The Great American Beer is now Belgian.

[Enigma]

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- Belgian brewer InBev has announced it will buy its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion to create the world's largest brewer.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/14/anh....ap/index.html

[Skybird]

"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.

[Enigma]

"Great American Beer "...? :hmm:

My beer of choice is Belgian. (Stella).

However, Bud, in all it's variations, has always been marketed as being as American as Apple Pie and the 7th inning stretch.

[Takeda Shingen]

As an American, I would be concerned about this if the 'Great American Beer' mentioned above was actually any good. I agree with Sky's assessment: Budweiser is nothing more than foul tasting water.

[Stealth Hunter]

Gradually selling ourselves out to the foreigners.

[Frame57]

I am an American. I admit that there is NO great American beer. There are some good micro-brewery ones. Nope! For me it is either Dortmunder or Warsteiner. In my religion it is said if i die in a Jihad, I will get 70 Kegs of this beer!!!

[danurve]

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

Gradually selling ourselves out to the foreigners.

True on so many levels.

A-B was good for making funny commercials, like the frogs. Ironicaly their talents lay in marketing not brewing. Michelobe may be an exception.

The more suprising thing is Bud's prices lately. Charging about as much or more as you would pay for decent Canadian Beer, like Labatts.

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Enigma

My beer of choice is Belgian. (Stella).

Me2

[Stealth Hunter]

Heineken... or Old Milwaukee.

[UnderseaLcpl]

If Budweiser is accquired by InBev I will be very interested in the results.
Will the backlash from Bud becoming "foreign" destroy it or will the indubitably superior quality (or at least alcohol content) of European beer prevail?
Will they even change anything?
I am inclined to believe that Bud is making a mistake on the part of their employees. Luckily, the board members will be safe from any negative consequences of the accquisition.

Originally Posted by Skybird

"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.

You'd be talking about the stuff that gets exported from Australia , Even we don't drink that crap

[Sailor Steve]

I like all this talk about one beer being better than another. Since beer is an aquired taste (which I have never aquired) I have to opine that there is no "good" beer - just one you are accustomed to.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I like all this talk about one beer being better than another. Since beer is an aquired taste (which I have never aquired) I have to opine that there is no "good" beer - just one you are accustomed to.

Good point, but probably beer is so complex. Even more complex than wine. So many more nuances and flavorings go into a well crafted beer...wine is just grapes, while a beer can have flavorings such as lemon peel, spices like cinnamon, grains of paradise, coriander, and fruits such as cherries or even things like coffee beans...

Beer was invented before wine, and it remains one of the most complex and refined drinks in the world.

[Sailor Steve]

I was just razzing you guys. It's not your fault alcohol makes me sick.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Good point, but probably beer is so complex. Even more complex than wine. So many more nuances and flavorings go into a well crafted beer...wine is just grapes,

Good joke! I just would ot repeat it too load.

The taste of a wine is composed by over 1000 ingredients. That of beer (understanding it in todays way of brewing) consists of far less. That is because hop assimiliates chemcial agents from its surroundign (soil, air, water) in not that numbers like grapes do. Beer also is en extremely hyperglycaemic drink, affecting your health far more intense for the negative than wine does if consumed in quantities equal in alcohol level.

Earliest beers were "brewed" by putting bread into water and let it rest.

Another one, anyone?