Isn't it ironic....
that in a film centred around beer, The Germans are the bad guys, and the Americans are the heroes? Surely it should be the other way around?
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Why is that ironic? Most sport/competition films, whether they be farce or serious, feature the protagonist in an underdog role. Plus, beer wasn't invented in Germany.
"The key is, you've got to be crazy to maintain your sanity"
Yeah but Germany is famous for its beer, whilst most American beer tastes like sewage.
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The movie doesn't center around a brewing competition, but rather a DRINKING battle. That being said... what American beers have you tasted? Furthermore, what German beers have you tasted? You must have sampled a mind-numbing number of American beers, to be able to compare MOST to sewage. Please list twenty different American beers that you've tasted. I'm guessing you've never consumed a variety beyond five, and that's a generous estimate.
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Ok I realize how much of an ass I may come across as after re-reading that post. What I was trying to say is that America has a reputation for poor beer- in general. Whilst Germany is a very well respected beer- brewing nation.
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My response was a bit snippy, also. But, I'm just tired of everyone placing a generalized tag on all American brews, going by example of the four most commercialized brands. It's like Corona being the go-to symbol for Mexican beer. Modelo and Tecate are FAR superior to Corona. But which company of the three is associated most with Mexico? And the few times I've been down there, everyone drank Dos Equis. Yes, Germany is home to alot of great beers. Guess what, though? Germany is also home to a lot of crappy beers. Where do you think the recipes for Bud, Miller, Coors, and PBR originated? German immigrants either pioneered those tastes, or borrowed them their ancestors. So, REALLY, anyone who wants to criticize the taste and quality of the most prevalent American beers, must first blame Germany for planting the seed.
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Yeah, I see what you mean. Germany has a good reputation, but they only export the good stuff, so of course people would think like that. In the same way that everybody thinks British comedy is so great, but that's only because they couldn't sell half the crap on BBC4 to anyone else :/
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Germans call American domestic beer baby milk. The recipes were bought over to the states about 150 years ago, and the ingredients were watered down to meet American regulations. The US domestics continued their decline as time went on. Even the worst German beers are better than the top 3 popular US domestics- Coors, Bud, Miller- complete crap and should not even be called beer. The good US beers are usually microbrews, which means that they are regional and foreigners are not privy to them.
shareSame argument as the people who hate Independence Day because it shows the US leading the counterattack vs the aliens. It's a movie made by Americans, of course it's going to feature Americans as the heroes. Plus, it pulls double duty as an underdog tale, I.E. upstart Americans vs Germany with hundreds of years brewing tradition.
shareWhere do you think the recipes for Bud, Miller, Coors, and PBR originated? German immigrants either pioneered those tastes, or borrowed them their ancestors.
On top of that, Anheisuer Busch, when trying to make Budweiser available in more cities around the U.S. started opening up breweries in other locations, rather than shipping their beer great destinations. They found that they could not get any consistency with their recipe in different parts of the country (just like how you can't make the same breads & pizzas around the country due to different climates, water, elevation, etc). So what was their solution? They purposely dumbed down their recipes so that the beer would taste the same from each brewery location. So the supposed "King of beers" is an abomination of the original beer recipe. share