Not surprised.
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Yes, predictable. Made worse by the fact that they don’t consider most of our beer as beer. I worked with Irishmen, and they considered “Bud” (and similar) as “p*sswater”. They like their beer a bit darker/heavier. Our standard beers here are like slightly flavored water to them.
They better be flying in emergency beer rations or there could be trouble! Football (European) fans have to have beer with their matches.
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These Irishmen are spot on! 
The Captain
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Boston has plenty of better micro brew beers.
San Francisco’s Anchor Steam is one of my favorites.
The Captain
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Tragically and extremely sadly, Anchor Steam Beer, a delicious and unique product, arelic of California’s gold rush days, is dead.
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No wonder I could no longer find it lately here in Porto. It was still available in 2019 when I arrived. The place? They had a menu with over 50 brands of world wide beers, bottled and on tap.
The Captain
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The Rheinheitsgebot (German Purity Law of 1516) mandates that beer can only contain Water, Hops, and Barley malt (Yeast is an essential fourth ingredient but fermentation was viewed more as a process than an ingredient at the time).
In the late 19th century, American brewers began substituting other grains, notably corn and rice, for the barley. While these grains can be mashed and fermented, they add little to nothing to the flavor profile, and the American Pilsner style was born.
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Most of the mass market beers in Portugal have corn added to barley, proportions not specified.
The Captain