quote: Originally posted by Sancho I never see that in the HI times i read. what s up?

Yeah I see this all the time in restaurants. All of the pasta, steak, and seafood dishes always say what wine you should drink with it never what beer. The only time I ever see recommended food and beer pairings are wings and Miller Lite or something to that effect.

You are living in the wrong country for bier culture.What matters what other folks think, enjoy what we have now, devil take the hind most.

All of those places are in business for one thing. Money. They don't care what specifically they're selling, as long as it's what they can sell the most of. Restaurants and big liquor stores know people want to buy the fancy wine, so who are they to argue with success? I was at a Ruth's Chris steakhouse last night. My wife and I blew $75 on a single bottle of cabernet. Price-wise, that was in about the bottom third of the wine list. But what kind of beer did they have? Guinness and Stella Artois are their luxury beers, with only a few others available. I enjoy wine, but I sure as hell would have gone for a $8 bottle of good beer than that so-so wine. Unfortunately, I'll never expect a steakhouse to serve more than a half dozen varieties of beer because I know 99% of their customers won't even look at 'em. It makes perfect sense to for them. All we can hope for is that sites like this, BA, RB, realbeer, etc. help to change the image of beer (It's not just for bonging anymore!) to give it more pull in the luxury beverage market.

quote: Originally posted by Flashpro All we can hope for is that sites like this, BA, RB, realbeer, etc. help to change the image of beer (It's not just for bonging anymore!) to give it more pull in the luxury beverage market.