From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:37:17 -0600, David N. Barnett  wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:38:52 -0600, Gene McAloon
> wrote in message
>:
>
>| Good beer, both foreign and domestic, is available in the US if you know
where
>| to get it or are lucky enough to stumble upon it. The best is always in
draft
>| form, never bottled.
>
>At our office christmas party, the husband of one of my managers was
>giving out bottles of home brewed beer.  He had several varieties, I
>went home with a bottle of the stout.
>
>Fast forward to mid-february, when I found the forgotten bottle in my
>refrigerator.  I had been instructed not to drink it out of the
>bottle, but to pour it into a glass for best result, and I complied.
>This was a VERY good stout.  Maybe not quite a Guinness, but certainly
>as good or better than a bottled Watney's Stingo.  I was quite
>impressed.
>
>Roger is taking some of his homebrew to some contest soon, and if he
>does well, has backers who are willing to step up and help him open a
>microbrewery.

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!!

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