If you're a fan of darker beers, there's a brewery in Canada called MacAuslans, based out of Montreal. They do a stout, entitled the St. Ambrose Oatmeal Stout, that's incredible. It's pretty much liquid gold, although still not as good as Hoegaarden. Alex ----Original Message Follows---- From: Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> Reply-To: Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> To: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: Re: Beer Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:35:19 -0700 On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:43:01AM -0700, Trager wrote: > Yeah, Fat Tire is a wonderful thing. Come out to California sometime > and I'll introduce you to the wonders of the Stone Brewery products if > you haven't had them yet. Their best-known (and best all-around brew) > is the infamous Arrogant Bastard Ale. The copy on the side of hte > bottle is %@&! brilliant. Been there, had that. Good but not great, or I would drink more of it. :) One of the best things about NBBC is the accessiblity of their products. Similar to the Sierra Nevada stuff as well...good beer and very accessible. The other one that comes to mind is the Anchor products. I tend towards darker beers and Anchor Porter is great, as is the Sierra Nevada Porter, although both are not grocery store items. Then again, accessibility isn't everything or I would drink Bud. :) ObBeer: Has anyone else been endlessly amused by the existence of "Keystone Premium"? -Jot -- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> http://www.bofh.com/books/ "I'm upping my standards, so up yours!" -Pat Paulsen (1927-1997), Presidential Campaign Slogan _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines