Ask Lemmy

I tried a Budweiser once. Once was enough.

When asking the waiter for a local craft beer, got pretty decent ones.

Stuff like Miller like is just a less sugary alternative to cokeà or to pretend your drinking during a business event

American, but I enjoy beer and have tried hundreds. I tend to like sweeter or richer Belgian and German ales the most. Things like König Ludwig, Tripel Karmeliet, Augustiner, Weihenstephaner, Ayinger, Paulaner, and St. Bernardus will always top my list.

If you like those, here are some US recommendations that are also damn good. Note, some of these are quite regional.

• Tröeg's - Mad Elf
• Fat Heads - Alpenglow
• Boulevard - Bourbon Barrel Quad
• Royal Docks - VLAD
• Dark Horse - Scotty Karate
• Descutes - The Abyss
• Fat Heads - Goggle Fogger
• Sierra Nevada - Kellerweiss
• Terrestrial - Blue Dream
• Thirsty Dog - Irish Setter Red
• Penn Brewery - Penn Weizen
• Ommegang - Manhattan Shine
• Sibling Revelry - Lavender Wit
• Ithaca - Apricot Wheat

Also, shoutout to almost anything by Unibroue - They're from Montreal, but hey that's not Europe.

Not a European, but a well traveled person who has drunk beers in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Botswana, Senegal, UK, Poland, China, and the UK, as well as drunk beers from Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic etc, I stopped drinking beer when I drunk American beer. Sure, there are some good microbrews, but holy moly, there are some questionable things that pass for beer in America.

American. I visit Germany once every few years. Each time, I see American beer get better and better. I think, this time when I visit Germany I'll finally be able to say "Yes, you do beer incredibly well, but American beer has gotten much better, come visit me, I can't wait to show you."

I have one sip of German beer and all my hopes and dreams are shattered. We cannot make a beer as good as Kölsch, it seems. Tbf there's cheap German beers that taste like swill, but it isn't hard to find just amazing Kölsch in Köln.

I'm from the Netherlands, and we say the same for Heineken and also for the Belgian variant Jupiler. The truth is, at a party or festival it's mostly these or Bud that are available, and people drink a lot of it. At home I'll mostly drink Krombacher, or some other German brand since I live close to the border.

I've been to the US once, and stayed in the Boston area. I drank a lot of Sam Adams lager there, which was decent enough for me. I'd assume every region will have it's own decent brand of lager, just as it is here in Europe.

American beer that is sold in Europe? All the ones I tried, yeah, absolutly.

And most of that microbrew shit doesn't even count as beer under the Reinheitsgebot.

I've not tasted many American beers so I could not tell if they all taste like crap, and I also do not drink at all anymore. But being French, I can say that our Belgian neighbors have some exceptionally good beers, as well as Germans do. I loved a few of those, back then. But then they may also be a tad too... tasty for an uninitiated palate ;)

I'm pretty confident there must some local breweries in a few US places that can make quality beer too, the issue would then mostly be to find enough customers willing to drink it because it's no use to make the best beer ever if most your customers prefer Budweiser or stuff like that.

I really liked the Red Stripe and Abita when I visited the US. Don't come near me with a Bud or a Coors through

I'm a big fan of Blue Moon for a witbier.