On 4/27/05, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org>
wrote:
Anthere wrote:
The US is now among the world's largest producers of
premium/specialty beers---just California alone produces more
top-quality microbrews than most countries, and if current trends hold,
the US will in not too long produce more Belgian beer than Belgium does.
As much as I love US microbrews, this is not quite a valid comparison.
They've produced lots of good pale ales and stouts. However, Chimay,
Duvel and other Trappist-style beers have a taste and appeal all their
own that have no equivalent in the States.
There's actually quite a lot of quite good Trappist-style beers produced
in the U.S., and it's one of the fastest-growing parts of the U.S. beer
industry (since they're expensive beers that command high profit
margins). Whether they are "equivalent" or not depends on your taste I
suppose.... I've had very good and very bad Belgian-style beer in both