Best European Beer

[dannubis]

Westvleteren and Chimay Bleu

GO BELGIUM !!!

[Cort Haus]

Americans, which part of the question : "Best European Beer" do you not understand?

[Imran Siddiqui]

We're #1!

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Americans, which part of the question : "Best European Beer" do you not understand?

The problem is on the world's biggest beer website, full of experts from around the world who judge at beerfests, only 2 of the top 10 beers are from Europe. The other 8 are American.

USA! USA! USA!

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Oerdin


A sixer sounds like it would be a good night.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Americans, which part of the question : "Best European Beer" do you not understand?

Yes, what jingoistic, flag-waving American started all this talk about American beer anyway?

[Dinner]

BTW I went to the store and bought a six pack of The New Belgium Brewing Companies Trippel Belgian Style Ale. It's a fine beer in the Belgian tradition and yet more proof of why America is heaven for the beer drinker. The amount of choices in styles, in brewers, in prices, and in retail locations makes the US unique. We have Europeans from every part of Europe and we're not afraid to mix and match to make new combinations. In Europe a place might have a dozen or maybe two dozen different types of beer while in the US they might have four or five dozen on the menu half of which are locally brewed in every style imaginable. That's why even European beer judges say the US is the best place for beer lovers.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Caligastia


Yes, what jingoistic, flag-waving American started all this talk about American beer anyway?

Damned New Zealanders with their unreasonable love of America.

Of course, to be fair, aren't you married to an American and living in New York?

[Dinner]

For some odd reason I am remembering something which happened when I was 8 or 9. My father was born in Scotland but he and his parents (along with his younger sister) moved to the US in 1949. Back in the early 1980's my family went to visit my grandparents' house and my father kept telling my sister and I to ask our grandparents where their green cards were.

They were, of course, American citizens but both of my grandparents got pissed off that my father kept goading his children to ask his parents about their immigration status. Maybe you had to be their but since it was California and people were all talking about illegal immigration it was funny to taunt my grandparents about being foreigners. It was some how very funny at the time and my grandmother's reaction no doubt had something to do with it.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Damned New Zealanders with their unreasonable love of America.

Of course, to be fair, aren't you married to an American and living in New York?

Married to an American, yes, but I moved to NJ a couple of years ago. Still, my opinions regarding American beer remain completely objective.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Caligastia


Overly hopped? This comment makes me suspect you don't know what you're talking about.

This comment makes me suspect you don't know what you're talking about.

[Dauphin]

Hobgoblin is nice, at least in that it's better than lager.

[Cort Haus]

Warm dishwater with bits in

[Solly]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Warm dishwater with bits in

Obviously depends where you get it from.

Btw, has anyone noticed Marston's Pedigree has been on a severe downward slope in quality since about 2001?

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Doddler


This comment makes me suspect you don't know what you're talking about.

The Hobgoblin I've tasted has very little hop flavor. I guess you just haven't had much in the way of hoppy beers.