what's the best beer in the world?

glu · Post by **glu** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:28 am

this

is

great

after climbing up pyramids... no joke

still cannot find in U.S. though

continuous · Post by **continuous** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:40 am

montejo looks good yahhhhhh...mmmmmmm

Boont Amber/IPA (six_pack_mix)!

luv2spin31 · Post by **luv2spin31** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:56 am

red stripe all the way!!! but a heinie is always good on a day when you just need a good beer

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:05 am

Tooheys Extra Dry Platinum

http://www.tooheys.com.au/
http://www.extradry.com.au/

WITHOUT A DOUBT!

6.5%
REALLY REALLY SMOOTH!

-Ben

rozling · Post by **rozling** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:59 am

Estrella Damm - it's 11am and I'm thirsty just thinkin about it...

grok · Post by **grok** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:47 am

forge wrote:
grok wrote:Since I live in Beergium (aka belgium) I know all about it. My number one is Westmalle Trippel Trappist
This is a beer brewed by monks, there are only six beers worldwide that have the right to name themself "Trappist" (and 5 of them are from belgium). It's the only right thing that the catholic church ever did
Its rich and creamy and has an Alcohol% of 9.5 . It is made out of natural ingredients only and nothing chemical. I drink one every day, my age is 36 and I look 25. Thank you Westmalle
you drink just 1 every day? how big is it??

It is 33 cl (that's 1/3 of a liter, I don't know how much that is in the other metric system). The monks say you should drink it at room t°, but I pop a chilled one open at the beginning of the evening, and drink it (or should I say "taste it") slowly ,and by bedtime he's empty. But that"s when I'me home, when I go out I, drink Duvel ,less alcohol (8°) and it goes in much smoother (the Wesrmalle is realy thick, you can't swallow it).

grok · Post by **grok** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:55 am

Angstrom wrote:
grok wrote:Since I live in Beergium (aka belgium) I know all about it. My number one is Westmalle Trippel Trappist

I dimly remember doing a gig in Belgium where the promoter took us out around town in the afternoon before the gig. We began by drinking the double, wondering what the trippel was, we got that one next.
Holy crap!
We needed emergency measures before playing the gig.

I quite like weisse beer at the mo, obviously imported , Erdinger, Maisels Weisse, stuff like that if I'm in England. If I'm away in the Germanic countries I like to sample the local micro breweries and I'm easilly convinced I have found a new favourite. Normally I cant pronounce them right though.

OT a bit , but ... Can anyone enlighten me why spirits are so crazy expensive in Switzerland?
I nearly bankrupted myself having a vodka!

That is a classic; I have lots of friends around the globe, and allways one somebody comes over here , they try out the beer and end up completely wasted. Especially Americans, only th Irish people can drink it and still walk the line.

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:11 am

Angstrom: just for your information, spirits were more expensive in the past, a couple of years ago they reduced the taxes on alcool.
Every damn thing is expensive in switzerland, really.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:54 am

minimal wrote:Angstrom: just for your information, spirits were more expensive in the past, a couple of years ago they reduced the taxes on alcool.
Every damn thing is expensive in switzerland, really.

I had some Swiss friends over recently (to England) and they kept saying "how expensive everything is in England! " ... and how dirty naturally

They are from Basle though, I think Zurich may be a different story, but still it shows how things change in Europe. Here we have an idea that Switzerland is one of the most expensive place on earth, but that idea dates from the 1970's I think .. when life in the UK was a little cheaper.

today in UK a seriously low-rent meal for one in a hippy cafe will cost £10 - £12 (€17.6), a pint of beer is £2.40 ish (€3.5) and I think cigarettes are about £5.00(€7.35) for 20 these days (I dont smoke).

When I was last in Basle the Uk contingent kept saying how cheap it was !

mind you, we did survive on beer and folk-songs

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:29 pm

yes basel is cheaper than zurich, which is the most expensive city in switzerland, or maybe second to geneva.
Comparing with England and Japan switzerland appears cheap I know but hey, to buy a 100gr steak in switzerland (supermarket, not luxus-hippy-bio-whatever meat) you need 7 € (or one packet of UK cigarettes)

evoid · Post by **evoid** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:56 pm

Super Bock

vandeloow · Post by **vandeloow** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:15 pm

Quöllfrisch naturtrüb

http://www.appenzellerbier.ch/

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:24 pm

Guinness is the best ever, followed by those Real Ales such as Old Perculiar, Bishops Finger and Hobgoblin etc.

In Slovenia, we had this dark larger called Union Pivo, which was truely awsome stuff but haven't seen it outside of Slovenia since

anti-banausic · Post by **anti-banausic** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:50 pm

I concur with:

Leffe Blonde

Duvel

And am suprised noone mentiond:

DELERIUM TREMENS??

MrSleep · Post by **MrSleep** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:53 pm

cool! beer thread

did anyone mention Carlton Cold?

is the coldie famous like Fosters around the world?

why? cause Fosters is shit! Coldie is better!