I agree its silly. I am actually a jolly fellow. The response was written after possibly the worst day at work ever so the bitterness was in me and I wanted an argument. In addition, I am proud of being a Hoosier and the fact that good beer is coming out of there makes me amazingly proud. Now I can flaunt that and Vonnegut.

In addition, I just found out that my friend is trying to get a keg from 3 Floyds for his wedding in May so I am psyched to try it, and the fact that it will be free just makes it that much better. How far away is Munster from South Bend? I may have to make a trip for the beer. I will buy you a pint for my unacceptable bitterness and bring you a couple of bottles not available over there. This is giving me an idea of setting up some sort of national beer network where we can visit and share beer not available in that locale.

And yeah, to the other guy, I was of legal drinking age for a few years before I left. The Bud reference is real in most eateries and bars. Bud Light was actually the more popular one. This may be just in my part of Indiana, the part around Notre Dame. It may have changed but I doubt it based on my Uncle’s reaction at my wedding rehearsal dinner when the place didn’t have Bud. He kinda just looked around in amazement that a place couldn’t have Bud then was coerced to get Rainer. Ugh.

Cheers to all!

Ranking beer is pretty stupid, anyway. BUT.. my claim isn’t the most outrageous statement. Rate beer backs me up.

Now, back to that sampling.. when’s the biking best in Portland? I wanna kill two birds with one stone.

First of all, what Portland beer have you had?
If your answer wasn’t “every beer in Portland”, then your claim is ridiculous. It may be right, 3 Floyds may make the best beer in the world, but you cannot say they make better beer than ALL Portland breweries until you have tried ALL Portland breweries.
Secondly, I don’t even consider Deschutes to be a Portland Brewery since it was only last year that we got a location here. If I did consider it a Portland brewery, I would not consider it the best we have to offer.

So here is what we do:

1. You fly out here.
2. Come over to my place.
3. You leave behind any biases while we go to Amnesia, New Old Lompoc, Laurelwood, Hopworks, Roots and all the rest to sample every single beer that comes out of this city– this will be a multi-day endeavor. We won’t include seasonals as I am sure your family will miss you.

Let me know. I’ll make up the couch.

Sorry if this seemed a little caustic, but I really hate absolute statements like that. They just seem to have no other way to interpret them other than in a negative way. I think it would be super amazing if Three Floyds was as good as you say. They certainly seem to love the craft and as I said earlier, I have heard good things from friends who still live in Indiana.

Nah, I’ll go ahead and say Floyds is better.

But don’t take my word for it, just look at the line.

Perhaps your next body of work could investigate the fact that people here in Portland do not know how to use the LEFT LANE on the highway…

GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!!

What you have to keep in mind is that I haven’t lived in Indiana for several years and am commenting on the culture as I saw it before I left. That blog you have or anything like it did not exist at the time of my departure. Maybe the teamwork was there they just needed a good General Manager and better P.R. Anyway, it seems that the culture has grown, which is great since I intend to return for a spell in May.

Thanks for the blog link, I will be checking it often.

Also, I have heard good things about Three Floyds. Can I get some insight on this?

-Ian

I think we’re at fast pitch softball level, actually. In any case, I don’t think teamwork is the problem – comparing the portland beer scene to the indiana beer scene is like comparing the indiana pork tenderloin scene to the portland pork tenderloin scene – the market just isn’t quite there. Yet. Hell, you’ve got almost as many breweries in Portland as Indiana has statewide.

But we’re getting there. And we’ve got a blog, too.