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I think beer tastes like shit...but then again I pretty much only drink Natty since I have no job/money.

At 8/4/09 02:18 AM, poxpower wrote:

I had to spend 2 weeks in California drinking that shit in pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants. The worst of it is that they IMPORT some of this shit.
Corona, Newcastle, Heineken, Guinness, Stella... why??

corona - solid enough bottled beer.
newcastle - acquired taste. it is intended to be drunk bottled. i have only ever seen it on tap in NYC. nothing wrong with it.
heineken - excellent premium european lager.
guinness - it sucks outside of dublin. not drunk it in the states to see how far it decays compared to the UK
stella - outside of bottles it is shit, i'll give you that, and it's fighting juice regardless

The USA makes the best beers in the world

i really, really hope that you're either trolling or you've clarified that later in the thread.

At 8/4/09 05:23 PM, Prinzy2 wrote:

At 8/4/09 05:03 PM, MercatorMap wrote:

If the US was wiped out and there was no way of you, Canada, getting food from us, your food prices would soar beyond belief.

lmao, ok then.

Last year the US imported over 5 million tonnes of Canadian grains and wheat flour, that's 17% of our export. Not to mention the 901,000 tonnes of Canadian wheat, which was 11% of our export.

Apparently you forgot about something important. Meat. Considering the US has almost 3 times the amount of cattle you do.

LMAO, ok then.

Oh, I'm sorry, the US slaughtered almost 3 times the total amount of Canada's entire cattle population.

At 8/4/09 04:56 PM, Kidiri wrote:
InBev was Belgian/Brazillian and then they merged with Anheuser-Busch. So it's a Belgian/Brazilian/American company. The address is still in Leuven, so I consider it a Belgian company.

Hilarious: a thread about beer attracts more Belgians than the Belgian Users club...

Sigh, I expect the day they close down that brewery in Leuven and move it elsewhere outside Belgian in some obscure east European/Asian country to make it cheaply and then they'll be like "Oh this is real Belgian beer!" and I'd be like "Oh not anymore, fucktards."
What the fuck were they thinking planning to close down Hoegaarden? Finally they failed immensly, but left me cynical for their future plans.

At 8/4/09 05:38 PM, MercatorMap wrote: Apparently you forgot about something important. Meat. Considering the US has almost 3 times the amount of cattle you do.

LMAO, ok then.

So what exactly are you getting at? Canada is pretty self sufficient when it comes to grains and beef, we export a fair chunk of what we do grow and raise. The only real food group that we rely on the US for is fruits and vegetables. I'm fairly sure if we canned all of it to store during winter like we did before all of this mass trading, we'd be able to survive.

The biggest thing is that the US is 10 times more densely populated than Canada, I wonder who would run out of food first?

At 8/4/09 02:34 AM, wwwyzzerdd wrote: I'm a fan of Red Stripe; except I've learned over time that it's popular in a lot of gay bars.

who cares, that shit is FUCKING AWESCHUM.

i was out of the country. drinking age was 15.

At 8/4/09 05:03 PM, MercatorMap wrote:

At 8/4/09 08:05 AM, Davidzx wrote: America hasn't worked on their agriculture much, resulting in some crops deformations, so everyone's food and beer may not be doing so well.

What the fuck are you talking about? We have a motherfucking bread basket going on down here in the US. If the US was wiped out and there was no way of you, Canada, getting food from us, your food prices would soar beyond belief. Our farmers and ranchers produce top notch stuff. When was the last time you heard about a problem with our crop? I'm talking about on the farmer's and rancher's part. Not the middle man processing company.

I've actually gotta agree with MM for once. The US has a fantastic Ag industry. Too good, in fact. The government often needs to pay farmers to grow LESS food. I don't have any actual statistics that I care to bother looking up, but yea, seriously, the US definitely produces an over abundance of food. While industrial farming produces lower quality, it's still remarkably well maintained and healthy.

At 8/4/09 05:34 PM, jAvAcOlA wrote: I think beer tastes like shit...

How Can you say that?

:...but then again I pretty much only drink Natty since I have no job/money.
Oh that explains it

i love dragon stout, 1 Jamaican bear

At 8/4/09 12:17 PM, Alamadu wrote: You seem to like stouts mostly Pox

And judging by that "best beers in the world" list on Beeradvocates, I'm not the only one.
The top is populated with extra-strong stouts.

ever have samuel smiths

never heard of that :o
But I live in Quebec. Boo.

still i also have to point out that you are continuously just trashing lagers as tasteless as compared to stouts and porters when by their very nature they are less hoppy.

Yeah they are tasteless. So what? If they're made to suck more, then they suck more. Cheese pizza is tasteless by it's nature, I can still compare it to a meat lover.

The best european lagers usually taste like corona. It's super-sad. Or Killkenny. It's not that bad, it's just... a boring sensory experience.

I would agree that bud and coors light are not "good" but i consider them my "utility beer" They are what i buy when i am broke and want to get drunk.

Well that doesn't really make them good :o
p.s. I drank a shitload of Bud during my vacation because it was cheap. WOE IS ME.

At 8/4/09 12:54 PM, wehrmacht5 wrote:

The japs made chocolate beer.

Chocolate stouts are a staple of beer. There's dozens if not hundreds out there, but none are mass-produced enough that you can find them anywhere. Which is sad as hell because they would run Guinness out of pubs in one millisecond.

Anyway, Sapporo made one? Haha I'll have to try and find that. They regular beer is just the same bland repackaged lager everyone else makes.

At 8/4/09 02:06 PM, Casualty wrote:

That's fucking stupid. "HEY GUIZE LET'S MAKE A BEER FOR THE SAKE OF IT BEING STRONG, AND LET'S NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE TASTE!".

Well, balancing the alcohol with the taste in beer is an art within itself and tells you how well the beer is made.
But at 24% I'm pretty sure it tastes like ass no matter what you do.

Though there's beers in the 10-12% range that mask their alcohol really well.

At 8/4/09 05:37 PM, jonthomson wrote:

heineken - excellent premium european lager.

Heineken is a premium beer? I guess it's premium sort of like Frosted flakes are premium corn flakes.

guinness - it sucks outside of dublin. not drunk it in the states to see how far it decays compared to the UK

Well I've heard that claim a lot but I don't think I want to go all the way to dublin to find out if it's true.

i really, really hope that you're either trolling or you've clarified that later in the thread.

Look at the beeradvocates list.
http://beeradvocate.com/top_beers

A ton of those are from the US and by their description alone, I can tell you that I'd love to fill my mouth with their sweet deliciousness.

At 8/4/09 06:19 PM, poxpower wrote:

ever have samuel smiths

never heard of that :o
But I live in Quebec. Boo.

We've got this English pub in my city (I live in the US) and they have Samuel Smith's, and it's really good. But again, Adams is the better Sam.

At 8/4/09 05:42 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: What the fuck were they thinking planning to close down Hoegaarden? Finally they failed immensly, but left me cynical for their future plans.

My guess/hope is that they learned from the Hoegaarden mistake. That they'll keep brewing the beers where they were originally brewed.

At 8/4/09 06:19 PM, poxpower wrote

Though there's beers in the 10-12% range that mask their alcohol really well.

Welcome to Belgium... You can either try "Gulden Draak" (10.5%) and die on the spot or drink "Gouden Carolus Tripel" (9.0%) and die 15 minutes later if you want. It's not the ABV that counts here... There a lot of other factors. Oh and... Try a Duvel please:

At 8/4/09 08:53 PM, Casualty wrote: At 8/4/09 06:19 PM, poxpower wrote

Though there's beers in the 10-12% range that mask their alcohol really well.

Welcome to Belgium... You can either try "Gulden Draak" (10.5%) and die on the spot or drink "Gouden Carolus Tripel" (9.0%) and die 15 minutes later if you want.

There's probably a good 30-40 beers available here with alcohol higher than 8%
WOOHOO. Most of them are decent. They sure are more fun to drink that.. Duvel. I tried that once and it was pretty bland.

At 8/4/09 06:10 PM, awkward-silence wrote:

At 8/4/09 05:34 PM, jAvAcOlA wrote: I think beer tastes like shit...

How Can you say that?

...but then again I pretty much only drink Natty since I have no job/money.

Oh that explains it

Don't get me wrong I've tried other beers and don't like any of them. The way I figure it is I'm only going to be drinking them to get drunk so the taste doesn't really matter.

Smirnoff is tasty?

My 2 favored beers r Oberon and Fat Tire

At 8/4/09 11:13 PM, poxpower wrote: Duvel. I tried that once and it was pretty bland.

True, but it's one of our more famous beers in the rest of the world...

At 8/4/09 02:18 AM, poxpower wrote: I'm so shameless: http://www.thepoxbox.com/what.php?id=shi ttybeers

I had to spend 2 weeks in California drinking that shit in pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants. The worst of it is that they IMPORT some of this shit.
Corona, Newcastle, Heineken, Guinness, Stella... why??

The USA makes the best beers in the world but they still can't be arsed to spread the wealth into bars? STOP.

You see, here in America only the dumbasses go to bars and drink. The wealthy don't drink beers, they drink California's great wine. Beer is for either dumbasses in bars, or mature parties. I guess in Canada there are formal corporate parties at the bars?

I was serious about most of that, by the way.

At 8/5/09 04:20 AM, TrantaLocked wrote:

You see, here in America only the dumbasses go to bars and drink. The wealthy don't drink beers, they drink California's great wine.

You mean the whine that you can buy for like 6 bucks a bottle at your liquor stores?
Well I don't know how "great" it is but it sure as shit is cheap :O
I don't like wine usually anyway. Except when Luis and a box of it are involved.

Beer is for either dumbasses in bars, or mature parties.

Beer is for a lot of things, but in the USA it's mostly a poor/young people drink and the sweet nectar of rednecks. Successful rich people don't have time to drink anyway.
But there's obviously a big culture of people who appreciate the craft of beer and who like to sample different varieties.
And those people are not really well served whenever they go to most public places, which sucks. But hey there's plenty of decent bars all over the world who offer a wide selection of beers on tap that don't suck balls.

I just don't get why they can't get any of it in major chains. I guess they couldn't meet the demand. It's a pity.

At 8/4/09 12:54 PM, wehrmacht5 wrote: The japs made chocolate beer.

Dang it! Just more proof that they're more advanced than we are at anything!

I'm a fan of Stella Artois.

At 8/5/09 04:56 AM, poxpower wrote:

At 8/5/09 04:20 AM, TrantaLocked wrote:

And those people are not really well served whenever they go to most public places, which sucks. But hey there's plenty of decent bars all over the world who offer a wide selection of beers on tap that don't suck balls.

there is a bar i like downtown here called "the flying saucer" I am pretty sure they are a chain. They have over 300 beers on tap. Plus if you register with them they keep track of which ones you have tried. When you reach certain numbers of "beers tried" you get to put a plate up on the wall saying what ever you want it to say. As you reach better levels of the count you get nicer plates.

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At 8/4/09 11:24 PM, TheThirdSix wrote: Smirnoff is tasty?

Beer is much more better than any cocktail/mix- thingy