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Bogan Krkic posted:I honestly don't like Boags Idgi...Is it because it is Tasmanian?
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Alex_R posted:Idgi...Is it because it is Tasmanian? It's just not very delicious, to me. Same as Cascade idk maybe it is a Tasmanian thing
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Innis and Gunn are really very delicious beers, they're some of my best op
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Boags is just a beer thats patently inoffensive. They keep the brewing process pretty simple and pure. It's nice to crush, but not really a beer to savor
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mynameisjohn posted:I think it's a good beer, but how often do you really want wheat beer? boulevard is my go to for the sport bar scenario. It's the ultimate drinking beer. anyway for tonight i picked up among others hitachino nest so I vote hitachino nest for japan thanky ou
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Sauska posted:boulevard is my go to for the sport bar scenario. It's the ultimate drinking beer. It's OK I guess if you've nothing else better to drink but because beer is so regional, not only I am sure that there are better options in your area but also, the American beer choice is going to be crap because most of the nationally distributed beers are just not as good as the regional ones.
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Cool thread, I might buy the beers of whichever countries are in the final so I can enjoy them whilst watching the game.
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Furious Lobster posted:It's OK I guess if you've nothing else better to drink but because beer is so regional, not only I am sure that there are better options in your area but also, the American beer choice is going to be crap because most of the nationally distributed beers are just not as good as the regional ones. There's better options, but if I'm eating cheap pizza and watching a game I'm not really looking for quality tasting beers. But yea America's beer is/will be budweiser so I don't think there even needs to be a discussion.
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Sauska posted:There's better options, but if I'm eating cheap pizza and watching a game I'm not really looking for quality tasting beers. FTFY  .
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Great thread! Where did you get the weird raspberry beer? Tesco?
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Blaisedell posted:Great thread! Where did you get the weird raspberry beer? Tesco? A lot of the beer shops around the country sales it. It's a wild card so it doesn't really have to hit the easy to find. The next one will be though.  Fluo posted:It was the wild card beer, and being the wild card its a wild card. I feel the fresh fruit in it which gives it that very fresh tart taste is our England team at the moment because of the squad being new. The wild yeast used is Lampard because he is the old guy in a new players team, that sourness is the chance we might not win against Italy and the Pepper dry spice is the curries we shall be eating when watching the game. stickyfngrdboy posted:I couldn't find any good English beres on offer in tesco so I had to go German and Mexican with becks and sol hope this isn't too offensive If you want a list of good easy to get beers anyway here: (Note if hoppy and outside UK, the hoppiness has a chance of going down abit from what it was cause of the time to transport to US or whatever). Well's Bombardier Ale Has a thick, creamy, cream-colored head, a semi-clear, slightly bubbly, deep copper or even ruby appearance, and heavy lacing left on the glass. The aroma is beautiful- rich, sweet, toffee, mild coffee, citrus, sugar, and mild hop oil. Taste is similarly beautiful- toffee, hop oil, moderate and balancing bitterness, sugar, bread crust, and malt. Mouthfeel is medium and slick, and Well’s Bombardier finishes semi-dry, delicious, and quite drinkable. Fullers
Any of the above is good and easy to get. Meantime's Indian Pale Ale  Young's Double Chocolate Stout - Double Chocolate Stout has been recognised as an award-winning brew on several occasions, including: Brewing Industry International Awards Gold Medal Winner 2000, Silver Medal Winner 2002 and Bronze Medal Winner 1998 and 2004. Luxurious and at the same time with a hint of decadence, Young’s Double Chocolate Stout has it all, delivering a satisfying, indulgent taste without ever becoming overly sweet. Pale Ale and Crystal malt, Chocolate Malt, a special blend of sugars, Fuggle and Golding hops, real dark chocolate and chocolate essence are combined to deliver a stout of with real credentials. If you can get your hands on anything from The Kernel Brewery I highly recommend it. Other well trusted English brewers to check out if you want to go more on the craft side: Moor, Bristol Beer Factory, Thornbridge, Dark Star, Saltaire Brewery, New Bristol Brewery, Beavertown, http://arborales.co.uk/ and many more but this is just a slice. Remember 1 is wild card, 1 is craft, 1 is easy to get and not break your wallet. Fluo fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Colombia 3 - Greece 0. So Sepp Blatter's favourite beer is out already. Chapinero Porter goes through! Fluo fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Furious Lobster posted:It's OK I guess if you've nothing else better to drink but because beer is so regional, not only I am sure that there are better options in your area but also, the American beer choice is going to be crap because most of the nationally distributed beers are just not as good as the regional ones. I don't know man, in UK I can get my hands on Alesmith, Dogfishhead, Flying Dog, Oskar Blues, Stone Brewery, New Belgium, Russian River, Founders Brewing, The Bruery, Cigar City Brewing, Firestone Walker etc from one of the many beer shops here. And again, there will be 1 easy to get around most the world, 1 craft, 1 wildcard. Wildcard is the hardest to get, craft is possible to get most places but not always at supermarkets, easy is supermarket or most if not all beer shops is the easiest way to think about it. Like I'm 100% know that they sell the basic special bitter HobGoblin is quite some places in US, and most supermarkets around here and some in Europe and Japan. But I'd put that as Easy to get and cheap cause its like £1.80 a bottle and not really craft.A quick google search came up with 1,000s of places in US its sold like $3.99, found at New Beer Distributors, 167 Chrystie St between Delancey and Rivington Sts which is £2.35. But I guess transport adds cost.  Burton India Empire Pale Ale which is a very :britian: beer is sold at some Whole Foods stores. Fluo fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Fluo posted:I don't know man, in UK I can get my hands on Alesmith, Sounds like you get the best selection of American craft beers than most states in the US do and it might be right up there with Philadelphia's options. For example RR only distributes to 4 states at most so being in England gives you a large advantage for sure. On the other hand, I'm trying to cut back from craft beer and have started narrowing my selection to lambics & gueuzes for the most part, so I'm also jealous at your being in Europe and that much closer to Belgium. You should check out out the Beer thread in GWS if you haven't already given your obvious knowledge of beer & brewing. Edit: I'm going with a Panil Barriquee for the Italian side and a Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout for Britain since I was in bit of rush yesterday and went with stuff I've had before. Furious Lobster fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Furious Lobster posted:Sounds like you get the best selection of American craft beers than most states in the US do and it might be right up there with Philadelphia's options. For example RR only distributes to 4 states at most so being in England gives you a large advantage for sure. On the other hand, I'm trying to cut back from craft beer and have started narrowing my selection to lambics & gueuzes for the most part, so I'm also jealous at your being in Europe and that much closer to Belgium. You want to know the downside? Alot of the hoppy beers can be dull as gently caress sometimes, I bet it's the same with being in US trying British IPAs / hoppy beers too. Just over time the hops fade etc but not all the time though etc. But stuff like Walker's Reserve Porter is awesome, still some great beers over the pond here too just don't really get heard about much. And oh yes lambics, gueuzes, flemish red etc are everywhere. I have a mate who runs one of the local pubs here who ever 4 months or so drives out to Belgium to collect all the wild and sour beers from them.  Yeah I'll check out the Beer thread in GWS, I use to lurk it for awhile but it went abit weird for awhile lol.  Also don't worry I'll be getting into the habit of trying to give a couple days heads up for the beers of the world cup. I've used the England wild card so next one will be less wacky and more grounded. Edit: Also I honestly put it down to one thing which is loving some states up from getting great beer, the middle man wholesaler. Breweries aren't legally allowed to sell direct to customers unless its at their brewbar area and such. So you have to sale to a wholesaler which 50% of the ones only stock bud, the other 50% has to have the other two big players plus all the imports plus the craft/microbrewery beers. It's kinda hosed up and honestly hope sometime it gets fixed, like in the 70s making it legal to home brew! Edit2: For the Uruguay vs Costa Rica game I'll be drinking some Costa Rica’s Segua Red Ale and a couple homebrews. For the Italy vs England game I'm going to open my 1year bottle conditioned whisky oak aged coffee porter I brewed last year, with Wild Beer's Rubus Maximus, Bsa La Rossa Del Gallo (Birrificio Sant'Andrea), Birra Moretti and a handful of St Peter's English Lager (Carlin is sold here as being English, but its really Canadian, so needed to hunt for an English lager). Fluo fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Fluo posted:You want to know the downside? Alot of the hoppy beers can be dull as gently caress sometimes, I bet it's the same with being in US trying British IPAs / hoppy beers too. The thread can be a little too  at times and others will be a little off-kilter but the majority of posters are good people that I've also met in person. If you're interested in getting fresh hoppy stuff, there are some people willing in the Exchange thread to send day-old IPAs for the more seasonal offerings. I've done a couple of trades like that with a couple of IPA-crazed Swedes.Yeah, it's because 1) states can make up their own alcohol distribution laws and 2) most likely they're vestiges of America's failed social experiment in Prohibition. The 3-tier system of distribution in the US is really messed up.
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Furious Lobster posted:The thread can be a little too Awesome, yeah just went and looked see a couple of regulars from the homebrew thread!
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decent Italian beer is just so damned expensive, but i might have to snag a Verdi Imperial Stout and some Fuller's ESB on the way home from work...
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Fullers seems to be the only decent English beer I can find here but I love it op
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Hegay posted:Royal Export Isn't that brewed by the Royal Unibrow, I don't want no Unibrow!
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3 - 1 to Costa Rica so Costa Rica’s Segua Red Ale goes through. I forgot 2am (UK time) tonight is Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) vs Japan. I only know two Ivory Coast beers so if anyone knows a third that would be great help. So the first Ivory Coast beer. Mamba (Brewed by Solibra) 5.5%. A "premium" lager.  Clear yellow, whispy head, sweet malt aroma, flavor has a touch of hallertau hops, some malty caramel sweetness with lots of hop bitterness. The description is pretty bad because this isn't that great a beer. Like the football team.  Japan now, they love their beer and import a poo poo ton from Europe and America. Yet are starting to set up a couple of microbreweries but because of the whole land space prices there aren't many. So I will go with a macro brewery as my first one. Easy to get too. Sapporo Draft Beer(marketed in America as Sapporo Premium beer)(Brewed by Sapporo Brewery) 5%.  This was a toss up of the other Japanese lagers like Asahi Super Dry which are just as easy to get your hands on and Yebisu which is another mass produced but really nice lager. I wanted to go with something which was nice, easy to get and what most football fans would enjoy will save the other two for abit more adventurous beers. So I bring to you Sapporo Premium, bottle or can (the can feels like its made out of space tech metal). Appearance: Clear gold brew with a decent white head. Smell: Very clean aroma. Taste: Smooth, clean character with just a touch of bitterness. Get a subtle lemongrass bubblegum aftertaste. Mouthfeel: Light-medium body. Great body for such a clean brew. Drinkability: Very drinkable beer. One of my favorites from Japan. Fluo fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Jun 14, 2014 |
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Fluo posted:Isn't that brewed by the Royal Unibrow, I don't want no Unibrow! It is, but saving the good stuff to the good match. Evil Twin Even More Jesus
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Hegay posted:It is, but saving the good stuff to the good match. Nice!!!!
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I just spent almost 2 weeks in Ebisu, their local lager definitely gets the job done. Probably tricky to find outside of Japan though. Saporro black wasn't bad, but Yebisu was better.
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Jose posted:Asahi is better than Sapporo imo It's a toss up, pepsi vs coca cola type deal.
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SeaTard posted:I just spent almost 2 weeks in Ebisu, their local lager definitely gets the job done. Probably tricky to find outside of Japan though. Saporro black wasn't bad, but Yebisu was better. Having lived in Japan for a couple of years, I definitely agree that Yebisu is the best out of Sapporo & Asahi but the distribution is very limited. Even in LA, I've only found a few stores that sell it and the price point isn't as good in the States.
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Furious Lobster posted:Having lived in Japan for a couple of years, I definitely agree that Yebisu is the best out of Sapporo & Asahi but the distribution is very limited. Even in LA, I've only found a few stores that sell it and the price point isn't as good in the States. Yeah, Yebisu would have been my first one but I was using the "easy to get" card this time around which is quite abit harder to get your hands on in Europe compared to Asahi / Sapporo. Don't worry it might be in one of the other two! Got some great Japanese beers to choose from. I'll try and get into the habit of saying which one of the three I types I used when I post the beer. 
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I do not mind Sapporo or Asahi. I would much prefer to be drinking a Birra Moretti, but Peroni will have to suffice.
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Switzerland vs Ecuador Switzerland, have some  about beer in Switzerland. I'm using the craftbeer one for this one.BFM Cuvée Alex le Rouge (brewed by BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)) Imperial Stout from Saignelégier, Switzerland. There is a fair chance of getting your hands on this compared to some of the other craft beers and generally speaking I give it a round about 8.5-9/10.   COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION Silver medal at Soleure’s extreme beer fest 2007. An extreme black beer whose nose goes toward pepper, vanilla, ashes, tobacco and fresh hops. It reaches the palate all in softness, but quickly becomes intensely bitter, though not very dry. Long and satisfying finish. This Cuvée was created in the honor of the Jurrassian revolutionist Alex Le Rouge. Enjoy this wonderful Cuvée at about 10°-12° Celsius (50°-53°F), with a crunch of bitter Chocolate or a Cigar. Cuvée Alex Le Rouge can be sequestrated for a few years in a cellar. Ingredients: water, barley malts, hops, cane sugar, yeast, Serawak pepper, Russia tea, Bourbon vanilla. Ecuador, if there is any beer you will have a chance to get its in no means anything special but it's the easiest out of a hard bunch to get your hands on. So using the Easy/Cheap card here. Pilsener (brewed by Cervezas Nacionales)  Just another pilsener. Clear and golden color, covered with a sizeable but quickly settling white frothy head. Malty and grainy aroma is relatively weak. Light and watery taste, starts sweet, finishes with a small bitterness. No real aftertaste. Nothing special, but still drinkable. Will do the other Sunday ones after this England game.
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2 - 1 to Italy, meaning Bsa La Rossa Del Gallo goes through! I'd like to point out if you can't get your hands on the Ecuador beer I recommend going across the boarder to Peru and getting Cusquena brewed in the Andes but imported widely, and on offer in Sainsburys at £1 a bottle. It's not too bad either, a little sweet and light, but very palatable.  France vs Honduras France They are better at beer than football right now, but they present a bit of a quandary. For all their fine beers, few are sent over here. Instead, we get Kronenbourg brewed in Manchester, in a bloomin' massive silage tank. But you can find the slightly better Pelforth from the same conglomerate, which has a faint hoppy taste, and is pretty strong. However I'm not going for these for the first game but I will try and give choices like this for each time even if they aren't in the Beers of the World Cup match. So I'm using the craft card here, going for one of the only pure French (sometimes Belgian French) styles which is Bière de Garde. Cuvée Des Jonquilles (Brewed by Brasserie Bailleux) 7%.  Appearance: Straw gold pour, hazy with a fine white foam. Smell: Lemon zest, brett, hayloft. Taste: Floral citrus followed by a smooth, mild sweetness. Aroma: Faint grassy flavor comes through from the hops. Mouthfeel: Light with a fine carbonation, finishes dry, almost champagne-like. A smooth refreshing beer. A unique version of the style bringing thoughts of springtime and the daffodils for which it's named. Honduras Little is known of them in football or beer, though Daniel Sturridge may be a little more clued up, after being hit by a beer can thrown by one of their fans! It may have been Barena or Port Royal export, but again, we have have to revert to the Cusquena. Port Royal Export (brewed by Cerveceria Hondurena) 4.8%.  Dortmunder / Export Lager. Appearance: pale golden/straw; medium frothy white head, decent lacing. Smell: malt with light hops and citrus. Taste: Juicy malt on the sweeter side; light hops, but just enough to balance the sweetness; clean and crisp; nothing special, but a decent brew for a hot day. Mouthfeel: medium body, slightly creamy.
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Fluo posted:BFM Cuvée Alex le Rouge (brewed by BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)) 
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