example. Nice beer from local breweries while touring the Northeast (well... part of it was in Canada), the Maritimes. Colorada and Denver had quite nice beers when I last went there, micro-breweries were popping up everywhere there two decades ago...

    Well, I'm on holiday just now, in a country you certainly wouldn't associate to beer (except to very high beer prices ), Norway. Found some excellent beers available in supermarkets, even a nice belgian style tripel one scoring past 9% alc. Skål as they say here 

    Living just across the belgian border (well, and the german too), I have to say that the sheer number of excellent belgian beers is just amazing. And no, Stella Artois isn't decent, even if you're thirsty. Got a few gems from a belgian colleague recently as some Duvel Triple Hop 2015, Tongerlo Blonde or Paix Dieu Pleine Lune (a triple 10% brewed at full moon.., hic).

    Cheers 

    PS: those man rules, Twinky 
    Some are just so true...
     
  9. To be fare, i believe our domestic beer style was brought here by german immigrants.

    That aside, the quality of our micro brews keeps getting better and better.
     
  10. what? it tastes like sour corn water. it is literally the worst tasting beer in its price range. the only reason people in america drink it is because people in america do whatever the tv tells them to do.
     

  11. I prefer corona to coors any day but I definitely don't prefer either of them
     
  12. There are 3 brewery's near my house. One of those is a monastery, and the monks brew beer and donate proceeds to local charities.

    Mostly IPA's and Stouts around here. American beer is shooting up in quality big time. It's the "popular" beer commercialism that actually kills American reputation as far as beer goes.

    I'm a reformed beer snob...but my fridge is still full of Bud Light for parties and getting drunk on beer that goes down easy for $12.99 a 12 pack of bottles.

    The monk beer is $20 for a 4 pack.

    Do the math. I like being drunk sometimes. It'd cost me $60 to get tanked on Trappest Ale.

    Melonhead makes a 12 pack of watermelon ale for $10.99 that tastes like Kool-Aid. My current drink of choice.
     
  13. Dear Willy,

    We have read through your thread and have decided to agree. We would like you to head up the "Kids and Beer, The Perfect Babies" relay coming up in a forum near you. Please consider! :)

    Love,

    The EmethAdmistration

    Prime Minister of GaW Transitional Affairs
     
  14. i would never buy beer that expensive. there are hundreds of great beers in the $30/case price range.

    we carry a few beers that run $50-100 per case. no beer is good enough to cost that much. it's just not possible.

    maybe if it came served straight off of kate upton...
     
  15. Yea but you would drink water for that cost if it came served off her.
     
  16. fine women are more valuable than fine beer.
     
  17. Yes that is true. The American light lager is derived from the bavarian and Vienna lager syles. The US used to have very similar quality and regional diversity to Europe in terms of beer. Three events in history shaped what the U.S. beer industry is now.

    The first was prohibition. All the small regional breweries had to close. Only the ones large enough to convert their facilities to grain mills survived.

    After the repeal of prohibition, the laws regarding the manufacturing of alcohol for personal use remained. Originally designed to prevent bootleggers and bathtub gin makers from killing customers. These laws weren't repealed until the 80s, thanks to the founders of Sam Adams and a few other activists. Since it was illegal to homebrew, no one could develop an interest in the hobby and thus no small breweries could be started again.

    The second was world war II. With their primary customers, young men, oversees beer companies started marketing to women. This is when they started using a primarily corn based mash instead of barley to lighten the body of beers.

    Third, the invention of the refrigerated truck. Since it was now much easier and cheaper to ship lager, which must be brewed and kept at cool temperatures, the giant brewing families could even more easily crush the competition.

    /knowledgeDrop
     
  18. That was a good knowledge drop.
     
  19. Beer is water.

    There must be 40% ethanol in order to be considered an alcoholic beverage