Why don't the americans have any decent real ales?!
Answers: The last time I had a Budweiser or coors it tasted like the water I swallowed in the suez canal. And what is it with this lite category they stick on things, is it like kaliber?
Yes there are many great real ales in America. What you had are lagers and subpar ones at best. Stay away from mass marketed very well known brands like BUD, Coors, and Miller products. Look for microbrews such as Dogfish head, Great lakes Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Anchor, Bell's, Three Floyds, Victory, etc and macrobrewer Samuel Adams. I Doubt if you will find any micros abroad, I am not sure about Sam Adams though. Come to America and you'll find more good real ales than you thought possible.
If you want decent American beer, you have to go there and drink it.
There are many good ales and Budweiser is a Lager and a poor one at best. Budweiser in the US is seen as beer for the white trash or college students. It has a bad reputation anymore.
There's pleant of proper been in the USA but it tends to be less popular for whatever reason - try Sam Adams or Amber Bock- both quite popular. Boston area has some really good microbrews as well. Wherever you are you just have to avoid the touristy areas and ask around.
IDK. That 'beer' is the reason that I drink Guiness Stout.
EDIT: As for Bud, Miller, & etc...put it back into the horse!
i know what you mean, even brands that are recognised over here taste yuck, i stick to the top shelf when im over there
See the problem is that your going for taste. We are going for effect. If it gets us drunk then does taste really matter. Personally I like the Irish brew. But to each his/her own.
Now lets all hoist our chosen piss water and shout God Save the Earth.
Cheers.
Yech, Budweiser or Miller or Coors.
I usually drink imports because I can't stand the beer made here either. However, I did find some beer that is fantastic considering our ineptitude at brewing beer. Try Samuel Adams. We also have some local breweries that know how to brew beer! Great Lakes Brewery in Ohio is phenomenal!
And there is no point (in my mind) of drinking a lite beer. None.....Ever.....For any reason !!!!
If you're looking for a decent ale, Budweiser is probably not the way to go. There are a lot of great American ales -- my personal favorite is a line by Bell's in Kalamazoo, MI. Other good ales include Hair of the Dog Adam and Sam Adams Millennium.
Here's a list of the Best American Beers, which includes a number of ales: http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/TopAmeri...
Are you kidding me.
In the past 15 years with the microbreweries popping up all over America, I have found the US to have the best beer in the world.
Your statement would have been true in the 80's or before but certainly not now.
We do have decent ales. You can't buy the big name mass produced beers. Those are made to be virtually tasteless to appeal to more people. If you love good beers you need to taste the microbrews produced regionally in the US.
American beer is truly an imported beer---from our German immigrants, oh so long ago. The popular ones back in the day were Ballantine, Schlitz, Budweiser, Rheingold. There was Guiness and others around the Irish communities. Molson is a good Canadian beer that you can get here. Samuel Adams and Brooklyn are also good. Up until recently beer was flavorful and your could feel it, but I agree it does seem to be very watered down. The "lite" thing is about calories---for the weight conscious. As beer has many calories in the hops, apparently. Personally, I don't drink American beer---I love Heineken.
Bud and Coors and anything like that is nothing but piss in a can as far as I'm concerned. Besides, those are lagers not ales.
You have to look to small, independent micro-breweries to find a decent ale. Sam Adams is good but the lesser known names are just as good if not better. Keep shopping!
Because they are imbeciles, every last one of 'em.
You lack experience. There are many great regional micro-brews all through the country. We generally don't export them. Budweiser and Coors aren't beer in my opinion.
how rude! the same reason you people don't have decent food??
Well you've been duped, I'm sorry that your limited beer experience with American beer was a beer you could get in the UK anyways. I certainly don't judge all English beer based on the piss water you call Newcastle.
"Real Ale" by definition is actually extremely uncommon in America, this is true, but it is a growing trend. Many brew pubs are adopting small cask ale batches, generally in the way of weekly firkins. I suggest you look to CAMRA for guidence next time you visit.
Real ale aside, American beer completely trounces beer being made anywhere else in the world. This is the one and only country where you can go and find style representation from every corner of the globe being done both traditionally and with a bit of American flavor. You're journey in to American beer is so scathing that it's insulting.
Because all the real ales are in Germany...
Woo, those are fighting words! No, honestly, I understand what you mean but here in the US, if our aim is to get plastered and we are short on funds, or if we generally live in trailor parks and the like, cheap crap beer like Coors, Miller and Bud does the trick.
If I'm in the mood for a good tasting beer, I'll go for an import, like Boddington's; or, I'll sample from a micro brewery, like a lot of the previous answers have stated. Alot of the micro breweries would surprise you, I'm sure. If you are ever in Philadelphia, I'll take you for a Yard's :-)
PS- I used to be one of those girls who hated beer but finally, my senior year of college, I wised up and realized what I was missing...
Rye whiskey is Canadian:-)
I think because we americans are idiots. Lite means it has less calories than the full calorie counterpart. There are some good beers out there but we mostly have to import them. That can get expensive and some of the quality is lost in the process of shipping. For my money I prefer to try a micro brewery or brewery restaurant. I know people who plan vacations around places that are brewing beer.
I'm doing this in the interest of furthering international relations, not because I enjoy conversing with someone who can't tell lager and ale apart.
Your best bet is something from the Samuel Adams Brewery. I'm partial to Carling's Red Cap, myself, even if it is not highly rated. My favorite American beer is Turbo Dog, from the Abita Springs Brewery (hey, I have weird tastes). Try out the craft brews. My guess is that you would prefer something from the American Southwest. The water there is the most like London water.
My friend I understand wholeheartedly your concerns with American beer. But from what it sounds like you only drank American Macrobrewery garbage.
We do have many stellar Microbreweries in this country. I agree that the macrolagers are all complete and total garbage. But seriously go to a liquor store next time you are here and see if you can find something other than the macros. My personal recommendations are anything from Stone Brewery, Rogue, Troegs, Russian River, Avery Brewing Co., Three Floyds and I guess Sam Adams is OK.
Believe me when I tell you that we have many breweries that will really knock your socks off. I hope that you're opinion of American beer does not rest solely on the macrobreweries because I'm ashamed to call them beer..
you know nothing about beer. stay in your country please.
Because they all drink 'cwoifeee'.
Real ale has no place in the twenty-first, cyber, ultra-cool century :S