SC - Small Beer?

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/1/00 4:36:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

>  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...

Balthazar of Blackmoor
(who, as a bar and restaurant manager for more than 5 years, has had PLENTY 
of opportunities to get acquainted with quality beers from the US)

Mr. Wizard, what happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?