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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Real Ale &   yech,spit yuck "ANCHOR STEAM"
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 22:59:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 22:59:56 1985
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In article <960@houxf.UUCP> 9234dwz@houxf.UUCP (The Rev. Peak) writes:
>After seeing several postings extolling the virtues of Anchor Steam
>and when some turned up in the local liquor store I broke down and
>purchased some [  $ 7.50 a six pack ].
>[ I don't recall if this was Anchor Steam Beer or the Liberty Ale ]
>
>Well let me tell you folks, this is the kind of gnats p*ss that got
>CAMRA started. It was a putrid pretentious bottle of bilge water.
>
>My preferred North American beers are:
>
>      1) Dos Equis  or Tres Equis ( or their Christmas beer Buenos Nochas)
>      2) Ballantines Ale

I think your preferences show why you didn't like Anchor Steam (or, for
that matter, Liberty Ale, if that is what you got). If I was as nice about
your beer as you were about mine, I'd call Dos equis pisswater, but I save
that epithet for Coors and henry weinhardt (Hi, rsk!). Anchor Steam is a
very full and deep bodied beer, made in a very traditional way. It has a
good strong flavor more in tune with enjoying the taste than in guzzling
the fluid. Dos Equis happens to be quite a good beer, but that kind of beer
is much different than something like Anchor Steam, and someone who likes
one kind won't neccessarily like the other without a little getting used to
it. Once you do, though, you tend to not go back.

Just because it's called beer doesn't mean it should all taste alike --
there are many different styles of beer, each with its own taste and body.
And then, of course, there is the stuff produced in the Major american
Breweries...

chuq
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