I usually assume when Europeans complain about American beers, they just are complaining about our “domestic” beers like Bud Light, Coors, PBR, etc. which makes sense, they are our bottom shelf beers.
I recently chatted with someone at a party who said “no, all American beers are bad” including microbrewery beers.
I’ve never been to Europe so I wouldn’t know, but I do like my Left Handed Milk Stout, NWPAs, and hell even the hipstered out IPAs.
Are these what y’all are referencing?
Yeah moving to the UK from Germany it was a big shock how bad the ‘standard’ beers were.
In Germany you could just order ‘a beer’ and get something good, in the UK it would be like birra moretti or something
I liked the ales though…