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[Devil's Harvest]

I'm happily returning to Korea soon, but over the past year I have developed a healthy taste (obsession?) with some rich and tasty beers from the British Isles. I say "but" because I am afraid I won't be able to find them, even in the gargantuan alcohol repository that is Seoul. Anyone know of any bars or stores that carry the following brands:

Wychwood breweries (Hobgoblin, Fiddler's Elbow)
Well's Bombardier
Fuller's London Porter
Innis and Gunn

I don't have anything against the local brews; they're still better than most of the urine brewed by Molson and Labatt, which is still consumed in astonshing quantities and with ignorant joy by the plebian Canadian masses. However, I don't want to be limited to Guinness. Thanks!

[VanIslander]

What they serve here is my kind of stuff!

Well-known rum bar in the Barbados, jokingly branded, ... offers no beer.

[spliff]

You're not much of a connoisseur if you think the local K-beers are better than Molson or Labatts...

[Wangja]

It's definitely price sensitive. Local OB at 2000/2500 is attractive.

Of course, if it's not real beer - ale - then it's all lager anyway and who cares?

[chachee99]

Guiness although smooth tastes absolutely disgusting.

I had a Molson Canadian a few months ago at the Rockey Mountain Tavern. Being a Canadian who enjoys Molson products, I thought I would be in for a treat. I'm not sure if it was old or brewed outside of Canada, but it tasted terrible.

I selected Cass, but I like Cafri the best. Why wasn't that one on the list?

[eamo]

[spliff]

Cass tastes like ass, OB smells like BO and Hite is sh1te!

[Wangja]

[chachee99]

Sorry, but Guinness tastes like crap.

[KlinkKlonk]

Guinness does indeed taste like crap. Beamish black is superior or a nice Sarsaparilla stout such as pandemonium. The myth about guinness being good for you is a lie....it used to be better for you when they soaked horse meat in it causing it to absorb some of the iron.

Hobgoblin from England is a tasty treat as earlier said.

However, the best beers undoubtedly come from Belgium and Germany. Hoegaarden is nectar of the gods and barbar and gulden draak (?) are the juice of demi-gods.

I don't know how someone can call themselves a beer snob and then include disgusting American lager such as bud and recycled tramp's piss such as heineken in a poll!

[indytrucks]

[Seani]

Having lived in Germany for many years, I am definitely a beer snob. It's ironic and tragic that the most readily available beers all over the world are of the worst quality. ( That's mass production and globalisation for ya). The most recognisable beers from Australia, Fosters and XXXX...are the worst.. as is Heiniken from Holland, Becks from Germany etc.

How I'd love some nice eastern German Pilsners...Ur Krostitzer, Reudnitzer, Wernesgr�ner..too many to list when there is at least one brewery in every city...and let's not start on the Wei�biers and Bocks etc, or the Czech beers.

As far as run of the mill lagers go, I've had much worse than the Korean offerings. They are more or less unoffensive, just somehow mediocre.

[chachee99]

New Castle Brown is an excellent tasting beer.

[Dev]

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