Recommend me a beer from where you live.
So many international beers to choose from, so little time.
Please, share with me your favourite local brew, and if your feeling genourous, the setting in which it should be drunk.
Cheers!
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What type of beer, though? Pilsener, lager, ale, porter, bitter, stout, ruby, wheat? If you're used to lager, you'd find a Newcastle Brown Ale or Guinness strange.
Also, I'd say that English beer making on a large scale is hopeless. Carling is foul stuff. On a smaller scale, though, we can do it. When I'm in the mood for ale, Abbott's Ale is where I normally go. Very, very nice stuff.
If you do only drink lagers or pilseners, I can recommend you a whole bunch from continental Europe. My European compadres really know their stuff.
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Heh! You said the word "beer". Of course I'd chime in. Some people have wind chimes, I have beer chimes.
Abbotts is one of the less aley ales, which is why I like it. Very yummy stuff but it'll floor you if you go mad with it. I'm more of a pilsener person too. I don't know where you can find it now but the first beer I ever bought in a pub with my own money was a bottle of Kaltenberg Pils. My first hangover was off Kaltenberg too and also my first room-spin and "beer escape".
I'm sure you'll have had Becks but, if not, Becks is what I think beer should taste like. It just tastes "right".
If you want beers that I've had a bit of a love affair with: Erdinger, Rare Vos (an Ommegang beer that I've always assumed is Belgian but kind of isn't, I found out today), Hoegaarden (if you like beer with coriander in it), Kriek (a generic name for cherry beer from a couple of Belgian companies), most of Leffe's output, Okocim (a very nice Polish beer, pronounce o-kotchim), Kirin (Japanese beer), Tsingtao (Chinese), Tusker (a Kenyan beer).
There's a company here (which I won't give free advertising to) that do beer packs, so you get something like a dozen different beers from a specific country, and "world" packs where you get a couple of dozen beers from all over the world (even places like Cuba, Mauritius and Cyprus).
I do still love an Abbot's Ale, though, especially in winter when the nights are drawing in. I only have it a couple of times a year. It's like a special treat. :)
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I do like becks but it is usually made here under licence so I only buy it if I can find the real stuff. I agree though, it is the stick against which all beers should be measured.
I like the way I can scratch an identifying symbol in the foil label on the neck.Kronenbourg 1664 is a great beer, I like Kirin, I've drank a lot of Tsingtao in china on the beach in thunderstorms, I really want to like hoegaarden because I have a 12x3' banner hanging in my workshop and it sounds cool but I don't really like the taste and that's important to me.
Ill try the ones on your list that I haven't yet and tell you what I think!
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P.S. As for stout, have you ever tried it with blackcurrant? It takes the earthiness out of it and makes it a completely different drink. Stout and black is a good winter's drink too, at a country pub, up a hill in the middle of nowhere, with the rain outside and an open log fire and the publican's dog lying in front of it.
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My best local is a midstrenght by little creatures brewery called rogers and they also do a fine pale ale.
My favourite Aussie beer is from Adelaide (where one can't drink the water) by the Coopers brewing company: The beautifully cloudy Sparkling Ale. Their pale ale is also a winner.
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