Richard Casady wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2009 17:01:47 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:08 -0500, Richard Casady
wrote:


Darwin Austrailia is the beer drinking capitol of the world. The beer
drinkingest country is Belgium. In the US Wisconsin has a name for it.
US beer is swill of course, but you can get Heinekin at 90% of the
places that sell beer.

Heineken sucks. My home made puts it to shame.
Oops...jumping the gun a bit.
But I'm getting in mental shape.

Go in the gas station and buy Budweiser because Heinekin sucks. I
didn't say H. was the worlds best beer, just the best one available at
nearly every beer outlet in the US. Go drink some Miller and come back
and tell me how bad Heinekin is. There is a bar in Boulder with a
hundred bottled beers and a dozen on draft. I drank Pilsner Urquell,
the beer Pilsen type beer is name after. There are any number of good
beers, Too bad they are hard to find in the US. As for home brew, tell
me how to make 14% stuff from corn, and I will fire up the still. Good
vodka is much easier than beer.

Casady


The few times I swished down a "homebrew" beer, I thought it was awful.
Too bitter, too sweet, too funky, too fruity, whatever. I'm no beer
expert, but I do have "expectations" for the approximate taste of a
decent beer or ale.

The homebrewers, of course, are very proud of their concoctions. How
could they be otherwise?

Heinekin is a fine bottled beer, and for many people, tastes exactly
like they want their beer to taste, even if they've just discovered it.
I like the taste of some Japanese beers, too, but my favorites seem to
come from Mexico. The beer I like best from there is Montejo, a brand
I've never seen in the markets. It's just an ordinary beer brewed in
Yucatan, Mexico, and in fact is the beer the ordinary locals drink.