Europe is far too big a geography to pin down beer, it's mostly concentrated in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Czech where you find the righ

Europe is far too big a geography to pin down beer, it's mostly concentrated in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Czech where you find the right climate for the ingredients and hence the beer culture (of course you find beers in France, but they have a larger wine culture). The differences between them are also huge with Irish dark stout, British pints without collar, German lager only made from basic ingredients, Belgian specialty beers, etc. The effect of tradition and culture makes almost every beer in those regions taste perfectly decent and some very good, while in the US most are piss-water and some might indeed be very good. With Bud Light still having the biggest market share, I believe the piss-water jokes still stand today.