Hippiekinkster -> RE: Why people hate America (5/6/2011 3:09:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster For your edification: http://beeradvocate.com/mag/ Just pulling your leg, Hippie Kinkster. We get a lot of American beers over here at our beer festivals, as well asĀ beers from all over the world. I've been to beer festivals heavily influenced by American, Canadian and Kiwi brewers. We're a liberal lot, so everyone gets a fair crack of the whip - a la free trade. You would have to remember that villages up and down England brew their own beer sold only in the village or at beer festivals, and as just about every town in the country has a beer festival, then that's a lot of beers at a lot of festivals; which makes it easy to miss the foreign beers. Never tasted any of your beers, that's the conservative part of me, but I have read post festival reviews and they are well received. Ah, well, it's hard to tell sometimes. Your humour is so understated. The UK ales we get here are all very good. I just tend to support our indigenous craftsmen, with the exception, in the summer, of Weihenstephener Hefeweissbier. I urge you to try some ouf our brews if you get the chance. One thing I wish I had near me is a cheesemonger. The closest we have is the cheese deli at Whole Foods. The Whole Foods in North Vancouver, BC. had a section devoted to Canadian cheeses. They were uniformly excellent, and I brought home a good selection for a tasting with friends. There are quite a few UK cheeses available here, most notably the Neal's Yard cheddars. I've found what I've had to be very good. I need to seek out the excellent ones, the artesanal cheeses. Good taste knows no borders.
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