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For those of you that may be thirsty...little Irish Bar for ya..and yes it does sell Bud..

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Bud?! Hey, some of us Americans actually have good taste in beer!

evolutionmovement wrote:Bud?! Hey, some of us Americans actually have good taste in beer!

Never doubted that ever..I am a beer man myself, but its gotta be Carlsberg. Used to be a Guiness man until the French bought it..Diagio. Mind you I am tempted to go back on the Black Stuff when the weather changes...role on Nov man...

As oxymoronic as it sounds, the microbrewing thing in this country has gotten pretty big and that's the stuff I usually go for. One of the things I really love about beer is that there are just so many kinds and so many different ways to make them. Speaking of stouts, I had a couple in Portland, Maine a few weeks back that I really liked.

evolutionmovement wrote:As oxymoronic as it sounds, the microbrewing thing in this country has gotten pretty big and that's the stuff I usually go for. One of the things I really love about beer is that there are just so many kinds and so many different ways to make them. Speaking of stouts, I had a couple in Portland, Maine a few weeks back that I really liked.

I have to say that many years ago I was more into the micro brews, support your local brewer and all that but sadly the large multinationals took over and blew most of them out, there are a few kicking about but in my local area we have only the mainstream beers..But yes I do like to support local brew...now where did i leave that bottle of Poteen...hmmm

Any time anything seems to get too big it gets absorbed by a soulless conglomerate or abandons the qualities that made it big. In the US, it seems the big beer companies just introduce more niche products to compete instead of buying out all the small guys.

Some companies are just straight-out decent—when hops got real expensive, Sam Adams started offering theirs to small brewers at their quantity discount. Sam Adams certainly isn't InBev, but they aren't real small, and I thought that was a pretty cool thing to do for people that could definitely be seen as competitors, even if only locally.