Bob Schroeck Wrote:I used to like American-style commercial "golden" beers like Budweiser...I believe the technical term is "pilsner-lager"...
Bob Schroeck Wrote:But I just had one for the first time in years and it seems so... bland. It doesn't even smell like beer to me.I hear what you're saying, man.
There was a beer festival in Ottawa last weekend. (No, I didn't go - I couldn't find a designated driver.) One of the things that was mentioned in the press package was that sales of "factory" beer were down over the last few years, but sales of "microbrewery" beers were trending up over the same time. Other reports from various food and drink associations indicate the average Canadian palate has become more discriminating in the same time...
So, if you must drink something other than your own, try something from a small, craft brewery.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012