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Left Hand
Rogue
Stone
Sierra Nevada This one has a space program too.
Terrapin
New Belgium
Lazy Magnolia
Southern Tier
Dogfish Head
Ommegang
New Glarus
Brooklyn Brewing Company
Avondale
Good People
Straight To Ale
Heretic

Just to name a few.

Black Butte Porter, Obsidian Stout, Stone Imperial Russian Stout, and Contorter Porter quickly come to mind as beating the pants off of imported Guinness, as does any of the offerings from either Rogue or Bell's (except for Bell's Cherry Stout which sucks--the sole exception for an otherwise world-beating brewery). Your locale probably has a microbrewery or craft brewer that can do the same.

Fairly sure it'd be pretty hard to smoke beer. What are you smoking?

Huh? I've got 2 bomber bottles of it in the fridge right now Stone Breweries Smoked Porter is easy to find at any decent beer vendor.

I work as a Sous Chef in a French Restaurant in Seattle. We do get many of our cheese's imported from France of Italy but there are some very good American cheeses. Some people complain that American cheese isn't as good as French cheese but it is just not true. It is just as good only different. Italian cheese is not the same as French cheese but most people assume European cheese is all good. I taste test different cheeses for the restaurant and I have had some very bad European cheese. The same goes for wine or beer. American gourmet food tastes different but that is a good thing. We wouldn't want to try and beat the French at making French cheese, that would not work. Instead American producers create their own style that has come around to much acclaim for example in the wine world.

You can find many great food and drink producers all over America. You can't say that Australia doesn't have any good beer just because Foster's is from there.I wont list any wineries because that is one topic that IS covered very well. A short list of companies I recommend follows:

Dogfish Head Brewery (my favorite beers)
Redhook Ale Brewery
Fish Tale Ales (organic beers)
Stone Brewing Co.

Juniper Grove Farm
Rogue Creamery (excellent blue cheese)

Right, it's stronger that California's 10.8% abv Stone Old Guardian? No wonder you people can't speak English properly.

If you think Canadian beer like Molson or Labatt's is anything more than fizzy yellow moose piss, you're out of your mind.

One thing for certain is that you'll NEVER find a can/bottle of Budweiser, Miller, Coors, even Labatt or Molson (Canadian Budweiser) for that matter, in my house. Some of my favorites include:

Newcastle
Samuel Smith (Oatmeal Stout and Pale Ale)
Anything from the Stone Brewery
Anything from Andersen Valley Brewing Company (especially their Boont Amber Ale and Hop Ottin' IPA)
Brooklyn Brewery which I recently discovered.

Throughout Southern California, there's a nice brewpub called BJ's Brewhouse, with several locations that make their own beer on site. One of my favorites is their Nutty Brewnette, and their Tatonka Stout is also extremely heavy and powerful if you're in the mood (sort of like a thick black syrupy beer with 8+% alcohol).

Stone Brewing Company, from San Diego, CA, releases the new Verticle Epic beers every year one day, one month, and one year later than the previous year, e.g. 05/05/05, 06/06/06 etc... Each year they have a contest where homebrewers can make their own versions and compete to see who can make the best replication. Recipes are available here. So Stone gives back to the homebrewing community. I don't work for Stone, but my homebrew club does meet there.

Stone Brewing Company, from San Diego, CA, releases the new Verticle Epic beers every year one day, one month, and one year later than the previous year, e.g. 05/05/05, 06/06/06 etc... Each year they have a contest where homebrewers can make their own versions and compete to see who can make the best replication. Recipes are available here. So Stone gives back to the homebrewing community. I don't work for Stone, but my homebrew club does meet there.

Stone Brewing Co. - It gets no better. Bless you for knowing.

Sam Adams was good before I tried Stone Levetation.

Sam Adams was good before I tried Stone Levetation.

There are many microbreweries in the USA that produce some excellent brews. Stone Brewing Company http://www.stonebrew.com/ in San Marcos, CA has a wonderful beer called Arrogant Bastard Ale http://www.arrogantbastard.com/. They frown upon 'tasteless fizzy yellow beer'.

I don't think brews like Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams can be considered microbrews because they have large nationwide distribution channels, but they're still decent beers.

My favorite beers happen to be from the UK: Newcastle and just about anything by Samuel Smith (Oatmeal Stout, Pale Ale, Nut Brown Ale). I'm assuming there are many microbrews in the UK that produce even better beers than those, but I don't know of any in the USA.

an occaisional high-end craft beer is OK ;-) ... Stone Brewing Beers

ahhhhh But Arrogant Bastard doesn't taste like _just_ hops. You can definitely taste the malt in it as well. I do enjoy Stone Brewing's Ruination IPA quite well. Hops should complement malt in a beer. Not be the _only_ flavor present. Of course, all of this is IMNSHO...

After a younger me consumed 108 ounces (9 bottles) of Coors Light (I don't drink that watery shit anymore... Arrogant Bastard is my new love) at a local club full of plasticized morons, I got ahhh... slightly... uh... tipsy.

I told my girlfriend's friend who is severly overweight that she'd have much better luck finding a guy if she'd "do something about that fat ass".

Despite this unfortunate incident, my girlfriend says I am much more sociable when I'm drunk, and she prefers me that way.

There are plenty of better stouts

There's good beer to the south too.