joke at the end of my rant!!! . . .

This is just getting ridiculous.  You're taking the very *worst* American
beers!?

True beer connoisseurs understand that the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company,
DogFishHead, Victory Brewing, to name just a few that I have in my fridge
right now, represent world class brewing.  Mass market swill, like Bud,
Coors, Labatt's, Molson, Moosehead, etc., just don't count if you're going
to compete (Not that I have anything against anyone who enjoys those
beers).  I'm sure Canada has its fine brews, beer brewed with barley malt,
without the cheap filler grain adjuncts like rice and corn,  too, I just
don't know what they are.  Yakima and Cascade hops, grown in the Pacific
Northwest, are also world class.  I'm just not a big German beer fan, I
don't like thick, sweet, malty beers, I tend to be partial to hoppy ales,
IPAs, etc., so to me, American beers along with British beers, are the best
in the world.  The Belgians are sort of uncategorizable, but they're
obviously also great.

Just please stop this ignorant put down of American brewing, which is truly
world class, by choosing her worst offerings as your
examples.  Yeesh.  Michael Jackson (a brit), the world's leading authority
on beer, has admitted that American brewers have joined the ranks of the
British, the Germans, and the Belgians.

Obligatory Vanagon Content:  I drove around all winter with case after case
of Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale right behind my passenger seat of my 89
Wolfy, a bottle always within easy reach.

So, you know how Canada was named?  A bunch of Canucks were sitting around
fire, drunk, up in Saskatoon, or somewhere, and one of them said, "We need
a name for our country, don't we, eh?"  "We sure do, eh!," another
replied.  "Why don't we just go around the fire, everyone says a letter,
eh?," a third suggested.  They all shouted, "Great!"
"'C', eh?"
"'N', eh?"
"'D', eh?"
And now you know how Canada was named.

At 12:51 PM 4/7/2001 +1200, you wrote:
> > "17) Canadians make real BEER"
> >
> >Yeah right, real weak beer that tastes like maple
> >syrup and is geared towards yuppies.
> >
> >"MAKE IT A BUD LIGHT"
>
>Man, I've tasted Budweiser & coors. you couldn't sell them here. They're
>what Kiwis & Aussies would call weaselpiss.
>
>Labatt's, Molson, Moosehead... REAL beers.

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