Kraft Beers ?

[STEMO]

Slip him a Bishops finger or two, Skruntie.

He'll end up with stinking bishop cheesy fingers 

[TheBoy]

The little club Im a Trustee of sells a Nethergate Ale (local brewery) which is very moreish.

As its just down the road from me, I've been known to pick up some lager-ish beers from Diddly Squat, its a grey label, buggered if I can remember what its called.  Its a very pleasant tipple in the garden after a day at work, but its easy to get stuck into and have far too many

[Nick W]

The west coast of the US seems to be a craft beer utopia.

I've given up trying them, because every one conformed to the more is always better approach. Which leads to IPAs that are like drinking liquid desiccant, or that taste like they're a 50/50 mix of weak beer and concentrated ugly fruit syrup. While a good session beer is a very English idea, a good speciality beer still retains some subtlety and drinkability

[Nick W]

The little club Im a Trustee of sells a Nethergate Ale (local brewery) which is very moreish.

As its just down the road from me, I've been known to pick up some lager-ish beers from Diddly Squat, its a grey label, buggered if I can remember what its called.  Its a very pleasant tipple in the garden after a day at work, but its easy to get stuck into and have far too many

My local is the Nelson Brewery, less than two miles away in the dockyard. Their beers are extremely drinkable, but are hard to find. Next is Goachers out the other side of Maidstone. It's much easier to find, but tastes like yesterday's dishwater strained through a farmer's socks

[Doctor Gollum]

True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement 

[Nick W]

True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement 

If you don't chill Budweiser, then you discover that it has lots of taste. The snag is that it tastes bloody horrible. US craft beers(nobody else calls them that, so the US is redundant) just go for even stronger, not better, or even different.

[Mr Skrunts]

I see. You mean Elsecar, near Rotherham.

I did.

[STEMO]

I see. You mean Elsecar, near Rotherham.

I did.

Al didn't 

[Doctor Gollum]

True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement 

If you don't chill Budweiser, then you discover that it has lots of taste. The snag is that it tastes bloody horrible. US craft beers(nobody else calls them that, so the US is redundant) just go for even stronger, not better, or even different.

Yard House offer a reasonable selection of draft beers, and Lone Star is halfway decent 

[Sir Tigger KC]

True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement 

A few years ago when I house sat my mates place in Houston, the Pub round the corner called the Shakespeare is a craft beer place and has a huge horseshoe shaped bar with about 30 different draught craft beers.   It would have been rude not to have tried them all! 

[Doctor Gollum]

True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement 

A few years ago when I house sat my mates place in Houston, the Pub round the corner called the Shakespeare is a craft beer place and has a huge horseshoe shaped bar with about 30 different draught craft beers.   It would have been rude not to have tried them all! 

Absolutely 

[Kevin Wood]

True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement 

A few years ago when I house sat my mates place in Houston, the Pub round the corner called the Shakespeare is a craft beer place and has a huge horseshoe shaped bar with about 30 different draught craft beers.   It would have been rude not to have tried them all! 

Absolutely 

On my last trip to the US we took some customers to a brewery tap and most of the beers were porters and started at about 7 1/2%.
I decided it would be rude not to try a few but that did put me in a bit of a muddle.

[TheBoy]

I decided it would be rude not to try a few but that did put me in a bit of a muddle.

And you're anything but rude

That's the trouble with the non-fizzy stuff - you can drink gallons of it, then suddenly realise that you're paralysed from the waist down.  So I've heard, anyway

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Makes a change for the septic tanks though. Their beer has usually been made from what they have carefully extracted from the bladders of countless gnats. 

If Carlsberg made beer in the U.S. it would be renamed Girlsberg. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

The reason that Australians drink their beer ice cold is because it's shite and you can't taste it when it's almost a frozen block of lager!