-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Craig Dickson wrote:
> 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. Have you had Moosehead? > 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. I recommend Widmer Brothers myself. I used to be a major Henry Weinhard's partisan until Miller bought them out, changed the formula to have what tastes like three times the water (an insult the local papers reported the Weinhard family took personally), and closed the Weinhard Brewery in downtown Portland (between them, and all the brewpubs, all of downtown used to reek of warm beer on hot days when the wind blew the brewery exhaust south deeper into downtown, instead of it's usual northwest into the industrial district; oddly it doesn't feel like I'm in Portland when it's hot out and it doesn't reek of beer now) and about half the hops fields north of Salem. On an aside about Miller making things suck, I was also quite fond of Weinhard's root beer, which I'd pick up at school. How Miller could fsck this up is beyond comprehension (though it's still better than most root beers out there, with the exception of maybe Souix City; Henry's is still the only one you can knock back a case of without burning your mouth on phosphorus. > 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 That's a pretty good site. I like that a bit more than ratebeer. My guess is an OK beer starts around 50 and a good beer starts around 70 on your site, if not just a a wee bit slanted towards the darks? - -- Baloo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE87IlpNtWkM9Ny9xURAu5sAJ4npfjw1d8Kvr6aivffrqd3NM8WKgCfVZO+ s6KlDUwckh1frhq4PJC1QE4= =Ecqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
