Australians beating the Americans - hands down

Where we tend to follow American trends, there is one area where we are NOW clearly leading.

The release of these new trendy beers over the last few months includes

Hahn extra dry (totally tasteless crap) Carlton extra dry (also totally tasteless crap) Tooheys extra dry (yep, totally tasteless crap as well) Tooheys Platinum extra dry (really really expensive totally tasteless crap)

Budweiser is literally bursting with flavour compared to these maltless beauties.

for your sake, I just hope they don't jump the Pacific.

Steve W (in Aus)

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Steve/Aus
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Ah, but we (US) have completely jumped this race by going straight to no-beer beer in the form of Zima! Zima, made by Coors no less, is touted as a "malt beverage" and an "unhopped beer". Where they get this is beyond me, as the drink tastes neither like a beer nor malt. It does quailify based on your other criteria of tasting like crap.

nb

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notbob

Wine coolers don't taste like malt, either, and yet they're malt beverages.

Zima is a malt beverage (as are other alcopops like Smirnoff Ice, due to tax regs and other things). A crappy one, but it is a malt beverage, which would pretty much be unhopped beer.

Anyway, Zima is so 1994.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

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Stig

For the most part, I agree. OTOH, Blue Moon, their Belgian-style wit beer is exceptional. And, to their credit, they brew it themselves instead of just buying stock in other microbreweries like A-B. I'd like to see them do more of the same.

nb

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notbob

The North American megabreweries went through a "dry" (aka "tasteless") beer phase a good 15-20 years ago. They must have sent the recipe Down Under on a slow steamer!

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Joel

I've never had anyone agree with me per se on my following observation, but I found that the 90's onslaught of dry beers (I seem to remember Molson Dry in particular) had a Vodka-y aftertaste to it. So 'tasteless' wouldn't be the word so much as 'gastritis inducing crap'.

MHO, Comboverfish

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Comboverfish

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