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anonymous_alaska · Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 35

I'm getting restless because I can't find the beer drinking comrades I seemed to find abroad. In Taiwan, it seemed the teachers drank more beer, but how about countries where the students also really like to drink beer? I heard Japan might be a place, but I can't imagine that.

I'm not anti anything, just anti-establishment.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

The Czech Republic.

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ContemporaryDog · Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1477 Location: Wuhan, China

The Uk

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

Korea

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Canada...does that count?

Some Mexicans get into the swill pretty good.

Nauczyciel · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

Poland. And the beer here is BEER, not that watery Czech liquid.

XXX · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

You have found students who DON'T like to drink beer? Surely you jest. Muslims or Mormons, maybe; but ANYWHERE else , I think not!

marblez · Joined: 24 Oct 2004 Posts: 248 Location: Canada

One of our visual art professors (who looks like Andy Warhol) was smoking weed with some students behind the campus pub Laughing

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

mcNug · Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 83 Location: HK

Russia,

And that's just the kingergartens!

Nauczyciel · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject:

C�mon, guys, I�ve drunk more Czech beer than I care to remember and I can tell you � it�s largely overrated (though I have to do justice to Krusovice and certain tmave/cerne (dark) beers). I live in the south of Poland and have taken �drinking excursions� over the southern border to the Czech Republic and Slovakia often enough to know what to think. The booze is weak and chemically processed. Look at the contents and tell me what �izomerovany chmelovy extract� is. I bet you would prefer having regular hops in your beer.

The above is not to say Polish beer is the best there is. I don�t like it much � usually there is too much flavor to it (take Tyskie or Zywiec for example), but some (like Okocim) are excellent. There are many breweries in Europe that produce superb beer (German, Dutch, Belgian etc.) as well as in the world (I find Chinese Tsingtao surprisingly drinkable!) and the fact that it was a Czech brewery to produce the first lager ever doesn�t mean we owe them our everlasting admiration. Pilsner Urquell has been a great disappointment for me (this traumatic experience seems to have shaped my attitude). But this is not what this thread has been started for Laughing

Brooks · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1369 Location: Sagamihara

Nauczyciel,
I find this hard to believe. Do you think that Zlaty Bazant from Slovakia is equally bad? And Gambrinus?
Pilsner Urquell is overrated, but is better as a draft beer.
I have had Polish and Czech beer (while I was in both countries) and Czech beer is better, IMHO. Maybe the Czechs do the reinheitsgebot, like the Germans.
In Prague it is good and cheap, cheaper than in Poland.

with Zywiec, the water is good in the beer since it comes from a spring, but others like Okocim are bitter with too much aftertaste.
Okocim Export, which I had in New York was a different story. That was good.
EB was terrible and I am glad it went out of business.
There was a Polish beer that won a competion in Britain. Maybe Tyskie, I can`t remember.

Nauczyciel · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:56 am Post subject:

I see you're competent Smile

Zlaty Bazant? "The best beer in Slovakia" the label reads (or something to this effect) so I fell for the slogan last holidays when I was in the Mala Fatra mountains. And I had difficulty swallowing the contents of a 0,33 bottle! It was sour, no hops flavor at all. Thankfully, Corgon Tmavy was fine (though it's not really a beer).

I don't think the Czechs and Slovaks actually stick to something equivalent to the reinheitsgebot (German beer purity law). I don't think the Germans would allow so many additional ingredients in their beer. Look at the contents - water, malt, hops - and compare with the Slovak and Czech labels. Usually there are at least five components. Can we call this purity?

Yes, I guess it must have been Tyskie, the winner of the competition. I know some people here who love it and its strong flavour. I don't regret EB either. I do prefer Okocim; there are three kinds actually, and you should avoid the blue one. Did you try the green one? And what about Harnas (Chieftain), a new product of the Okocim brewery? The can is blue but the beer is OK this time.

As to the aftertaste, I get it with Zywiec, let alone Tyskie. There we go - this also seems to be a matter of personal taste. Does it mean everything in the world is relative?? I long for some absolute! And I don't mean vodka here Laughing

gtidey · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 93

Stella would make your beers cry.

My mouth is watering at just the word.

Stella.

Mmmm.