Ah yes, Lois: The minibrews, my experience has shown, that are now quite prevalent in various locales are really quite superior to the "canned" beer available in stores. I've never, for instance, been a particular fan of Budweiser (though my wife is, if she's going to drink American beer at all), though I like Michelob. We were very recently in the Czech Republic and had opportunity to try the original Budweis -- and we didn't care for it at all !! Tastes do vary :-)) Dave Ross

And see, when we were in Osnabrück at a festival I drank the original Budweiser beer and again it is a light beer but it was tolerable.. Gail

Was the Czech beer really bitter? Yuck. I know a German in B-W who swears Czech beer is the best. My husband's experiment with micro-brewing produced something (I hesitate to call it beer) very dark and with an alcohol content approaching that of Everclear. I used to make some wonderful wild Blackberry cordial that I would serve on holidays and give as gifts. Amazingly, though, it would sometimes turn into sparkling wine. I never could figure out how I did that. I used to bottle it in Grolsch beer bottles--you know the ones with ceramic stoppers and wire bales. Well, one year the stuff was so potent they started blowing their tops. The first time was in the middle of the night. I thought a gun had gone off in the house. Scared me Scheiße-less. I don't know how many hundreds of pounds of pressure there was in the pink bubbly, but those stoppers and bales were no match. You should have seen my pink-purple, formerly white ceiling. For about a week I was spending my days washing walls and furniture after each sticky explosion. As I recall, I lost 7 bottles. Got to where I was scared to get near the bottles, even to remove them from the house. I was afraid I'd get killed. (And my death certificate would read "due to wine." What would my future descendants think of that?!!) I swore off the stuff after that year. Theola ----- Original Message ----- From: <Newtross@aol.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:33 AM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Re:American Beer | Ah yes, Lois: The minibrews, my experience has shown, that are now quite | prevalent in various locales are really quite superior to the "canned" beer | available in stores. I've never, for instance, been a particular fan of | Budweiser (though my wife is, if she's going to drink American beer at all), | though I like Michelob. We were very recently in the Czech Republic and had | opportunity to try the original Budweis -- and we didn't care for it at all | !! Tastes do vary :-)) | | Dave Ross | | ______________________________