"Getting a decent beer in the US is difficult?" where the hell u at Barrow Alaska? I can have any type of beer on the planet at my local bodega.... Nobody round here calls that fruity juice ur having Beer... Thats like a softdrink, like a sparkling winecooler at best LOL!!! Cheers!!!
Seconded, how in the hell are you having a hard time finding a good beer? You can literally get anything, foreign imports, mass produced domestics, small craft brews, etc..
Not sure where in the US it is hard to find a good beer....but I might be spoiled. There are so many micro-breweries where I'm located and they all provide a wide array of styles & brew techniques. I'm a fan of the unfiltered IPAs.
There are two things i can never get in the US: beer and orange juice. Now that is only because my tolerance level for beer that is not a german wheat beer and orange juice that is not freshly squeezed on the spot is practically non existent. I know i am weird this way.