Which country brews the best beer ?

[Dragonfly]

Apparently, from everything I've ever read and heard......

THIS:

Westvleteren (Dutch: Brouwerij Westvleteren) is a brewery founded in 1838 at the Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus in Vleteren, Belgium, not far from the hop-producing town of Poperinge.

 

[Ikari]

Yeah I realize Blue Moon is a controversial beer to like :2razz:

No, it's just a **** example of the Belgium Wit.

Allagash makes a good wit, actually Brooklyn Brewery has a decent one as well. I like pretty much anything by Lagunitas, including their Stoopid Wit, but it's not their best offering. I would have to say that Allagash White is one of my favorites.

 

[Peter King]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :-(
Well, good to know that. I guess I like South African Beer in that case.

DogFish Head make some good stuff it's true. Still prefer Beligan stuff though. :mrgreen:
I'd like to recommend swiss beers but... we're not that good at beers. Wines on the other hand...

You do know that is Belgian beer then? Because Inbev bought SABmiller.

 

[faithful_servant]

In this day and age, there's no excuse for "bad" beer anywhere.

And yeah...Blue Moon is a big fat "NO"....

Small, local micro and nano breweries can and do make absolutely awesome beers.

YEP! I live in the beating heart of the micro-brew movement (Central Oregon) and within a 20 minute drive, I can take you to some of the most outstanding breweries in the world. I'll put 10 Barrel Brewing Company up against just about anyone. https://10barrel.com/beers/

 

[Winchester]

No, it's just a **** example of the Belgium Wit.

Allagash makes a good wit, actually Brooklyn Brewery has a decent one as well. I like pretty much anything by Lagunitas, including their Stoopid Wit, but it's not their best offering. I would have to say that Allagash White is one of my favorites.

You'll probably never get the chance... but if you do this is one of the better/best one's I've had. Beltian White, by Harvest Moon Brewery. Our local brewer makes a wit that is okay, but doesn't hold a candle to the Beltian White.

Harvest Moon Brew | Beltian White – Belgian-Style Wheat Beer | Harvest Moon Brew

 

[<alt>doxygen]

The USA. Since the micro explosion the real problem has been weeding through the seemingly zillions of offerings.

I DID have some awesome lagers when I've been in Germany, and some of the Belgians, well : https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/215/2512/

If you don't like it, more for me!

In that style, also try this if you can find it. You will not be sorry.
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/samuel-adams-barrel-room-collection-new-world-tripel/112477/

So many choices out there.:mrgreen:

 

[Rexedgar]

I've never had any tasty german beer... recommendations ?

You have a couple of good beers in Schweitz. Feldshossen (sp?) and a Lucerne beer Eichof (owned by the Heineken crew).

 

[beerftw]

America at the moment has the best beers, but that is because many german beermaking immigrants came to america in the past. On our microbrews, they are not new, we have had micro brews before and after the depression to modern day, the only thing that has changed is the availability of it, where you can buy it in a store nationwide instead of having to live in the town that beer was made in.

For foreign beers as advice to anyone, most mass marketed foreign beers are nothing more than that countries lawnmower beer. Like for example german beers, becks bitburger and st pauli girl, all poor quality beers compared to other german beers, but in america that is all the vast majority will see, much the same germans are probably only going to see bud miller and coors over there if they do see american beers.


This goes for australian beer as well, everyone uses fosters to rate australian beer, but run into an australian in an american bar and offer him a fosters, you will probably hear him say he don't drink horse piss and the lowest he will drink is emu.Wierdly australians would flood the budweiser shelf when they got here.

English beer, same thing, bass and other ales are cheaper mass produced beers, I have had many good beers of british origin, my favorite from them is old speckled hen, but their mass produced it just like american mass produced. Oddly the british who come here swarm the budweiser shelf as well, and if you point them to the british ales, they will say they did not fly over the atlantic to drink the same horse piss they drank there, point them to the american horse piss and the nearest mcdonalds!

 

[Ikari]

You'll probably never get the chance... but if you do this is one of the better/best one's I've had. Beltian White, by Harvest Moon Brewery. Our local brewer makes a wit that is okay, but doesn't hold a candle to the Beltian White.

Harvest Moon Brew | Beltian White – Belgian-Style Wheat Beer | Harvest Moon Brew

Interesting, I have not seen Harvest Moon out this way, but I'll keep an eye out in case. I found out the other day that Founders doesn't ship to Colorado!! Made me sad, as Founder's Breakfast Stout is the best stout ever.

 

[Crosscheck]

There does seem there is beer snobbery if you aren't drinking someone's favorite beer.

I will take some heat probably but I enjoy Bud Light. Now, somehow since I drink Bud Light many think I am not manly.
I never could figure out how drinking one type of beer will increase the amount I can bench press but so be it.

One other beer I do enjoy though is Jamaican Red Stripe. And from time to time depending on what is available I have tried other beers that I thought were so-so. Basically I am only renting the beer for an hour or so and then peeing it down the drain.

 

[beefheart]

Czech Republic and Belgium.

My go-to summer beer is either Dos Equis Lager, or Kona Brewery Lemongrass Luau.

 

[beefheart]

The original Czech Budweiser Budvar is a symphony for the taste buds. Nothing like the pale American ersatz stuff

I remember buying it from a machine at the Prague airport...LOL. It is beautiful stuff, as is Urquell, Staropramen and Velkopopovice' beer...

 

[Dragonfly]

Founder's Breakfast Stout is the best stout ever.

I shall have to look for this. I love stouts.
Founders just started shipping into Delaware a few months ago.

I've only had the "All Day IPA".

 

[Cisero]

You have a couple of good beers in Schweitz. Feldshossen (sp?) and a Lucerne beer Eichof (owned by the Heineken crew).

Feldschlössen... yuck.

 

[Peter King]

Well, I am not a beer fan (in fact I do not drink at all) but the Netherlands has also a lot of good beers (and I am not talking about Heineken). In the pub where I worked, we had a poster up (after Heineken bought brand beer) where there was a donkey drinking brand beer and pissing out Heineken beer.

But there are loads of small breweries and local beer brands where there are also triple, quadruple beers just like in Belgium. A lot of pubs here sell both Dutch and Belgian beers but the market is dominated by the big breweries.

 

[Dragonfly]

Well, I am not a beer fan (in fact I do not drink at all) but the Netherlands has also a lot of good beers (and I am not talking about Heineken). In the pub where I worked, we had a poster up (after Heineken bought brand beer) where there was a donkey drinking brand beer and pissing out Heineken beer.

But there are loads of small breweries and local beer brands where there are also triple, quadruple beers just like in Belgium. A lot of pubs here sell both Dutch and Belgian beers but the market is dominated by the big breweries.

Have they jumped onto the HOPPS bandwagon there?

Really hoppy IPA's and such?

 

[Peter King]

Have they jumped onto the HOPPS bandwagon there?

Really hoppy IPA's and such?

Well, a lot of breweries here are old, but of the microbreweries I do not know, but here is one brewery that is situated about 5 miles from my house, I drive by it regularly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Brewery

But breweries like Grolsch (started in 1615) and Brand Beer (started brewing in 1340) are also creating good beers.