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mormit · Sep 8, 2005

Wow. No mention yet of Guinness. If I were stranded on an island.................

I'm planning on a 2009 trip to Ireland just because I'm sure they will have some sort of 250 year celebration at the Guinness brewery.

Many great beer have been named but I'd like to throw in.....
Favorite German: Warsteiner

Local beer: Schlafly.....forget Budweiser unless you need something close to water after you mow the grass. My homebrew also counts as local - good too.

Lots of good Scottish: MacEwan's, Tennant's, Trarquar House Ale

English: Theakston's OP, Newcastle, Bass, Whatney's Cream Stout

Welsh: Double Dragon and an ale I had once in Hay-on-Wye whose name now escapes me.

Only beer I find utterly undrinkable is Rolling Rock.

moribundman · Sep 8, 2005

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BTW pisner urquel literally means "first pilsner".

No, it doesn't, at least not literally; figuratively speaking, maybe. Actually, "ur*" means "(originating) from" and "quell" comes from the noun Quelle, which means "spring" (water, not season). So literally "Pilsner Urquelle" means "Pilsner from the spring."

* "ur" as in:

Ur (ancient bovine), Urwald (jungle), Urmensch (ancient human), Urahn (ancestor), Urabstimmung (the vote union members cast), urig (original, real), uralt (ancient)

tom slick · Sep 8, 2005

I stand corrected! what i stated is the common belief in the beer community. after a bit of research it means what you said or similarly "old source".
It is thought of as the first pilsen beer.

moribundman · Sep 8, 2005

The word Urquell can be interpreted literally or figuratively. Given the brewing industry's penchant for invoking images of crystal clear, cool, maybe even crisp (!) water, the name Urquell certainly fits the bill. Not much has changed in advertising!

Anyway, Urquell may well be the first Pilsner beer, but the same type beer had already been around as stink-normal Bavarian beer at the time.

NovaMan · Sep 8, 2005

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Originally posted by drive it forever:
Stroh's is my favorite all-around beer... The big problem with beers such as PBR, Stroh's and less popular brands are that there often not as fresh as bud light which flies off shelves. Fresher is better.

When I'm in regular-guy mode, my two favorites are Stroh's and Miller High Life, but almost any MillCoorWeiser beer is OK when I'm thirsty... or if it's cheap or free.

When I'm around beer snobs, I go for Boddington's or Wexford. They're snooty enough to keep the beer snobs quiet, but you don't have to drink them with a knife and fork.

Pablo · Sep 8, 2005

To be specific - PU (Pilsner Urquell), owned by SAB Miller, has done a great marketing job. Indeed, quickly name another Czech beer! Maybe it's word choice - and perhaps they were the first to mass sell a lighter colored, bottom fermented, lager (aged) beer, this I don't know.

But the statement was "first beer to be brewed" and I can say that Groll didn't mysteriously show up and find the right yeast and use no darker malt on October 5, 1842 and make his first batch. Sounds good - but this is the pure marketing part. He developed his yeast and technique in what is now German Bavaria - I cannot say what really drove him to Pilsen - perhaps pure money/reward - maybe no brewery would have such a light beer (imagine that!)

I learned about the yeast in detail at UC Davis in about 1980 - and I will be the first to admit that was a lot of beer and women ago. I just moved and all my books (including my treatises on lager) are stuck in some very heavy boxes. My back is slowly returning to 100% - but allow me a few weeks to dig.

msparks · Sep 8, 2005

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Originally posted by Chimay:
My list,
Chimay Blue,Chimay Red {Brewed by Trappist Monks},

I was first intoduced to Chimay on the streets of Mons Belgium. They have a big fest there every year called the Dou Dou Fest.

Couple thousand people packed into a small town square to watch a reinactment of St George slays the dragon. I drank lots of Chimay that weekend.

msparks · Sep 8, 2005

Here is the square without so many people.

Chimay · Sep 9, 2005

I have been to Belgium twice on beer and fun tours with www.globalbeer.com first in 1999 and again in 2001. We visited a couple of breweries every day along with a beer dinner each night. Lambic brewers are filthy dirty places except for one 3 Fountains in the town of Beersel. Though I like the Lambics & Gueuze style ales their were cats all over Cantillon brewery just to catch mice. Also Urquell means original.

Dennis

Pablo · Sep 9, 2005

Lucky!!! I have only done the English beer tour.

(I did my own lambics....but I left the cat turds out)

ToyotaNSaturn · Sep 9, 2005

Tonight's choice at Kroger: Miller High Life light. One of the cheapest on the entire display. Kinda reminds me of high school.

Al · Sep 9, 2005

Magic Hat #9..Pretty darn good.

moribundman · Sep 9, 2005

Does anybody here brew his own mead? Bad mead is nasty, but very good mead is killer -- in a good way!

PS: Grolsch makes me throw up.

Pablo · Sep 9, 2005

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PS: Grolsch makes me throw up

Projectile or just doubled over and heaving?

moribundman · Sep 9, 2005

I just throw up a little in my mouth when I take a sip. I really do like how those bottles look, though!

newfordrichy · Sep 9, 2005

In the northwest, we have several microbrews. Since they are made locally, they are "fresh". As for Bud Miller, PBR, etc, we pour that into a pieplate which we place into the vegetable garden. The slugs crawl in it and drown.

kloppilt · Sep 9, 2005

No weissen bier lovers? One of the best ones I've had was in Munich - went very well with sausage.

moribundman · Sep 10, 2005

Which brand Weißes did you have? Erdinger is famous for their Weißbier (white beer).

Pablo · Sep 10, 2005

Wheat beer is good. Too many beers, so little time!

ToyotaNSaturn · Sep 10, 2005

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Originally posted by Pablo:
Wheat beer is good. Too many beers, so little time!

Just like oil!

Perhaps we should have pictures of our beer shrines, too!

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