Palo Santo Marron

Justin Meisse

yes, I paid $9.50 for a goblet of Palo Santo Marron beer, it tasted of fermented angels. Dog Fish Head opened up an ale house in Fairfax and it is wonderful, no rice or corn brewed beer on the menu. I heartily recommend this brew or their Raison D'Etre, which I normally avoided because it mentioned the use of raisins and beat sugars in the brewing process.

I respect Dog Fish Head because not only do they refuse to produce the watery lagers the US is known for but the try crazy shit that a typical Belgium brewer would consider heresy in order to make good beer (like continually adding hops throughout the whole boil! and making beer with 18% alcohol).

I don't know why I'm posting this, maybe because I'm drunk on expensive beer or maybe it's because, in the past I professed a love for the shitty brews that anheuser busch shat out to the general public, I have to make amends.

Pseudo

Don't feel too bad about the price, I've paid $9.50 for a pint of Newcastle in LA

Justin Meisse

Pseudo wrote: »

Don't feel too bad about the price, I've paid $9.50 for a pint of Newcastle in LA

Newcastle! PAH! Pedestrian!
(ok, it's pretty alright)

Wahlgren

Dont be sad. Where i live you spend 8.5 dollars on a normal shitty beer and up to 14 dollar for a kilkenny in a bar. Im gonna get wasted 24/7 whenever i move to a cheaper place.

Lamont

Good beer in the States is hard to come by, and you usually get hosed on the import prices. And any time someone mentions American "beer" all I can think of is the Germans from the Simpsons: "American beer is swill to us... I am saying that only a swine would drink this beer..."

AstroZombie

Lamont wrote: »

Good beer in the States is hard to come by...

Not in the Pacific North West. Fortunately a lot of NW micro-brews have started making their way into grocery stores here in TX. When I first moved here all I could get was the typical American swill.

Neo_God

I'll have to keep an eye out for this stuff, I love Dogfish head brews, all the beers I've had by them tasted great. Luckily Philly is actually pretty great when it comes to Beer prices for imports as long as you know what bars to go to. Thankfully one of our great domestics is only about $2.40 a bottle at most bars (Yeungling), so that's what I usually get. Strangely enough there's dingy little Deli up the street from where I live that carries tons of 22 oz Belgium imports all for about $6 per bottle.

Justin Meisse

Lamont wrote: »

Good beer in the States is hard to come by, and you usually get hosed on the import prices. And any time someone mentions American "beer" all I can think of is the Germans from the Simpsons: "American beer is swill to us... I am saying that only a swine would drink this beer..."

Actually it isn't, most grocery stores put the good American beer with the imports. This has only really been a trend for the last 10 years or so but alot of the American craft brews have been taking gold and silver in international beer competitions.

EarthQuake

Plenty of good beer at your local grocery, or if not, your local organic hippy grocery. Sometimes here its not next to the bud light and other shit beer, but next to the wine or in the liquor section.

I'll take a blue moon, negro modela or hornby's cider, all of which i can find most anywhere here.

Firebert

i have long since forgotten what THAT end of the grocery aisle looks like... the import side is full of life, color, and deliciousness. i feel like a little girl in the clothing department with a credit card......
wait a second... i am a little girl :poly141:

Marine

don't listen to eq, he only drinks the finest drain cleaner