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Originally Posted by nico-t
I do know that only europeans can make good beer,
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Not true at all, Canada has all kinds of incredible beers. Several local micro-brews are fantastic in fact, and definitely rival anything Europe has to offer.
There is definitely a snobbish attitude with many in the EU, the thinking being that "we have thousands of years of brewing experience behind our beer".... but what they fail to realize is that all of that brewing experience is known and being put to use over here as well, and has been for 100's of years.
But I will agree with your comment about American beer, because most of their regular union-made brands of beer ARE in fact pisswater. But in the US as well they are in recent years having very good micro-breweries popping up with a higher class of beer.
As to the notion others have hinted at that there were no fridges in ancient times, there again people are possibly unaware of the fact that there WERE ways of cooling beer even back then. Often it was as simple as digging a deep enough pit and letting the cold ground do the work to get the beer cold.