German Purity Law Beer
My theory about Germans …. and beer?
For me, I think the re-invented German beer. He knows better than some of the things I've tried (Domestic beer taste terrible, with the exception of Samuel Adams, Michelob, and Karl Strauss … a local brewery here in San Diego). And stick with 1513 Purity Law has been going on for almost 500 years. Do not any of you feel the same way about German beer? Just curious.
Not really, no. Beer was invented in Egypt or Mesopotamia, and I will go so far as to say that the Belgians produce the world's best beer (Chimay). Is that the U.S. is re-inventing beer. Most of the beer produced in the world? The U.S.. Most breweries in any country? The U.S.. The greatest beers made in the World? U.S. (Sam Adams Utopias is 25%, dogfish has a 22% or 23% I think) no U.S. breweries making all kinds of experimental beers, traditional ales, fresh yeast wild strains, etc. The problem is that even as big as Sam Adams is still only a small strip of the beer sold in the U.S.. Most breweries in the U.S. virtually no market share and never get to hear them, much less prove his beer. Everything we hear and see is Bud, Miller and Coors. Compared to them, yes … the worst German beer is better than anything they have to offer … but not offer what is happening in the craft beer movement U.S.. The more you look, the more surprised to be converted into quality and selection we have here at home. Cheers.
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