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Pickup trucks everywhere. No public transportation usually. General Tso's chicken is a typical Chinese food you get. Weed products are available almost everywhere legally. Light beer. No proper lager beer even in small breweries. How people drive. No sidewalks most of the time. The whole health industry. Electric sockets. So many churches. The general war against trans people. The general war against women.
No proper lager beer
We import almost every German, Austrian, and Czech beer to the US...what do you think we're missing?
A good London Porter.
You can find that easily. I guarantee I could find that within 30 minutes in almost any city over 100,000.
Augustiner or Hofbräu helles would be a great start at least. Fresh from the tap. Usually what you find is either pils or wheat. Bavarian white lagers are hard to source but those two are the biggest.
Both of those are available at grocery stores where I'm at in Texas. I'm a simple man though, I typically go for Becks or Spaten Premium at the store. Helles lagers are pretty popular microbrews where I'm at, and we also have Celis White, which is pretty exceptional
My take on Becks is that the correct answer to the question "would you like to have a Becks" is "no".
Yep, you can find them from some grocery stores, but the thing about these beers is how they need to be consumed fresh. From the tap. From a one liter mug. The bottled versions even in Germany are not as good, especially if consumed outside of Bavaria. And then of course there are all these hundreds of small breweries in northern Bavaria that are producing amazing drinks that are impossible to source even in other parts of Germany.
With all the respect for American beer industry, Germany is far ahead of everybody else in here. And a few spots in the northern Bavaria are far ahead of everybody else in Germany. It's lager, but it's hard to describe why it's so good. Fresh, full bodied taste. I miss that.
There is local beer; microbreweries have blossomed a lot with the past 20 years. There just aren't that many old breweries because less than 10 survived Prohibition.
I know. I'm currently in Asheville, there's lots of breweries here and some really good beers. I'm just not such a big fan of ales, sours or ipas. I like a really good lager, and I'm living in Germany which has probably the best lagers in the world.
I have a lot of breweries in my area, they make very few lagers, most of their offerings are ales of various types. Lagers require more specific conditions and take more time so they're harder to do consistently at scale.
You can add prohibition to the list of US stuff I don't get. What made them think they could ban booze, something that's existed since before recorded history.
Or weed...
what wrong with american electrical sockets?
They get loose very fast and look pretty dangerous when the metal is visible. The European models sit tight in the socket and you need some strength to unplug them.
and there are time when I have to give a good yank to the american ones.