>>You'll have to provide a comprehensive tour through the beer typology around your hemisphere... once I get there. Is the root beer a beer equivalend to decaf coffee? What they call "malz" (just malt) in German.
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>Nope, Root Beer is a soft drink like Coca-Cola. There are non-alcoholic brands of beer (if you could call it that) in the US.

We got the stuff here - it smells (almost) like beer, looks like a beer, gets into a beer bottle - but it's not a beer. Though, it's good for getting drilled through with vodka or rum, at about 1:10 rate.

>>I seem to be drinking beer quite democratically - through representatives... I'm not objecting though, our local beers have a very bad season, lasting for quite a few years now. So I do prefer to remember it from the better years.
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>Most major cities in the U.S. have what are referred to as "micro-brewries". The one I was at in Savannah also was a restaurant. And not too bad at that. My wife didn't dare try the stout. She selected something much lighter.

Is the stout the 17% beer?