Warsteiner Rules!

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 5:55 pm

Especially the Dunkel.

If I had to be marooned on a desert island and could only choose one year's supply of beer, it would be Warsteiner.

Thank you for listening.

siberiansun · Post by **siberiansun** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:47 pm

Hehe,
well how about them MILLERS?
i know it's cats pee to many but when served freezing cold....!

My tip, start the evening with half a dozen of millers and then go for nothing less than equal amount of gin tonic.

That should make the world spin for a while.

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wayne · Post by **wayne** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 6:56 pm

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 10:54 pm

In Japan? Yebisu. Extreme high quality.
In Finland? Karhu does it for me.
In Taiwan? Ya get Heineken and the usual bunch.. but still, Taiwan Beer beats them all. What a dull name though.. hehe.

But NOTHING, beats a well served Guiness!

Post by **Neil B** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:03 am

Got to be Martsons Pedigree for me in England.

Ken - try this one (a black velvet) Half a pint of Guiness mixed with half a pint of cider. You may change your mind about Guinness being number one after 3 or 4 pints of that. Be preapred to have no knees to use next day

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 4:00 am

I know only Pedigree Pal but I don't think it's beer (there is a nice dog on a can

)

1. You can always count on it.
2.Unlike women it has got nothing against being transported in a car boot..
3. Yummy!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 5:32 am

Foreign beers usually are compared here to making love in a canoe: it's fncking close to water. I'm not saying we're the only beer makers, Germans and Austrians know how to make good beer too.

Ever tried a Duvel? The first 3 you see the devil, after you'll be in heaven.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:44 am

I like Tyskie most - if I have to choose a Polish beer. My favourite one is Zipfer which comes from Austria, I believe.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 9:16 am

Love the 'Duvel', first tasted it in Bruges. In the same trip i also tasted 'Orval' and 'Triple Leffe', which i finally adopted.

BTW, i love those OT threads!

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paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 1:17 pm

My choices:
From Belgium, Blanche de Bruges(!!!) with that lovely lemony after-taste.
La Maudite(8.3 degrees) and La Fin du Monde(9.1 degrees) both brewed here in Quebec.

j9k · Post by **j9k** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 8:21 pm

old english rules!!!!

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 9:56 pm

actually, i'll change my choice from the Cooper's pictured above, to my own homebrew, which is real nice, and is only 40c australian per 750 ml (or as we say, sets you back bugger all)

thermos · Post by **thermos** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 10:01 am

The only beer worth drinking is Hansa (Bergen, Norway)

Thermos

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:36 am

It's good we like different brands. Otherwise all the breweries could fall down

(like a drunk man)

Let's take our glasses high and....
The toast is: to John Cooper for that friendly place he prepared!

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alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:57 am

does anybody know tetley's?
i love it.
i've been also in antwerp, belgium, where my sister lives, and i must say it's a great place for beer.
but what i like of some british brewed beers is that thick and discrete foam, and a very natural taste.
of course bottled bears can't get in the list imo.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 12:30 pm

alfonso, AFAIK Guiness is the only beer form the island w foam - they dislike foam on their beer. They want beer in the glass instead of foam. In Belgium however, all beer comes w foam.

A small side story: Visiting my girlfriend (at the time) in London, she took me out for a night. Around 23h, the pub closes and everyone walks to the bar, takes a tetrabrik (cupboard like for milk/fruit juice usually). The bartender puts a liter of beer in the cupboard, and they take it to the party on someone's appartment. I had never ever seen beer in a cupboard. But in the UK, that's no problem, you just put it in the fridge and it stays cool. Beer w foam could never be put in a cupboard, cos it looses all the gas. The 'beer without foam' came in handy for take-away

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 4:50 pm

yes atOmic,
"discrete" foam was intended as "very little".
in belgium i remember i was drinking "boleke"(i remember the sound, never seen that word written), but in the belgian code of glass shape=beer brand isn't it a duvel? i don't remember now, but i liked it a lot.
i've been to antwerp only for three weeks globally (three trips), but i've had very good time there....

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at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 5:25 pm

alfonso -oops I missed the'discrete' and jumped on 'thick'

'een bolleke' is Antwerp's typical beer, indeed it comes in a big bowl too -hence it's name (bowl=bol). Another example of it's link to Antwerp is their website's modesty

"The unique glass is known as a ‘bolleke’ in Antwerp the name is synonymous with De Koninck beer. In fact throughout the world the special ball shaped glass is inseparbly linked to De Koninck." Now it is even known on planetz.

Antwerp's my favorite city, it's got a great nightlife and mixed population of workers, student, immigrants etc. Brussels is more of metallic work city, but Gent is sweet too. Too OT?

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alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 5:37 pm

On 2002-10-19 18:25, at0mic wrote:
Too OT?

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the most it's OT the less it's OT in a OT forum...

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 10:07 pm

I was surprised in Belgium at my first going into a Pub, they brought me a cart with about 2000 beers to choose from… Wow! I could not agree more with your words atOmic when you say: “Foreign beers usually are compared here to making love in a canoe: it's fncking close to water. I'm not saying we're the only beer makers, Germans and Austrians know how to make good beer too”. Absolutely true, beer most of the time is too light to my taste too. Guiness nevertheless, it is a very good one, isn’t it?

I tried once a beer called ABC, it’s a black Chinese beer, it is so thick… so thick it remained me sort of melted chocolate… this was the very best I’ve ever tried and is very strong too. Unfortunately never found this trademark again, I tried it in Paris.

A good been here en Chile is “Negrita”, and there is another very good one, cos is made by Germans, this is the one:

Now, a little bit of history about beer:

Even before bc 6000 beer was manufactured by the Sumerians an the Babylonian people… In Egypt it has been found that beer was made with pure crushed barley, crushed with a stone and then mixed with water. This way they would create sort of a big biscuit letting it to dry. When this biscuit was dried, they would again mix it with water and this would create their beer, fermented by the Microorganisms living into large earthenware jars. We are not the first in loving it, but the first of having a Pulsar yes…

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