Re: Good beer in GREEN bottles does not exist
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Most of the Czech pils listed in this thread are good beers: Staropramen, Pilsner Urquell, Budvar, etc. If you're in the midwest/Great Lakes area, the Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold is excellent. If you're in the NE, Brooklyn Lager is also a really good beer. The American craft brew scene is so much more focused on ales than lagers there isn't nearly the diversity you might expect to find, but Brooklyn is probably the best combo of availability and quality that I've seen. You're always rolling the dice to some extent with Euro imports because of both the transit and the tendency to use green bottles, but it shouldn't be too hard to find a decent Lowenbrau/Urquell/Spaten.
Heineken isn't really bad, it's just "blah" in comparison to a lot of other beers in the same style. I doubt even beer snobs would say that a BMC is actively distasteful, it just doesn't taste like much, and they'd rather spend an extra buck or two getting more flavor out of their beer. If you like Heineken because its quaffable, gives you a buzz, and isn't a liquor drink, that's fine. But whatever you do, buy it in cans, not bottles.
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