Re: can i be a bit nosy?
Posted by:
Magda (---.med.umich.edu)
Date: April 30, 2003 02:29PM
I love Woodchuck cider, although I prefer the Dark or the Amber to the Granny Smith.
The problem with American beer is that prohibition killed off most of the smaller brewerys, and only recently (the last 20 years or so) has there been a resurgence of them. The big companies were able to survive prohibition, by adapting their equipment for other products. The Strohs brewery in Detroit, for example, made ice cream instead of beer (and it was popular enough that they still make it--it's quite good ice cream, actually). And until recently, the large companies in the US (Strohs, Pabst, Budweiser, Miller) all made only @#$%&, weak, rice based beer.
I will say that I dislike good beer less than I dislike bad beer. In the weak nasty beer I can only taste the hops (which I'm not fond of). At least in darker beers I can taste something else as well.
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