Originally Posted by
fduvall
Man - I remember visiting the Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen during the early '80's and loving their beer. Maybe my tastes have changed, but living in Zurich now, where Carlsberg has bought most of the breweries...the stuff tastes horrible. At the Euro cup, it was Carlsberg everywhere. I would take a Coors or Bud over this stuff any day.
That sums up the current age of corporate beer in a nutshell: what you were drinking back then was real beer. Today most major beer companies are really selling a a beer-based drink that is laced with additives and chemicals. Let's just say there is a reason that Germany is one of the few places where the beer companies actually list the ingredients in what you are drinking - and that those ingredients are actually mandated by law if they want to call it "beer".
