German Culture/Beer

[Joe Blow]

If you visit czech "Pilsener Urquell" is a must. Also Krustzovice and Budweiser (not that US Bud)

Gambrinus and Staropramen are also both good.

:drink:

 

[austin_power69]

What a nice thread. I have just had some rather nice Lowenbrau beers. I love them.
I like Germans.

One of the finest brewerys in Bavaria. Löwenbräu Original and Löwenbräu Märzen are the best ones....

 

[austin_power69]

Gambrinus and Staropramen are also both good.

:drink:

YES, i didnt remember the name, but now... Staropramen! Pretty nice stuff.
Had a lot of them last visit at Praha.

 

[Milk Man]

I found a gem yesterday at first choice liquor (god bless 'em!). Its called "Bellevue- Kriek", its cherry beer! Tastes awesome! It was $8 something a bottle (schooner size) but "lifes too short to drink cheap beer" (my favorite catch-cry).

Also got some belgians- hoegarden white, "grand cru" and forbidden fruit. Ill let you know what I think.

I have tried "Pilsner Urquell" in a sampler six pack; cant remember if i liked it though. One I dont like is schoferhoffer (sp?). Where thats from I dont know.

Another of my favorites is Grolsch. Cool bottle too.

Drink and be merry boys! :alcohol:

 

[sam76]

Picked up a slab of Konig Pilsner for $38 today (usually $55)

You know you're drinking quality when the ingredients are: water, barley, hops

 

[Marvin Martian]

I like my beer. I reeckon the best Aussie beer atm is coopers long necks!! Still no screw tops and goes down a treat. Boags is ok also. Also like a nice pint of guiness where they put the clove on top!! cheers.

 

[2020hindsight]

1."Bellevue- Kriek",... $8 something a bottle (schooner size) but "lifes too short to drink cheap beer" (my favorite catch-cry).
..
2. Another of my favorites is Grolsch. Cool bottle too.

howdy milko, - have a friend with a similar philosophy - "in life, drink the best wine first" - cant see why it shouldnt work for beer as well.

2. As for the bottle selling the product, if you're ever in Perth, check out Meads (fish restaurant) at Mosman Bay - they serve (used to serve?) a Slovakian beer called "Topvar".
http://beerlabels.com/labels/beers.pl/746/pivovar-topvar.html
The bottles have these beautiful near naked girls in bikinis with genuine "scratchems" for the g string etc. So , who remembers what the beer tastes like!. Realist would be in his element with these European wildcats, lol.

http://www.panowelt.biz/topvar/default-e.htm
Propagation yeast station - continuously is being reached reproduction of yeast biosubstance under strict hygienic regime
Yeast plant - yeast are being treated here and pitching of future beer is being in process in cooling tanks
Fermenting plant - in these premises takes place main beer fermentation for one week
Fermenting plant - by alcool fermentation is changed substantial part of sugar on alcool
Cellar - green beer ripens min. 5 weeks at low temperature in 260 tanks
Cellar - at ripening is being created unique flavour of Topvar beer in present saturating of carbon dioxide
Filtration - automatically operated process of powder beer filtration with subsequent stabilization
Laboratory - physico-chemical laboratory is peakly furnished

alcohol = "alcool" apparently, and
"continuously is being reached reproduction" ...aha - sounds like Realist should go to this brewery

 

[wayneL]

I found a gem yesterday at first choice liquor (god bless 'em!). Its called "Bellevue- Kriek", its cherry beer! Tastes awesome! It was $8 something a bottle (schooner size) but "lifes too short to drink cheap beer" (my favorite catch-cry).

Also got some belgians- hoegarden white, "grand cru" and forbidden fruit. Ill let you know what I think.

I have tried "Pilsner Urquell" in a sampler six pack; cant remember if i liked it though. One I dont like is schoferhoffer (sp?). Where thats from I dont know.

Another of my favorites is Grolsch. Cool bottle too.

Drink and be merry boys! :alcohol:

Hehe,

I believe it was the West Berliners who embraced this biblical behest to the fullest during the Cold War - "Eat, drink and be merry, for tommorrow we die"

 

[2020hindsight]

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/934/15817
Here's what one "taster' thought of Topvar :-

Irishsnake from Oakland California :-
overall: 3.85
appearance: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 4.5

Beer pours a brilliantly clear gold with a nice white head that retains and laces well. nose is primarily of pils malt, with a typically sweet grainy malt note. flavor is smooth and somewhat creamy - hops are very minimal, and clean malt notes predominate. very smooth, easy drinking. a simple beer, but easy to drink and satisfying.

Here's what Donnebaby from North Carolina thought of Topvar :-
overall: 3.5
appearance: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | mouthfeel: 3.5 | drinkability: 3.5

Lasting bleached white cream head that's thick and hazy. Thick-looking gold body. Smells like honey and chalk. Taste mimics almost cider-like qualities, with crisp apples and lots of bread and powdery chalk. Hops are an afterthought, an echo of bitterness and a string of bite over the mellow, sweet taste. Ample smooth and syrupy body. Carbonation is full-mouth and bit extreme perhaps. Nice to have a lager for a change...

Reminds me of the wine tasters who met in the Hunter when the coal mines were in full swing "this Barrossa wine is a flirtatious little provocateur who tempts the palate and mesmerises the taste buds" ...

"by comparison this wine from the Hunter leaves a black smudge on your lip!"

PS One of the luxuries I indulge in when Im travelling is to have two beers with dinner - concurrently - I just keep tasing and comparing, comparing and tasting .... and slowly - by a process of elimination, I end up with a small selection of beers I like best. - which incidentally (and as if it matters to the story) are XXXX on which I was weened, and Boags Draught (forget the special export imho)... then again Coopers, and etc etc Cheers !

 

[Mellow77]

yeap :
I miss Plzen (Pilsner Urquell) and Gambrinus here in Oz. Especially the price - $1 for 0,5l on TAP
You can still buy here Plzen, Krusovice, Budweiser in bottle shops
Here I like Coopers, Tooheys Extra Dry. Also Spanish Amber is not bad...

Anyway, after a couple of them one does not often recognise any different and every one is tasty ...like with girls
We say in the Czechs "After 5 beers every girl is a princess"

Cheers

 

[2020hindsight]

...can still buy here Budweiser in bottle shops "After 5 beers every girl is a princess"Cheers

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beerholder ?
" australian beers? give me the XXXX, american beers ? give me the Schlitz!"

PS you know why they called it XXXX? - because queenslanders couldnt spell BEER lol

 

[austin_power69]

I found a gem yesterday at first choice liquor (god bless 'em!). Its called "Bellevue- Kriek", its cherry beer! Tastes awesome! It was $8 something a bottle (schooner size) but "lifes too short to drink cheap beer" (my favorite catch-cry).

Also got some belgians- hoegarden white, "grand cru" and forbidden fruit. Ill let you know what I think.

I have tried "Pilsner Urquell" in a sampler six pack; cant remember if i liked it though. One I dont like is schoferhoffer (sp?). Where thats from I dont know.

Another of my favorites is Grolsch. Cool bottle too.

Drink and be merry boys! :alcohol:

You mean SCHÖFFERHOFER. That s a Wheat Beer. Comes from east germany and sucks pretty much...

 

[austin_power69]

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beerholder ?
" australian beers? give me the XXXX, american beers ? give me the Schlitz!"

PS you know why they called it XXXX? - because queenslanders couldnt spell BEER lol

Yes, SCHLITZ rules! Every time when i am at the east coast i get my Schlitz or Old Milwaukee ( comes from the same brewery and i guess it s even the same)

If you are in Canada you should try LABATT BLUE! YYYYYUUUUUMMMYYY!!!!

 

[austin_power69]

Picked up a slab of Konig Pilsner for $38 today (usually $55)

You know you're drinking quality when the ingredients are: water, barley, hops

In germany its one of the pretty cheap ones. Here its something around $19 for 24 bottels.
Dont like it that much. For a PILSNER BEER its not strong enough and it has not enough CO2.
In Germany we call it a cheap Party Beer.

About the ingredients: All German beers consists only of water, hop and malt. That called the REINHEITSGEBOT! I love it.

 

[Ribena]

1516 law was actually about taxation under the guise of a beer law.

Cheers and 2cents.

 

[imajica]

Delerium Tremens - one of my favourites http://www.delirium.be/

 

[wayneL]

Delerium Tremens - one of my favourites http://www.delirium.be/

Hehe! Good name for a beer.

 

[imajica]

Hehe! Good name for a beer.

it'll knock ya head off! think its around 8 or 9% alcohol

beautifully crafted brew though

 

[kromey]

Hoegaarden white best beer in the world!