Grunching: The US is 38th in life expectancy, their health system ranks 37th by the WHO, and the human development index puts the US at number 4. I don't think the US is number 1 overall.

Let's not even get started on cricket. Man, baseball is boring as f***, but cricket takes monotony to a whole other level.

Too mean

I would have gone with arxiv.org and mathoverflow...

Beer conversation is a joke, there is tons of good American beers. Why WOULDNT there be? So many craft breweries, marketing to so many various niches, what possible reason can you have for suggesting that somehow English beers are just fundamentally better? They have some magic water or magic malt or something that we just dont have access to? For every "great" English beer there is very likely a clone made by some small brewery in the US.

Yes, IPAs are quite popular these days (and I have no idea how you can think Hopslam sucks, its soooo good) but nonetheless, MOST beers are not IPAs. There is plenty to choose from.

If your argument is something like "American beers are all bad, because they are all marketed for the tastes of Americans, and those are all bad" then basically your entire argument boils down to "I have weird tastes and no one makes a beer exactly for me. Except England." Sucks, i guesS?

This discussion is as fruitless as trying to explain colour to a man who has only ever seen in monochrome. Your whole argument is basically but grey is great and that blue,red,yellow stuff you say is so great is like just your opinion man.

American craft beers all suffer from horrible fancy play syndrome, and have no understanding of less is more. I have not tried Hopslam, so I googled it. From their website:

Typical. American craft beers are typically confused and like the snotty nosed ginger teenager trying to prove his worth in front of his more suave confident assured and infinitely more mature betters, trying much much much to hard and consequently failing.

Calodonian Duechars IPA (Best Cask Ale at the Brewing Industry International Awards in 2005.) uses 2 malts and would never engage in the self indulgent frappery that has gone into Hopslam.

http://www.caledonianbeer.com/deuchars.htm

I don't get the "ginger" thing. They don't have redheads in the UK or something?

They must still be bitter about Ireland.

Fyp

Vhawk confirmed ginger?

old news

Oh

LD ****ing O.

Basically, yeah.
Self-interested, %-wise I dunno but the majority of us, for sure
Priviledged, ~98%+ (but just 'cos our social security system (+ "free" education) rocks)
White, ~95%+

Since the start of the war around two thousand Amerikan soldiers have died in Afghanistan. 5k people have died in Chicago beacuse of gun wounds in the same period of time. Amerikan dreams lol......

but those Mericans were killed by real Mericans, in Amerika. Can't let the dirty sand people take a greater number of Merican lives. USA USA USA

That's right Sheep People

Why do you think he's so smart? While the rest of you were outside enjoying the summer days he was inside cowering from the sun reading books.

lol, delusional brit is delusional. god save the queen and all that nonsense.

I know this isn't on the level of beer but... Hershey's chocolate (what I think of as the typical american chocolate) sucks.

But...you are the one saying "all I need is grey, all these darn Americans with their rainbow of colors, get off my lawn."

Correct.

Sarcasm aside, I took what I thought was a valid criticism of many (not all) of the yank craft beers I have tasted and ran it through the steelhouseifier 2000 for the purposes of this thread. One thing that I will say is that the consistency with which beer is kept well at point of sale is better in USA. It tilts me how many pubs in the UK dont keep beer well. Clean the ****ing pipes you lazy ****s.