If it was their Honey Weis that was crap. I would rather drink a Corona with lime.

On board, we will probably not see any descent micro beers because of distribution.

Their summer shandy is one of my favorites. Fantastic beer for drinking cold on a hot day. The Honey Weiss is "meh" as my daughter would say. There are better wheat/white ales...

Don't consider Leinie's to be anything special and certainly not a microbrew being it has been in the hands of SAB-Miller for many years.

For SLC, add Squatters and Park City Brewing (their Steamer is on tap occasionally in the SC there). And, it is Uinta (you had one too many i's).

Until microbrews are more available in cans, I can't see Delta stocking them on planes.

AGREED - Fat Tire would be nice

SLC has a nice selection too!

JFK/LGA: Brooklyn Brewery, Sixpoint (both have canning operations)

I'll give you, Corona isn't spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but BA is hardly a reliable source. The "grading" is based less on taste and more on whether or not it's widely distributed or not. They'd give a bottle of elephant urine from Thailand a better score than any Bud/Miller/Coors brand beer.

That said, DL does need a better beer selection.

I've emailed delta about this several times and received miles for the email. Saying they'll pass it along. I don't want the miles I want the beer dammit

Red Hook isn't local to L.A. The brewery is in Woodinville, WA. Still, one could do worse!

As a beer lover, I'd like to see the following:

1. I had limited experience flying on NW, but one of the best (if not the best) things about their in-flight service was Schell's FireBrick Lager. I might start there.

2. The BOS SkyClub has Newcastle Brown Ale in cans. Unlike Corona, which tastes lousy out of the can, Newky Brown tastes great cold out of the can.

3. The SLC SkyClub has some excellent Utah-brewed micros. Cut deals with them for flights catered in SLC.

4. Portland and Seattle seem to be the epicenter of great microbrews, and former microbrews which have become macrobrews (like Red Hook ESB, Pyramid and Widmer Bros. beers, etc.). Cut deals with them for flights catered at SEA and PDX.

5. Get Sweetwater to put their beers in cans. One Atlanta business helping another.

What about Kokanee?

I like the Heineken on KL.

Both would be great, though maybe the Sixpoint cans are too big? Blue Point is also good, and local (Long Island), but I don't think makes cans.

Bitburger I've had on TXL-JFK, but other flights as well I think. Any of the big German breweries (Radeberger, Warsteiner, etc.) produce in large quantities that Delta could order, and would be vastly better than Bud Light, etc. They're also distributed in the US. My vote is for local, of course, but if the primary desire is to improve the beer quality, a large German producer might be the easiest and cheapest way to go.

Bud, Michelob Ultra and Heineken are like drinking a can of vomit. Marginally more intriguing Corona has been frozen solid on 3 out of my last 4 DL flights.

It would be big of DL to recognize American craft brews are some of the best beers in the world right now. Period. Getting them in cans may be tricky but not impossible. Served on international flights, craft brews, even if it's some derivative faux-craft swill like Fat Tire or Leinenkugels, could do much to reform the world's view of the US as a blackhole for beer drinkers.