Worst Beer Scene on Earth?

150+ feet beneath the surface on a fleet ballistic submarine for months.

They loosened the rules and allowed a Sharp's toward the end of my service.

 

Scott, a number of years ago I was on a business trip to Amman, Jordon and at the hotel (Marriott I think?) the bars had Amstel on draft and that beer was brewed locally.

Below is from Wikipedia:

“In 1958, the first Amstel beer factory outside The Netherlands was established in Amman.[1]”

I have had a couple of Amstel Light beers in the States which I thought were OK (e.g., I liked them better than BMC light beers). I thought the Amstel 'heavy' beers in Jordan were pretty good. That is what I drank during my week+ visit to Jordan for business.

Cheers!

 

Thank you for your service.

 

Not sure about now, but in 1998 my wife and I stayed at a jungle resort in Belize. And the only beer I could get was Belican beer, and Belican special.nothing else at all. Hopefully it has changed.

 

Hmm, ND, SD, and WV are awfully quiet on this thread...

 

I went to Niamey, Niger in Africa for two long trips in the late 80's. The embassy met us on the tarmac, gave us each a case of water, warned us not to drink anything but that water, canned Coke, or bottled beer, then escorted us past machine-gun toting airport militia. The beer selection was limited to Heineken and two local beers which apparently used clean water. I despise Heineken though the locals proudly served it to their guests. The local beers were quite bad, one was Bier Niger and I don't recall the other. I was more concerned about amoeba and parasites than flavor. Very friendly folks there, at least back then.

I also traveled to Pretoria, South Africa just days after Nelson Mandella was released from prison, and shortly before protests/rioting started. The beer and drink situation was much better there, just had to avoid tapwater - which is good advice everywhere. The beer selection was mostly regional and European, and was decent. I had a few beers and went to a theater and watched Africans watching "My Cousin Vinny". Great folks there too.

 

Hey - I was in the middle of writing my missive above. I sure don't have anything to complain about as far as the craft beer scene here in South Dakota. We don't export much beer, so folks assume our craft situation here is dire. Far from the truth. Breweries popping up all over, ever improving regional, national, and foreign craft distribution, and plenty of taprooms. At least in the Sioux Falls and Rapid City metroplexes.

 

Lousy beer, but you got steak and lobster. I ate C's, not feeling sorry here.

 

Most of my field destinations in the army were beer-less. Conus was awful. A cold MRE and warm canteens of water were the highlights of the day. The exception was Hohenfels Training Area in Germany.
When we got to spend time in the cantonment area for showers and resupply they had these small barracks converted to bars with a 2 beer limit. They served Tucher and it tasted absolutely wonderful while we played spades and generally complained about everything.

 

"Rapid City metroplex" . Oh, buddy. I enjoyed the weekend I spent in RC, back in 2000 (my Dad and I really enjoyed Firehouse brewpub, went a couple times), and, as I have weird hobby of reading small city newspapers, the Rapid City Journal is a regular stop for me. But, for all my love of the region, "metroplex" is non-applicable. A city of 70,000ish folks (not significantly smaller than my city) cannot be a metroplex.

Mostly though, I was just busting on SD and ND, cuz they're two of the last states I need for my 50 States list. Man, y'alls breweries do not ship.

 

Snooty left coasters...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_City,_South_Dakota_metropolitan_area

 

Yeah, I was jesting as far as Rapid City metroplex. But...Fernson distributes to surrounding states, and their Farmhouse beer recently earned Gold in the Session Beer category of the 2018 World Beer Cup competition - though I don't care for the style myself.

 

I do still need to tick the Dakotas, maybe we should talk......

 

A: Does that make it a "plex"?

B: Technically, I'm a snooty Right-Coaster by birth and duration.

C: What the bloody hell am I going on aboot?

 

I was in South Africa during the same time period. The country was in a state of euphoria & I had a great trip.

As far as beer - Castle Stout was my regular & Carling Black Label was everywhere, & was decent.

I had the opportunity to drink rudimentary “beer” in the Soweto township - tasted like sour carbonated milk - but I told them I liked it to be a good traveler.

 

OK, to give the OP a serious answer, I suspect that this place should get at least get a couple votes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole

 

Go to Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot ND, and you will get good, if not grea

You can get Fargo Brewing beers throughout MN, and I've seen Fernson (SD) in Southern MN.

WV, on the other hand, I have no advice.

 

In the U.S., Mississippi still looks pretty bad for beer.