American Beers in UK?
dave81uk
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Ok we have Miller and Bud, but I can remember Bud Light, Miller Light, Michelob, Red Dog, Rolling Rock, what happened to the half of them? We now only have Bud and Miller
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dave81uk
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And thats two too many, no? I think the reason there aren;t more is that theres no market
There are lots of decent beers in the US but almost all of them are local or regional brews which probably don't have the production capacity or marketing reach for international markets. The nationwide beers are all terrible.
Microbreweries and Brewpubs are becoming very popular.
You can still find American beers here as I have seen them in off licences(liquor stores!!!:D:D)!!
I usually buy Corona, although thats predominately a Mexican beer!!
America produce some amazing beers. Bud no more represents the quality of American beer than Carling represents the quality of British beer.
But it depends on price and availability. TBH if fosters is 1.50/1.85 a pint then i'm going to buy that over a pint costing 2.30+
Of the supermarkets, my favourite two are Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (Tesco & Morrisons amongst others) which has a very distinctive flavour and Blue Moon (now stocked in some Sainsburys) which is a great wheat beer, which goes very well with spicy food.
That's about it.
Some of it is. Remember the most popular beer in this country is Carling, hardly a shining example of the British brewing industry is it?
What a load of tosh
If you go to a bar in the US that stocks European beer the majority of it is Stella, Guinness, Heineken or Newcastle Brown, hardly hand crafted beer. I suppose Americans must say all European beer is mass produced and full of chemicals.
Sorry for the rant, I just get annoyed with the sweeping generalisations that people make saying it must be rubbish because it's American!
Hardly.
That's like saying Belgian beer is mass produced chemical stuff not worth a mention if you'd only ever had Stella.
One of my fave brews! Availability in the UK isn't very good though - not sure how to get it these days..
We got one local here, that makes some nice beer and there are others dotted around the country.
But it has to be said, Budweiser does seem to be the most reviled beer of any country anywhere.
Calm down at the back of the class, please. The question was about American beers in the UK. My answer is that what we get is rubbish.
OK, the same applies to European beers in the US.
Fair enough. When in Rome, do what the Romans do.
You've missed the point of the question as well, so no house points for you.
Belgian beers are good in Belgium.
UK beer is good in the UK.
For the one who suggested that Carling is beer, you need detention. It is a chemical lager.
The big problem is that most of the U.s crops are GM, so if they beer is made in the states then no doubt it uses GM hops, wheat or what ever else they stick in their beer.
i am not a organic person, but I prefer my beer to come with Hops in that are not mucked around with in a lab.
Do you know for a fact that being GM affects the flavour? And I'm pretty sure Bud was considered rubbish pre-GM.
Did i say it affected the flavour? if you want to drink beer made of Frankenstein oats/hops then you do so, Myself i prefer not to.
Hopefully they will keep it out of our food and country,
There is no need for it, the raw ingredients grow fine without sticking genes in them from another plant.
Still prefer British beer as long as it is cold, Real British Ale, one thing we can still do right most of the time and no artificial rubbish in it. Just because America likes hand control over to Monsanta, we don't. that what annoys them, we say no and they hates it.
I am totally calm, and while I say you may be right about the original post suggesting, all though not explicitly saying, US beers available here, you did not say this at all in your post. You said 'American beers beers are mass produced etc etc!' clearly implying that you have that opinion of all American beers, IMHO. Clarity is important, wars have been started over such misunderstandings:D and we really don't want a great DS international beer war.
You know what will happen, the English will launch a bitter offensive, swiftly repelled by by a Belgian fruit beer counter attack. The USA will then enter (a little later than everyone
else) with the massed forces of Anhauser Busch before the Aussies finish it all off and it will all be over by XXXX new year!
Have a happy new year everyone and whatever you drink, drink it responsibly!
Stella as produced in Leuven is a world away from the "Stella" brewed under licence in the UK.
Because they do great beers. Why do we need Belgian beers or any other countries?