A bier is just a beer, right?
Stay with me here…
Say you’ve just returned from a great European vacation and you loved the beers overseas. And now you’ve luckily found the very same brew in the import section of your local liquor store.
Just ONE problem!
It doesn’t quite taste the same here as you remember it did in Munich, Prague, Paris, Amsterdam or Berlin.
Your imagination or is there more to it?
In my opinion, probably the latter.
That’s because U.S. laws forces international breweries to add preservatives to bottles and cans for retail in the USA.
Hence the brew you loved overseas will most likely never quite taste the same here.
The same does not hold true for similar imports sold in Canada, Mexico or on cruise ships,
There you get the real thing.
In other words the German biers brewed under the Fatherland’s strict ‘Purity Law’ (which prohibits additives) STAYS pure—except here.
PROST!
Which begs the question as to what my personal choices are for beer?
It used to be BECK’S.
But when they switched their brewing operations for American distribution from Bremen, Germany to St. Louis, Mo—well, let’s just say I’m no longer drinking it.
My current choices of beers to accompany dinner (or good times) are as follows:
# 1—-WARSTEINER (Pilsner gold)
# 2—-BITBURGER (Premium Pils. Also the top selling national beer in Germany)
# 3—-HEINEKEN (My standby if neither of the above are available. A fine Lager)
# 4—-BOULEVARD WHEAT (When I feel the need for a good craft beer)
T
he one domestic I just can’t bring myself to partake?
You guess it. COORS LIGHT.
I’d rather drink water……
The local choice is so obvious …. KC Bier Company brews to German Purity Laws.
From the KC Bier Co web site: “KC Bier Co. follows the primary basis of the Reinheitsgebot of 1516 because we only use the four permitted ingredients – malt, hops, water, and yeast.”
KC Bier Company’s Dunkel tastes just like the best Dunkel I drink in Germany.
Very strange that the writer would not mention KC Bier Company.
I remember reading somewhere that Warsteiner is the “Budweiser of Germany”…IIRC, this was meant as a compliment, due to Warsteiner’s popularity.
Coors Light is like making love in a canoe….
F*cking near water.
Coors Light. Hmmmm. I’m not much into canoes…..