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Post by Tyulusse on Apr 18, 2009 21:50:47 GMT 2
My prefer is always guinness, but it's a bit expensive here, so, I use to drink the national ones, Cruzcampo, San Miguel, Mezquita and Alhambra (my prefer from Spain ), sometimes I drink Coronita from Mexico, and from Argentina, Andes and Quilmes, a bit difficult to find, but when I find it... I can't resist
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 19, 2009 10:57:59 GMT 2
Ohh, Carlsberg is so crappy here... Or maybe it's because I don't like lagers. Warsteiner is also brewed here, but it tastes like our "Nevskoe Original", and is much more expensive. The other ones are not brewed here, but I'll try to find them in local super-markets, where are import beers. I've heard it's not unlikely that sometimes same brand tastes different for different markets. I tried Carlsberg once in Europe and wasn't too impressed. But then I tried it again in the States and now I love it. Gotta be in mood for a lager, you know... Also, the fact that I was drinking buckets of Carlsberg while sitting in a crowded pub watching Euro soccer Cup on plasma TVs while rooting madly for Germany (after Russia was out of the game) maybe had something to do with it
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Apr 19, 2009 11:03:49 GMT 2
From the lagers I like only Polish Żywiec. Used to like Heineken, but somehow stopped. I actually tried Zywiec once and it had a respectable taste. Same with me on Heineken, it was one of the first beer I started drinking back in the day and then soon discovered there were far better beers out there. Heineken here in the US is fast becoming a white-collar yuppie beer - a beer for "young professional" people who don't usually drink beer but feel like having an informal beer party and get Heineken because it's an import and it looks so clean and nice, haha.
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Post by marduk on Apr 19, 2009 11:57:51 GMT 2
From the lagers I like only Polish Żywiec. Used to like Heineken, but somehow stopped. I actually tried Zywiec once and it had a respectable taste. Same with me on Heineken, it was one of the first beer I started drinking back in the day and then soon discovered there were far better beers out there. Heineken here in the US is fast becoming a white-collar yuppie beer - a beer for "young professional" people who don't usually drink beer but feel like having an informal beer party and get Heineken because it's an import and it looks so clean and nice, haha. Indeed, same here ;D
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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 20, 2009 5:14:15 GMT 2
I'd like to elaborate on Boddington's pub ale, which I mentioned before but didn't talk about.
Enjoying a pint of it right now, after more than a year... It knows no rival in smoothness and creaminess. The "draughtflow" system of the pint-size can it comes in allows the ale to be poured into the glass just like it's being served fresh at a pub from hand-pulled draught barrel. I hadn't realized till now what a perfect head it forms, and taking that first sip from the full pint glass is pure boozer heaven - complete with milk and honey analogy, it's that smooth and creamy!
Ok so it's not my first one right now and the author of this post may be slightly biased/buzzed... but to all you folks who haven't tried Boddington's before, if you see it at your beer shop - grab!!
Just now, a foam pattern formed on my pint glass in the shape of two reindeer facing each other... A very Finno-Ugric looking design. I tried going to the other room getting a camera to snap a pic, but by the time I returned they began to dissolve. You know it's a good hearty ale when it leaves foam on the walls of the glass when you drink it!
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Post by hk50cc on May 21, 2009 16:35:58 GMT 2
beer i dislike: tapped beer!!!! dunno know but beer has to be in a bottle, otherwise it tastes... not like beer
had bad luck at yesterdays party was just tapped beer, so i had to switch to all this sweet liqueur crap with a totally hardcore tipsy result just an hour later ><
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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 22, 2009 0:49:14 GMT 2
beer i dislike: tapped beer!!!! dunno know but beer has to be in a bottle, otherwise it tastes... not like beer had bad luck at yesterdays party was just tapped beer, so i had to switch to all this sweet liqueur crap with a totally hardcore tipsy result just an hour later >< I've always thought tapped beer was fresher/better than bottled kind, but maybe it's different with different brands. Does being on tap make the beer taste more flat? Probably depending on how long the tap has been open, or maybe it's not secured tightly enough sometimes... Here in the US, people are simply obsessed with having beer kegs at parties as opposed to merely bottles/cans - maybe it's partly due to the novelty idea of having "live beer" at one's party to generate more excitement, but maybe also because people think it's fresher - or simply expect it to be. I easily believe though what you say - in Germany folks know more about bier than the rest of us Puny american beers on tap probably taste the same as bottled, but German beers have more subtlety to them and it's probably a big difference.
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Post by Mighty Croc on May 22, 2009 8:40:19 GMT 2
Tapped beer? No. I hate the aluminium after-taste.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on May 22, 2009 21:42:41 GMT 2
Wouldn't the aluminum aftertaste also apply to beer in cans? Which probably explains why they are cheaper than bottles.
I'm probably also confusing tapped beer with the beer served fresh on draught at a pub. If by tap you mean kegs, then it's probably sub-par indeed and doesn't give anything to the beer beside the whole "hey look it pours from a faucet!" notion.
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Post by Mighty Croc on May 23, 2009 7:50:31 GMT 2
I meant the beer in cans. It's not cheaper here, so everyone drinks beer in bottles.
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Dec 23, 2010 23:25:04 GMT 2
I found this poor thread all the way at the bottom of page 4 in the thread list. Has it really been so neglected since my absence? Time for a turnaround and let's give it a warm place again among the more visited parts! I have a new favorite to report, on an update on the affair, so to say. I know it's becoming overrated in Europe due in part to its aggressive advertising campaigns, but still... I had written about loving Carlsberg before, but now it's becoming something like a mad craving. It is brewed locally at Akureyri from Icelandic spring water, which means it has an extra mineral bite to it, unlike the European-made batches. I used to dislike the local-made Carlsberg for that, but its metallic flavor coupled with the easygoing feel of this beer really has grown on me. Now why did I just post that pic... makes me want to have one right now, and I can't: must write write write and finish my uni stuff. And a brand new discovery for me that is becoming an obsession: Again, the local water base of this beer means that mineral bite, but what a taste... It's an everyday, after-work kind of beer, and nothing fancy or elaborate, but it has such an honest hoppy, full-bodied, fragrant, savory bitter breadiness to it that all the other local beers fade in comparison, and makes me forget how limited the beer selection tends to be here. One thing I know is that I don't just like it because it's easily available, and for a lager it really tastes rich and can indeed replace a dinner sometimes :x ;D Edit: Reading my earlier posts in this thread, I can't believe I neglected to mention these perennial favorites of mine as well... Paulaner Hefe Weissen - a smoothness that drinks like a liquid meditation, filling the heart with joy. This is what it tastes like to me, no less. Weihenstephaner - if Warsteiner is Königin, then this beer is King. Something like the oldest still-running brewery in Europe, if I'm not mistaken? Either way, a flavor of symphonic proportions... Paulaner tastes like Schumann's 1st Symphony, while Weihenstephaner tastes like Beethoven's 6th ;D wiki.lamk.fi/download/attachments/10159749/weihenstephaner4.jpg?version=1&modificationDate=1287574935000(Although this mysterious procession really reminds more of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th... ok, I'll stop with the obscure classical comparisons - but not before saying that just as any beer can be matched with a metal band/album/song, so can it be matched with a composer )
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Post by forester on Dec 26, 2010 13:34:01 GMT 2
Great theard ;D I'm from Poland. The best beer in Poland made by big company is Tyskie. But we have a lot of micro breweries, which are hard to buy abroad, like for example: Ciechan, Noteckie, Gniewosz, Koźlak and much more. Every one of them brews several species of beer. I mentioned only about these most known. I will make some photos of beer bottles and show You Do You know some of these beer ?
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Post by Heer E. Tik on Dec 26, 2010 22:39:16 GMT 2
Hey forester! Haven't heard of these beers before, the only Polish beer I tried so far was Zywiec, and it was good. A long time ago we threw a birthday party for a Polish friend in college with Polish food and Polish beer, and that was the occasion. Mmmmm, microbrewery beer... (Homer Simpson mode) Those little local breweries are not only well-kept secrets but little wonderlands where taste magic often happens It would be cool to see the pics! To put the faces on the new names
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Post by maris on Dec 27, 2010 1:21:59 GMT 2
all beer is good (except for Heineken) but my top 3 is:
1. Urquell 2. Carling Black Label 3. Sakara Gold
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Post by Nordis on Dec 27, 2010 10:16:35 GMT 2
Heh, I know a finnish record company that could make a promotional deal with that ;D I've probably replied to this thread years ago, but I was too lazy to find my old post. Anyway, I guess my favourite beers haven't changed that much since then so the list might be pretty much the same: 1. St. Peter's Honey porter by St. Peter's brewery, England. Really crisp for a porter, lacking all of that creaminess that i.e. Guinness has. You can really taste the honey on this one, which isn't always the case with other honey flavoured beers. I suggest everyone to give it a shot if you just can find it somewhere. 2. Siperia by Plevna, Finland. I don't know how they make this beer, but it has a distinct smell of marsh tea even though they don't use anything but water, barley, hops and yeast in it. A strong and bitter black stout that spreads fear among women and children Marsh tea was actually used to flavour beer before hops were introduced in here, so the smell has a nice ancient vibe on it. 3. Ehm, can't really name a third one. The previous two really stand out from the beers I've ever tasted (something around 300 I suppose), but the third place would be shared by so many beers. Black Cuillin from Scotland, Titanic Stout from England (don't know if they make this anymore), all the awesome wheat beers from Bavaria and Netherlands and so on. The only kind of beer I don't love that much are the indian pale ales, they are a bit too bitter for my taste. Oh, and ofcourse that cheap bulk lager like Carlsberg, Heineken, Tuborg, Miller's, Budweiser and insert-your-local-cheap-brand-here. It's all the same loveless and tasteless corporate crap that's been watered down so that it'd appeal to wider consumer range. Next time you buy that stuff, check the ingredients to see if it has starch in it. I don't think Carlsberg or Heineken do, but I wouldn't be sure about the rest. The starch doesn't generate almost any taste, but the yeast can feed on it just like it does on malted wheat. The result is a beer with the same alcohol level but with less taste, so you can drink like it was a goddamn soda. What comes to Heineken, just check how many small and medium breweries they've bought and simply shut down. The one that touches me most was Beamish in Cork, Ireland. They promised to keep it just as it is with their brewery on the same spot in the middle of the city where it has stood for about 300 years. The owners of Beamish were foolish enough to believe them and the next thing they knew was their staff being fired and the brewery being moved to another town. Now, few years after that it's next to impossible to get Beamish anywhere anymore, even though it was the biggest beer brand in Ireland after Guinness as far as I know. Effective way to get rid of comptetition. So support your local micro breweries and show them you actually care about what you drink! Also, have your beer always from a tap if possible. If it has an aluminium taste, there's something seriously wrong with the tap itself. Glass bottles are ok, but cans are the worst option. The only reason anyone uses cans is that they pile up better than bottles so they are cheaper to store and transport while compromising the beer inside them.
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