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comment by briandmyers

The bitter is what I like about them, but the skunky is a flaw - it's not meant to be that way. Poor handling, usually - light and/or heat.





kleinbl00  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Holy shit - you mean German beer doesn't make it to Los Angeles intact? COLOR ME SHOCKED

You have no idea how eager I am to be back in the Henry Weinhard's sphere of influence. Angelinos have shitty taste in beer.

b_b  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've never found a heavily Latin influenced area that does well with beer. Spain, Italy, Latin America. All crickets' piss.

kleinbl00  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dos Equis: Wilhelm Hasse, German immigrant.

Tecate: Wilhelm Hasse and friends.

Negro Modelo: "Austrian immigrants."

Pacifico: founded by "three Germans."

Kinda makes you wonder how Argentinian beer is.

briandmyers  ·  3115 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Frankly, I'm shocked at how often Czech beers reach NZ in good condition. I suspect warehousing in the American South is the real culprit - it is so often in good condition here, and was almost always skunked when I used to get it in Oklahoma. Of course, Oklahoma has arcane beer laws - it used to be (and may still be) that it was illegal to refrigerate beers over 3.2% - barbarians.