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>> Lew Brys>>
>>> America has the greatest variety of beer of any country in the world. >>
>>
>> Not so. Russia has more varieties of domestic beer that does US. In
>> terms of imported beer, they may be similar but the number of imported
>> DRAFT beers is much larger in Russia. And "draft" makes all the
>> difference compared to "cooked" bottled varieties.
>
> While I'm not intimately familiar with Russia's beer scene, I find it
> incredibly hard to believe that there are even vaguely near the number of
> beers available in Russia as the U.S. has. Perhaps more major labels, but
> there are thousands of microbreweries in the U.S., and I have access to > the
> beers from literally hundreds of breweries in my area, all of which make
> numerous styles of beer. Per my stats at
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I've currently
> tried 997 different beers from the U.S., and that's more or less without
> trying much that I can't get around the D.C. area.
>
> "Draft" does make a difference in one important way--if all the bottled
> beer you have sampled is "cooked" (pasteurized), then you haven't bothered
> to try any bottle-conditioned beer, which means you haven't tried about > all
> the actual good bottled beer out there. For good beer, there's little
> difference between bottled and cask versions and, for botte-conditioned
> brews, properly-handled bottled versions will be a hell of a lot more > interesting.
>
> As for imported "DRAFT" beers, yes, some of them are very nice and all,
> but, simply put, the U.S. has the best beer culture in the world right > now.
> There's things we're clearly lacking, like a lovely tradition of lambics
> like Belgium (though we've got a few people doing great work there) and > I'd
> love to have the pub culture you can find in Britain, but U.S. brewers are
> willing to try anything in brewing, and that willingness to experiment and
> tweak means that new and amazing things are coming out all the time here. >
> Note: I'm not poo-poo-ing the beer from other parts of the world, but
> there's more going on in the U.S. than you're apparently aware of. > --
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> Dan Iwerks thinks that the beer you're drinking probably sucks.
> The fundamental problem with Solipsism is it makes me
> responsible for the fact that you're a complete idiot.
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