Hi Beer Fans! Happy Friday! Come in and join us for a cold one.
Until about 2:00 I had no idea what tonight's topic might be, but Deadspin saved me with this World Beer Map. As Frank Zappa famously said, a real country has its own beer, and you can see them all here.
But that's not what reminded me of America's leading cynic, H.L. Mencken. That would be in the second half of the article, where they track The 20 most popular beers in America. Which can only be described as he did: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Or their taste in beer.
Look at that fucking list. Not one craft beer in the top 20! Nothing on the list but bad industrial lager, except for those flavored Bud things that are worse than industrial lager. And that flavored shit outsells even Blue Moon, let alone anything with hops in it.
I'm working on a new song, I'll call it "Bad Beer Boogie".
I've got Fuller's, a half liter each of ESB and London Pride. Bourbon if I want more to drink after that. What are you drinking? Who's brewing?