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6th August 2007, 09:35 PM
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6th August 2007, 10:24 PM
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6th August 2007, 10:50 PM
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So... anyone else stupidly amused by the comcast commercial: "Sorry Roger, you tiger now!" *guilty pleasure*
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6th August 2007, 11:04 PM
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Yes thank you! 
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6th August 2007, 11:06 PM
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That's awesome! I must say, though, that only the Irish drink more beer than Germans. (But they dont' seem to hold it as well.) 
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6th August 2007, 11:19 PM
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Reps: 242,068,944,616,009,632 (power: 242,068,944,616,027) | | Originally Posted by Protinus Where are our Germans to tell us about German beer!! I made this thread a sticky....as it should be!!!
I'm not German, but I love German Hefe Weizen! I especially love König Ludwig, Löwenweisse and Weihenstephaner. Also, I looooooooove the extremely hard to get (over here at least) Fässla Bambergator, a smokey, slightly honey-ish but still fairly bitter beer.
I don't like pilsner types (from any country - they are too bitter and bland for me, I like strong tastes), but my husband likes Bitburger.
Then there's Belgian beer, and Dutch beer, but I'm pretty sure that none of you are able to get the good Dutch beers (no, Heineken, Grolsch, Amstel, etc. are not good beers, they are pilsners  ) because good dutch beers are all microbrewed. If anyone is going to Amsterdam, I know a local Amsterdam brewery that is very good, Het IJ (they have Het IJ van Columbus, IJwit, IJndejaarsbier, Natte, Zatte, Speciale Vlo). Pubs that specialize in special beers will have it - sometimes on draught, which is even better.
Belgian beer deserves a thread of its own actually.  It's the best. If I could, I'd move to Belgium: politer people, more disciplined pupils in school (over here it is dramatic - and I plan to go into teaching  ), more catholics (LOL - over here, half of the country is protestant), BETTER FOOD, THE BEST BEER IN THE WORLD, CHOCOLATE, houses are still cheaper. (you see that for me, food and drink is the only thing that counts, really! )
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6th August 2007, 11:20 PM
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6th August 2007, 11:23 PM
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Reps: 35,411,287 (power: 35,423) | | | I had a taste of Budweiser Budvar last time I was on the continent, and was surprised by how good of a beer that is, especially when compared with the American beer of similar name.
Rebekkah, my husband is positively a beer-snob, and insists that Belgian ales are heads above all other beers. He goes on and on about how they mature on the palate, the aromas, oxidation....
Personally, I'm very content with English Ales that are nearly meals in themselves.
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6th August 2007, 11:31 PM
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Reps: 242,068,944,616,009,632 (power: 242,068,944,616,027) | | Originally Posted by Loki I had a taste of Budweiser Budvar last time I was on the continent, and was surprised by how good of a beer that is, especially when compared with the American beer of similar name.
Rebekkah, my husband is positively a beer-snob, and insists that Belgian ales are heads above all other beers. He goes on and on about how they mature on the palate, the aromas, oxidation....
Personally, I'm very content with English Ales that are nearly meals in themselves.
LOL, I think I'm a beer snob too. The best Belgian beers are traditional (not commercial) gueuzes IMO, extremely sour traditional beer, sometimes with cherries in them (then they are called kriek - well, technically kriek is made of lambic, and gueuze is made of lambic of different ages) but I prefer them without - although kriek can be excellent, at least traditional kriek is.
Traditional gueuzes and krieks are hard to find and expensive, unfortunately.
Another favourite type of Belgian beer of mine is trappist, brewed by trappist monks. The best are, IMO, Rochefort, Westvleteren, Orval and Achel. I don't like Chimay trappist, and I don't care much for Westmalle.
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7th August 2007, 12:01 AM
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Reps: 18,944,763,352,946,140 (power: 18,944,763,352,955) | | Originally Posted by longhair75 I'll just have an ice cold Dos Equis with a wedge of lime and sit quietly in the corner
Dos XX was my Mexican beer of choice when I was in Cancun last spring. Not a bad beer at all. (I think I like Modelo better though.)
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