From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:51:24 -0600, Gene McAloon
 wrote:


>That sounds encouraging although I am no admirer of stout, anyone's stout.
>
>The thing about the Dubuque brewery was that it was not in any sense a
>micro-brewery. It was a long-established local brewery that had just never
>tried, or perhaps couldn't afford, to go national.  If you wanted to taste it,
>you had to go there.
>
>I can't help but wonder how many of local breweries still left produce really
>good beer that no one but the locals know about? And that is a shame. The
>nationally distributed brands are all rotgut, every last one of them.
>
>I blame it all on Judy. It was when the nationals decided they had to do
>something with their product to attract the traditionally non-beer drinking
>females that they ruined the product. That's it. Blame Judy! Yeah!!
>

I tend to think it's more a case of the nationals brewing their very bland,
appeal to 'Joe Six-pack' beers to the extent that that's what everyone
thinks beer should taste like.  The smaller brewers, be they micro. local,
or regional, tend to brew beer that is more flavourful and has more
'character'.  'Joe Six-pack' doesn't like that very much....so going
national may not be feasible when one considers the market size for
real/good beer .

doug

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