*** Quoting Malte Schmidt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

CS> I have never had a 'wheat beer' as far as I know.

MS> Maybe you have another name for it. But you would remember. The taste
MS> quite different. Erdinger and Paulaner are two famous ones.

Never heard of either, sorry!  I doubt 'wheat beers' are common in Asia so
I ¨probably have never had one.

MS> They are okay, but I usually drink only Guinness if I want something
MS> different than my usual Pils.

I've had Guiness and several other things 'like it' but dislike dark beers.
 ¨The taste doesnt suit me.

CS> Becks?  Common to find in the USA in bottle form.  I can even find that
CS> one in tiny little Sasebo Japan .  I am not sure which
country it comes
CS> from but it's an import.  It's ok enough but I normally get something
CS> else.

MS> Becks is from Germany as far as I know. (btw: Heineken is dutch)
MS> Krombacher is german as well. You should not have any trouble finding
MS> as well AFAIK. Well at least in the USA, I don't know about Sasebo :)

Heheh not in Sasebo, no.  Becks, Sam Adams, Corona, San Migel, Heineken. 
Those ¨are the only 'non-USA standard' brews I note here.

Had a bad experince with my only tial of a Sam Adams.  It was quite old and
had ¨possibly been sitting out in the sun for weeks.  Horrid stuff.  I
didnt even ¨save it for cooking, it was that bad.  I presume it was a bad
one because ¨otherwise folks would talk about it as being so good.  I mean
really, I am used ¨to formaldyhide beers in Asia and i couldnt drink that
Sam Adams at all.

BTW, Formaldihyde (sp?) beers have to be experinced to be believed.  I
¨recommend skipping the experince ;-)
                                       xxcarol

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