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Beer from which countries have you had - and liked!?

Beer from which countries have you had - and liked!?

  • US

    Votes: 15 65.2%

  • United Kingdom

    Votes: 13 56.5%

  • Ireland

    Votes: 11 47.8%

  • Germany

    Votes: 19 82.6%

  • Denmark

    Votes: 11 47.8%

  • Belgium

    Votes: 11 47.8%

  • Netherlands

    Votes: 12 52.2%

  • Russia

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • other countries

    Votes: 19 82.6%

  • none

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    23
Rexedgar said:
Peroni is not very good to my palate. Another bad beer is France’s entry, Kronenbourg. I guess they are too focused on wine.........
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Peroni was the only beer at the UN mission in Somalia. The Italians flew it in as part of their "care packages".

Many a Marine converted their paychecks to Peroni during our time there.
 
Rumpel said:
Copy?
Laughable!
What US-breweries proudly call "craft beer" is normal beer in the rest of the world.
In the rest of the world it is normal that you produce your beer with care and see to it that it has same taste.
It was the privilege of the US to degenerate beer to rate piss.
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As I stated... Mass produced American beer is the product of German brewers.
 
Fledermaus said:
Peroni was the only beer at the UN mission in Somalia. The Italians flew it in as part of their "care packages".

Many a Marine converted their paychecks to Peroni during our time there.
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If there is no alternative.......
 
Logician Man said:
I can't find Steinlager anymore these days. Are they still in business?
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Yeah. I saw some in the store the other day, actually. Not sure if it is exported though...
 
Bodhisattva said:
Yeah. I saw some in the store the other day, actually. Not sure if it is exported though...
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Thanks, Bhodi. A friend introduced me to Steinlager back in the early 90s. Definately one of the best beers I've ever enjoyed. " Real man's beer." :peace
 
Me and the missus did a Main River tour a few years ago. One of the stops was Miltenberg. There is a small brewery there that was the best brew tour i have been on. The place has the facade of a house in town and the beer cellar is hacked out of a stone mountain. The were not stingy with the product, either. Faust was the brand.......

The tour guide met us on a Sunday morning and began with a joke; what does making love on a sailboat have in common with American beer?

They are both ****ing near water
 
Rexedgar said:
If there is no alternative.......
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True Story. Mogadishu.

Walking perimeter near the beach I find cami utility trousers in the razor wire. In one pocket was a wallet. Bloated from the water I cut it out of the pocket. Trousers were already trashed.

Inside I find a military ID for a Seabee. Seabees were camped down the beach a long way. Went over and checked in. We had seen sharks in the surf and I was expecting to be met with bad news.

Navy Cheif was suspicious of a Marine Gunny entering their domain. I took his suspicion as a good sign.

I asked for the young man and TD the chief I was there to return a wallet I had found in the surf. The Cheif smiled and explained the young sailor had taken a trip to the Italians and in a drunken stupor thought of skinny dipping. He was alive and well and still sleeping it off.

We both woke the gentleman up and ranted at him for his stupidity and how he should be dead from either drowning or shark attack or being shot by sentries....

Then I returned the wallet to him and said it was good to see him alive and it was lucky for him the wallet was found.

Don't know how much he understood at the time. He still had chameleon eyes at noon.
 
Fledermaus said:
True Story. Mogadishu.

Walking perimeter near the beach I find cami utility trousers in the razor wire. In one pocket was a wallet. Bloated from the water I cut it out of the pocket. Trousers were already trashed.

Inside I find a military ID for a Seabee. Seabees were camped down the beach a long way. Went over and checked in. We had seen sharks in the surf and I was expecting to be met with bad news.

Navy Cheif was suspicious of a Marine Gunny entering their domain. I took his suspicion as a good sign.

I asked for the young man and TD the chief I was there to return a wallet I had found in the surf. The Cheif smiled and explained the young sailor had taken a trip to the Italians and in a drunken stupor thought of skinny dipping. He was alive and well and still sleeping it off.

We both woke the gentleman up and ranted at him for his stupidity and how he should be dead from either drowning or shark attack or being shot by sentries....

Then I returned the wallet to him and said it was good to see him alive and it was lucky for him the wallet was found.

Don't know how much he understood at the time. He still had chameleon eyes at noon.
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I was @ Ft. Bragg for two years and got to know Hay Street pretty well. The ladies of the night knew our pay schedule and on payday they “broke starch.” After one long evening, we uprooted a NO PARKING sign and managed to install it in the company commander’s parking spot........I think we managed this trick more than once......
 
Rumpel said:
Well, I think that's what is wanted in the US and sells well there.
Rat piss that is ice cold - so you do not notice any taste - in case there is a taste at all .....
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The german beers that I enjoyed were more like the Euroepean equivalent of craft beers.
 
Rumpel said:
With "rat piss" you have described the taste of US-beer very well!
I am not sure whether US-beer is worthy of the term "beer".
It is a disgrace - nothing more.
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For the most part, I agree. Typically domestic beer in the US is overly pasteurized. One exception is Coors. I do enjoy an occasional cold bottle of Coors Banquet. Outside of that, I prefer craft beers.
 
Fledermaus said:
Mass produced American beer is simply German beer made out of Germany.

Remember.... Busch, Anheuser, Hamm, Miller, Blatz, etc. were all German immigrants... German brewer, piss results.

Same with mass produced Mexican beer. German Brewer, piss result.

Where the US shines now is craft and small batch beer.
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The only brand name US beer that I care for is Coors Banquet. And I agree on the craft beers.
 
Rumpel said:
You may be right there!
The smell of old beer is terrible!
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Horrendous, especially if you have to clean it, as I had to do after 12 or 13 hour shifts. And beer was being actively pushed, customers could buy a beer card (small ones and large ones) and if you had an X number of beer cards you would get a small keg for free or if you had the double amount of beer cards you would get a free large beer keg.

And people used to drink and drive (before I started working there) and that ended when they went to a all night pub with the whole gang and they had a near fatal accident in which one of the normal crowd had to sit in a wheelchair for months.

He was a funny guy and worked as a window washer. One time he fell on the job and broke his wrist, he was off for 3 weeks and then had to go to a contracted doctor which would decide whether or not you still needed to be off work and he said: "Well, I don't see any need for you being off work any further, you can work with that wrist". To which that mate of mine said: "you doctor are an idiot, did you actually read what I do for a job? I work on a ladder 10's of feet from the ground, how do you think I can hold on to my ladder with A BROKEN WRIST!!!!!", after which the doctor approved 6 weeks more sick pay. Idiot.
 
Peter King said:
Horrendous, especially if you have to clean it, as I had to do after 12 or 13 hour shifts. And beer was being actively pushed, customers could buy a beer card (small ones and large ones) and if you had an X number of beer cards you would get a small keg for free or if you had the double amount of beer cards you would get a free large beer keg.

And people used to drink and drive (before I started working there) and that ended when they went to a all night pub with the whole gang and they had a near fatal accident in which one of the normal crowd had to sit in a wheelchair for months.
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Yes, beer may have its draw backs!
 
Busch, Anheuser etc ....

That is no German beer.
It is American rat piss - produced by an American firm, that happens to have a German sounding name.
 
Rumpel said:
Yes, beer may have its draw backs!
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Most people are happy drunks, which can be annoying but the real problem is the bad/angry drunks. These are the kind of people who can use really bad violence and are a real threat to fellow pub guests/innocent people on the street/his loved ones at home.
 
Peter King said:
Most people are happy drunks, which can be annoying but the real problem is the bad/angry drunks. These are the kind of people who can use really bad violence and are a real threat to fellow pub guests/innocent people on the street/his loved ones at home.
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Only too true!
 
Rumpel said:
Busch, Anheuser etc ....

That is no German beer.
It is American rat piss - produced by an American firm, that happens to have a German sounding name.
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Each and every name mentioned was a GERMAN immigrant who went into beer making in the US.

That is why Lagers dominate the US market.

If Brits had been the beer makers ales and Stouts would have dominated.
 
I think I will create a poll for European beers specially, so that nobody must complain that Mexico and Japan are missing.
And so that we need not talk about Anhaeuser-Busch etc.
 
I always drink local beer when visiting a foreign country because it is usually the freshest and beer breaks down over time and with transport. The best ale comes from Britain and Ireland. I never had better beer than what I tasted in the Czech Republic.

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Jean-s said:
I always drink local beer when visiting a foreign country because it is usually the freshest and beer breaks down over time and with transport. The best ale comes from Britain and Ireland. I never had better beer than what I tasted in the Czech Republic.

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I have drunk beer from all around the world, and the best come from Germany and the Czech Republic. In Germany I drank Romer Pils, which was the local beer around Frankfurt, Mannheim, and Worms (which I cannot get in the US). However, I can buy Pilsner Urquell from the Czech Republic in the US.

The micro-brewers in Alaska all seem to want to make lager or ales. Nobody makes a decent pilsner beer in the US.
 
Glitch said:
Nobody makes a decent pilsner beer in the US.
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Nobody makes any drink in the US that would deserve the name beer.
It is all either cat piss or dog piss.

But ice cold!

So idiotic cold so that do do not notice any taste anyway.

Thank God!
 
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