The problem is that even imported beers must meet American standards for what passes as "beer." When alcohol content goes to 7% or higher (or thereabouts), Americans no longer consider it "beer" and are forced to classify it as a wine, aperitif, or some such. And import regulations are differentl

Therefore, "import" beers are watered down weak cousins of their continental parents. The only beer I know that even remotely tastes like its European counterpart is Heineken.

This is purely for scientific research...
Go get a Guinness, a Dundee's Honeybrown, a Chimay, and ohhhhh...a Fat Tire.

I guarrantee you will absolutely notice a COMPLETELY different taste, feel, and aroma to the beer. And if you don't like em. Welllll....I'll recycle them for you.

Then for fun, you can test those above against a Bud Light and a Millwakees Best.

I went to college in Europe, where I gained a huge affinity for beer (and wine). Too much so, in fact. But I digress...

European beers make American beers seem what I believe the pee from diabetic cows tastes like. Americans have no appreciation for fine brews. In fact, Germany had a law, the Rhineheitsgebot which was the German "beer purity law" which stated the only ingredients that could be used in the production of beer were water, barley, and hops (yeast has now become the "fourth ingredient").

South of Munich is a monastery, the Cloister Andechs that brews some of the most phenomenal beer in the world. During the Turkish siege of the 1500s, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages took refuge behind its walls and survived by drinking the potent brews, which are loaded with protein, taste and character.

Properly brewed, a beer, lager, ale or pilsner is every bit as much an "adult beverage" as any of the "harder" drinks.

I mean, gin??? Who drinks gin, except alcoholics?

I don't like beer generally, but I love me some Modelo Negra.

If I want something higher than 7%, I'll bust out the mead. Speaking of which...I think it's about time to bottle it up.

You make mead? You and I, we need to talk. I have two glass carboys that a friend and I purchased with the intention of making mead. He had made it several times and was going to show me how, but he passed before he could show me. I still have 8 bottles of a braggot he made 15 years ago; it's still good.

My friends from west Texas were very much into brewing beer and mead. I got a starter kit from my mother-in-law a few years ago but haven't had time to try it. One of my friends moved to Houston and would come to up help.

What part of Oklahoma are you in?