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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/61525

They even had a court dispute about the name. ๐Ÿบ

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[โ€“] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The American piss has nothing on the Czech original beer.

[โ€“] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

The Czech are masters at brewing beer.

[โ€“] datendefekt@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To invoke Monty Python, why is drinking American beer like making love in a canoe?

[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

It's giving close to water, Bruce

[โ€“] FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Obviously. Beer from the USA taste like piss.

[โ€“] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The USA and Canada have a ton of good beer from small breweries, but the stuff that gets exported does taste like piss. It's like judging British beer on the basis of Carling Black Label.

[โ€“] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. I know some Germans who are jealous of American microbrews because in Germany they have strict laws that keep new small breweries from starting.

You can sell whatever you want (within reason) in Germany - you just then can't put the word "bier" on the label. Not really stopping anyone, if you call it "Hopfenkaltschale" ("hops cold dish") or "Gerstensaft" ("barley juice"), everyone will still know what you mean.

[โ€“] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Miller and so called "Budweiser" certainly taste like piss. I don't know about small breweries. Czech Budweiser is excellent although I prefer Pilsner Urquell or Radegast.

Yeah, Carling also taste like piss.

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Correction: Non-craft beer from the US tastes like piss.

[โ€“] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, as a Brit I'm a bit of a beer snob. Some of the best beers I have ever tasted have been from independent breweries in the USA and Canada. It's really very different from how it was a few decades ago, when good beer was hard to find in these countries. Now it seems to be everywhere.

[โ€“] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went to a wedding in Northern California back in 2019 and travelled around for a couple weeks, from New Zealand. It was just a glorious haze of 7% IPAs and legal weed. I loved it!

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As a Boston resident: New England has a bonkers craft beer scene. If youโ€™re a serious enthusiast, I suggest a visitโ€ฆ though if you arenโ€™t already living here, maybe after all of this idiocy shakes out one way or the other ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh cool, thanks for the tip! Yeah I think after all the idiocy shakes out sounds like a good plan. I reckon a NEIPA in those parts would be like a Guinness in Dublin!

Hey, maybe by then the Patriots will be back on top! (Referring to the NFL team, but I guess your could take it more literally, too ๐Ÿ˜ฌ)

[โ€“] gravitas_deficiency 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly, youโ€™ll be spoiled for choice. Thereโ€™s a ton of great breweries all over. The NEIPAs are very good, but thereโ€™s also some REALLY good traditional Germanic-styled breweries. Iโ€™d be happy to offer some recommendations (or meet for a pint or two!) whenever you get the chance to visit :)

[โ€“] spud_rua@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Iโ€™d rather a Beamish in Cork over a Guinness in Dublin ;)

[โ€“] noride@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm certainly not disagreeing that it tastes bad, but how did you come to learn it tastes like piss, specifically? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] brotundspiele@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't taste like piss. Piss is salty and bitter, or sweet and mild depending on what you drank and ate earlier and depending on your health status. American beer always tastes like nothing. ๐Ÿฅ‡๐Ÿšฟ

[โ€“] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks, Bear Grylls.

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Agreed, I like the Budweisers who donโ€™t throw trans women under the bus.

[โ€“] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Show an USAian this image to turn them into dust

[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago

What are you talking about? This is well known.

[โ€“] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Budvar for the win!

InBev, a Belgian company, owns Budweiser.

[โ€“] ohellidk 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Neat! I didn't know that existed.

[โ€“] drolex@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Try it. It's a nectar from the gods.

[โ€“] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's alright, it's a decent mass produced pilsner, nectar from the gods is a bit far.

[โ€“] drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

What you say is so true that Truth itself sounds like a lie in comparison. Verily, this is the language of the Gods.

[โ€“] easily3667@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

It's still a nasty pilsner

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anywhere I can get that in the US? I'd like to see if it's significantly different from what they sell here.

It has a slightly different tasteโ€ฆlike an edge to it. Not offensively so, though.

[โ€“] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

both aren't my pick