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Even more reason to avoid Anheuser Busch products.
I'll take my microbrews any day of the week. Goose Island, Great Lakes, Bells, Three Floyds, the list goes on.
If anyone wants to learn more about good beer, check out http://www.beeradvocate.com/

For more reference http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/rate_results/656/ 5686/

I like this review:

This stout is one of the most complex and addicting that I have ever experienced. I was fortunate enough to be able to drink this from the Porterhous in Dublin while I was living there...

Very smooth, with a complex and distinct taste and smell. The first time I drank it, I could only compare it to a mixture of orange peels and WD 40. Sounds pretty brutal, but I just had to keep drinking it. I couldn't stop. It was that good.

I recommend this stout to everyone who appreciates a complex yet smooth stout. This one has no rivals, and there is nothing similar.

Not that YOU personally would do this, but I have seen discussions arguing over "Beer X is better than Beer Y" where both sides clearly need to widen their beer horizons.

So let's get edjumucated. (and seriously, what could be more fun?) Here are two lists of (mostly) great beers that have very wide distribtuions--go out and find something on these lists that you haven't had, and try it tonight!

RateBeer's top 'accessible' beer list.

BeerAdvocate's 'Best Most Available Beers' list.

There are other lists, too, these are just to get you started. You can go to both site's "Top beers" to find a list of even better beers, although many of those could be hard to find.

= 9J =

That's hilarious satire, friend. However, diparaging tasteless macrobrew isn't about elitism, it's about respecting beer. Brewing in the US is still recovering from prohibition which wiped out all our small breweries. Gourmet beer drinkers are succeeding in recultivating appreciation for craft brew in our country. In Germany, it would be false advertising to brew a rice-based beverage like Budweiser and call it beer.

The gourmet coffee craze has changed the coffee industry. It's not just monocled Bentley owners who choose a $3 cup of gourmet aribica over a 30 cup of Folgers today. I see plenty of constuction workers at my local Starbucks. The same thing is happening to beer. My local grocery store now carries a $20 per bottle Belgian beer.

Arrogant Bastard Ale
what's really funny is that you have it sitting on your mantle. It's an excellent beer so either drink and enjoy it or pass it on to someone who will, if it hasn't gone bad already.

- Booze and TOTALLY NAKED women in our strip clubs

Yep, we got that!. Note, most are full bar, but some only have beer/wine, and ALL are full nude.

- Toronto (much like NYC I think) allows women to walk around topless (not that any do, but the possibility is there)

got that too... not just in theory... warning, nudity if you follow that link :-)

- Casinos popping up all over the place

Saddly, every indian reservation has one, wether they want to or not. But I'm not going to link to 'em.

- An increasingly larger separation of Church and State (hence the allowed gay marriages)

Well, we don't have this.

- Better beer

Oh, yeah (far too many to list here)

- Cheaper CDs, DVDs, computer hardware, software, and just about any other form of entertainment

Really, how much is a CDR disc, with that RIAA levy?

- Cheaper medicine

Probably true.

I understand why everyone wants to bash American beer - it is substandard in MOST cases. But you guys have the facts about these laws COMPLETELY WRONG.

As I posted above somewhere or other, Trippel contains about 9% alcohol. I can go right down the street and buy a 6 pack of this stuff (but it's not actually that great), because only some backwards ass states have laws about the alcohol content of beer, and Nebraska ain't one of them. Most states I have visited lately also would appear to have no such laws governing their beers, so I'm a little confused as to why VERY MANY foreigners in this forum seem to think that all of our beer in this country is 3.2 shite.

We have good shit and bad shit just like anyone else - it's just that only the U.S.'s bad shit seems to get exported. Like I said though, I'm not really defending American beer here so much as trying to provide some clearer facts about the subject.

Religious figures and beer definitely mix... If you haven't tried a Corsendonk brown ale, I highly suggest the experience. Apparently Corsendonk monks in Belgium began the brew in 1400. More history can be found here.

Also, I noticed the guy doing the washing machine brewing has an amateur radio webpage. Apparently in Germany it is called "amateurfunk". :^)

but I am going here and then I am going to go here

Fosters is made in Canada

Mmm...five pints of Bass Pale Ale is one pint too short! Keep'em coming!