Rant about American Beer

I don't know where you wnt to buy beer, but here in Hanover I can get a similair selection dto what you can get in the average american area, I am quite sure about that. I can get Pilsner from all over Germany (which may be very different in taste, try Jever and Hasseröder), wheat beer from Bavaria, Kölsch and Alt, chzech beer, english beer, heineken, american and scandinavian as well as mexican beer just at the next supermarket...
not to ention some specialised pubs...

 

There is a place about two miles away from where I work that has over 913 different beers available. They have 74 beers from Germany alone! And how likely is it for you to find a stout from Sri Lanka in Hanover?

It's not one of my personal favorites, but it is a very good beer.

 

Jever is - from taste - one of the strongest beers you can get in Germany. From the Tab it is great, I don't like it out of the bottle though.
It is from Friesland the German coastline to the Northsea (don't know where exactly).

 

This one goes to you, but I'll get you ;-)
(I am sure there are similair places in germany, I just happen to know none ;-) )
Ok, can't compete with that, but it isn't like the only beer available here in hanover are the local Pilseners, and Kölsch, Alt or Wheatbeer aren't limited to Cologne, Dusseldorf or Bavaria. That's basically has been said about beer in Germany, and that is just not true ;-)

 

It is a pity that "American beer" is usually thought of as "Bud Lite" or one of those ilk of barely flavored carbonated water fortified beverage.... but that's just how it is. If you want some good beer, get a microbrew.

 

LOL, there's at least one other Bremen beer brewed but beck's. And even though they only advertise for beck's, I am sure you'll get other beers there as well.
At the other hand, this just proves my point that Bremen sucks!

Now you only need to include hiostory and I am happy.
But you forgot Northern friesland, which is in germany (and Denmark), too.
The advertisment for Jever by the way states friesisch herb so I have no idea what friesisch is meant. It is more likely to mean East Friesland since Flensburger is widely consumed in Nordfriesland, though.
And I always thought of the Dutch islands as Westfriesland... well, you never know

 

Repped!!!

 

Weird, Wikipedia.de as well as Wikipedia.com states that all the lands together are friesland and holland just has westfriesland. Maybe we'v got a different use of language here?

Hey, the Hanoverian opinion towards Bremen is the same as the Hamburgian.
And I think you got it all wrong because of me ;-)
All the Frieslands together are not a real district to say, rather the last Counties where Frisian still is or was last spoken.
So Nordfriesland is partly part of the German state (Bundesland) Schleswig Holstein, Flensburg is a town in that state and brews the most populoar beer north of Hamburg.
There is a district called Nordfriesland with it's own licence plate number (In Germany every district has it's own licence plate beginning, for example H for Hannover, HH for Hamburg, B for Berlin and NF for Nordfriesland). Some Islands in Denmark are also considered part of historical Nordfriesland, but they are not part of the German district.
The rest of the German Friesland (Ostfriesland) is part of the German state Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), basically it is the entire lower saxonian coastline (look for wiki for more info) including the German district Friesland.
There is a region in the Netherlands having the same name, even though the dutch part of the friesian islands and the coastline seems to be refferred to as Westfriesland.

 

Maybe people that never go to bars and buy their beer at gas stations.

 

Whoops.

I left off the H in HTTP

It's not the Brickskeller, which is an incredible bar for beer selection. It's Chevy Chase Wine & Spirits, a liquor store just south of Chevy Chase Circle on Connecticut Ave, NW in DC. Click on the Our Products link for a searchable listing of everything they sell.

BTW, the Brickskeller's owners started another place downtown, near the MCI Centre, called RFD (for Regional Food & Drink) that also has an incredible beer selection.

 

World Rankings: Beer Drinkers [litres/head (by year?)]
1. Czech Rep: 155.0
2. Ireland: 147.1
3. Germany: 121.5
4. Austria: 109.3
5. Luxembourg: 108.2
6. U.K.: 100.6
11. U.S.A.: 82.0

Source: The Economist Pocket World in Figures 2005 Edition
Q

 

I just recently learned my surname which ends in -sma is Frisian for "son of," and not Dutch as I previously believed. No one speaks it anymore? I read that it was the language most closely related to English. Q

 

afaik the alnguage is just not spoken in the are of Westfriesland. There are 500k speakers in Holland and a few thousands in germany left.
And yes, it is the language nearest to English afaik.

 

Just get some Yuengling man. Lager or the Black & Tan, doesn't matter, both are delicious. I'm sure some people (Lastort, I'm lookin' in your direction ) may disagree with me, but for my money, you get the best taste for your buck out of any beer I've ever come across.

And, for the record, I'm a college student who makes a point out of only drinking good beers. I always keep some good stuff on hand, call it my "special reserve." We had a party once where the theme was "good beer," it was a big hit. (Seriously though I've gotten to the point where I can't drink Beast unless it's absolutely ice, ice cold.)

 

Gonna have to swing by there on my way to the United game today. Not that it's actually on the way.

 

there are plenty of good beers in america, they are just not the ones with bikin girl commercials during the super bowl

for instance, if you want to know what corona wishes it tasted like, get a rattlesnake