beer in America vs. else where

[TKOriginal]

I live in Germany and would kill for American beer. I ask everyone who visits to bring me three bottles.

 

[TyTanium]

Guess we'll just have to wait for the Olympics to settle this.

 

[MisterTipsy]

why is the beer here in America so sub par in comparsion to Europe??? I have at least 20 friends who have said that once you go to Germany, Austira, Belgium or Estonia you'll never want to drink American beer again.

"American beer tastes like crap, this stuff is like crack". What's so different?

1. Beer in America isn't sub par compared to anywhere.

2. Some Americans get really jazzed for all things Euro because they think it makes them sophisticated and hip (it doesn't).

 

[doctorRobert]

Atmosphere.

Ales vs Lagers

Brainwashed.

 

[BrewDocND]

1. Beer in America isn't sub par compared to anywhere.

2. Some Americans get really jazzed for all things Euro because they think it makes them sophisticated and hip (it doesn't).

nailed it.

There are a million different beers in American. How could every single one of them be sub par? This thread is nonsense and should be sent down the memory hole.

 

[evrose]

1. Beer in America isn't sub par compared to anywhere.

2. Some Americans get really jazzed for all things Euro because they think it makes them sophisticated and hip (it doesn't).

Absolutely.

Additionally, I'd add that there are some Europeans (and English) who are anxious to criticize American culture in any way they can because they think it makes them sophisticated and hip. It also doesn't.

 

[rico567]

Re: the OP, I think these views belong in a world 20 years or more in the past, where the American beer scene was almost exclusively the pale, astringent lagers with a lot of rice or corn used in the brewing. That is most certainly not the case now. (Have been to and sampled multiple beers in UK, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Japan, China). While there are great beermaking regions in the rest of the world, I defy you to show me any beer region in the places mentioned that exceeds the quality and variety present on the Front Range of the Rockies Between Denver and Fort Collins.

The following is strictly my opinion, and also quite possibly
.....so read no further unless you're interested.

My personal belief is that when people express that "X is better in Y place than it is here," it's just the Unobtainium Syndrome, which states "If we can't get it, then it must be better." This is a continuing theme in all Internet discussions relating to cars. If a car is available somewhere else in the world, and not in the U.S., people will chime in (never claiming to have either been to this place or driven one of these cars) stating that it's the paragon of the car builder's art, and it is rank injustice that we are not able to buy this particular ride in the U.S. And that's all I think that this is......

 

[Darkness]

I got to go to a tasting a while back and we where able to Skype with the head Brewmaster of New Belgian. He said "you should all feel lucky to live in the U.S. because it is produceing the best beer in the world right now". The US is at the top of the craft beer push and the big guys are consernd or they wouldn't be buying craft breweries.