Looks ... out of my price range. :laugh4:
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Looks ... out of my price range. :laugh4:
Had a tour in the Stella brewer yesterday. Afterwards we could taste and got a course on how to pour beer in to glasses. Course we were pretty enthousiastic and ended up drinking quite a bit. Afterwards we had a Cantus, first time I went drunk to a cantus and even leaving more sober. Then I went to the pub.
And well today I know for sure that yes you can get tired of drinking the same beer. No more artois for me anymore the first few weeks.
Why don't they have Jupiler in the pubs over here? I hate Maes.
I drank a friend's MGD today and couldn't taste a thing. Really, I thought it was water.
Frag, that looks faaaaaaaaar too expensive. I'll just take my Kotayk for a few dram and be happy. Maybe there's a culture/taste difference.
How much percentage alcohol is in your average American beer (Budweiser and the likes)? Someone told me that it was around 1% which I'm very sceptical about.* The average here is about 5% with jupiler having 5,2% and maes 4,8%.
*The actual number he mentioned was 0,8% which I find even more unbelievable as in Belgium we serve 'table beer' with a percentage of more than 1% to kids. Not so much now but I drank 'table beer' every lunch when I was a kid.
It isn't that bad, same pricerange as the other beers mentioned, they go for 2 euro here. Flemish beer is always somewhat expensive. I think I have S\seen these Kotayk at the local turk, will try it some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishArmenian
Budweiser and MGD are about 5%. That's probably the reason people drink them as they are cheap, taste like water and have a relatively high %
Budweiser is pretty expensive here. Why anyone would want to pay for that is beyond me, water deluxe.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadesPanther
Bud Light also can be used for weight loss as it induces dysentery. :yes:
Bud light?? Probably causes weight loss because if it gets any lighter it floats.
Well it's fairly cheap over here I believe. Almost every single off-license has it on offer.
Anyone who claims to be to be a fan of beer and then orders Budweiser, lowers my opinion of them.
The selection of beer at my Student's Union is quite poor. Athough they do have Kronenbourg 1664 which i find alright when I don't feel like Guinness.
Bud Lite is causing bloody diarrhoea? Bloody hell, I thought what Guinness did to your bowel movements was bad...Quote:
Bud Light also can be used for weight loss as it induces dysentery
How much does a guiness go for with you guys? Here they are pretty expensive as well, certainly not student-society material at least.
I think it's usually about £2-3 in the pubs for a pint. It's usally about the same as any other lager
Mmmmm, I usually never drink stuff like Palm but it sure tastes nice. I don't know what the hell.... I mean... it tastes so soft in the mouth. After every drink from this can I enjoy the aftertaste a lot. DAMN, from now on Palm will be my standard beer.
I sincerely hope that there actually is SOME beer out there that actually has some degree of quality about it. Frankly, I've tried a couple styles of American beer and nearly spat out the first swallow, terrible stuff. Also tried Corona once, not as bad, but I sure as hell aint ever gonna pay for it.
5% is the standard. There are a few which have even less (keystone has 3.2 or something, it's mainly for beer pong and drinking games...).Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant Phill
I like bud light personally, though bud select is better. I imagine they are acquired tastes. Beer doesn't really interest me though, I mostly drink it as part of games, liquor is way more interesting.
Beer is something you have learn to enjoy. Most beers taste bitter, which is something you have to get used to in order to enjoy it. I can name a number of foods that you have to try more than once before you get used to the taste and start enjoying it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Most Belgians (I imagine Germans and Chechs too) learn the taste of beer when they are very young with table beer and a few sips of quality beers at family gatherings. That's where the 'low percentage in American beer' myth comes from IMO. Belgian beer has more taste (read less watered down) than the beer in other countries like America or the Netherlands where there isn't such a beer tradition and where the beer has a less pronounced flavour to sell more.
5% I would actually say is reasonably high. A good session beer should normally be about 3.5%.
Too much alcohol can ruin a good beer. I find 7% is my preferred limit. Eights or 9's taste so much like alcohol that you can't enjoy the drink.
I can't say I agree. I don't taste the alcohol in hign fermentation beers as opposed to some wines for example. I can taste more herbs, hopps and yeast but not more alcohol.
I had an interesting experience over New Year's. One of the beers I brought was Duvel. My friend had one drink of it then held it and looked down like a child who was being forced to eat vegetables. :laugh4:
We all have different tastes.
In the case of Duvel right on he was, too many bubbles undrinkable
burn the heathen, stone the heretic!
No .Org love for my brand? It won awards from some Western European 'connoisseurs'.
English Link:http://www.kotayk.am/english/welcome/index.php.html
Good stuff, I must sound like a broken record, but all you Western Euros get your fun, how about some for us real Caucasians.
Kill the beast, cut it's throat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moros
seriously Duvel sucks. So, and now a (real screw bellevue) Kriek.
And which one are you reffering to? Lindemans? Liefmans?
Verhaeghe, but Boon is my favorite but they are pretty hard to get over here, used to have a belgium beershop in my street with all the goodness from Flanders but it wasn't very well placed and went broke :no:
ps, bellevue isn't even that bad but a good Kriek needs to be sour imo.
I agree for the most part. I find that the lighter styles that go high alcohol tend to taste too much of it, but the darker styles (the darker English Old Ales, Imperial Stouts, and Baltic Porters) can stand up to the alcohol content very well, since most of their flavor profile comes from the roasted malts and hops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
I'd love to show some love for your brand if I could...but I take my beer way too seriously to comment on anything I haven't done extensive "field research" on, and unfortunately, there are no beers from the Caucasus available at my local beer store.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishArmenian
Well?Quote:
Tis is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
Favorite beer I've ever had was the Dutch Heineken. I mean the real Heineken, brewed for the Netherlands, not that nasty crap they export to us here in the states.
Hmm, I think I'll start a thread for this! :idea2: