Every country's most popular beer

[Tin Pot]

I can remember 22, who knows if the others snuck in one night or other?

 

[Globalti]

On my trips to Africa I'm forced to drink Europiss style beers like Gulder, Star, Tusker and Primus. The funny thing is that at the end of a long sweaty day stuck for over three hours in traffic jams even Europiss tastes quite acceptable. OTOH I've tried a couple back home in our cool, low-odour UK environment and they tasted terrible.

 

[nickyboy]

On my trips to Africa I'm forced to drink Europiss style beers like Gulder, Star, Tusker and Primus. The funny thing is that at the end of a long sweaty day stuck for over three hours in traffic jams even Europiss tastes quite acceptable. OTOH I've tried a couple back home in our cool, low-odour UK environment and they tasted terrible.

At least yours seems to be a reasonable strength. When I'm in China most of the Europiss stuff (like Snow, Harbin, Qingdao) is 3.2% if you're lucky and sometimes it's 2.6% which is just watery crap

 

[Profpointy]

I can remember 16. Most are nothing to write home about. Popular doesn't mean best. VB in Austalia is no better thsn Carling.

A fair bit better * than Fosters though.

* probably should say less bad, in either case damning with faint praise

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3691410, member: 259"]In the good old days (?) of the GDR, the one to get if you could was Radeberger, but it used to get snapped up whenever it appeared and the only place you could consistently get it was on trains, which was dangerous as you could pass out and get arrested if you went into a restricted area while asleep. I know it still exists but I'd be afraid to drink it now in case it tastes of madeleines or whatever.[/QUOTE]

I know of one forum member who that could've be an issue for. I won't mention his name but he lives in Delft.

 

[Gravity Aided]

[QUOTE 3691410, member: 259"]In the good old days (?) of the GDR, the one to get if you could was Radeberger, but it used to get snapped up whenever it appeared and the only place you could consistently get it was on trains, which was dangerous as you could pass out and get arrested if you went into a restricted area while asleep. I know it still exists but I'd be afraid to drink it now in case it tastes of madeleines or whatever.[/QUOTE]
Brewed Swann's Way. Prosit Proust.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hook Norton used to brew a mild and sell it in small bottles years ago, it was lovely stuff. They've had a stronger mild on draught recently. I mentioned the bottled stuff to the their top man a while back but I think it was before his time. Any road up they've just reintroduced it and I'm taking full credit for this.

Beer?

 

[Dayvo]

I can remember 16. Most are nothing to write home about. Popular doesn't mean best. VB in Austalia is no better thsn Carling.

I'd rather be drinking VB in Australia than drinking Carling in England.

 

[raleighnut]

Who gives a stuff about how 'strong' a beer is, for me it is more about taste/flavour than "oh this is a 5.4 and that is a 4.6 so it must be better" malarkey.
With a tasty beer you should just be able to think "whoah that was nice, I think I'll have another one of them" until a sufficiency has been quaffed (bearing in mind how to get home)
Having said that I am partial to Theakstons Old Peculiar but more than 4 pints leaves me a bit "tired and emotional" (Everards 'Old Original' does the same after 6 pints but a well kept Mild allows me about 8-10 before cycling becomes a 'problem')

 

[TVC]

I'd rather be drinking VB in Australia than drinking Carling in England.

Fair point well made.
Hanging round the Opera Bar watching the sun go down over Circular Quay is something I'm very ready to do again.

 

[John the Monkey]

Who gives a stuff about how 'strong' a beer is, for me it is more about taste/flavour than "oh this is a 5.4 and that is a 4.6 so it must be better" malarkey.

Well, as someone noted upthread, it's more challenging to get all that flavour out of a low abv brew (but not impossible - Oakham Dolphin Dance being a case in point). So I think you can say, uncontraversially, that a high abv is more likely to be tasty than a low abv.

Having said that I am partial to Theakstons Old Peculiar but more than 4 pints leaves me a bit "tired and emotional" (Everards 'Old Original' does the same after 6 pints but a well kept Mild allows me about 8-10 before cycling becomes a 'problem')

Theakston's OP is a bit too rich & treacly for me - more of a winter sort of a beer

 

[raleighnut]

Well, as someone noted upthread, it's more challenging to get all that flavour out of a low abv brew (but not impossible - Oakham Dolphin Dance being a case in point). So I think you can say, uncontraversially, that a high abv is more likely to be tasty than a low abv.

Theakston's OP is a bit too rich & treacly for me - more of a winter sort of a beer

Good camping ale, you don't have to get up in the night quite so often.
mind you Maz got a bit worried the first time we went camping together, she didn't realise that 'near the tent' was good enough for me after a few pints of that (Monsall Head Hotel sell/sold? a good pint on draught)