Throwing away old prejudice

Here's a Web page that attempts to describe the taste: Brooklyn lager. According to another Web site, the brewery began operating in 1988, but this particular lager is made according to a pre-Prohibition recipe.

Chicago had a number of breweries when I was young, so that you had a fairly wide choice of what I think were called pilsner and lager beers. I suspect that some of them must have been good, because there were hundreds of thousands of European immigrants here at the time, but all of those beers and the breweries that made them are gone now.

There are lots of good beers in the US these days. I don't know how many of them are exported, though.

I've seen a few more brands of Am beers in bars around Stockholm. They are usually sort of curiosa, usually found in bars that boast with wide variety of brands from microbreweries from all over the world. Brooklyn though, seems to have come to stay. Personally, I think that's because of a taste that pleases the European palates, and is similar to good European beers.

We have budweiser too, but that's a completely different section of the market.

The Brooklyn brewery makes a number of beers. Which did you have?

If you see Dogfish Head 60 minute IPA, and if you like a hoppy beer, give it a try.

This time I had lager, but I've also tried ales and unpasterised (weissbier) a few years ago in NYC. All of them were good.