SC - Request from Juno Abuse

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

    I agree, most American beer is pizzlewater. Busch, Bud, Miller, those
types are all 3.2%. BTW, the ONLY difference between regular beer and
'light' beer is that regular beer is 3.2%, and light beer is 2.8%. The
reduction in calories is accomplished by a reduction in alcoholic content.
But of late, they've been kicking up the alcohol content bigtime! The new
'Ice' beers are much stronger. Icehouse is 5.5%, Natural Ice is 5.9%, and I
don't EVEN want to get into the Malt Liquors (yecch)
    Market differentiation, I guess.

Sieggy

> >  Modern, crappy
> >  American beer, that awful pseudo-pilsener made with lovely stuff like
> >  unmalted rice and corn, measure in at something like 5-6% or less.
>
> I know that American Standard Pilsners have gotten a bad reputation lately
> because of their inferior quality to things like India Pale Ale,
Newcastle,
> or toilet water....so let me further this along by informing the general
> public that most major brewery beers (Bud, Coors, MGD, etc) come in at
about
> 3.5 %...not 4-6.  As the folks at Monty Python are fond of saying,
"American
> Beer is like making love in a canoe..."  This is not true, however, of the
> plethora of craft and micro brewed beers American breweries are putting
out
> these days!  This "new generation" of American Beers is often times on par
> with just about anything brewed overseas, and more varieties are being
> introduced every year.  Good things are "brewing" on the US beer front...