Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!drutx!druxt!mcq From: mcq@druxt.UUCP (McQueerRL) Newsgroups: net.wines Subject: BEER - more musings, and a question. Message-ID: <905@druxt.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 01:27:08 EST Article-I.D.: druxt.905 Posted: Sat Feb 25 01:27:08 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 08:55:17 EST Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 36 []---- More beer talk in the wine group. A couple of people have been raving about Anchor Steam beer - I had tried it, thought it not too terribly exceptional. Saw some of their porter, though, so I picked it up. Good. Maybe worth the $6 a six-pack when I feel like having a very heavy dark brew like that. You say they make an ale. OK, I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks. After I got out of school and had money to buy high-priced beer, I undertook a long experiment with different brands. I came to the following conclusions: 1) Most German/Dutch imports don't live up to their reputation. 2) I like a lot of British imports. 3) The Mexicans know how to brew beer also. My normal buying habits now include Dos Equis as kind of my "standard" for a darker, heavier beer (I buy Canadian lighter lagers and ales a lot). I also like Indio, which is hard to find. Incidently, that same Consumer's Report article which favored Anchor Steam was lukewarm about Dos Equis, so maybe I have wierd tastes. What I really wanted to ask concerns 2). Why are British imports so outrageously expensive, even compared to other imports? special duties imposed somewhere? it's what the market will bear? high cost of production in Britain? Britishers I've run into assure me that the imports we get here don't include the best ones made in Britain (I've been told that Watney's is fit only to wash one's socks out in. I like it anyway, but not for its usual price.) "It's tough to argue over a Utica Club" (rotten beer, but they had clever commercials) Bob McQueer ihnp4!druxt!mcq