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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 9:02:39 PM

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Ahem! Excuse me, but the beer capital of the world is, and always has been, Munich, Bavaria.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 9:11:05 PM

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I wonder if the advertising campaign is going to be forced to change the tagline they are using now "The Great American Lager".

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 9:29:16 PM

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Ahem! Excuse me, but the beer capital of the world is, and always has been, Munich, Bavaria.

Oh, I don't know. There's a damn good argument for quite a few of the towns to the east, in the Czech Republic.

But Munich certainly makes a good case. In fact, I think I've drunk from it (though not in September).

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 9:37:39 PM

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The producer of the very worst mass-produced beer in the world*

Hasn't stopped it from becoming one of Irelands's top sellings beer.

Don't get me wrong, the problem is AB, not American beer. I've tasted some superb American beers, almost always from tiny microbreweries. Those beers are very difficult to get over here, mainly, I suspect, because the locals drink them all before they get near the sea.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 10:02:45 PM

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Sipping now on an India Brown Ale from Terrapin (Athens, GA... you know, REM, B-52s, etc. (they came to my restaurant once or twice)). Think I prefer an IPA.

Speaking of München, Freistadt Bayern, my gold standard for Hefeweiss is Weihenstephan, älteste Brauerie der Welt.
http://www.brauerei-weihenstephan.de/index.php?&flash=1&PHPSESSID=97915f20cf298a8c1ffd7e4e1f3181fe
I'm partial, though, 'cause I've been there. Invigorating walk up the hill.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 11:22:13 PM

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*waves at Scott*

Now, folks.. I have to say, HK has AWESOME taste in beer :)

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 11:37:34 PM

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*waves at Scott*

Now, folks.. I have to say, HK has AWESOME taste in beer :)

Hi baby, TY. Sorry about the time lag. It's like writing from Neptune.

You shoulda seen back when Jennie and I had a 50-case wine cellar. Mmmmmm some real gems there. Some schlepped back from Cali, France, Germany, Spain, and Canada. Cain't afford that no mo.

Thinking I need to learn how to make my own beer. Got a friend, makes some absolutely killer beer. Made a huge batch of a dark ale for a "Chilehed Reunion" dinner (customers from my old restaurant) back around 96 or so. What with my chemistry skills, I should be able to make something palatable. Saving up bottles for it now.

Gotta get off my duff and get my soap business going enough to subsidize my beer habit.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/14/2008 11:54:17 PM

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Actually, Weihenstephan isn't in München, it's in Freising. S-bahn S1, IIRC. The train stops at the station before Freising, splits in two, and half of it goes to Freising, the other half to the Airport. Very cool. Don't get on the wrong one hahaha.

Hofbrauhaus is a tourist trap. Right on the main shopping street (supposedly the highest rents in Europe), Kaufingerstraße, Augustinerbrau has a small beer hall with some outside tables. Sitting there sipping a beer and munching on a big soft pretzel with sweet mustard, watching the people go by, what a fine way to waste an afternoon. Almost directly across from there was a little cart selling Pfifferlingen - Chanterelle mushrooms. 5 Euros for 500g. Wow. They're $USD20 for the same (almost) quantity at Whole Foods. Then, a block south, lies the Viktualeinmarkt. There was a vendor who had, oh, 20 or so different varieties of potato. I'd get one each of six or seven, pick up some cheese and bread, some huge orange Roma tomatoes, some black bread, and sometimes some smoked sausage from Franconia or some Weisswurst, and go back to the flat and have a food orgy with my flatmate Matthias. He's pick up a couple bottles of wine and we'd eat and struggle with our language differences with "Das Buch" - my dictionary, in constant use.

Ah, München.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 12:42:42 AM

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I like Natural Ice (when I cant afford Blue Moon)

Yuck! I admit buying cheap beer with high alcohol content on occasion. But damn....Natural Ice? Do y'all not have Milwaukee's Best Ice down in Florida? Icehouse is good too, and it's not too pricey. I can't stand Natural Ice.

Oh there is the new beer that is extremely nasty and I advise all to stay away from it. Steel High Gravity I think it's called. It tastes like metal cleaner; it's gross.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 4:58:17 AM

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BTW...

The only thing worse than a wine snob is a beer snob.

Now remember, FDD, if it isn't obscure or expensive, it isn't good!

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 11:21:10 AM

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The same for anything one cannot pronounce.

So what's next? Coke-Cola? MickyD's? Hershey's?

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 1:35:11 PM

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My fridge contains one bottle of each of the three Westvleteren beers. Soon, soon, I'm opening them soon...

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 4:59:06 PM

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My fridge contains one bottle of each of the three Westvleteren beers. Soon, soon, I'm opening them soon...

You're a lucky man. They are nowhere to be found here in Atlanta. Chimay and a couple others are about it. And a few Lambics, too.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 7:50:35 PM

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"Schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated" ...

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 8:28:35 PM

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The same for anything one cannot pronounce.

That requires literacy and inquisitiveness. I can see how it might be a challenge for weal, twue patwiotic Amewicans. /Elmer Fudd

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 8:29:48 PM

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"Schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated" ...

Another epiphany? Profound. <nods head>

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 8:32:55 PM

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Chimay and a couple others are about it. And a few Lambics, too.

Chimay is the perfect Friday night, need-to-relax beers shared with friends.

Yummy.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/15/2008 11:00:11 PM

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Any plans to change the formula or introduce new product lines?

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/16/2008 10:33:04 AM

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Good question! I've no idea, I'm not connected with either company. I guess we'll see when the dust settles.

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RE: Oh you lucky Americans... - 7/16/2008 10:43:17 AM

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Inbev announced it is considering selling some of the "side" businesses, like Busch Gardens and some recycling facilities. Haven't read about anything relating to the beer.

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