Here you’ll find a little information on the some of the beers I encountered during my coast to coast trip through America.
Due to a very slow evolution process, around 2009 the American people had finally started developing a taste for real beer. During my first trip to the US in 1994 they where no way near this, and everyone was drinking crap like Bud, Miller and Coors all very light and largly tastless beers. When I returned around 1998 I experience my first “micro brewery” in Seattle. Great beer brewed in house. Finally the evolution missing link had hit mainland USA, by 2009 a new revolution had taken place, microbrews where available almost everywhere.
Thanks to pioneers like Sam Adams (SA) and New Belgium (NB) theres now dozens of micro breweries of all sizes and shape with hundreds of great beers. My favourites where:
Fat Tire (5.2%): A great amber ale from NB.
Ranger IPA (6.5%): IPA says enough, you either love it or it makes you puke. Another hit from NB.
1554 (5.6%): A nice dark full flavour I can drink this until I fall off my bar stool beer from NB.
I also drank pleanty of of SA beers plus various other microbrews just I can’t remember the names anymore (always a good sign).
Should you want to read about my little coast to coast trip click >HERE<