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I tend to pass on the mass produced/mass marketed beers. They're not any cheaper than the local stuff and they're certainly not any better...

Heinekein is pretty mediocre, though the imported brew is slightly better than the locally (NZ) brewed version.

Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada are both way better than Heine and they're not really even local...

Do other parts of the country have Harpoon?

judasmuppet";p="788126 wrote:Heinekein is pretty mediocre, though the imported brew is slightly better than the locally (NZ) brewed version.

I agree on the imported versus locally brewed issue.

Still I think it's nice. But I'm not a big beer drinker.

Jeff";p="788123 wrote:I tend to pass on the mass produced/mass marketed beers. They're not any cheaper than the local stuff and they're certainly not any better...

This is not true in the UK at all. Yesterday I visited some cider farms and cider makers. The charged on average £2-£3 per 500ml. Now quality mass produced cider such as Scrumpy Jack would cost between £1-£1.50.

The same applies for ales here unless you go directly to a real ale house which are few and far between. The cost of going to an ale house could easily negate the cost of paying for it at double the price at a large chain store locally.

With regards to Heienken. They tend to brew that cold filtered stuff everywhere which is weaker and is absolutely disgusting. In the UK, they have stopped producing the cold filtered so all our Heineken is now imported. However, even this tasts poor compared to it in Amsterdam. One of the better pints I've had.

In Amsterdam and from what I gather from most of Europe (blast this cursed island!!) Jeff's experience is mirrored with local ales and beers being cheaper, fresher and better. Directly opposite the train station in Amsterdam there's a Hotel bar. It's pretty prominent. Inside they had four or five locally brewed independent lagers which are fantastic.

In Autumn I'm off to Belgium to sample the delights of trappist beers and I also have a friend who owns his own brandy bar and internet cafe an so I shall be paying his bar a visit and try some of these infamous spirits I've heard so much about. Should be a trip.

Well I should clarify... cheap American beer is still the most economical choice... but local brews are very competitive with the prices for Heineken, Newcastle, Corona, Guiness, and the rest of the faux-high quality imports, and absolutely blow them out of the water in terms of quality.

Of course, everyone who was at my new house last night said my growler of Berkshire Brewing Company IPA tasted like a "jug full of ass" and kept drinking their Amstel Light...

Mmmmmm....creeaamy.

Everyone in my new house sucks at beer. It sucks, but at least I don't have to worry about anyone drinking my shit... none of them can stand the taste of an IPA.

What's your address?

Jeff";p="790344 wrote:Heineken, Newcastle, Corona, Guiness, and the rest of the faux-high quality imports, and absolutely blow them out of the water in terms of quality.

especially Heineken. Infact there isin't a mass produced domestic beer I don't prefer over heineken, horrible. I'd place Red Stripe and Newcastle as equal to the best of the local brews' stuff i've tried, though i'm really just not daring enough to try them all

I've had way better browns than Newcastle (Smuttynose and Brooklyn are the commons ones around here). Red Stripe is a lager, and there's hardly any domestic lager production in the US... except for Bud/Miller/Coors of course, but that's all crap... most micros will make a Pils and MAYBE one other lager style, but the popularity of ales and the longer brewing process involved with lagers makes them hard to come by...

i recently discovered this..



http://capeannbrewing.com/

These guys are accross the road from my house and I never ever knew
http://www.ratebeer.com/Brewers/tomos-watkin/2683/

judasmuppet";p="796963 wrote:

Mmmmmm....creeaamy.

shit yeah!

*GROOOWL*

thats a bear silly..

not a beer..

®Peanutbutter";p="800598 wrote:*GROOOWL*

floodmatt";p="800555 wrote:i recently discovered this..



http://capeannbrewing.com/

The beer out where I'm living now kinda sucks... Berkshire is EVERYWHERE, which is great, but other than that it's pretty bleak... Harpoon is a stretch, Sierra Nevada is nowhere to be found... yet.

where are you living again?

Miller's Falls... near Greenfield, about forty minutes north of Springfield via 91...

I walked into a package store last night that carries a few different Sam Adams varieties, Harpoon IPA, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and Ipswich IPA. If I was at home, I would have walked out right then or maybe gotten something and never come back if I was in a hurry... but out here, it's the best place I've found by far. I got the Ipswich and it was stale.

jiffy jeff..

you going to Harpoon on Saturday?

I'm gonna try to go see the last Red Sox game on sunday, actually.


I found an amazing bar: http://www.thepeoplespint.com/

Jeff";p="800526 wrote:I've had way better browns than Newcastle (Smuttynose and Brooklyn are the commons ones around here). Red Stripe is a lager, and there's hardly any domestic lager production in the US... except for Bud/Miller/Coors of course, but that's all crap... most micros will make a Pils and MAYBE one other lager style, but the popularity of ales and the longer brewing process involved with lagers makes them hard to come by...

Brooklyn and Smutty are piss next to Newcastle.
I felt the need to disagree with your opinion.
Even though I haven't had a beer in ages.

That must have something to do with you being so horribly goddamned wrong.

Beer has temporarily heightened my olfactory senses.