Re: [OpenHeroQuest] Re: Swing low...

From: Gerald Bosch <gbosch_at_yCnxLdZp31GwBSIzU7QvmChRVh__ulI6_MYkD4ZQH26msIFCxRJkJZDcX3gxyYK7mOBDO>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:44:58 -0500


David Cake wrote:

> At 9:10 AM +0000 26/11/03, Graeme P. Bell wrote:
> >> Gerald :
> >>
> >> > > What's an "excuse for beer"?
> >>
> >> American beer AKA beer for wimps
> >> is a sorry excuse for the noble beverage
> >> in question.
> >>
> >Now that's just not true.
> >You surely mean that American Mass Market Beer is an abomination,
> >barely fit for human consumption. Just like "English" lager.
>
> It seems that many nations most famous well known beers are
> considered swill fit fit only for drunken teenagers and alcoholics at
> home, yet often strangely popular with wankers when exported - ie
> Fosters, Budweiser. Rubbishing any countries mass market beer to
> local drinkers generally just gets a "huh, you think we drink that
> crap?" reaction.
> FWIW I like Australian mass market beer much more than
> American, but try to avoid drinking either.
> And I have drunk fine beer in Seattle, San Jose, and New York.
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>

I would add to that list the unlikely name of Iowa City, Iowa, where I spent much time I should have been working on my dissertation at a fine microbrewery and pub downtown.

Gerald            

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