I always heard that beer was full bodied in America untill prohibition made it bladder wash. Well this guy is rebuting that..
http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_07
http://www.powells.com/review/2006_10_07
sause said:That is exactly the opposite that I heard on the history channel. Who here remembers the pilgrims? The first building they made in the new land was guess what a brewery! They weren't german were they? Before America was an actual country they drank porters, milds and bitters. A while after the revelution they didn't like the british so they stoped drinking those beers and started drinking whiskey thankfully the newest people off the boats at that time were germans. They started making their beers and kept the beverage going.
sause said:That is exactly the opposite that I heard on the history channel. Who here remembers the pilgrims? The first building they made in the new land was guess what a brewery! They weren't german were they? Before America was an actual country they drank porters, milds and bitters. A while after the revelution they didn't like the british so they stoped drinking those beers and started drinking whiskey thankfully the newest people off the boats at that time were germans. They started making their beers and kept the beverage going.
sonvolt said:...BMC is less of a "cheap" beer and more of a crisp refreshing interpretation of a respected and historied style.
Ol' Grog said:I find it kind of hard to believe that the this whole microbrews were started in S.F. with Anchor. There were lots of smaller breweries around in the mid to late
60's.
Yuri_Rage said:As for BMC - I had my first Bud Light (draft even!) in a long time this afternoon. Tasted even worse than I remember! I've strictly been drinking micros and homebrew for quite some time, so that was an unwelcome change. Whether the article that sparked this discussion is true or not, its defense of the so-called "American lager" is weak at best!
But in the end, and this is really the point, it's all about what you like personally.
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G. Cretin said:The first brewers in the U.S. were Native American. We have been here for thousands of years and ETOH madde from grain is not indigenous to Europe, it happened every where humans setteled.
Pumbaa said:Actually whiseky took off after the revelution because we could no longer get cheep molasses (for rum) from the Caribbean and because we had more corn then we new what to do with.
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