What is the best BEER in the World?

[Cyberus]

Hmm, sorry to hear about your liver Gizz


My fave beers:
Zyvturo Ekstra [Lithuanian]
Staropramen   [Czech]
Stella Artois  [Belgian]
Duvel, Leffe, hell pretty much all Belgian ones.
Most Weissbier
Spitfire, 6X, London Pride, Early Bird, and far too many others too mention [English Ales]
I was very pleasantly surprised when I tried a bottle of  Samuel Adams beer a couple of months back....it tasted a lot like English beer!
Murphy's - this is only good in Ireland for some reason; Guiness - better in Ireland, but still good here.
1664 [French]
I remember a Latvian Porter that was really nice...can't remember what it was called, summat like Rigas Porteris...

God there must be loads more that I like....

[Cyberus]

Bobsonsirjonny wrote:
If Im at an Amiga meet in town its gotta be Zlatopramen - though over here they have sadly corrupted the name to Starpramen.

Hmm, why 'sadly corrupted the name'? Star of Prague is a great name.
'Zlat' I think is Czech for 'Guild' (?), but people market things differently worldwide all the time.

Sadly they have corrupted 'Quarter Pounder with Cheese' to 'Royal with Cheese' in France :lol:

Honestly though, being an English teacher and very particular about language, I can't stand this snobbery whereby people think they should call everything by the 'authentic' name. We are in the UK, therefore words become anglicised - thats it, that's how language works. I don't go around insisting people say 'fora' or 'fungi', just because I studied Latin.
I don't tell people about the time I visited friends in 'Warszawa'. Or the time I went to 'Eesti' and then got the ferry over the sea to 'Suomi'

If you want travesty, then look at the way that the original Czech Budweiser lost its name to some gnats piss.

[Cyberus]

I can second the tea vote. I drink peppermint tea, a few varities of green tea and sometimes even nettle tea. It's a bit hippy I know, but they're refreshing, invigorating, don't contain sugar,  and I think green tea is a good source of antioxidants.

Of course plenty of water, as Cecilia says, is a must.

[Cyberus]

Bobsonsirjonny wrote:

Cyberus wrote:

Sadly they have corrupted 'Quarter Pounder with Cheese' to 'Royal with Cheese' in France :lol:

Thats a myth that Pulp Fiction propogated - its not called the Royal - they still call it the quarter pounder but with the french word for cheese.

Go HERE
Click on 'Entrez' and it should open a new window. At the top of this window will be some menus (Of the computer kind) From the 'Dans vos Restos' menu, select 'la carte' and then click on 'boeuf' - there you will see the selection of beef burgers.
Ok ok, it doesn't have the 'with' part... :-)

[Cyberus]

Bobsonsirjonny wrote:
@ Cyberius

I had a bet with a mate about it - he said pulp fiction was wrong, I said it was right. We were in a Mcdnoalds in the airport in France and it said Quarter.. I lost and had to buy all the food...

@Bobson

Right, so perhaps you were both correct in a sense. I wouldn't be surprised if it did say Quarter at the airport, since a huge proportion of people passing through won't be French. However, if you walk into a McDonalds (ouch!) in France, you'll find that its called a Royal, so overall you were right....
Perhaps you should get half of your bet back? :-)

[Cyberus]

:lol:

I think someone coined the phrase 'thread necromancy'

I didn't go out last night either. Sat in reading with a couple of tinnies...

Must be getting old...

[Cyberus]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
btw. since when is it that softdrinks are considered beer? :-x

You've obviously never drunk Budweiser
;-)

[Cyberus]

Amen to that!

:pint:

I've run out of beer :-(

[Cyberus]

Some interesting ones to try, if you get the chance:

Fraoch, heather ale (from Scotland)
Baadog, Mongolian beer (err, from Mongolia, although the stuff I had seemed to suggest it was brewed in Thailand :-?)

There are a couple others that I liked when I was in the Baltics:
Alderis Porteris (Latvian)
[Porter is made from burnt hops and is the precursor to stout (like Guinness) - I think it acquired its name because it was purportedly drunk by the porters working in Covent Garden, London]
Zyvturo Ekstra (Lithuanian)

I saw tons of Finns with tons of boxes of Lapin Kulta on the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, but I've never tried it.

I also used to have a poster for Tuborg Ol (insert proper Danish characters) on my wall, but I never tried that either....

[Cyberus]

-D- wrote:
What I drink...


Schneider Weisse

I got totally ruined on that one night in Berlin. I ha the nastiest hangover ever the next day :-(

[Cyberus]

Last night I was bought a few beers by some mates (I'm skint and hadn't been out of the house in days, so they decided to chip in to take me down the pub).
All the ales were off, so we ended up drinking Newcastle Brown Ale, a table of us all sitting there with our half pint glasses and Newky bottles. It went down surprisingly well - I haven't really drunk it since I was a teenager...

[Cyberus]

blobrana wrote:
Stout.

but i haven`t drunk beer for over a year now; er, now that i can afford it, i have gone over to drinking wine....

eh? I find wine much cheaper than beer, although the fact that I buy it all in France might have something to do with it (?)

[Cyberus]

PMC wrote:
Blob, do you have a particularly expensive taste in wine?  Wine has got to be cheaper per unit than beer.

This is what I was thinking. I buy cases of red wine, and the odd 5L box for when people come over, in France. And a decent bottle might set you back say 6 quid (e.g. Fleurie, Moulin-a-vent, Chateauneuf du pape), which would cost 10 or 12 quid here.
But you can by some really good wines in the £4-£7 bracket, Aussie, Kiwi and Saffer wines, Californian and S American...
I particularly like the Kiwi Sauvignon blancs (Malborough region) as well SAfrican ones. (If you can find it, try Firefinch, absolutely gorgeous). And there are a ton of drinkable Chardonnays on the market.

I avoid German wines like the plague (perhaps I've never tried a good one?). The Germans sure know how to make a good beer though!!!

BTW, from French supermarkets, you can get a drinkable 5L Bergerac for about 8 Euros, perfect for guests/drunk people who wouldn't appreciate the expensive wine, or me when I'm drunk, who cannot appreciate expensive wine :-)

[Cyberus]

yep, by a long stretch

[Cyberus]

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:

Cyberus wrote:
yep, by a long stretch

WITHOUT sugar&milk :lol:

FFS!! Eyso!!
How many times have I said that I drink green tea!
Methinks sometimes you don't listen