Scotch tastes depending on season and weather

I find I don't even drink whisky in hot weather.

Continental beers do me just fine.

Odie

I am shocked, shocked. You are banned from this group! :-)

Aw, c'mon - at least I'm a fussy beer drinker!

Ok, I have to confess to drinking a swig straight from the bottle every night - just a small mouthful.

Is that acceptable?!

Odie

I hope that by "continental lagers" you really mean pilsner type beers brewed abroad, and not the chemical s*it brewed in the UK and passed off as lager.

I prefer real ale myself, I'll normally drink the foreign beer when I'm in the land of production.

Roger

Actually, I totally understand drinking a cold beer in the summer rather than Scotch! Nothing beats a cold beer when it is hot.

Round up the usual suspects.

Cheer$, Harlan Lunsford

Agree with the "chemical s*it" brewed in the UK. I get really peed off when I pick up, for example, a pack of Kronenberg beer with "Biere Francaise" written all over it, only to find it has been brewed in the UK.

Ditto Amstel, even some "export quality" lagers purportedly from abroad.

Why a UK-brewed Amstel tastes like pee when the real mccoy tastes so good - why even bother buying the UK brew?

Trouble is, people in the UK aren't fussy enough and are happy to accept all sorts of nonsense to "keep the peace" - doesn't get you anywhere if you want quality goods and a quality service.

Odie

Just wanted to add - there are some fantastic American lagers around as well as Continental.

Odie

I thought Fantastic American lagers were an oxymoron... what particularly were you thinking of?

Roger

Well, quite a few of these are lagers:

Yes, haven't you had any of the fantastic microbrews from the Western U.S.?

As an avid homebrewer I enjoy the taste of Sam Adams lager for a store bought brew. MerryD

Aren't most US microbrew products ales,. porters and stouts?

Lager is usually expensive to produce in a microbrewery because of the minimum 28 days needed to "lager" it.

Roger

I've had Sam Adams Pale Ale when in the US, but Sam's is hardly a microbrewery.

Living in the UK, I stick to our extensive range of ales, porters and stouts. I'm glad to see that no-one here is advocating drinking mega-brewery s*it. We have that here to, and it's starting to spread round Europe now.

Roger

I live in Denmark and here we can eaily get the following fantastic american LAGERS :

Boston Lager

Brooklyn Lager

(Both breweries make other great beers as well)

Got another one called Sierra nevada on keg at the local the other, but not

Dont think american beers is Budweiser (Or all danish is crap Carlsberg)

MacDeffe

Samuel Adams Boston Lager for one....

Odie

Just take a look at the annual results of the GABF. Apart from a very few categories created just to appease the big brewers, you'll find a good number of critically acclaimed lagers.

-- Larry (who, nevertheless, drinks only ale)

I liked the Brooklyn Brewery lager and also the Samual Adams lager from the USA. There are some pretty decent brewers of good lager and ales in both the UK and USA. I live not too far away from the German border and buy much of my lager there and for my ale I buy Belgian, but just here at the supermarket in The Netherlands where I live. I have just aquired a beer making kit to make from scratch using dry materials. I am going to give it a go after my vacation in September.

Peace,

Jock

I agree on all counts of US beers that you mention. Decent stuff. Sierra nevada is not a lager I dont think though.

Peace,

Jock