american beer inferier?

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On Dec 4, 7:03 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:

Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):

What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss
or otherwise.

We Americans like our beer mediocre. At the end of Prohibition there
were something like 700 commercial breweries operating in the US.
Today if you don't count the micros, there are what? Three big
nationals? Anheuser Busch, Coors and Miller and they are owned by huge
conglomerates. There are a few medium sized regional brewers like
Linenkugel and Yuengling still around, but I don't know if they're
still independent or not. We Americans don't really do beer anymore.
Or anything else, for that matter.

&&&&&&

The beer in the Simpsons is Duff, is that a joke for the Brits or does the
word duff in the USA have the same meaning
Click to expand...

In the US it's usually used to refer to ones bottom, as in "Why don't
you get off your duff and go find a job?" There's a guy named Duff who
is or was in the band Guns & Roses at one time, and there was a woman
named Duff on MTv back in the 90's, but those are the only non
Simpsons duffs I can think of right now.

&&&&&

Duff in the UK can mean anything between inferior to outright broken . ie a
duff amplifier is no longer working and oddly maybe marked U/S by someone
checking such things. U/S being services speak for un-serviceable. Perhaps
at the same sort of time fanny as a word changed meaning as it was
associated with the F.A.N.Y (Female Auxilliary Nursing Yeomanry) in WW2
 
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On Dec 4, 7:03 pm, "(PeteCresswell)"<x...@y.Invalid> wrote:

Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):

What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss
or otherwise.

We Americans like our beer mediocre. At the end of Prohibition there
were something like 700 commercial breweries operating in the US.
Today if you don't count the micros, there are what? Three big
nationals? Anheuser Busch, Coors and Miller and they are owned by huge
conglomerates. There are a few medium sized regional brewers like
Linenkugel and Yuengling still around, but I don't know if they're
still independent or not. We Americans don't really do beer anymore.
Or anything else, for that matter.

&&&&&&

The beer in the Simpsons is Duff, is that a joke for the Brits or does the
word duff in the USA have the same meaning


In the US it's usually used to refer to ones bottom, as in "Why don't
you get off your duff and go find a job?" There's a guy named Duff who
is or was in the band Guns& Roses at one time, and there was a woman
named Duff on MTv back in the 90's, but those are the only non
Simpsons duffs I can think of right now.

&&&&&

Duff in the UK can mean anything between inferior to outright broken . ie a
duff amplifier is no longer working and oddly maybe marked U/S by someone
checking such things. U/S being services speak for un-serviceable. Perhaps
at the same sort of time fanny as a word changed meaning as it was
associated with the F.A.N.Y (Female Auxilliary Nursing Yeomanry) in WW2
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see 'Fanny Hill' by John Cleland.
In some areas in the mid 18th century, prostitutes were known as Fannys

Ron
 
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On Dec 4, 7:03 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:

Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):

What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss
or otherwise.

We Americans like our beer mediocre. At the end of Prohibition there
were something like 700 commercial breweries operating in the US.
Today if you don't count the micros, there are what? Three big
nationals? Anheuser Busch, Coors and Miller and they are owned by huge
conglomerates. There are a few medium sized regional brewers like
Linenkugel and Yuengling still around, but I don't know if they're
still independent or not. We Americans don't really do beer anymore.
Or anything else, for that matter.

&&&&&&

The beer in the Simpsons is Duff, is that a joke for the Brits or does the
word duff in the USA have the same meaning
Click to expand...

In the US it's usually used to refer to ones bottom, as in "Why don't
you get off your duff and go find a job?" There's a guy named Duff who
is or was in the band Guns & Roses at one time, and there was a woman
named Duff on MTv back in the 90's, but those are the only non
Simpsons duffs I can think of right now.
 
Seems you haven't had any Double Bastard from Stonebrew? The stuff is so
good it will put hair on your ass, have you sweating like a terrorist at
a bomb belt making seminar, and have you crepitating like a Croation
sniper, silent and deadly.

http://www.arrogantbastard.com/doublebastard/


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On Dec 4, 7:03 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid> wrote:

Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):

What do Urine and american Beer have in common? They both taste the
same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss or
otherwise.

We Americans like our beer mediocre. At the end of Prohibition there
were something like 700 commercial breweries operating in the US. Today
if you don't count the micros, there are what? Three big nationals?
Anheuser Busch, Coors and Miller and they are owned by huge
conglomerates. There are a few medium sized regional brewers like
Linenkugel and Yuengling still around, but I don't know if they're
still independent or not. We Americans don't really do beer anymore. Or
anything else, for that matter.

&&&&&&

The beer in the Simpsons is Duff, is that a joke for the Brits or does
the word duff in the USA have the same meaning


In the US it's usually used to refer to ones bottom, as in "Why don't
you get off your duff and go find a job?" There's a guy named Duff who
is or was in the band Guns & Roses at one time, and there was a woman
named Duff on MTv back in the 90's, but those are the only non Simpsons
duffs I can think of right now.
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"Peter Lucas (SAS RET)" wrote in message
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What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!


Some American draught beers are really tasty.

American bottled beer tends to be just beer. Drinkable, if you are thirsty.
There are a few notable exceptions.

http://www.hopsaficionado.com/
 
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On Dec 5, 10:29 am, spamtrap1888 <spamtrap1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 5, 5:45 am, "Arfa Daily" <arfa.da...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

. Do you get Stella Artois over there ? Or
Kronenbourg 1662? They are nice tasty lager beers.

I can't taste the difference between Stella and Coors.

They don't taste anything alike. I'm no fan of Stella, but Coors is
much worse.

--Bryan
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When I was a youngster they did not sell Coors here (WA), so people would
drive over the mountains to Idaho to buy it. They would come back with a
trunk full of the stuff and it was a big thing to go to a "Coors party". The
first time I got to taste one I said "if we did not have horse shit here
would you drive to Idaho to buy it"? They were quite offended and needless
to say I was no longer invited to any more Coors parties. My loss I'm sure.
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strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman
explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
 
On 12/5/2010 5:59 PM, Alex Clayton wrote:

When I was a youngster they did not sell Coors here (WA), so people
would drive over the mountains to Idaho to buy it. They would come back
with a trunk full of the stuff and it was a big thing to go to a "Coors
party". The first time I got to taste one I said "if we did not have
horse shit here would you drive to Idaho to buy it"? They were quite
offended and needless to say I was no longer invited to any more Coors
parties. My loss I'm sure.
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Sounds like a win to me. Coors is awful.



--
Currently reading: To Try Men's Souls by Newt Gingrich and William
Forstchen
 
On Dec 5, 10:29 am, spamtrap1888 <spamtrap1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 5, 5:45 am, "Arfa Daily" <arfa.da...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

.. Do you get Stella Artois over there ? Or
Kronenbourg 1662? They are nice tasty lager beers.

I can't taste the difference between Stella and Coors.
Click to expand...
They don't taste anything alike. I'm no fan of Stella, but Coors is
much worse.

--Bryan
 
On Dec 5, 11:10 am, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
On 04/12/2010 8:52 PM, Bryan wrote:



There are, IMHO, some enjoyable American beers.  But they're
smaller brands - some of which are even claimed thb brewed in
accordance with the old German "Purity Law" - as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
--
PeteCresswell

I rather like to drink Michelob when I'm stateside, but do I recall someone
telling me that's actually a Canadian beer ?

No.  It's as American as it gets.  For commercial, watery, fairly
tasteless beer, it's the best of the bunch.  It's great for canoeing/
kayaking because you can get it in cans.

It is sex in a canoe beer.... fucking near water.
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It's also paddling a canoe beer. It's fairly low in alcohol, and it
comes in cans. Bottles are illegal on steams in MO.

--Bryan
 
On 12/5/2010 6:09 PM, ravenlynne wrote:
On 12/5/2010 5:59 PM, Alex Clayton wrote:


When I was a youngster they did not sell Coors here (WA), so people
would drive over the mountains to Idaho to buy it. They would come back
with a trunk full of the stuff and it was a big thing to go to a "Coors
party". The first time I got to taste one I said "if we did not have
horse shit here would you drive to Idaho to buy it"? They were quite
offended and needless to say I was no longer invited to any more Coors
parties. My loss I'm sure.

Sounds like a win to me. Coors is awful.



Yeah. AB Natural Light is the only good beer.
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On 12/4/2010 4:34 PM, Peter Lucas (SAS RET) wrote:
What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

--
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Brisbane
Australia

Q:Do you like Beef?
A:Well suck my C.O.C.K Its Dripping!

sticking it to ''Politcal Correctness'' since 2008
Laughable coming from an Australian........XXXX
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JC
 
On 05/12/2010 7:30 PM, BrotherBart wrote:

Sounds like a win to me. Coors is awful.



Yeah. AB Natural Light is the only good beer.
Click to expand...


I don't get this light beer thing. What is the point? Beer should have
some body and flavour. You don't have to drink it until it's coming out
your nose.


Back in 2002 I was in Golden Colorado to visit some friends. We had gone
down tot he hotel bar for happy hour and their special was buy one draft
beer get one free. I asked the bar tender if it was Coors. His answered
"No sir. We have some good beers too"
 
On 12/5/2010 7:40 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
On 05/12/2010 7:30 PM, BrotherBart wrote:


Sounds like a win to me. Coors is awful.



Yeah. AB Natural Light is the only good beer.



I don't get this light beer thing. What is the point? Beer should have
some body and flavour. You don't have to drink it until it's coming out
your nose.
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ITA, but I'm past that part of my life where I feel the need to get
smashed. These same people who drink light beer will drink 18 sodas a
day. If you want the beer, have a good one, and cut out a morning
starbucks.

Back in 2002 I was in Golden Colorado to visit some friends. We had gone
down tot he hotel bar for happy hour and their special was buy one draft
beer get one free. I asked the bar tender if it was Coors. His answered
"No sir. We have some good beers too"
Click to expand...

LOL! That's awesome.

--
Currently reading: To Try Men's Souls by Newt Gingrich and William
Forstchen
 
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Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):
What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss
or otherwise.

There are, IMHO, some enjoyable American beers. But they're
smaller brands - some of which are even claimed thb brewed in
accordance with the old German "Purity Law" - as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
--
PeteCresswell

I rather like to drink Michelob when I'm stateside, but do I recall
someone
telling me that's actually a Canadian beer ?

No. It's as American as it gets. For commercial, watery, fairly
tasteless beer, it's the best of the bunch. It's great for canoeing/
kayaking because you can get it in cans.

Arfa

--Bryan

There seems to be a big difference between Michelob on tap and in bottles
from what I've seen. A few years back, when you asked for a Mich in a
restaurant, that's what you got. It was about on a par with some of the
'better' lagers here in the UK. Now, it seems that you get a Mich Ultra
by
default. Is that actually the only one from them in a bottle now?

Regular Mich and Mich Light are in bottles too.

I don't get over there often enough to really know. I found the Ultra a
bit of an
'acquired taste'. It certainly tastes a lot weaker than other versions
that
I had previously drunk, but doesn't actually seem to be. It is a lot less
'rounded' in taste - a bit thin and 'crisp' - but never-the-less, quite a
pleasant refreshing drink with a meal. Once you've let it warm up just a
bit
from the almost-frozen state that it gets delivered to your table in,
that
is ...

It should only be drunk at <35F. Mich Ultra is mostly just water,
ethanol and CO2.
You can mix one 12 oz bottle of Ultra with 4 oz of Guiness Extra Sout
to get a decent pint without a lot of carbs.

For plain old 'throwing a few beers down your throat' it's hard to
beat good old Bud.

I'm from St. Louis (the home of Bud), and I don't drink the stuff.

Just about strong enough to qualify, and quite a pleasant
taste. Bit gassy, but tolerable. Do you get Stella Artois over there ? Or
Kronenbourg 1662? They are nice tasty lager beers.

You can have my share of the Stella. Next time you're here, order a
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, or some other beer called American pale ale.

Arfa

--Bryan
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I'm actually there in a coupla weeks' time. I'll give it a shot. I've never
actually heard of America doing a 'pale ale'. IPA or India Pale Ale used to
be very popular here some years back, when everyone drank 'proper' beer, but
it's mostly lager beers that are the popular drink now. Most pubs and bars
still sell beer as well as lager, but a fair bit of the proper beer now, is
what they call 'real ale'. Any effervescence that it has is from
fermentation gas dissolved in the beer, rather than from added CO2, used to
drive the stuff out of the keg, and up the pipe to the tap on the bar. This
ale is 'pulled' up the pipe by a hand operated lift pump.

Arfa
 
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Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):
What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss
or otherwise.

There are, IMHO, some enjoyable American beers. But they're
smaller brands - some of which are even claimed thb brewed in
accordance with the old German "Purity Law" - as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
--
PeteCresswell

I rather like to drink Michelob when I'm stateside, but do I recall
someone
telling me that's actually a Canadian beer ?

No. It's as American as it gets. For commercial, watery, fairly
tasteless beer, it's the best of the bunch. It's great for canoeing/
kayaking because you can get it in cans.

Arfa

--Bryan

There seems to be a big difference between Michelob on tap and in bottles
from what I've seen. A few years back, when you asked for a Mich in a
restaurant, that's what you got. It was about on a par with some of the
'better' lagers here in the UK. Now, it seems that you get a Mich Ultra
by
default. Is that actually the only one from them in a bottle now? I don't
get over there often enough to really know. I found the Ultra a bit of an
'acquired taste'. It certainly tastes a lot weaker than other versions
that
I had previously drunk, but doesn't actually seem to be. It is a lot less
'rounded' in taste - a bit thin and 'crisp' - but never-the-less, quite a
pleasant refreshing drink with a meal. Once you've let it warm up just a
bit
from the almost-frozen state that it gets delivered to your table in,
that
is ... For plain old 'throwing a few beers down your throat' it's hard
to
beat good old Bud. Just about strong enough to qualify, and quite a
pleasant
taste. Bit gassy, but tolerable. Do you get Stella Artois over there ? Or
Kronenbourg 1662? They are nice tasty lager beers.

I can't taste the difference between Stella and Coors.
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Never mind ... :)

Actually, there used to be a Coors beer that I liked. Was it called 'Gold'
maybe ?

Arfa
 
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Per Peter Lucas (SAS RET):
What do Urine and american Beer have in common?
They both taste the same going in and comming out!!

The German side of my family refers to our beer as "Pisswasser".

Bad rap as far as I'm concerned bc the most noticeable fault of
American beers like Bud and Coors is the *lack* of taste - piss
or otherwise.

There are, IMHO, some enjoyable American beers. But they're
smaller brands - some of which are even claimed thb brewed in
accordance with the old German "Purity Law" - as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
--
PeteCresswell

I rather like to drink Michelob when I'm stateside, but do I recall
someone
telling me that's actually a Canadian beer ?

No. It's as American as it gets. For commercial, watery, fairly
tasteless beer, it's the best of the bunch. It's great for canoeing/
kayaking because you can get it in cans.

Arfa

--Bryan

There seems to be a big difference between Michelob on tap and in
bottles
from what I've seen. A few years back, when you asked for a Mich in a
restaurant, that's what you got. It was about on a par with some of the
'better' lagers here in the UK. Now, it seems that you get a Mich
Ultra by
default. Is that actually the only one from them in a bottle now? I
don't
get over there often enough to really know. I found the Ultra a bit
of an
'acquired taste'. It certainly tastes a lot weaker than other
versions that
I had previously drunk, but doesn't actually seem to be. It is a lot
less
'rounded' in taste - a bit thin and 'crisp' - but never-the-less,
quite a
pleasant refreshing drink with a meal. Once you've let it warm up
just a bit
from the almost-frozen state that it gets delivered to your table in,
that
is ... For plain old 'throwing a few beers down your throat' it's
hard to
beat good old Bud. Just about strong enough to qualify, and quite a
pleasant
taste. Bit gassy, but tolerable. Do you get Stella Artois over there
? Or
Kronenbourg 1662? They are nice tasty lager beers.


I can't taste the difference between Stella and Coors.


Never mind ... :)

Actually, there used to be a Coors beer that I liked. Was it called
'Gold' maybe ?

Arfa
When Coors first appeared around here in New England, it was a fine
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tasting beer, because it was shipped in from the main place I guess..

Then some one thought it would be a nice thing to have it made closer
to home.. So they started to bottle it in N.Y., it tasted like a generic
crap beer after that.. If you went to the packy, you could still get it
from where it was originally made, but not in too many places like bars
etc..
 
On Dec 5, 5:06 pm, ravenlynne <ravenly...@somecraphere.com> wrote:
On 12/5/2010 7:40 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

Back in 2002 I was in Golden Colorado to visit some friends. We had gone
down tot he hotel bar for happy hour and their special was buy one draft
beer get one free. I asked the bar tender if it was Coors. His answered
"No sir. We have some good beers too"

LOL!  That's awesome.
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In a beer bar in Bruges they talked me out of ordering a Blanche de
Bruges, for the same reason: the local product was clearly inferior.
 
Alex Clayton wrote:
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On Dec 5, 10:29 am, spamtrap1888 <spamtrap1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 5, 5:45 am, "Arfa Daily" <arfa.da...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

. Do you get Stella Artois over there ? Or
Kronenbourg 1662? They are nice tasty lager beers.

I can't taste the difference between Stella and Coors.

They don't taste anything alike. I'm no fan of Stella, but Coors is
much worse.

--Bryan


When I was a youngster they did not sell Coors here (WA), so people would
drive over the mountains to Idaho to buy it. They would come back with a
trunk full of the stuff and it was a big thing to go to a "Coors party". The
first time I got to taste one I said "if we did not have horse shit here
would you drive to Idaho to buy it"? They were quite offended and needless
to say I was no longer invited to any more Coors parties. My loss I'm sure.
Click to expand...

The only decent thing I've seen from Coors, were the three Sony 1"
VTRs we bought form their advertising department for a TV station in
Orlando.

--
For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off
scientist!!!
 
On Dec 5, 7:25 am, "William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgee...@comcast.net>
wrote:
I am, by the way, a teetotaler.

The story goes that American beers were once "better". But during WWII, they
were lightened to appeal more to females, who had become a larger percentage
of the drinking population (the males being away at war). No reversal to the
original taste occurred after the war.
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Another reason was because ingredients were in shorter supply due to
rationing. IIRC, almost no beer was sold in cans during the war
because they were metal, which was also in short supply. Even packs of
Lucky Strikes turned white because the green they had been using for
their label was derived from copper which was needed for the war
effort.
 
I don't get this light beer thing. What is the point? Beer
should have some body and flavour. You don't have to
drink it until it's coming out your nose.
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It's a social thing. Shmoozing with your buddies for hour after hour, while
downing beer after beer, is a mark of True Masculinity. So a lower-calorie
beer seems desirable.

There was a short-lived low-carb beer in the late 60s, long before low-carb
became a trend. I remember seeing the ads in New York, but I don't remember
the name.
 
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