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@divegeester

People want a nice beer.
Not black tar that smells like skunky beer.
Since you don't have skunks over there a skunky beer is that bad smell...like it went bad.

Whenever I see pics of beer over there it is darker than my coffee. Oh I've tried it and it is 🤮


When it comes to beer the British are brewers.
The North Americans are chemists.


I'm a Pilsner kinda guy I am told.


@very-musty said
I'm a Pilsner kinda guy I am told.
@Enihkela,
How much Canadian beer have you drank and what kind?

-VR


Years ago I started trying beers, that I could get my hands on, from around the world. I would buy a new one (usually bottled, though expanded to cans) every time I'd see one that I hadn't tried. I started saving the containers thus beginning a collection. By the time I stopped I had amassed a collection of 600+ each a different one. In all the 600+ there was only one of them that I didn't finish drinking. I took a "slug" and promptly spit it out, pouring the remaining contents down the sink. It was one of St. Peter's Brewery's offerings, the name of which escapes me, though I'm guessing my brain (such as it is) removed it from my data base. As an aside...at one point, I think when I got to about 100 beers, I started putting the names, alphabetically, on a computer list so as to try not to duplicate any. It worked, for the most part, except when I'd forget to bring along my tablet when making a purchase. I once remember looking up how many beers were made in different countries and was astounded at the numbers. My 600+ collection was dwarfed by just a couple of those countries (combined I mean).

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@very-rusty said
@Enihkela,
How much Canadian beer have you drank and what kind?

-VR
I have drunk vast quantities of Canadian beer.
Mainly in BC and Quebec.
All of it was fine but I can't remember any names.
Just the usual stuff you get in every bar.
Did the job of getting me squiffy.

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they call all american wallop beer when we know its a lager, Where I live if you are talking beer its Newcastle brown,old peculiar will lay you out after a few, bombadiers a good supp,speckled hen it a sweeter beer,but my wife enjoys a bottle of barley wine(its a proper beer)

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@the-gravedigger said
I have drunk vast quantities of Canadian beer.
Mainly in BC and Quebec.
All of it was fine but I can't remember any names.
Just the usual stuff you get in every bar.
Did the job of getting me squiffy.
There are different brand names even for their draft beers.

Our alcohol percentage is around 5%

When you're dealing with mainstream beers, those with the highest alcohol are generally stouts, porters and pale ales, with alcohol by volume (ABV) contents typically ranging between 4% and 10%, though most mainstream beers tend to stay in the range of 4%-6%, such as Canada's popular Labatt (5% ABV), which edges out ...Nov. 14, 2014.

It doesn't take Most American long to get drunk on our beer and they don't have to drink very many. I remember my cousins bragging they drink 12 beer. I think they made it to about 6.

Today, most American beers also use the ABV method. Using the same measure, full-bodied lagers in both countries tend to be contain between 4.0 and 6.1 percent ABV. ... Some American breweries produce beers with less than 5 or 6% ABV because of restrictions imposed by laws.

Back decades ago I think they were around 2% alcohol and we had been around 5% for years. So of course they would get drunk quick.

Today I can't stand the smell of it. My favorite drink wasn't beer it was V0 whiskey with a sprinkle of water in it, no ice.
40%
The Seagram's VO blended Canadian whisky carries an alcohol strength of 40% ABV (80 US Proof), the standard permissible limit for whiskies in North America (United States and Canada).

-VR

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I remember a brewery, near Montreal, produced a beer with an AVB of 25% a "few" years back. I just can't remember it's name. Before anyone says that I might have consumed too many of them, I did try it and I have to say it did "pack a punch".


@great-big-stees said
I remember a brewery, near Montreal, produced a beer with an AVB of 25% a "few" years back. I just can't remember it's name. Before anyone says that I might have consumed too many of them, I did try it and I have to say it did "pack a punch".
Much stronger than anything around 30 years ago.

-VR


@very-rusty said
There are different brand names even for their draft beers.

Our alcohol percentage is around 5%

When you're dealing with mainstream beers, those with the highest alcohol are generally stouts, porters and pale ales, with alcohol by volume (ABV) contents typically ranging between 4% and 10%, though most mainstream beers tend to stay in the range of 4%-6%, such as Canad ...[text shortened]... of), the standard permissible limit for whiskies in North America (United States and Canada).

-VR
4% to 6% is perfect for me.
Any more than that and I degenerate into a man of no fixed intelligence after a few hours of drinking.
Any less and I'm going to the toilet too much.

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@great-big-stees said
I remember a brewery, near Montreal, produced a beer with an AVB of 25% a "few" years back. I just can't remember it's name. Before anyone says that I might have consumed too many of them, I did try it and I have to say it did "pack a punch".
Dang, that's twice the strength of wine.


@badradger said
they call all american wallop beer when we know its a lager, Where I live if you are talking beer its Newcastle brown,old peculiar will lay you out after a few, bombadiers a good supp,speckled hen it a sweeter beer,but my wife enjoys a bottle of barley wine(its a proper beer)
My choice would be bombardier or hen.
Never really enjoyed Newcastle brun.


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Well, they are, but...

English beers do not always travel very well. American beers sometimes do. Anchor is rather nice, even in a bottle in Europe. I've drunk a lot of good English beer in England, but not as much outside of it. Speckled Hen... don't make me laugh! And Newcastle Brown is... not actually bad, but pathetic. Compared to the locally brewed beer in your local pub, nothing the English export is worth considering.

The USAnians used only to export the rotten stuff, but these days they send a lot of good beer abroad. Of course, they also brew, and export, 95% of completely tasteless horse piss, but there's a lot of good in that 5%. The English have not caught up to that. They still limit their good beer to casks, and to their island.