"KeeganAles":27qnkowy wrote:
I got into a debate on one of the boards on this point regarding which is a better country to send a beer tourist, Ireland or Austria?
Austria has deep history with beer, excellent examples of certain styles (lagers, mostly), and some local specialities (Zwickls in Vienna) but craft hasn't really gotten going and there's not much outside of the Germanic brewing tradition.
Compare that to Ireland with variety, experimentation, and creativity but basically nothing that's not macro more than 20 years old.
So which is more of a "world class brewing nation"?[/quote:27qnkowy]
Is the reason craft hasn't taken off in Austria because their beer is nice to begin with?