# American "beer" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598 "2004-07-11T19:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/41 "2004-07-13T02:49:56Z")
[http://www.newbelgium.com/frames.html](http://www.newbelgium.com/frames.html) > [@](#): > > Currently our beers are available in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas, California, Nevada and Arkansas. We are at cellaring capacity with this territory. To ensure our high quality standards are maintained once the beer leaves the brewery, we do not ship in the mail or other carriers that cannot continue refrigeration–sorry! Sorry dude, no New New Belgium Beer for you. It’s kind of like a river running dry, by the time it gets out of Colorado there isn’t much left in the stream so it doesn’t make it very far. I feel for you though man. My current favorite is Rogue Brewery Hazlenut brown ale , but very seldom do they have enough enough of it to fill orders this far away from Oregon. ☹ And just so I don’t break my streak of mentioning this in every thread about American beer: The Great American beer fest. 1600 beers, enough said. [http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/index.htm](http://www.beertown.org/events/gabf/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/42 "2004-07-13T05:31:34Z")
I’ve drank Hieniken, Warsteiner, and Diebels both in Germany and imported, and they taste different. I know several Germans who wont buy an import because they say that they kill the beer with preservatives before they export it from Germany. In fact I know a couple of them that were spending time in the states and developed a taste for MGD and know that they are back in Germany we swap. Can you believe it, once every couple of months shipping a crate full of Miller Genuine Draft and Hershey bars to Germany(along with Levi’s jeans and Hanes white t-shirts). ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/43 "2004-07-13T08:01:41Z")
**nonpolar** I’m not exactly a beer lover although I do enjoy a beer or two before I start on the tequila. But, I envite you here anytime for some damned fine barbeque (I’ll cook it myself and I’ve won a few contests) and for a cold Shinerbock. Not bad for a US made beer at least IMHO. They make a pretty damned good dark beer and when I was a beer drinker, practically all I drank was imported dark Heineys or Lowenbrau. At least before Miller started fuckin it up here in the states. MGD ain’t too bad if ya like 'em lite. So how about it. Anyone game for meeting in Fredricksburg for the Octoberfest. I guarantee you they’ll have some good beer and eats too. That sounds like a hell of a good time to me. An October **DOPE** fest in Texas at Fredricksburg this fall. I had planned to take my wife there for a second honeymoon, but as y’all may know that’s not gonna happen now. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/44 "2004-07-13T11:32:21Z")
I don’t think Budweiser would legally be able to call itself the “King of Beers” if it wasn’t the best American beer. Marketers can only stretch the truth so much. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nonpolar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3da27b/32.png) [@nonpolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonpolar)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/45 "2004-07-13T23:18:50Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I don’t think Budweiser would legally be able to call itself the “King of Beers” if it wasn’t the best American beer. > > Marketers can only stretch the truth so much. > > 😃 You won’t believe the story behind American Budweiser.If I remember correctly there is real original Budweiser beer in Czech republic being brewed since long long time, but somehow at the end of Second WW Americans aproprioated the name Budweiser.(please correct me someone if I’m wrong) Well- as you might suspect originall Czech Bud is hundred times better. By the way ,Pils beers also originate in Czech republic from city Pilsno. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/46 "2004-07-14T00:22:34Z")
In the “Why Things Are” column, Joel Achenbach’s answer was that the big American breweries use rice, which would actually be illegal in Germany, for example. This makes a drink that’s easy for teenagers to get started on and become loyal to. ---
**Author:** ![DWToml815](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DWToml815](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWToml815)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/47 "2004-07-14T02:58:39Z")
> [@](#): > > You won’t believe the story behind American Budweiser.If I remember correctly there is real original Budweiser beer in Czech republic being brewed since long long time, but somehow at the end of Second WW Americans aproprioated the name Budweiser.(please correct me someone if I’m wrong) Actually any beer from Budweis can be called Budweiser.(Please excuse me if the spelling is wrong.) If I can find the article I will post again. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/48 "2004-07-14T04:00:52Z")
> [@Denis](#): > > I admit to swilling, with pleasure, an American “beer” :dubious: after doing yardwork in hot weather. Yep. And while a fine European beer may taste better in its own climate most are too heavy to drink when it’s 95F in the shade and you just mowed the lawn. And anybody who has had those old local brews (ever have Hi Brau? Fox Deluxe?) laughs at a nostalgic view that they were catagorically better than Bud. ---
**Author:** ![factorial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed8c4c/32.png) [@factorial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/factorial)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/49 "2004-07-14T05:22:42Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > If anyone honestly believes Budweiser is the pinnacle of American beer, they’re seriously deluded. It’s no more our best beer than McDonald’s is our best food. Quoted for truth. ---
**Author:** ![factorial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ed8c4c/32.png) [@factorial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/factorial)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/50 "2004-07-14T05:25:10Z")
Oh, and [here’s the original](http://www.needmorebeer.com/budvar.htm) [Budweiser](http://www.budvar.cz/budvar/budvar-web/product/produkt_eng.html). ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598/51 "2004-07-15T14:11:21Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > **Bruce Daddy** - My observation is that most popular import beers are not dark and heavy – Amstel, Heineken, Becks, Fosters, Pilsner Urquell. These are all fairly light lagers (with varying degrees of maltiness and hoppiness.) True that. Mmmm, Amstel… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-beer/254598.md?page=2)