TravelNudie, thanks for the list of European brews. Something to look for if I ever travel those parts (which I hope to someday). Also loved the joked about American beers - so true. I worked with a German scientist once who complained we water down everything in America - the beer, the coffee, we even water down the water (lol). I agree the best brews in the US are from the craft brewers, and some of the smaller regional breweries such as Saranac (F.X. Matt), Yuengling, and Leinenkugel. For us in the US, we can always get really good beers from Canada that are realtively inexpensive.
Mike
My beer of choice at the moment is Blue Moon with a slice of Orange in the glass.
For all your Corona drinkers, if you want to kick it up a notch just add a shot of Barcardi and Lime Juice or just a shot of Barcadi Limon. Just take a mouthfull from bottle then add the ingrediants and mix it up and you have what I call a Buckineer.
My father was a lifelong Schlitz lover...I remember buying cases of the stuff for something like six bucks! Yeccch!
I like locally brewed beers and ales especially IPAs because they're FRESH i.e. they haven't been sitting in a warehouse or bouncing around in the back of a tractor trailer for the past few months. Buy local and support your hardworking neighbors.
Hi all,
few more words about beer on tap. Truth is that in some brands the distance from brewery is a factor especially when beer is stored in barrels/casks - some brands again are so full of standardized high-tech additives that they pretty uch the same regardless of distance. Also worth remembering is that wll-known breands are often brewed in different breweries around the world. So the actual brewing site may not be that far away even if brand's original home is a distant location. Another issue is what's the point of drinking Foster's brewed in Germany or Carlsberg Green brewed in Thailand.
An important factor in quality of draught beer is the pub/bar proprietor's own input. Storage and serving temperature are important but most of all counts cleanness. The tap itself and hoses/pipes leading to it from the barrel have to be regularly and meticulously cleaned to preserve good quality of beer. That is the hardest part to know when visiting a new place for malty refreshment - and even in a joint visited regularly i tmay not be clear - or practice of cleaning may vary depending on person in charge of that duty.
So far only country where the tap hygiene problem has been tackled is Czech Republic, where Plzensky Prazdroj -brewery has reacted to complaints of varying quality of their brew and started to award "Cistye Trubky"-diplomas (means roughly "clean pipes") to pubs that serve Pilsner Urquell or other beers of the brewery (like Gambrinus) on tap and are performing the cleaning according to brewery's requirements to keep the beer quality immaculate.
Hello, I can drink any beer but prefer a natural product to a 'chemical' one. Bitter and dark beers with plenty of flavour. Like TravelNudie I cant see the point in drinking something that has traveled for days or weeks (by sea) and local beers are invariably fresh from the brewer.Mmmmm.
Good points, TravelNudie. Guiness is a perfect example. The Guiness you drink in Ireland tastes better than the Guiness you will drink anywhere else in the world. Some of my friends and I agree it's just something that doesn't travel well.And you are correct about some brands being brewed in various breweries in various countries. The Fosters lager sold in the USA is actually brewed in Toronto - one might as well enjoy a fine Canadian brew, and for less money!
I and a lot of my friends agree that draft beer is better, but only when the draft lines are clear of any junk or buildup. You can easily tell when there is - yoru favorite brew just won't taste the same.
Mike
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