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[-] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 7 months ago

American beer is not in anyway better than European beer or even English beer.

Something something tastes like piss.

I think you Americans are beginning the long road to good beer with all your craft ales, but you've got a way to go yet.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

American modern beers - Just keep throwing hops at it until it stops tasting like piss. Doesn't matter if it tastes more like a bunch of daffodils than beer, we'll just call it "craft" 😂

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

daffodils are pretty and make me smile

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

"I wondered lonely as a cloud..."

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Nice spelling, Wordsworth

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

😂. Wandered, wondered. Oops

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, Prohibition killed all the beer we had and we did have good beer right up until then. And it's been a long road back. Those large US breweries are still far more interested in cheap ingredients made cheaply.

But you can find good craft beers scattered amongst the bad craft beers if you look. And home brewing is maybe more popular in the US than Europe, but I'm not sure of that.

[-] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

You make a good point about prohibition, I guess that will have had a significant effect. Maybe there are more artisan spirits in the US now having been driven by people with secret stills making moonshine in that period. It'll be interesting to see where you guys go with the relaxation of marijuana laws. Maybe people will be home breeding new strains.

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Oddly, moonshine and bathtub "gin" became quite the impetus for the popularity of cocktails, at least in the US. Since the added flavors tended to hide the rotgut taste of the illicit booze. And the loss of beer breweries had the effect of giving rise to ice cream parlors and soda fountains since saloons had to close. Plus as Minnesotan, I feel the need to apologize for the Volstead Act, as it became known, since Andrew Volstead was a Minnesota House of Representative and Chairman of the House Judicial Committee and was pretty instrumental in getting prohibition enacted. Scandinavian Protestantism (tm) is not a good thing by in large.