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Originally Posted by jcommin
Just drink Guinness and don't eat.
I won't drink Guinness in the States. I drank allot of it while in the UK last year and I have never tasted a more smoother and creamer beer. The Brits tell me 'it doesn't travel well' and I believe it.
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If you drank it in the UK south of Liverpool, you still haven't tasted "real" Guinness, because the Irish stuff is only shipped to Liverpool and points north (because it doesn't travel well) - anything further south is locally-brewed in the UK,
pr so I'm told. It does make a difference.
I don't even like Guinness overmuch, but there's nothing in pubs in Ireland but stout - and they taste absolutely amazing there, completely different.
All the beer imported into the USA from the UK is pasteurized, which is why I pretty much gave up drinking beer when I lived there, it destroys the taste. To my palate, all US microbrews have an odd aftertaste, even though some start quite promisingly.
I'm puzzled by the thread though - I thought American beer was "light beer" by definition? IIRC, there's a legal limit to the maximum alchohol content (5%?) of non-microbrew beer.
That's about where traditional English ales stop being insipid and tasteless refreshing beverages and become interesting.