pac
Joined: Oct 03, 2005
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Apr 04, 2012 - 11:18 |
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This may not immediately seem to be BB-related, but I think if you check with Trog you will find that it is.
American breweries have recently started exporting a lot of their good stuff in an English direction. It takes a lot to break into an ale market as strong as England's so I am led to wonder what good stuff you are keeping back for yourselves over there if this is just the export junk?
If I were to go to the States, how could I make sure I got decent beer everywhere I went?
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koadah
Joined: Mar 30, 2005
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Apr 04, 2012 - 11:42 |
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Sp00keh
Joined: Dec 06, 2011
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Apr 04, 2012 - 11:55 |
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american craft beer is pretty (watch the language or I'll stop supporting your ff idea! admin) amazing at times. the ales are still a lot more carbonated than british bitters though, more like IPAs
pac i went to the east coast last summer, (chicago / new york / boston / cape cod) and the west coast a few years before that (vegas / california coast / san francisco / yosemite / lake tahoe / oregan coast / portland / seattle / vancouver)
the east coast every bar had ones like samuel adams, goose island. major brands, decent beer not amazing
the north west coast had lots of small but good quality micro brew stuff, particularly portland and seattle
cali / nevada wasn't as good
I was surprised that most bars have often 10-15 beers on tap. they're all taps like lagers rather than gravity pumps like british pubs have ales on, probably because they're all more carbonated.
the dozens and dozens of the liquor stores and gas stations that we bought beer from, all had stuff like sierra nevada, blue moon, and usually a few others
the only time we had coors or anything similar was at lake tahoe, cans of coors were included in the speedboat hire
we also swapped a 6 pack of coors for a big bag of fresh oysters with a oyster farmer guy, somewhere near oregon dunes national park |
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pac
Joined: Oct 03, 2005
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Apr 04, 2012 - 13:36 |
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That is spookily useful information, thanks.
If I wasn't confined to this retirement home called Europe I would certainly make use of that. |
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Sp00keh
Joined: Dec 06, 2011
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Apr 04, 2012 - 14:27 |
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pythrr
Joined: Mar 07, 2006
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Apr 04, 2012 - 15:21 |
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yes, i love the small craft breweries of the US and Canadian North West. Much better than the dross that gets exported... |
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shadow46x2
Joined: Nov 22, 2003
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Apr 04, 2012 - 15:48 |
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i found a restaurant south of DC a few weekends ago...capital ale house....
over 60 beers on tap & over 400 bottle beers on ice...and not a single anheuser/miller/coors in sight...
i'm still not convinced it wasn't a dream
--j
ps - they've even got their beer lists online for each restaurant |
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pac
Joined: Oct 03, 2005
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Apr 05, 2012 - 08:01 |
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Well, you just spoiled me on beer forever, shadow.
Now I will have to stick to local brews again. |
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SillySod
Joined: Oct 10, 2006
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Apr 05, 2012 - 15:24 |
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All that and not a single cider in sight?
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