It was served ice cold so you couldn't taste it, which would be okay for an American beer.
Good point: Americans usually don't know how to serve beer. They'll serve it ice cold, no matter the brew: Fuller's, Guinness, Trappist ales, barley wine, you name it. They're just too used to Coors Light or what-not that has to be served ice cold lest you actually taste the piss swill. Luckily good craft beer bars where they know how to serve are becoming more common.
