"Great American Beer "...? :hmm:
Honestly, if thinlking about beer, America and australia are the two places I would consider the least to be recommendable adresses. I tried several of them in past years, and they were thin, and tasted artificial, reminding of laboratories.
the strongest beer I ever had was some belgian stuff, a "monastery beer". Thicker than blood, so to speak, I was half-drunken from just half a glass.
All in all I like the German beers best indeed.