Years ago, we Canadians made fun of American beer, because it's alcohol content and taste weren't as strong as ours. That was back when ales were our beer of choice, before light beer and before Canadian brewers brewed Coors, Bud and Miller under license. And, before Canadian brewers started marketing our beer down there, with ads featuring snowy forests and moose.
Truth is, Canadian beer is like American beer. From the mainstream manufacturers, it's bland homogenous crap! I defy anyone to tell the difference between Labatt's Blue and Molson Export in a blindfold test - and one's a so-called lager, the other a so-called ale! Most good Canadian beer, like American beer, comes from smaller independant breweries like Amsterdam, Steam Whistle, Cremore, to name a few. In some cases, what's even better is pub-brewed beer. A local bar, C'Est What, has a wonderful micro-brewery, featuring a rye ale, a wonderful coffee porter, and a rasberry wheat beer (not my taste, but Dave Chang-Sang likes it <g>). I must admit, I love Guinness, but I'd love to try your Rogue Shakespeare stout - sounds wonderful! Is it widely available in the US? I might try the liqour store, as they often have better imported selection than the beer store. I raise a pint to the list! -frank "Gregory L. Hansen" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Amercan beer is like making love in a canoe........ > > Man, you are drinking the wrong American beer! I'm very much enjoying a > Rogue Shakespeare stout now, made in Oregon, and I'd take this creamy > chocolate nectar over that burnt-toast Guinness any day! Everything made > by Rogue Ales is first rate. Americans make a lot of good beers. Sierra > Nevada is another one to go out of your way to find, I especially like > their IPA. Magic Hat if you want that diacetyl kick, I enjoy the more > local (to Maryland) Wild Goose beers, and I wish I could remember the > name of that wonderful chocolate stout with the wood engraving of a choo > choo train on the label. Summit, a Minnesota brew, is so heavily hopped > I need to be in the mood for it, but it's certainly not watery. And > sure, Sam Adams if that's all you can find. > > The larger American population has always preferred lighter beers, ever > since brewers came here 400 years ago. But there's a blooming industry > in craft beers now that hasn't been equalled since before Prohibition, > and some of them are GOOD! I've gone years at a time without touching a > Bud or a Miller. -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
