Why do Europeans say that Americans have shitty beer, when the most popular beers in Europe are shit like Heineken...

Why do Europeans say that Americans have shitty beer, when the most popular beers in Europe are shit like Heineken, Carlsberg, 1664, etc.?
Sure, of course they have smaller breweries that are better but the same is true of the US. The US started the craft beer movement which every European country has copied to some extent.

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I gotta say too, for such a heavy beer drinking country, Irish people are beer plebs. I've talked to several Irish people and they seem to like maybe Pale Euro lager like Heineken or Guinness Draught (not Extra Stout, which is more popular in the US and West Indians surprisingly).

>Craft beer? IPAs? Don't gimme any of that meme shit bro. I only drink beer made from barley, hops, water and yeast as per the reinheitsgebot of 1516.

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I don't care what anyone says, PBR is great.

>lagers
>pilsners
>pale ales
All fucking shit. Give me a stout or hefeweizen. Lambic if I'm feeling fancy.

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I like shitty American beer but I hate PBR, it tastes like meat to me. My go to American macrobrews are Miller High Life (favorite), Coors Banquet, and Budweiser. I only buy Coors because it's cheap, the other two I like more.

I like stouts, but Hefes are too yeasty tasting for my liking.

Those beera are not popular across europe,they may be popular outside europe tho.
Everybody drinks their own country's beer.
Like mine?

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Heineken and Carlsberg seem to be popular Europe wide. Heineken is popular in the US, but not Carlsberg.

what does sem alcool mean?

there are many good breweries in most european countries, but their production is usually limited to the locals and they don't need fancy "craft beer" appellative to distance themselves from the mass produced pisswater
It's the same difference between a good pizza and frozen pizza

this is some good stuff I had in Ireland

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>craft beer
what a dumb meme.
Heineken is literally craft beer, just very popular. Everything started small.
Old worlders have had craft beer for 15.000 years.

For me it’s Belgian

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Are you at a Total Wine?

>green bottle

heineken sell well only because of retarded mutts and chinks buying it, you have hundreeds of choice but you only buy the one brand you know because of how betas you are.

>My beer of choice? Natty Light of course.

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>mutts
It's popular all over Europe.

mutts visit europe, chinks as well, nobody buy heineken here but people who know nothing about beers like mutts or chinks for instance.

I saw a guy drinking it in Ireland. He insisted that it was actually good

Nah, I've seen plenty of euros drinking that swill along with Coronas.

stop saying bullshit we all know it's a tourist trap.

No. Just admit it.

admit what ? that we have hundreeds of different beers but american tourists are so clueless and betas they only go to mcdonalds or order heinekens ?

I was at a bar in rural Ireland. Everyone there was Irish as fuck but me.

Stop treating europe as one specific country. Please. Everyone here drinks their own country's beers. And I can tell you for sure most european comercial beers are more flavorful than the american counterparts

nice story mutt, doesn't change the fact heineken is a beer for clueless tourists.

>let me tell you about your country

have you ever been to the US?

that can't be 100% true because Carlsberg is the most popular beer in Europe even though Denmark is tiny

i did, they all drink budwiser beers, extremely dull, literally piss tier.

not much different from the Euro macrobrews. That being said, any bar in the US that's not a full blown redneck bar will have good craft beers available. My local bar has over 20.

and yet, people in the states buy budwisers in mass and even manage to get drunk with since how weak they are when they start drinking whatever alcohool.

Pilsner in Europe is around the same strength (5%)

who buy that shit ? where i'm from everybody buy belgian beers or local craft ones, under 7 or 8 % it's piss tier and we often mix it with picon to strenghten it even more.

No beer which is vaguely affordable is anything other than a lager.
Or cheap euro ripoff pilsner which is basically lager
Have to make my own stout

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>That being said, any bar in the US that's not a full blown redneck bar will have good craft beers available. My local bar has over 20.

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pilsner is definitely lager. Lager just means that it uses bottom fermenting yeast

I hate superhero movies

I like craft beer in theory but I don't know, its just not that great tasting most of the time. Its all variantions on the theme of a normal beer but with a sweet fruity artificial tasting flavour

>I hate superhero movies

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I fucking love beer so much. I can't wait to drink some tonight

The beers you mentioned are 'popular' in the sense that you can buy them everywhere around Europe as they are backed by huge breweries. That doesn't mean that they are popular in the sense that people prefer them over other beers. I'd say most of the local beers are completely unknown outside the region they're from, e. g. I like a beer called Karlsberg with has little to do with Carlsberg. A sad thing is that local beer culture is on the decline since decades as smaller breweries are bought up by bigger ones and the culture is lost. F. e. it was common up the 80s that a lot of bars sold their own brands of beer from a local tiny brewery in the city, especially in rural areas. Nowadays this is sth super special.

The opposite is happening in the US. Back in say, the 70s and 80s, your only beer choice was macrobrew shit (which I personally don't mind but don't think is great). That would be Budweiser, Schaefer (still exists but is no longer popular), Miller Lite, etc.
Since the 90s and exploding in the 10s, more and more craft breweries have been opening up, and when you travel to different parts of the US, you might see a lot of local/semi-local beers at bars
What are your favorite beers that are widely distributed?

but then again, this is happening in Europe too because craft beer is also getting more popular over there. I don't know if that's true in Germany, but elsewhere in Europe it is.

From the beers distributed in Germany I like Karlsberg which is a extra bitter pils. You need to drink it cold, otherwise the bitterness may be too much. They also sell a Weizen but I wasn't that fond of it last time I tried. Speaking of Weizen, the Bavarian ones are usually a good choice, like Paulaner or König Ludwig. Köstrizer is a dark beer brand which is also quite common and tasty. It's more on the sweet end of dark beer and tastes nothing like Guinness f. e.. Since I live close to cologne, Kölsch became a guilty pleasure of mine. Guilty pleasure because it's s ridiculed owing to being served in small 0.2l glasses which look like urine samples. Also it gets stale quickly. I like it because it's some beer you can drink anytime as it's not that heavy. However dont order Kölsch in Düsseldorf as it's not sold there in bars and they'll prolly spit in any other drink you order.

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