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DavetheSlave 
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 Posted: December 10 2008 at 06:52 |
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Hey! You Guys! You don't have any South African beers in the list when they are very highly regarded. Good old Lion Lager and Castle Lager.
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LinusW
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Posted: December 10 2008 at 07:56 |
 Peter wrote:
 Finally, here is another nice beer from "across the pond" -- I bet many of our British friends on PA will know it, and appreciate it. I found it to be very fresh, very smooth, very refreshing -- and organic! V
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Oxford Gold 4.0% |
English Target hops give this beer a remarkable aroma. Late hopping with Goldings and fermentation by the Brakspear yeast creates a remarkable zesty aroma, a full fruity flavour and a golden colour. All Hops and Barley used in this beer are organically grown and produced.
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One of my favourites when I want all the qualities you mention. Discovered it during spring and it's a regular in my "beer batches" 
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someone_else
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Posted: December 10 2008 at 08:01 |
Raff wrote:
Being Italian, I am more of a wine drinker (and a very moderate one at that, though I love good wine), but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy good beer. The Belgians know what they're about, and my absolute favourite of their creations is the cherry-flavoured kriek (made with REAL cherries). Bliss ! |
I agree with this. Liefmans is the best kriek. And if you like kriek, I can also recommend gueuze. It is not made with cherries, not even red, but in their other properties these beers have some kinship. Gueuze and kriek are known as lambic or spontaneous fermenting beers.
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June
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Location: Montreal
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Posted: December 11 2008 at 19:53 |
Tuborg and Carlsberg (sticking to my roots, although Tuborg is harder to find here) preferably, love Keith's Pale Ale too, Rickard's Red goes down like juice, it's also hard to resist, so does Sleeman's Honey Brown, and I do love me a cold nice Blanche De Chambly on a hot summer day too.
Although... I've once had the good luck of enjoying a Pilsner Urquell fresh from the tap in a pub in Prag, and that was probably the best beer I've ever had. Not half as good once exported, I found out later.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: December 12 2008 at 10:40 |
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I find the exported Pilsner acquires a rather "skunky" taste.
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sean
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Posted: December 12 2008 at 22:02 |
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I'm the boring one who likes to keep the alcohol out of his drinks, so i go either root beer or birch beer
Edited by sean - December 12 2008 at 22:09
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June
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 15:19 |
sean wrote:
I'm the boring one who likes to keep the alcohol out of his drinks, so i go either root beer or birch beer |
Birch beer? I actually had to look that up... didn't even know that existed. I've had something that I guess is called "spruce beer" in English, and boy that was awful. Does birch beer taste anything like that?
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sean
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 15:39 |
June wrote:
[QUOTE=sean]I'm the boring one who likes to keep the alcohol out of his drinks, so i go either root beer or birch beer |
Birch beer? I actually had to look that up... didn't even know that existed. I've had something that I guess is called "spruce beer" in English, and boy that was awful. Does birch beer taste anything like that? [/QUOTE
I've never had spruce beer but if it was awful then birch beer wouldn't taste like it. birch beer is a soda that is among my favourites, and I don't even like soda very much.
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Mikerinos
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 16:37 |
June wrote:
sean wrote:
I'm the boring one who likes to keep the alcohol out of his drinks, so i go either root beer or birch beer |
Birch beer? I actually had to look that up... didn't even know that existed. I've had something that I guess is called "spruce beer" in English, and boy that was awful. Does birch beer taste anything like that? |
Birch beer is pretty similar to root beer, but a bit stronger. I remember once my friend bought some ginger beer since it was cheap and it totally sucked.
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micky
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 16:44 |
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Raff and I had a beer at some pizza joint in Georgetown today that was LIGHTS out
Mad Elf .. some Belgian beer... great stuff. Cherry, honey and chocolate malts. Sounds odd perhaps.. but lordy was it good.. and made Raff tipsy hahhaha. Strong alcohol content
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 16:54 |
This is something for you Micky, I guess:  
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 16:56 |
BTW, I'm drinking now:  only from a bottle.
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
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Epignosis
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Posted: December 13 2008 at 16:58 |
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: December 14 2008 at 09:38 |
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I'm getting thirsty.
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Hawkwise
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Posted: December 14 2008 at 10:25 |
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Beer hmmm if its yellow then it ent Beer
some my Favs
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Abbot Ale
London Pride
Bishops Finger
Old speckle Hen
Hobgoblin
Otter Ale
to name a few
Cheers
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Philip
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Posted: December 14 2008 at 10:34 |
Portuguese Super Bock!
Edited by Philip - January 07 2009 at 17:37
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Dean
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Posted: December 14 2008 at 10:46 |
Hawkwise wrote:
Abbot Ale
Old speckle Hen
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Sadly neither beers are what they were - Green King (or Greedy King as they are oft known) have become the pariahs of real ale acting like the Borg of brewers, assimilating dozens of smaller breweries and closing them down. I can never forgive them for what they did to Ruddles County either 
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What?
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Padraic
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Posted: December 14 2008 at 21:37 |
micky wrote:
Raff and I had a beer at some pizza joint in Georgetown today that was LIGHTS out
Mad Elf .. some Belgian beer... great stuff. Cherry, honey and chocolate malts. Sounds odd perhaps.. but lordy was it good.. and made Raff tipsy hahhaha. Strong alcohol content
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wouldn't have been Pizzeria Paradiso by any chance
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Raff
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Posted: December 15 2008 at 09:12 |
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Kotro
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Posted: December 15 2008 at 10:28 |
Philip wrote:
Portuguese Super Bock:
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The smart choice for anyone who likes piss. 
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Bigger on the inside.
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. Great place, always packed.. We always stop there for lunch whenever we're around Georgetown.