Virtual Biergarten

[piqaboo]

HAggis, yep I thihnk it was "real"Budweiser.
That beer sounds familiar.
I felt it was my duty to drink my portion of the annual per capita consumption, and I was only in the country for three days, so I had to work fast.

Berliner Wiesse mit Hinbeersaft. I like it but its more like soda than beer, plus alcohol. Very light tangy beer made more so by the addition of the berry syrup.

[GreatCarouser]

So what about the worst brews you've tasted? My personal favorite(?) in this category was a pilsner called Three Horses . I found the name particularly apt as it identified the source as well as hinting at the main ingredient. :p

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[piqaboo]

LOL!!

Corona is by far and away the worst ever. It tastes of nothing except chemicals.
Mickey's WideMouth is pretty awful too.

[Serenity]

How come France, Spain and Switzerland are not known for their beer?

Once I had Mexican Nochebuena (seasonal Christmas Eve beer); it tasted like someone had handed me a bottle of fizzy shoepolish :p (gag).

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[Shapley]

Hop'n Gator. Honey flavored beer. The store would give you a free six pack if you could finish the first. They didn't give away many six-packs.

[haggis]

When we played golf at Clark AB we had a caddy and a "beer boy." The beer boy would run back to the clubhouse every time you wanted another beer; after 17 holes worth of cold San Mick on a hot day I never did recall what our scores were.

Same in Angeles City when you were shopping, the storeowners paid kids to keep giving cold beers to G.I.s while they were shopping, based on the expectation that drunken G.I.s bought more stuff. I still have those funny shaped knives and those damn masks at the back of the closet somewhere.

[haggis]

One of my favorite drinking beers was lemon weissen, like all weissens, it was light and slightly tangy. I remeber one fasching in Mainz, I had 10 or so lemon weissens and then got on this HUGE ferris wheel and at the top......uh, it's probably best not to go on.

[barfle]

Originally posted by The Great Carouser:
So what about the worst brews you've tasted?

Again, a German beer called Parkbrau, brewed in Pirmasens.

I gave it one try in ignorance, another in fairness, and decided to be fair to myself instead. :p

[barfle]

Originally posted by Serenity:
How come France, Spain and Switzerland are not known for their beer?

I've had French beer and it was OK.

When we went to Italy, we could not find any evidence of an Italian beer on sale.
:confused:

[Serenity]

Does anyone export Bud/Coors/Miller to Europe? Europeans must think we have the worst tasting beer.

[OperaTenor]

Originally posted by Serenity:
Does anyone export Bud/Coors/Miller to Europe? Europeans must think we have the worst tasting beer.

They do, with the sometime exception of Coors, of all beers. I've spoken with a number of Europeans who actually like it.

[BenG]

I once knew a German in my college days--and I can confirm that Europeans (at least at that time) thought American beer to be bad. "Shrecklich" or some such is the word he used.

The best beer just may be the beer you make on your own. There's a 'do it yourself' micro-brewery nearby where I live. Top-notch equipment is used and professionals are there to make sure it isn't botched. They have hundreds of recipes that can be tweaked. The individual brewer grinds the grain, adds malt and hops, etc. Exotic things can be added too...like Irish Moss or even chocolate (bleah). And he can do this while drinking beer sold by the establishment. Two weeks later it is bottled. That's fun, too. I'm surprised there aren't more businesses like it. The beer is fresh--no preservatives--and quite tasty. I made a good Czech Pilsner last time. Wish I could hand everyone here a bottle. I think you'd like it.

Oh--another good European beer is Carlsberg. Brewed in Denmark. But try to buy it in Seattle and you'll see they have "Made in Canada" on the label. That's just not right.

Since this is a music board, don't forget the German beer drinking songs...


In Munchen steht ein Hofbrauhaus
ein, zwei, g'suffa!
Da lauft so manches Fasschen aus,
ein, zwei, g'suffa!
Da hot schon mancher brave Mann,
ein, zwei, g'suffa!
gezeight, was er so vertagen kann.
Schon fruh am Morgen fing er an
und spat am Abend kam er heraus!
So schon ist's im Hofbrauhuas!

Wer soll das bezahlen,
wer hat das bestellt?
Wer hat soviel Pinke-Pinke
Wer hat soviel Geld?

Heute blau und Morgen blau,
und ubermorgen wieder,
wenn wir dann mal nuchtern sind,
besaufen wir uns wieder!

[BenG]

The worst brews are those that are too sweet, IMHO. Coors is pretty bad, but there are expensive beers like Alaskan Amber and such that are just too syrupy. By the way, I heard Budweiser is brewed with rice...is that true?

[haggis]

Ben G

"Oh--another good European beer is Carlsberg. Brewed in Denmark. But try to buy it in Seattle and you'll see they have "Made in Canada" on the label. That's just not right."

Carlsberg is brewed differently in several parts of the world for the local markets so none of the beers will be the same as you had in Denmark.

In Thailand they brew a very sweet Carlsberg for the South Asia market and it's just horrible.

OT,
"I've spoken with a number of Europeans who actually like it."

I've experienced the same shock, a German co-worker spends two weeks in Florida every year and loves Miller lite and carries a few cases home for his friends! Incredible, and he's from Munich!! As an aside, I am amazed at the number of Germans who own or rent condos in Florida for vacation purposes

Carling Black Label is popular in the UK - maybe "popular" is too strong a word, let's say, “surprisingly available" – and several of the English pubs I visited in April had some American beers on tap. The publicans almost always thought I’d want the U.S. brews, as if.

I guess there really is no accounting for taste!!

[treebeau]

Man, you're all a bunch of fargin' alkies!!

Give me "Watkin's Ale" anyday!

Regards,
Tim B.

[Shapley]

Ben,

Yes, Budweiser is brewed with rice. Lots of the rice grown in Southeast Missouri and Arkansas is grown for Anhueser Busch, I'm told.

Budweiser can be found nearly worldwide, or at least it could when I was traveling there via the Navy. Others can be found sporadically. Once in a while, you find something like Samuel Adams in some surprising location (we found it on the Ivory Coast of Africa). It was rumoured to be a favorite of the local importer.

V/R
Shapley

[Marye]

Oh--another good European beer is Carlsberg. Brewed in Denmark. But try to buy it in Seattle and you'll see they have "Made in Canada" on the label. That's just not right

Whaddya saying here, Ben? That Canadians don't know how to make beer? Cough cough...

[haggis]

Tim,

"Give me "Watkin's Ale" anyday!"

When I was a kind in England (58-59)I can remember the "What we want is Watkin's" ads. It's still one of my favorites

[OperaTenor]

Had in Tobermory, Scotland:

Gillespie stout.

It was on tap, as was Guiness. By comparison, the Guiness tasted like rat pi$$. And I like Guiness.

Gillespie ale can be found all over Scotland and England, but Tobermory is the only place I found the stout.

As for Canadian beer, what I've had was vastly superior to anything in America.

Watkins, yes indeed.

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[barfle]

Hey, now let's not slam all domestic brews. Some of them are halfway decent, although mass marketing tends to lead to fairly bland stuff.

Depending on my mood and the surroundings, I like MGD, Coors, Sam Adams, Rolling Rock, and Sierra Nevada Porter.

Bud gives me a headache halfway through the bottle, but it didn't get to be the biggest selling brand in the world by tasting like carbonated horse urine. If it was really bad, it would have died like Old Milwaukee (just watch, someone likes and can still buy Old Milwaukee).

I just got done reading an article about medical malaprops, and one of my favorites was the Heinekin Manouver.