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Originally Posted by kidcolin
Yup. Pretty much.
Add on to that the best ipas and stouts, lol Europe.
I think the Euros in this thread are thinking of like Sam Adams or Goose Island when they're commenting on American craft beers.
I loved a lot of beers in Europe. Pilsner Urquell and Budvar Budweiser for like $1.50 a pint in Prague were amazing. And they taste wayyyyyy better than they do here. Delirium Cafe in Belgium had some pretty great beers on tap and over 2,000 from around the world. I did not try all 2,000 but the next morning definitely felt like I did. I love a Guiness in Ireland (again way different from here).
Then for the smaller breweries when I lived in Sweden I probably tried about 50 different beers in my time there. They were all pilsner-esque that weren't bad, and some I actually enjoyed, but nothing special, or a "dark" beer, not quite a stout or a porter, just malty and dark. LOL Sweden's liquor laws by the way, at the least the town I lived in.
I'm sure there are some small craft breweries popping up all over Europe and I'd love to try them. Like I said Kabinet Brewery in Belgrade was absolutely outstanding. They do a lot of really good beers, but an absolutely outstanding IPA (Supernova) and the fact you can get it so fresh definitely helps.
As for the lol we just add a ton of hops and it all taste the same. There has been so much experimentation with all beers, especially IPAs. All sorts of different hops and different ingredients to make some tremendously different flavors. Just as an example, Kane Brewing, which is about 20 minutes from my house, so I can actually go, and is one of the higher rated breweries in the tri-state area, has a few beers that are fixtures and then they are always experiementing with new beers that you can try at the brewery. Some are amazing, some aren't that great, but all are very different. They recently did an amazing stout infused with Sumatra coffee beans from a local independent coffee shop. It was called Morning Bell and it was outstanding.
That's just 1 brewery, there are so many like that. I'd a lot of breweries here up against any in Europe. Europe isn't ****, but to condemn the American craft beer scene is just silly, but then if you like drinking warm flat flavorless beer than I guess it's not really your thing anyway