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[jkelly80]

[HapKi]

Most Bud in Korea IS domestic, as it's made here.
Don't quote me, though.

[patongpanda]

If Hite and Cass don't use hops, are they really beer?

If they don't use hops what process do they use to make it?

Jeez which Korea is the commie one I think I might've gone to the wrong one...

[jdog2050]

[RACETRAITOR]

[JungMin]

[crazy_arcade]

[Ultimo Hombre]

[ghohn]

[ghohn]

[Ultimo Hombre]

Well, there are plenty of Mexican food places around Seoul. Not all of them are worth the breath it takes to mention them, but they are here.

Microbrews are the best!
Northeast USA has lots of great ones as well. Hell, almost any town in America has decent microbrews popping up left and right.
They don't hold a candle to PBR though (joke).

[jdog2050]

[keseki]

so i was at this observation post near paju last weekend and picked up 2 bottles of this beer. had one last night and boy is it good!!

now im wondering if i can get this anywhere in seoul?? i dont want to make the trek to paju to pick up more bottles.

anyone got the skinny??

[sojourner1]

You got North Korean beer in Paju? Did it excessively dry you out and induce more severe hangover like South Korean and Chinese beers commonly do? I write long on this since I've really learned a lot about beer in my time and this is one serious issue in Asia though we're not going to change it. All you can do is steer clear of things you don't like.

Thing that really ruins Asian beers is they're using some chemicals to speed the brewing process and possibly to stretch the product further to increase profit margins. It could be the excessive use of fertilizers and pesticide before the stuff even makes it to the breweries. Tsing Tao was discovered to be badly polluted brew 10 years ago, but claim now to import their ingredients from Australia which I highly doubt as it's worse than Korean beer still yet. Perhaps it's also something to increase the perception of alcohol doing it's thing on your body, but it excessively dries you out and makes you more hungover than necessary. While the recipes are trade secret in Asia and America, it's obvious to experienced beer drinkers that something is wrong when you get excessive hangover and thirst causing you to piss 4 liters and still be thirsty cotton mouth as can be after you quit drinking it of a night and then feel like your heart is not working right temporarily for a day or two after consuming the toxin. I can drink only 2, 3, or 4 small Korean or Chinese beers and end up with a headache before I even go to bed and piss 4 liters with severe dehydration and next day heart feeling while I could drink 6 German beers and barely have a hangover pissing only 2 liters with slight thirst with no strange heart functioning feelings. I drank as much water immediately as I pissed in both cases due to thirst, but the Asian brews notably induce uncomfortable heart feeling for the following 1 to 3 days. I learned my lesson with these Asian beers, except Angkor Wat beer in Cambodia is very decent quality, but not available anywhere else.

The German beers are well known for being the highest quality due to beer purity laws since the 1500's looking out for the public's' health to ensure beer is only natural beer; not garbage. The Germans also brought beer to Asia over 100 years ago establishing breweries like Tsing Tao, but the recipe has been changed since. German beer actually lists the ingredients and it's only malted barley, hops, yeast and water. You don't need or want other additives commonly found in Asian and cheap American brews. The diuretic qualities of sickening poison of sort is worse in Asian brew. I just can't get over how they accept and use such low quality. It also reflects in the shoddy quality of work the Chinese do. Why do they charge 3,250 Won a 330ml bottle of Tsing Tao in Korea? It's over stated for what it is. The Tsing Tao literally has a dirty smoky odor and flavor and it only takes a couple bottles of the crap sewage quality brew to make you sick. I know these sorts of beers are not safe products and are only trying to mimic what real beer actually is in a real cheap dirty way.

I'm just wondering how the Chinese and Koreans are finding these to be good beer products they have in their market. It's really garbage quality, but they seem to love a garbage cheap quality lifestyle lined veneered in sparkling high class high quality style. I didn't find the Thai beer to be all that good, but it seems to have less of the diuretic inducing chemical. We know alcohol is a diuretic, but some brews like those in the Korean and Chinese markets have extra ingredients that act as diuretics and poison leading to a more severe hangover. It's like they add something to make the alcohol simulate more effects from the alcohol or it's just a byproduct found in cheap quality brew. Something is badly wrong if a brewery has to keep the list of ingredients a secret and deceive you with marketing like, "naturally fresh," and then you end up excessively ill from drinking it.

If you don't have good beer right now, then it's well worth it to wait it out until you can get some decent beer rather than trying to enjoy something like Tsing Tao, Korean brewed Heinekin, and those other common beers. Lesson learned. Bad quality chemical laden brew is definitely something so obvious to me that Korea and China needs to look into if they care about their health. I found the Thai also to be kinda cheap in their lifestyle too when I partied with them in that they drank cheap stuff which is not natural good quality brew. Of course, most people are not making as much as $2000 a month and drink what is cheap so they become victims of the bad brew. Cheap brew thrives on herd mentality of Asian cultures as a connoisseur like me is not easily duped after 2 times. It also thrives on blue collar Americans going to happy hour after work such as my older brother who is only 39, but seems to be 59.

[keseki]

i only had one bottle of it last night. it was not nearly enough for hangover material but i know what you mean about the korean beers drying you out and leaving you with a crazy headache the next day.