SC - OT: Silence of the Lambs

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

I assume you're speaking of the large commercial breweries...I'm not a beer
drinker, but my lord is, as are  a number of his friends.  They tell me that
many of the micro-breweries, such as the one that does Wild Goose beers and
ales, located in Salisbury, MD, produce really good stuff.

Kiri

Siegfried Heydrich wrote:

>     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...
>
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