Schaefer beer.

In highschool I went to a 'company day' at the corp. my dad worked for. They were serving Schaefer beer. I lost all respect for my farther's job after that.

YUK!!

Well gues you will have to let me knoe when the skunk batch is ready and we shall have Skunk Fest 05!!

I love Guiness. Nothing better than a cold cold guiness. But, and this may be total beer abuse but I was young, I bonged a bottle of warm guiness extra stout, that was Nasty. And please don't slam miller light. It's not Guiness but us alcoholics gotta drink some affordable swill every now and then.

Dissolved solids also plays a role in a beer maintaining texture. If the alcohol breaks down into water, the solubility gradually becomes less. The solids drop ot of solution and fall to the bottom. There's alot of shit that can happen to a beer. Beer is more vulnerable than wine in aging process becasue so much more goes into a beer. Beer AND the process of making it are more complex than winemaking. More can go wrong. But with proper attention, beer can age almost as gracefully as a wine.

Oh, I know, Man... I've tried many. In fact, my Onkle Rainer of Bavaria owns a microbrewery...althoguh it is amittedly seem better days. He's a loner and he's getting old. Being that I appeciate both a good beer AND a good wine, I like different varieties of thick "Beligian" ales as exmplified by the Cooperstown Ommegang brewery in upstate NY.

Well, I never nver claimed Becks and St.Pauili are my favorites, they're not... But they beat the pants off any mainstream American beer.
Personally, I like a few South American lagers, German Lindener Spezial...(I can't understan why it's so cheap!)...and many types of Bavarian hefewiezen. Saranac is just about my favorite damn NY beer. Those guys REALLY know what they're doing. Like Sam Adams, they have so many varieties and each one they do as if they invested themselves.

So anyway, I rarely ever buy Becks or St.Pauli...and I wonder why yyou made these such a focus of topic(?) I was only comparing Becks to Busweiser. I also never mentioned anything about the German Rheinheitsgebot of 1516. There is one German beer which I NEVER buy anymore, and that's Heineken. I used to be a regular, avid drinker of it. Then they OBVIOUSLY changed the recipe slightly, at least 5 years ago, maybe more. I don't know what they did, but after that the beer sucked and I lost interest.

Sure, St. Pauli & Becks don't measure up to the smaller breweries of Germany. But they still almost disqualify Bud, Busch, Schlitz and the like...as even qualifying as beers. They...royally...SUCK! Germany has som really BAD beers as well...whjich more qualify as "malt beverages". One day I bought myself a 1/4 keg of Stiegl, and nursed it for about 24 hours (with sleep in bewteen! ;-) ) It REALLY sucked, and after that I needed a keg of Pepto Bismol to get back to normal. A close runner of in the German "Sheissebrau" department might be Warsteiner. Really nothing to write home about at all.

One of the worst American microbrews I ever had was Anchor Steam from San Francisco. I mean there's worse out there, but for the money, and the way they advertise it I was TOTALLY disappointed.

Anyway, to get totally defensive for a mo', here in NY and also PA we have so many local beers that you can try maybe 3 at every bar...and thy are truly well-crafted beers with a strongly "Dutch" tradition to them.

Anyway, I sampled a different beer just about every day for about for years. GOD, there are so many! I have come full-circle, and there are very few I haven;t triede at one time or another.
Fact is, there are many shitty beers out there for one reason or another...and maybe a top 2 or 3% which really qualify as whoopin' kickass beers, bocks, ales, porters, lagers, stouts, black&tans (Saranac makes a GREAT B&T!)...

So anyway, I consider "You need to drink more American Microbrews. Most American beer offerings are microbrews" .........as a real insult! Probably 1/2 of what I drink is local beer produced within 200 miles of my home!!

Instead of disagreeing with me, why don't you ADD something instead of attacking what I said?!

Here's the web-address for Uncle Rainer's micro-brewery in Bischofsgruen, Bavaria. Hoffentlich du hast viel Spass hier, und gute Deutsch gesprochen und gelesen! Tschau.

www.getraenke-weissflach.de/index1.htm

trying to tell a beer lover that discussing best/worst beers is a pointless topic is much like telling women not to talk sex with their girlfriends.

you know its gonna happen no matter what you say about it, and secretly you think about it at night.

Well, being that there's not even such thing as a "bad beer" in your school, is this even the right topic for you?

10,000 Frenchmen once thought the world was flat. For instance...one guz mentioned about 5 beers which he hated, and Coors was one of them. Well I agreed on ALL of them )except Coors) which I also would trade for a Hens Tooth Ale. But Coors will pass my lips without gagging, unlike the others. I wouldn't spend more than $4 for a sixpak. I think that says it...

does anyone here like Chimay (spelling??). I liked it for a "sipping" beer, which is not how I like to drink beer anyway. My only gripe about it is the cost, pretty expensive.