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Oh, and we grow the best hops, too.
Beer mecca of the world:
Lets try that one more time:
We have Heineken, Amstel and Bavaria
I don't get the IPA craze, the bitterness is repulsive to me.
Folks that are keen to develop a knowledgeable taste for beers (without bananas, spices, rose petals and what-have-you tossed in) ought to try brewing some themselves. In my early years a buddy and I always had an 8 gallon batch (using pre-prepared John Bull malts) on the go. Comparing an ale (top fermentation) to a lager (bottom ferment) to an overly hopped India Pale Ale is quite interesting when everything else you've done is the same. One's that turned out wonderfully 'smooth' for us were a severe test of patience because they were lagers slowly fermented over a few months in the fridge.
Belgium doesn't have that many breweries to start with, but Belgium will probably fit multiple times in the state of Oregon, let alone with Washington included. So that really isn't something to brag about. My expirience with American beer is Budweiser (Locally called "Pisswasser" which is actually German for pee), so don't get your hopes up! Other then that, I'm more of wiskey and rum kinda guy.
That being said: Holland is about the size of 1/6 of Oregon, yet we are currently placed 6th in the world with Heiniken. Above that are Yanjing (chinese, only sold there), Skoll (to many countries to count, different beers with the smae label, so shouldn't even be on there), Budweiser (again, "Pisswasser"), Tsingtao (chinese, only sold there), Snow (chinese, only sold there). So taking the chinese beers out of the equasion, and skoll for being wrongly on it, that only leaves budweiser (yet again, "Pisswasser") as the only real competitor. They have a market share of roughly 4,5 % compared to 2% of Heiniken. Country size: 40.000Km2 for Holland. USA: 10.000.000Km2. So thats about 250 times smaller. And yet we have a 2,5 smaller market share. Let alone Oregon, who isn't even named on the list. So I say Dutch beer for the win
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