Your Comments, Criticisms and Contributions - December 2002
Thank you, Mr. Beaumont, for your response to Joanna Blythman (in November's World of Beer Feature Article). I'm most certainly a woman and I love beer. I'm about 100 lbs. soaking wet and it isn't because I'm unable to gain weight. I'm normal and healthy and enjoy my food and drink.
Please, give me a beer with my curry. And with just about anything else. I'm a hophead at heart, but there are days when only a stout or very smoky porter will do. I very much enjoy a good barley wine after dinner, sometimes with dessert.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
Thanks again.
- Deanna P. Denk
Thank you for your comments, Deanna. I know dozens of women just like you who like a pint and aren't worried about having to summon the strength to lift it!
Do you know of any sites where I can get a concise listing of IBUs according to brand.
Thanks,
- Damon
That's a most interesting question, and one I wish I could answer. It would seem that somebody would have compiled a site like that by now, but for the life of me I can't think of one. Sorry. (For those in the dark about IBUs, Damon is referring to International Bitterness Units, the accepted measure of hop bitterness in beer.)
DOES AMERICAN BEER HAVE LESS ALCOHOL THAN CANADIAN BEER? A TWELVE PACK RIDES ON YOUR ANSWER. THANK YOU
- SCOTT JOHNSON & MARK SIVANISH
Generally speaking, they have about the same. All mainstream Canadian beer is 5% alcohol by volume and most US mainstream beer is 4% alcohol by weight, which is equal to 5% by volume. Some US brands have slightly less, say, about 4.5-4.8% by volume, but overall it's more or less a tie.
I'm Silvio from Switzerland. I'm looking for Bud Light beer because I love it to drink when I'm in the US. But I would love to drink it too here at home. And unfortunately
we can't buy this beer in Europe. Do you know if there is a company in the USA which would ship some gallons of Bud Light to Switzerland?
- Silvio Rahm
As I understand it, Bud Light doesn't sell too well outside of the U.S. And I'm afraid I know of no company that would be able to ship it to you. (Even if they could, the cost would be fairly high.) Why not try an Original Quöllfrische organic lager from Brauerie Locher instead?
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