crissindahouse said:
chocoloco said:
Jumpin said:
Also, what kind of beer are you talking about, American beer is weak, it doesn't go higher than 5% and is usually something like 3.7%, whereas much beer here is 10%.
Although, I am not sure why someone would bother drinking all of those beers to get drunk when you can get drunk much faster with glasses of scotch, or even wine. |
You are wrong stop being ignorant. Most American beers are 5% alchol and up to 9.5 % or what ever. Stop typing nonsense, other than that I like scotch and it was already established in the thread you only drink Wine to impress women. 
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not sure if this is true but i read as more % beer in usa has as more sugar breweries put in it to get more %. if this is true it's really not beer anymore for me... if you wish to get more % here, you put more hops in it. btw this is a reason why the well known american beers like miller taste so much like water and not really like beer, because they don't use so much hops there for those beers. (just talking about the market leaders no clue about the thousand small breweries).
that's what wiki for example says about beer in usa and how to reach the % alcohol.
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Beers like Miller, Coors and Budweiser which are now all European owned, but made in the USA were made that way because after women lead the movement for the the prohibition of alcohol not many of the American-Old World traditional style breweries survived, the ones that did became some of America's crappiest and most well known brews today. They modified the recipes to get the beverage to appeal more to women in terms of taste and it worked. And since the prohibition only left a few companies to make monopolies on the beverage the watered down "miller" style became the most available for many decades.
As time went one microbrews began to pop up everywhere as you said, and American beers are way less restrictive on formula than German beers. I believe I read there are many regulations on German beers in terms of what can be put in it to make it live up to German tradition/standards. Because of our recent freedom in beer experimentation many microbrews make many experiments with many flavors to love in the world of beer. Sadly, they are small and numerous and mostly stay in the USA. Over the past decade cheap pilsners like the ones I described are on the decline while microbrews are growing in popularity despite while being more flavorful and having higher prices. That cheap piss water you call "Miller" , "Coors" and "Bud" is the only ones known to most foreigners because they are the only ones exported out of here in mass quantities. And finally, most Microbrews do not use sugar and pride themselves on being all natural.
Done with short beer rant now.
