Americans Taste Test Mexican Beer

[robbob]

99. Hear hear!

If I see a beer on the shelf that I haven't tried before, or if I am travelling across the country and the bar I'm in has a local micro-brew that I've never heard of before, THAT is the one I will try. And if they have 2-3 different kinds on tap then I will probably try each one. I could never understand brand loyalty when it comes to beer. From hot summer days on the dock to relaxing around the fire after a days skiing there are hundreds of different situations that each call for a different taste experience.

I'm a proud member of the "Dead Authors Club" at Bukowski's in Boston. To get your own embossed 1.5 liter mug (my dead author was Mordecai Richler) you had to check off 99 different types of beer you had tried at the pub in the space of a year. As the bar was a 10 minute walk to Fenway it was dead easy to go through those 99 bottles of beer in a year, and they ranged from the divine to the absurd (smoked beer that tasted like sucking on a slim jim?).

sometimes I miss those good old Boston days....