Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > > > No, no, no. American beer is American beer. Come to England and > > > > > try a decent bitter or ale sometime ... > > > > > > If they are close to the Irish Guinness, I'll follow you :) > > > > No no no no. This guys having you on. Ale and bitter are a practic > > joke we play on tourists :) kind of an alcoholic pi55. Stick to the > > Guinness or Canadian beer or anything but, repeat anything but our > > beer. Only our wine is worse. > > > > Harvey > > A joke ??? Too sad I missed it... can you explain ?
Harvey is the guy who's joking. For one thing, Guinness (and all stouts) is in fact an ale, so to say you should drink Guinness and not ale is absurd. Second, England makes a number of superb beers, including those from Fuller's and Samuel Smith (I have yet to have a drink from either of those breweries that is less than excellent -- in particular, I recommend Fuller's London Porter and Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale). Meanwhile, most Canadian beer is nearly as bad as American macro-breweries; the only really good Canadian brewery I know of is Unibroue, which is in Quebec and therefore only nominally Canadian. The USA, btw, has many excellent breweries, but the really well-known ones are awful (Coors, Anheuser-Busch, Miller). Some of the best-known microbreweries aren't bad (Anchor, Sierra Nevada), but the best of all are generally not at all well-known. In that category, I would like to mention Stone Brewing (makers of Arrogant Bastard Ale) and Rogue Ales, both of which are consistently superb. In case anyone is curious, my reviews of beers are available at my web site, http://crdic.ath.cx . They are also posted (along with those of thousands of other people) at the most excellent RateBeer site, http://www.ratebeer.com , which I recommend to anyone with an interest in good beer. Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
