Text 25349, 63 rader
Skriven 2012-02-17 09:14:10 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 25348 av Joe Delahaye (21977.fidonews)
Ärende: Re: question after reading conf for several days
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JD> > Beer is an aquired taste, nobody likes it at first.
 
JD> Perhaps <G>.
 
Do you remember your first beer?
 
JD> Actually I drank Molsons, and/or Labatt's prior to being posted to
JD> Germany.
 
I think I've heard good comments about Labatt. Fact is our beer-market (and I
guess in Germany too) has so much local stuff that outside-brands simply don't
make it with a few exceptions (Guinness for example, Corona is popular with
women). Nothing non-European.
 
In the meantime I've come to enjoy many of the North American micro-brews (then
when you hear the volume some put out and their market-size you wonder how
"micro" they really are) which really can be good. Visit their breweries and
they come-up with the story that their brewmaster worked in ... Belgium ... for
some years and learned the trade there.
 
Very good brew of a dark-ale nature is "Moose Drool" by the Big Sky Brewery in
Missoula MT. I've also liked "Alaska Amber" by the Alaskan Brewing Company in
Juneau AK and "Fat Tyre" from the New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins
CO.
 
I've tasted others whose name I forgot but several towns these days have their
local brewery and I'll always ask if there's nothing local on tap. I've often
been happily surprised by the quality.
 
It's the mass consumption brewers like Coors and Bud and Heineken that give the
Amerikan reputation an even worse name than it already has. (for the wise-guys
... Heineken in the US is brewed by Coors and is even worse than the Dutch
Heineken)
 
JD> I like some of the German beer, but by no means all of it.
 
Of course ... my taste favours the dark ales like Trappist beers and other
monastic products. That immediately rules-out all the pilsners of which there
are thousands, one tasting more like piss than the other. I won't drink Belgian
pilsners either.
 
JD> I know tha the EU insists that other beers be sold in Germany and elsehere
JD> in the EU, but the Purity act is still observed inside German brewers for
JD> consumption within Germany at least <G>
 
That's a hoax to shield the local markets from superior foreign products and as
a result in violation of EU treaties.
 
JD> How many German breweries did InBev take over?
 
I've got no clue.
 
Other than "Leffe Dark" I drink none of their stuff.
 
JD> Too far away, and bottled water is simply tap water that has been
JD> filtered <G>
 
Makes you wonder what comes out of the tap, doesn't it?
 
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