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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: pixman63 on February 17, 2006, 08:47:30 am
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Being on this side of the pond, SI isn't a magazine I see in my travels (haven't looked very hard either admittedly). The small repro on this site made it impossible to get any useful info on the image quality either (he said, desperately trying to justify commenting on the subject! )
I must ask though, isn't it breaking some kind of trades descriptions legislation to call the US Budweiser a beer? Drink the real Czech stuff instead guys.
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As a Canadian, I was reluctant to call it a beer, but didn't want to be impolite and call it piss in public.
Michael
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No argument here! The ads are sometimes good for entertainment, but the "beer" isn't good for..........
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It ain't beer unless it has Guiness on the label. Now THAT is beer!!
...and if you thought Bud was bad beer, you ought to try Rolling Rock. Now THAT is pissbeer!
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As a Canadian, I was reluctant to call it a beer, but didn't want to be impolite and call it piss in public.
Michael
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More accurately, a precurser to piss!! It does keep the kidneys clean, it's unfortunately quantity over quality down here.
Actually anything labeled "beer" in the states is a pale comparison to real beer. Even the good euro stuff is watered down before it reaches the great state of Texas. The real stuff is overlabeled "malt liquor" and only available in the best speciality shops.
truely sad!!
Bob
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Beer is just a thirst quencher. If you are thirsty enough, even Budweiser can taste okay. If it's taste you're after, then a stout like Guiness is what you need, or a good wine.
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Budvar is pretty good, but I prefer Radegast.
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It ain't beer unless it has Guiness on the label. Now THAT is beer!!
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More accurately it is stout -- oops, just saw that ray had gotten that one.
For more fun add a glass of champagne to make a black velvet.
if you want something slightly lighter try Beamish.
If you want the scottish equivalent try MCewans 80 shilling (for the weak you can always go for the lighter 60, or 70 shilling).
Then of course you could always go the Belgian route - Chimay, KwaK, Delerium Tremens, etc...and the lambics such as Kriek (cherry beer).
If you are in Germany there a plenty of beers, same in France and the Caribbean is developing some good largers (Piton from St Lucia is pretty good, Trinidad and Tobago has some good beers though I don't remeber the names - must have been a good trip) another international larger is Finlands Lapin Kulta which is quite refreshing.
There is always the student blaster - Snakebit (half lager, half cider) or Bitter snakebite (half bitter, half cider).
personally I prefer a nice dry vodka martini with an olive ;-)
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My current favorite beer is Lake Superior Mesabi Red. Tasty. But Sierra Nevada and Summit Pale Ale are probably my fav tap beer. (Newcastle has been showing up lately. Which is a nice change.)
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I see this thread is attracting a lot of beer drinkers, but I don't see any mention yet of Fosters or XXXX (Oh! yes I do, because I've just written it ).
XXXX is a Queensland beer known as Four Ex. The explanation for the name is that Queenslanders are illiterate. It's not true of course.
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I see this thread is attracting a lot of beer drinkers, but I don't see any mention yet of Fosters or XXXX (Oh! yes I do, because I've just written it ).
XXXX is a Queensland beer known as Four Ex. The explanation for the name is that Queenslanders are illiterate. It's not true of course.
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What about Carlton Draught Ray?...It's a big beer, a very big beer. [a href=\"http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html]http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html[/url]
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My current favorite beer is Lake Superior Mesabi Red. Tasty. But Sierra Nevada and Summit Pale Ale are probably my fav tap beer. (Newcastle has been showing up lately. Which is a nice change.)
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If you like those give Red Seal and Pyramid India Pale Ale a try.
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What about Carlton Draught Ray?...It's a big beer, a very big beer. http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html (http://www.bigad.com.au/movie.html)
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Very entertaining, Jule. That ad should get an award if it hasn't already received one.
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I see this thread is attracting a lot of beer drinkers, but I don't see any mention yet of Fosters or XXXX (Oh! yes I do, because I've just written it ).
XXXX is a Queensland beer known as Four Ex. The explanation for the name is that Queenslanders are illiterate. It's not true of course.
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Come, come Ray. You must know that's because neither of them are beer any more than Bud (or the equally awful Rollling Rock).
Good to see some connoisseurs of the real stuff here (though I'll defer from the Guiness hype thanks)
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I make no pretense at being a connoiseur of beer types. In Australia we drink beer to wet our throats. I've heard it said that German beer is the real beer because there's a law there that prohibits the addition of preservatives and other artificial enhancements.
However, when all I need is something to wet my throat, I object to paying double the price .
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Gentlemen, please don't forget that there is a Belgian in the game... I hate to blow my own trumpet but Belgium is without the shadow of a doubt THE place for beer... :-)
Although I have to say that more than a few US micro breweries do pretty good stuff, same for Quebecq... oops... Canada...
Cheers,
Bernard
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XXXX is a Queensland beer known as Four Ex. The explanation for the name is that Queenslanders are illiterate. It's not true of course.
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And they can count too.
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And they can count too.
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Exactly! You have to be really astute to work out if that's 3 Ex or 4 Ex or 5Ex after you've had a few .
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Gentlemen, please don't forget that there is a Belgian in the game... I hate to blow my own trumpet but Belgium is without the shadow of a doubt THE place for beer... :-)
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Totally agree. Hoegaarden is none the worse from having found a huge export market. Chimay is certainly a good explaination for Trappism. Some, such as Geuze or Lambic, may be a little odd, to put it mildly, but the clear winner in my humble opinion is the one and only Delirium Tremens, easily identified by the pink elephants on the label. You're going to need autofocus after a few of those :-)
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I am always ready to enter a deep technical discussion like this one, so let me pass on the warning that the so-called "Fosters" sold in North America is actually produced in Canada (sorry Michael, but "made in Canada" does not have much cache in the beer world).
So if you want a genuine Australian-made beer in this hemisphere, go for Cooper's: their ale is somewhat Belgian in style, with fermentation finished in the bottle, and dead yeast in the bottom to prove it.
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A friend and I went to a huge beer place in Palm Springs, with like 400 different kinds of microbrew and imported beer, and we sat at the bar and he asked, "Do you have Miller Lite?" They said "No." He said, "Well, do you have anything *like* Miller Lite?"
JC
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German beer "must" be brewed with hops and malts, otherwise it's against the "Reinheitsgesetz" (rule of purity). The Eurocrates try to abolish this rule but thanks God without sucess. Here in Portugal there is no beer with hops or malts, its "real" artificial! Bud and 4X must be of the same piss. Thats why I prefer good Portuguese red wine, which is the best in the world, and its real! Even when I have to wet my throad.
Cheers!
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Hoegaarden is none the worse from having found a huge export market.
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Only because it can't be sold in its home country due to the fact that it tastes like over sweetened elephant urine.
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Only because it can't be sold in its home country due to the fact that it tastes like over sweetened elephant urine.
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I'm pretty sure that one cannot sweeten elephant urine enough.
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Wow 23 messages so far (This being the 24th).
Imagine the number of replies if the semi nude lady actually revealed something and Michael left it on the forum. It would be in the hundreds the first day.
Beer and nudies, a photographers first two loves. Not necessarily in that order.
Robert
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Somewhat off topic (what was the topic of this thread again?), but does anyone recall when they first started liking beer. Personally, at the age of 17, I am not a big fan of beer (seem to be the only teenager of that opinion to be honest). At home we drink Carlsburg, and while I can tell the difference between that and Bud/Miller beer (and even with some German beers, Keller comes to mind) I honestly dont care for any of them. I'd honestly rather have a glass of a dry French merlot than any beer. I was just wondering whether anyone else had this experience too in their childhood?
Thanks, Stefan
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Somewhat off topic (what was the topic of this thread again?), but does anyone recall when they first started liking beer. Personally, at the age of 17, I am not a big fan of beer (seem to be the only teenager of that opinion to be honest). At home we drink Carlsburg, and while I can tell the difference between that and Bud/Miller beer (and even with some German beers, Keller comes to mind) I honestly dont care for any of them. I'd honestly rather have a glass of a dry French merlot than any beer. I was just wondering whether anyone else had this experience too in their childhood?
Thanks, Stefan
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The only answer anyone can give is - print your statement off, put it in an envelope and read it in ten years time. If nothing else it will probably make you smile.
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Let's get real about this. Beer is not nice tasting . As proof of this statement, all I ask is for someone to market 'beer' with zero alcoholic conrtent. See how their sales go . Amongst these tasteless beer types are a few less tasteless types, such as South Australian Coopers Ale, Guiness stout, Kilkennies Irish stout and maybe a few German beers.
It's all a big macho con, guys!
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I for one am glad that nudes and semi nudes are not posted on this site, I'm afraid it would have gotten out of hand, (no pun intended) and infringed on the intellectual thought of the true purpose of this site. Having said that, I would have liked to have seen a larger picture to be able to judge the quality of the photo itself.
Jerry
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I have found... as you get older, you taste less... and you enjoy stronger tasting beer.
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Let's get real about this. Beer is not nice tasting . As proof of this statement, all I ask is for someone to market 'beer' with zero alcoholic conrtent.
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As far as I know, alcohol-free wine sells no better than alcohol-free beer (O'Douls is one example of the latter). Alcohol free vodka (a.k.a. bottled water) sells far better.
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Hhmm! Perhaps that's my point. Alcohol-free beer should sell better. More beer is drunk than wine, in Anglo-Saxon countires anyway.
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... the clear winner in my humble opinion is the one and only Delirium Tremens, easily identified by the pink elephants on the label. You're going to need autofocus after a few of those :-)
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If that's the one I'm thinking of (the local supermarket used to keep it) then by all that's righteous I agree with you. Wowzer!!!
UK based forum members who don't find it easy to track down great brews might enjoy this site - [a href=\"http://www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk/]http://www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk/[/url] - I have no connection BTW.
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UK based forum members who don't find it easy to track down great brews might enjoy this site - http://www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk/ (http://www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk/) - I have no connection BTW.
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Hmmm... I rather think that forum members in the UK would do better to go to their local real ale pub, and steer well clear of just about anything in a bottle, and definitely keep well away from cans. The likes of Flowers Original, Pompeii Royal, Thomas Weathereds, Courage Directors, and the hundreds of other locally brewed masterpieces just cannot be matched by a lager overchilled to the point where you can't taste it. As a young member posted above, it's chilled that far so you can't taste it - it's awful stuff otherwise!
You may gather that I'm an ale rather than a lager fan - very, very true, but I would definitely make exception for many of the excellent products to come out of Belgium. DT and Chimay are certainly good examples, but there are thousands (lierally) of others - can't say I like the fruity stuff though!
Cheers!
PS - From one who used to work in the brewing industry - the search was always to create a beer which offended as few people as possible to appeal to the biggest possible market. Alcohol content couldn't be too high or you'd drink less of it before you fell over - too low and it tasted like civet urine. Hence the proliferation we have today of dumbed-down, bland, mass-unoffending bladder fillers. Essentially the same stuff with just enough small difference to create brand differential.
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I've resisted posting in this thread as long as I can stand it!
If you want a BIG, BIG, malty, hoppy beer, this is a great one: Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA.
http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Year_Round...PA/11/index.htm (http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Year_Round_Beers/90_Minute_IPA/11/index.htm)
This beer isn't for the faint of heart! It's for true beer lovers only.
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The small repro on this site made it impossible to get any useful info on the image quality either (he said, desperately trying to justify commenting on the subject! )
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