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Thursday, December 3. 2009

A friend and beer afficionado responded to our post about Sam Adams' Winter Classics with this email:

"The best beer available in the USA is Palm. It's the only beer I will drink these days."

I guess I'll have to give it a try, but I don't think my local discount beer dump, which carries about 200 American and imported brands, carries it.

Palm is a Flemish beer. It has only been imported to the US for a year or two. Have you tried it?

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 14:53 | Comments (19) | Trackbacks (0)

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Pretty good beer actually. Tasty and light enough that you can drink it all evening. (Not light as in light beer, but as in not so hard-hitting as some of the Belgian brews.)

#1 Daran on 2009-12-03 15:24 (Reply)

Island Wheat from Capital Brewing in Wisconsin. Pale, lemony-gold nectar.

#2 ahem on 2009-12-03 15:52 (Reply)

I use to drink Palm when I lived in the Netherlands. Superior to the Dutch brews but that isn't much of a brag. Beer doesn't travel well so I stick with the local brews now.

#3 Trip on 2009-12-03 16:56 (Reply)

Flemish? Too much phlegm, methinks. Phlegm is the sputtering, gutteral language that Flems speak and the Flems are Belgian don'wannabes.

Now that Belgium has accomplished what Napoleon and Hitler never could pull pull off - the unified, unelected sovereignty over all Europe and the not-so-United Kingdom, I think the Flems might prefer Belgium to Flemland.
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#4 Kontratieff on 2009-12-03 17:32 (Reply)

All, and I mean all, of the best beers are made in Belgium.

#5 Bob Sykes on 2009-12-03 17:58 (Reply)

Trappers hat from the Brimstage brewery,available in a handful of thatched pubs is a rather tasty brew.

#6 thud (Link) on 2009-12-03 18:49 (Reply)

Have you been to Prague? Ever wonder why you seldom meet someone from the Czech Repub? Spent four days there and I'm considering moving just for the beer.

#6.1 KRW on 2009-12-03 20:01 (Reply)

Ack! That should have been a reply to Bob Sykes...

#6.1.1 KRW on 2009-12-03 20:02 (Reply)

The best beer is from Deschutes Brewery.
Their best beer is Big Rig Bitter, unfortunately its a seasonal beer and only available at the brewery.
Family and I had a keg for vacation this past summer.

#7 Rick on 2009-12-03 18:52 (Reply)

We are lucky to live in the golden age of great beers. In the past few years many more excellent European brews are now widely available in the States.

Trip is right, the best brews are typically local or at least regional, and there are more fine beers available all over the country than ever before, and craft brewers are pushing new boundaries.

Just the mid-Atlantic region alone now has an amazing variety of great craft brewers, and New York and New England are beginning to catch up as well. It is astonishing the difference in quality and variety of what is available today, compared to just ten or fifteen years ago.

The upper Midwest, Pacific Coast, and Colorado also support some wonderful breweries.

I don't think it is possible to declare any particular beer the "best", but we are better off having such a high level of competition. Though I can't say I've yet found an IPA that is any better than Dogfish Head 60 minute... I better keep trying others to see if they win!

#8 Dan D on 2009-12-03 20:16 (Reply)

My beef is that many of the local beers (here in cent. FL and other locations around the US) have tried to be too complicated. It's beer. Barley, malt, hops, whatever. Keep it simple but brew it carefully. The shame is that from what I've seen, the market either wants complicated or it is perceived that the market wants complicated. The local brews I used to hit seem to have faded away. Though, to be fair, I haven't been in the beer hunt much lately, so my perception may be a couple of years old. I've found that many of the "local" beers are significantly weaker in the bottle over all, though.

#8.1 KRW on 2009-12-03 20:49 (Reply)

Unibroue of Canada makes some excellent beers. Their Maudite, La Din du Monde, and Troise Pistoles are my favorites, at least when I can't find Chimay on the store shelves (beer snobbery is one of my more benign vices).

#9 Agent Cooper on 2009-12-04 01:37 (Reply)

I was drunk-posting when I typed that message. I meant La Fin du Monde and Trois Pistoles, if you please.

#9.1 Agent Cooper on 2009-12-04 01:40 (Reply)

I'm sorry - even though I haven't had a beer in 33 plus years, the hands down best ever no-doubt-about-it beer in the world is Dixie Beer.

It's so bad it's good.

#10 Tom Francis on 2009-12-04 07:03 (Reply)

'Celebrator' - A Dopplebock from Ayinger.

No others need apply.

#11 garrett on 2009-12-04 20:06 (Reply)

Heh. The 'best' beer is fermenting in a carboy in my kitchen right now.

#12 Sean G (Link) on 2009-12-04 23:02 (Reply)

Dan B, agree with your comment entirely - I, too, am a big fan of Dogfish 60 but it's surpassed, IMHO, by Smuttynose IPA of Portsmouth, NH. Finest kind!

#13 Stretch on 2009-12-04 23:26 (Reply)

We have the best beer in the world here in Belgium according to the Wall Street Journal, and although Palm is probably the best you can get in the states, you have to come to Belgium to get the really good stuff.

http://belgiumstuds.blogspot.com/2008/01/road-trip-to-beer-mecca.html

#14 BELGO on 2009-12-05 03:06 (Reply)

The porter made by Lodi Beer Co, Lodi Ca. And unfortunately for me, an upper midwesterner, available only at their brew pub.
Best beer I have ever tasted, and I've tasting legally for 48 years.

#15 straight8 on 2009-12-06 08:43 (Reply)

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