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Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 30, 2005, 05:44:16 PM
Summer arrived, temperature is impossible high. It's so good to have a cold beer to refresh yourself. Inspired by Usrin's message in Football fanats topic about Borsodi Beer I take a question: which is your favorite beer? I also expect some pictures about them. Mine is Carlsberg, but Dreher Classic is also very delicious.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 30, 2005, 06:02:27 PM
(related to average wine: 10)

JTK beer 8.5
Dreher Classic 8
Zlaty Bazant 8
Borsodi Bivaly 7.5 (+1.5 erection induction, +1 home beer=10)
Borsodi 7 (+1.5 erection induction, +1 home beer=9.5)
Beck's 6.5
Steiger 5.5
Borosty?n 5.5
Arany ?szok 5

others: haven't yet tasted
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on May 30, 2005, 06:17:17 PM
Mythos!  :smt110
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 30, 2005, 07:15:49 PM
I have two favourites among Hungarian beers: Soproni and Borosty?n. Soproni is cheaper and it refreshes me better in summer, because Borosty?n is a "semi-dark" beer. (But Borosty?n also deserves the bonus points of Akoss, because it's made by the Borsodi Beer Factory!) Slovak beers are in another (better) category. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 30, 2005, 07:24:41 PM
Usrin: what about Zlaty Bazant?  :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 30, 2005, 07:46:15 PM
It's delicious, but more expensive than my Hungarian favourites, so I don't use to buy it in Hungary. And the REALLY good Slovak beers (Saris and Tatran) are sold only in Slovakia...
Title: Beer
Post by: Dinmor on May 30, 2005, 08:40:54 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"(+1.5 erection induction

:lol:  :lol:



My favourite beers are Heineken




and Tuborg Classic...

Title: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on May 30, 2005, 10:46:23 PM
Skol
(http://www.quitandinha.com/br/images/200skol.jpg)

(Nova) Kaiser

(http://www.mdbrasil.com.br/quintellabeer/ageral/index1A/images/kaiser%20nova_jpg.jpg)

Santa Cerva

(http://www.cervejasantacerva.com.br/images/entrada_01.jpg)
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on May 30, 2005, 10:57:29 PM
Looks like we'll be drinking a lot of different beer this summer :smt098
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on May 30, 2005, 11:10:54 PM
I'm prepared to experience the different and rich flavour of Danish tap water ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on May 30, 2005, 11:19:05 PM
Quote from: "zaqrack"I'm prepared to experience the different and rich flavour of Danish tap water ;)

:lol:  you can have icecold water, cold water, water with icecubes, boiled water and so on.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 12:15:15 AM
Zak is a fanatic anti-alcoholist... :lol:

Have you ever tasted Guinness or Kilkenny beers? These are the next two beers I want to drink. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on May 31, 2005, 12:18:15 AM
thanks :)
and btw my favourite waters are:

icecold water
(http://www.punchstock.com/image/brand_x/2191331/comp/bxp60105.jpg)

and

spring water
(http://www.schefferj.ps.hu/images/Cro_Krka/KrkaKolostorForras1_200.jpg)

but most of all, icecold spring water :D
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on May 31, 2005, 12:30:34 AM
Quote from: "CTG"Zak is a fanatic anti-alcoholist... :lol:

Have you ever tasted Guinness or Kilkenny beers? These are the next two beers I want to drink. :)

Me?  :smt039 I have only tasted Guinness
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 09:28:29 AM
Lise: did you like it? It's quite bitter, isn't it?
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on May 31, 2005, 09:35:34 AM
Quote from: "CTG"Lise: did you like it? It's quite bitter, isn't it?

Well I actually don't remember  :oops:
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 09:37:29 AM
Maybe you were too drunk then? :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 09:47:00 AM
Let's remember all the brands I have ever tasted:

Adamsbrau
Amstel
Arany ?szok
Beck's
Borosty?n
Borsodi
Borsodi Bivaly
Carlsberg
Dreher
Edelweiss
Gold Fassl
G?sser
Heineken
Hofbrau M?nchen
Holsten
Kaiser
L?wenbrau
Pilsner Urquell
Rolling Rock
Schlossgold (brrrrrrr...)
Soproni ?szok
Steffl
Stella Artois
Tuborg
Zlaty Bazant

I think that's all...
Title: Beer
Post by: al il professore on May 31, 2005, 09:49:12 AM
on saturday night we went out with bike friends after the race... and i drank three DESPERADO... because of the result of the race? :) if i can drink three i must be loving it? or was I really desperate ;)

sexy amber and the stuff they make beer of:

(http://ww3.voyeurweb.com/main/VQg22/vq20050520-139902/20050520-139902-3.jpg)
Title: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on May 31, 2005, 10:04:15 AM
I'm not a big beer fan.
My favorite is Corona with a quarter of lime put into the neck of the bottle.
(http://www.acclaimposters.com/_gallery/large/10031999.jpg)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 10:07:33 AM
Corona, hmmmmmmm... I have heard a lot of good things about it! I have to try once! :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 31, 2005, 03:32:39 PM
CTG, have you never tasted Tesco Economy beer??? (Nowadays they call it Viking.) I think it's the cheapest beer in Hungary. Its quality is something like Koccint?s wine - but you won't get drunk, because it contains only 3% alcohol! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 03:41:50 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"CTG, have you never tasted Tesco Economy beer??? (Nowadays they call it Viking.) I think it's the cheapest beer in Hungary. Its quality is something like Koccint?s wine - but you won't get drunk, because it contains only 3% alcohol! :D


:lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 31, 2005, 05:54:04 PM
But you can get drunk from Koccint?s "wine"!!! :):):)

By the way, I won't taste this shit Tesco beer... :?
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on May 31, 2005, 10:30:34 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Corona, hmmmmmmm... I have heard a lot of good things about it! I have to try once! :)

I think it's very good - especially with strong food (only a bit strong if you're me  :smt061 )
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2005, 10:43:09 PM
Oooooooooops sorry I wanted to say Coronita. Corona is another one to taste then. :)

Btw I just drunk a Borsodi, I'm waiting for the positive effect (the liquid Viagra  :lol: ).
Title: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on June 01, 2005, 09:10:06 AM
One precision : alcohol level in corona is not high, like all north american beers.
Title: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on June 01, 2005, 01:03:37 PM
Good, old Maibock! :D 6.5% of alcohol
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 01, 2005, 01:06:24 PM
Then it's similar to our 'Borsodi Bivaly': it is also 6,5 vol% of alcohol.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 03, 2005, 01:59:59 AM
Very important to mention: from beer you can B?FF!!! heavily. Beer is one of the best drinks to B?FF!!! from. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 03, 2005, 02:04:57 AM
And let it be here! Borsodi Beer! To get erection, to get good mood and anything! Forever Borsodi! //www.borsodi.hu!
Title: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on June 05, 2005, 04:26:01 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"But you can get drunk from Koccint?s "wine"!!! :):):)

By the way, I won't taste this shit Tesco beer... :?

Cocito? He's not a beer, but he (the black and red shirt [Atl?tico Paranaense]) like beers...

Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 22, 2005, 10:03:13 PM
USRIN! Have you ever tasted Dreher Bak beer? I just recognized it contains 7.3% alcohol! You must try it - although it's possible you won't like that beer because of it's strong and characteristic taste.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 15, 2005, 04:39:34 PM
Yesterday I tasted 4 new beers.

Pilsner Urquell
G?sser
Amstel
Steffl

(and we also drank Dreher and Tuborg.)

And in Denmark, in July, some more new beers was tasted. :)

Pilsner Urquell and Amstel were good, Steffl was average, G?sser was surprisingly weak.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on August 15, 2005, 08:32:50 PM
I haven't drunk much beer in the Netherlands, although I wanted to. But it was VERY expensive: 2 dl costed about 1.70 EUR, and at most places there were NO bigger glasses... Bottled beers available in shops were also small (3 dl) and expensive (at least 1 EUR). At least beer was free at the opening & closing ceremonies of the conference I took part in (but was served in those small glasses); and once I succeed to find normal-sized (5 dl) canned Heineken in a shop (six for 4.30 EUR)...

Strange, but true: Heineken is almost the only Dutch beer there, but there are some very good Belgian ones. For example, "De Koninck" is delicious: it's a "half-brown" beer like Borosty?n, one of my Hungarian favourites (but better than it).

About G?sser: We've drunk a lot of it in Austria during our field trip, and I think it was really good. (And it's worth to mention another good Austrian beer: Puntigamer?. :))

CTG, I haven't tried Dreher Bak yet, but I surely will. :) (I've seen some Belgian beers containing 8.5% of alcohol, but these were VERY, VERY expensive...)
Title: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on August 15, 2005, 09:20:17 PM
Beer on the system made this:
(http://stunts.mine.nu/forum/files/leaderporengano_171.jpg)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 30, 2005, 01:20:38 PM
Usrin: I have heard about Slovakian beers with 10-12 vol% alcohol. Do you have any info about them? I want to try!!!  :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on August 30, 2005, 01:59:51 PM
CTG, I'll disappoint you, but you are wrong... Maybe you think that because there is a number between 8 and 13% written on EVERY Slovak beers. It's worth to know that this doesn't mean the alcohol content, but the quality of the beer. I don't know exactly how do they count it, but most brands has at least three types: for example 8%, 10% and 12%. The last means the best (and most expensive) one. OK, this one contains the most alcohol, but that means a "normal" value, around 5% V/V. (Alcohol content is also written on the bottles, but with much smaller numbers.)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on August 31, 2005, 07:35:18 PM
There is a danish beer (Master Brew) with 10,5% alcohol, but it tastes so bad that I would personally prefer to drink CTG's piss with some added alcohol.
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on September 01, 2005, 05:09:02 PM
:!: Dithmarscher Urtyp (http://www.1000getraenke.de/test_dithmarscher_urtyp.htm) :!:
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 02, 2005, 06:04:23 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"There is a danish beer (Master Brew) with 10,5% alcohol, but it tastes so bad that I would personally prefer to drink CTG's piss with some added alcohol.

Are you drunken, stoned, depressed or just frenzy?  :?  :shock:
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on September 03, 2005, 05:33:23 PM
No, it's just a really bad beer...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 09, 2005, 01:18:28 AM
Kozel is SHIT!

Btw I checked the most concentrated beer in Guinness records book: it was 16,9 vol%!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 13, 2005, 12:20:46 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Btw I checked the most concentrated beer in Guinness records book: it was 16,9 vol%!

It seems this one was a very old record... I just read on origo.hu that 25.4% is the current record (some kind of bayer beer) and there's an american one with 25.0%. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on September 13, 2005, 12:34:15 PM
That just sounds silly... who would want to drink a 25% beer? And what if I take a glass of beer and a glass of pure alcohol and pour them into the same glass, do I have the record?
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 13, 2005, 04:21:08 PM
No, there are rules for beer production - special fermentation, etc. They did a lot longer fermentation with a bit different conditions, that's all I think. And I also think it can be delicious: the article said it has a very full taste, somewhere between hard drinks and beers.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 24, 2005, 09:50:41 AM
CTG, you didn't tell me anything new in ZakStunts news! I tasted S?rk?ny (=Dragon) Beer last week; I've bought one bottle for 74(!) HUF (=0,30 EUR) in SPAR(R) - and yes, it was OK. It's made by Sopron Beer Factory, producer of my favourite "cheap" beer, Soproni (=former Soproni ?szok; 99-109 HUF), and its quality is almost on the level of Borsodi. (But I'm afraid S?rk?ny Beer don't cause erection...)

Well, let's rate some beers coming to my mind!

Kozel (CZE) 9.5
Tatran (SVK) 9.5
?ari? (SVK) 9
Topvar (SVK) 9
Borosty?n (HUN) 9
De Koninck (BEL) 9
Soproni (HUN) 8.5 (much more cheaper than the others with 8.5 pts!)
Dreher Classic (HUN) 8.5
Zlat? Ba?ant (SVK) 8.5
Stella Artois (BEL) 8.5
Amstel (NED) 8
Tuborg (DEN) 8
Heineken (NED) 7.5
Gold Fassl (AUT) 7.5
Sm?dn? Mn?ch (SVK) 7.5
Pilsner Urquell (CZE) 7.5
Borsodi? Bivaly (HUN) 7
G?sser (AUT) 7
Ottakringer (AUT) 7
Szalon (HUN) 6.5
Gemer (SVK) 6.5
Puntigamer (AUT) 6.5
Borsodi? (HUN) 6
Kaiser (AUT) 5.5
S?rk?ny (HUN) 5
Innstadt (HUN) 5
Arany ?szok (HUN) 3.5
Adambrau (GER) 3
K?b?nyai (HUN) 2.5
N?dor (HUN) 2
Mammuth (GER) 1.5
Tesco Economy (SVK) 1
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 24, 2005, 03:25:29 PM
Let's fill my list created in the spring with some newly tasted beers, and let's rerate some beers! Remember, 10 pts is the average wine!

Zlaty Bazant 8.5
Kielerbrau 8.5
Dreher Classic 8
Borsodi Bivaly 7.5 (+1.5 erection induction, +1 home beer=10)
Tuborg 7.5
Harboe Pilsner 7
Dithmarscher 7
Pilsner Urquell 7
Borsodi 7 (+1.5 erection induction, +1 home beer=9.5)
Amstel 6.5
Beck's 6.5
Bjoerne Bryg 6.5
Staropramen cerny 6
Steffl 6
Steiger 5.5
Borosty?n 5.5 (+1 home beer=6.5)
Arany ?szok 4.5
G?sser 3.5

You can see, I'm not a big beer drinker, I haven't tasted too much of them.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 26, 2005, 07:06:24 PM
CTG and others who know some of the mentioned beers: please rate them between 0 and 10, and I'll do the "scoreboard" of beers based on the taste of Stunts pipsqueaks!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 26, 2005, 07:09:51 PM
okay, i'll do my list tonight :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 27, 2005, 10:54:07 AM
Still waiting for it! :)
Important note to my ratings: as I wrote earlier, Czech and Slovak brands has some different versions. My ratings concern the best ("12%") version. I have to tell this because I've just seen Kozel beer in SPAR, but because of its low price (109 HUF) and low alcohol content (4,0%) that must be equivalent with the weakest ("8%" or "9%") version, and I'm sure that it wouldn't deserve 9.5 pts!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 04, 2005, 01:50:51 AM
Okay, let's postpone ratings to weekend. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 05, 2005, 07:05:23 PM
Damn I went to Tesco yesterday and recognized that I tasted all the beers btw 80 and 250 HUF. Usrin, do you have any idea where to find new brands?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 05, 2005, 10:30:42 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Usrin, do you have any idea where to find new brands?
Yes, I do: go to Slovakia! I'm afraid you would have some trouble with finding this miraculous country, so don't forget the following: if you cross the bridge from Kom?rom or Esztergom, you get into Slovakia. There you can find many excellent "new" brands in any shop. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 05, 2005, 10:33:49 PM
The bridge from V?mosszabadi (near to B?csa) also leads you to Slovakia, but there's no major town on the border, therefore the selection of beers is less wide.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 06, 2005, 07:45:22 PM
Weekend is coming (for me, it's here)... so: CTG, don't forget to rate the beers you've already tasted! I'm also waiting ratings from other pipsqueaks, who know some Hungarian beers (participants of the World Stunts Meeting 2004 or new Hungarian pipsqueaks) or just want to add some brands from other countries to the list! (Well, I think my rankings will contain only those beers which will be rated by more than 50% of voters.)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 06, 2005, 10:15:49 PM
I promised, so here you are, my current rankings:

Carlsberg   10
Dreher Classic   9,5
Dreher Bak   9,5
Stella Artois   9
Zlaty Bazant   8,5
Tuborg   8,5
Heineken   8
Amstel   7
L?wenweiss   7
Holsten   7
Kaiser   7
Staropramen   7
Borsodi   6,5
Pilsner Urquell   6,5
Ottakringer   6,5
Borsodi Bivaly   6
Gold Fassl   6
Szalon barna   6
S?rk?ny   6
G?sser   6
Steffl   6
Amstel Bock   6
L?wenbrau   5,5
Hofbrau M?nchen   5,5
Kozel   5
Borosty?n   5
Beck's   5
Soproni (?szok)   4,5
Topvar   4,5
Edelweiss   4
Szalon   3,5
Rolling Rock   3
Ilzer   2,5
Adamsbrau   2
Arany ?szok   2
Innstadt   1
Schlossgold   0
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 06, 2005, 10:20:35 PM
i tasted some very bad beers in the past but i forgot their name (you know it Usrin, when a bigger supermarket brings very cheap german beers with 3-3.5% alcohol around the price of Viking  :smt078 ).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 06, 2005, 10:23:07 PM
damn i'm thirsty  :drinkers:
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 06, 2005, 10:43:18 PM
Schlossgold is disqualified, because it's not a beer. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 06, 2005, 11:41:15 PM
Current rankings are available here: http://bolyai.elte.hu/~usrin/stuntsbeer.xls. I'm going to taste some new beers, and re-taste some others that I can't remember of enough clearly. :) And I recommend to CTG to taste Czech and Slovak beers in their homeland: for example I'm sure that the Kozel exported to Hungary is not the same as Kozel 12% available in Slovakia. (In general, beers are cheaper in Slovakia, but you can't get Kozel 12% for 109 HUF=17 SKK=0,43 EUR there...)

Current "podium" is the following:
1. Stella Artois 8,75
2. Dreher Classic 8,67
3. Zlat? Ba?ant 8,50

B?FF! :partyman:
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 06, 2005, 11:52:13 PM
Topvar was "12% pivo", Kozel only 8 or 9, I don't remember.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 07, 2005, 12:02:51 AM
Strange, I gave good mark on Pilsner Urquell. I didn't like it very much but I felt it's a quality beer. Like in football: I don't like the french national team, but I see they are good.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 07, 2005, 12:03:03 AM
That means you really don't like Topvar (I don't know why), but you should find and taste the better Kozel. (Where? You can find the answer in my previous posts. :))
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 07, 2005, 12:08:06 AM
Topvar: The first centiliters were fair enough but after that I started to feel a strange backtaste and it was quite disgusting.

Kozel: I'll taste it :)

Current: I'm drinking Zlaty Bazant and after that I'll check Pilsner Urquell again. I wonder how my taste changed since May when I tried it.
Title: Beer
Post by: Argammon on October 08, 2005, 06:47:57 PM
I don't really like beer.
Now with Zak we are 2.Let's start the anti beer opposition  :twisted:
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 08, 2005, 07:10:44 PM
Heineken: 7.5, I tasted it on Monday.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 10, 2005, 07:52:08 PM
Ugh! :smt119 I'm afraid I've somehow overestimated the quality of Innstadt Beer... I've just drunken a bottle of it to my dinner, and it was horrible compared to the good old Borsodi I drank to lunch. :( So I've re-rated it - and added the rating of Akoss for Heineken.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 10, 2005, 10:41:46 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"Ugh! :smt119 I'm afraid I've somehow overestimated the quality of Innstadt Beer... I've just drunken a bottle of it to my dinner, and it was horrible compared to the good old Borsodi I drank to lunch. :( So I've re-rated it - and added the rating of Akoss for Heineken.

Yes, I also poured the last 200 ccm in the washbasin. It was disgusting.
Title: New leader: Carlsberg
Post by: Usrin on October 12, 2005, 08:27:14 PM
As Scholarship of the Republic arrived to my account, I decided to taste some more expensive beers (compared to those I use to drink). My ratings will appear in the chart in the next few weeks... Today I started with Carlsberg, CTG's favourite. Its quality was perfect, but I could feel a light sourish tinge, which was a bit strange for me... That's why I gave it "only" 8 pts, but it was enough for it for the first place in overall rankings.
Title: Re: New leader: Carlsberg
Post by: CTG on October 12, 2005, 08:47:55 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"As Scholarship of the Republic arrived to my account...

EAGER-BEAVER!!! :P:P:P
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 12, 2005, 09:26:57 PM
I don't know who spared money (main sources of it were also scholarships, I would bet...) for buying a notebook - which is an EXTREMELY eager-beaver (and bourgeois) thing, as it sucks for playing Stunts, but is very good for Word, PowerPoint and other typical eager-beaver applications. :P I would rather taste new beers...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 12, 2005, 09:43:51 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"I don't know who spared money (main sources of it were also scholarships, I would bet...) for buying a notebook - which is an EXTREMELY eager-beaver (and bourgeois) thing, as it sucks for playing Stunts, but is very good for Word, PowerPoint and other typical eager-beaver applications. :P I would rather taste new beers...

1, It wasn't that expensive and my parents gave me some money to buy it.
2, I needed notebook because the fuckin' thermoanalitics group didn't have any free computers for me at the laboratory that's why I had to bring my own one (imagine if I carry a complet PC configuration every day to the university... :D).
3, I played Stunts on my notebook in the last few months. My 51.65 was made on that notebook (easily). It runs Stunts quite good.

Scholarship of the state is an eager-beaver thing (high average, TDK, OTDK, articles in scientific magazines, dick sucking at the rector/minister of education, etc.). My spared money came from my school leaving ceremony's income (~50000 HUF), from an Austrian uncle (100 Euro) and it was in a bank for some years. My average sucks so I don't get too much money from the university.

About beer: this is the only thing I really spend money on. My next action will be a visit in P?rk?ny (ha-ha yes, you know it as Sturovo) and I'll try some quality beers (max 1.00 Euro/bottle).
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 12, 2005, 10:29:37 PM
Quote from: "CTG"It wasn't that expensive (...)
I've waited for this typical bourgeois answer. :P How many bottles of beer could you buy for the price of it, or how many Stunts meetings could you go to for this money... but "it wasn't expensive". :P

Quote from: "CTG"My average sucks (...)
Yes, for an eager-beaver like you it sucks, but I'm sure that many of your classmates envy you for it. (Otherwise you wouldn't plan applying for PhD seriously...)

OK, I know that Stunts runs well on notebooks, but I think their small keyboards are not comfortable for driving. (Well, I've never tried that, but I can imagine how embarrassing it would be for me...)

Get back to the topic! Your idea (going to Sturovo for beers) is very good: if you won't buy "8%" or "9%" beers, you surely won't be disappointed. These percentages shows the quality very dependably. So don't be afraid of bad quality if you find a "12%" beer for extremely low price (0,30-0,35 EUR)! And I think you won't find any beers above 1.00 EUR in an average shop in Slovakia...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 12, 2005, 10:42:32 PM
Another interesting thing about beers: on the label of the fuckin' Innstadt Beer I saw that it contains 4,8% alcohol, ?0,5%. I think the Hungarian regulation says that the average alcohol content should be written on the label, with ?0,5% as margin of error. In Slovakia the mimimal value is written on the labels - so you could read "min. 4,3%" on Innstadt Beer, if it would be possible to find such a shitty beer there. So don't be surprised if you read "min. 4,1%" as alcohol content - it means the same as "4,6%" on Borsodi.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 13, 2005, 12:15:46 AM
It was 125000 HUF and I had no PC before that. I live from the money I get for my average, I usually don't use my parents money. It was time for them to lend some...

My overall average is 3.90 (last semester 4.18 ) - it's a middle class one here because the worst 70% left the original plan and has less credits and the upper 30% is strong. That's really crap, PhD is quite irrealistic (I'll try it, what can I lose? If I can pass it then you'll get 6 beers from the 150-200 HUF cathegory). Official promise, everybody can see it.

Slovakia: This Friday (or the next) seems to be ideal for me...  :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 13, 2005, 10:57:27 AM
If everything goes well, I will spend my spared money on a new bicycle. It will cost 61 900 HUF.

It is spared in my previous 4 years, and there's still enough left for drinking and going to the next Stunts Meeting in Budapest. B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on October 13, 2005, 03:48:11 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"If everything goes well, I will spend my spared money on a new bicycle. It will cost 61 900 HUF.

And that bike is quality and good-value :)

I spend ALL my money on my bikes. Or on my girlfriend's bikes :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 27, 2005, 11:36:35 PM
Eventually I bought a different kind of bicycle, but it is a Merida, too. It cost 59 900 HUF, and now it is (or she is :) - it will get a nice name I guess) standing in my room and waiting for me to try it. :)

It looks like this way on the Merida site:

http://www.merida.com/s0_global/main_control.php?group0=bikes&group1=mtbsport&bikeId=93

I forgot to add a beer rating: Kozel was tested last week, it gets a 6.5.
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on October 28, 2005, 05:05:37 AM
now, so it finally arrived, thats great news!
is it this dark blue colour?
And the weight?
remember, never leave it anywhere even for a moment without a really good lock!


my frame and some parts are also on the way right now. Started from Belfast yesterday, today there were reported from the German coordination depot, and tomorrow they should arrvie to me -only one problem. tomorrow is saturday, then sunday, then two day ational holidays = another wait until wednesday. So horrible!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 28, 2005, 06:50:32 AM
Quote from: "zaqrack"now, so it finally arrived, thats great news!
is it this dark blue colour?
And the weight?
remember, never leave it anywhere even for a moment without a really good lock!


my frame and some parts are also on the way right now. Started from Belfast yesterday, today there were reported from the German coordination depot, and tomorrow they should arrvie to me -only one problem. tomorrow is saturday, then sunday, then two day ational holidays = another wait until wednesday. So horrible!


THIS IS BEER TOPIC!!!  :smt093  :smt076  :smt013  [-X

Beer is holly :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 30, 2005, 03:13:40 PM
It is that dark blue colour.
Weight: around 14 kgs, measured by a not too precise method and a not too precise scale.
And it is very very fast! :)
I will put a pic on the Net if the camera is at home again (it is with Lupuszka now, who is stallin at the moment in Szombathely).
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on October 31, 2005, 07:31:43 AM
looks like your family has a habit of having boy/girlfriends from the opposite end of the country :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 31, 2005, 04:45:05 PM
So far:

My sister travelled to a boy to
-Kecskem?t (3.5 months of being together)
-Budapest (2 months of being together)
-Szombathely (first I guess they won't undertake the relationship)

Akoss Poo travelled to a girl to
-Miskolc (4 times, no relationship)
-Szentes (one weekend)
-Veszpr?m (4 months of being together+1 meeting last year)
-M?rk? (a village very close to Veszpr?m, for a weekend, to party, it was Laura's friend girl)

And I almost travelled to Nagykanizsa once for a girl... IMO she would have been the best choice - she was almost in love with me...
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on November 01, 2005, 05:13:27 PM
A bicycle topic for Zak could be of the same interest than a beer topic for us...  :-D

Prost Dithmarscher!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 01, 2005, 09:13:34 PM
Yes, maybe I would write to the bicycle topic, too, so maybe it won't be a spam topic if it's created once.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 07, 2005, 06:20:10 PM
Radeberger 4/10 (expensive suffer)
Lovos 2/10 (watered pee)
Krusovice 6.5/10 (tastes good but not enough concentrated)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 07, 2005, 06:21:18 PM
Usrin: I hope you recognized S?rk?ny beer is cheaper than ever: 67 HUF!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 09, 2005, 08:47:20 PM
Thanks CTG, I haven't noticed that in the SPAR (Feh?rv?ri Road) where I use to do my shopping, but I'll check it! With this price, S?rk?ny Beer is surely the best beer if only price/value ratio counts!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 09, 2005, 08:55:18 PM
Ugh... I've just tasted Edelweiss, and 94,5% (+/- 0,5%) of it was horrible!!! I was thinking about that which hated medicine of my childhood does it remind me on... (The remaining 5,5% (+/- 0,5%) of it is alcohol. :D ) Well, I know that I don't like wheat beers, so giving it 0 or 1 point would be very unfair. I think I should delete wheat beers from the ratings, because that's an individual category of drinks (like non-alcoholic beers, wines, mineral waters, etc.). Sorry...
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on November 09, 2005, 09:09:37 PM
Hy! Did you ever taste some Croatian beer?:) Like O?ujsko, Karlova?ko?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 09, 2005, 09:31:20 PM
I've heard many people in Hungary telling good things about these beers - but I think they've tasted them in Croatia, where I've never been. :( I think Croatian beers aren't sold in Hungary, or at least they're very rare.

(An example, to Akoss Poo: Karlova?ko is one of the favourite beers of Snowhunter. :D )
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on November 09, 2005, 09:46:17 PM
Well you should visit Croatia next year, we have lots of beer, sea coast and naked girls:) Good thing is, you can see all three of them at once! And Croatia is not far away from Budapest. I've never been to Budapest, but I was on Balaton! Nice! And so many Germans, everybody speaks German!

P.S. Did you see the scoreboard? sorry;)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 09, 2005, 10:10:38 PM
Once we should organize a Stunts Meeting in Croatia! :D

About Lake Balaton: I've always found the crowd of foreign (mostly German) tourists a bit annoying there (agreeing with Prosectura, a Hungarian punk band :D), but in the last few years Balaton became less popular. It's bad news for people who live on tourism there, but I think it can be a much more enjoyable place without this crowd...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 09, 2005, 10:12:39 PM
Quote from: "Mislav"P.S. Did you see the scoreboard? sorry;)
Deadline is yet so far away... :P
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 09, 2005, 10:30:54 PM
Yes, I would also like to sink in the unexplored world of Croatian beers. By the way, do you know Hungarian beers, Mislav? :D There are some really good ones! :D Yes, Zagreb is not too far away from Budapest, but that means Budapest is not too far away from Zagreb! :D If you understand what I wanted to say with this! :D
I'm just whispering to your ears: next meeting will take place in Hungary! :) And everybody from here is welcomed I guess! :)

About Croatian beach: I heard that it is very expensive! And the naked girls don't make it more attractive: bitches can be found everywhere. Girls are bitches without exception who are ready to appear naked on the beach. And only one part of my body is interested in them: that is called my dick. But my dick doesn't work all the time, maybe only a few times a week, and since my other body parts (heart, eyes, brain etc.) work all the time, I would rather prefer normal girls.

The best places to swim and recreation are smaller lakes, with some people visiting them. If the place is not so popular, bitches will avoid going there. In a crowded place, it's impossible to meet new people. If there's nobody, it's again the same. If there's some people, maybe we can get acquainted with them - and that's good. And small lakes are usually visited by normal people. You can put up your tents here, you can grill your bacon, cook a tasty gulasch, drink red wine, sing loud at night from it, play cards, watch the stars, feel that you are really yourself... oh I'm going to stop speaking about it, because it's almost winter, and it's impossible to have such a great party now...

B?FF! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on November 09, 2005, 11:18:36 PM
ok this is my first real contribution to the beer topic :)

As this month I'm working in the pub, I get better at beer tapping day by day ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on November 09, 2005, 11:56:38 PM
Hahaha, free beer then, if you work in a pub Zak.....that's good! And Akoss, yes, I understand you, but I didn't say naked bitches, just naked girls, I meant in a bikini... And Croatia became more expensive unfortunately in the last years, maybe because it's getting more and more popular as destination since the war ended. National Geographic just voted Croatia as Nr.1 destination in the world for the season 2006!! For such a small country it's very good comercial, so we are very proud:) But there are still many lonely places on the coast, Croatia has over 1000 islands, and only 66 are with population. Sorry if I sound commercial, I have to present my small country, there are still many people who don't even know where or what is Croatia, and that Yugoslavia is history:) Next Stunts meeting in Budapest...Hmmm, sounds good to me, let's see... And I heard about some Hungarian beers, but never tried some. Can you send me some over;) I have to go to sleep now...bye!
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on November 10, 2005, 12:09:13 AM
But first, I'll have some sandwich with Hungarian salami...
mmmmmhh.....:-)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 10, 2005, 12:44:36 AM
Between Hungarian beers, Dreher is the best in my opinion, and you can get it almost everywhere in Hungary. Borsodi is the best cheap beer (the lowest cost quality beer - or the highest cost non-quality beer, it's the matter of opinion. It is produced approximately 50 kms from my hometown! :) If you come to Hungary next summer to the stunts meeting, you will definitely taste both of them! :) Yes, Hungary is very famous for their salami, Bonzai Joe and JTK likes it very very much. :D It is one of our best trademarks! :) Don't forget to taste gulasch, p?linka either! And of course it will be remembered also when you taste Zak's delicious chilli beans! ;)

Girls with bikini are okay (depending on bikini), but of course I prefer conventional swimsuit to bikinis.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 10, 2005, 08:15:28 AM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"Girls with bikini are okay (depending on bikini), but of course I prefer conventional swimsuit to bikinis.
I'd rather say it depends especially on the girl! I see many fat bitches every summer who should rather avoid wearing bikini, or lose at least 10-20 kgs... If I see such a girl, I'm sure that she is a Helen - she doesn't even try to look nice and really feminine, she knows that she isn't aesthetic in that way, and only tries to act on men's instincts (and even not on our sense of beauty) with showing almost everything on her...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 10, 2005, 08:46:36 AM
Conventional swimsuit sux. Bikini is one of the biggest invention of the 20th century. Easy wear, very attractive and it shows the main parts of girls what I'm interested in.  :lol:

Bikini to every young women under BMI 22!  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 10, 2005, 08:53:36 AM
Back to beer: I'll finally visit Slovakia this weekend and bring Tatran or any quality beer. Krusovice will be retested, because I recognized the one I tried was a low alcohol level dark beer (3.8%, but the taste was quite OK). I saw a more concentrated version in CBA (5,0 or 5,2%), I'll try it soon.
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on November 10, 2005, 09:57:19 AM
Mislav I was in Croatia (Rovinj) last summer, and liked it very much though it was extremely crowded. OK I know it's one of the most crowded areas, but I couldnt help my mother's choice :)
There are many people, thats not such a big problem, prices are now European - well thats how life goes.  But the sea is unforgettable, as I dont like swimming too much, but snorkeling is a great adventure :)
What I couldnt bear was the heat. I have nordish blood in my veins, and I was suffering there in late july :)
What I'd like to visit in detail was the area covered with mountains. It looked much more beautiful to me, and just perfect for a bike tour.
One of my favourite countries is Slovenia, so maybe I'll organize a Croatia-Slovenia bike trip with my girlfriend some year later when we'll be more experienced in longer tours :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 10, 2005, 04:48:01 PM
Quote from: "zaqrack"Mislav I was in Croatia (Rovinj) last summer, and liked it very much though it was extremely crowded. OK I know it's one of the most crowded areas, but I couldnt help my mother's choice :)
There are many people, thats not such a big problem, prices are now European - well thats how life goes.  But the sea is unforgettable, as I dont like swimming too much, but snorkeling is a great adventure :)
What I couldnt bear was the heat. I have nordish blood in my veins, and I was suffering there in late july :)
What I'd like to visit in detail was the area covered with mountains. It looked much more beautiful to me, and just perfect for a bike tour.
One of my favourite countries is Slovenia, so maybe I'll organize a Croatia-Slovenia bike trip with my girlfriend some year later when we'll be more experienced in longer tours :)

Zak knows the essence of off-topic messages, like many other pipsqueaks. BEER! Topic is BEER! :smt021

Usrin, I'll add my beer rankings too. Sooner or later :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 10, 2005, 06:09:47 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Conventional swimsuit sux. Bikini is one of the biggest invention of the 20th century. Easy wear, very attractive and it shows the main parts of girls what I'm interested in.  :lol:

Bikini to every young women under BMI 22!  :-D

CTG, you are contradicting your words you said yesterday to me! This is disgusting!  :smt078
You said pina is far the most important on a girl, and that you are not really interested in tits (bikini on a girl is for boasting about tits), there are some things on her which are more exciting on them. And now you are saying it shows the main parts of girls. It doesn't show you the pina, and doesn't show more anything really exciting than tits - the body part which is not really important and exciting for you. You only like bitchish and fashionable things on a girl (for example varnished nails).

Quote from: "Usrin"I'd rather say it depends especially on the girl! I see many fat bitches every summer who should rather avoid wearing bikini, or lose at least 10-20 kgs... If I see such a girl, I'm sure that she is a Helen - she doesn't even try to look nice and really feminine, she knows that she isn't aesthetic in that way, and only tries to act on men's instincts (and even not on our sense of beauty) with showing almost everything on her...

Usrin, I disagree with you: in your opinion, why is bikini only for attractive (it would mean thin or average build this time) girls? They have a lot of concern with their weight and build, they are not proud of it, they only want the men to concentrate on the favourable body parts on them, and not on the ugly parts. This is more understandable than when a nice girl does it. Nice girls wouldn't need showing their tits, they are nice in clothes or conventional swimsuit as well. They are only doing this
1.) by fashion :smt078
2.) because they are bitches :smt078
1+2.) because it's fashion to be a Helen! :smt078 :smt078 :smt078

It is like make-up: ugly girls trying to look nice, nice girls do it by fashion and because most of them are bitches. And it only marrs their face...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 10, 2005, 07:32:58 PM
Akoss Poo: I think bikini is not only about tits. You can know that I don't like girls with huge tits: even if most guys go crazy on them, for me that's no more than a way of fatness. But bikini can look very nice even on girls with bust size below 90 cms, if they've good-shaped body. Well, their shape would be also visible through a conventional swimsuit, but if I want to admire a girl's shape (because it's a part of her beauty and feminineness, and not only a thing that gives me erection, like Borsodi Beer - wheee, that's not an offtopic post! :P), seeing her body directly is much more natural than seeing a swimsuit clinging on it... And as I can imagine, bikini is much more comfortable for a girl. (Would you like to wear something fully covering your body while swimming, sunning, etc.? And don't you think you would say the same if you'd been born as a girl?)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 10, 2005, 07:38:11 PM
I've just tried a beer I haven't seen before. Does anybody know Cheers Beer? It's an Austrian canned beer, sold in Plus?, for 99 HUF. I gave it 5/10 - it's the best among these cheap imported canned beers, but nothing more... (Well, its alcohol content is 5,2%, which is very high in this category!)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 10, 2005, 07:42:10 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Usrin, I'll add my beer rankings too. Sooner or later :D
I'm waiting for it!!!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 10, 2005, 08:48:49 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"Akoss Poo: I think bikini is not only about tits. You can know that I don't like girls with huge tits: even if most guys go crazy on them, for me that's no more than a way of fatness. But bikini can look very nice even on girls with bust size below 90 cms, if they've good-shaped body. Well, their shape would be also visible through a conventional swimsuit, but if I want to admire a girl's shape (because it's a part of her beauty and feminineness, and not only a thing that gives me erection, like Borsodi Beer - wheee, that's not an offtopic post! :P), seeing her body directly is much more natural than seeing a swimsuit clinging on it... And as I can imagine, bikini is much more comfortable for a girl. (Would you like to wear something fully covering your body while swimming, sunning, etc.? And don't you think you would say the same if you'd been born as a girl?)

Maybe yes, it is not about tits - but for girls, it is, and they wear it just to show their tits. A great evidence to it is that between shy girls, the percentage of wearing the conventional swimsuit is much much higher than between the non-shy ones, even if they have a beautiful body (being shy is not in connection with good body shapes). So we have to think with the girls' (small) brain: let's show our tits, wear a bikini - boys will like us because of it.
About fully covering your body: Ian Thorpe is swimming in a swimsuit which absolutely covering his body (inc. his legs, arms), only his face look out of it. And still he likes to swim in it, and he is a great champion. A conventional swimsuit is only covering one's body, but not her legs or arms. And if a body part is covered with a swimsuit, it's still not insulated from getting wet, so the girls can still enjoy being in the water.
So, bikini can be considered as a more practical swimsuit (I disagree with it, moreover, bikini is not a swimsuit, it is for those bitches who like lying in the sun), but girls are wearing it to boast about their body.

The last thing: you can admire a girl's beautiful body if you pick her up. Normal girls show their body only in this case. Otherwise, you can only keep your eyes peeled - the fate of losers... (like me, except for Laura)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 10, 2005, 09:52:09 PM
Well, I don't think that Ian Thorpe would ever wear his racing swimsuit on a beach... :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 10, 2005, 10:04:39 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"So we have to think with the girls' (small) brain: let's show our tits, wear a bikini - boys will like us because of it.
Those stupid girls can think what they want - I'm absolutely not interested at they as long as there are some exceptions. Fortunately there are. :)
And well, a swimsuit covering your body can be good in the water, especially if you want to swim fast - but when you come out, you can't dry so easily. And when finally you're dry, I think it's not too good to wear anything clinging tightly on your body in sunshine and 40 degrees...
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 10, 2005, 10:27:43 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"And well, a swimsuit covering your body can be good in the water, especially if you want to swim fast - but when you come out, you can't dry so easily. And when finally you're dry, I think it's not too good to wear anything clinging tightly on your body in sunshine and 40 degrees...

In 40 degrees, other people are wearing shorts, skirts, T-shirts, training shoes, socks and things like these. Those are 'lucky' who are on the beach. Related to them, it's very comfortable to wear conventional swimsuits. And an other thing: if you are sizzling in the sun on the beach, you should rather go back to the water. After all, you came to swim and have a bath, and not to show off your body (tits etc.).
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on November 10, 2005, 11:09:55 PM
Quote from: "CTG"
Zak knows the essence of off-topic messages, like many other pipsqueaks. BEER! Topic is BEER! :smt021

Ouch it hurts :) But I sent a beer-related post not so long ago! It's very unusual from me as I don't drink any alcohol ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 11, 2005, 09:40:05 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"In 40 degrees, other people are wearing shorts, skirts, T-shirts, training shoes, socks and things like these.
Moreover, the most unlucky people should carry dead bodies in 40 degrees - that's very hard work, only possible after watching some bathing girls (with no more than a bikini on them)! :P
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 12, 2005, 03:51:55 PM
Finish bikini topic, please. Or create a new topic, for example: "Idiot wishlist from the middle age - things that Poo wants from a woman".

I just tested a beer from the >250HUF/bottle cathegory. Maybe you know Maisel's Weisse made in Bayreuth: it's a kind of unfiltered wheat beer with 5,4 vol% alcohol. It was quite delicious, better than L?wenweisse. Because of it's delicious full taste, the mark is 8.5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 12, 2005, 09:38:44 PM
CTG: sorry, I really don't like wheat beers, I think they make a different category, and I couldn't give more than 1/10 even for the best one... that's why they've been deleted from the rankings. But I'm waiting for your opinions on the delicious Slovak beers!

Btw, I've tasted the original ("more concentrated") version of Krusovice, and I've found it VERY good, better than any Hungarian beers. It deserves 9,5/10!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 12, 2005, 11:12:07 PM
Slovakian trip cancelled again because of my gf. I'm angry.  :x
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on November 13, 2005, 12:21:24 PM
What Zak wrote was actually a beer topic, he just didn't use the "BEER"word. But If you read carefully and deep thinking you could see that he felt in that heat in Croatia very BEERWANTING!!!:-)

Zak, your bike's looks faster than a Corvette:) it's nice that you plan a mountain trip with the bike (and your girlfriend:) I am planning a bike trip from Zagreb, over the mountains (Gorski kotar) to the Adriatic sea (Rijeka, Opatija) where my grandparents live. It's about 180km, but I never made that adventure happen, next spring I guess. I was never in Rovinj but in Pore? few days ago, it's near Rovinj. Ok, now I have to say something BEERFUL, so that CTG can't say that this was no beer topi:-)

I'd like to citate one of the most popular beer drinkers, Homer Simpson:

"Mmm.............beeeeeeerrrrr............"
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 13, 2005, 01:24:32 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Slovakian trip cancelled again because of my gf. I'm angry.  :x

Don't be so papucs, little shit! Kick that stallin Helen if she is so cum!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 13, 2005, 01:52:31 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Slovakian trip cancelled again because of my gf. I'm angry.  :x
Isn't she interested in tasting delicious beers, neither in visiting the best country of the world???
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 14, 2005, 11:01:37 PM
I've found that low alcohol level dark Krusovice quite weak, especially compared to the normal version (Krusovice Imperial): 5/10. Today, I tasted Krombacher Pils - has anybody tried it? (At least somebody from Germany?) It was quite expensive (about 250 HUF, I don't remember exactly), but not as good as the best Hungarian brands: it got 8/10 from me.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 14, 2005, 11:07:04 PM
Don't forget that current rankings are always visible here: http://bolyai.elte.hu/~usrin/stuntsbeer.xls. Contributions are welcomed from everybody! B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 15, 2005, 12:58:50 AM
Quote from: "Usrin"I've found that low alcohol level dark Krusovice quite weak, especially compared to the normal version (Krusovice Imperial): 5/10. Today, I tasted Krombacher Pils - has anybody tried it? (At least somebody from Germany?) It was quite expensive (about 250 HUF, I don't remember exactly), but not as good as the best Hungarian brands: it got 8/10 from me.

Where did you buy Krombacher?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 15, 2005, 11:32:43 AM
Quote from: "CTG"Where did you buy Krombacher?
In the Tesco? of Campona Shopping Center. Krombacher wasn't the only "new" brand from that price category there - others will be tasted in the following days.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 15, 2005, 12:09:44 PM
I was in Buda?rs Tesco few days ago and there was no new beers for me...  :? Guinness, Kilkenny, Coronita are too expensive, I think they are waste of money.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 15, 2005, 03:13:34 PM
Well, these are extremely bourgeois beers, neither would I buy them... The "new" brands I bought are the following: Krusovice, Krombacher, San Miguel, Foster's and Radeberger (well, I know that you didn't find the latter good, but I'm curious of it).
Title: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on November 15, 2005, 09:28:28 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"Today, I tasted Krombacher Pils - has anybody tried it? (At least somebody from Germany?)
Of course I already tried it - I guess it's the most common beer here. But I'm not a real beer lover, I usually only drink it when I'm already drunk of something else! :-D
So I must regret to say that I won't join your beer rating. But as far as I can judge, Krombacher is a better one. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 18, 2005, 10:42:43 PM
Budweiser (Budvar, original CZE, not the weak American copy) 9/10. Tasteful czech beer, one of the bests I have ever tried. S?rk?ny retro: it's crappier than I thought. Let's devaluate it a bit: 4/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on November 19, 2005, 09:36:34 PM
The most common beer - ? No, I don't think so but very well known. They do a lot of sponsoring on TV. I don't like it that much; it is too "ordinary".
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 22, 2005, 10:13:40 AM
Yesterday I drank 7 bottles of Borsodi Beer! :) So you can imagine the state of my dick then! :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 22, 2005, 01:34:22 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"Yesterday I drank 7 bottles of Borsodi Beer! :) So you can imagine the state of my dick then! :)

Like a sausage in the microwave oven: exploded. Right? :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 22, 2005, 04:14:16 PM
Yes, you are right, CTG. But instead of fat, some other liquid flew out of my mighty dick. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 24, 2005, 07:16:05 PM
Don't laugh but my beer list is quite short. I'm a beer fan only for a year.

Heineken 9
Carlsberg 9
Zlaty Bazant 8
Dreher Classic 8
Borosty?n 7
Dreher Bak 7
Kaiser 6
Soproni 6
Borsodi Bivaly 5
Steffl 5
Borsodi 4
Litovec 3
S?rk?ny 2
K?b?nyai 2
Arany ?szok 2
Hektor 1
Pannon Gold 1
Viking 1
Radler disqualified :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 24, 2005, 08:55:38 PM
New beer on my list, not so bad: Staropramen cerny. Mark: 7/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 25, 2005, 06:15:24 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Litovec 3

Litovel, as far as I know.

On-line beer testing started with expensive small bottle beers. First one: Coronita (MEX, 4.6%) - delicious nothing, it's like a juice made of corn. :D Mark: 6.5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 25, 2005, 06:36:41 PM
Miller (USA, 4.7%) - characteristic, strage but not so bad backtaste, no real alcoholic effect. Mark: 6/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 25, 2005, 09:17:03 PM
Leffe (BEL, 6.6%) - powerful taste, good effect, nice color, awesome smell - I give 8.5 pts on that.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 26, 2005, 09:09:52 AM
Quote from: "CTG"Guinness, Kilkenny, Coronita are too expensive, I think they are waste of money.
Quote from: "CTG"On-line beer testing started with expensive small bottle beers. First one: Coronita (MEX, 4.6%)
Have you won on the lotteries??? :D (If I won, I would rather spend some weeks in the Czech Republic and Slovakia with beer tasting!)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 28, 2005, 09:40:07 PM
Coronita was a lot cheaper now than the other two luxury beers (309 HUF/0.33 l; Kilkenny and Guinness 549). Leffe and Miller were 219 and 229 HUF.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 29, 2005, 12:07:53 AM
Have you calculated CTG that how much times is it more expensive than Viking beer? Do you think it is worthy to drink such bourgeois beers for such a poor guy like you? I would still prefer my Borsodi, it is still fairly cheap, and it is good as well. Oh, I almost forgot: my dick also like it! ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 29, 2005, 01:58:57 PM
200 forints/bottle is my upper limit of tasting (VERY STRICTLY!!!) and I'm sure "buorgeois" (after Akoss) beer isn't better than Heineken or any good Czech/Slovakian beer.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 29, 2005, 05:37:36 PM
This week I don't drink any beer more expensive than 67 HUF! :P
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 29, 2005, 08:04:14 PM
S?rk?ny (Spar, Interspar, Kaisers), Viking (Tesco), Hektor (Auchan). The ones under 68 HUF.  :lol:
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on November 29, 2005, 11:14:29 PM
We sell a bottle of beer for 300 at the pub I work in :)

Also 5dl draught beer is either 250 or 300.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 30, 2005, 03:41:55 AM
I drank Borsodi Beer (an average beer, produced in my region; for the pipsqueaks from abroad), it cost 152 HUF per bootle for me. Yes, I'm drunken at the moment! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 30, 2005, 09:02:16 AM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"I drank Borsodi Beer (an average beer, produced in my region; for the pipsqueaks from abroad), it cost 152 HUF per bootle for me. Yes, I'm drunken at the moment! :D

152??? Are you mad??? It's 99 in Tesco or Auchan and I'm sure it can't be more than 120-130 in CBA and Spar.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 30, 2005, 09:27:17 AM
Quote from: "CTG"S?rk?ny (Spar, Interspar, Kaisers), Viking (Tesco), Hektor (Auchan). The ones under 68 HUF.  :lol:
If you look at my beer rankings, you can see that I vote for S?rk?ny Beer!

A r?gm?lt k?d?be vesz? id?kb?l sz?rmazik a S?rk?ny s?r ?si ?s a mai napig b?v?s erej? titkos receptje.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 30, 2005, 11:18:42 AM
Quote from: "Usrin"
Quote from: "CTG"S?rk?ny (Spar, Interspar, Kaisers), Viking (Tesco), Hektor (Auchan). The ones under 68 HUF.  :lol:
If you look at my beer rankings, you can see that I vote for S?rk?ny Beer!

A r?gm?lt k?d?be vesz? id?kb?l sz?rmazik a S?rk?ny s?r ?si ?s a mai napig b?v?s erej? titkos receptje.

I know we had a discussion about S?rk?ny beer in the past. It was only an info for the others, especially for Akoss and CTG.
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on December 01, 2005, 08:50:09 AM
Quote from: "zaqrack"We sell a bottle of beer for 300 at the pub I work in :)

Also 5dl draught beer is either 250 or 300.

YOU - as a non-drinker - are working in a pub? So we all have to riot it at the next meeting.  :P
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on December 01, 2005, 10:16:32 AM
I have to :)
But this is my last week, and from next monday I'll be in the kitchen :)
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on December 01, 2005, 10:23:31 PM
What will you do there? Pancakes? Also goood. Anyway, the pub will be rioted then...  :twisted:
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 02, 2005, 07:08:58 AM
This night we had an unofficial "Stunts meeting" (without Stunts, but with a serious amount of alcohol) with Akoss Poo, and he tasted two "new" beers. His ratings are:
S?rk?ny Beer - 4.5/10
Soproni - 6/10

B?FF!!! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 03, 2005, 11:50:45 AM
Yes, these were the rates - hmm, Soproni was surprisingly good, and I really was thinking about giving 6.5! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 03, 2005, 11:54:43 AM
Well, after I saw the other beers which received a 6 from me, I must say let's give 6.5 to Soproni! ;)

And maybe I forgot to tell it here, but I tasted Kozel, and my rating is 6 on it. B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 05, 2005, 04:46:19 PM
Have you ever seen a beer cheaper than 50 HUF? I've discovered today that Platina ?szok (containing 4,5 V/V% of alcohol) is sold for 49 HUF in Auchan! Well, I'm a bit worried about it, because it is brewed by Ilzer Beer Factory (maker of Innstadt Beer)... but I'll taste it in the evening!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 05, 2005, 05:01:26 PM
Khm... I've just noticed on the bottle that it was best before 10. 11. 2005! I think that's why they've reduced its price (earlier it was 85 HUF)... But who cares? (I think it haven't became worse, there is a lot of reserve in these time intervals...)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 05, 2005, 09:59:57 PM
Ugh! That was hardly better than Innstadt Beer, I felt the same horrible tinge, although not so strongly... It doesn't deserve more than 2,5/10 (I modified the result of Innstadt to 2/10, because it was a bit worse). But at least it was the cheapest beer of my life! And at least, I will taste Bjoerne Bryg and Harboe Pilsner in 2 months. :P
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 06, 2005, 07:52:28 AM
New beers on the list:

L?wenbr?u 6.5
Stella Artois 7.5
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 06, 2005, 10:03:49 AM
Quote from: "Usrin"And at least, I will taste Bjoerne Bryg and Harboe Pilsner in 2 months. :P

Where?

By the way, do you know about the big beer house at V?ci Street? Of course I won't ever buy anything there because it's horribly expensive, but it's fair enough for window shopping and checking the brands from different countries.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 06, 2005, 03:22:52 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Where?
In Copenhagen - if you want, I'll bring some bottles for you and you can also taste them. :)

Quote from: "CTG"By the way, do you know about the big beer house at V?ci Street?
As I remember, I haven't been at V?ci Street for a year, I always try to avoid such bourgeois parts of the city... I know only "The House of Hungarian P?linka" on R?k?czi Road, near Astoria. However, I'm afraid it's also very expensive...

Stella Artois has been pushed off the podium by Akoss Poo. New TOP 3 is the following:
1. Carlsberg 9,00 (just because Akoss haven't tasted it yet?)
2. Dreher Classic 8,50
3. Zlat? Ba?ant 8,38
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 06, 2005, 03:57:30 PM
No thanks. Maybe once, live at a Stunts Meeting. :)

I also know the p?linka house, i saw the advertisment this last spring somewhere near Rig? Street.

About new beers: Slovakian trip will come in exam's season, before that I'll try to find new brands in Lidl and Cora.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 06, 2005, 05:59:59 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"In Copenhagen - if you want, I'll bring some bottles for you and you can also taste them. :)

Oops! Why and when will you go to Copenhagen?

Quote from: "Usrin"Stella Artois has been pushed off the podium by Akoss Poo. New TOP 3 is the following:
1. Carlsberg 9,00 (just because Akoss haven't tasted it yet?)
2. Dreher Classic 8,50
3. Zlat? Ba?ant 8,38

Okay, I will buy a Carlsberg for myself in the weekend, just to have a real top3.

USRIN!!! You still forgot to add my rating on Kozel: it is a 6. B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 06, 2005, 08:17:28 PM
Sorry for forgotting your rating on Kozel... Now it's added, but don't forget that you and CTG didn't taste the best (12%) version of it, for which I gave 9,5/10, but a weaker one. (I hope CTG will buy a bottle of the best Kozel in Slovakia!)

Quote from: "Akoss Poo"Oops! Why and when will you go to Copenhagen?
To be exact, I will go to Koda?, but I was afraid that some people couldn't understand it in this way. :D Why will I go there? To taste Danish beers and add my ratings to the scoreboard! Well, more seriously: because in a sale I could buy a round-trip plane ticket to Malm? (linked with Copenhagen by a bridge) for 10000 HUF, including every taxes and other costs. (Well, I know that it will be quite expensive to stay there...) And when will I be there? Between 4-8 February 2006. But I think I will also visit Slovakia before that, at least for an afternoon, because there are many Slovak beers I haven't tasted yet!

(Akoss Poo: if you're curious, I'll write you more details in e-mail.)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 06, 2005, 08:33:08 PM
Thanks for adding my rank on Kozel to the ranklist!

Yes, I'm curious. As always. So, you offered that, please write more details about your Danish trip.

I would also like to taste Slovak beers (and Becherovka, too). I guess I need to go to Slovakia soon. I will try to persuade my parents to do this - maybe for a good hiking in the mountains of Slovakia. What do you think, where can I find a cheap supermarket with a big range of Slovak beers the nearest to Kazincbarcika?
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on December 06, 2005, 08:58:12 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"because in a sale I could buy a round-trip plane ticket to Malm? (linked with Copenhagen by a bridge) for 10000 HUF, including every taxes and other costs.

Thats exactly the same reason why I'll travel to London in february: it was 8000HUF for 2 persons :D
But a whole load of money will be spent on staying there for 3 days. Anyway it'll be fun :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 06, 2005, 09:44:38 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"What do you think, where can I find a cheap supermarket with a big range of Slovak beers the nearest to Kazincbarcika?
I'm afraid there are no major supermarkets in Tornal'a, but as you're a beginner in the amazing world of Slovak beers, the range of an average shop would also give you pleasure. :) But if you want a really wide selection, including many Czech brands, I recommend Roznava or Rimavsk? Sobota - both of them are larger than St?rovo, where I can find anything I want...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 08, 2005, 08:44:36 AM
Yesterday I tasted Staropramen cerny. It was GREAT, deserved 9/10 - although in the summer half of the year I would rather choose a mid-category (5/10-6/10) lager beer which refreshes me better than these dark beers.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2005, 12:17:45 PM
Correction in my points: Carlsberg goes down to 9.5/10, Dreher Bak up to 10/10. It's the best for winter time. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 08, 2005, 02:04:54 PM
CTG, I don't want to make different rankings for each season. If that's not a problem, I would rather use the average of your points for summer and winter...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2005, 03:31:47 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"CTG, I don't want to make different rankings for each season. If that's not a problem, I would rather use the average of your points for summer and winter...

No, no, no... :) It's a REAL change, a permanent one. Dreher Bak is my favorite now, it deserves 10/10. And my rule is that I have only one beer, the best with 10 points so Carlsberg must be a bit devaluated.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 09, 2005, 06:59:27 PM
Many-many news:

Usrin, there's a cheaper one in TESCO (Pillang? Street)! I saw a typical 3.0 vol% beer, called Schlossm?hle, or something like that for 45 HUF. I won't try it (never, pffffff... :D) but still funny.  :lol:

Three newbies today:

- Foster's - AUS, 5.0%
- Krusovice Imperial - CZE, 5.0%
- Topvar Vianocne Pivo (winter edition, more concentrated than the original one) - SVK, 5.2%

Oldies:

- Dreher Bak - HUN, 7.3%
- Steffl - HUN (licence), 5.0%

Non-beer cathegory:

- Hubertus - HUN, 36%

:smt030  :smt078
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 09, 2005, 07:31:51 PM
FOSter's deserved the name, it's awful compared to it's high price: 5.5/10.

Dreher Bak: yeah, it's still 10/10 (shall I give 10.5? :D)

Akoss suggested to have some Hubertus before continuing beer test. 72 ccm alcohol in my stomach already. Getting a bit drunk. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 09, 2005, 09:02:46 PM
Topvar Vianocne Pivo - nothing special compared to the original 12% Topvar, bit better taste: 6.5/10

Krusovice Imperial - 6/10, out of my taste

Dreher Bak 12/10, fantastic!!!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2005, 03:20:14 PM
Tuborg 8
Ottakringer 7
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2005, 03:24:03 PM
Maybe I saw something wrong but couldn't find Tuborg in the uploaded xls file.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 13, 2005, 04:04:34 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Maybe I saw something wrong but couldn't find Tuborg in the uploaded xls file.
Thanks, it was missing, maybe I've deleted it accidentally when editing the file. But it's there again - on 6th-8th place, with 8,00 pts in average.
Title: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on December 13, 2005, 08:12:39 PM
In Brazil, Beers have variations in different regions...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 18, 2005, 12:43:53 PM
Webcam serials, part one
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 18, 2005, 12:45:53 PM
Webcam serials, part two
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 18, 2005, 07:16:09 PM
As I see, my rating for Dreher Bak is really missing from the scoreboard... I think I'll taste it next week!

Btw, have you known the most useful Excel table of the world? Here you are: http://bolyai.elte.hu/~usrin/leghasznosabb.xls! (It counts the alcohol level of blood during and after drinking. :))
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 19, 2005, 02:27:31 PM
B?FF! I've drunk a bottle of Dreher Bak. Sorry, CTG, but my rating (8/10) pushed it back to 4th-5th place... It's a good beer, but I felt nothing special in it compared to Borosty?n or Staropramen Cerny. For me, alcohol content doesn't mean advantage when I rate beers - if I want so much alcohol, I rather choose Hubertus, Unicum or Becherovka than any beer.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 19, 2005, 07:33:46 PM
I only miss a reference table, which would show how harmful the effects are at certain levels of blood alcohol. Should I borrow you my ecotoxicology book?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 19, 2005, 07:40:12 PM
If you have such a book, I think you can copy the most interesting parts also here! I missed another thing in this table: the possibility of having different drinks within an hour... what should I do if I go to the university at the end of Kispirics village, and want to mix beer with wine? :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 19, 2005, 07:49:07 PM
Btw where did you learn using Excel at such an advanced level?

I will search for that book (jegyzet), there's a page about alcohol toxicology in it, and I will copy the data here. :)

More drinks in an hour: good idea. If you want to develop your little program even more, it would be fine to see a bigger variety of drinks. For example vermouth (16-17%), liqeur (20-30%), rum (60-80%), absinthe (70-80%). :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 19, 2005, 07:57:31 PM
I'm not on such a high level in Excel, this table wasn't created by me. I got it in e-mail from a friend, who also got it from somebody else... That's why I couldn't make serious modifications (for example, widening the variety of drinks) in it, I could just replace the name, quantity and alcohol content of them in the given 5 lines. You can also do that, but you can't have more than 5 kinds of drink during a party :).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 19, 2005, 08:31:57 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"B?FF! I've drunk a bottle of Dreher Bak. Sorry, CTG, but my rating (8/10) pushed it back to 4th-5th place... It's a good beer, but I felt nothing special in it compared to Borosty?n or Staropramen Cerny. For me, alcohol content doesn't mean advantage when I rate beers - if I want so much alcohol, I rather choose Hubertus, Unicum or Becherovka than any beer.

It's totally okay, I know people who hate Bak because of it's full taste. 8/10 from a beer master is more than good. This is the type of beer I like.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 21, 2005, 10:37:22 PM
K?b?nyai!!! HUGE surprise for me, I never thought it will be so good. I give 7/10!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 21, 2005, 10:39:45 PM
Quote from: "CTG"K?b?nyai!!! HUGE surprise for me, I never thought it will be so good. I give 7/10!

You are an alcoholist. :P Now every beer is good for you.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 22, 2005, 11:18:18 AM
Quote from: "CTG"K?b?nyai!!! HUGE surprise for me, I never thought it will be so good. I give 7/10!
I think you had to be very drunken! What did you drink before it??? :shock:
(Or should I try it again? I haven't drunk K?b?nyai for at least 2 years...)

Btw, I've tasted Szalon Barna. There is no problem with its taste, but I felt it a bit weak and watery compared to Dreher Bak --> it got only 6/10. (And that doesn't depend on alcohol content: for example, Staropramen Cerny can be a very tasteful dark beer with less than 5% alcohol in it.)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 22, 2005, 12:02:20 PM
LOL, K?b?nyai was the first beer last night and I really felt it good (or a lot better than I expected). Maybe 7/10 is a bit too much, let me correct it to 6/10. I think it's about Borsodi's level.
Title: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on December 24, 2005, 04:19:35 PM
Yesterday we had a lot of Einbecker Ur-Bock (http://www.1000getraenke.de/test_einbecker_ur_bock.htm)! :partyman:

An old tradition of my friends and me. :-)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 30, 2005, 07:11:05 PM
Akoss Poo: sorry, I'm afraid I wouldn't remember correctly the beer ratings you made yesterday (I got too drunken...), so please post them here! (Beers: Ottakringer, Amstel Bock, Dreher Bak.) Amstel Bock was new also for me; it has similar, and slightly weaker taste than Dreher Bak, so I gave it 7,5 points.
Where are the good old emoticons? I want to B?FF!!! Can't I?
:smt078
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 30, 2005, 07:13:18 PM
Other news: I think I will go to Slovakia for new beers tomorrow morning. Does somebody have any special request? :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 30, 2005, 08:49:08 PM
I finish this year with a special beer: Asahi from Japan. Why not, it contains rice too. I wonder about the taste... :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 30, 2005, 11:54:35 PM
Asahi was GOOD! I haven't recognized any major difference because of rice. It's simply delicious! Let's give 8.5/10. Contrast sample was Stella Artois, about the same quality.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 31, 2005, 02:34:41 PM
Grafen Walder (beer from Lidl) 3

from MetNet meeting:

Ottakringer 5.5
Amstel Bock 7
Dreher Bak 7.5
Carlsberg 8
Stella Artois 6
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 31, 2005, 05:20:52 PM
Beers (and an offtopic pipsqueak :)) I bought in Slovakia today - waiting for tasting!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 31, 2005, 05:25:44 PM
I can't log in on ZakStunts' main page, my name is missing from the list. I don't know the reason, and I've no time for finding it, so I wish a happy new year to everybody here! B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 31, 2005, 07:22:09 PM
Surprise, I forgot that I had drunk Stella earlier. 7.5 when I was drunken, 6 when I wasn't, and tasted many delicious beers before... let's give 7 to Stella temporarily, but I will taste it once again.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 01, 2006, 02:47:51 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"I can't log in on ZakStunts' main page, my name is missing from the list. I don't know the reason, and I've no time for finding it, so I wish a happy new year to everybody here! B?FF!

200th message of beer topic!

BU?K (Happy New Year), beer lovers! :)

Usrin:
1. did you register for 2006?
2. damn it, your trip was quite successful, as far as I see. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 02, 2006, 01:22:42 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"Beers (and an offtopic pipsqueak :)) I bought in Slovakia today - waiting for tasting!

Just a question: can you tell about the beer prices in SVK?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 02, 2006, 10:09:42 PM
Here are the prices of the beers on my photo!

Bottles, from left to right:

Corgon, tmavy (=dark): 15,50 SKK (105 HUF)
Zlaty Bazant, tmavy: 19,90 SKK (135 HUF)
Gemer: 8,90 SKK (61 HUF)
Saris, tmavy: 17,90 SKK (121 HUF)
Smadny Mn?ch: 9,90 SKK (67 HUF)
Steiger: 12,90 SKK (88 HUF)
Steiger, tmavy: 14,90 SKK (101 HUF)

Cans, from left to right:

Corgon: 15,20 SKK (103 HUF)
Gambrinus (CZE): 18,50 SKK (126 HUF)
Kelt (CZE): 24,50 SKK (167 HUF)
Topvar 1: 20,50 SKK (139 HUF)
Topvar 2: 23,20 SKK (158 HUF)
Starobrno (CZE): 16,50 SKK (112 HUF)
Saris: 15,90 SKK (108 HUF)

Sorry, I don't know what is the difference between the two cans of Topvar, it will be discovered when I'll taste them. :) As I remember, Kelt was the most expensive "Czecho-Slovak" beer that I found; Gemer wasn't the cheapest, but I'm afraid the cheapest one (called Gazda, 7,x0 SKK) is equal to the good old Tesco Economy beer. (The factory and the alcohol content is the same...)

And if you want to do your shopping in Sturovo, I write you how to get to the best shop. When you go down the bridge on the Slovak side, you should turn to the left, and just follow the main road. After 1 km, you'll find a Lidl, but I don't recommend it, it's as shitty as in Hungary. 500 m further (on the same road, which is gently turning to the right on the edge of a housing estate) you'll find the big Terno Supermarket in front of you - it has the greatest selection in the town! (Well, that's not a place for advertisements, but...)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 02, 2006, 10:30:23 PM
Thank you for the info.  :prayer: :prayer: :prayer: It sounds quite affordable.
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on January 02, 2006, 10:37:42 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"you'll find the big Terno Supermarket in front of you - it has the greatest selection in the town!

We also usually come here to get our shipments of Fidorka chocolate and Korbacik cheese, and of course the Kelt beers for my brother (to stay on-topic)  :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 04, 2006, 10:15:36 PM
Tasting of Slovak beers has started.

CTG or anybody else: if you go to Slovakia, you won't miss anything if you won't buy Gemer beer. If you're curious of it, rather make a mixture of 76% Borsodi Beer and 24% water, you'll get similar result... Rating: 3/10. My old rating on it was much higher - as I remember I was very thirsty when I tried it for the first time at Spissk? Nov? Ves railway station, getting off my bike and waiting for a train...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 04, 2006, 10:27:03 PM
Quote from: "zaqrack"...and of course the Kelt beers for my brother

LOL, Marci started it very early. Maybe he knows a pipsqueak without beer is a half pipsqueak. :D

Of course I know it was Umberto ?cs?
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 05, 2006, 12:44:55 AM
Usrin, I noticed that you added your mark on Gemer to the list - but my older ratings on the MetNet meeting beers... well, they are still nowhere... :S
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 05, 2006, 05:34:38 PM
Sorry, when I saw your ratings, I was in a rush to our party of New Years Eve, and I didn't have time to add them (as you could see, I forgot also mines) - and when I arrived next afternoon, I totally forgot the whole thing. But scoreboard is completed now!

Another Slovak beer: Sm?dn? Mn?ch - 7/10. I didn't remember my old rating when I tasted it, but the result corresponds well with my old 7,5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 08, 2006, 03:55:46 PM
New beers tested on Friday:

Staropramen 7.0
Holsten 6.5
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 08, 2006, 10:18:54 PM
And a Czech one tested yesterday: Gambrinus - 5,5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 09, 2006, 12:03:54 AM
Well, long time has passed by since I gave 8.5 to Zlaty Bazant (and Kielerbrau). At that time, I haven't tasted too much of the beers, and I wouldn't have thought that no beer deserved a higher rate from me, so the 'average wine' reference as 10 pts sounded good. Now I'm thinking about rerating all the beers - or rather expanding the scale, and giving 9.5 to Zlaty Bazant.

I came to decision while I was writing the previous sentences.

Sorry Usrin, I have to give you some extra work, here are the new rates of the beers (on the expanded scale):

Zlaty Bazant 9.5
Kielerbrau 9.5
Carlsberg 9.0
Dreher Classic 9.0
Heineken 8.5
Tuborg 8.0
Dreher Bak 8.0
Borsodi Bivaly 7.5
Staropramen 7.5
Pilsner Urquell 7.5
Stella Artois 7.5
Dithmarscher 7.0
Harboe Pilsner 7.0
Amstel Bock 7.0
Borsodi 7.0
Amstel 6.5
Holsten 6.5
Soproni 6.5
Bjorne Bryg 6.5
Beck's 6.5
L?wenbrau 6.5
Staropramen Cerny 6.5
Steffl 6.0
Kozel 6.0
Borosty?n 5.5
Ottakringer 5.5
Steiger 5.5
Arany ?szok 4.5
S?rk?ny 4.5
G?sser 3.5
Grafen Walder 3.0

Wow, this ranklist looks more realistic! ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 16, 2006, 08:22:28 PM
Wednesday - Slovakian trip, 90% sure. I'll be at Visegr?d and Esztergom/P?rk?ny (Sturovo for Usrin) is too close to leave it out...  :lol:
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 16, 2006, 08:33:21 PM
Continuation of my Slovak beer tasting (ideas for CTG :)):

KELT - 9,5/10; fantastic Czech beer - Zak's brother knows what is good!
Corgon - 7/10
Saris, tmavy - 7,5/10; I think this dark beer has really characteristic taste, like Dreher Bak (with less alcohol), and CTG would like it very much!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 16, 2006, 08:39:44 PM
Okay, I protect three places for these beers in my pocket. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 18, 2006, 07:55:22 PM
Zipfer 3.5/10, awful, simply awful.
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 18, 2006, 07:57:36 PM
Then how would you describe 1/10? Romanian?  :lol:
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 18, 2006, 07:59:16 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"Then how would you describe 1/10? Romanian?  :lol:

Tesco Economy beer and co. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 19, 2006, 10:28:12 AM
CTG, didn't you go to Slovakia? Another beer from there: Starobrno - 5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 19, 2006, 10:50:25 AM
Quote from: "Usrin"CTG, didn't you go to Slovakia? Another beer from there: Starobrno - 5/10.

The rest 10% won again... :? I have to pass my "szigorlat" a lot earlier than I thought and I can't spend a whole day away now. (Okay, I'm eager-beaver, blablabla, but it'll be on Monday, I haven't started yet and it's about 800-900 pages of physical chemistry...). But it isn't cancelled forever as I'll have to visit my mother in Visegr?d hospital and after that I'll continue my way to Slovakia. But today I'll eat chili beans.  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 20, 2006, 04:14:34 PM
New dark beers from Slovakia:

Steiger, tmavy - 6/10
Corgon, tmavy - 8,5/10. Well, I think CTG wouldn't like it so much, because it's a "light" one compared to Dreher Bak and others... but it has very good quality, I think it's the first dark beer that I would like to drink not only in winter. :)

Yesterday evening an airplane of the Slovak army crashed in Hungary, and 42 Slovaks died. (The 43rd has only minor injuries.) For me, this case is very suspicious. I can just hope that not some Hungarian terrorists did it... But if my suspicion is true, I can promise that our troops will invade Hungary. Don't worry: if you capitulate and don't try to fight against us, that will just mean you can buy better beers in Budapest, Miskovec or Debrec?n!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 20, 2006, 05:08:35 PM
Veltins - very good example for beers prefered by thirsty man against alcoholists. Not too strong, not too characteristic but a good one for summer days. I really like it, let's give 8/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 20, 2006, 08:55:33 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Veltins - very good example for beers prefered by thirsty man against alcoholists.
Sorry, I'm afraid the scoreboard is offline - complaints should be sent to Mr. Andr?s Rokob, the administrator of our dormitory computer system... Btw: where is this beer brewed, and where did you buy it? (And how much does it cost?)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 20, 2006, 09:00:05 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"
Quote from: "CTG"Veltins - very good example for beers prefered by thirsty man against alcoholists.
Sorry, I'm afraid the scoreboard is offline - complaints should be sent to Mr. Andr?s Rokob, the administrator of our dormitory computer system... Btw: where is this beer brewed, and where did you buy it? (And how much does it cost?)

German one, Kaisers (Feh?rv?ri Street), 219 HUF/0.5 liter.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 20, 2006, 11:52:48 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"Yesterday evening an airplane of the Slovak army crashed in Hungary, and 42 Slovaks died. (The 43rd has only minor injuries.) For me, this case is very suspicious. I can just hope that not some Hungarian terrorists did it... But if my suspicion is true, I can promise that our troops will invade Hungary. Don't worry: if you capitulate and don't try to fight against us, that will just mean you can buy better beers in Budapest, Miskovec or Debrec?n!

I think this one is not fact when you must joke. I feel sorry about these people.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 21, 2006, 07:21:42 PM
Quote from: "CTG"I think this one is not fact when you must joke. I feel sorry about these people.
If I died such an uncommon way, and somehow I could see what happens after my death, I wouldn't take things like this about me so seriously. If I were a Congolese football player wounded to death by thunderstroke, I would be very glad of my popularity. OK, everybody has an own point of view. But don't think that I don't feel sorry about the victims, and don't want them to rest in peace...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 21, 2006, 08:10:18 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Kaisers (Feh?rv?ri Street)
I used to do my shopping in that Kaiser's until once they treated me like a thief because I had a backpack... Then I wrote into their "complaint book"; in the answer they wrote that they're sorry, but I always try to avoid shopping there...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 21, 2006, 08:58:05 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"I used to do my shopping in that Kaiser's until once they treated me like a thief because I had a backpack... Then I wrote into their "complaint book"; in the answer they wrote that they're sorry, but I always try to avoid shopping there...

Yes, it surprised me too at the first time but then I recognized a little piece of paper somewhere around the entrance about these rules... I like Kaisers although it's not too cheap, maybe because that's the one I visit at home too for 15 years (name changed later but the supermarket is the same).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2006, 09:14:54 AM
If my szigorlat goes well, all the WSM participants will get a beer (Zak: chocolate). My mark-worst mark= number of beers/person. This is my offer (it's valid for my first try at this exam). Provement: scanned mark from my university index. Let's go! :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 26, 2006, 10:36:32 AM
Of course I accept this offer! Hmmm, I suppose I'll get drunken on the meeting (thx to CTG)!!! :D

What kinda beer?
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2006, 11:31:50 AM
Mmmmmmmmmm... Up to you, under 150 HUF/bottle. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2006, 03:33:26 PM
Scanning in progress
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 26, 2006, 06:15:42 PM
Mr. CTG, do you remember that the Topvar beer you gave 4,5 pts for was "svetly leziak" (white can or label) or "svetle vycapne" (yellow can or label)? My new ratings are the following:

Topvar, svetly leziak - 6,5/10
Topvar, svetle vycapne - 8/10
Zlat? Ba?ant, tmavy - 9/10 (one of the best dark beers I've ever drunk, but possibly a bit weak for CTG)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2006, 06:45:04 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"Mr. CTG, do you remember that the Topvar beer you gave 4,5 pts for was "svetly leziak" (white can or label) or "svetle vycapne" (yellow can or label)?

svetly leziak
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2006, 08:10:38 PM
Alcoholic night again, celebrating my successful exam. I got a 4 (scanned but couldn't upload because of that fuckin' forum bug) - it means 3 bottle of beer for everybody at WSM. I'll go bankrupt. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2006, 08:44:38 PM
Amstel Bock, revaluation: 8.5/10. I don't know what was the problem with the first one, few months ago (maybe it was out of date?). It's quite good!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 27, 2006, 12:54:26 PM
Practical question: how to remove dark beer from the carpet/sponge part of a chair? 100 ccm of Dreher Bak poured on my chair from my bag - somehow the bottle cracked a bit.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 27, 2006, 04:24:54 PM
My suggestion: use some NaOH on it!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 27, 2006, 04:27:47 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"My suggestion: use some NaOH on it!

Zitus told me a better one: let it dry... :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 28, 2006, 12:26:59 AM
I'm lucky to introduce you a new Hungarian "pipsqueak" among the Slovak ones! I've found Tall?ros Beer in SPAR, sold for 149 HUF. This price was surprisingly high, as for some reason I knew that it's a shitty cheap beer. But  I saw that it contains 4,5% alcohol, much more than the really crappy beers like Viking. The second surprise was its taste: everything is OK with it, so it really deserves 7/10!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 28, 2006, 05:25:02 PM
Lovag beer deserves 1.5 pts!!! (it's sold in Lidl)
Title: Beer
Post by: Argammon on January 28, 2006, 08:21:53 PM
Beer zzz
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 29, 2006, 07:04:06 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"I'm lucky to introduce you a new Hungarian "pipsqueak" among the Slovak ones! I've found Tall?ros Beer in SPAR, sold for 149 HUF. This price was surprisingly high, as for some reason I knew that it's a shitty cheap beer. But  I saw that it contains 4,5% alcohol, much more than the really crappy beers like Viking. The second surprise was its taste: everything is OK with it, so it really deserves 7/10!

I will try it this week.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 31, 2006, 08:29:06 PM
Steiger beer has probably the best price/value ratio I've ever found - 8/10 for only 12,90 SKK (88 HUF)! It's the 12% version of it, I'm afraid Akoss has tried a weaker one...

Other news: yesterday I saw Viking beer for only 49 HUF in Tesco (Campona Shopping Center)!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 31, 2006, 09:16:57 PM
Schlossm?hle was cheaper, I don't know if it's still left in Tesco or not. I saw gipsies buying some 24 piece frames from it.  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 31, 2006, 09:37:35 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Schlossm?hle was cheaper(...)
I saw that beer, it was also 49 HUF, but I didn't want to try it. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 31, 2006, 09:54:23 PM
last year it was 45...  :lol: we will reach a critial limit once: the beer will be cheaper than the bottle...  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 01, 2006, 12:18:27 PM
The Steiger I tried was sold in Lidl. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 01, 2006, 10:52:02 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"The Steiger I tried was sold in Lidl. :D
In this case I'm almost sure that it was the worst existing version of it. Go to Slovakia, and try the best one! :) Ratings are quite unrealistic until than...

Btw, I've drunk the last Slovak beer I bought on my trip on 31th December. Well, it was not really Slovak: although Saris is a traditional Slovak brand (and sold only in Slovakia), it is brewed in Dreher Beer Factory, Budapest, as it's written on the can... Btw, it was very good: I don't have to modify my old rating (9/10) on it.
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 01, 2006, 11:02:18 PM
Quote from: "Argammon"Beer zzz

What do you like, if you don't like beer?
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on February 01, 2006, 11:08:45 PM
He likes Spritzer ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on February 01, 2006, 11:13:35 PM
water! water is the best!
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on February 01, 2006, 11:14:52 PM
ALMDUDLER ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: Mislav on February 01, 2006, 11:41:55 PM
What do you like to drink?
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 01, 2006, 11:59:33 PM
Quote from: "Mislav"What do you like to drink?

Me? French redwine, beer and alcohol mixed with fruit soft drinks
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 02, 2006, 12:19:13 AM
Cherry wine forever!
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 02, 2006, 12:22:45 AM
Oh yes I forgot...and Qualit?tswein f?r immer! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 02, 2006, 07:59:52 AM
Hey, these are offtopic things! Btw, I'm waiting for your ratings on Hungarian beers after the Stunts Meeting - I hope that our delicious beers will be much more popular than water, Almdudler, etc.! (And I'd like to bring some Slovak beers and offtopic - but alcoholic! - Slovak drinks.) But until than, you could rate any beer from any country!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 02, 2006, 08:56:27 AM
Tall?ros will be tried tonight.  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 02, 2006, 09:41:24 AM
Nober Prize to Usrin! He discovered Tall?ros! I can't stand waiting for beer so I opened the bottle and tried it. Very good one - it's like a perfectized Borsodi. 8 pts, no doubt - the best cheap beer (119 HUF) I have ever tasted!
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 02, 2006, 09:52:35 AM
By the way: I'm really looking forward to taste P?linka!  :drinkers:  \:D/
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 03, 2006, 11:50:04 AM
Last weekend was a silent one before the big stormy last week of exams so we (some friends and me) decided about to get drunk. We went to one of them living in Esztergom. He had a great surprise: some Czech and Slovak beer! The average was a lot higher than the usual in Hungary. The marks:

Steiger 8/10
Kelt 9/10
Topvar 9/10
Budvar (also called as Czech Budweiser)  10/10

Some of the latest Hungarian (or at least traded here) beer:

Amstel Bock 7/10
Roggen 3/10
Ilzer Imperial 4/10
Tall?ros 7/10
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 03, 2006, 12:48:00 PM
Quote from: "CTG"He had a great surprise: some Czech and Slovak beer! The average was a lot higher than the usual in Hungary.
That's not surprising, Slovaks always know what's the best! :D And don't forget that Tall?ros is brewed in Kom?rom, very close to the Slovak border. :-) (I think it's quite popular in Kom?rom-Esztergom county, you can see its advertisement on many pubs there.)

Thanks for the ratings! I've only one question: Topvar had WHITE or YELLOW can or label? These are two different types with different ratings, I think the yellow is much better...

And the most important news: Kelt has took the lead with a huge gap, it has 9,25 points in average! Akoss, CTG: you MUST taste it! Current podium is the following:
1. Kelt 9,25
2. Carlsberg 8,88
3. Dreher Classic 8,75
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2006, 01:18:30 AM
Important topics UP!  :-D

I don't say anything just a percentage: 30%. The chance for a slovakian trip in a week.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 08, 2006, 11:48:20 PM
Wow! Harboe Pilsner is very cheap and very good! The most serious mistake of it is the fact that it is sold in small (33 cl) bottles. But one bottle was only 1.95 DKK (66 HUF), so 0.5 l costs no more than 100 HUF! My rating is 9/10 on it (I hope not just because I hadn't drunk any beer for 5 days); with that, it has came up to 9th place. B?FF! Sorry... I wanted to say B?FF! :D

I'll taste another Danish beer tomorrow: Carlsberg Master's Brew was much more expensive, 33 cl of it was about 8 DKK, but it contains 10.5 V/V%(!) of alcohol!
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 09, 2006, 02:22:20 AM
Hey! Come by my place...

We drank Harboe all of WSM 2005, it was great. Try "Carl's Special", that's my favourite danish beer.
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 09, 2006, 02:23:19 AM
Master Brew!???? It's worst piss ever to have been put in a bottle. It's the ONLY beer that I simply wasn't able to finish one bottle of because it tasted so bad. Now you are warned...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 09, 2006, 08:20:48 AM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"Hey! Come by my place...
Now I'm in Budapest again, I've brought the beers home... I'm sad about missing your place, but I was mainly in Sweden in the last few days (where buying and drinking normal beers is almost impossible...), in Denmark I visited only Copenhagen. I wanted to buy also Bjoerne Bryg there (that was the other Danish beer that Akoss has mentioned), but I couldn't find it...
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 09, 2006, 01:09:42 PM
Well, my place is quite far from Copenhagen anyway, so no problem...

Bj?rnebryg is only found in cheap supermarkets :-) I think particularly the one called "Netto". How did you like Masterbrew, the worst beer in the world? :-)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 09, 2006, 02:31:25 PM
Forever Harboe Pilsner! Finally Usrin tasted it, too! Nice little beer, isn't it?

I discontinued drinking beer, because my belly has grown too big. I started to do sports, eat a bit less, and drink wine, to become fit till the departure of the cycling tour. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 09, 2006, 05:46:51 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"Bj?rnebryg is only found in cheap supermarkets :-) I think particularly the one called "Netto". How did you like Masterbrew, the worst beer in the world? :-)
Hm, that's strange, I've searched for it in Netto (and in F?tex)... Masterbrew will be opened within an hour. I'm curious. :D Now I remember what you wrote about it in this topic earlier (31 Aug 2005) - but I can't imagine that it would be worse than some very cheap beers (Viking, etc.) sold in Hungary...

Akoss: but I hope that during and especially after the cycle tour, we can eat a lot, and have a lot of beer! :partyman:
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 09, 2006, 06:59:29 PM
I survived Masterbrew, and I don't see how could you feel it so horrible. It's like an average beer (for example: S?rk?ny) with a bit strange, but light sweetish after-taste and extra alcohol. As a beer, it doesn't deserve more than 4,5/10, but drinking 3-4 bottles of it would be the nicest way I can imagine to get drunken. (Naturally, I found it much better than any wine, and the alcohol level is almost the same...)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 09, 2006, 07:00:37 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"There is a danish beer (Master Brew) with 10,5% alcohol, but it tastes so bad that I would personally prefer to drink CTG's piss with some added alcohol.
What would you say after tasting Innstadt Beer? :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 08:42:00 PM
On the table: Topvar Marina (Tmavy vycapny leziak) and Steiger dark beer (11%). They are available in Premium shop, at the terminal of tram 61.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 09:17:16 PM
Topvar Marina!!! What a surprise! Nothing with the white label Topvar's ugly backtaste. This is dark beer, but it was quite strange compared to Dreher Bak: it was bitter but I also felt the characteristic taste of quality dark beers. Something like a mixture of Pilsner Urquell and Leffe dark beer - carrying only their positive properties. I liked it very much: 9/10 pts.
Title: Christmas Beer?
Post by: lised on February 10, 2006, 09:24:56 PM
In Denmark we have lots of Christmas beers (one of them - a real girly one - is actually my favourite beer), do you also have some in Hungary? (or other countries)?
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 09:30:28 PM
Chrismas beers used to be a bit more concentrated than the usual formula. But I think it's not that common in Hungary.

Steiger testing in progress.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 10, 2006, 09:34:14 PM
In Slovakia, we have some Christmas beers, for example Topvar Vianocne (=Christmas) Pivo (=Beer)! I tasted it a few years ago, so I can't remember well how good was it... but I see it got 6,5/10 from CTG. (But as I know, these beers aren't really girly, rather stronger and more bitter than the "summer" versions!)

CTG: your ratings will be added when I'll be in Budapest again (Sunday or Monday).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 09:37:59 PM
Steiger dark beer: fine, fine but... I felt this one is really too light for me. Almost perfect taste but no power. Like a Ferrari bodywork with Opel engine.  :? Well I really like the taste, but the weakness reduces the mark a bit. Overall: 7.5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 09:41:24 PM
http://www.topvar.sk - funny entry song, many kind of beer from this firm.

OFF: Usrin, will you send a Torino rpl?
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 10, 2006, 09:45:14 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"In Slovakia, we have some Christmas beers, for example Topvar Vianocne (=Christmas) Pivo (=Beer)! I tasted it a few years ago, so I can't remember well how good was it... but I see it got 6,5/10 from CTG. (But as I know, these beers aren't really girly, rather stronger and more bitter than the "summer" versions!)

CTG: your ratings will be added when I'll be in Budapest again (Sunday or Monday).

Okay :) Our Christmas beers are also stronger, but they're also very sweet. I guess this is why many girls like them. In the summertime I prefer beers like Carlsberg and so on. The taste of a beer depends much on weather and atmosphere I think
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 09:50:51 PM
Quote from: "lised"Okay :) Our Christmas beers are also stronger, but they're also very sweet. I guess this is why many girls like them. In the summertime I prefer beers like Carlsberg and so on. The taste of a beer depends much on weather and atmosphere I think

You are quite good in this topic if we count you are a girl. ;)

I prefer strong dark beer in the winter and lighter, but still tasteful ones like Dreher Classic or Carlsberg in the summer. White beer is unique, it's good in all season. :) (sorry Usrin, I like them :))
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 10, 2006, 09:54:43 PM
Quote from: "CTG"
Quote from: "lised"Okay :) Our Christmas beers are also stronger, but they're also very sweet. I guess this is why many girls like them. In the summertime I prefer beers like Carlsberg and so on. The taste of a beer depends much on weather and atmosphere I think

You are quite good in this topic if we count you are a girl. ;)

I prefer strong dark beer in the winter and lighter, but still tasteful ones like Dreher Classic or Carlsberg in the summer. White beer is unique, it's good in all season. :) (sorry Usrin, I like them :))

Haha  :D  Why shouldn't you count me as a girl? I am a girl...I think  ;-)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 09:57:51 PM
Yes you are a girl, I know it very well. ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 10, 2006, 10:22:27 PM
OFF - CTG: sorry, I haven't driven on Torino... B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2006, 10:27:35 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"OFF - CTG: sorry, I haven't driven on Torino... B?FF!

you just lost the chance to win the championship :?

ON: S?R FOREVER!!!!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 11, 2006, 11:15:43 AM
Oh I almost missed to mention DAB (I tasted that few weeks ago). Forgettable, nothing special - just an average beer from Germany: 6/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 11, 2006, 03:10:13 PM
Abrak a DAB-ra? :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 15, 2006, 06:34:01 PM
It wasn't from the bests... :D I've anti-allegric and painkiller medicine in my tooth, so I can't drink any alcoholic before the end of my dental treatment.  :?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 15, 2006, 06:39:04 PM
But why did you need these medicines? The best painkiller of the world is P?linka! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 15, 2006, 07:29:11 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"But why did you need these medicines? The best painkiller of the world is P?linka! :D

It's built in a temporary filling. But I want to drink some Borsodi instead of P?linka now. :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on February 20, 2006, 10:24:53 AM
Anybody ever tried Kalnapilis beer from Lithuania ?
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 20, 2006, 12:54:59 PM
Beer from Mingvland? No thanks...  :smt078
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 20, 2006, 01:32:23 PM
New record in beer drinking: 8 bottles. And it could have been more. Now I feel the ability to drink 10 bottles of beer in a night.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 20, 2006, 01:40:57 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"New record in beer drinking: 8 bottles. And it could have been more. Now I feel the ability to drink 10 bottles of beer in a night.

8 Viking beer or 8 Dreher Bak? Not equal... :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 20, 2006, 01:41:22 PM
Or the standard is Borsodi? :)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 20, 2006, 09:24:39 PM
Akoss, are you really serious? Have you never had more than 8 beers in one night?

I'm getting kind of worried about my alcohol intake :-)
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 20, 2006, 09:31:08 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"Akoss, are you really serious? Have you never had more than 8 beers in one night?

I'm getting kind of worried about my alcohol intake :-)

Yes, you don't have to drink these "21 beers each week" on one single night ;-)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 20, 2006, 10:02:08 PM
What?? Don't they say "You must drink at least 21 units per week, and preferably more than 5 every evening"?  :shock:
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 20, 2006, 10:08:23 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"What?? Don't they say "You must drink at least 21 units per week, and preferably more than 5 every evening"?  :shock:

It's 5 units - at least - each MORNING silly :partyman:
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 21, 2006, 03:18:21 PM
Lise, I am a wine drinker. My records:

beer: 8 bottles of Borsodi
wine: 2.5 litres
hard alcohol: 10x0,05 litres of vodka
absolute record: 1.5 litres of wine, 1 litres of champagne, 6x0,05 litres of vodka together
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 21, 2006, 03:22:18 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"Lise, I am a wine drinker. My records:

beer: 8 bottles of Borsodi
wine: 2.5 litres
hard alcohol: 10x0,05 litres of vodka
absolute record: 1.5 litres of wine, 1 litres of champagne, 6x0,05 litres of vodka together

Lise? It was Jacob who asked about it  :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 21, 2006, 03:30:31 PM
Sorry, I only had a quick look on the screen maybe somehow I saw your name next to that post (but it was under it). So my comment was to Jacky of course. B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 21, 2006, 04:21:03 PM
Okay, my unforgettable drunknesses:

10x0.05 l brandy (March 2005) - 180 ccm
9 bottles of various cheap beers, mainly S?rk?ny (October 2005) - about 175 ccm alcohol
0.6 l vermouth (~100 ccm)+ 0.1 l pear liquor (~25 ccm) + 0.2 l baker rum (~50 ccm)(January 2000)

none of them caused vomit.

Vomiting events:

1.3-1.4 l artificial wine (Koccint?s)(June 2001) - ~140 ccm
lot of various beers, 178 ccm alcohol (November or December 2005 - I don't remember exactly)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 21, 2006, 04:35:43 PM
I can't calculate alcohol ccm, but my quite sick record on January 10 was something like this:

1 x Irish Coffee (1), 1 x double irish coffee (2), 7 x beer (7), 1 bottle of cherry wine (7), 4 x tequila shot (4), 4 x beer (4) = 25. But it happened over the course of 16 hours.

I usually don't drink this much! :-)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 21, 2006, 04:39:18 PM
No vomiting, by the way. I have vomited from drinking 4 times:

May 2001 (1.5 bottles of wine)
December 2001 (0,60 l of Vodka + one beer (the beer killed me :D))
September 2002 (I don't have any memory about what I drank this day, it's a big blur... I only remember bringing a one-liter vodka bottle, and at one point just trying to drink as much as possible in one go. Bad idea.)
April 2003 (again, I don't remember, only that it was whisky that finished me off...)

If the party keeps going in here, I might tell all the stories too :-)
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on February 21, 2006, 05:17:26 PM
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"If the party keeps going in here, I might tell all the stories too :-)

I know a nice story from the last World Stunts Meeting...  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on February 22, 2006, 12:34:07 PM
Quote from: "JTK"
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"If the party keeps going in here, I might tell all the stories too :-)

I know a nice story from the last World Stunts Meeting...  :-D
Yes, the one called "how to catch something attached on a cord ?"  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: I'm still laughing when I remember Jacky's way to do it. Such stupidly crazy memory. :-D  :lol:
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on February 22, 2006, 05:29:02 PM
Quote from: "Krys TOFF"
Quote from: "JTK"
Quote from: "BonzaiJoe"If the party keeps going in here, I might tell all the stories too :-)

I know a nice story from the last World Stunts Meeting...  :-D
Yes, the one called "how to catch something attached on a cord ?"  :lol:  :lol:  :lol: I'm still laughing when I remember Jacky's way to do it. Such stupidly crazy memory. :-D  :lol:

Remember him jumping into the bushes as he hears a car approaching?  :lol:
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 23, 2006, 10:22:46 AM
I'm not such a hard drinker, I've never drunken more than 7-8 beers + 1-1,5 dl of hard alcohol during an evening. (I really don't like wine...) But I vomitted in a few cases when the drinks weren't of too good quality - mainly not in my drunkness, but next morning... (Akoss Poo, do you remember my story about Borsodi Beer from 2003 December? :D Well, it was draught Borsodi, and I don't know what did they add to it...)

Some new beers I've recently tasted:
Veltins - 8/10;
Hungarian-brewed Kozel - 6/10. It's a typical Hungarian middle-class beer, totally different from the Czech Kozel (12%) available in Slovakia, so it got a new row in my scoreboard.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 23, 2006, 10:24:40 AM
Does anybody understand why does Tall?ros Beer cost 169 HUF in SPAR, while it's only 119 HUF in Kaiser's, which is a more expensive supermarket??? :?
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2006, 10:56:04 AM
Quote from: "Usrin"Does anybody understand why does Tall?ros Beer cost 169 HUF in SPAR, while it's only 119 HUF in Kaiser's, which is a more expensive supermarket??? :?

Jewish conspiracy, I guess. (kidding) I don't like Spar.
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 23, 2006, 10:59:03 AM
You really can drink a lot some of you. I'll be far behind you if you'll drink as much in August. Far behind in drinking AND stunts  :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 23, 2006, 02:34:50 PM
New beer tasted yesterday: Kaiser. I drank 3 bottles of it, and it tasted fine while I was watching the Russia-Canada ice hockey match. The best Austrian beer so far: deserves 7/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 23, 2006, 03:31:41 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"The best Austrian beer so far: deserves 7/10.
It's 99% that the "Austrian" Kaiser you drank was made in Martf?. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 25, 2006, 12:06:36 PM
You were wrong: it was made in Sopron. :P By the way, I guess under the license of the Austrian factory.
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on February 25, 2006, 12:54:33 PM
Quote from: "lised"You really can drink a lot some of you. I'll be far behind you if you'll drink as much in August.

Of course! You are a Scandinavian!  :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 28, 2006, 01:43:22 PM
LOL, scanning surface was not enough for these...  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 28, 2006, 01:48:01 PM
Haha amazing picture...though I love beer I think I'll have a hard time keeping up with you :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 28, 2006, 01:54:50 PM
Not that amazing, only 96 bottles since September (+20-25 in pubs :)).
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on February 28, 2006, 01:56:48 PM
I think it looks rather amazing...well, I guess you can't drink as much cola light as I can  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 28, 2006, 02:01:10 PM
Cola light is for girls. If a man drinks that you can bet: he's a gay.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 28, 2006, 06:15:23 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"You were wrong: it was made in Sopron. :P By the way, I guess under the license of the Austrian factory.
It's made by Brau Union Hungary Co., Sopron - but that company owns also the beer factory of Martf?, and they brew Kaiser there (under an Austrian license, as you wrote).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 07, 2006, 07:01:43 PM
I know that Usrin doesn't rank white beers but I must tell I just tried Oberdorfer Weissbier (bayern beer, 5.5 vol% alcohol). Even the bottle was unusual for me (csatos ?veg, how the hell can I translate it... :)). And the content: mmmmmmmmmmh... The best white beer I have ever tasted - what's more, the best beer in overall. (maybe 12/10 if we compare to the former favorites) It has the power but with the classic mild taste of quality white beers and with thick, tasteful foam. You must try it once!

An older experience with a special beer: somehow Maisel's Weisse combined the white and dark beers and it resulted Maisel's Weisse Dunkel. It's a nice remembrance without any major effect on me. The beer was fine and strong enough but it gave nothing extra feeling. I give 8/10 on it.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 08, 2006, 01:57:39 AM
Steiger Leziak Svetly (Premium, 12%) is a bit worse than the 11% version I tried few weeks ago, but still a quality beer. Mark is 7/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2006, 04:40:24 PM
Evening of the strong beers in coming!

Contestants:

Budweiser Extra Strong (16%) - CZE, alcohol content: 7.2%
Hoegaarden Grand Cru - BEL, alcohol content: 8.5%
Hoegaarden Le Fruit D?fendu - BEL, alcohol content: 8.5%
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 10, 2006, 08:42:35 PM
But something is missing! Before Stunts Meeting, you should ask Bonzai Joe to bring a bottle of...
Master Brew - DEN, alcohol content: 10,5%! :D

Yesterday I tasted Miller - it was crap, especially if considering its price. (Mark: 5/10.) Well, there's no problem with its quality, but it absolutely hasn't any taste... I had the feeling that I drank some kind of quality mineral water.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2006, 08:53:08 PM
Finished all the three bottles:

Budweiser Super Strong (16%) - CZE, alcohol content: 7.2%

Worse than the normal version of Budweiser, but still a very good one. Mark: 8/10.

Hoegaarden Grand Cru - BEL, alcohol content: 8.5%

Simply the best, I won't explain just re-valuate the other beers. Mark: 10/10

Hoegaarden Le Fruit D?fendu - BEL, alcohol content: 8.5%

Strange (in the positive meaning) dark beer. Quality level is similar to Dreher Bak but the taste is very different. Mark: 9/10.

I'll correct other beer's marks later. Hoegaarden Grand Cru is another class...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 10, 2006, 08:56:34 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Miller (USA, 4.7%) - characteristic, strage but not so bad backtaste,
Hmmm... it's strange. I felt that it was almost the less characteristic beer I've ever tasted.

Where did you buy these Hoegaarden beers?
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 10, 2006, 08:56:56 PM
do you guys know any brazilian beer ?
we have a LOT of great beers.

you know that the biggest beer industry is InBev; Fusion = Interbrew (Belgica) + Ambev (Brazil)...
biggest in volume of hectoliters, and second in revenues.

Do you guys know: Skol ? Brahma ? Boehmia ? Itaipava ? Bavaria ?  Nova Schin ? Antarticta ? Kaiser ?

I put in my preferences order. beer in can, because in bottle the order would be: Original; Boehmia; Brahma; Skol; Itaipava; Bavaria; Antarticta; Nova Schin; Kaiser.

all regular beers, because almost all in this list, also exist in premium kind.

I think brahma is sold in many countries.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 10, 2006, 09:08:05 PM
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"do you guys know any brazilian beer ?

I put in my preferences order. beer in can, because in bottle the order would be: Original; Boehmia; Brahma; Skol; Itaipava; Bavaria; Antarticta; Nova Schin; Kaiser.
We've our own Kaiser Beer. :)

But as I see, once I should visit Brazil...
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2006, 09:12:22 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"do you guys know any brazilian beer ?

I put in my preferences order. beer in can, because in bottle the order would be: Original; Boehmia; Brahma; Skol; Itaipava; Bavaria; Antarticta; Nova Schin; Kaiser.
We've our own Kaiser Beer. :)

But as I see, once I should visit Brazil...

As far as I know Brazil is in TOP3 of beer drinking (liters/inhabitants). With such a thirsty nation it must be a world-power in quality beers too.
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 10, 2006, 09:24:55 PM
and its important to say that I listed the most knowing beers we have.
if I have to list all the cheap beers too, you would be amazed :wink:

just for the records: my favourite drink is caipirinha (pinga + lemon + sugar + ice; all in the correct amount and way to mix). :smt118
made of course with pinga (cacha?a, caninha, marvada, ?gua-que-passarinho-n?o-bebe, etc). because with vodka or saque (some 'sofisticated' people use these) its not the same stuff.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 10, 2006, 09:50:39 PM
Quote from: "CTG"As far as I know Brazil is in TOP3 of beer drinking (liters/inhabitants). With such a thirsty nation it must be a world-power in quality beers too.
But here they're only 33th...
Beer Consumption in Major Countries in 2004
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2006, 09:54:44 PM
I read that in 1995 or 1996...  :)
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 10, 2006, 09:56:04 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"
Quote from: "CTG"As far as I know Brazil is in TOP3 of beer drinking (liters/inhabitants). With such a thirsty nation it must be a world-power in quality beers too.
But here they're only 33th...
Beer Consumption in Major Countries in 2004

I saw your list.
but, somehow is strange, because I heard something more likely ctg said
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 10, 2006, 10:05:10 PM
I've also found a strange thing, I didn't believe that Hungary is so close to Slovakia in beer consumption. But I think there's a serious mistake in that: I was probably counted as a Hungarian. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2006, 10:39:29 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"I've also found a strange thing, I didn't believe that Hungary is so close to Slovakia in beer consumption. But I think there's a serious mistake in that: I was probably counted as a Hungarian. :D

because you are Hungarian :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 11, 2006, 02:10:24 AM
75.3 litres per a year? Well, I am well over it... Btw I'm almost drunk tonight...b?ff...
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 11, 2006, 09:48:16 AM
Quote from: "CTG"because you are Hungarian :D
I'm Slovak. B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on March 11, 2006, 10:03:10 AM
You should order this: http://www.beveragemarketing.com/reportcatalog4b.html  :)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 14, 2006, 08:34:04 PM
B?FF! I've tasted Radegast Beer. (I found it in the good old CBA in Veres P?ln? Street; it costed 129 HUF.) It's the best "weak" beer I've ever drunk, but we can't deny that 3,5 V/V% alcohol is not too much... Mark: 5,5/10.

CTG, I'm waiting for your new ratings and for the source of Hoegaarden beers! :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 15, 2006, 02:56:34 AM
Ratings a bit later, source: V?mh?z k?r?t, MATCH in the Market Hall.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 18, 2006, 07:52:21 AM
New dark beer again: Leffe Bruin. Belgians are simply excellent in beer! It was better than our Dreher Bak. I'll rate it when I re-calculated the new points of the other beers.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 18, 2006, 07:56:29 AM
Best beer producers on the Earth:

1 Belgium
2 Czech Republic
3 Slovakia
4 Germany
Title: Beer
Post by: lised on March 18, 2006, 11:13:17 AM
Quote from: "CTG"Best beer producers on the Earth:

1 Belgium
2 Czech Republic
3 Slovakia
4 Germany

No, no, no...the best beer in the world is "Mythos" made in Crete!  :D
Title: Palinka
Post by: lised on March 18, 2006, 11:16:22 AM
I searched trough my fathers bottles yesterday and found a bottle of Palinka! When he was young he went to Budapest and bought some Palinka to bring home...Now I can bring my own bottle of Palinka to the meeting  :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 18, 2006, 01:38:57 PM
Well... Yesterday I was surprised very much. I decided to buy a can of Pilsner Urquell, because I couldn't really remember its taste; when I had tasted it earlier, it was only a glass of it, with not too much carbon dioxide in it. And I tasted it again aaaand... mmm... It became my second favourite beer! Deserves 9.5 points!!! Its very strong and very characteristic taste puts it among my favourite (lager) beers.
Title: Re: Palinka
Post by: Usrin on March 18, 2006, 03:18:37 PM
Quote from: "lised"When he was young he went to Budapest and bought some Palinka to bring home...
Unbelievable... How could he stand not to open the bottle for years??? :shock: I think he doesn't know what he misses! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 24, 2006, 05:51:49 PM
Hey!!! Who has bought the whole stock of Hoegaarden beers in Smatch??? Perhaps CTG??? I went there today afternoon, and found a big empty part on the shelf of beers. All types of Hoegaarden has run out... Btw, I didn't want to leave with empty hands, so I bought two new beers: Abro (SWE) and Brauperle (FRA, 8,0 V/V%).
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 24, 2006, 07:36:01 PM
Hm... if I find any beer better than Abro, I'll re-think my former rankings. In the current one, Abro deserves 10/10. Quite characteristic, maybe not a good refresher in summer, but fortunately it isn't summer yet. Btw: CTG, have you discovered the extra feature of the bottle? As the label says, its bottom is a beer opener, and that seems to be true. I should test it immediately! :D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 24, 2006, 07:46:48 PM
As I promised, the re-valuation:

Hoegaarden Grand Cru   10
Leffe Bruin   9,5
Oberdorfer Weissbier   9,5
Hoegaarden Le Fruit D?fendu   9
Budweiser   8,5
Carlsberg   8,5
Dreher Bak   8,5
Topvar Marina   8,5
Amstel Bock   8
Asahi   8
Dreher Classic   8
Franziskaner Weissbier   8
Leffe Blonde   8
Maisel's Weisse   8
Stella Artois   8
K?stritzer Schwarzbier   7,5
Tuborg   7,5
Zlaty Bazant   7,5
Budweiser Extra Strong   7
Heineken   7
Maisel's Weisse Dunkel   7
Tall?ros   7
Veltins   7
Abro   6,5
L?wenweiss   6,5
Pilsner Urquell   6,5
Steiger leziak vycapny tmavy   6,5
Amstel Lager   6
Brauperle Super Strong   6
Holsten   6
Staropramen Cerny   6
Staropramen Praguer   6
Steiger leziak svetly   6
Borsodi vil?gos   5,5
Coronita   5,5
DAB   5,5
Kaiser   5,5
Miller Genuine   5,5
Ottakringer   5,5
Soproni   5,5
Steffl   5,5
Szalon barna   5,5
Topvar Vianocne Pivo    5,5
Borsodi Bivaly   5
Foster's   5
Gold Fassl   5
G?sser   5
G?sser Ice   5
Hofbrau M?nchen   5
Kozel   5
K?b?nyai vil?gos   5
Krusovice   5
Krusovice Imperial   5
L?wenbrau   5
S?rk?ny   4,5
Topvar svetly leziak   4,5
Beck's   4
Borosty?n   4
Brauperle Pilsner   4
Radeberger   4
Edelweiss   3,5
Szalon   3
Zipfer   3
Rolling Rock   2,5
Adamsbrau   2
Arany ?szok   2
Ilzer   2
Lovos   2
Innstadt   1
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 24, 2006, 07:48:12 PM
Filter the wheat beers if you want to - I don't separate them in my own rankings.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 29, 2006, 05:22:11 PM
Newbie:

Kronenbourg 1664 (FRA, 5.0% alc)

Typical beer for warm days - to kill thirst. You can't find any mistakes in the taste, it's just not too characterstic. It means 6/10 at the moment.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 30, 2006, 01:24:14 AM
My new desktop background:
Title: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on March 30, 2006, 12:47:59 PM
You should write books about beer CTG.
Like Shakespeare did : "2 beers or not 2 beers, that is the question".
:smt046  :drinkers:  :partyman:  :smt040
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 30, 2006, 01:10:25 PM
Quote from: "Krys TOFF"You should write books about beer CTG.

Only in co-production with Usrin. Like we did with canned liver creams...  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 30, 2006, 03:07:50 PM
My new marks on the beers:

(there are 2 NEW beers with bold - I just forgot to add them from earlier times)

Zlaty Bazant 9.5
Pilsner Urquell 9.5
Carlsberg 9.5
Kielerbrau 9.5
Dreher 9
Heineken 8.5
Tuborg 7.5
Staropramen 7
Stella Artois 7
Amstel Bock 6.5
Dreher Bak 6.5
Amstel 6.5
Harboe Pilsner 6.5
Dithmarscher 6.5
Soproni 6.5
Borsodi 6.5
Borsodi Bivaly 6.5
Beck's 6
Holsten 6
Staropramen Cerny 6
Kaiser 6
Bjoerne Bryg 6
Steffl 5.5
L?wenbrau 5.5
Kozel 5.5
S?rk?ny 5.5
Ottakringer 5
Borosty?n 5
Arany ?szok 5
Steiger 5
G?sser 4
K?nigsberg 3.5
Kanizsai 3
Grafen Walder 2.5
Lovag 1.5
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 30, 2006, 06:34:30 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"
Carlsberg 9.5

Heineken 8.5

Stella Artois 7
Amstel Bock 6.5

Amstel 6.5

the beer market in brasil should be great, because I would put about 5 or 6 brands above those. :wink:

seriously, we have a lot of great beers. (without the premium kind/line). :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 30, 2006, 09:36:47 PM
vamologocomisso: if that was the situation for everyone, not these would be the most well-known and most widespread beers in the world. If there was a very good Brazilian beer, I'm sure that would be well known in Europe, too.
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 30, 2006, 10:31:25 PM
Akoss, soon Brahma will arrive...

europeans and brazillians taste for beer is very different, because in europe you guys like red and green kind of beer (i forget the name of the ingredients, maybe ale or ginger, i dont know). beers like stella artois for example, is not apriciatted here.

Here, only the true yellow, light yellow beer make success. (barley, germen of wheat, lupulo, and mineral water).
The fermentation is very different too.

and we have to remember other details like, here almost the entire year is hot, so the beer must be a little more light and refresh.
I, myself can drink any beer, if its very cold almost frozen.

bock type beers even in the winter its not very tastefull(in my city, the coldest days of the winter its like 16?C).
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 30, 2006, 10:37:31 PM
nah i see the point; then i understand why top european beers aren't really your taste, and in your opinion, brazilians are better. btw i would like to taste a brazilian beer. :) not sold here...
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 30, 2006, 10:59:43 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"nah i see the point; then i understand why top european beers aren't really your taste, and in your opinion, brazilians are better. btw i would like to taste a brazilian beer. :) not sold here...

if you lose in the stunts meeting, besides palinka (is that the name?) i will send you a traditional brazilian beer, ok ?! :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 30, 2006, 11:14:42 PM
okay, let's roll :D btw yes, it is P?LINKA :D:D:D
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on March 30, 2006, 11:42:05 PM
why dont you trade?

Vamolo sends Akoss a bottle of some of the best Brazilian beer, and Akoss sends a small bottle P?linka. if you pack it very well and the box is shock-free there should be no problem :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 31, 2006, 06:19:16 PM
Hoegaarden witbier (BEL, 4.9%, Rothschild supermarket, Mad?ch Square) - very characteristic wheat beer taste, no problem with the strength. I suggest this type for specialists - although it's quite expensive. I put it on the same level with Oberdorfer Weissbier in spite of the fact they are very different. Mark: 9.5/10
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 31, 2006, 09:44:48 PM
First white beer on the list (wheat beer): L?wenweiss 7/10. Surprisingly good! :)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 31, 2006, 10:27:12 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"First white beer on the list (wheat beer): L?wenweiss 7/10. Surprisingly good! :)

fine :)
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on March 31, 2006, 10:58:52 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"First white beer on the list (wheat beer): L?wenweiss 7/10. Surprisingly good! :)

thats the spirit!!! :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 01, 2006, 01:35:17 AM
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"First white beer on the list (wheat beer): L?wenweiss 7/10. Surprisingly good! :)

thats the spirit!!! :-D  :-D  :-D


I love strong and/or characteristic beers like dark and white types (they can be excellent, both has some beauties in taste).
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 04, 2006, 11:52:14 PM
Quote from: "CTG"Hoegaarden witbier (BEL, 4.9%, Rothschild supermarket, Mad?ch Square) - very characteristic wheat beer taste, no problem with the strength. I suggest this type for specialists - although it's quite expensive. I put it on the same level with Oberdorfer Weissbier in spite of the fact they are very different. Mark: 9.5/10
I've been having a bottle of this beer on my table for a month. :) I got it as a present from my roommate, but I'm afraid I would have to spill it into the washbasin after tasting it... Well, I'm definitely NOT a "specialist" of wheat beers. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 05, 2006, 12:02:15 AM
Good news:
- Beer scoreboard has been updated.
- I've discovered a new Hungarian beer in Tesco near ?jpest-V?roskapu (as I remember, we bought the ingredients of chili beans there for the Hungarian Stunts Meeting in 2003). It's Soproni Kinizsi (5,3 V/V%), called "quality lager beer" on the label... btw, it's a typical middle-class beer, my ranking is 6/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 05, 2006, 12:33:17 AM
For tomorrow (sorry... today) I've planned a trip to Slovakia for beers; chance of it is about 80%. CTG, what's about your trip???
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 05, 2006, 07:14:55 AM
Quote from: "Usrin"For tomorrow (sorry... today) I've planned a trip to Slovakia for beers; chance of it is about 80%. CTG, what's about your trip???

Slovakian trip of mine is postponed for an undefined date. I'm too busy thse days.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 05, 2006, 10:32:10 AM
Quote from: "CTG"Slovakian trip of mine is postponed for an undefined date. I'm too busy thse days.
My one is postponed to a defined date: 7th April (Friday)...
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on April 06, 2006, 09:03:25 PM
you might be intrested :)

(article in English)
http://www.pestiside.hu/archives/forget_palinka_for_breakfast_a_real_hangover_cure_is_here002174.php
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 06, 2006, 11:14:05 PM
After being satisfied with L?wenweisse, I tasted Edelweiss yesterday. It was more expensive, but less delicious... Taking its price into account, it was quite weak... Rating: 5/10.
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 06, 2006, 11:22:31 PM
Three newbies:

Lantos (HUN, traded by Re?l Foods) - average weak beer, it's waste of words to analyse it. Mark: 3/10

Frisch Fassl (GER?) - shit, 2/10

Bohemia (CZE, 4.8%) - bought in Tesco (V?ci ?t) for 99 HUF. Delicious beer, fine for warmer days. Mark: 6/10

Tomorrow: Soproni Kinizsi (already in the fridge :D)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 07, 2006, 04:51:46 PM
Soproni Kinizsi - so-so I like this taste! Mark: 5.5/10

Today:

Borsodi - done
Soproni Kinizsi - done

Beers left:

4 Dreher Classic
1 K?nigsberg
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 07, 2006, 06:42:46 PM
Btw Match in V?mh?z krt. filled up it's store with Hoegaarden beers again (all the three available type).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 07, 2006, 06:47:39 PM
K?nigsberg was really bad. Weak, bad taste. I suffered a lot with the last 300 ccm. Mark: 2/10
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 07, 2006, 08:37:04 PM
I also tasted Bohemia Gold a few weeks ago, but I forgot to add it to the scoreboard. I gave it 6,5/10. New beer of today was Brauperle Super Strong. Nice, without the strong alcoholic flavour that I felt in Master Brew (10,5 V/V%), but with some weak, but strange medicine-like tinge in it. Rate: 5/10.

I've just realized that CTG' "Budvar" and CTG's "Czech Budweiser" must be the same. Counting the average of their marks, it took the lead with 9,25 pts (in tie with Kelt). Akoss Poo will taste it tomorrow. :D

(It's sad, but I didn't have enough time for a Slovakian trip, I just went to Kaiser's. The beers I bought are Budweiser, Krusovice Imperial and Topvar Svetly Leziak.)
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 07, 2006, 08:42:23 PM
Budweiser rules! :)

Slovakian trip: after my szigorlat. It's always postponed but the beer tourism can be a good motivation to start learning. :D:D:D
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on April 07, 2006, 09:35:19 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"I also tasted Bohemia Gold a few weeks ago

from wich country ???
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 07, 2006, 09:37:04 PM
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"
Quote from: "Usrin"I also tasted Bohemia Gold a few weeks ago

from wich country ???
From the Czech Republic... what else?
Title: Beer
Post by: vamologocomisso on April 07, 2006, 10:12:12 PM
Quote from: "Usrin"
Quote from: "vamologocomisso"
Quote from: "Usrin"I also tasted Bohemia Gold a few weeks ago

from wich country ???
From the Czech Republic... what else?

we have our own bohemia here in brasil, and its a great one (for the brazillian taste, right akoss ? :wink: )
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 07, 2006, 11:26:28 PM
Bohemia is an alternative name for Czech areas - am I right?

So I guess it is made by a Czech recipe. It must be really good.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 08, 2006, 07:40:16 PM
Topvar Svetly Leziak is being tested now. I'm almost finished with it, rating: 5.5. Some more quality beers are to be tasted later in the evening. :D
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 08, 2006, 11:18:19 PM
Krusovice Imperial: 7
Budvar (Budweiser): 8.5

Usrin re-rated Krusovice Imperial: 8
He also tested Budvar: 9
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 10, 2006, 08:19:56 PM
I'm still thinking about rerating of beers. My taste is about to be changed a bit, some beers would get a bit higher, some of them a bit lower marks. Generally I would still like to decrease the average, which is 6,2, but should be 5,5 (midway between 1 and 10).
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 10, 2006, 09:52:06 PM
Shall I suggest an easier solution? Try Schlossm?hle and other 3.0 vol% beers and the average will decrease on a dramatic way...  :lol:

BTW 3000 posts!!!  :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 11, 2006, 02:31:33 PM
Quote from: "origo"Meg?rizte piacvezet? szerep?t a magyar s?rpiacon a Borsodi S?rgy?r Zrt., amely tavaly 2,2 milli? hektoliter s?rt ?rt?kes?tett - mondta kedden Budapesten sajt?t?j?koztat?n Derek Hopkins, a c?g eln?k-vez?rigazgat?ja. K?z?lte: a m?lt ?vben a teljes magyar s?rpiacon mintegy 6,9 milli? hektoliter s?rt ?rt?kes?tettek. Ez csaknem azonos mennyis?g az el?z? ?vivel a Magyar S?rgy?rt?k Sz?vets?ge adatai szerint.

690,000,000 l beer - it means 138 bottles for every Hungarian (and 44 Borsodi :)).
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 11, 2006, 02:56:37 PM
Quote from: "CTG"and 44 Borsodi :)
I think it has strong connection with this result:
http://www.durex.com/cm/gss2004Content.asp?intQid=398&intMenuOpen=11
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 11, 2006, 11:05:12 PM
Imagine what would happen if the French drank Borsodi. :D:D:D
Title: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on April 14, 2006, 05:02:05 PM
news from www.pestiside.hu:

The first P?linka Festival of Budapest will be held between May 5th and 7th on V?rosh?za t?r (behind the De?k t?r church). Entry will be Ft Ft 1,000, which includes Ft 500 worth of p?linka-tasting.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 14, 2006, 06:21:59 PM
New tested beers:

Riesenbrau (GER, 4,0%) 3,5
Leffe Bruin (BEL, 6,5%) 8,0
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 14, 2006, 08:56:17 PM
Again new beer:

Gold Fassl 6.5
Title: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 14, 2006, 09:42:53 PM
Soproni 1895 (special edition of Soproni, 5.3% alcohol instead of 4.5 and another type of lupulus :D): 4.5/10.

My tooth accident (again  :evil: ) avoids me to drink my Budvar...
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 16, 2006, 01:39:33 PM
Well...

Borsodi, Soproni, Gold Fassl 6.5... Krusovice 7... Tuborg 7.5... Budvar 8.5

I thought about that and I feel Krusovice is closer to Budvar than to Borsodi and Soproni, and it's not worse than Tuborg. Maybe I was a bit strict when I gave 7 to Krusovice. Usrin, if you don't mind, increase my Krusovice-mark to 7.5, please.
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on April 16, 2006, 06:27:23 PM
I found a beer in Germany that cost only 0.28 Euro (about 65 HUF) for 0.5 l and was about 6/10. (4.8% alc. and ). I've never seen a better one for such a low price!
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 16, 2006, 10:38:13 PM
I must go to Germany immediately!!! But please tell us the name of this miraculous beer! :)
Title: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on April 16, 2006, 11:08:22 PM
Now, if only I could remember the name :-) It was something, and then "Premium Gold". It came in a transparent plastic bottle, I bought it in Lidl, it was beside another beer called "Dresdner Felsenkeller". JTK?
Title: Beer
Post by: JTK on April 17, 2006, 01:55:50 PM
:shock: Never heard off! Right at this moment I'm sitting here drinking the fabulous Dithmarscher Urtyp. Prost!

Btw: Let's change the Stunts Meeting date to the Palinka festival in Budapest...  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 19, 2006, 05:02:13 PM
Sorry, CTG - Leffe Blonde is too characteristic for me. And another thing: while tasting it, I was thinking about when had I felt the same strange backtaste. The solution: when I drank Master Brew! I think these two beers are very similar, although Leffe contains less alcohol (6.6 V/V%), so it doesn't have that strong alcoholic taste. But I can't give it a mark better than 4.5/10.

Conclusion 1: Bonzai Joe, don't try Leffe Blonde!
Conclusion 2: CTG, you should really try Master Brew!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 19, 2006, 09:18:33 PM
New beer on the list: Jezek (CZE) 7.0. My friend told me that there are a shop of Czech and Slovakian beers in Kazincbarcika, they bought that there. (Borovicka is also sold there, I tasted that at my friend's, too.) It was relatively cheap (around 120 HUF he guessed). But really don't know what kind of Jezek it was. There are some kind of it.
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 19, 2006, 09:30:34 PM
Quote from: "Akoss Poo"My friend told me that there are a shop of Czech and Slovakian beers in Kazincbarcika, they bought that there. (Borovicka is also sold there.)
Oh... what did we miss? It was surely opened Monday morning... And I think they have real specialities - I've never seen Jezek, neither in Slovakia. B?FF!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 20, 2006, 06:51:39 PM
Yes, it's a pity. My friend told about the shop on Friday (14th). But next time, we'll visit there, I guess. But I'm sure I will know that shop by that time. ;)
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 20, 2006, 08:33:37 PM
Soproni 1895 is really good! Despite of its quite high alcohol content (5,3 V/V%), it's a "summer refresher type" beer - probably that's why CTG doesn't like it. But I realized that my former ranking on the original Soproni was a bit unrealistic. It's my personal favourite, it's the beer that I drink most frequently (for example, at home we always buy Soproni), but not better than 7,5/10. Btw, Soproni 1895 (a quality beer) really deserves 8,5/10. B?FF!!!
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 01, 2006, 04:33:56 PM
Soproni 1895 6.5/10
K?b?nyai 4.5/10
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 02, 2006, 09:59:09 PM
Hofbrau Munchen 5.5/10
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 03, 2006, 09:16:55 PM
How deep was this topic on the list... Everybody has given up beer drinking? :shock:

As you can know, I generally hate wheat beers" - but today I tasted Hoegaarden White Beer, which was unambigously better than Edelweiss and others that I had known before. But it only means that I would give it 3.5/10, therefore I don't add it to the list. (As I told before, Edelweiss et al. would be somewhere around 1/10 for me...)
Title: Beer...
Post by: SuperBrian on June 05, 2006, 03:06:06 PM
Well, In my spare time I actually am a crowncapcollector, which means I collect bottlecaps from all over the world. But I do not just collect thousands of caps looking similar, I only collect different caps, and I have 1.287 bottlecaps right now, and not a single one looking like the other.
I have bottlecaps from 51 countries and more than 500 breweries through the world and I have tasted about 1/4 of my collection, which is very much, but at least I don't THINK that I am an alcoholic! :-D
I am just fascinated with beers and I love to taste the new goods in the store, when a new liquid has arrived. Yes, I have tasted a lot of different beers and even though I really like beers from some different top-breweries, like Carlsberg, Heineken and some of the others you already have mentioned, I have to say that my choice of the best beer in the world is going to one of the oldest breweries in world, Urquell in the Czech Republic. Their main-beer is fantastic, the one who doesn't have tasted this beer should go to the nearest shop and buy it. 8)
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 09, 2006, 02:43:45 PM
Gambrinus (CZE): 6.5/10
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 23, 2006, 07:19:59 PM
New beers on the list:

Ilzer 5.5
Krusovice Cern? 7
Veltins 8

List is still not updated with my marks of Gambrinus and Jezek. Please!

And my beer taste is changing: I retasted Borosty?n, and I liked it much more than earlier. In the last 2 weeks, I drank a lot of Borosty?n. New mark: 7
Title: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on June 29, 2006, 12:41:16 PM
Ilzer 5.5

I don't know this beer, it is some kind of Porter, Ale or Classic beer?
Title: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 29, 2006, 09:24:30 PM
Quote from: "SuperBrian"Ilzer 5.5
I don't know this beer, it is some kind of Porter, Ale or Classic beer?
It's a wheat beer (grrr...), that's why it's not included in my list.
Akoss: tell me if I'm wrong and there is another version of Ilzer... but as I know, classic beer of this factory is the extremely shitty Innstadt.
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 29, 2006, 10:00:17 PM
Pff dunno, but yes, I tasted the wheat beer.

Btw new beers on the list:

Starobrno (my parents bought for me in ?t?traf?red) 7
Steininger (cheap beer) 3.5
Title: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on June 30, 2006, 01:06:15 PM
Wheat beer, I knew that. 8)  

It is because I only know Ilzer's Kristall Weissbier, which I have in my collection of bottlecaps, but I have never tasted any beer from Ilzer so I don't know their beers so good. But does any of you know if it is the same ingredients in Ilzer's Kristall Weissbier and Erdinger Weissbier Kristallklar?
Title: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 01, 2006, 01:15:38 PM
Usrin, please, when adding the marks of Starobrno and Steininger, increase my Borosty?n-mark to 7, because you forgot that at last time.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 18, 2006, 08:00:15 PM
Finally I can write C2H5OH!  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 20, 2006, 09:54:07 PM
Beers tasted in Germany in the last few days:

Jever - 7.5/10
Paulaner - 5.5/10

I wanted to taste the famous Kielerbrau, but I couldn't find it in Bremen. (And neither in Munich, but I think that's not surprising.)
Btw, B?FF!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on July 21, 2006, 08:52:24 AM
You can taste Kiel beer only in Kiel, because the brewery is very, very small. You can't even get it in a restaurant in Kiel, only at the Kieler Brauerei (http://www.kieler-brauerei.de).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 25, 2006, 12:04:28 PM
I lagged behind with rating the new beers - I had some newbies in the late spring I forgot to write here. I'll check my MSN logs to find their marks.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on July 25, 2006, 07:36:24 PM
At least I hope you bring masses of the best beers to the meeting!  ;D ::) ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 08, 2006, 05:34:01 PM
New ratings:

Birra Moretti (ITA) 6.5
Hofferbrau (GER, sold in Italy) 5.5
Finkbrau (GER, from Lidl) 2.5
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 22, 2006, 07:12:47 PM
Some new rankings:

Kelt 7.5
Steiger (now I tasted the real Steiger, 12%) 6.5
Hoegaarden Grand Cru 8
Leffe Blonde 8.5
Velkopopovicky Kozel (again, the real one, 12%) 8

And as I said, please rise back Zlaty Bazant's rating from 8.5 to 9.5! It's really superb, it was a shame to decrease its mark some weeks ago, sorry.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on August 23, 2006, 08:50:11 AM
Borsodi!  :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 23, 2006, 12:05:15 PM
JTK, how did you like the communist beer? :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on August 23, 2006, 04:50:57 PM
Well - I liked it more than the red one (can't remember it's name, two words, beginning with "A"... Arany, something like this?). But the ranking here with 4,5 is pretty good, not better! Borsodi is a very good beer for me, tasty, running smoothly in masses down the throat, providing a fresh head in the morning. The communist beer is a beer for when there is no more Borsodi left...  :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 23, 2006, 07:47:58 PM
Quote from: JTK on August 23, 2006, 04:50:57 PM
Well - I liked it more than the red one (can't remember it's name, two words, beginning with "A"... Arany, something like this?). But the ranking here with 4,5 is pretty good, not better! Borsodi is a very good beer for me, tasty, running smoothly in masses down the throat, providing a fresh head in the morning. The communist beer is a beer for when there is no more Borsodi left...  :)

LOL! ;D

I'm drinking Pittinger (5.2%, AUT) at the moment. Surprisingly good compared to the price - I give a 6.5 on it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 30, 2006, 01:13:21 PM
Kelt - 6.5/10
Gambrinus - 7.5/10
Bran?k (CZE, 4.1%) - 6/10
Cheers (GER, 5.2%) - 5.5/10

Some older test results are coming soon.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on August 30, 2006, 01:21:38 PM
Yesterday I had some nice 4 litres of Astra, a beer orignally from and still brewed in Hamburg - good party beer, easy to drink, not sweet at all. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 31, 2006, 12:38:00 PM
Cheap and good: Valentins Weissbier (GER, 5.3%, 119 HUF) 7/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 03, 2006, 01:37:46 PM
Again new beers:

Topvar Marina 7.5
Saris (original, 12%) 6
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 04, 2006, 03:02:14 AM
Drinking alcohol is strictly  forbidden for me at the moment (and maybe forever)... :(
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 04, 2006, 12:22:04 PM
Quote from: CTG on October 04, 2006, 03:02:14 AM
Drinking alcohol is strictly  forbidden for me at the moment (and maybe forever)... :(
:o :( :( :'( :'(
I hope it won't mean "forever"... However, now I'm really going to update the beer rankings.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 05, 2006, 07:59:53 AM
Great! I've been looking forward to it for a long time... :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 30, 2006, 10:25:04 PM
Two newbies:

Budweiser 1795 (CZE, 4.3% alcohol) - 6.5/10, original is better
Arany ?szok T?li Selymes (HUN, 5.1% alcohol) - 5/10 (surprisingly good winter beer from this crappy factory)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 01, 2006, 12:32:35 AM
Have I mentioned? Szalon: 5.5
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 01, 2006, 09:51:11 AM
Rankings are updated. Cheers! ;)
http://bolyai.elte.hu/~usrin/stuntsbeer.xls (http://bolyai.elte.hu/~usrin/stuntsbeer.xls)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 09, 2007, 01:46:18 PM
Still unable to drink. Maybe I have to test alcohol-free beers... (I miss the vomiting icon...)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 21, 2007, 11:14:05 PM
I forget to mention some beers here, now only one leaps to my mind:

Perlenbacher Pilsner 5

Ah, Radeberger, yes... It was 8/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 21, 2007, 11:25:57 PM
Soproni Sz?z: disgusting sweet crap, it has nothing to do with real beer. Boooooooooooah!!!

Stella Artois NA: tasty water, nothing more - I didn't like it very much.

Schlossgold 0,0: close to beer taste (bitter enough), just the power is missing. This one is the best from the three tries. With some added alcohol it would be fair enough as a real beer.

Next tests: Null komma Josef, Dreher, Borsodi P?l?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2007, 08:06:57 PM
Buy a weak imported beer, add a few liters of water to it, mix it hard - and you will get the alcohol-free Dreher. Far the worst of the four tasted brands...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 31, 2007, 07:29:29 PM
Alcohol-free test, next station: Borsodi P?l?

I read the ingredients: usual things plus E224 (antioxidant) and some citric acid. I felt the last one: the whole thing was similar to a bad, sweet lemonade. But the worst thing is that bad one is still better than Soproni and Dreher NA beers... :(

Rankings with relative scoring between 0 and 10 (NOT THE SAME SCORES AS IN REAL BEER RANKINGS). 10 pts is an ideal alcohol-free beer with the most of good qualities of a real beer (impossible).


1     Schlossgold 0.0%7
2Stella Artois NA4
3Borsodi P?l?2.5
4Soproni Sz?z1.5
5Dreher alkoholmentes     1
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 20, 2007, 08:55:36 AM
Hahahhaahha, finally! I had 3 beers on Friday with Akoss Poo. ;D (drinking once per month must be under the limit)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on February 21, 2007, 04:57:52 PM
Which one of you is this guy with the beer ? :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on February 22, 2007, 09:34:50 AM
 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 26, 2007, 11:56:53 AM
Alcohol-free test, lnext station: Buckler

Beerish, quite good taste - almost as good as Schlossgold


1     Schlossgold 0.0%7
2     Buckler6
3Stella Artois NA4
4Borsodi P?l?2.5
5Soproni Sz?z1.5
6Dreher alkoholmentes     1
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on March 02, 2007, 08:44:32 AM
found you a cheap beer - must buy it in Prague though :)

(http://index.hu/homar/media/novic2_he.jpg)
1.90 CZK=0.0675598 EUR
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 02, 2007, 09:09:43 AM
H I H E T E T L E N !  ;D

Nah, I won't ever taste such a cheap beer. Quality is a lot more important.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on March 02, 2007, 01:47:17 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on March 02, 2007, 08:44:32 AM1.90 CZK=0.0675598 EUR
!!?!?!!? :o
Prague, I'm coming!!!  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 02, 2007, 02:53:59 PM
What a surprise! Diesel Joe's still drinking!!! :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on March 02, 2007, 03:05:13 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 02, 2007, 02:53:59 PM
What a surprise! Diesel Joe's still drinking!!! :)

Of course!  ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2007, 02:47:43 PM
Alcohol-free beer testing: Null Komma Josef (Ottakringer)

Wow!!! This one was really close to normal beer in taste. What's more: I guess I could hardly make difference between this and an alcoholic one. No question: it takes the lead.


1     Ottakringer Null Komma Josef       8.5
2     Schlossgold 0.0%7
3     Buckler6
4Stella Artois NA4
5Borsodi P?l?2.5
6Soproni Sz?z1.5
7Dreher alkoholmentes     1
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 14, 2007, 10:51:53 PM
Liver test in progress: Dreher Bak + Zlaty Bazant. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 15, 2007, 12:35:59 PM
I will soon rerate some beers, now I'm almost sure that my beer taste is changing. Some months ago I liked the light, sweet, piss-like beers like Dreher, now I like more the bitterer and more characteristic beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 16, 2007, 09:34:47 AM
Fantastic beer prices in the "pubs" (with only standing places and open only in the daytime... how the hell I could call them?) of Feh?rv?ri Road Market Hall! On Monday, one of them started to sell Arany ?szok T?li Selymes for 99 HUF. But the neighbouring "pub" didn't want to lose the competition, so they've been selling it for 70 HUF since Tuesday!

OFF: I also checked their short drink prices: Unicum (5 cl) is 280 HUF, Becherovka (5 cl) is 260 HUF. I would expect similar prices in Perkupa. :) (Well, as I go there in lunchtime, and than I should go back to the university, I don't drink anything "harder" than beer there.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 16, 2007, 11:41:03 AM
Just to note: 5 cl of Unicum is 240 HUF at Ret?r, in Miskolc! :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 18, 2007, 03:12:45 PM
Apropo Ret?r! Possibly I'll go to Miskolc on Friday... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 23, 2007, 06:53:18 PM
2 bottles of Soproni 1895 is on the table. Guess what will happen to them. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on March 24, 2007, 10:55:41 AM
Quote from: CTG on March 18, 2007, 03:12:45 PM
Apropo Ret?r! Possibly I'll go to Miskolc on Friday... ;D

and I'll go there exactly 1 month later, for 3 days :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 31, 2007, 07:07:05 PM
Last evening I drank Leffe Bruin and Carlsberg (quality night), today is for Borsodi. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 01, 2007, 04:06:40 PM
There's Soproni beer in the fridge!!! It's possible that I can drink from it today, but it's left until my aunt comes (if she's coming...)! :) FOREVER SOPRONI BEER! :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on April 02, 2007, 09:47:33 AM
There's a new and very tasty, unfiltered beer from Flensburger Brauerei: Flensburger Kellerbier. So good, get it if you can... :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 27, 2007, 07:25:36 PM
"Csehszlov?k" evening: Staropramen Cerny, Zlaty Bazant. Cheers!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Ursin on April 27, 2007, 11:27:19 PM
LONG LIVE CZECHOSLOVAKIA!!! Cheers! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 27, 2007, 11:30:11 PM
http://www.napi.hu/default.asp?cCenter=article.asp&nID=330737&place=vezeto_anyag_bal

What kind of surprise is the Borsodi Factory preparing with? :)

Best case: Borsodi dark beer
Worst case: diet beer, like Stella Artois L?gere
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 01, 2007, 11:10:30 PM
Cheap beer test, Usrin must read it:

http://www.privatbankar.hu/html/cikk/kommentar.php?kommentar=17681
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 24, 2007, 05:43:42 PM
Newbie on alcohol-free beer list:

Holsten - almost neutral for my tongue, but at least it has no bad backtaste. Mark: 3.5/10


1     Ottakringer Null Komma Josef       8.5
2     Schlossgold 0.0%7
3     Buckler6
4Stella Artois NA4
5Holsten non-alcoholic3.5
6Borsodi P?l?2.5
7Soproni Sz?z1.5
8Dreher alkoholmentes     1
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 01, 2007, 01:01:28 AM
Nobody is drinking beer while the weather is so nice?!?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on June 01, 2007, 01:44:14 AM
I am, but I always drink Warsteiner at home. If I go to a friend's house then I drink anything but any other cheap beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 02, 2007, 07:35:10 PM
I was in Tesco today...  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 03, 2007, 02:20:09 AM
Maybe we should decrease the value of Schlossm?hle to 0.25 Borsodi. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 03, 2007, 02:21:50 AM
Did you buy Schlossm?hle?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 03, 2007, 02:24:37 AM
Nope. It was best before 4th May 2007. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 07, 2007, 02:26:04 PM
Yesterday it was the first and last time when I bought the following beers:

Hansa Pilsner: 5.5 (19 NOK). Quite bitter, like Ottakringer, but in poorer quality and with less (4,7%) alcohol.
CB (Christianssands Bryggeri) Pilsner: 4.0 (22 NOK). Average beer, mixed with some water.

At least, they made me B?FF... but I would have rather bought 43 bottles of Schlossmuhle for that money!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 07, 2007, 02:39:32 PM
I want a beer! Immediately!!! :) :) :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on June 07, 2007, 03:17:57 PM
3 for me, please!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on June 07, 2007, 04:00:23 PM
Quote from: DieselJoe on June 07, 2007, 03:17:57 PM
3 for me, please!
Of course! Diesel, Diesel, Diesel Joe's still drinking...  :D ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 07, 2007, 04:17:34 PM
Alcohol-free test, next stage:

Oettinger - terrible shit. Not tasteless but having awful rotten backtaste, like pork's pee. This one is the Schlossm?hle of NA beers? Price shows it is: 99 HUF, far the cheapest NA beer I have ever bought.


1     Ottakringer Null Komma Josef       8.5
2     Schlossgold 0.0%7
3     Buckler6
4Stella Artois NA4
5Holsten non-alcoholic3.5
6Borsodi P?l?2.5
7Soproni Sz?z2
8Dreher alkoholmentes     1.5
9Oettingerworse than 1

*edit: maybe it was best before 2005 and reprinted...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on June 07, 2007, 06:57:16 PM
Quote from: CTG on June 07, 2007, 04:17:34 PM
Not tasteless but having awful rotten backtaste, like pork's pee.
Like pork pee? Have you ever tasted pork pee? I really hope you haven't.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 07, 2007, 09:09:13 PM
Nope but I already felt the smell of it. And usually smell and taste are quite similar...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 17, 2007, 05:02:32 PM
New beers on the list:

San Miguel (ESP) 5.5 - Bought in Tesco
MB Premium (SRB) 2 - Tasted in Tompa
Adambrau 1.5 - Tasted in Tompa

I forgot to tell earlier:

Perlenbacher Pilsner (from Profi market I think) 6 - surprisingly good, I like it

Oh NOOO I almost forgot to tell it! Jakab S?r (brewed in Jakab S?r?z?, Debrecen, 215 HUF/litre) 2.5  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 17, 2007, 07:14:18 PM
As things look right now, with all probability I am going to embark on a true beerdrinking-orgy for 3 days on June 22-24. The occasion is The Hurricane Festival in Germany. You coming, JTK? :)

It is my ambition not to be sober for a single moment during the festival.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on June 18, 2007, 10:08:02 AM
Oh, the Hurricane. :) Some friends of mine will be there.
My choice was, like last year, the "Fusion Festival" the weekend after the Hurricane. A lot cheaper, almost no really-well-known bands (which of course doesn't have to mean that they are worse ;)) and a very great atmosphere. I mean really very great, last year was nearly like 3 days in paradise. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 18, 2007, 11:44:11 AM
Sorry DJ! It would have been more obvious to ask if you were coming, too bad you're not...  The other festival sounds nice, the only problem is that I'm in China at that time.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: DieselJoe on June 18, 2007, 12:53:59 PM
Doesn't matter. ;)
If anybody else is interested, look here:
http://www.fusion-festival.de/cms07/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 19, 2007, 08:42:27 PM
Oh my god... Frisch Fassl 1,00 points out of 10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 19, 2007, 09:56:48 PM
Finally:

Rogaland Pils: 6,5/10. Well, that's the least that I would wait for 13 NOK/0,33 l...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 20, 2007, 08:19:54 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on June 19, 2007, 08:42:27 PM
Oh my god... Frisch Fassl 1,00 points out of 10

Thanks for testing it, now I don't have to try. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 20, 2007, 09:11:01 AM
Quote from: Usrin on June 19, 2007, 09:56:48 PM
Finally:

Rogaland Pils: 6,5/10. Well, that's the least that I would wait for 13 NOK/0,33 l...

That must be the cheapest beer in Norway...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 20, 2007, 09:40:43 AM
LOL... the cheapest beer in Hungary is less, than 1 NOK/0.5 l. If Schlossm?hle can be called as beer. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on June 20, 2007, 04:26:33 PM
How much is it (in US$) a NOK? Cheapest beer here is 0.50 U$S the bottle of 970ml.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 20, 2007, 04:33:08 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on June 20, 2007, 09:11:01 AM
That must be the cheapest beer in Norway...

Yes, it is the cheapest one that I've seen here, not counting alcohol-free "beers". But surprisingly, it was better than the more expensive beers I tasted before...

Btw, 1 USD = approx. 6,5 NOK.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 20, 2007, 05:30:25 PM
So the cheapest beer in Norway is about 12 times as expensive as in Hungary or Argentina.
But Norway is actually the most expensive country in the world (or Iceland?), so no wonder.

The cheapest beer in Denmark is 2+1 DKK, about $0,50 for 330ml. Still so much cheaper than Norway...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 22, 2007, 03:59:07 PM
BREAKING NEWS:

Yesterday I discovered a much more cheaper beer! Bonzai Joe, do you know Odin Pilsner? As I've seen on the label, it's produced by a Danish company in Norway... and it costs only 8,70 NOK/0,33 l!!! Let's hope it isn't the Schlossm?hle of Norway... Well, maybe the biggest discovery was the supermarket, because neither Rogaland Pils was more expensive than 10,50 NOK/0,33 l there. And a very surprising thing: the 1,25 l bottle of Odin Pilsner was 44 NOK. Why is it cheaper to buy the same amount of beer in many smaller bottles?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 22, 2007, 04:21:28 PM
Usrin: Best before date? ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 22, 2007, 11:29:11 PM
How news: after the silent months I'm testing new beers again. Let's start with something special from Belgium!

Scaldis Ambree (BEL, 12 % alcohol, 559 HUF/0.25 l): brand is advertised as the strongest beer of Belgium. I believe it. It tastes like a good beer mixed with whisky. I never thought before but now I say: there is an upper limit of alcohol content, over this it's getting worse and worse. 12 is too much... But still a tasteful one. Mark: 7/10

Next test: Kasteel Bruin (another strong belgian...)

By the way some of my beer rankings are missing from the forum, I'll look up the MSN logs to paste them here.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 23, 2007, 03:57:12 PM
Quote from: CTG on June 22, 2007, 04:21:28 PM
Usrin: Best before date? ;D

29 Feb 2008. :)
But it was crappy, only slightly better than Arany ?szok. So it doesn't deserve more than 4/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 23, 2007, 04:06:21 PM
500th post of beer topic: CHEERS!!! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 23, 2007, 10:18:40 PM
Kasteel Bruin (BEL, 11% alcohol, 579 HUF/0.33 l): the other strong beer I bought yesterday. Result is totally different - this dark beer is almost the best I've ever tried! Full, high quality dark beer taste, beautiful color, maybe a bit (but only a bit) too strong. No doubt, it deserves a great mark.

I give 9.5 pts from 10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 29, 2007, 11:38:18 AM
White beer or not, surprisingly good: Ilzer 7/10 (much better than Edelweiss - 3.5/10, but weaker than L?wenweisse, which is rated 9/10 at the moment).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 29, 2007, 07:24:09 PM
Ilzer white beer after seeing Akoss' test: too sour but still a drinkable one. But it's really better than Edelweiss. Mark: 4.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 29, 2007, 11:27:29 PM
Two new NA beers:

Clausthaler - beerish water, no real fun to drink. It's not bad either - as refreshing drink. Mark: 3/10

Arany ?szok alkoholmentes - big surprise for me, it's better than some better brand's NA beer. Still not the best... Mark: 3.5/10


1     Ottakringer Null Komma Josef       8.5
2     Schlossgold 0.0%7
3     Buckler6
4Stella Artois NA4
5Arany ?szok alkoholmentes     3.5
6Holsten non-alcoholic3.5
7Clausthaler3
8Borsodi P?l?2.5
9Soproni Sz?z2
10Dreher alkoholmentes     1.5
11Oettingerworse than 1
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 02, 2007, 08:33:20 PM
Hunyadi M?ty?s S?r: worse than 1 (0/10)... worst beer ever tasted by me... undrinkable... I threw away the bottle with the remaining beer after tasting it...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2007, 10:00:12 PM
Finally... I've just finished a medicine, now I could drink again. My Sturovo/P?rk?ny trip was quite useful seeing the results:

Corgon - typical quality Czechslovakian beer, quite bitter but very tasteful. Mark: 7.5/10

Smadny Mnich - it was a bit tasteless after Corgon but I enjoyed the way it killed my thirst. No doubt, it's a summer festival beer. Mark: 6/10

Saris dark beer - poor alcohol content but a very special new taste for me. I enjoyed every ccm of this beer but I still prefer the stronger types. Mark: 8/10

Beer testing next time (I didn't want to try more than 3 newbies this evening): Starobrno, Gambrinus.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2007, 10:03:15 PM
Whoops I just remember: Gambrinus won't be newbie.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 27, 2007, 12:58:25 AM
One more newbie, I was thirsty: Starobrno. Average weaker beer, nothing makes me remember the taste. Mark: 3.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 27, 2007, 11:38:12 AM
Last night was cruel (never drink strong Serbian wine, especially not before and after beer testing...), I got really drunk after a long silence. My liver is in powergear now. :(
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on August 27, 2007, 12:17:12 PM
Picture of CTG's liver !

(http://www.stop-alcool.net/mw/images/Cirrhose_alcoolique_4.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 27, 2007, 12:20:56 PM
Bah don't pollute this topic with such a picture.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on August 27, 2007, 02:34:16 PM
I don't pollute, I warn you not to get drunk too often if you want to keep a fully functionnal liver. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 01, 2007, 10:07:44 PM
I'm drinking a Soproni at the moment! :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 02, 2007, 10:25:40 PM
B?FF! I have a new and nice beer mug from Pisa. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 06, 2007, 02:28:07 PM
This is a men's forum, just check the most popular topics: beer, sports, football... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 10, 2007, 11:25:31 AM
A new beer tasted last week: Mythos (GRE) 7.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 10, 2007, 11:27:16 AM
Quote from: lised on March 18, 2006, 11:13:17 AM
Quote from: CTGBest beer producers on the Earth:

1 Belgium
2 Czech Republic
3 Slovakia
4 Germany

No, no, no...the best beer in the world is "Mythos" made in Crete!  :D

Hm... good, but not the best. ;) FOREVER SLOVAKIA AND SLOVAK BEERS!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 10, 2007, 11:29:12 AM
This week I'm going to try some newbies from Belgium. Let's see the offer in G-Roby shop.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 10, 2007, 01:16:02 PM
I've just drunk a Zlat? Ba?ant! :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 10, 2007, 01:35:13 PM
It's really a great one from Felvid?k. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 10, 2007, 08:04:41 PM
Quote from: Usrin on September 10, 2007, 11:27:16 AM
Quote from: lised on March 18, 2006, 11:13:17 AM
Quote from: CTGBest beer producers on the Earth:

1 Belgium
2 Czech Republic
3 Slovakia
4 Germany

No, no, no...the best beer in the world is "Mythos" made in Crete!  :D

Hm... good, but not the best. ;) FOREVER SLOVAKIA AND SLOVAK BEERS!!!

Well, probably these four are really the best four, but I haven't yet tried so much of Belgian beers. Thus my list would be:

1 Czech Republic
2 Slovakia
3 Germany
4 Denmark
5 Belgium

Btw I'm going to rerate almost all of the bears I've tasted. I think my taste is close to its final stadium, after changing and changing and reaching the current.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 11, 2007, 10:15:02 AM
Two newbies:

Kasteel Bier (BEL, 11% alcohol) - after Kasteel Bruin's great performance I expected a less tasteful one for the white beer version. I was totally wrong! I can't give less than 9.5/10 for it. :)

Chimay P?res Trappistes (BEL, 7% alcohol) - a bit weaker than Kasteel products in every aspect, but still a top beer for me. Mark: 8.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 21, 2007, 10:05:15 PM
Another two newbies:

Guinness (IRE, 4.3% alcohol): Expensive. Seems like coffee. Smells like coffee. Tastes like coffee. I hate coffee. Mark: 2.5/10

Kwak (BEL, 8.0% alcohol): Red women are hot. Red beer is cool. Especially this. Beautiful color, spicy taste and smell, tricky spirit, harmonic effect. Perfect! Mark: 10/10!



Additional info after Poo-CTG meeting last week: Akoss Poo tried Maisel's Weisse and gave quite a great mark: 7.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: StuntingHoschte on October 05, 2007, 07:21:00 PM
ctg, did u ever tried a veltins or a diebels. these could taste good for you
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 05, 2007, 08:41:34 PM
Veltins was quite good but not enough strong without a real characteristic taste. Diebels? Never heard about it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: StuntingHoschte on October 05, 2007, 10:36:02 PM
then travel to germany, go into a market and search for diebels-beer or dimix

i also tasted some beer within my life:
veltins: not all too srong but it tastes too much after bread with mineralwater 7/10
v+lemon: another veltins, but much better taste, it tastes like bread and lemon 8,5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 21, 2007, 01:13:10 PM
Next beer test: 2008... :(
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on November 21, 2007, 07:51:14 PM
Quote from: CTG on November 21, 2007, 01:13:10 PM
Next beer test: 2008... :(
Why is that? Too much medicines to take for 6 weeks?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 21, 2007, 09:22:47 PM
Due to my paralel liver problems and the effect of the lot of medicines I decided to ignore alcohol at least for a month.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 11, 2007, 10:42:46 AM
Weifert Tamno (Serbia, 6.5% alcohol) - dark beer without any "dark beerish" signs in taste, only the color and concentration shows what it is in real. Anyway it wasn't bad. Mark: 5.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 11, 2007, 02:38:03 PM
I miss Niki
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on December 11, 2007, 04:59:13 PM
would you like to talk about it?  ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on December 11, 2007, 06:02:01 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on December 11, 2007, 02:38:03 PM
I miss Niki
Don't worry, he's still drinking. ;D :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 11, 2007, 08:21:49 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on December 11, 2007, 06:02:01 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on December 11, 2007, 02:38:03 PM
I miss Niki
Don't worry, he's still drinking. ;D :D

Niki is a female name here... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 11, 2007, 08:24:00 PM
Friday: possible beer test again (so much for my latest promise...)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on December 11, 2007, 08:28:28 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 11, 2007, 08:21:49 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on December 11, 2007, 06:02:01 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on December 11, 2007, 02:38:03 PM
I miss Niki
Don't worry, he's still drinking. ;D :D

Niki is a female name here... ;D
Yes, it's often used as the friendly version of Nicole. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 12, 2007, 10:48:45 AM
Back to beer: I still didn't enter the results of of some beer tests from 2006. I have to look for them in MSN logs...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on December 12, 2007, 07:21:30 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on December 11, 2007, 08:28:28 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 11, 2007, 08:21:49 PM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on December 11, 2007, 06:02:01 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on December 11, 2007, 02:38:03 PM
I miss Niki
Don't worry, he's still drinking. ;D :D

Niki is a female name here... ;D
Yes, it's often used as the friendly version of Nicole. ;D
It's either male or female here.
For Nicanor or Nicolas sometimes (male names)
For Nicole (female)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 12, 2007, 09:27:12 PM
In Turkey/Germany, it seems to be a male name.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 12, 2007, 10:11:12 PM
Tonight Belgian beer trip continues with Corsendonk Pater-Dubbel. ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2007, 12:44:34 AM
Corsendonk (BEL, 7.5 % alcohol): fine belgian dark beer taste (not very unique but very delicious), only that little plus is missing... Mark: 8.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on December 13, 2007, 06:32:07 AM
Do you take price into the analisys when you give your score?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:05:38 AM
Quote from: Chulk on December 13, 2007, 06:32:07 AM
Do you take price into the analisys when you give your score?

Never. Most of the great Belgian beers are quite expensive.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on December 13, 2007, 03:29:20 PM
And which beer has the best price/quality in your opinion? Because I'll rather drink an 8 point beer costing 2 US$ than a 9 points costing over 3 US$...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 13, 2007, 06:34:12 PM
Quote from: Chulk on December 13, 2007, 03:29:20 PM
And which beer has the best price/quality in your opinion? Because I'll rather drink an 8 point beer costing 2 US$ than a 9 points costing over 3 US$...

BORSODI of course :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 13, 2007, 07:05:59 PM
I agree with Borsodi... But I did taste a 0,5 l 5,5 rating beer for 0.28 EUR in Berlin once...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 13, 2007, 07:06:59 PM
And don't get me started on the beer in Sturovo!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on December 13, 2007, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on December 13, 2007, 06:34:12 PM
Quote from: Chulk on December 13, 2007, 03:29:20 PM
And which beer has the best price/quality in your opinion? Because I'll rather drink an 8 point beer costing 2 US$ than a 9 points costing over 3 US$...
BORSODI of course :D
What's Borsodi price/quality? Of course they'll be very expensive to me as Warsteiner (which I consider the best) less than 1 US$ here. So are other well-known beers (like Heineken)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 13, 2007, 07:33:54 PM
I'm thinking about creating a fair system to rate beers on the price/taste scale. The question is that how much money is worthy for a +1 mark beer?

Some good examples for very worthy beers:

Borsodi (HUN, 4,6 vol. % alcohol) 0,50 Euro 7/10
Soproni (HUN, 4,5%) 0,50 Euro 7/10
Soproni 1895 (HUN, 5,3%) 0,60 Euro 7,5/10
Dreher (HUN, 5,0%) 0,65 Euro 7,5/10
Zlaty Bazant (SVK, 5,0%) 0,60 Euro (in Hungary, the cheaper version cost that value, in Slovakia, the better one, but you have to go to Slovakia for it) 9,5/10 the better one (12% on the Slovakian extract scale) 8 the cheaper one
Pilsner Urquell (CZE, 4,4%) 0,85 Euro 9,5/10
Carlsberg (DEN, 5,0%) 0,80 Euro 9,5/10

and let's not forget about:
S?rk?ny (HUN, ?%) 0,35 Euro 5,5/10 :D :D :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:27:59 PM
Most of the tested Belgian specialities are around 2.00-2.50 Euro/0.33 liter. My absolute favorite Hoegaarden Grand Cru is about 1.80 Euro/0.33 liter.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:29:15 PM
Best choice: Schlossm?hle 0.12 Euro/0.5 liter (never tasted, it's a legendary crappy liquid)... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 13, 2007, 10:33:35 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:29:15 PM
Best choice: Schlossm?hle 0.12 Euro/0.5 liter (never tasted, it's a legendary crappy liquid)... ;D

shut up, fart at your n?mber in order to make her unconscious for a few hours, and come to msn, *sshole!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:36:35 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on December 13, 2007, 10:33:35 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:29:15 PM
Best choice: Schlossm?hle 0.12 Euro/0.5 liter (never tasted, it's a legendary crappy liquid)... ;D

shut up, fart at your n?mber in order to make her unconscious for a few hours, and come to msn, *sshole!

Any?d!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 13, 2007, 10:58:28 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:36:35 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on December 13, 2007, 10:33:35 PM

Best choice: Schlossm?hle 0.12 Euro/0.5 liter (never tasted, it's a legendary crappy liquid)... ;D

shut up, fart at your n?mber in order to make her unconscious for a few hours, and come to msn, *sshole!

Kurva
Quote from: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:29:15 PM
Any?d!
baszd meg...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 13, 2007, 11:37:42 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on December 13, 2007, 10:58:28 PM
Kurva
Quote from: CTG on December 13, 2007, 10:29:15 PM
Any?d!
baszd meg...

LOL!!! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 17, 2007, 07:28:56 PM
Before you start to think that I hate jews, tonight beer: Maccabee kosher. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 18, 2007, 03:14:50 PM
Maccabee (ISR, 4.9% alcohol): Baaaaaaaah no-no-noooooooooooo... One of the crappiest beers I've ever tasted. Disgusting sour and additional (not beerish) bitter backtaste, no power. No more kosher beer! Mark: 1.5/10

Best before date was quite close...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 21, 2007, 09:12:01 PM
Kilkenny (IRE, 5.0% alcohol): Irish beer = coffee? Bah. Mark: 4/10

Soproni Fekete D?mon (HUN, 5.2%): caramel made it worse compared to the original one... Mark: 4/10

Warsteiner is still coming during the alcoholic 'Goodbye MSN 2007' online party with Akoss. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 29, 2007, 07:27:49 PM
I couldn't rate Warsteiner although I drunk it - that night was simply horrible with a new personal record of drinking alcohol (but as far as I remember I gave something like 6 +/-1 pts). And the biggest vomit after it... Details: later, in another topic. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 06, 2008, 02:45:47 AM
My goal in this year: at least 30 new beer, with a special attention on Belgians. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 09, 2008, 03:18:04 PM
First test day of the year: 11th January 2008.

Brands: still unknown, 2 or 3 newbies will be tried.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: StuntingHoschte on January 17, 2008, 07:36:25 PM
did u tested karamalz?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 17, 2008, 07:45:23 PM
Karamalz... hmmm is it a beer or just a soft malt drink?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: StuntingHoschte on January 19, 2008, 11:53:38 PM
its a beer with malt. it tastes great
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 20, 2008, 12:02:01 AM
Giraf (5,6%): 3/10

Too much alcohol taste, too sharp, bad aftertaste.

Carl's Special (4,6%): 8/10

A danish beer classic! Semi-dark stuff that just drinks itself and buys another one. And without feeling like you're drinking water.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 20, 2008, 10:09:00 PM
I forgot to tell you the beer ratings of last few months:

Corgon 12% 6.5
Zlaty Bazant tmavy 6.5
Arany ?szok semi-dark 6.5

I was in Slovakia yesterday, so new beers will be tested soon.

I bought:

2 bottles of Starobrno 10% (I've drunk it, mark remains the same - it's a beer like Soproni)
2 bottles of Kelt 10% (I only tasted the 12% version before)
a bottle of Smadny Mnich 10% (absolute newbie)
a bottle of Zlaty Bazant 12% (one of my favourite beers, I couldn't return home from Slovakia without it)
a bottle of Saris 12% (retest will occur)
a bottle of Corgon 10% (I only tasted the 12% version before)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 01:40:48 PM
Beer testing tonight (finally...).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 06:51:29 PM
Tonight: 2 beer from Belgium, 1 from Israel.

Abbaye de Saint Martin Bruin
Abbaye de Saint Martin Blond
Goldstar dark lager

Additional info: let's spice this evening with a nice bottle of red wine too! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 07:05:08 PM
Goldstar dark lager (ISR, 4.9%, 245 HUF/0.33 l): significantly better than Maccabee. Typical beer of warm days without any dark beerish taste and power. It deserves... hmmm... 5.5 pts from 10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 10:07:20 PM
Abbaye de Saint Martin Bruin (BEL, 8%, 399 HUF/0.33 l): really Belgian taste (maybe a bit too much fruit aroma), no power, even with 8% of alcohol. Not the best Belgian... but still a pretty good one. Mark: 7.5/10

Abbaye de Saint Martin Blond (BEL, 7%, 399 HUF/0.33 l): tastes like rose tea (???), powerless, but it also has the characteristic "abbaye beers" backtaste. If I said not the best for Bruin then this one was a bit disappointing. Mark: 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 10:20:21 PM
WTF?!?!?!?

Quote from: Stunts Forumzaqrack  10:09:34 pm Viewing the topic Beer.

Zak is a hidden alcoholist. ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on January 25, 2008, 10:35:41 PM
no, just someone who checks all the public topics :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 11:22:50 PM
ONCE you have to try a beer. Not a strong one, not too much. Just to taste. And not Borsodi - a real quality Belgian dark abbaye beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 25, 2008, 11:34:51 PM
wow i was faster than 10 minutes!!!! wnt out, bought wine, came back, taled to somebody (unidentified) and sceen saver is still no in use (<10 mins). I'm fast and drunk. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 26, 2008, 12:33:00 AM
Zak will only drink beer for sex  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2008, 12:33:18 AM
Tonight alcoholic balance:

750 ccm of Ostorosi Medina wine (HUN, sweet, 11.5% alcohol)
330 ccm Abbaye de Saint-Martin Blonde beer (BEL, 7% alcohol)
330 ccm Abbaye de Saint-Martin Bruin beer (BEL, 8% alcohol)
330 ccm Goldstar dark lager beer (ISR, 4.9% alcohol)
750 ccm Balatoni CTG (LOL) wine (HUN, semi-sweet, 10.5% alcohol)

It means 230 ccm alcohol. Still standing. ;D

For BJ: 10 Borsodi.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2008, 12:34:47 AM
BJ: Belgian abbaye beers are world class. I don't think there's nay better beer in the whole world than that. Of course not all of them but the more expensive types. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 26, 2008, 01:03:13 AM
Okay now stop drinking and go do something drunk (not driving! ;))
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Duplode on January 26, 2008, 01:29:27 AM
Quote from: CTG on January 26, 2008, 12:33:18 AM
It means 230 ccm alcohol. Still standing. ;D

You intended to type 2300ccm - ok, I understand your situation  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 26, 2008, 09:33:13 AM
Bah it's the worst hangover ever, even worse than at my record...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on January 29, 2008, 05:03:00 AM
You know what to do to avoid hangovers? Stay drunk all the time!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 29, 2008, 08:25:23 AM
Yep it's also a nice solution. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on January 29, 2008, 03:14:23 PM
I have a friend who drinks 2 glasses of vegetal oil before drinking alcohol, and says that keeps him from getting drunk. I don't really know if it works, but I've seen him drunk many times... althouhg maybe he didn't have oil those times.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Duplode on January 29, 2008, 03:22:58 PM
Quote from: Chulk on January 29, 2008, 03:14:23 PM
I have a friend who drinks 2 glasses of vegetal oil before drinking alcohol, and says that keeps him from getting drunk. I don't really know if it works (...)

...unless he somehow managed to overload his liver with the oil, thus slowing down alcohol metabolism, which seems quite unlikely and in any case not funny at all... :-X
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 29, 2008, 05:01:11 PM
On the other hand eating some really heavy dishes with high fat content like bacon makes you stronger versus alcohol, especially hard drinks (p?linka, absinth).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on January 29, 2008, 05:22:20 PM
He says vegetal oil (as it is quite thick) forms a kind of protector film againts liver walls, so difficult alcohol metabolism.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 29, 2008, 09:09:39 PM
Quote from: Chulk on January 29, 2008, 03:14:23 PM
I have a friend who drinks 2 glasses of vegetal oil before drinking alcohol, and says that keeps him from getting drunk. I don't really know if it works, but I've seen him drunk many times... althouhg maybe he didn't have oil those times.

Old Hungarian men when they went to their wine cellar to get drunken, also ate a spoon of fat (or lot of bread with fat and onion) in order to avoid vomiting. With that, fat formed a layer on their stomach, so too much alcohol didn't make them vomit. They were drunken, but they stood alcohol well. Me and my friends also use this method (with the bread/fat/onion option) on wine cellar parties. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on January 30, 2008, 04:16:07 PM
This is really a great site, only stunts is better!

www.ratebeer.com

Get drunk and vote!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 30, 2008, 04:19:18 PM
I know this site for ages, it is really useful for beer addicts. Although I must laugh sometimes when seeing bad scores for good beers and the opposite... :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on January 30, 2008, 04:28:11 PM
Haha yeah, I tasted this really nice Harboe 1883 yesterday. An extraordinary good dark beer, maybe a little too sweet. But anyway I can only recommend it. Then I saw someone rating it to 0,8 where minimum is 0,5. I checked out which type of beer he liked and saw that he was into ciders, fruity beers and such. I just love a dark beer with lots of alcohol.. :P
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 31, 2008, 12:03:12 PM
Dark berr with lot's of alcohol? Wow, the same for me! What about Belgian beers? (Hoegaarden, Duvel, Kwak, Chimay...)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 01, 2008, 12:58:36 AM
After the last friday I wanted to buy a beer for tonight but somehow I felt disgusted from all the alcoholic drinks. Damn, my "hate" is longer than expected... :(
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 08, 2008, 10:06:42 PM
Another two Belgians tonight! I also have a bottle of red wine but I don't feel any inspiration to drink it...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 14, 2008, 01:14:18 PM
Test of Slovakian beers:

Kelt 10% - not worse than the 12% version was, mark: 7.5
Smadny Mnich 10% - uncharacteristic, a bit bitter taste... I don't like it so much, mark: 4
Saris 12% - now I have to give a 7 mark on it
Corgon 10% - not bad, but nothing really special, mark: 6
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 14, 2008, 03:55:25 PM
Oh I forgot to rate my latest beers. Well... I must be tired of Belgians or something else, because I don't really like to drink them nowadays. Maybe I should continue with Czech/Slovakian specialities. ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 25, 2008, 05:20:19 PM
So before I forget those Belgians:

Tripel Carmeliet (BEL, 8% alcohol, 529 HUF/0.33 l): too intensive foaming (typical illness of concentrated dark beers), nothing extra, just the usual Abbaye stuff in almost good quality. Not the best one either... Mark: 7/10

St. Benoit Blonde (BEL, 6.3% alcohol, 439 HUF/0.33 l): too much Belgians in a row, maybe I'm bored in them - this one was another member of the Belgian scheme. Slightly better than the first one, although it was a bit weak for me in alcohol content. Mark: 8/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 16, 2008, 02:22:18 PM
Four newbies in the last few weeks, the fifth is in the fridge. Let's see them:

Sagres (POR, 6.6% alcohol, 279 HUF/0.33 l): surprise from an unusual beer country! Red beer, such as Kwak and almost as good as it was. Big wow! Mark: 9/10.

Westmalle Trappist Tripel (BEL, 9.5% alcohol, 629 HUF/0.33 l): the most expensive beer ever tried - I was afraid of a big disappointment. Lucky case, this one was a really good one: very strong, very tasteful. Great beer! Mark: 9/10.

Orval (BEL, 6.2% alcohol, 579 HUF/0.33 l): just another Belgian with beautiful bottle, average abbaye beer taste and a bit weak alcoholic taste - 6.2% used to seem stronger in other beers. Mark: 8/10.

Szent István sör (HUN, 4.6% alcohol, 159 HUF/0.5 l, but in an expensive non-stop supermarket): typical 3rd class non-quality beer for alcoholists, similar to Köbányai but with a bit stronger sour backtaste. Weak-mediorce one, I won't ever drink it anymore, unless I get it for free. Mark: 3/10.

So the fifth one is still left - it's a Belgian again. ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 16, 2008, 10:30:08 PM
Delirium Tremens (BEL, 8.5%, 579 HUF/0.33 l): too Belgian. It's not a complain, just a fact. Not the best anyway. Mark: 7.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 20, 2008, 01:09:21 PM
I was in Prague last weekend, so three types of Primátor (CZE) beers will be tested soon. The strongest one, Primátor Double contains 24% extract and 10,5% alcohol - for only 19 CZK (0,75 EUR)! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 20, 2008, 04:39:22 PM
Quote from: Usrin on March 20, 2008, 01:09:21 PM
10,5% alcohol

Not so strong... Scaldis from Belgium had 12%, Kasteel Bruin was 11%... ;)

Quote from: Usrin on March 20, 2008, 01:09:21 PM
for only 19 CZK (0,75 EUR)! ;)

...but this data is really interesting! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 10, 2008, 11:27:00 AM
Two FRENCH newbies from last Friday:

Grimbergen Cuvée Ambrée (FRA, 6.5 % alcohol, 250 HUF/ 0.25 l): abbaye beer France, quite different from the Belgians. I liked the taste but missed the power in spite of it's alcohol content. Mark: 7.5/10.

Wel Stoch au malt des Highlands (FRA, 6.2 % alcohol, 250 HUF/ 0.25 l): very special one, containing the malt of whisky. Very tasteful and good beer, even if it's not a typical "CTG's favorite" type. Mark: 8.5/10.

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 15, 2008, 05:01:07 PM
Budweiser 1795 (CZE, 5,0%) 7 pts
Oberdorfer Weissbier (?GER, 5,5%) 7 pts
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 17, 2008, 06:32:54 PM
Oh my God, the first kriek "beer" of my life! I won't rate it because it's really far from beerish taste with the added cherry, but I have to say it's an excellent and tasteful (sweet) - maybe a bit femalish - drink (imaginary score: 10/10, don't add it to the database). Oh and what's that exactly? Kasteel Rouge (BEL, 8% alcohol, 579 HUF/ 0.33 l). I suggest it for Diesel Still Drinking Joe! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on April 17, 2008, 06:42:58 PM
But that's really expensive... I can't even think about what it would cost here.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 18, 2008, 08:42:56 PM
Wow, several newbies at G-Roby shop (Móricz Square), mainly the other versions of the tested bruin/blonde beers. Heavy testing period is coming soon! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 20, 2008, 11:00:50 PM
Not by beer but...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 20, 2008, 11:02:10 PM
I am really dRUNK!!!! ;D Whisky+wine, 25:38 long talk with Poo in the phone... so it's a BÖFF!!! Beer topic must be the biggest instead of Sports, even if I started both! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 08, 2008, 10:06:54 AM
Ratings of the mentioned Czech beers:

Primátor Double (CZE, 10,5%): 4/10
Primátor Rytírsky (CZE, 9,0%): 5,5/10
Primátor Polotmavy (CZE, 5,5%): 8,5/10

The quality of those strong Primátor beers is really good, but they are really sweet besides the normal taste of dark beers... it isn't for my taste.


And the newest one:

Niksicko (MNE, 5,0%): 4/10

It is the most popular beer in Montenegro, but it reminded me on the strange tastes of some Hungarian "home-made" beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 08, 2008, 01:31:15 PM
Quote from: Usrin on May 08, 2008, 10:06:54 AM
The quality of those strong Primátor beers is really good, but they are really sweet besides the normal taste of dark beers... it isn't for my taste.

It sounds excellent for me. ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 08, 2008, 04:41:22 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 08, 2008, 01:31:15 PM
Quote from: Usrin on May 08, 2008, 10:06:54 AM
The quality of those strong Primátor beers is really good, but they are really sweet besides the normal taste of dark beers... it isn't for my taste.

It sounds excellent for me. ;)

Primátor is a standard brand in the Czech-Slovakian beer shop in Kazincbarcika. I've tasted some of them (via my uncle), but I couldn't remember their exact name, so I forgot their score.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 12, 2008, 12:16:35 AM
Before I forget, two other french newbies from Auchan:

Grain D'Orge Cuvée 1898 (FRA, 8.5% alcohol, 499 HUF/0.5 l): well, well, well... French beer factories should learn from their neighbour (Belgium). Even if it is a strong beer (couldn't really feel it), it isn't really characteristic and has a bad sour backtaste. I didn't like it very much compared to the price. Mark: 3.5/10

La Divine St Ladelin (FRA, 8.5% alcohol, 499 HUF/0.5 l): a lot better than the first one. Not very characteristic, not very strong taste - but still quite good to drink on a warm day. Mark: 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 12, 2008, 05:19:02 PM
Tomorrow I'm going to Slovakia - let's see if they have something new for me... ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 18, 2008, 11:29:58 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 12, 2008, 05:19:02 PM
Tomorrow I'm going to Slovakia - let's see if they have something new for me... ;)

Well I bought no beer in Kosice... but a nice bottle of Becherovka! ;)

Quote from: Wikipedia
Becherovka is an herbal bitters made in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, flavored with anise seeds, cinnamon, and approximately 32 other herbs, first sold in 1807. It is normally served cold, and is often used as an aid to digestion. It can also be served with tonic water, in which case it is known as a beton (Czech for "concrete"). Its alcohol content is 38 percent.





Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 23, 2008, 10:06:31 AM
Another belgian on the list:

Barbar Blonde Au Miel (BEL, 8% alcohol, 579 HUF/0.33 l): the usual strong belgian beer taste with some piquant savour in the background thanks to the added honey. Belgians really know how to make extra fine beer specialities! Mark: 9/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 27, 2008, 01:40:46 PM
Tonight: visiting the best extra beer source, G-Roby shop... ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 29, 2008, 11:33:45 AM
Quote from: Usrin on May 31, 2005, 03:32:39 PM
CTG, have you never tasted Tesco Economy beer??? (Nowadays they call it Viking.) I think it's the cheapest beer in Hungary. Its quality is something like Koccint?s wine - but you won't get drunk, because it contains only 3% alcohol! :D

Schlossmühle is cheaper. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 01, 2008, 06:36:13 PM
New beer tasted:

Adelsburg (HUN) 1/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 01, 2008, 11:22:57 PM
Are you, one day, going to stop tasting new beers, look at your list and start just drinking the ones that are rated highly and priced low? :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 02, 2008, 08:16:24 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on June 01, 2008, 11:22:57 PM
Are you, one day, going to stop tasting new beers, look at your list and start just drinking the ones that are rated highly and priced low? :)

We do already. Testing is only the 10 percent of my beer intake. ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 02, 2008, 11:14:39 AM
Another beer combo:

San Miguel (ESP, 5.4% alcohol, 399 HUF/0.5 l): I don't know if I tried this already earlier or not - so I had to taste it again(?). Not very characteristic, average taste, good for warm days. Mark: 5.5/10

1664 Blanc (FRA, 5% alcohol, 319 HUF/0.25 l): not exactly a beer - it contains added spices: orange, coriander. Excellent taste but it's really not beerish. Mark: unofficial 10/10, don't add it to the rankings.

Satan Red (BEL, 8% alcohol, 539 HUF/0.33 l): Belgian and strong - quite a usual one. Nothing more. Mark: 7.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on June 02, 2008, 06:51:54 PM
I can't do it this time, but next traveling time I may bring some Chinese beers for you to include in the rankings. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 02, 2008, 08:31:36 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on June 02, 2008, 06:51:54 PM
I can't do it this time, but next traveling time I may bring some Chinese beers for you to include in the rankings. :)

Very nice offer but I'm a bit afraid of Chinese alcoholic drinks - Jacky told some terrible things about it... (not beer, but Er Gou Tou, the gasoline taste wine).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 02, 2008, 08:32:52 PM
Btw I'm drinking Tokaji Aranyfürt wine at the moment (semi-sweet, very tasteful).

Anyway from now this topic is open for other alcoholic drinks too - feel free to post about pálinka, whisky, wine, vodka, cherry, absinth, brandy, etc...  ;)
Title: Re: Beer (and other alcoholic drinks)
Post by: zaqrack on June 03, 2008, 10:54:18 AM
I have just returned from a fancy supermarket, where tinned (355ml) Chinese beers range from HUF 50 to 100, and there were several Korean and Japanese available as well...

I have bought a Tsingtao and a Shanshui for my brother. :)
Title: Re: Beer (and other alcoholic drinks)
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 03, 2008, 01:05:49 PM
Tsingtao is really good, but it's big, you can also get it in Europe. Yanjing is another classic chinese beer which is reasonably good. From Japan, I only remember Asahi. I hope you're having a great trip :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 03, 2008, 04:21:10 PM
Quote from: CTG on June 02, 2008, 08:32:52 PM
Anyway from now this topic is open for other alcoholic drinks too - feel free to post about pálinka, whisky, wine, vodka, cherry, absinth, brandy, etc...  ;)

But 'Beer' topic title sounds still better...
Title: Re: Beer (and other alcoholic drinks)
Post by: zaqrack on June 03, 2008, 07:03:56 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on June 03, 2008, 01:05:49 PM
Tsingtao is really good, but it's big, you can also get it in Europe. Yanjing is another classic chinese beer which is reasonably good. From Japan, I only remember Asahi. I hope you're having a great trip :)

I have just returned from the local massage saloon, where I had a 2 hour long Chinese massage with a beautiful girl (of course without the here-so-common "happy ending"!) followed by a seafood dinner on the seashore, so I just couldn't be any better.

Love this country. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 13, 2008, 12:45:20 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on June 03, 2008, 07:03:56 PM
of course without the here-so-common "happy ending"!

I wonder why people forgot to make silly jokes from this... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 08, 2008, 08:32:16 PM
Two newbies and an almost forgotten one from 2006:

Lasko Zlatorog (SLO, 4.9 % alcohol, 179 HUF/0.5 l): average beer for a warm day. Quality is something like Borsodi or Soproni. Mark: 5.5/10

Baltika No. 7 (RUS, 5.4% alcohol, 579 HUF/0.5 l): not very strong but tasteful refreshing light beer from Russia. What a shame, it's too expensive... Mark: 7.5/10

Info for Usrin: these are available in Auchan (Savoya Park) - thanks to Parador Co. There are also some unusual beer from Belgium (several brands), France (several brands), Portugal (Sagres), Vietnam (Saigon), Japan, Romania...

And the old one:

El Grande (FRA, 5.9% alcohol, don't remember the price, maybe ~350 HUF/0.33 l two years ago): contains added rum which gives quite a good taste to this beer. Not my favorite but it was worth to try. Mark: 8/10

And so many beers are missing from my rankings tried in 2006: Schöfferhofer, Köstritzer Schwarzbier, Wernesgrüner, etc... I can't really remember them.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 15, 2008, 03:35:55 PM
Valentins Weissbier (GER, 5,3%, wheat beer) 7.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 21, 2008, 04:58:28 PM
Two weeks without beer. Damn! :-\ :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 13, 2008, 02:40:29 PM
6 beers to rate here... maybe tonight.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on August 19, 2008, 12:42:02 AM
Quote from: CTG on July 21, 2008, 04:58:28 PM
Two weeks without beer. Damn! :-\ :D

Aaarght, how can you survive for so long? :o
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 19, 2008, 05:57:37 AM
Quote from: SuperBrian on August 19, 2008, 12:42:02 AM
Quote from: CTG on July 21, 2008, 04:58:28 PM
Two weeks without beer. Damn! :-\ :D

Aaarght, how can you survive for so long? :o

With 4 Polish and 2 German newbies later. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 21, 2008, 08:13:27 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 29, 2007, 07:27:49 PM
I couldn't rate Warsteiner although I drunk it - that night was simply horrible with a new personal record of drinking alcohol (but as far as I remember I gave something like 6 +/-1 pts). And the biggest vomit after it... Details: later, in another topic. ;D

Tonight: re-testing Warsteiner. ;) ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 21, 2008, 08:45:43 PM
Warsteiner (GER, 4.8% alcohol, 199 HUF/0.33 l): great summer beer without real power but with nice bitter taste. Mark: 7.5/10.

Now let's continue with the well-known Pilsner Urquell.  ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 21, 2008, 11:20:05 PM
So the promised six beers from the last few weeks:

Flensburger Dunkel (GER, 4.8% alcohol, 259 HUF/0.33 l): disappointing dark beer without power and a bit waterish taste. No bad backtaste but I don't recommend this one for dark beer lovers. Mark: 4.5/10

Flensburger Weizen (GER, 5.1% alcohol, 259 HUF/0.33 l): a lot better than the dunkel version. Great wheat beer, although it wasn't very strong. Mark: 8/10

Tatra Jasne Pelne (POL, 6.0% alcohol, 2.79 PLZ/0.5 l in a non-stop supermarket): good-mediorce semi-strong beer, nothing really special but I liked it. Mark: 7/10

Zywiec (POL, 5.6% alcohol, 6 PLZ/1 l in a restaurant): strange one. Tastes like an average beer with average alcohol content - but somehow it hits. Another strange thing: it had more metallic taste than other canned beers in Poland. Mark: 6/10

Okocim Mocne (POL, 7.1% alcohol, 2.75 PLZ/0.5 l): very special and delicious beer, it has 15% (!) extract content. A little bit sweet but in the good meaning. I liked it very-very much! Mark: 9.5/10

Zubr (POL, 6.0% alcohol, 2.50 PLZ/0.5 l): quite good, but nothing special again. I felt the semi-high alcohol and extract content. Mark: 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 26, 2008, 10:27:15 AM
Beer tests:

Soproni Fekete Démon 4.5/10 - nothing special
Blanche De Namur 6.5/10 - I guess the tastes of the beers were mixed in my mouth and I was hungry, maybe it would have deserved a bit more
Erdinger dark wheat beer 5.5/10 - rather dark than wheat, that's why Usrin liked it more than me
Prince (cheap beer) 3.5/10 - drinkable category
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2008, 10:29:09 AM
I just recognized that Blanche de Namur was a newbie for me too, so...

Blanche de Namur (BEL, 4.5% alcohol, 399 HUF/0.33 l): weak in alcohol content but quite tasteful white beer anyway. Not my usual style. Mark: 7.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2008, 10:44:17 PM
"Csehszlovák" beer test in Hungarian, dedicated to Usrin and Akoss: http://www.deluxe.hu/cikk/20080825/cseh_sorteszt_2_bernard_kelt_krusovice_muscater_radegast_bud_super_strong_kozel
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: lised on August 27, 2008, 12:17:39 AM
Have you ever tried the beer "black hole"? It IS black and around 13% and tastes...hmm...very strange :) Hope you'll try it some day  :-*
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 27, 2008, 12:23:53 AM
Quote from: lised on August 27, 2008, 12:17:39 AM
Have you ever tried the beer "black hole"? It IS black and around 13% and tastes...hmm...very strange :) Hope you'll try it some day  :-*

I prefer other kind of black holes. ;D ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 09, 2008, 12:06:02 AM
I'm planning to taste some really cheap and probably bad beers - just to calibrate the scale between 1 and 3. Yes, I'm going to try Schlossmühle too. That's what I call braveness. Others will say it's rather insane... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 10, 2008, 11:31:19 AM
Quote from: CTG on September 09, 2008, 12:06:02 AM
I'm planning to taste some really cheap and probably bad beers - just to calibrate the scale between 1 and 3. Yes, I'm going to try Schlossmühle too. That's what I call braveness. Others will say it's rather insane... ;D

Then visit Profi, Penny Market, Lidl and cheap supermarkets like these. Spar and Tesco also offers some kinds of cheap beers, though not as many as the previous ones. The best cheap beers are: Grafen Walder (Lidl) and Sárkány (Spar); Grafen Walder is a class better..
Title: The same surroundings?
Post by: lised on September 10, 2008, 03:13:26 PM
Are you making sure that you drink the beers in the same surroundings by the way? This night I realized how much the surroundings influence the taste of the beer. We have a beer in Denmark called "Top" which is rather bad, BUT when it's served at my new "beer drinking place", it tastes heavenly. It's always served very cold, it's only 12 kr and it's so lovely to sit there with my friends (for some reason it's become a "Tuesday thing" for us)...all in all: A beer which is normally "2,5" becomes a "9" <3 :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 18, 2008, 12:05:50 PM
I'm going to list all the beers ever tried in my Facebook profile (Brewsocial), it won't be an easy task to search all of them (and to add all the beers not listed in their database... many Czech and Slovakian beers are missing).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 23, 2008, 01:05:06 PM
Murphy's (IRE, 5.0% alcohol, 489 HUF/0.33 l): very characteristic and a bit strange full taste, high quality bitter red beer. Ways better than Guinness and Kilkenny, although it's really far from my style. Mark: 8/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 29, 2008, 04:54:59 PM
Karpackie (POL, 9.0% alcohol, 199 HUF/0.5 l): bad strong taste, too high alcohol content for this type of beer. The only positive thing is the price: ~4.4 HUF/ccm alcohol is quite reasonable (just to compare: Borsodi 4.7; Dreher Bak 5.3; average absinth ~7.5; Martini ~8.5; average good Hungarian red wine ~10-12; Kwak beer ~20.0). Mark: 2.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 27, 2008, 09:26:06 AM
Three newbies from the last few weeks, not the best testing period in my life...

Witte Trappist La Trappe (NED, 5.5% alcohol, 399 HUF/0.33 l): strange wheat beer with unusual (but good) sour taste without the sign of yeast backtaste. Unfortunately it's not enough strong. Mark: 7.5/10

Peter's Beer Schwarzbrau (HUN, 5.6% alcohol, 379 HUF/1 l): home made "black" beer in plastic bottle, with a color very similar to cheap Cola. Taste is simply bad: a bit bitter, similar to coffee-grounds. It lasted long-long hours to drink... Mark: 1.5/10

LAV (SRB, 5.2% alcohol, 139 HUF/0.5 l): new cheap beer from the south? After tasting... well, 139 is too much for a metallic taste solution - I felt more "iron" is my mouth than after drinking canned beers. This one was just bad - but not the disgusting level. Mark: 2.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 28, 2008, 12:42:06 PM
Quote from: CTG on September 09, 2008, 12:06:02 AM
I'm planning to taste some really cheap and probably bad beers - just to calibrate the scale between 1 and 3.

Taking a look at the previous beers, I made it... in an unexpected way. :-\ ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 01, 2008, 11:57:57 AM
One month without beer tests and I think another sober period is coming in December. I have to save money, computers are expensive - so I mustn't spend 5000-8000 HUF/month for it as I usually do... :-\

(http://muzeumhumoru.onet.pl/_i/_h/beer.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 01, 2008, 08:36:27 PM
I just went for one month without drinking beer (or any other kind of alcohol, or coffee). That was really strange in good and bad ways. Somehow it helped to stop my life and then press reset and start again. I was also able to formulate more advanced thoughts, and sharp in debate. However, it was also a boring and quite useless month, I didn't get anything done nor experience anything particularly interesting.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 04, 2008, 09:52:05 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on December 01, 2008, 08:36:27 PM
I just went for one month without drinking beer (or any other kind of alcohol, or coffee). That was really strange in good and bad ways. Somehow it helped to stop my life and then press reset and start again. I was also able to formulate more advanced thoughts, and sharp in debate. However, it was also a boring and quite useless month, I didn't get anything done nor experience anything particularly interesting.

I'm also without alcohol for "ages" (~3 weeks +/- 2 days) but I miss an own computer a lot more than alcohol. You know: MSN, porn sites... ;D

Okay, this 3 weeks soberness from my own will is quite a cheated one, because I mustn't drink to avoid crashing with meds (the concussion thing, still not fixed, CT for CTG: 23rd December...).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2008, 10:45:22 AM
Silence is broken because of a new beer... :D

Birra Moretti (ITA, 4.6% alcohol, 209 HUF/0.33 l): new country on my beer list - not the most successful introduction... It was something like Borsodi, just with a bit more sweet-sour mixed backtaste because of the additional corn (quality beers mustn't contain this additive). Not bad but the good is not like that... Nice bottle anyway. Mark: 5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on December 08, 2008, 10:48:31 AM
Try Quilmes :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2008, 10:49:35 AM
Quote from: alanrotoi on December 08, 2008, 10:48:31 AM
Try Quilmes :)

I'm afraid it's unavailable here.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on December 08, 2008, 10:51:44 AM
So log in the chat then... ???
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2008, 10:55:30 AM
Quote from: alanrotoi on December 08, 2008, 10:51:44 AM
So log in the chat then... ???

Working. :P

Nah okay, just for a few seconds. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on December 08, 2008, 11:11:22 PM
Quote from: CTG on December 08, 2008, 10:49:35 AM
Quote from: alanrotoi on December 08, 2008, 10:48:31 AM
Try Quilmes :)

I'm afraid it's unavailable here.
Lucky you, that sucks!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 05, 2009, 09:38:26 AM
Happy New Beer! ;D

I promise to try at least 20 new beers in 2009. La Trappe Quadrupel will be the first.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 05, 2009, 11:23:23 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 05, 2009, 09:38:26 AM
I promise to try at least 20 new beers in 2009. La Trappe Quadrupel will be the first.

Bad guess. First test of 2009:

Gösser Bock (AUT, 7% alcohol, 199 HUF/0.5 l): not the best bock beer ever but still a delicious (and strong) one. Mark: 7/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on January 11, 2009, 09:15:44 PM
a strange beer, only available in Japan:

(http://www.sapporobeer.jp/chocolatbrewery/image/main_img.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 11, 2009, 10:07:05 PM
It mustn't be called beer - but I guess it's delicious. The same thing with belgian krieks.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: lised on January 12, 2009, 12:36:35 PM
I've had one of those chocolate beers here in Denmark...I can remember where it came from, but it wasn't Japanese. It was okay, but I'm not very fond of beer mixed with other things. I like beer and chocolate, but not together. Just as I like oranges and chocolate, but not together :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 12, 2009, 12:46:41 PM
I like Lise and beer - even together. ;) :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 12, 2009, 10:45:16 PM
I've also had chocolate beer in Denmark, probably the same, and I really liked it! But it wasn't my first drink that evening, so I may have just liked it because of my condition.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: lised on January 13, 2009, 10:41:35 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on January 12, 2009, 10:45:16 PM
I've also had chocolate beer in Denmark, probably the same, and I really liked it! But it wasn't my first drink that evening, so I may have just liked it because of my condition.

even a warm Harboe (cheap Danish beer) tastes good when you have had a few of them :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on January 13, 2009, 07:49:00 PM
Quote from: lised on January 13, 2009, 10:41:35 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on January 12, 2009, 10:45:16 PM
I've also had chocolate beer in Denmark, probably the same, and I really liked it! But it wasn't my first drink that evening, so I may have just liked it because of my condition.

even a warm xxxxxx (cheap xxxxx beer) tastes good when you have had a few of them :D
Agree!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 23, 2009, 11:31:11 AM
Last week I was in Scotland, and tasted some beers. Don't be surprised, 30-40% of the beers in the shops of Aberdeen is Polish.

Okocim Jasne Pelne (POL, 5.5%): 6.5/10.
Tyskie Gronie (POL, 5.6%): 7.5/10.
Belhaven Best (SCO, 3.5%): 6/10. Surprisingly strong and real "beerish" aroma with this low alcohol content.
Belhaven Best Bitter (SCO, 4%): 4.5/10. But why is it called "bitter"?
Tennent's Super (SCO, 9.0%): 1/10. As I remember, it was the second beer in my life (after Ilzer) from which I had to spill the remaining into the toilet after tasting. OK, I've never tried the famous Schlossmühle...
Guinness (IRL, 4.3%): 5/10. I can't understand why is it so famous and why is it so expensive on the continent. Stupid fashion...

The two Belhaven beers were served at the conference, but I saw them for 0.80-0.90 GBP in Tesco. The others costed between 1.00-1.40 GBP. (Polish beers: 500 ml, Scottish and Irish ones: 440 ml.) Unfortunately I forgot to note the exact prices.

1 GBP=300 HUF=1.1 EUR.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 23, 2009, 12:30:42 PM
Well, it seems somehow I'll also have to test the Polish beers! Btw I think I forgot to add a score to the beer ratings:

Foster's (AUS) 6.5/10 - characteristic, good enough, but not typically my taste; but it was worthy to buy one bottle of it

Btw my taste is changing, I drank a Holsten last week, and it tasted much better than some years ago. But Dreher Classic wasn't as fantastic as earlier, but was still very good.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 23, 2009, 12:38:21 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 23, 2009, 12:30:42 PM
Well, it seems somehow I'll also have to test the Polish beers!

However, I think none of them has the special effect of Borsodi!  ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 30, 2009, 09:10:30 PM
No tests for today, just two classics with Garrone Orange and some red wine: Stella Artois and Heineken. :D

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Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 18, 2009, 12:30:46 PM
Just finished taking antibiotics, from now I'm back to beer testing! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Overdrijf on February 18, 2009, 01:42:20 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 18, 2009, 12:30:46 PM
Just finished taking antibiotics, from now I'm back to beer testing! ;)
You drank Heineken and were out for over two weeks? That bad?


:)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 18, 2009, 02:09:24 PM
Nope, I had a serious sinusitis... :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on February 18, 2009, 10:40:07 PM
You were ill again?! You should see an inmunologist, I really mean it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 18, 2009, 11:53:58 PM
Quote from: Chulk on February 18, 2009, 10:40:07 PM
You were ill again?! You should see an inmunologist, I really mean it.

That's just the usual... :) Anyway there was/is a heavy flu pandemic in Hungary, so it's not a really big surprise.

(Sometimes I visit an immunologist, he made several blood tests saying I have no real problems...)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on February 19, 2009, 08:19:30 AM
I think being ill so often is a real problem... have you tried a different doctor?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Krys TOFF on February 19, 2009, 09:01:45 AM
Quote from: Chulk on February 19, 2009, 08:19:30 AM
I think being ill so often is a real problem... have you tried a different doctor?
No need, CTG is just hypochondriac. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 19, 2009, 10:20:02 AM
Quote from: Krys TOFF on February 19, 2009, 09:01:45 AM
Quote from: Chulk on February 19, 2009, 08:19:30 AM
I think being ill so often is a real problem... have you tried a different doctor?
No need, CTG is just hypochondriac. ;D

Both. No problem with that anyway, people must die in something... Beer poisoning is one of the possibilities! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 21, 2009, 02:48:21 PM
La Trappe Quadrupel (NED, 10% alcohol, 549 HUF/0.33 l): noble redish color, ideal foam, very strong and full taste with the typical excellent abbaye beer bouquet, almost perfect... a little bit too much alcoholic effect - Kasteel beers with 11% alcohol content were mild compared to this. Mark: 9/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 22, 2009, 04:30:31 PM
Some new beer tests:

Paulaner (GER, 4.9%) 8
Zywiec (POL, 5.6%) 5
Dog In The Fog (POL, 5.5%) 6
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2009, 04:43:49 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 22, 2009, 04:30:31 PM
Zywiec (POL, 5.6%) 5
Dog In The Fog (POL, 5.5%) 6

Where did you buy these two?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 23, 2009, 07:04:27 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 23, 2009, 04:43:49 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 22, 2009, 04:30:31 PM
Zywiec (POL, 5.6%) 5
Dog In The Fog (POL, 5.5%) 6

Where did you buy these two?

Julcsi brought them from Poland last October, we opened them this weekend.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 27, 2009, 06:16:57 PM
Two newbies, not the best result...

Dendermonde (BEL, 8% alcohol, 579 HUF/0.33 l): the worst belgian beer ever... it's really bad - not only on Belgian scale but in general. I don't recommend this to try: alcoholic, bad bitter taste, no sign of real abbaye beer bouquet. Too expensive to drink it only for the alcohol content. Mark: 2.5/10

Stiegl (AUT, 4.9% alcohol, 269 HUF/0.33 l): average Austrian "festival beer", I don't know why does it cost so much... Drinkable, that's the best I can say about it - Borsodi is better. Mark: 4.5/10

And now let's continue with Diesel Joe's favorite drink: cherry... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2009, 05:07:36 PM
Italian newbie...

Birra Moretti La Rossa (ITA, 7.2% alcohol, 279 HUF/0.33 l): nice color (red beer), but quite alcoholic and not very characteristic taste, mediorce quality. There are many cheaper strong beers to get drunk. Mark: 5.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on March 10, 2009, 05:09:54 PM
A huge BÖÖÖÖÖFF for Borsodi! 

:D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2009, 05:12:26 PM
Quote from: JTK on March 10, 2009, 05:09:54 PM
A huge BÖÖÖÖÖF for Borsodi!  :D

Yep, it's still the best one to drink - in industrial amount. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 10, 2009, 11:37:56 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 21, 2008, 08:45:43 PM
Warsteiner (GER, 4.8% alcohol, 199 HUF/0.33 l): great summer beer without real power but with nice bitter taste. Mark: 7.5/10.

I tested Warsteiner last weekend. I haven't missed the power, it's a beer, not a pálinka. Its taste was clearer than the known Hungarian beers, however, I agree that its not a "world-class" one. In my rankings:

Warsteiner (GER, 4.8%, 179 HUF/0.33 l as reduced price in SPAR): 8.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 10, 2009, 11:52:02 PM
Yep, Warsteiner is a good choice if you need a good light beer, price is still reasonable.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 13, 2009, 05:33:24 PM
I always wanted to taste Warsteiner, but I always found a beer on the shelves which I wanted to try even more. Last time I voted for Paulaner...

Btw so far today I drank a Dreher Bak, one of CTG's favourite beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 25, 2009, 11:56:29 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 13, 2009, 05:33:24 PM
Btw so far today I drank a Dreher Bak, one of CTG's favourite beers.

Clever choice! According to my beer caps, ~13% of my beers was Dreher Bak in the last few years. The second place Carlsberg has only ~6%... :)

Another newbie:

Courage Directors (GBR, 4.8% alcohol content, 610 HUF/0.5 l): nice ale beer with noble redish color, delicious taste with dry, bitter effect. Not my usual style but it seems to be a really good one. Mark: 8/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 25, 2009, 12:06:01 PM
Quote from: CTG on March 25, 2009, 11:56:29 AM
According to my beer caps, ~13% of my beers was Dreher Bak in the last few years. The second place Carlsberg has only ~6%... :)

Let's see the exact stats, I just checked them last evening!

Found 360 caps in the box, only a part of my drinking performance:

- beer is not the only alcoholic stuff I used to drink
- usually losing the caps of bottles from drinking outside of my room
- strongly damaged caps went to trash bin
- bottles with special closure and canned beers

Many of the caps remained unidentified (like Pilsner Urquell, about 8-10 pieces would be realistic in these stats). Identified beers, drinking at least twice:

47 – Dreher Bak (that's a knockout)
21 – Carlsberg
18 – Dreher Classic
17 – Borsodi (would be second... the caps from drinking with Poo)
15 – Stella Artois
12 – Sárkány
10 – Kozel
10 – Soproni
9 – Pittinger
8 – Heineken
8 – Zlaty Bazant
7 – Schlossgold (non-alcoholic... :D)
7 – Soproni 1895
6 – Arany Ászok Téli Selymes/Félbarna (same beer traded under two different names)
6 – Löwenbrau
5 – Tuborg Gold
4 – Warsteiner
3 – Amstel Lager
3 – Birra Moretti Rosso (only 3-pack was available)
3 – Budvar
3 – Talléros
3 – Tuborg Green
2 – Amstel Bock
2 – Arany Ászok
2 – Borsodi Bivaly
2 – Gambrinus
2 – Hoegaarden Grand Cru
2 – Hofbrau München
2 – Kaiser
2 – Maisel's Weisse Original
2 – Sagres
2 – Tripel Karmeliet
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on April 06, 2009, 01:15:25 PM
Murphy's Irish Red Beer (303 HUF/0.33 l in a bargain, normal price would have been 404 HUF): 4,5/10.

Borostyán-like beer with not too strong, but disappointing sourish, metallic aroma. Well, this strange taste disappears from my mouth after swallowing the beer, and the backtaste is really similar to Borostyán. However, I won't buy Murphy's anymore.

BÖFF!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 04, 2009, 03:41:08 PM
Several beers to rate from the last few weeks but I can't find the motivation to evaluate them here...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 05, 2009, 04:05:22 PM
Two cold Borsodis are in the fridge for today. Yes, it's time for spamming! :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 05, 2009, 06:53:52 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 05, 2009, 04:05:22 PM
Two cold Borsodis are in the fridge for today. Yes, it's time for spamming! :D

Damn it I can't drink these days, too much work... But in June... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 08, 2009, 11:17:41 AM
Okay, I have to complete it once...

Bombardier (GBR, 5.2% alcohol, 619 HUF/0.5 l): quite a disappointment after Courage with dry bitter taste... not extremely bad, but I expected a lot more for this money. Mark: 4.5/10.

Kingfisher (IND, 4.8% alcohol, 399 HUF/0.33 l): beer advertised on Force India rear wing. Well... first impression was good, seems to be a delicious light festival beer. Then came a strange backtaste - the same I felt long-long time ago in a totally different drink - backtaste of Impra rose tea (I hated that). :D My opinion is quite divided now, let's say... Mark: 4/10.

Tripel Karmeliet (BEL, 8% alcohol, 539 HUF/0.33 l): already tried once, can't find the score of it - so re-testing. :D Full "Belgian taste" (after so many beers from that country I see the similarities :)), quite delicious and powerful one. Mark: 8.5/10

Soproni Szöke Ciklon (HUN, 4.5% alcohol, 179 HUF/0.5 l): I can't see the point why Soproni started to trade another weak light beer without real taste. This is just useless. And forgettable. Mark: 3/10.

Bavaria (NED, 5% alcohol, 299 HUF/0.33 l): a good summer beer, something like Heineken - it seems Dutches are good in this cathegory. I got what I expected from such a drink: thirst-killer with characteristic, but not so strong taste. Another good example would be Warsteiner for this. Good choice if you don't want a "saviour" drink, just a nice bottle of quality beer. Mark: 8/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 11, 2009, 10:48:41 AM
Bavaria Claro! (NED, 5% alcohol, 299 HUF/0.33 l): summer beer with rice, I would rather call it "little sweet nothing". It's delicious, but not enough beerish. I suggest this one for women. Mark: 6.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 15, 2009, 04:02:11 PM
Lasko Dark (SLO, 5.9% alcohol, 299 HUF/0.33 l): nice color, great taste, but no real power - quite similar to Czech/Slovakian dark beers. Mark: 7/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 23, 2009, 04:01:00 PM
Bergenbier (ROM, 4.8%, 1.70 RON/0.5 l): Average start followed by ugly, medicine-like, long-lasting backtaste. 2.5/10.
Ciuc Premium (ROM, 5.0%, 4.50 RON/0.5 l in a pub): Great surprise, much better than the "original" Ciuc which I remembered from 2002. Almost like a perfect Czech/Slovak beer. 8.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 27, 2009, 05:42:04 PM
(http://www.odellbrewing.com/App_Themes/OdellBrewing/images/pictures/beer/St-Lupulin-Extra-Pale-Ale.png)

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 03, 2009, 04:15:11 PM
Bavaria 8.6 Red (NED, 7.9% alcohol, 399 HUF/0.5 l, canned): nice color, delicious sweet fruit taste combined with the power of the high alcohol content (no metallic backtaste from the can, wow!). Almost an ideal one for me, right behind the top Belgians. Mark: 9/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 23, 2009, 05:12:56 PM
HB Münchner Weisse (GER, 5.1% alcohol, 359 HUF/0.5 l): not a very good one, rather sour without any delicious "witbeer" taste. Not worth to buy. Mark: 5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 09, 2009, 10:42:46 PM
Heavy beer drinking in progress, some quality (but not so expensive) drinks in the fridge. No newbies this time, plan was to get drunk. Completed!!! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 23, 2009, 10:44:20 AM
3 swedish newbies from IKEA's swedish delicatessen (some silly people go to IKEA to buy furniture - I bought beer and biscuit there... ;D):

Mariestads (SWE, 5.3% alcohol, 290 HUF/0.5 l can): average summer beer, a little bit bitter for me in the bad meaning of the word. Mark 5.5/10

Three Hearts Stockholm Fine Festival (SWE, 5.3% alcohol, 250 HUF/0.33 l can): the same as for Mariestads, maybe a bit more metallic and bitter taste. Still drinkable. Mark: 4.5/10

Spendrups Old Gold (SWE, 5% alcohol, 290 HUF/0.33 l): another average beer, good for warm days but nothing more. Mark: 5.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 30, 2009, 11:32:43 AM
Damn I lost my beer cap collection (during the move)... :-\
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 09, 2009, 03:02:47 PM
Now unfortunately, it's time for me to try non-alcoholic beers. My ratings:

Stella Artois NA 6
Holsten Non-Alcoholic 5.5
Oettinger 4
Soproni szüz 1
Szalon alkoholmentes 1
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 13, 2009, 11:45:27 PM
Arany Ászok alkoholmentes 4
Buckler 4
Schlossgold 5.5 (a bitter one, but not bad)

They're all non-alcoholic beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 25, 2009, 12:04:44 PM
Let's hope your alcohol-free time won't last too long! 3 Polish beers (sorry, their names should be checked at home) are waiting for you!

Btw,
Timisoreana (ROM, 5.0%): 6/10.
Grans Lettøl (NOR, 2.5%): 1.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 25, 2009, 01:05:54 PM
2-3 weeks, and I'll be able to taste them! :) BÖFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 26, 2009, 01:33:57 PM
You can prepare for the following beers:

Zywiec, 5.6% (my ratings: 7/10, best before: 02-12-2009)
Lech Premium, 5.2% (neither I've tasted, best before: 14-12-2009)
Zubr, 6.0% (neither I've tasted, best before: 22-11-2009)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 29, 2009, 12:35:54 PM
Gösser Bock (license from AUT, brewed in HUN, 7,0%): 4.5/10.
"Bock" beers from Dreher and Amstel are far better.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 29, 2009, 07:11:24 PM
I also have some new beer ratings but I'm too lazy to write them. ;D

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 04, 2009, 04:14:05 PM
If everything goes fine, I'm going to test some Polish beers on Saturday, on a mini Stunts meeting held by Usrin and me in Budapest. :) Rates will be posted there!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 15, 2009, 10:45:38 AM
The beers were tested successfully, I'm waiting for the ratings from Akoss Poo!  :)

My ones:
Zywiec (POL, ca. 5%): 6/10
Lech (POL, ca. 5%): 7.5/10
Zubr (POL, 6.0%): 6.5/10

During the meeting, I was so lucky that I got a bottle of HB for free in a nearby shop. (I bought a Pilsner Urquell and a HB, but the cashier only counted the price of the former one. I saved 185+25 (for the bottle) HUF that way.

Forever free beers, Polish beers, Slovak beers, Borsodi, picsacipö, etc.! BÖFF!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 15, 2009, 08:34:01 PM
Maybe not published yet - if yes, it's still a good one  ;D:

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 08, 2009, 12:26:27 PM
Birra Moretti (ITA, 4.6%, 249 HUF/0.33 l in a CBA store): 6/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on December 10, 2009, 12:40:56 PM
Zywiec (POL): 5
Lech (POL): 6
Zubr (POL): 7
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on December 30, 2009, 12:26:10 PM
Spaten (German licence beer, a new product of Borsodi Brewery; 4.5 %, 111 HUF/0.5 l in a bargain, originally 159 HUF): 4/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 31, 2009, 01:29:12 AM
I forgot many beers to add but now let's write about another one:

Beliy Medved (RUS, 7.1% alcohol, dunno how much does it cost, it was a surprise): strong alcoholic taste, maybe a little bit metallic too but still a good mediorce one. Mark: 6/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 18, 2010, 07:45:28 PM
 ;D

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1NMPaTpT17E/RrTa7N7WJKI/AAAAAAAAAHc/QtCn-lt545w/s400/beer1_2.gif)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 22, 2010, 06:28:57 PM
Quote from: Usrin on December 30, 2009, 12:26:10 PM
Spaten (German licence beer, a new product of Borsodi Brewery; 4.5 %, 111 HUF/0.5 l in a bargain, originally 159 HUF): 4/10.

Just recogized: 4.5% alcohol! Somehow I thought it's the usual 3% crap...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 31, 2010, 08:59:04 PM
Löwenweisse (wheat beer) is my current favorite from the "not so expensive" category... it's winter time! :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 31, 2010, 09:17:26 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 22, 2010, 06:28:57 PM
Quote from: Usrin on December 30, 2009, 12:26:10 PM
Spaten (German licence beer, a new product of Borsodi Brewery; 4.5 %, 111 HUF/0.5 l in a bargain, originally 159 HUF): 4/10.

Just recogized: 4.5% alcohol! Somehow I thought it's the usual 3% crap...

I know the name 'Spaten' since old ages... My parents drank (and liked) that bear in the end of the '80s, they considered it better than Borsodi. I guess it's on the market after a long break. I'm planning to try it, too.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 31, 2010, 09:29:50 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on January 31, 2010, 09:17:26 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 22, 2010, 06:28:57 PM
Quote from: Usrin on December 30, 2009, 12:26:10 PM
Spaten (German licence beer, a new product of Borsodi Brewery; 4.5 %, 111 HUF/0.5 l in a bargain, originally 159 HUF): 4/10.

Just recogized: 4.5% alcohol! Somehow I thought it's the usual 3% crap...

I know the name 'Spaten' since old ages... My parents drank (and liked) that bear in the end of the '80s, they considered it better than Borsodi. I guess it's on the market after a long break. I'm planning to try it, too.

Tomorrow? ;D I'll do that.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 01, 2010, 09:11:01 PM
BEER TEST TONIGHT!!! I've bought 3 new beers, and to celebrate my successful root treatment of today, I'm going to taste soon them all (I found them decently cheap to buy them). They are:

Amstel Pulse (NED, 4,7%, 199 HUF/0.5l can) 4
Zipfer (AUT, 5,4%, 209 HUF in bargain/0.5l can) 6
Karpackie (POL, 5,0%, 159 HUF/0.5l can) 6.5

you can see my marks in teal
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on February 02, 2010, 08:44:16 AM
I have never known anyone else to celebrate a root treatment  :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Duplode on February 02, 2010, 02:34:49 PM
I guess I would celebrate if I survived one of these as well... scary sh*t  :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 04, 2010, 09:21:32 PM
Quote from: Duplode on February 02, 2010, 02:34:49 PM
I guess I would celebrate if I survived one of these as well... scary sh*t  :D

Not a big deal... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2010, 10:13:30 PM
Quote from: Usrin on December 30, 2009, 12:26:10 PM
Spaten (German licence beer, a new product of Borsodi Brewery; 4.5 %, 111 HUF/0.5 l in a bargain, originally 159 HUF): 4/10.

Spaten (German licence beer, a new product of Borsodi Brewery; 4.5 %, 159 HUF/0.5 l not in a bargain): something like an average "blue collar beer". A little bit bitter, not enough strong, but if you need a cold drink in the summer, you won't throw it away. Mark: 4/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2010, 10:15:41 PM
Btw 'Useless messages...' is too close now. Beer fans, come on! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 27, 2010, 04:35:39 PM
Kozel sucks - I mean the one available in Hungary. I should give a new mark on it, but I guess nobody updated the common beer stats for ages...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 27, 2010, 05:20:25 PM
Forgot to mention: today I'm drinking vodka (goerglboaaaaaah...), wine and beer...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 28, 2010, 09:18:54 AM
One more beer has been tried: Argus strong (GER, Lidl, I got it from my grandma, 7.2%) 2.5/10

It's like Borsodi Bivaly mixed with some tonic and grapefruit... Pretty crap...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 01, 2010, 07:05:03 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 28, 2010, 09:18:54 AM
One more beer has been tried: Argus strong (GER, Lidl, I got it from my grandma, 7.2%) 2.5/10

It's like Borsodi Bivaly mixed with some tonic and grapefruit... Pretty crap...

I have to look for a Lidl, so many crappy newbies can be found there... ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 01, 2010, 07:06:11 PM
(http://coolrain44.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/beer_collection.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 19, 2010, 02:10:24 PM
Ursus (ROM, 5,0%, got it from my mother, she bought it in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca) 8.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 19, 2010, 07:06:05 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 19, 2010, 02:10:24 PM
Ursus (ROM, 5,0%, got it from my mother, she bought it in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca) 8.5/10

I don't want to try any gipsy Romanian beer...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 04, 2010, 12:28:49 AM
Peroni Nastro Azzurro (ITA, 5.1% alcohol, 250 HUF/0.33 l): bottle has a nice design, but the beer is not that characteristic. Nevertheless, it's not bad. Mark: 6/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 31, 2010, 06:28:51 PM
No newbies?!?!?!?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 26, 2010, 09:52:51 AM
World Cup = Borsodi time!!! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 02, 2010, 10:40:39 PM
Krusovice Imperial (CZE, 5.0% alcohol, 449 HUF/0.5 l): quality summer beer with a bit metallic backtaste. Quite a good one for warm days, but too expensive. Mark: 7/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 22, 2010, 07:37:27 PM
Soproni is like water from the tap, it just goes down - unlimited! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 23, 2010, 08:19:37 PM
I have no beer at the moment... :-\
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 30, 2010, 09:11:51 PM
Budvar time!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 14, 2010, 05:58:35 PM
Some beers tested recently:

Braumeister (SLO, Pivovarna Lasko) - it's only 139 HUF/can, but a 'quality beer', according to the text. Well, it's not bad, but nothing special, a typical summer beer: 6/10
Argus (GER, Lidl) - better than the Argus Strong, but still not better than: 3.5/10
Karpackie (POL) - more or less the same words can be said as about Braumeister. Cheap summer beer, not bad: 5.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 14, 2010, 07:09:12 PM
Several beer tests will be published soon. The Austrian beer culture is simply amazing.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Overdrijf on August 24, 2010, 07:00:43 AM
Quote from: CTG on July 22, 2010, 07:37:27 PM
Soproni is like water from the tap, it just goes down - unlimited! ;D
Soproni is Heineken. Now I'm trying to limit my scolding on Heineken, but I really don't get why out of all our beers that's the one with the world wide succes.

[/Zo, nu eerst een Bavaria]
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on August 24, 2010, 01:25:21 PM
Quote from: CTG on March 01, 2010, 07:06:11 PM
(http://coolrain44.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/beer_collection.jpg)

What's up with the shampoo on the left?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 24, 2010, 07:11:46 PM
I guess it's a special beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 28, 2010, 10:39:33 PM
Today I'm drinking 3 cans of Valentins Weissbier (5.3%), which is my favourite cheap wheat beer.  :)

BÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 12, 2010, 11:27:27 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 14, 2010, 07:09:12 PM
Several beer tests will be published soon. The Austrian beer culture is simply amazing.

Delayed. Again...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 14, 2010, 10:03:04 PM
Bernard (an expensive Czech unpasteured beer) 5.5/10 - I expected much better
Karlovacko (light, commercial Croatian lager beer) 6/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 24, 2010, 11:18:16 PM
Dirty radler type "beers"...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 27, 2010, 02:38:26 PM
Last weekend I drank a can of Spaten beer. It's brewed by Borsodi under the license of Löwenbrau... well, I wasn't surprised when the taste of it was somewhere between Borsodi's and Löwenbrau's, a bit similar to both ones. :) The mark is also between the marks of them: 5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:23:41 PM
I
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:24:01 PM
AM
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:24:27 PM
DRINKING
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:24:51 PM
SOPRONI
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:25:16 PM
BEER
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:25:40 PM
AT THE MOMENT
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 08, 2010, 07:25:56 PM
...so expect some weird telephone calls in the night! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 23, 2010, 11:07:46 PM
drinking again, 2 and half newbies
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 02, 2010, 12:22:09 AM
Quote from: CTG on October 23, 2010, 11:07:46 PM
drinking again, 2 and half newbies

... and no evaluation. Work kills.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 26, 2010, 06:45:50 PM
...and no really good newbies in X-mas beer category. Bah!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 17, 2011, 02:03:25 PM
Possibly interesting information about Sárkány Beer (HUN), which can explain the very different results of tasting it:
http://homar.blog.hu/2007/07/06/ki_a_sarkanyt_nem_becsuli (http://homar.blog.hu/2007/07/06/ki_a_sarkanyt_nem_becsuli)

The main story is shitty, and it isn't related to Sárkány Beer, but read the last few comments. (Sorry, it's in Hungarian.)

What a pity I haven't drank Sárkány Beer for years... But in the next days, it will be sold for 129 HUF/0,5 l in Interspar. and I will try it again.

BÖFF!!!  ;D



Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 17, 2011, 09:16:07 PM
129?!?!? The last time I bought Sárkány, it was only 79...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on March 17, 2011, 09:43:46 PM
One of the beers I like is Iguana.
(http://mundocerveza.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Pierini/Comparativa_iguana_1.jpg)

(http://mundocerveza.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Pierini/bot_iguana_1.jpg)

But the best I like is Corona from Mexico, you have to taste it!

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wijUorM-cM4/TL6LNhORF1I/AAAAAAAAABg/sgrWjZ-SEw0/s1600/corona.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 20, 2011, 12:07:08 PM
South American beers... something I still couldn't try.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 17, 2011, 01:20:46 PM
Liver problems again, back to NA beers... damn!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 28, 2011, 11:17:37 AM
Steininger sucks (GER, 149 HUF/0.5 l can, 4.8 % alcohol), 3/10 pts.
Title: Borsodi Búza
Post by: Usrin on June 28, 2011, 12:51:19 PM
As I told long ago, I don't like wheat beers. But this year, a new one appeared in shops of Hungary, from a very famous brand: Borsodi, whose lager is very popular, and there's a well-known rhyme telling that it induces erection. So I definitely had to try Borsodi Búza, the newbie, although it wasn't too cheap (220 HUF/0.5 l)... It was a big surprise. I felt nothing of the typical taste of wheat beers (which is too sour and medicine-like for me), and I didn't feel anything else... It was rather like a noname, featureless soft drink. Then I decided to buy Löwenweisse, a well-known wheat beer to check whether my taste changed so much, or Borsodi Búza is so strange. The answer is the latter. Löwenweisse was characteristic, and it had the typical (bad) taste of wheat beers I remembered. So I wouldn't recommend Borsodi Búza even to wheat beer fans...

However, the original Borsodi (lager) and Borsodi Bivaly are not worse than before!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 11, 2011, 01:25:26 PM
Quintine Blonde (BEL, 8% alcohol, 749 HUF/0.33 l): the Belgian "stereotype", excellent one, maybe a little bit too strong alcoholic taste. Mark: 9/10.

Gulden Draak (BEL, 10.5% alcohol, 749 HUF/0.33 l): strange, but it has less alcoholic taste, than the former one. However, it's not a real Belgian for me, just an average dark beer. Mark: 7/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 18, 2011, 02:11:30 PM
Something from the deep...

Augsteiner Weissbier (GER, 5.3% alcohol, 169 HUF/0.5 l can): crap, crap, crap. Not a wheat beer at all, just water with the weak taste of rotten yeast. Really bad. Mark: 2/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 21, 2011, 10:37:36 AM
Augsteiner Weissbier was also tasted by me. It's not that crappy, though it's not good. 4/10

Another new beer: Borsodi Búza. 3/10. Does not have a wheat beer taste.

Now I'm living farther from the cheap Holsten/Tuborg Green shop than in the previous 3.5 years, so it was time to get back to Borsodi. There's a cheap supermarket near where I can buy it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on November 02, 2011, 02:03:41 PM
Any of you on www.ratebeer.com? I have tasted over 500 different beers at the moment and it seems that my favourite taste is Old Traditional Ale and Barley Wines. My worst kind of beer is pilsner with no head and very metallic and water-like. Just as Rotois Corona - yuck! you could drink water instead. You should try some beers from the american brewery Brewdog instead..  8)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 02, 2011, 02:56:13 PM
Quote from: SuperBrian on November 02, 2011, 02:03:41 PM
Just as Rotois Corona - yuck!

So Rotoi is a crappy one. I always knew that.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 11, 2011, 01:09:24 PM
Where are my beer ratings from Austria? :-\
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 11, 2011, 01:16:06 PM
Quote from: CTG on November 11, 2011, 01:09:24 PM
Where are my beer ratings from Austria? :-\

Found them! Great!

(I really miss beer, but I'm not allowed to drink nowadays)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 11, 2011, 04:06:33 PM
Should I write them from my workplace? I don't think so.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 18, 2011, 08:29:32 PM
Zlatopramen (CZE, 4.9% alcohol, 349 HUF/0.5 l, brewed by Krusovice): an average Czech/Slovakian light beer. Fair enough. Mark: 6.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 21, 2011, 03:02:24 PM
One day, one beer (from the past, August 2010)

Stiegl Braukunst Heimar(t)
Brewed in Austria
Alcohol content: 4.9%
Extract content: 12°
Price: ~1.2-1.5 Euros/0.33 l (I don't remember exactly)
Mark: 6/10
Comment: maybe equal to traded Stiegl light beer, just in an artistic bottle?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 22, 2011, 11:55:06 PM
Landgraf Premium Märzenbier
Brewed in Austria (?)
Alcohol content: 5.1 %
Extract content: unknown
Price: n/a
Mark: 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 01, 2011, 07:09:01 AM
Wieselburger Bier (das Stammbräu)
Brewed in Austria
Alcohol content: 5.4 %
Extract content: unknown
Price: n/a
Mark: 7/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 01, 2011, 07:10:41 AM
Paracelsus Zwickl
Brewed in Austria
Alcohol content: 5 %
Extract content: 12°
Price: n/a
Mark: 7.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 01, 2011, 07:11:37 AM
Data lost for 4 special beer... Damn it!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 01, 2011, 04:43:53 PM
König Ludwig Dunkel
Brewed in Germany
Alcohol content: 5.1 %
Extract content: 12.6°
Price: n/a
Mark: 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 01, 2011, 04:47:35 PM
Schloss Eggenberg Urbock
Brewed in Austria
Alcohol content: 9.6 % (!)
Extract content: 23° (!!!)
Price: 1.79 Euro / 0.33 l
Mark: 9/10, almost perfect - maybe summer was inappropriate for trying such a strong one.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 10:32:10 PM
Quote from: SuperBrian on November 02, 2011, 02:03:41 PM
Any of you on www.ratebeer.com? I have tasted over 500 different beers at the moment and it seems that my favourite taste is Old Traditional Ale and Barley Wines. My worst kind of beer is pilsner with no head and very metallic and water-like. Just as Rotois Corona - yuck! you could drink water instead. You should try some beers from the american brewery Brewdog instead..  8)

I was a regular visitor few years ago.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:23:32 PM
Why
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:24:13 PM
do
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:24:29 PM
I
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:24:49 PM
have
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:25:05 PM
such
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:25:57 PM
a
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:26:18 PM
crappy
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:26:35 PM
liver
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 08, 2011, 11:26:54 PM
?!?!?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 09, 2011, 11:29:10 PM
Beer with chocolate taste? NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, no please!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 11, 2011, 11:53:02 AM
Young's Double Chocolate Stout
Brewed in Great Britain
Alcohol content: 5.2 %
Speciality: "chocolate taste"
Extract content: n/a
Price: ??? HUF / 0.44 l (forgot it, but it wasn't cheap, maybe around 500-600)
Mark: 3/10 - crappy, like most of English beers. Chocolate taste? Bah... Cocoa powder suspended in a bitter solution of coffee grounds.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 11, 2011, 11:56:15 AM
Piraat
Brewed in Belgium
Alcohol content: 10.5 % (!)
Extract content: n/a
Price: 749 HUF / 0.33 l
Mark: 7.5/10 - too alcoholic, but still fine. Basic belgian taste, too much foam.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on January 18, 2012, 09:13:25 AM
Looks like TESCO has received information on the Borsodi song/poem by Akoss:

http://homar.blog.hu/2012/01/17/szexualis_segedeszkoz_lett_a_sor_a_tescoban

for non-Hungarian speakers:
The sign warns that sex-related articles other than condoms must not be sold to people under 18.

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 21, 2012, 04:18:48 PM
2011 - one year without Borsodi!!! (first time ever in the 21th century)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 21, 2012, 04:21:04 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 24, 2010, 01:25:21 PM
Quote from: CTG on March 01, 2010, 07:06:11 PM
(http://coolrain44.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/beer_collection.jpg)

What's up with the shampoo on the left?

I just discovered Bacardi Breezer and Monster energy drink at the top...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 27, 2012, 09:16:43 AM
Is it really forbidden to drink alcohol during a dental treatment? :-\
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on January 28, 2012, 11:22:11 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2012, 09:16:43 AM
Is it really forbidden to drink alcohol during a dental treatment? :-\

I've never heard that, and it sounds strange for me... Alcohol is antiseptic, so it should rather help the treatment.

Moreover: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19640616&id=SMMVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AhEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7322,183669
8)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on January 28, 2012, 11:56:31 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2012, 09:16:43 AM
Is it really forbidden to drink alcohol during a dental treatment? :-\
Only if you're taking painkillers...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 08, 2012, 04:24:05 PM
Quote from: Usrin on January 28, 2012, 11:22:11 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 27, 2012, 09:16:43 AM
Is it really forbidden to drink alcohol during a dental treatment? :-\

I've never heard that, and it sounds strange for me... Alcohol is antiseptic, so it should rather help the treatment.

Moreover: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19640616&id=SMMVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AhEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7322,183669
8)

I thought on the temporary medicinal filling. But no problem, I tried pálinka and it had a great effect. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 14, 2012, 10:57:33 PM
SÖRBÖFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 14, 2012, 10:57:56 PM
Just lied: I have wine.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 22, 2012, 10:47:02 PM
I think I would have to re-rate the beers I know. Some good old brands have changed their quality (some of them improved, others declined) in the last few years. Or maybe my taste has changed...

Btw, I had a very positive surprise last week. Tuborg Green was sold for 150 HUF/0,5 l in Tesco, if buying at least 3 bottles. Nowadays even the basic Hungarian beers (Borsodi, Soproni, Arany Ászok, etc.) are more expensive, moreover, this Tuborg was not brewed in Croatia, so I didn't expect too much. But it turned out that Tuborg Green still belongs to a higher class of beers. Borsodi & Soproni (which I usually enjoy) are featureless, water-like liquids if compared to it...

Final result: Tuborg Green (CRO, 4,6% V/V) - 9/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 22, 2012, 10:55:11 PM
New evaluation of some further beers I have recently had:

Borsodi: 5/10
Soproni: 6/10
Soproni 1895: 7.5/10
Arany Ászok: 4/10
Dreher: 4.5/10 (very serious decline... in price/value ratio, even Arany Ászok, the 'low class' brand of the same brewery is better)
Kozel (HUN): 3/10 (the above-mentioned brewery in Budapest started to brew this crappy product with the good-sounding Czech name and logo).
HB (HUN): 4/10 (similar story, with the same brewery)
Löwenbrau (HUN): 2.5/10 (similar story, but with Borsodi Brewery)
Steffl (HUN): 4.5/10 (similar story, with Soproni Brewery)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 23, 2012, 10:13:04 AM
More to come!

Adambrau (HUN): 4/10
Arany Ászok Félbarna ("semi-brown"): 6/10
Dreher Bak (HUN, 7,2% V/V, brown): 8/10
Argus Strong (POL. 7,2% V/V, sold in Lidl): 2.5/10
Borsodi Bivaly (6,5% V/V): 5/10

BÖFF! ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 23, 2012, 10:41:48 AM
I also tend to think that the taste and quality of beers are changing. I rather believe in that, since the good old Pilsner Urquell, probably the best beer, still have the same taste and quality for me (and it is still a Czech import), which means my taste has not changed.

I strongly agree with the things Usrin wrote about basic Hungarian beers and average import beers, I also experienced that. I know a small shop where Borsodi was sold for 185 HUF last year, while Tuborg Green cost 180 HUF and Holsten cost 170 HUF. I never bought Borsodi there. Now this small shop is farther from me, I choose other shops.

But in shops like Coop, Reál and Alfi, Hungarian beers have a better price related to import beers, than in supermarkets like Tesco. In a nearby Coop, I can always get my canned Borsodi for 169 HUF. :D

Let me rate some beers then:

Pilsner Urquell 10
Löwenweisse 9.5
Dreher 7 (but not as good as it was earlier)
Soproni 1895 7
Holsten* 6.5
Amstel 6
Borsodi 6 (+erection induction +home beer -> 10 pts  ;D)
Tuborg Green* 6
Soproni 5.5
Grafen Walder (Lidl) 5
Köbányai 5
HB HUN 4.5
Steffl HUN 4.5
Carlsberg SRB 4 (!!!; I would not call it Carlsberg at all...)
Arany Ászok 3
Kozel HUN 3
Löwenbrau HUN 2

*I can't remember where they were brewed
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Friker on February 23, 2012, 11:47:02 AM
Quote from: Usrin on May 30, 2005, 07:46:15 PM
It's delicious, but more expensive than my Hungarian favourites, so I don't use to buy it in Hungary. And the REALLY good Slovak beers (Saris and Tatran) are sold only in Slovakia...
Šariš is a very bad kind of beer.. uff..
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 23, 2012, 10:41:48 AM
I also tend to think that the taste and quality of beers are changing. I rather believe in that, since the good old Pilsner Urquell, probably the best beer, still have the same taste and quality for me (and it is still a Czech import), which means my taste has not changed.
Plze? (Pilsner Urquell) is a water compared to czech home-made beers, but still it is a good drink. :) i would rate it somewhere around 8. (also a style of serving is important)

I am very suprised - it seems you have lots of very bad beers in Hungary. We have also bunch of bad beers (priced around 100 HUF) but i am afraid of tasting them. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2012, 12:44:35 PM
The really cheap (import) beers are mainly made in Germany / Czech Republic. With 3-4 % alcohol content... (pee)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2012, 12:47:33 PM
Btw Hungary is the land of wine and pálinka. Our beers are simply crappy. "Czechslovakian" beers are mainly good, but they are far from my taste (my favorites from there are Budvar and Topvar Marina). Belgium... that's another class for me. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 23, 2012, 01:32:46 PM
Quote from: Friker on February 23, 2012, 11:47:02 AM
Quote from: Usrin on May 30, 2005, 07:46:15 PM
It's delicious, but more expensive than my Hungarian favourites, so I don't use to buy it in Hungary. And the REALLY good Slovak beers (Saris and Tatran) are sold only in Slovakia...
Šariš is a very bad kind of beer.. uff..
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 23, 2012, 10:41:48 AM
I also tend to think that the taste and quality of beers are changing. I rather believe in that, since the good old Pilsner Urquell, probably the best beer, still have the same taste and quality for me (and it is still a Czech import), which means my taste has not changed.
Plze? (Pilsner Urquell) is a water compared to czech home-made beers, but still it is a good drink. :) i would rate it somewhere around 8. (also a style of serving is important)

I am very suprised - it seems you have lots of very bad beers in Hungary. We have also bunch of bad beers (priced around 100 HUF) but i am afraid of tasting them. :)

The Hungarian beers are not that bad (the basic Hungarian brands are: Borsodi, Soproni, Köbányai, Szalon, Arany Ászok, Dreher). Soproni 1895 and Dreher are quality beers with a good taste, the other ones are around average.

The bad ones on our lists are brewed in Hungary under license of non-Hungarian beer breweries - these beers are marked with 'HUN' code, not the real Hungarian ones.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Friker on February 23, 2012, 07:34:22 PM
Well, next time I will be in Hungary I must try that Borsodi beer. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2012, 08:46:28 PM
Quote from: Friker on February 23, 2012, 07:34:22 PM
Well, next time I will be in Hungary I must try that Borsodi beer. :)

Borsodi has corn taste... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 23, 2012, 10:25:59 PM
Quote from: Friker
Šariš is a very bad kind of beer.. uff..

Perhaps I was biased towards Slovakian products. :D Or maybe beers in Slovakia also underwent serious changes. The mystery should be solved by a beer trip to Slovakia. Coming soon!
8)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Friker on February 24, 2012, 02:55:59 AM
Quote from: Usrin on February 23, 2012, 10:25:59 PM
Quote from: Friker
Šariš is a very bad kind of beer.. uff..

Perhaps I was biased towards Slovakian products. :D Or maybe beers in Slovakia also underwent serious changes. The mystery should be solved by a beer trip to Slovakia. Coming soon!
8)
There is kind of mis(t)ery about Czech/Slovak beers. I don't drink so much and in most cases it was more important how it was served than which trademark it is.. And yeah - beer and slutty girls - that's what Slovakia is good at. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 24, 2012, 02:40:04 PM
Quote from: Friker on February 24, 2012, 02:55:59 AM
And yeah - beer and slutty girls - that's what Slovakia is good at. :)
I would add:
- great cuisine (for my taste), especially if regarding Czech+Slovak together
- great landscapes and really nice towns
- good-sounding language (although I understand only a few words, it always gives me a good mood)
- and so on...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 24, 2012, 02:48:01 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 23, 2012, 10:41:48 AM
Köbányai 5

Wow! It's been a long time since I've had Köbányai, and this rating surprised me. So I couldn't help tasting it again. It was a good idea: I could buy it for 139 HUF/0.5 l in the shop closest to my workplace, and it proved to be not worse than other members of the Dreher-Arany Ászok "family". (Köbányai is the least advertised, cheapest, although traditional brand of the same brewery.)

Köbányai (4.3% V/V): 4.5/10. Not bad in price/value ratio!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 25, 2012, 10:48:47 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 24, 2012, 02:48:01 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 23, 2012, 10:41:48 AM
Köbányai 5

Wow! It's been a long time since I've had Köbányai, and this rating surprised me. So I couldn't help tasting it again. It was a good idea: I could buy it for 139 HUF/0.5 l in the shop closest to my workplace, and it proved to be not worse than other members of the Dreher-Arany Ászok "family". (Köbányai is the least advertised, cheapest, although traditional brand of the same brewery.)

Köbányai (4.3% V/V): 4.5/10. Not bad in price/value ratio!

Finally!!! :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 29, 2012, 12:17:18 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 23, 2012, 10:25:59 PM
Quote from: Friker
Šariš is a very bad kind of beer.. uff..

Perhaps I was biased towards Slovakian products. :D Or maybe beers in Slovakia also underwent serious changes. The mystery should be solved by a beer trip to Slovakia. Coming soon!
8)

Beer trip accomplished! And I still don't have any problem with Šariš...

Ratings of some Slovak (& Czech) beers, March 2012:
Kelt 10° (SVK, 0,65 EUR/0.5 l): 5/10. Something serious happened to the one-time famous Kelt.. or I would have to taste the Czech-brewed 12° version.
Zlaty Bažant 12° (SVK, 0.82 EUR/0.5 l): 9/10. Excellent!!!
Šariš 12° (SVK, 0.79 EUR/0.5 l): 7/10. Not outstanding, but better than the 'average' Hungarian brands.
Topvar 12° (SVK, 0.79 EUR/0.5 l): 7.5/10.
Kozel 12° (SVK, 0.85 EUR/0.5 l): 8/10. It has nothing to do with the weak Hungarian copy... simply a different world!

Dark beers:
Šariš Red (0.95 EUR/0.5 l): 7/10.
Zlaty Bažant Tmavý (SVK, 0.93 EUR/0.5 l): 5.5/10. No problem with its taste, but weaker, less characteristic than I expected.
Master Tmavý 18° (CZE, 7.0% V/V, 1.09 EUR/0.355 l): 8.5/10. Very similar to Dreher Bak.

Btw, beer prices are much higher than they were several years ago... So it's no more worth to buy beer in Slovakia for saving money.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 29, 2012, 12:17:45 PM
And one from the UK:
Carling (ENG, 4.8% V/V, 0.92 GBP/0.44 l): 4/10. I can't believe that British (and Irish) beers are shitty... they're rather far from my taste.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 29, 2012, 12:38:21 PM
Believe it, they are shitty.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 01, 2012, 07:34:44 PM
I am just back from a trip in Transylvania (Romania). I held a conference presentation there, and of course I took some beers home. Official beer test tonight!

The beers to be tested:

- Ursus (ROM, 5.0%, 2.70 lei/can)
- Silva (ROM, 5.1%, 2.40 lei/can)
- Ciuc (ROM, 5.0%, 2.90 lei/can)

I knew Ursus before, I gave 8.0 on it two years ago, and I tasted it again in Romania. Ciuc is the beer which I've just tasted for the first time on my trip. Silva is a totally new beer for me. I drank these beers under very different circumstances (being f*cking thristy, having it rather warm), so I decided to rely on tonight's test. Ursus and Ciuc can expect a high rating - they are better than the commercial Hungarian beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 02, 2012, 10:30:24 PM
Result of beer test:

- Ursus 7.5/10 (a quality lager with a bitter taste - my style of beer, it still can keep its good result)
- Ciuc 7/10 (not too bitter, but this pils has a clean, characteristic good taste)
- Silva 6/10 (not bad, but it has a bit too heavy taste which I can't really like in beers).

Very good price/taste ratio. Romania is still a cheaper country than Hungary.

About Usrin's beer test:

How can a beer be packed in a 0.44 l bottle/can? What is it like?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 02, 2012, 10:31:46 PM
Quote from: Usrin on March 29, 2012, 12:17:18 PM
Master Tmavý 18°

18°!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 29, 2012, 12:23:38 PM
Non-alcoholic period - AGAIN. :-\ >:(
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 01, 2012, 12:02:14 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 02, 2012, 10:30:24 PM
About Usrin's beer test:

How can a beer be packed in a 0.44 l bottle/can? What is it like?

Ugh, sorry, I missed this question. It was an ordinary can, slightly less tall than the 0.5 l ones. This size is common in the UK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_can#Standard_sizes

(It seems we're lucky to live in the part of the world where beer cans are the largest... see the above link.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 01, 2012, 12:45:03 PM
I was in Italy in 2006, and there the most common beer package was the 0.66 l bottle.  ;D Btw forever Birra Moretti!  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 03, 2012, 11:10:24 PM
0.66? That's nothing.

Köbányai, 2 l "bottle" (PET) ;D:

(http://sarokabc.109.hu/cache/aprohirdetes/kepek/14700-14799/14727_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 03, 2012, 11:39:05 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 03, 2012, 11:10:24 PM
0.66? That's nothing.

Köbányai, 2 l "bottle" (PET) ;D:

(http://sarokabc.109.hu/cache/aprohirdetes/kepek/14700-14799/14727_1.jpg)

Well, this package exists, but this is not the most common one.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 14, 2012, 12:02:51 AM
90% percent of my alcohol consumption in 2012 came from more concentrated drinks. Strange.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 14, 2012, 12:20:43 AM
CTG is drunk at the moment. My liver doesn't like it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 14, 2012, 07:22:16 PM
I tasted draught Okocim in Poland (8.00 PLN/0.5 l, very expensive but it was in a tourist center near Zakopane, at Chocholowska Valley), 5.5/10.

I would need to taste it from a bottle/can to give a more realistic rating - I don't really like draught beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 14, 2012, 10:20:26 PM
As for me, Okocim is the best polish beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 15, 2012, 10:27:57 PM
Wow, wow, wow!!! Another perfect superstrong Belgian!

Kasteel Donker (BEL, 11% alcohol, 699 HUF/0.33 l): nice color and delicious smell, perfect ratio of sweet and bitter, no alcoholic backtaste (despite of the high alcohol content). It deserves to join Hoegaarden Grand Cru and Kwak: 10 pts!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 24, 2012, 01:02:34 PM
Although it's far from the current world record, the name of this beer with 32% (!!!) alcohol content deserves to be mentioned: Tactical Nuclear Penguin! ;D

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/11/liquor-like-scottish-beer-heading-to-us-shelves/
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 24, 2012, 01:06:59 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 24, 2012, 01:02:34 PM
Although it's far from the current world record, the name of this beer with 32% (!!!) alcohol content deserves to be mentioned: Tactical Nuclear Penguin! ;D

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/04/11/liquor-like-scottish-beer-heading-to-us-shelves/

Forever Penguins!  ;D (except for Kövér)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 25, 2012, 10:58:45 AM
Few days ago I tried three different beers from Fuller's - strange, but still can't decide about their marks. Next candidate: Bush Ambree (BEL, 12% alcohol content), it will be tasted tonight.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 02, 2012, 06:06:45 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 14, 2012, 10:20:26 PM
As for me, Okocim is the best polish beer.

Which one is the worst? I have a candidate for this title... Yesterday I bought a can of Tatra beer (POL, 6,0% V/V, 4.00 PLN/0.5 l) at Warsaw airport. It had only weak signs of beer taste, it was rather sweetish with a "synthetic" backtaste. Well, it's a cheap one (for comparison, Okocim was 5.50 PLN in the same shop), but...

After all, I decided that it would be worth drinking it instead of spilling, and at least it gave me some great BÖFFs. So it wasn't as undrinkable as the good old Ilzer Beer (1.0/10) many years ago - and deserved 2.0/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 09, 2012, 06:14:49 PM
Btw the unit of alcohol consumption has recently changed. The alcohol content of Borsodi beer has decreased to 4.5 percent (from 4.6 percent). That means the can/bottle of Borsodi only contains 22.5 ccm Et-OH instead of 23 ccm. Since an alcohol content of a Borsodi is the unit of alcohol consumption, now we have to calculate with the new data.

But at the moment there is a Borsodi for a discount prize. A new can contains 10 percent more beer (with 4.5 percent alcohol content). With this, the current unit of alcohol consumption is 550*0.045=24.75 ccm. I'm enjoying it during the Netherlands-Denmark football ECH match! BÖFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 09, 2012, 06:35:11 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on June 09, 2012, 06:14:49 PM
Btw the unit of alcohol consumption has recently change. The alcohol content of Borsodi beer has decreased to 4.5 percent (from 4.6 percent). That means a can/bottle of Borsodi only contains 22.5 ccm Et-OH instead of 23 ccm. Since an alcohol content of a Borsodi is the unit of alcohol consumption, now we have to calculate with the new data.

AZT A BÜDÖS KURVA... Vissza azt a 0.1%-ot, de legott!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 11, 2012, 10:09:46 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on June 09, 2012, 06:14:49 PM
Btw the unit of alcohol consumption has recently changed. The alcohol content of Borsodi beer has decreased to 4.5 percent (from 4.6 percent). That means a can/bottle of Borsodi only contains 22.5 ccm Et-OH instead of 23 ccm. Since an alcohol content of a Borsodi is the unit of alcohol consumption, now we have to calculate with the new data.

But at the moment there is a Borsodi for a discount prize. A new bottle contains 10 percent more beer (with 4.5 percent alcohol content). With this, the current unit of alcohol consumption is 550*0.045=24.75 ccm. I'm enjoying it during the Netherlands-Denmark football ECH match! BÖFF!!!

HIHETETLEN!!! Why on earth should it have been done with our good old Borsodi? At least, increasing the bottle size is a good idea, but I'm afraid that it's only for a short time...

Btw, some recently tested beers:

Borg Plis Lettøl (NOR, 2,5% V/V, 4.50 NOK/0.33 l): 5.5/10.
"Semi-alcoholic" for avoiding the high tax on alcoholic drinks, so maybe offtopic here... but has a surprisingly good taste, similar to Tuborg and Carlsberg (Scandinavian style?). The only strange thing: it has a very weak foam, CO2 content rather appears like in a soft drink.

Borg Pils (NOR, 4.5% V/V, 11.50 NOK/0.33 l): 6.5/10.
Similar to the above version, but with almost normal foam. Similar to Carlsberg and Tuborg, although less characteristic.

Kompils (NOR, 4.5 V/V%, 19.90 NOK/0.5 l): 3/10.
Like a "noname", shitty beer in Hungary... drinkable, but watery, with not so good taste. (It's the cheapest beer which I could find with normal alcohol content, in a normal-sized can.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 20, 2012, 01:20:06 PM
Almost 50000 views... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 23, 2012, 08:33:47 AM
But only a second page topic?!?!?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 23, 2012, 08:34:18 AM
Not anymore, hahahahaha!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 23, 2012, 11:28:57 AM
I'm going to spend the next two weeks (from Wednesday) in Germany. That wiil guarantee a lot of BÖFFs for me, and a place at the top of the list for this topic.
;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on July 23, 2012, 02:18:40 PM
have lots of fun! Looks like the new job also brought more travel to your life.

Next week finally holidays for me! We are going to Hangzhou and Moganshan.
Looking forward to it, but if I would drink beer it would be nevertheless interesting from that perspecgive, as two local beers are available:

1. Moganshan Beer is a small local brewery (very rare in China), comes for 3Y (105Huf) per bottle
2. Anji Beer is special - it is made out of bamboo. In fact it is called "Anji bamboo science beer"

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 23, 2012, 03:50:28 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on July 23, 2012, 02:18:40 PM
have lots of fun! Looks like the new job also brought more travel to your life.

Next week finally holidays for me! We are going to Hangzhou and Moganshan.
Looking forward to it, but if I would drink beer it would be nevertheless interesting from that perspecgive, as two local beers are available:

1. Moganshan Beer is a small local brewery (very rare in China), comes for 3Y (105Huf) per bottle

Thanks! Well, we don't travel so much, neither to that German office of the company. (All affairs can be discussed online...) But as a newbie, I'm going there for kind of an internal training. So probably I'll have only 1 beer/day (although I know that one beer is not a beer). But that will mean 15 different types during my stay.
:)

Quote from: zaqrack on July 23, 2012, 02:18:40 PM
2. Anji Beer is special - it is made out of bamboo. In fact it is called "Anji bamboo science beer"

Grrr... I'm afraid I would be too conservative for that. However, it can't be worse than Tesco Value and Ilzer beers (early versions of Schlossmühle).

Btw, the price of Moganshan is very attractive!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 28, 2012, 11:12:49 PM
Quote from: Usrin on July 23, 2012, 03:50:28 PM
Btw, the price of Moganshan is very attractive!

Hehe, I found a much better deal in LIDL!

Grafenwalder Gold (GER, 0.29 EUR(!!!)/0.5 l, 4.9% V/V): 6/10. It is absolutely OK: nothing special, but a good 'basic' beer like Soproni or Borsodi. Perhaps it's not the same that they sell under the same brand in Hungary.

Notably, the deposit for the bottle (0.25 EUR) is almost the same as the price of the beer. Like it was for Schlossmühle (with exactly the same ratio, 29/25).
:)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 28, 2012, 11:23:42 PM
Btw, it seems that crappy beers also exist in Germany... At least, 5.0 Original (with a name referring to the alcohol content) is crappy with some sour taste, far from what I would expect from a beer. 0.39 EUR, 2.5/10.

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 29, 2012, 12:34:29 AM
Quote from: Usrin on July 28, 2012, 11:12:49 PM
Quote from: Usrin on July 23, 2012, 03:50:28 PM
Btw, the price of Moganshan is very attractive!

Hehe, I found a much better deal in LIDL!

Grafenwalder Gold (GER, 0.29 EUR(!!!)/0.5 l, 4.9% V/V): 6/10. It is absolutely OK: nothing special, but a good 'basic' beer like Soproni or Borsodi. Perhaps it's not the same that they sell under the same brand in Hungary.

Notably, the deposit for the bottle (0.25 EUR) is almost the same as the price of the beer. Like it was for Schlossmühle (with exactly the same ratio, 29/25).
:)

Grafenwalder is an okay beer here at home, too - I always told you that. The one they sell here in Hungarian Lidls is somewhere around 5.5 for me. Occasionally I buy it, it is really not bad.
By the way it is also packed in a gold can, and the alcohol content is 4.9% as well.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 29, 2012, 10:21:13 AM
How much is the price of it in Hungary? (LIDL is far from my place in Budapest, so I go there once in 5 years.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 29, 2012, 11:58:25 AM
Somewhere around 150 HUF/can 0.5 l, I don't know exactly. It is the second most 'expensive' Lidl beer after Perlenbacher.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on July 29, 2012, 12:18:32 PM
Oh beer, I'm looking forward to drinking you again sometime. I've been writing this thesis for so long and not drinking anything. Except at Roskilde festival, but that was just one kind of beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on July 29, 2012, 12:19:38 PM
Could someone compile a (rough) top list, based on this thread? Then I might start out by drinking those beers when I'm done. If they are available here.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 29, 2012, 04:43:26 PM
When there's a slight break in this Olympic afternoon/evening, I'll try to edit one. Though I'm not sure whether all the beers we are talking about here in this topic are reachable for you in Denmark...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 29, 2012, 10:54:03 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 29, 2012, 04:43:26 PM
When there's a slight break in this Olympic afternoon/evening, I'll try to edit one. Though I'm not sure whether all the beers we are talking about here in this topic are reachable for you in Denmark...

That would be great! Btw, I think you shouldn't use our evaluations on Hungarian beers from before ~2010. (As we posted about it here, many of them changed a lot.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 29, 2012, 11:23:50 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on July 29, 2012, 11:58:25 AM
Somewhere around 150 HUF/can 0.5 l, I don't know exactly. It is the second most 'expensive' Lidl beer after Perlenbacher.

Wow, almost twice as expensive as here?   :o

Besides the four types (Gold, Pils, Hefe-Weiss and a dark) of Grafenwaldner, LIDL has one more beer brand in Germany. It's Bergadler Premium Pils, which I'm drinking at the moment. (It was 0.37 EUR/0.5 l.) If I didn't know that it's not a Grafenwaldner, probably I wouldn't feel any difference. So the mark is the same: 6.0/10.

I also tasted Welde Pils today - finally a really good, tasteful German beer, although not exceptional. It deserved 7.5/10. (I payed 2.50 EUR for 0.33 l in a bar, which was the only place with beer within 2 km. No information about its price in shops.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 30, 2012, 01:17:15 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on July 29, 2012, 12:19:38 PM
Could someone compile a (rough) top list, based on this thread? Then I might start out by drinking those beers when I'm done. If they are available here.

Don't care about the marks, try the top Belgians: Kasteel (especially the quadrupel, called Donker), Kwak, Hoegaarden (Grand Cru), La Trappe (quadrupel).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on August 02, 2012, 09:25:18 PM
Let me introduce further newbies!

Ureich Premium Pils (0.69 EUR/0.5 l, 4.8 V/V%): 7/10
Ratskrone Export (0.39 EUR/0.5 l, 5.2 V/V%): 5.5/10
Kühler Krug Unfiltriert (2.29 EUR/0.75 l, 5.2 V/V%): 7.5/10. It's a speciality from a small brewery in Karlsruhe. It smells like a "white beer" (unfortunately I don't like them), but it has very good taste- Quite similar to an "ordinary" beer, but richer aroma.
Grafenwalder Pils (0.29 EUR/0.5 l, 5.2 V/V%): 6/10. Same quality with Grafenwalder Gold, but slightly more bitter (as it is a Pils).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2012, 09:29:50 PM
Quote from: Usrin on August 02, 2012, 09:25:18 PM
Let me introduce further newbies!

Ureich Premium Pils (0.69 EUR/0.5 l, 4.8 V/V%): 7/10
Ratskrone Export (0.39 EUR/0.5 l, 5.2 V/V%): 5.5/10
Kühler Krug Unfiltriert (2.29 EUR/0.75 l, 5.2 V/V%): 7.5/10. It's a speciality from a small brewery in Karlsruhe. It smells like a "white beer" (unfortunately I don't like them), but it has very good taste- Quite similar to an "ordinary" beer, but richer aroma.
Grafenwalder Pils (0.29 EUR/0.5 l, 5.2 V/V%): 6/10. Same quality with Grafenwalder Gold, but slightly more bitter (as it is a Pils).

I think here we have in Hungary Grafenwalder Pils with 4.9% alcohol content. You should really taste this when you come home first. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 02, 2012, 10:22:34 PM
Not really beer, but I tested today - due to the very high temperatures here today - Soproni Lemon and Borsodi Lemon. My comparison says that Soproni Lemon has a better taste slightly. But this is really not a beer taste, so no ratings.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 03, 2012, 07:29:54 AM
Sober life at the moment.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 12:30:54 PM
Did you guys notice that on July 23rd, 2012, Zak posted in the Beer topic?

We are living in strange times...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 03, 2012, 01:40:55 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 12:30:54 PM
Did you guys notice that on July 23rd, 2012, Zak posted in the Beer topic?

!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 03:14:37 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 03, 2012, 01:40:55 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 12:30:54 PM
Did you guys notice that on July 23rd, 2012, Zak posted in the Beer topic?

!!!

And it was exactly his 26th post in this topic. Which is exactly 22 more than the amount of letters in "beer", and 22 is exactly 14 more than the amount of Hungarian and Danish medals currently won, combined. And 14 is the amount of years since the Kalpen competition started, and in the Kalpen competiton, Zak's third race was CTRACK25, and 25 is the cube root of 15575, and 15575 is just a useless random number!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on August 04, 2012, 06:01:15 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 12:30:54 PM
Did you guys notice that on July 23rd, 2012, Zak posted in the Beer topic?

We are living in strange times...

Did I?
Was I drunk perhaps?  ???
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on August 04, 2012, 06:02:59 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 03:14:37 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 03, 2012, 01:40:55 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 03, 2012, 12:30:54 PM
Did you guys notice that on July 23rd, 2012, Zak posted in the Beer topic?

!!!

And it was exactly his 26th post in this topic. Which is exactly 22 more than the amount of letters in "beer", and 22 is exactly 14 more than the amount of Hungarian and Danish medals currently won, combined. And 14 is the amount of years since the Kalpen competition started, and in the Kalpen competiton, Zak's third race was CTRACK25, and 25 is the cube root of 15575, and 15575 is just a useless random number!!

And if you try to read 15575 as letters, it spells "isses" which exactly corresponds to the Böhm-Kalpen-Maass song "So Isses" from the Venito album!!! Or is it 50 15575?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on August 08, 2012, 11:07:40 PM
Further newbies are coming! It seems that I found several good German beers, but still nothing outstanding.

Kloster Landbier (GER, 0.69 EUR/0.5 l, 4.7 V/V%): 6/10.
Flensburger Pilsener (GER, 0.89 EUR/0.33 l, ): 7.5/10.
Heidelberger Pils (GER, 0.49 EUR/0.5 l, 4.7 V/V%): 7.5/10.
Holsten Pilsener (GER, 0.59 EUR/0.568 l, 4.8 V/V%): 7/10, of course much better than the Holsten in Hungary. Moreover, they tried to give a larger discount than Borsodi, offering "13.5% GRATIS" in a can.
Engel Kicker (GER, 0.69 EUR/0.5 l, 5.6 V/V%): 2/10. Perhaps it's a speciality, but not for my taste. Strong, very strange, very sweet aroma, I never felt anything like that. But I didn't have to give up, and drank it all, so it deserves 2 points.
Kaiserdom (GER, 0.99 EUR/1 l, 4.7 V/V%): 7/10. The 1 l can looks very nice!
Karlskrone Gold (BEL, 0.29 EUR/0.5 l, 4.9 V/V%): 4/10. A competitor for Grafenwalder, from ALDI. But they should not play in the same division... Karlskrone is tasteless and water-like.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 10, 2012, 08:42:03 AM
Two newbies (?), don't ask how I did it during such a strict "cholecysta-friendly" diet. I forgot the exact alcohol content and the price, so it was a mindless sampling.

Karlovacko (CRO, ~5% alcohol content): average festival beer, it deserves 6/10.
Egger (AUT, ~5%): same category, slightly worse than the former one. Mark: 5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 10, 2012, 08:43:37 AM
25-30 beer brands remain unrated from the past, I don't have their score. Some of them are Belgians... :-\
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 22, 2012, 07:57:26 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 10, 2012, 08:42:03 AM
"cholecysta-friendly" diet

Seems like my cholecysta has no detectable problem. But alcohol is still forbidden...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 02, 2012, 12:20:06 AM
Single beer test, LOL...

Corsendonk Agnus Triple (BEL, 7.5 % alcohol, 699 HUF/0.33 l): if I take it as a beer from anywhere - quite good. If I add that it's a Belgian one... well, only mediorce. It's something like Osasuna in La Liga: they are weaklings in Spain, but they could easily win the Hungarian "professional" league. The bottle is nice anyway. Mark: 7.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 03, 2012, 07:55:20 AM
Double beer test ---> liver pains in the morning. It sucks...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 03, 2012, 08:14:17 AM
Zähringer Schwarz (GER, 4.9% alcohol, 233 HUF/0.5 l can): weak mediorce one with sour backtaste. Don't try it! Mark: 3/10

Crabbies Ginger Beer (ENG, 4% alcohol, 599 HUF/0.33 l): very tasteful, I loved it - but it's not a beer at all. If somebody says I drink concentrated Canada Dry, I would believe it. No evaluation.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 24, 2012, 01:36:17 PM
Forgot to add few weeks ago:

Durlacher Weissbier (GER, somewhere around 5% alcohol content; 349 HUF / 0.5 l can): solubility test of yeast in light beer? Tastes like that, it doesn't remind me on any other wheat beers (maybe Valentin's Weissbier is the closest one). I didn't like it. However, it's not an extremely bad one. Mark: 3.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 01, 2012, 09:36:33 AM
Off-topic: the californian semi-sweet Lady Elena wine is probably the best rosé I have ever tried.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on October 02, 2012, 04:30:55 PM
Try "El Diego" (http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/img?s=MLA&f=139687302_3943.jpg&v=P&sll=956203)


Kidding! Don't!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 02, 2012, 10:05:15 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on October 02, 2012, 04:30:55 PM
Try "El Diego" (http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/img?s=MLA&f=139687302_3943.jpg&v=P&sll=956203)

Hmmm... Tetra Pack wine is also known in South America.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on October 02, 2012, 11:25:21 PM
Quote from: CTG on October 02, 2012, 10:05:15 PM
Hmmm... Tetra Pack wine is also known in South America.
Well, yes... we have all kind of cheap alcoholic stuff. I'm not proud of it, but I once had this product (http://www.westside.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/best%20vodka%20open-3.jpg) (it wasn't this brand, but you'll get the idea).
It was cheaper than buying a bottle of water, so imagine how bad that was...
Also, cheapest beer ever!
(http://sp4.fotolog.com/photo/4/51/53/_los_precisos_/1143296855_f.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 03, 2012, 06:00:31 AM
Quote from: Chulk on October 02, 2012, 11:25:21 PM
Quote from: CTG on October 02, 2012, 10:05:15 PM
Hmmm... Tetra Pack wine is also known in South America.
Well, yes... we have all kind of cheap alcoholic stuff. I'm not proud of it, but I once had this product (http://www.westside.co.zw/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/best%20vodka%20open-3.jpg) (it wasn't this brand, but you'll get the idea).
It was cheaper than buying a bottle of water, so imagine how bad that was...
Also, cheapest beer ever!
(http://sp4.fotolog.com/photo/4/51/53/_los_precisos_/1143296855_f.jpg)

Cheaper than 0.13 USD?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on October 03, 2012, 06:38:44 PM
Around .15 USD (don't remember the exact Pesos/USD ratio last time I saw that beer thing
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 03, 2012, 10:28:54 PM
Quote from: Chulk on October 03, 2012, 06:38:44 PM
Around .15 USD (don't remember the exact Pesos/USD ratio last time I saw that beer thing

So it is like Schlossmühle: few years ago it was 29 HUF/0.5 l.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 11, 2012, 11:34:04 PM
Saturday: Lady Elena will visit me again! :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 26, 2012, 12:47:33 AM
Attention! ONtopic post!

I'm drinking Juleøl (=Christmas beer) of Lade Gaards Brygghus. I thought that it should be tested before I ruin the festive mood with it on Christmas Eve.  :D

Result: it isn't good. It tries to be a "semi-brown" beer (like Arany Ászok Félbarna), the colour is OK, but it is tasteless even if compared to lager beers... So:
Lade Gaards Brygghus Juleøl (NOR, 4.7 V/V%, 27 NOK/0.5 l): 3.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on October 26, 2012, 12:51:40 AM
Btw, next week we'll have the annual company meeting in Belgium. Is it really a beer paradise? Keep up with forum posts!  :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 26, 2012, 01:09:40 AM
Quote from: Usrin on October 26, 2012, 12:51:40 AM
Btw, next week we'll have the annual company meeting in Belgium. Is it really a beer paradise?

It has to be...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 03, 2012, 11:33:45 PM
Ghost wine in action (=CTG, we call it "ghost wine" with Akoss)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: SuperBrian on November 14, 2012, 11:45:13 AM
Last Beer Tasting results: (Top three with description).

1. Evil Twin Christmas Eve in a New York City Hotel Room
Odour: 9/10 (honey, nuts, smoked malt)
Taste: 8/10 (Good balance between the bitter and the sweetness)
Palate: 4/5
Appearance: 4/5 (Black, thick head which disappears quite fast).
Overall 17/20

2. Carlsberg Semper Ardens Julebryg
Odour: 7/10 (Deliciuos and fruity, but not lasting for long).
Taste: 7/10 (Fruity, sweet and maybe to sweet).
Palate: 3/5
Appearance: 4/5 (Dark brown, thick head lasting long).
Overall: 16/20

3. Ærø Julebrug
Odour: 4/10 (Sweet, caramel)
Taste: 6/10 (Mediore, sweet, caramel, bitter hops)
Palate: 3/5
Appearance: 3/5 (Red brown, thin head which stays for long, though)
Overall: 14/20

4. Svaneke Retro Half and Half
Overall: 14/20
5. Krenkerup Stout
Overall: 13/20
6. Krenkerup Julebryg
Overall: 13/20
7. Willemoes Ale
Overall: 12/20
8. Everads Original Premium Ale
Overall: 11/20
9. Kaiserdom Pilsener
Overall: 8/20
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 29, 2012, 08:02:45 AM
Estrella Damm Daura glutene-free beer (ESP, 5.4 % alcohol content, 599 HUF/0.33 l): maybe I've lost my interest in beer testing. This one seemed to be an unwanted, bitter exercise to solve. It looks and tastes like an average beer, but still, it was really exhausting to drink - I guess it would be the same now with any other beers. My rating would not be realistic at all.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on December 03, 2012, 05:18:28 PM
Mahn & Ohlerich, from Rostock, Germany, is one of the best beers I've ever had.

(http://www.bierspot.de/pictures/news/org/Flasche%20Mahn_Ohlerich.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 04, 2012, 02:18:57 PM
I like the bottle design.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 10, 2012, 02:59:23 PM
Btw which one was the strongest beer in your life? I mean the alcohol content.

Here: Scaldis and Bush (12-12%), both from Belgium.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 11, 2013, 07:34:28 AM
So?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 11, 2013, 09:24:26 AM
Nothing stronger than Master Brew (10,5%) - which is, coincidentally, also the worst beer I've ever drunk.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 11, 2013, 09:40:07 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on January 11, 2013, 09:24:26 AM
Nothing stronger than Master Brew (10,5%) - which is, coincidentally, also the worst beer I've ever drunk.

Yeah, I remember the 'CTG's pee + alcohol' thing... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on January 11, 2013, 10:32:36 AM
No offense to your pee...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 11, 2013, 10:50:08 AM
I guess Schlossmühle is even worse, although it has only 3% alcohol content. Yes, the legendary "gipsy beer" of Tesco. :D (I don't dare to try it.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 15, 2013, 11:23:50 AM
Komeuppance: as we can see, you like spirits very much. What about beer?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on January 21, 2013, 03:19:45 PM
Quote from: CTG on January 11, 2013, 10:50:08 AM
I guess Schlossmühle is even worse, although it has only 3% alcohol content. Yes, the legendary "gipsy beer" of Tesco. :D (I don't dare to try it.)

For Akoss Poo: it's still available - for 89 HUF. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 06, 2013, 11:32:18 PM
No beer tests lately?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on February 07, 2013, 02:56:30 AM
no  8)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2013, 08:45:48 AM
Quote from: zaqrack on February 07, 2013, 02:56:30 AM
no  8)

I don't believe it. ;D

Be honest: how much alcohol have you ever drank (or eat as an alcoholic chocolate)? Every milliliter counts!

Edit: I'll also try to summarize... it won't be so easy, it will be quite an uncertain estimation (+/- 50 %).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on February 07, 2013, 10:51:24 AM
let me see:

- 0.5dl of champagne (disgusting taste, still results in some of my bad dreams)
- 1 alcohol filled praliné (spat it out when I realized it has alcohol inside, but it was too late)
- 2dl of beer (in exchange for sex, call me a whore  8))
- probably a bit through food intake

I guess that's it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 AM
I guess the other end is Akoss Poo.

My list:

~600 l beer (~30000 ccm alcohol)
~200 l wine (70% red, 30% white; ~25000 ccm)
~25 l vermuth type drinks (martini, cherry, fruit liqeours, etc.; ~4000 ccm)
~15 l pálinka (~7500 ccm)
~ 15 l champagne (~1800 ccm)
~ 4 l Hubertus (something like Jägermeister, just better, at least for me; ~1500 ccm)
~ 3 l tequila (~1200 ccm)
~ 2 l other hard drinks (~800 ccm)
~ 2 l vodka (~800 ccm)
~ 2 l Becherovka (Friker can tell more about it, it's a delicious liqeuor with herbs - too bad I can't stand even the smell of it since that awful drunk night in 2008...; ~800 ccm)
~ 2 l rum (any kind of, except the baking version :D; ~1000 ccm)
~ 1.5 l whisky (~600 ccm)
~ 1 l cognac (~400 ccm)
~ 0.2 l absinth (~150 ccm)
exactly 0.2 l "sütörum" (rum for baking, kind of shame :D; 50 ccm), 0.2 l gin (terrible; 75 ccm)

SUM: ~75000 ccm pure alcohol (~60 kg; two more years and it will reach my body weight)

~200 pieces of alcoholic bonbons
swallowed Listerine 3 times by accident :D

Did I miss something?

Never tried but I want to: fernet, ouzo

Edit: 2013 seems to be quite a sober year so far (~400 ccm alcohol, no beer). What's more, this is my 26th alcohol free day in a row.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Chulk on February 07, 2013, 04:17:03 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 AM
Never tried but I want to: fernet
If I ever go to Europe, I'll make sure to bring you some (and you better make sure you have Coke and enough ice to go with it!)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:15:22 PM
Quote from: Chulk on February 07, 2013, 04:17:03 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 AM
Never tried but I want to: fernet
If I ever go to Europe, I'll make sure to bring you some (and you better make sure you have Coke and enough ice to go with it!)

Believe me: I don't need that fuckin' coke. ;D

(I hope it's closer to Becherovka than to Unicum)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2013, 12:21:10 AM
Quote from: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 AM
this is my 26th alcohol free day in a row.

It's getting more and more frustrating.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Komeuppance on February 10, 2013, 06:57:53 AM
Quote from: CTG on January 15, 2013, 11:23:50 AM
Komeuppance: as we can see, you like spirits very much. What about beer?
I do like beer, very much... but not as much as the spirits.  Both have their proper applications lol.

I prefer Rainier Beer, named after one of the big mountains here in the NorthWest US.  It's not sold very widely so there is always the allure of finding it, with it's outdated advertising still printed on the can (Which after drinking quite a few I like to quote to my amusement): "100% All Aluminum Recyclable Can"  "Made with Yakima Valley Hops"!!
(http://justbeer.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/rainier.gif)
It's a very cheap beer, one of the factors that attracts me to it, but it also tastes great with a good amount of flavor, but not so heavy... allowing to me to drink non stop.

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/534250_4593291271734_963876657_n.jpg)
When going on an excursion, we make sure to stock up very well as it's likely outside of the normal distribution range.  This an example of one of those trips, Hells Canyon Oregon (Almost 2500 meters deep, deeper than the Grand Canyon), we brought 90 cans of Rainier... just for me.

I'll update about some of my other favorites next time, I'm getting thirsty!!

-Robert
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2013, 01:19:59 PM
Sounds like a beer for... hmmm... not for me. :D

My favorites:

(http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/grandcru.png)

(http://pubeiie.com/wp-content/uploads/KasteelDonker.png)

(http://www.jamesclay.co.uk/beer-suppliers/images/stories/product_pics/kwak_maina.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Komeuppance on February 10, 2013, 09:29:47 PM
Haha "fancy glass" beer drinker I see.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3140/2701990973_cbd21dd890_m.jpg)
Pyramid Apricot Ale, something I'd drink with a meal.  There's a brewery here in town so we get the freshest stuff out of the tap.

(http://www.the-m-line.com/images/work/hef03.jpg)
The Hefe is also good!!

-Robert
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 15, 2013, 01:51:08 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 10, 2013, 12:21:10 AM
Quote from: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 AM
this is my 26th alcohol free day in a row.

It's getting more and more frustrating.

Yesterday I had to drink 2 shots of pálinka. It helped a lot in falling asleep.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 21, 2013, 07:38:15 PM
Feind CTG (HUN, semi-sweet red wine, 12% alcohol, 599 HUF/0.75 l) is maybe the best cheap wine I have ever tried. It has a strong fruity backtaste. Mark: erm, I shouldn't evaluate a wine here... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 23, 2013, 01:40:37 PM
My favorite beer glass is broken. :-\

(I haven't used it for ages, since I can't drink beer.)

(http://image.elelmiszer.hu/original/100473.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 24, 2013, 04:02:15 AM
I'll be out of order in the next 24 hours...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 28, 2013, 08:47:01 AM
I wonder which topic will reach 1000 posts first: 'Beer' or 'Useless messages'?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on February 28, 2013, 02:23:26 PM
useless beers  :-X
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 28, 2013, 02:37:45 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on February 28, 2013, 02:23:26 PM
useless beers  :-X

Don't dare to merge them!!! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on February 28, 2013, 03:06:06 PM
At least, if you do, also create the residue thread "Messages".
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on February 28, 2013, 04:25:17 PM
let's not mess around anymore and have a single topic for the whole forum :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Friker on February 28, 2013, 09:52:58 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on February 28, 2013, 04:25:17 PM
let's not mess around anymore and have a single topic for the whole forum :)
instead of CTG spamming in 10 threads we would have CTG spamming 10 times more in one thread O.o no please
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 01, 2013, 03:56:32 PM
Btw 'Association game' enters this game, too. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 01, 2013, 03:57:44 PM
But we should go back to the topic: beer & other alcoholic drinks, so... Any beer tests lately?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on March 01, 2013, 04:25:45 PM
Did you taste a pee of beer? We call it here Brahma :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 06, 2013, 01:58:42 PM
Quote from: alanrotoi on March 01, 2013, 04:25:45 PM
Did you taste a pee of beer? We call it here Brahma :D

Nice collection: Brahma, Masterbrew, Schlossmühle... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 09, 2013, 09:56:14 PM
Stroh 80 (rum speciality from Austria, 80% alcohol content): the most concentrated spirit I have ever tried. When you open the bottle, you can see the released alcohol vapor... :D Strange, but the taste is not alcoholic (it's rather a sweet and very delicious punch) - but in the next second it starts to burn you like hell. I liked it very much, but it's not recommended to drink it in pure form just for getting drunk - you should rather dilute it with coke.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 11, 2013, 12:39:31 PM
Notable drinks last week:

Velkopopovicky Kozel beer 12 extr. % (unfortunately, brewed in Slovakia, Pivovary Topvar, but still, much better than in Hungary)
Saris beer 12 extr. % (original)
Panyolai pálinkas (Elixír érlelt szatmári szilva, Mézes gyömbéres vilmoskörte, Fürtös meggy, fekete cseresznye)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 11, 2013, 01:24:19 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 11, 2013, 12:39:31 PM
Panyolai pálinkas (Elixír érlelt szatmári szilva, Mézes gyömbéres vilmoskörte, Fürtös meggy, fekete cseresznye)

For non-Hungarians: plum, william's pear with honey and ginger, sour cherry, black cherry.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 11, 2013, 08:21:54 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 31, 2005, 09:47:00 AM
Let's remember all the brands I have ever tasted:

Adamsbrau
Amstel
Arany ?szok
Beck's
Borosty?n
Borsodi
Borsodi Bivaly
Carlsberg
Dreher
Edelweiss
Gold Fassl
G?sser
Heineken
Hofbrau M?nchen
Holsten
Kaiser
L?wenbrau
Pilsner Urquell
Rolling Rock
Schlossgold (brrrrrrr...)
Soproni ?szok
Steffl
Stella Artois
Tuborg
Zlaty Bazant

I think that's all...

amateur... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 12, 2013, 11:12:34 AM
Quote from: CTG on March 09, 2013, 09:56:14 PM
Stroh 80...

...you should rather dilute it with coke.

Or mix it with raisins (~100 ccm to 50 g) and keep it in a closed bottle for a few months... it will be damned delicious!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 12, 2013, 04:30:56 PM
Maybe I've asked it earlier, but which one is the most popular beer in your country?

Here it's obvious: Borsodi. But I guess the popularity of Arany Ászok and Soproni are not that far behind.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 14, 2013, 10:09:43 AM
Last evening: Stroh 80 + Tokaji Hárslevelü (semi-sweet white wine, quite a delicious one).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 18, 2013, 11:04:59 AM
I should stop it again.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 21, 2013, 03:06:13 PM
I was surprised to see there are no new beer brands in my favorite delicatessen - only the well-known top Belgians... ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 17, 2013, 01:48:05 PM
The first beer of 2013, last night: Heineken. No problem with my stomach so far.

I've found some references about the gluten content of this beer and surprisingly it is lower than the guaranteed level in Estrella Damm Daura (~3 ppm).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 25, 2013, 11:01:32 AM
After a long break, I consumed 5 Borsodi beers in the weekend, 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Forever Borsodi! BÖFF!!!

I also smoked 4 cigarettes, which fact raised my 2013 cigarette consumption to 6.5 cigarettes.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 25, 2013, 01:44:56 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 25, 2013, 11:01:32 AM
I also smoked 4 cigarettes, which fact raised my 2013 cigarette consumption to 6.5 cigarettes.

My stats:

2010 - 0
2011 - 0
2012 - 0
2013 - 0 (so far)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 04, 2013, 01:27:05 AM
Quote from: CTG on February 07, 2013, 11:02:03 AM
I guess the other end is Akoss Poo.

My list:

~600 l beer (~30000 ccm alcohol)
~200 l wine (70% red, 30% white; ~25000 ccm)
~25 l vermuth type drinks (martini, cherry, fruit liqeours, etc.; ~4000 ccm)
~15 l pálinka (~7500 ccm)
~ 15 l champagne (~1800 ccm)
~ 4 l Hubertus (something like Jägermeister, just better, at least for me; ~1500 ccm)
~ 3 l tequila (~1200 ccm)
~ 2 l other hard drinks (~800 ccm)
~ 2 l vodka (~800 ccm)
~ 2 l Becherovka (Friker can tell more about it, it's a delicious liqeuor with herbs - too bad I can't stand even the smell of it since that awful drunk night in 2008...; ~800 ccm)
~ 2 l rum (any kind of, except the baking version :D; ~1000 ccm)
~ 1.5 l whisky (~600 ccm)
~ 1 l cognac (~400 ccm)
~ 0.2 l absinth (~150 ccm)
exactly 0.2 l "sütörum" (rum for baking, kind of shame :D; 50 ccm), 0.2 l gin (terrible; 75 ccm)

SUM: ~75000 ccm pure alcohol (~60 kg; two more years and it will reach my body weight)

Neither I'm too far from my body weight, even without swallowing a single ccm of Listerine! (For me it seems impossible... it would come back in a second, together with the whole content of my stomach.)

I've made an Excel table and estimated my consumption in each year from 2000. (Well, it should be also taken with an error margin of +/- 50%.) The overall sum really surprised me.

~806 l beer (~40300 ccm alcohol)
~78.5 l wine (~9420 ccm)
~2.5 l champagne (~300 ccm)
~7.7 l pálinka (~3465 ccm)
~8.1 l bitter (Unicum, Hubertus, Becherovka, Jäger, etc.; ~3240 ccm)
~3.3 l other spirits (mostly vodka, cognac and whisky; ~1320 ccm)
+non-significant amount from alcoholic desserts and gayish drinks (vermouth, liqueur)

SUM: ~58000 ccm (ca. 46 kg).

As you can see, most of it comes from beer... The surprisingly large amount is resulted by my habit of finishing university workdays with a beer in the dormitory (between 2003-2007). Doing this 3 times a week (not counting the summer), I'm already at 60 l/year without any special events, additional beers (because one beer is not a beer), etc.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 04, 2013, 08:53:22 AM
I wanted to have 3 or 4 beers yesterday with Ildi, but I fell asleep after the first one (Pilsner)...  ;D (Un)fortunately, it happened only after the end of the Sweden-Switzerland hockey game...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 22, 2013, 05:39:15 AM
Beer test today, maybe part of it would be performed yesterday:

Corona Extra, MEX, 4.6%
Modelo, MEX, 4.4%
Busch Classic, USA, 4.3%

(Budweiser, USA, 5.0% was tasted two years ago.)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 22, 2013, 08:29:05 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 22, 2013, 05:39:15 AM
(Budweiser, USA, 5.0% was tasted two years ago.)

Fake Budvar.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 22, 2013, 04:49:13 PM
Quote from: CTG on May 22, 2013, 08:29:05 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 22, 2013, 05:39:15 AM
(Budweiser, USA, 5.0% was tasted two years ago.)

Fake Budvar.

It has nothing to do with the Czech Budweiser. Just their names are the same. Btw different taste from European beers.

Budweiser was packed in 355 ml cans, the other three beers were sold in 710 ml cans/bottles (12 fl. oz and 1 pint 8 fl. oz., respectively).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 29, 2013, 10:34:27 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 22, 2013, 05:39:15 AM
Beer test today, maybe part of it would be performed yesterday:

Corona Extra, MEX, 4.6%
Modelo, MEX, 4.4%
Busch Classic, USA, 4.3%

(Budweiser, USA, 5.0% was tasted two years ago.)

Result of the tests:

Corona Extra 5.5/10
Modelo 6.5/10
Busch Classic 5/10
(not too characteristic taste beers, Modelo was clearly the best)

Re-test of Budweiser (USA): 5/10

Re-test of Foster's (AUS, 5.2%, 710 ml can in the USA): 6.5/10 (it has a very special and unique taste, when I drink it, its rate changes in my mouth between 3 and 9... good beer)

Test of Steel Reserve (USA, 8.1% - highest I've ever tasted, 710 ml can) 3.5/10 (it seems I don't really like beers with too high alcohol content, and US-made beers are not too good

Re-test of Warsteiner (GER, 4.8%, 330 ml cans, consumed on the plane): 8/10 (bitter and very good taste)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 29, 2013, 11:30:54 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 29, 2013, 10:34:27 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 22, 2013, 05:39:15 AM
Beer test today, maybe part of it would be performed yesterday:

Corona Extra, MEX, 4.6%
Modelo, MEX, 4.4%
Busch Classic, USA, 4.3%

(Budweiser, USA, 5.0% was tasted two years ago.)

Result of the tests:

Corona Extra 5.5/10
Modelo 6.5/10
Busch Classic 5/10
(not too characteristic taste beers, Modelo was clearly the best)

Re-test of Budweiser (USA): 5/10

Re-test of Foster's (AUS, 5.2%, 710 ml can in the USA): 6.5/10 (it has a very special and unique taste, when I drink it, its rate changes in my mouth between 3 and 9... good beer)

Test of Steel Reserve (USA, 8.1% - highest I've ever tasted, 710 ml can) 3.5/10 (it seems I don't really like beers with too high alcohol content, and US-made beers are not too good

Re-test of Warsteiner (GER, 4.8%, 330 ml cans, consumed on the plane): 8/10 (bitter and very good taste)

Bourgeois.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Komeuppance on May 30, 2013, 08:40:31 AM
I tried a "mead" beverage earlier today, which is supposed to be one of the earliest style of fermented drinks.  A "honey wine".  I'd been drinking all day, changing the transmission on my Mitsubishi Starion, and took a break at the bar.  Even though I was in the drinking mood, I probably wouldn't order a mead drink again.

-Robert
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 30, 2013, 08:54:14 AM
Quote from: Komeuppance on May 30, 2013, 08:40:31 AM
my Mitsubishi Starion

Whohooo, there's no Mitsubishi in Stunts - yet.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 06, 2013, 10:11:52 AM
Beer is now only the third most popular topic. skid gluten! >:(

(tonight or tomorrow I'm going to drink Martini)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 06, 2013, 10:48:50 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 29, 2013, 10:34:27 AM
Re-test of Warsteiner (GER, 4.8%, 330 ml cans, consumed on the plane): 8/10 (bitter and very good taste)

I agree, that's why I love to fly with Lufthansa!  :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 06, 2013, 11:12:45 AM
Quote from: Usrin on June 06, 2013, 10:48:50 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 29, 2013, 10:34:27 AM
Re-test of Warsteiner (GER, 4.8%, 330 ml cans, consumed on the plane): 8/10 (bitter and very good taste)

I agree, that's why I love to fly with Lufthansa!  :D

Hey rich man, that won't be good! :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 08, 2013, 01:33:25 AM
Beers tested this week:

Niksicko (MNE, 5.0%) 6.5/10
Niksicko Tamno (MNE, 6.2%) 5/10
Jelen (MNE, 5.0%) 4.5/10
Tirana (ALB, 4.0%) 5/10
King Pils (ALB, ?%) 2/10
Sarajevsko Lager (BIH, 4.9%) 4.5/10
Sarajevsko Premium (BIH, 4.9%) 5.5/10
Bavaria (GER, 5.0%) 5/10

Re-Test:

Paulaner Weissbier (GER, 5.5%) 9.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 08, 2013, 10:35:52 PM
It's cherry time - cheers for Diesel Joe!!! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 24, 2013, 10:21:37 PM
I'm also back from my holiday in Sweden. I thought that beers are as expensive as in Norway, but found prices 60-70% lower. Moreover, the quality is way better!

I tested the following ones:

Falcon Bayerskt (SWE) 5.2% 14.30 SEK/0.5 l 5.5/10
Småland Mellanöl (SWE) 4.5% 8.90 SEK/0.5 l 5/10
Åbro Original (SWE) 5.2% 10.70 SEK/0.5 l 7/10
Åbro Bryggmästärens Premium Gold (SWE) 5.7% 13.00 SEK/0.5 l 8/10
Blågul 5.2% (SWE) 9.90 SEK/0.5 l 6.5/10
Spendrups Premium Gold 5.9% (SWE) 12.90 SEK/0.5 l 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 24, 2013, 10:24:38 PM
And a beer which I tested this spring in Denmark, but forgot to post:

Dansk Guld 5.7% (DEN) 5.95 DKK/0.33 l 7.5/10

BÖFF!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on June 25, 2013, 09:20:55 PM
Quote from: Usrin on June 24, 2013, 10:24:38 PM
And a beer which I tested this spring in Denmark, but forgot to post:

Dansk Guld 5.7% (DEN) 5.95 DKK/0.33 l 7.5/10

BÖFF!

;D
Good news for Danish alcoholics and teenage boys.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 25, 2013, 11:53:52 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on June 25, 2013, 09:20:55 PM
Quote from: Usrin on June 24, 2013, 10:24:38 PM
And a beer which I tested this spring in Denmark, but forgot to post:

Dansk Guld 5.7% (DEN) 5.95 DKK/0.33 l 7.5/10

BÖFF!

;D
Good news for Danish alcoholics and teenage boys.

Lucky guys!  :)
At the moment, I'm drinking...
Ringnes Gold 6.5% (NOR) 55 NOK*/6x0.33 l 5.5/10

I wonder if the alcohol content is true. Although this beer doesn't have a really characteristic aroma, I don't feel any taste of alcohol. (It was obvious in Borsodi Bivaly, having the same alcohol content.)

*: Price in the duty-free shop of the airport. In the liquor store, it is sold for 32 NOK/0.33 l (thanks to alcohol tax).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 26, 2013, 12:03:19 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 11, 2013, 12:39:31 PM
unfortunately, brewed in Slovakia

Unfortunately??? >:( >:( >:(
Being brewed in SLOVAKIA = warranty of being top-class! BÖFF!  8)

Usrin The Slovak
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 26, 2013, 12:05:13 AM
Quote from: Usrin on June 26, 2013, 12:03:19 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 11, 2013, 12:39:31 PM
unfortunately, brewed in Slovakia

Unfortunately??? >:( >:( >:(
Being brewed in SLOVAKIA = warranty of being top-class! BÖFF!  8)

Usrin The Slovak

Well... probably the alcohol content of Ringnes Gold was true. I'm drunken! BÖÖÖÖFFFFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 26, 2013, 07:58:18 AM
Quote from: Usrin on June 26, 2013, 12:05:13 AM
I'm drunken! BÖÖÖÖFFFFF!!!

Good for you! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 26, 2013, 07:58:59 AM
Quote from: CTG on June 26, 2013, 07:58:18 AM
Quote from: Usrin on June 26, 2013, 12:05:13 AM
I'm drunken! BÖÖÖÖFFFFF!!!

Good for you! ;D

Correction: it was good for you. Now I guess your hangover is not that nice... :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on June 27, 2013, 11:11:38 AM
Quote from: CTG on June 26, 2013, 07:58:59 AM
Correction: it was good for you. Now I guess your hangover is not that nice... :D

It was not serious. The balance of the evening and the side-effects in the morning is highly positive. It was really worth drinking!
:)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 27, 2013, 11:15:29 PM
PINOT NOIR!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 28, 2013, 08:54:33 AM
Next week: the real gluten sensitivity test - in Belgium. ;D

That means moderate beer testing.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 06, 2013, 02:13:39 PM
Quote from: CTG on June 28, 2013, 08:54:33 AM
Next week: the real gluten sensitivity test - in Belgium. ;D

Or "How to destroy your intestines in 4 days" game... ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 09, 2013, 08:29:42 AM
Evaluations to publish (expect some really high marks! :D):

Tongerlo Blonde
Omer Blonde
St. Feuillien Tripel
Brugge Tripel
Trappistes Rochefort 10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 11, 2013, 09:35:04 AM
The "worst" one:

Tongerlo Blonde (BEL, 6.5% alcohol, tapped version, n/a Euro/0.5 l): not really characteristic, but refreshing drink, without any alcoholic taste. In Hungary, it would be a really nice light beer - in Belgium, well... there are several better brands to try. However, it was still worth to taste, especially as a cover drink after a huge beef steak. Mark: 7/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 19, 2013, 10:01:17 AM
It will be continued soon... However, these days I'm rather drinking red wine and pálinka. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 27, 2013, 04:43:48 PM
Quote from: CTG on July 19, 2013, 10:01:17 AM
It will be continued soon... However, these days I'm rather drinking red wine and pálinka. :D

And now: nothing, but water/tea. Heat wave sucks (it will be even worse in 48 hours).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 27, 2013, 05:16:09 PM
Omer Blonde (BEL, 8% alcohol, ~1.3 EUR/0.33 l): I don't know what to say. It has a "true Belgian taste", while you can't really feel the high alcohol content. I suggest it for mild evenings in April. Mark: 8/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 28, 2013, 11:30:06 AM
St. Feuillien Bruin (BEL, 8.5% alcohol, ~1.5 EUR/0.33 l): another noble drink with the well-known Belgian backtaste (sometimes it reminds me a bit on rose tea). Alcohol content is not suppressed in taste, however it's not too alcoholic either. It deserves 9 pts from 10, not less. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 28, 2013, 05:37:15 PM
Bad day: XY fucked up my diet (both gluten and lactose, well-done), again. Then I broke a mercury-filled thermometer, got a paddywhack and ruined a door in our flat. Then an old dickhole made me mad in the supermarket (he thought his age is enough to let him overtake me in the queue). I had no choice: sudden pálinka+beer shot (Miller Genuine). skid OFF, WORLD!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on July 30, 2013, 12:05:09 AM
Bernard Lager (CZE, 29.50 NOK/0.5 l, 4.5% V/V): 7/10. It is obviously a quality beer with rich aromas, however it was too bitter for my taste (at least in the end of a warm summer day). Quite similar to Ottakringer (AUT).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 30, 2013, 08:18:27 AM
Quote from: Usrin on July 30, 2013, 12:05:09 AM
Quite similar to Ottakringer (AUT).

Strange, I always felt grape backtaste in Ottakringer.

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 03, 2013, 10:01:53 AM
Brugge Tripel (BEL, 8.7% alcohol, 17.8° extract content, 1.39 EUR/0.33 l): just like the place of brewery, it's wonderful. The bottle's design didn't really impress me, but the first gulp... ouch... one of the best Belgian beers. The color, the flavor, the scent, the well-balanced alcoholic effect... I couldn't really find a weak point. A new member in CTG's "Beer Hall of Fame". Mark: 9.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2013, 09:52:24 AM
Hey, Mr. Poo! Will you try the Turkish beer? ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 26, 2013, 11:18:33 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2013, 09:52:24 AM
Hey, Mr. Poo! Will you try the Turkish beer? ;D

If there is any. 83% of the Turkish are abstinent, and there is the lowest alcohol consumption in Europe.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2013, 12:50:21 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 26, 2013, 11:18:33 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2013, 09:52:24 AM
Hey, Mr. Poo! Will you try the Turkish beer? ;D

If there is any. 83% of the Turkish are abstinent, and there is the lowest alcohol consumption in Europe.

But still more than zero. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2013, 12:57:16 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2013, 12:50:21 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 26, 2013, 11:18:33 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2013, 09:52:24 AM
Hey, Mr. Poo! Will you try the Turkish beer? ;D

If there is any. 83% of the Turkish are abstinent, and there is the lowest alcohol consumption in Europe.

But still more than zero. :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_Turkey
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on August 27, 2013, 12:31:22 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 26, 2013, 11:18:33 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2013, 09:52:24 AM
Hey, Mr. Poo! Will you try the Turkish beer? ;D

If there is any. 83% of the Turkish are abstinent, and there is the lowest alcohol consumption in Europe.
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Proud+Meme+Face_cf274a_3448808.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on August 31, 2013, 12:43:43 AM
McEwan's Export ("Scottish Ale", 4.5% V/V, 1.29 GBP/0.5 l): 4.5/10. The usual British stuff. It was not like the really crappy beers (no strange backtaste, etc.), but somehow not my style.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 31, 2013, 09:44:03 AM
Quote from: Usrin on August 31, 2013, 12:43:43 AM
The usual British stuff.

Like used coffee grounds?

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 11, 2013, 06:38:35 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 31, 2013, 09:44:03 AM
Quote from: Usrin on August 31, 2013, 12:43:43 AM
The usual British stuff.

Like used coffee grounds?

Yes, but in this case that "aroma" was not really strong. Some similar ones to come...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 11, 2013, 06:47:53 PM
Trof Lager (4.x % V/V, locally brewed draught beer in a pub in Manchester): 5.5/10
Carling (4.x % V/V, draught): 5/10
Happy Valley Black Magic (4.6 % V/V): 4.5/10
Happy Valley Lazy Daze (4.2 % V/V): 2/10 (yes, the REAL British stuff which CTG meant!)
Pedigree (5.0 % V/V): 4/10
Foster's (4.x % V/V, draught): 6.5/10 (a nice surprise, knowing the canned Foster's which is crappy compared to that)

There are two or three more which I don't remember... notes about them are on my working laptop, and will be posted tomorrow.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 11, 2013, 09:06:32 PM
Trappistes Rochefort 10 (BEL, 11.3% alcohol, 1.59 EUR/0.33 l): add some extra alcohol (let's say +1) to the perfect beer and you get this one. Maybe it would get the maximal score in the winter, but it was a bit strong in the mild Belgian July. Mark: 9/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 11, 2013, 09:07:54 PM
Quote from: Usrin on September 11, 2013, 06:47:53 PM
Happy Valley Lazy Daze (4.2 % V/V): 2/10 (yes, the REAL British stuff which CTG meant!)

So, it's rather a Sad Valley. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 12, 2013, 05:54:22 PM
I have beer drinking mood (after two shots of pálinka).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on September 12, 2013, 06:00:11 PM
Quote from: CTG on September 12, 2013, 05:54:22 PM
I have beer drinking mood (after two shots of pálinka).

Prediction: Zakstunts will be flooded by spam tonight. :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 12, 2013, 06:00:51 PM
Quote from: Usrin on September 12, 2013, 06:00:11 PM
Quote from: CTG on September 12, 2013, 05:54:22 PM
I have beer drinking mood (after two shots of pálinka).

Prediction: Zakstunts will be flooded by spam tonight. :)

Nope. Already in the evening. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 30, 2013, 08:08:18 PM
Beer is expensive in Turkey and can only be bought in special shops. But it is served on the flights of Turkish Airlines.

Efes Pilsen (TUR, 5.0%, in shops, around 4-4.5 TRY, 500 ml can) 5.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 01, 2013, 12:12:24 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on September 30, 2013, 08:08:18 PM
Beer is expensive in Turkey and can only be bought in special shops. But it is served on the flights of Turkish Airlines.

Efes Pilsen (TUR, 5.0%, in shops, around 4-4.5 TRY, 500 ml can) 5.5/10

Acceptable from a "muslim" country.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 01, 2013, 05:35:42 PM
This week will be cold enough to drink PÁLINKA! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 05, 2013, 08:11:41 PM
Quote from: CTG on October 01, 2013, 05:35:42 PM
This week will be cold enough to drink PÁLINKA! ;D

Massive liver pain. ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 06, 2013, 11:24:36 PM
Drunk, drunk, drunk... BÖFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 06, 2013, 11:25:45 PM
1000th message in Beer topic! BÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖFF!!!

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wBZ0VNKMAr4/TY-vTyEGQTI/AAAAAAAAAZY/28j4SpXtxKc/s1600/beerritz.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 13, 2013, 09:01:42 PM
Puntigamer (AUT) 4.5/10 (3.40 Euro at Ötschergräben...)

Szalon Barna (HUN) 5.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on October 14, 2013, 08:03:38 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on October 13, 2013, 09:01:42 PM
Puntigamer (AUT) 4.5/10 (3.40 Euro at Ötschergräben...)

BOURGEOIS!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 28, 2013, 07:47:35 PM
Re-taste:

Veltins (GER, 4.8 V/V%, 199 HUF/0.5l can in Hungarian Lidl): 6/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 05, 2013, 05:20:34 PM
Damn it, I'm under a strict control (workmates & boss), so I'm not allowed to drink and eat things violating my public diet.

So much for bayern beer... >:(
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 15, 2013, 11:56:11 AM
There wasn't a wide selection of beers in Portugal, and we rather tasted wine, so only two newbies from there:

Super Bock (POR, 5.2% V/V): 4/10
Sagres (POR, 5.0% V/V): 5.5/10

Don't believe the name of Super Bock. It's nothing but a weak, quite tasteless lager.

Btw, I'll post more evaluations soon, as I'm invited for a tasting of Christmas beers (juleøl) for tomorrow. This is the only part of the year when Norwegian breweries make something really good - in a style similar to the Czech/Slovak dark beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on November 16, 2013, 02:14:16 AM
I tried Mahou, a spanish brand. It's nice, but I guess it has a bit more alcohol than most of argentinian beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 17, 2013, 10:08:40 PM
Christmas beer tasting: completed. Unfortunately, the quality was disappointing (with a few exceptions). I was not surprised when I woke up with a terrible headache this morning, although the amount of alcohol was not huge. I started with 0.5 l beer, then had a dinner, tasted ca. 13x0.15 l beer (but didn't drink the two most disgusting ones), and finished the evening with a shot (0.05 l) of home-made pálinka.

Let's see the scores!

CB Juleøl (NOR) 3/10
Hansa Julebrygg (NOR) 6/10
Tuborg Juleøl (NOR) 4.5/10
Aass Juleøl (NOR) 2/10
Ægir Juleøl (NOR) 2.5/10
Frydenlund Juleøl (NOR) 5/10
Ringnes Juleøl (NOR) 3/10
Lervig Juleøl (NOR) 7.5/10
Rogaland Juleøl (NOR) 3.5/10
Hansa Juleøl (NOR) 4/10
Ø Julesnadder (NOR) 1/10
Delirium Christmas (BEL, 10.0% V/V) 1/10
Gauloise Christmas (BEL, 8.1% V/V) 9/10

All Norwegian beers had alcohol content of about 4.5-5.0% V/V. The opinion of other participants (colleagues and their friends, from different European countries) was quite similar to mine: this year's Christmas beers are mostly crappy...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 25, 2013, 05:26:19 PM
2nd visit in München, even worse "parental" control... I should find some time for a hidden beer test.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 26, 2013, 07:47:28 PM
I'll have a very special beer test in next July. That is the best before date of my newest beer, it is:

Trooper ale beer (Iron Maiden Beer, ENG, 4.7%, premium ale beer, Hand Crafted by Robinsons Brewery, don't know its price since it was a birthday present from my sister, Lupuszka)!  ;)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 27, 2013, 12:22:41 AM
Don't expect too much from a UK beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 27, 2013, 12:26:14 AM
Btw München is the 6th foreign city where I got at least a bit drunk.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on November 27, 2013, 02:58:47 AM
Quote from: CTG on November 27, 2013, 12:26:14 AM
Btw München is the 6th foreign city where I got at least a bit drunk.

so much about parental control :)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 27, 2013, 08:28:32 AM
Quote from: CTG on November 27, 2013, 12:26:14 AM
Btw München is the 6th foreign city where I got at least a bit drunk.

For me, it is nine:

- Aarhus (DEN, Stunts meeting) +++
- Lido di Volano (ITA, summer holiday) +
- Vysoké Tatry (SVK, hiking) +
- Morgan Hill (USA, work-related trip, rest day) ++
- Arad (ROM, conference, gala dinner) ++
- Hrabusice (SVK, hiking) +
- Sibenik (CRO, conference, gala dinner) +
- Tivat (MNE, summer holiday) +++
- Istanbul (TUR, conference, birthday) +++

+: a bit ++: medium drunkenness +++: drunken
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 27, 2013, 10:50:50 PM
Quote from: zaqrack on November 27, 2013, 02:58:47 AM
Quote from: CTG on November 27, 2013, 12:26:14 AM
Btw München is the 6th foreign city where I got at least a bit drunk.

so much about parental control :)

I meant it as a diet control (gluten free).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on November 28, 2013, 01:27:52 PM
Interesting list concept. The first foreign town where I got drunk for real was Florence in 2003. Then, that same year, I got boozed-up in Brussels. In 2004, I went for a drinking-fest in Barcelona and Budapest, and got ker-plunked in Kazincbarcika. In 2007 I got schmashed in Scheesel and I got bevvyed in Beijing and shitfaced in Xi'an. In 2008 I got legless in London twice and then I got blasted again in Budapest. In 2009 I got toasted in Tokyo and in 2010 I got bombed in Berlin. 2011 had me hammered in Hong Kong and mashed in Malmö.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 28, 2013, 04:26:49 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 28, 2013, 01:27:52 PM
In 2004, I went for a drinking-fest in Barcelona and Budapest, and got ker-plunked in Kazincbarcika.

Kazincbarcika in 2004? ???

(I guess it was two years later, at WSM III)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on November 29, 2013, 12:27:09 AM
Quote from: CTG on November 28, 2013, 04:26:49 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 28, 2013, 01:27:52 PM
In 2004, I went for a drinking-fest in Barcelona and Budapest, and got ker-plunked in Kazincbarcika.

Kazincbarcika in 2004? ???

(I guess it was two years later, at WSM III)

How should I know? I was drunk  :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 29, 2013, 08:27:50 AM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 29, 2013, 12:27:09 AM
Quote from: CTG on November 28, 2013, 04:26:49 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on November 28, 2013, 01:27:52 PM
In 2004, I went for a drinking-fest in Barcelona and Budapest, and got ker-plunked in Kazincbarcika.

Kazincbarcika in 2004? ???

(I guess it was two years later, at WSM III)

How should I know? I was drunk  :D

Already on the bus? ??? ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 29, 2013, 04:31:18 PM
Another newbie, tasted 10 min ago:
Dahls Juleøl (NOR, 6.5% V/V): 7.5/10

BÖFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 29, 2013, 04:43:48 PM
As far as I remember, I've never been really drunken outside Hungary.

Places where my mood was enhanced by alcohol (had more than 1-2 beers):

- Stavanger, NOR
- Charleroi, BEL
- Lisboa, POR
- Ternitz, AUT
- Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), ROM
- Štúrovo, SVK
- Bratislava, SVK
- Hoštovce (Bódvavendégi), SVK
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on December 24, 2013, 09:51:32 PM
Last night: 0.5 l Hubertus (something like Jägermeister, just better), knockout.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on January 10, 2014, 12:59:20 PM
Recent beer tests:

Erdinger Weißbier (GER, 5.3%) - well, Paulaner and Löwenweisse are better, though they are cheaper, 6/10
Erdinger Dunkel Weißbier (GER, 5.3%) - it rather tastes like a dark beer instead of a wheat beer, 5.5/10
Erdinger Schneeweiße (GER, 5.6%) - more tasty than the basic one, 7.5/10
Rocky Cellar (HUN, 4.0%) - one of the best cheap beers, 5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 01, 2014, 08:19:03 PM
red wine, white wine, whisky, pálinka, good evening everybody!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 01, 2014, 08:19:27 PM
BöÖÖÖÖÖöööÖÖÖÖööÖÖÖöÖÖÖÖÖöööÖöÖöÖÖFF!!!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 06, 2014, 09:47:25 PM
After a long break, my former favorite: Dreher Bak! ;) ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 14, 2014, 11:21:09 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 06, 2014, 09:47:25 PM
After a long break, my former favorite: Dreher Bak! ;) ;D

Do you still like it? I tasted Dreher Bak in December, also after a long (ca. 2 years) break. It was a bit disappointing, not as delicious as I remembered... But it has to be tested once more before changing its points.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on February 14, 2014, 11:31:26 PM
Btw, newbies from "the world's northernmost brewery" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_northernmost_items#Other (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_northernmost_items#Other)):

Mack Nordlys Mørk Pilsner (NOR, 4.5%): 5/10
Mack Pilsner (NOR, 4.5%): 6/10

BÖFF!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 14, 2014, 11:35:45 PM
Quote from: Usrin on February 14, 2014, 11:21:09 PM
Quote from: CTG on February 06, 2014, 09:47:25 PM
After a long break, my former favorite: Dreher Bak! ;) ;D

Do you still like it? I tasted Dreher Bak in December, also after a long (ca. 2 years) break. It was a bit disappointing, not as delicious as I remembered... But it has to be tested once more before changing its points.

Well... it's not as good as it used to be, but still the best Hungarian beer. Belgium is another league.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 27, 2014, 05:07:37 PM
NEWBIE!!!

Wells Banana Bread Beer (ENG, 5.2% alcohol, 699 HUF/0.5 l): surpringly good light beer from the UK, with detectable banana taste in the background. Although I don't want to add fruit tasted beers to the official list, I would give quite a good mark (8.5/10). Testing continues in the evening - probably with worse beers.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 27, 2014, 05:43:20 PM
Berg König Premium (AUT, 5.0% alcohol, 189 HUF/0.5 l, Aldi beer): well, well, well... strange one. I can't name any special weak point (no metallic or rotten feeling, no weird backtaste), but the overall taste doesn't really fit me. Fair enough to drink it in the summer, but I would not recommend it instead of Borsodi. Mark: 4.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 27, 2014, 06:10:45 PM
McEwans Export (SCO, 4.5% alcohol, 749 HUF/0.5 l): the sweet nothing. Beerish taste without power, turning into sweet after swallowing. Not a bad one, but really... is it worth to buy such an ale for ~2.50 Euros? NO! Mark: 5.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 01, 2014, 05:23:18 PM
/me is drinking Borsodi at the moment.  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 01, 2014, 05:25:13 PM
Well, due to very favorable prices in the Spar supermarkets (and due to the fact that there are no more Iron Maiden concert tickets available, and I don't have one), I decided to try some special Belgian beers.

Three bottles are in front of me:

Corsendonk (BEL, 559 HUF/0.33 l, alc. 7.5%, extr. 15.4%)
Kasteel Rouge (BEL, 559 HUF/0.33l, alc. 8.0%, extr. % no data)
Duvel (BEL, 559 HUN/0.33l, alc. 8.5%, extr. % no data)

Well, after buying a shitty Puntigamer in the Ötschergräben, Austria last October for 3.40 EUR, these prices sound really good.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 01, 2014, 05:26:37 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 01, 2014, 05:25:13 PM
Well, due to very favorable prices in the Spar supermarkets (and due to the fact that there are no more Iron Maiden concert tickets available, and I don't have one), I decided to try some special Belgian beers.

Three bottles are in front of me:

Corsendonk (BEL, 559 HUF/0.33 l, alc. 7.5%, extr. 15.4%)
Kasteel Rouge (BEL, 559 HUF/0.33l, alc. 8.0%, extr. % no data)
Duvel (BEL, 559 HUN/0.33l, alc. 8.5%, extr. % no data)

Well, after buying a shitty Puntigamer in the Ötschergräben, Austria last October for 3.40 EUR, these prices sound really good.

Nice choices! Kasteel Rouge is probably the best fruity beer I've ever tasted.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 01, 2014, 10:00:46 PM
Well, I started with the Corsendonk Agnus Tripel. Even during the first few sips, I felt that I stepped to a different level of beer quality. Somehow it feelt like a bit of the yeastish taste of the wheat beers, though it was more original and smooth. Even during the last sips I felt the awesome feeling of the quality and the taste. 10/10.

Duvel was the following beer test. The first taste was very good, quite similar to Corsendonk Agnus Tripel, only a little bit less characteristic. But this was not long-lasting enough. The quality taste remained, I enjoyed the beer till the last drop of it, but it is a more mainstream, less characteristic and less tasty beer related to Corsendonk. 8/10

Now let's taste Kasteel Rouge.

Top beers:

10: Corsendonk Agnus Tripel, Pilsner Urquell
9.5: Zlaty Bazant (12 extract %, sold in Slovakia), Paulaner white beer, Löwenweisse
9: Radeberger, Kelt (12 extract %, sold in Slovakia)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on April 02, 2014, 10:06:11 AM
Kasteel Rouge is not a beer for me, it has a too fruity taste to be a beer. So I won't give a mark. Nevertheless, it was worthy to taste it.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on April 02, 2014, 10:09:46 AM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 02, 2014, 10:06:11 AM
Kasteel Rouge is not a beer for me, it has a too fruity taste to be a beer. So I won't give a mark. Nevertheless, it was worthy to taste it.

Quote from: CTG on April 17, 2008, 06:32:54 PM
Oh my God, the first kriek "beer" of my life! I won't rate it because it's really far from beerish taste with the added cherry, but I have to say it's an excellent and tasteful (sweet) - maybe a bit femalish - drink (imaginary score: 10/10, don't add it to the database). Oh and what's that exactly? Kasteel Rouge (BEL, 8% alcohol, 579 HUF/ 0.33 l). I suggest it for Diesel Still Drinking Joe! ;)

! ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 08, 2014, 07:29:14 PM
Romanian beer tests:

Peroni (ITA) 8.5/10 - re-test (excellent)
Ciuc (ROM) 7.5/10 - re-test
Ursus Black (ROM) 7.5/10
Ursus (ROM) 6.5/10 - re-test (not as good as it was earlier...)
Noroc (ROM) 5.5/10 (something like Arany Ászok Félbarna, though not a semi-dark beer)
Bucegi (ROM) 5.5/10
Skol (ROM) 5/10
Timisoreana (ROM) 4/10 (totally like Köbányai, maybe a little bit worse)
Silva (ROM) 3/10 - re-test

Beer test in the Mátra:

Jó Palóc Sör (HUN, with a photo of Kálmán Mikszáth on it), 600 HUF/1 litre bottle, 5.0%, produced in Balassagyarmat - 7/10, surprisingly good!

check http://www.palocsor.hu/
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 08, 2014, 10:33:15 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 08, 2014, 07:29:14 PM
Romanian beer tests:

Peroni (ITA) 8.5/10 - re-test (excellent)

That one is available in the grocery store next to our flat, but I never thought that it is good... should be tested once!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on May 08, 2014, 10:44:54 PM
Btw, I've re-tested some "basic" Hungarian beers while being at home in December & April. Sadly enough, the quality of some previous favourites decreased in the last few years. Now I wouldn't rate Soproni and Dreher higher than 4.5/10. Borsodi's quality is stable, so it has overtaken the previous two - with 6/10 points. (And we should not forget the famous erection factor!) Even the "quality brand" of Soproni, called Soproni 1895 is behind Borsodi now (5.5/10 points).

Other re-tests:

Kaiser (brewed in HUN, licence from AUT): 4/10 - also seems to be on a slope...
Heineken (brewed in HUN, licence from NED): 7.5/10
Löwenbrau (brewed in HUN, licence from GER): 4/10 - it was always crappy
Pilsner Urquell (CZE): 7/10
Warsteiner (GER): 9/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 08, 2014, 11:09:30 PM
Quote from: Usrin on May 08, 2014, 10:33:15 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 08, 2014, 07:29:14 PM
Romanian beer tests:

Peroni (ITA) 8.5/10 - re-test (excellent)

That one is available in the grocery store next to our flat, but I never thought that it is good... should be tested once!

First I tasted it in the USA in 2011 when we were taken to lunch to an Italian pizza restaurant (owned by an Italian man), and I liked Peroni very much that time as well.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 25, 2014, 09:54:51 AM
Hacker-Pschorr Munich Gold (GER, 5.5% alcohol, 699 HUF/0.5 l): mediorce light beer for too much money. Mark: 5.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 04, 2014, 10:43:43 PM
Alcohol-free period, day 2. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 06, 2014, 08:56:04 PM
Americans trying international drinks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp2oBnhtoL8 ;D

I have to tell that Irsai Olivér (last spirit in this video) is quite a weak pálinka with ~40-45% alcohol content. A real pálinka starts over 50%...

Btw I remember JTK's face after the first shot... he did not expect such a strong poison. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 14, 2014, 10:50:12 PM
Mexicans stealing cerveza at the World Cup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EzaXQ3DtqQ
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 18, 2014, 11:05:46 AM
16th day without alcohol... ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on June 18, 2014, 07:51:20 PM
Bulgarian beer test:

Zagorka: 6.5/10
Stolichno (wheat beer): 6/10
Pirinsko: 5.5/10
Burgasko: 5.5/10
Kamenitza: 5/10
Shumensko: 4/10

They were cheap and rather mediocre, but Zagorka is a full-taste quality beer (Stolichno is their product, too, but it had a too clear taste for a wheat beer).
Pirinsko and Burgasko are relatively low alcohol content freshening summer beers.
Kamenitza is sweet but not bad.
Shumensko is something like Arany Ászok in Hungary.

Bulgarian wines are not less expensive than in Hungary, but they are good.

Their national drink, rakija (Peshterska brand rakija, 40%) is something like a grape pálinka, quite good and tasty, worthy to try.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JosueKirwins on July 21, 2014, 06:20:11 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 25, 2013, 11:01:32 AM
After a long break, I consumed 5 Borsodi beers in the weekend, 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Forever Borsodi! BÖFF!!!

I also smoked 4 cigarettes, which fact raised my 2013 electronic cigarettes (http://www.ecigfiend.com/news/) consumption to 6.5 cigarettes.
Not good at all.. Drink beer but no to smoking..
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 22, 2014, 12:40:45 PM
Quote from: JosueKirwins on July 21, 2014, 06:20:11 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on April 25, 2013, 11:01:32 AM
After a long break, I consumed 5 Borsodi beers in the weekend, 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. Forever Borsodi! BÖFF!!!

I also smoked 4 cigarettes, which fact raised my 2013 electronic cigarettes (http://www.ecigfiend.com/news/) consumption to 6.5 cigarettes.
Not good at all.. Drink beer but no to smoking..

I have to agree. Change smoking to a good pálinka (or a bad one).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 30, 2014, 10:16:55 AM
Latest beer tests and ratings:

Arany Fácán/HUN: 4/10
Augsteiner Weissbier/GER (Penny Market): 3.5/10
London Pride/GBR: 6/10
Trooper Beer (official Iron Maiden beer)/GBR: 7.5/10
Paulaner/GER: 6.5/10 (the wheat beer is much better)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 09, 2014, 08:22:11 PM
Well, I forgot to write it here, but:

Kroenenburg 1664 (FRA, semi-wheat beer, 5.0%, 269 HUF/0.5l can, Kazincbarcika Tesco) 7/10 - surprisingly good.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 09, 2014, 08:22:31 PM
NEPOSZTOJJÁ' BAZMEG!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 09, 2014, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2014, 08:22:11 PM
Well, I forgot to write it here, but:

Kroenenburg 1664 (FRA, semi-wheat beer, 5.0%, 269 HUF/0.5l can, Kazincbarcika Tesco) 7/10 - surprisingly good.

Have you ever tried Kronenburg with coriander-orange taste? That's a perfect drink. Not a real beer, but still perfect.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 09, 2014, 08:43:23 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 09, 2014, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2014, 08:22:11 PM
Well, I forgot to write it here, but:

Kroenenburg 1664 (FRA, semi-wheat beer, 5.0%, 269 HUF/0.5l can, Kazincbarcika Tesco) 7/10 - surprisingly good.

Have you ever tried Kronenburg with coriander-orange taste? That's a perfect drink. Not a real beer, but still perfect.

No, I haven't. But I think Kroenenbourg 1664 probably has the nicest can design.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 09, 2014, 09:07:40 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2014, 08:43:23 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 09, 2014, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2014, 08:22:11 PM
Well, I forgot to write it here, but:

Kroenenburg 1664 (FRA, semi-wheat beer, 5.0%, 269 HUF/0.5l can, Kazincbarcika Tesco) 7/10 - surprisingly good.


Have you ever tried Kronenburg with coriander-orange taste? That's a perfect drink. Not a real beer, but still perfect.

No, I haven't. But I think Kroenenbourg 1664 probably has the nicest can design.

You mean this?

(http://beer.indiafanclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Kronenbourg-1664-09.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 09, 2014, 09:10:24 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 09, 2014, 09:07:40 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2014, 08:43:23 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 09, 2014, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 09, 2014, 08:22:11 PM
Well, I forgot to write it here, but:

Kroenenburg 1664 (FRA, semi-wheat beer, 5.0%, 269 HUF/0.5l can, Kazincbarcika Tesco) 7/10 - surprisingly good.


Have you ever tried Kronenburg with coriander-orange taste? That's a perfect drink. Not a real beer, but still perfect.

No, I haven't. But I think Kroenenbourg 1664 probably has the nicest can design.

You mean this?

(http://beer.indiafanclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Kronenbourg-1664-09.jpg)

That's a bottle. I mean the can. http://popsop.ru/wp-content/uploads/kronenbourg_new_campaign_01.jpg
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 09, 2014, 09:42:10 PM
Both the can and the bottle are beautiful.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 15, 2014, 01:36:46 PM
Some Czech beers are in the Lidl supermarkets! I tested three of them:

Uhersky' Brod - full of taste, maybe a bit too much of it... but a good beer, 6/10
Démon Polotmavy' Speciál Chlumec - semi-dark beer, not my kind, probably the worst Czech beer I've ever tasted, 3/10
Rychtár'- that is my kind of a Czechoslovak type of beer, 7/10 (highly recommended!)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 15, 2014, 02:30:12 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 15, 2014, 01:36:46 PM
a good beer, 6/10
...
7/10 (highly recommended!)

7/10 as recommended? 6/10 as good? LOL! As for me, 6 is still mediorce, 7 is good.

We might use a different classification system.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on August 15, 2014, 05:17:21 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 15, 2014, 02:30:12 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on August 15, 2014, 01:36:46 PM
a good beer, 6/10
...
7/10 (highly recommended!)

7/10 as recommended? 6/10 as good? LOL! As for me, 6 is still mediorce, 7 is good.

We might use a different classification system.

I think the distribution of our given marks doesn't differ to a significant extent. Our numeric rating scale probably tells the same.

I think the difference is between rating words. And maybe even less than you thought. Because, after a self-analysis of my rating system (numeric and labelled scale), I found that saying 'good' or 'mediocre' or 'recommended' is rather the function of the price/value ratio than the unbiased, independent mark. I would also say '7' is good, but if the beer is relatively cheap - like it was for my Czech beers, 189 HUF/0.5l each - I would say 'good' even if the beer's rating is only 6.

And Rychtár' (r'=Czech rzh letter, not displayed correctly here) is a strong 7 and still only 189 HUF, I can recommend it to everyone who finds this beer. But if the beer costs 350 HUF for example, at least a strong 8 is needed to call it a 'highly recommended' beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 15, 2014, 06:22:15 PM
Drinking a cold Kwak in Danish Tavern (Brussels), from its' own unique design glass... fuckin' highly recommended, even if it's 3.80 Euro. ;D

http://www.danishtavern.be/photos_en.html

(http://definitiveale.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/pauwel-kwak-glass.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 22, 2014, 03:51:55 PM
Hey, hey, hey!!! I've just found this abstract: DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.06.021

According to the article, gluten level of beer is a lot lower than I thought. For comparison: bread contains 20,000-100,000 ppm (part per million) gluten; a really thick wheat beer is around 400 ppm, light beers contain only 20-50 ppm, while <20 ppm is already considered as "gluten free" in food industry. Shall I drink beer again instead of cider - which is even more fattening with its' high sugar content? :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on August 22, 2014, 05:16:11 PM
I've just read an article reporting that non-celiac gluten intolerance has been conclusively shown not to exist in a rigorous placebo study.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 26, 2014, 10:31:02 AM
OFF:

Quote from: BonzaiJoe on August 22, 2014, 05:16:11 PM
I've just read an article reporting that non-celiac gluten intolerance has been conclusively shown not to exist in a rigorous placebo study.

My case is quite a strange one - probably many of my intolerances are cross-reactions. In many cases, lactose and gluten intolerance occur together, although you acquired/inherited only one of them - if so, the other one should disappear when your bowels are regenerated during the strict diet.

Two years ago I had a sudden weight loss accompanied with serious bowel and liver symptoms.
1, Two independent lab tests proved that I have mediorce to severe level IgG-mediated intolerance to differents foods, including all the cereals with gluten content (wheat, rye, oat, barley), eggs, nuts, some fruits, etc. Lactose intolerance was not detectable with this test - however, hydrogen exhalation test could prove it later. Severe eosinophilia was also recognized (sometimes it shows an extreme level, 6-8 times to normal) - caused by an immunological reaction of my body.
2, In contrary, the classic celiac disease test (IgA-specific) gave a negative result.
3, According to the stomach and intestinal biopsy results, I had (and probably still have) a chronic inflammation in my gastrointestinal tract.
4, When I started the "everything"-free diet, the stomach symptoms became more tolerable (less pain and cramp, moderate inflation), my ingestion became more effective / predictable and the weight loss stopped, too. But when I break the rules (e.g. with a panino or a shitty Alpenmilch chocolate), the symptoms - like the strong pain and lack of "ZCT149" for 3-5 days - re-appear.

I'm pretty sure it's not celiac disease, maybe another kind of malnutrition problem (or just the long-term response of my body to the chemicals, failed pharmaceutical ingredient candidates I worked with).

ON:

I'm going to test some really shitty beer brands in the following weeks. To esteem the good quality, sometimes you have to see the other end of the scale...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on August 29, 2014, 09:09:29 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2014, 10:31:02 AM
I'm going to test some really shitty beer brands in the following weeks. To esteem the good quality, sometimes you have to see the other end of the scale...

Postponed, incompatibility with some medicines, again.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 10, 2014, 12:47:04 PM
Quote from: CTG on August 29, 2014, 09:09:29 AM
Quote from: CTG on August 26, 2014, 10:31:02 AM
I'm going to test some really shitty beer brands in the following weeks. To esteem the good quality, sometimes you have to see the other end of the scale...

Postponed, incompatibility with some medicines, again.

Maybe tonight. (?)

(Poo: the formerly mentioned 49% dropped to 20... :D)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 15, 2014, 10:06:35 AM
Urpiner 12° (SVK): 7.5/10

Re-test:
Steiger 12° (SVK): 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 19, 2014, 08:59:29 AM
Tomorrow I'm going to test the new batch of our home made pálinka. ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 10, 2014, 02:42:40 PM
Almost 4 weeks without alcohol intake, still counting.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BöllérJani on November 11, 2014, 01:16:25 PM
köbányai világos!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on November 11, 2014, 03:52:17 PM
Mr. Böllér, why don't you rather drink Koccintós?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 11, 2014, 07:27:26 PM
Or pálinka...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1linka
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BöllérJani on November 12, 2014, 08:32:23 AM
Quote from: Usrin on November 11, 2014, 03:52:17 PM
Mr. Böllér, why don't you rather drink Koccintós?

Beer is superior
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 12, 2014, 08:34:47 AM
Quote from: Usrin on November 11, 2014, 03:52:17 PM
Koccintós

I'm quite surprised to see that Koccintós is still existing. :o

For non-Hungarians: it's a fuckin' cheap artificial "wine" in 2 l plastic bottles (~1-1.5 EUR), with incredibly terrible taste. It has nothing to do with grapes - probably made of pure alcohol, coloring, artificial flavor and water. No surprise, it's the favorite brand of homeless people and poor alcoholists. :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on November 21, 2014, 03:32:57 PM
Beer test:
Guinness (IRL, 4.2%) 4/10, price/value ratio 1.5/10
Re-test:

Oberdorfer Weissbier (GER, 5.0%) 9/10

To be tested on Saturday/Sunday: a Thai beer from the Lidl (0.33l/189 HUF, if I remember well).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 21, 2014, 03:35:55 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on November 21, 2014, 03:32:57 PM
Guinness ... price/value ratio 1.5/10

I agree. Guinness and Kilkenny were far the worst expensive beers I've ever tried.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on November 21, 2014, 05:20:43 PM
(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1993059/thumbs/o-EDUARDO-JORGE-MEME-DEBATE-BAND-facebook.jpg)

- Waiter, bring me a nightcap!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on December 05, 2014, 03:27:41 AM
Drinking Caracu (stout) and Germania 55 (pilsen).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 02, 2015, 11:28:37 AM
Bernard Svátecni Lezák (0.99 Euro + 0.27 Euro bottle, CZE, 5.0%) 9.5/10 - Pilsner type, unpasteurized
Bernard Cerny Lezák (0.99 Euro + 0.27 Euro bottle, CZE, 5.1%) 8/10 - tasty brown beer, unpasteurized
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 02, 2015, 09:12:40 PM
/me is drinking Heineken at the moment.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on February 02, 2015, 09:14:23 PM
I drinked a Germania 55. And I'm faint because one can have 770 ml (and I drinked because eat).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 04, 2015, 09:30:57 AM
I started a new beer catalogue, beers tested in the previous few years are only included. My changing taste and the changing quality of the beers (import beers -> license brewed beers, or change of country of origin, e.g. Carlsberg is from Serbia now, not from Poland) demanded this. I will mark if the beer is under a license brewed.

The Excel table is under construction.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 04, 2015, 03:41:40 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 04, 2015, 09:30:57 AM
I started a new beer catalogue, beers tested in the previous few years are only included. My changing taste and the changing quality of the beers (import beers -> license brewed beers, or change of country of origin, e.g. Carlsberg is from Serbia now, not from Poland) demanded this. I will mark if the beer is under a license brewed.

The Excel table is under construction.

Updated.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 04, 2015, 06:32:22 PM
Damn, I have only an archaic beer.xls, from 2005... ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 07, 2015, 03:10:50 PM
123 beers on the list, that's all for now.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 07, 2015, 10:34:37 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on February 07, 2015, 03:10:50 PM
123 beers on the list, that's all for now.

Not that much...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on February 08, 2015, 10:56:32 AM
Lot of pre-2010/11 tested beers were omitted.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on February 08, 2015, 04:12:43 PM
Drining a Faxe (Denmark0, Quality Strong (the blue can)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 08, 2015, 06:39:38 PM
I've just discovered a new brand in Interspar, Stari (Hungarian craft beer) with the following types: Pils, Irish Red and unfiltered wheat beer. I had no mood to buy now, but next week I'm going to try the first two types.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 10, 2015, 07:44:05 PM
Stari Irish Red (HUN, 6% alcohol, 749 HUF/0.33 l): take 0.27 l Dreher Bak (~130 HUF), dilute it with 0.06 l water, burp in the bottle ---> you will get a veeeeeeery special & expensive beer. Luckily I like Dreher Bak very much. But this one... well... waste of money. Mark: it would deserve 7 pts (Dreher Bak: 8.5), but considering the un-unique taste, the crappy bottle and the outrageous price, I give one point penalty, so it's only 6 pts.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 11, 2015, 08:49:59 AM
Stari Pils (HUN, 5.6% alcohol, 699 HUF/0.33 l): I couldn't really understand why do they call it "Premium" quality. It's just a pils with way too sterile taste. Not a bad one, but again: the incredibly shitty price/value ratio deserves -1 pt punishment. Mark: 5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on February 28, 2015, 04:57:41 PM
The darkest drunkness of the year - coming soon... ::)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Vector on March 01, 2015, 04:57:55 PM
I never drink beer anyways.  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 02, 2015, 03:34:55 PM
Saris Tmavy 11 Ext. o 6.5/10
Bernard jantarovy lezák 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Vector on March 02, 2015, 06:23:28 PM
BEER IS THE BIGGEST SHIT IN THE WORLD. DRUNKS. MAD PEOPLE.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on March 02, 2015, 07:10:32 PM
It's way too un-funny to act like a typical enlightened ghost. Give it up, Vector!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Vector on March 02, 2015, 07:29:12 PM
Didn't you know the joke?
But, beer has alcool- it's bad to drink it.

P.S.: this post is made in Quick Reply.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Usrin on March 13, 2015, 03:26:31 PM
Interesting world map: the most popular beer brand for each country. Not surprisingly, in Hungary it is the famous Borsodi. :)
http://vinepair.com/features/external/beer-world-map-3000-full-web.jpg

The ones which I've already tasted: Borsodi (HUN), Ringnes (NOR), Tuborg (DEN), Tyskie (POL), Zlaty Bazant (SVK), Gambrinus (CZE), Lasko (SLO), Heineken (NED), Kronenbourg (FRA), Carling (GBR), Guinness (IRL), Sagres (POR), Birra Morretti (ITA), Mythos (GRE), Budweiser (made in USA, most popular in CAN), Corona (MEX), Chang (THA).

It may be a shame, but I cannot recognize the German one... And neither the Swedish...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on March 13, 2015, 06:26:49 PM
I tasted:
Skol (Brazil)
Brahma Chopp (Brazilian popular in Paraguay)
Quilmes (Argentina)
Corona (Mexico)
Budweiser (American popular in Canada)
Heineken (Netherlands)
Guiness (IRL)
Kronenburg (FRA)
Moretti (ITA, not the Strokes' brazilian drummer)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on March 13, 2015, 07:34:09 PM
Quote from: Usrin on March 13, 2015, 03:26:31 PM
Interesting world map: the most popular beer brand for each country. Not surprisingly, in Hungary it is the famous Borsodi. :)
http://vinepair.com/features/external/beer-world-map-3000-full-web.jpg

The ones which I've already tasted: Borsodi (HUN), Ringnes (NOR), Tuborg (DEN), Tyskie (POL), Zlaty Bazant (SVK), Gambrinus (CZE), Lasko (SLO), Heineken (NED), Kronenbourg (FRA), Carling (GBR), Guinness (IRL), Sagres (POR), Birra Morretti (ITA), Mythos (GRE), Budweiser (made in USA, most popular in CAN), Corona (MEX), Chang (THA).

It may be a shame, but I cannot recognize the German one... And neither the Swedish...

The ones which I've already tasted: Borsodi (HUN), Tuborg (DEN), Zlaty Bazant (SVK), Gambrinus (CZE), Lasko (SLO), Heineken (NED), Kronenbourg (FRA), Guinness (IRL), Birra Morretti (ITA),  Budweiser (made in USA, most popular in CAN), Corona (MEX), Chang (THA), Ozujsko (CRO), Kamenitza (BUL), Efes Pilsen (TUR), Jelen (SRB).

The German looks to be Oettinger, which sounds surprising.

I wonder about the favorite beers in Montenegro and Romania, because I'm sure that I've already tasted them. The Bosnian and the Albanian ones maybe also.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on March 14, 2015, 10:56:52 AM
I've had Asahi, Tiger, Tuborg, Borsodi, Guinness, Heineken, Kronenbourg, Corona, Moretti, Mythos.

I've had plenty of Qingdao and Yanjing in China but never heard of this "SNOW" thing.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on March 14, 2015, 09:31:56 PM
Snow is brewed in Lanzhou. I know, I was once invited for a factory visit. As far I know two reasons why it is the most popular beer:

- It is brewed in an area with heavier beer drinking habits than the rest of China (ok, nothing beats the city of Qingdao of course)
- It is MUCH cheaper than Qingdao and Yanjing, and for the migrant working class (the beer drinking segment) price matters a lot.

I still don't like beer, but my favourite Chinese beer name is Reeb. Because it is beer spelt backwards!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on March 15, 2015, 09:04:15 AM
Quote from: zaqrack on March 14, 2015, 09:31:56 PM
Snow is brewed in Lanzhou. I know, I was once invited for a factory visit. As far I know two reasons why it is the most popular beer:

- It is brewed in an area with heavier beer drinking habits than the rest of China (ok, nothing beats the city of Qingdao of course)
- It is MUCH cheaper than Qingdao and Yanjing, and for the migrant working class (the beer drinking segment) price matters a lot.

I still don't like beer, but my favourite Chinese beer name is Reeb. Because it is beer spelt backwards!

Great, thanks for clarifying this! I'll try it next time I go to China.

Not a lot of commodities have as catchy a name as beer. I tried to find other business areas in which you could use the same naming tactic, but couldn't find any - except that of course "Rac" isn't such a bad name for a car.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 04, 2015, 01:52:31 PM
Gambrinus Originál (CZE) 10°, 4.3%, around 17-20 CZK in shops or supermarkets (0.5l can or bottle) - this is the most popular beer in the Czech republic, and I can understand why... good, bitter, typical Czech type beer, nothing wrong with it - 7/10

Gambrinus Excelent (CZE) 11°, 4.7%, around 18-20 CZK in shops or rather in supermarkets (0.5l can) - well, this time the higher extract content did not mean a better or more unique taste... though it can be felt that this beer is a bit stronger (as for the alcohol content at least) - 7/10

Gambrinus nepasterizovaný (CZE), ?, ?, draught in a Czech pub for 28 CZK (0.5l mug) - though I think it is a bit watery (draught beer), it had a clearly good taste, I enjoyed its every sip in the pub while we were watching an ice hockey game - 6.5/10

Kozel Medium / Sve'tlý Ležák (CZE) 11°, 4.6%, around 18-22 CZK in Czech shops or supermarkets (0.5l bottle), well, I know this beer well from Slovakia, this is still a very good one - 8/10

Kozel (CZE), 11°, 4.6%, draught in a Czech pub for 29 CZK (0.5l mug) - well, this beer is not as good when it's draught (?watered) when it is in a can or in a bottle... but a reasonable price beer in a quality Czech pub near our accomodation, where we were watching the CZE-SWE ice hockey WCH match (SWE won 6-5 after shootout) - 5.5/10

Samson (CZE), ?°, 4.7%, draught in the Wenceslas Square (Václavské náme'stí) for 40 CZK (0.5l, plastic glass)... it was good after a good Czech sausage there (60 or 70 CZK for a 200-250 g piece of grilled spicy sausages + a baguette), but nothing special... wasn't too watery, but wasn't too tasty either - 5/10

Primátor Polotmavý (CZE) 13°, 5.5%, bought in a Czech shop for ~24 CZK, this is a semi-dark beer (somewhere I've read that this is rather a red beer)... well, for me, it is a bit too strong, concentrated beer where the extract content of the beer and the alcohol fades the bitter taste of the hop. Though, my girlfriend liked it very much. For me - 5.5/10 (though the quality of the beer can be felt in its taste)

Staropramen Sve'tlý (Pale) (CZE), 10°, 4.0%, bought in a Czech small shop for ~17 CZK, well, this beer is much much weaker than the 12° (Ležák, Premium Lager)... actually, they have nothing to do with each other... this beer is rather average and dilute, watery - 4.5/10

Zlatopramen (CZE) 11°, 4.9%, bought in a Czech small shop for 35 CZK (2l bottle) - one of the best price/value ratio beers I've ever tasted... though seeing the price of this beer in other shops, I'm always sure that this beer was somehow mis-priced in this shops (where btw the shop assistants were Chinese)... good bitter taste and aroma, nothing wrong with it, typical Czech beer - 7.5/10

Svijany (CZE) Svijanský Máz 11°, 4.8%, bought in a Czech supermarket for 15-18 CZK (0.5l bottle) - average beer, a little bit sweeter than most of the Czech beers... can be good when chilled when you are thristy, but nothing special - 5.5/10

Pilsner Urquell (CZE) 12°, 4.4%, bought in a Czech Tesco for 26-27 CZK (0.5l bottle) - we can be relieved, it is exactly the same as it is sold in Hungary (a real import beer here, not a license beer or a fake import beer) - still 10/10, basic beer for me

Brought home to be tasted:
Rychtár' (CZE) 12°, 5.0%, bought in a Czech supermarket for 18-21 CZK (0.5l bottle)
Lobkowicz (CZE) 12°, 4.7%, bought in a Czech supermarket for 33 CZK (0.5l bottle)
Primátor Premium 12°, 5.0%, bought in a Czech supermarket for 18-21 CZK (0.5l bottle)

1 CZK = 10.97 HUF
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on May 04, 2015, 06:49:23 PM
some weeks ago: Estrella Galícia (Spain Galiza, with brazilian version): I liked a lot
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on May 04, 2015, 09:52:40 PM
I've stopped drinking past 2-3 beers since new year's. :o For the first four months of the year, I have not once had more than 4 beers in a night.

But Diesel Joe is still drinking.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on May 04, 2015, 10:24:37 PM
Wow I guess my last alcohol drink was last new year. I also stopped to drink soda (Cocacola, 7up, etc.). Only water (Villavicencio) and few times Cepita (sweet peach juice). :D

(http://www.staples.com.ar/images/p/GASVC1500X6.jpg?)

(http://www.cepita.com.ar/content/dam/GO/minute-maid/cepita/argentina/products/cepita_durazno_1.5L.jpg)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on May 04, 2015, 10:40:49 PM
And mate?
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on May 04, 2015, 11:48:16 PM
I drinked a 600ml Bohemia bottle 50 minutes ago.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on May 05, 2015, 03:26:51 AM
I don't drink mate usually because I can't drink very hot liquids, so if I drink mate I do it alone.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 05, 2015, 03:15:03 PM
Well... forever Czech beers, forever Czech sausage, forever ice hockey WCH in the Czech Republic!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Shoegazing Leo on May 05, 2015, 04:47:57 PM
your forehead grew too in recent years
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 05, 2015, 04:57:04 PM
Quote from: Shoegazing Leo on May 05, 2015, 04:47:57 PM
your forehead grew too in recent years

Well i'm 31 now and have testosterone in my body - i'm getting bald.  :-)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: alanrotoi on May 06, 2015, 12:55:22 AM
The important head was always bald :D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 06, 2015, 09:41:22 AM
My beer Excel table is updated now. Mostly Romanian, Slovakian and Czech beers were added to the list.

Consideration should be given to:

Primátor Premium (12o) 8.5 pts (CZE) 5.0% - a beer from a brewery not owned by a multinational company. Excellent taste. Feels like a beer which I haven't drunk for at least 8-10 years... feels like a beer which is missing from the shelves of the supermarkets. Because a little bit most of the beers tastes a little bit the same. Beer from a multinational beer company. Most of the breweries are owned by them. Not this one. For me, now Primátor Premium has an unique taste. Recommended for everyone who travels to the Czech Republic.

Neumarkt 1.5 pts (ROM) 5.2% - awful beer with a very strange taste which appears in my month after swallowing the beer. Recommended for no-one who travels to Romania. Worst beer I've drunk recently. Close to 1.0 pts.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 18, 2015, 09:23:59 AM
Litovel Moravan 11o (CZE, 4.6%, bought in Poprad, Slovakia, Tesco, 0.70 EUR) - 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 08, 2015, 10:22:48 AM
Okocim Dark (POL, 3.59 PLN, 0.5 l can, 7.0% alc.) 7/10
Lech (POL, 5.0%, ~3 PLN) 5.5/10
Warka (POL, 5.5%, ~3 PLN) 6/10
Tyskie (POL, 5.5%, ~3 PLN) 5/10

Aass Pilsner (green) (NOR, ?4.7%) 5/10
Aass ?Fatöl (blue)(NOR, ?4.7%) 7/10 - official beer of the Stunts meeting
Ringnes (NOR, 4.5%) 4.5/10
Ringnes Gold (NOR, 6.5%) 6/10
Ringnes Platinum (?4.5%) 7/10
Isbjörn (beer from the Northernmost brewery on the world) (NOR, somewhere between 4.5-4.7%) 5/10
Hansa Fatöl (NOR, ?4.5%) 6/10
Carlsberg (original Danish version) (DEN, 5.0%) 8.5/10
Kronenburg (Danish Carlsberg version, not the semi-wheat bear like the French one sold in Hungary) (DEN/FRA, 5.0%) 6.5/10
Lade Gaards Pilsner (NOR, somewhere between 4.5-4.7%) 3/10

Norwegian beers around 26-31 NOK/0.5 l can, on the airport (duty free shop), 49-55 NOK/6x0.33 litre cans.

Usrin can/may tell you more precise data about alcohol content etc.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on July 13, 2015, 12:17:45 PM
Tested:

Mythos (GRE) 6.5/10 - surprisingly good. Also +1 to the most popular beers by country list.

+1 - Tyskie (POL)
+1 - Ringnes (NOR)

Borsodi (HUN), Tuborg (DEN), Zlaty Bazant (SVK), Gambrinus (CZE), Lasko (SLO), Heineken (NED), Kronenbourg (FRA), Guinness (IRL), Birra Morretti (ITA),  Budweiser (made in USA, most popular in CAN), Corona (MEX), Chang (THA), Ozujsko (CRO), Kamenitza (BUL), Efes Pilsen (TUR), Jelen (SRB).Borsodi (HUN), Tuborg (DEN), Zlaty Bazant (SVK), Gambrinus (CZE), Lasko (SLO), Heineken (NED), Kronenbourg (FRA), Guinness (IRL), Birra Morretti (ITA),  Budweiser (made in USA, most popular in CAN), Corona (MEX), Chang (THA), Ozujsko (CRO), Kamenitza (BUL), Efes Pilsen (TUR), Jelen (SRB), Mythos (CRE), Tyskie (POL), Ringnes (NOR).

Beer table updated.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on July 13, 2015, 11:53:17 PM
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on March 14, 2015, 10:56:52 AM
I've had Asahi, Tiger, Tuborg, Borsodi, Guinness, Heineken, Kronenbourg, Corona, Moretti, Mythos.

I've had plenty of Qingdao and Yanjing in China but never heard of this "SNOW" thing.

I've told a lie! This video from 2007 proves it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3NnG-bHL0
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on July 30, 2015, 04:56:41 PM
nice!  8)
I recall you travelled with Thomas to China (I guess some videos were filmed at the Forbidden Palace?) but I did not know Gerda also joined you :)

Title: Re: Beer
Post by: BonzaiJoe on July 30, 2015, 10:59:08 PM
You must be thinking of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKY5T8YNg3w

("Hi, my name is Jacob. I'm omnisexual, and I hate everyone with a sexual orientation different from my own. I hate you all! But you still turn me on...")
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: zaqrack on July 31, 2015, 02:38:57 PM
Yes, this one gave you away (in multiple aspects :))
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on October 29, 2015, 02:18:37 PM
Re-tested beer:

Birra Moretti (ITA, 4.6%, 1.19 Euro/0.66l bottle) 5.5/10

Tested new beers:

Peroni (red one, the original, sold in Italy, ITA, 4.7%, 0.98 Euro/0.66l bottle) 6/10
St. Gotthard Lager (SUI, 4.8%, 2.50 CHF/0.5 l can) 6/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 03, 2019, 10:54:17 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on March 13, 2015, 07:34:09 PM
Quote from: Usrin on March 13, 2015, 03:26:31 PM
Interesting world map: the most popular beer brand for each country. Not surprisingly, in Hungary it is the famous Borsodi. :)
http://vinepair.com/features/external/beer-world-map-3000-full-web.jpg

The ones which I've already tasted: Borsodi (HUN), Tuborg (DEN), Zlaty Bazant (SVK), Gambrinus (CZE), Lasko (SLO), Heineken (NED), Kronenbourg (FRA), Guinness (IRL), Birra Morretti (ITA),  Budweiser (made in USA, most popular in CAN), Corona (MEX), Chang (THA), Ozujsko (CRO), Kamenitza (BUL), Efes Pilsen (TUR), Jelen (SRB).

The German looks to be Oettinger, which sounds surprising.

I wonder about the favorite beers in Montenegro and Romania, because I'm sure that I've already tasted them. The Bosnian and the Albanian ones maybe also.

Update:
I've tasted since my previous post:
Mythos/GRE
Stiegl/AUT
Cruzcampo/ESP
Sagres/POR
Kingfisher/IND
Feldschlößchen/GER, most popular in Switzerland
Ringnes/NOR
Tyskie/POL
Carling/GBR
Oettinger/GER
Pripps Blå/SWE (after visiting Sweden, I managed to find out the brand name)

+1 Asahi/JPN, though I tasted only a version brewed in Italy (Japanese license)
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: dreadnaut on May 04, 2019, 03:52:01 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 03, 2019, 10:54:17 PM
Pripps Blå/SWE (after visiting Sweden, I managed to find out the brand name)
Ah, that was a staple when I was living there. I had forgotten about it!

The UK has been swept by the "craft beer" trend, which means every pub has different beers on rotation. That's great, some are really interesting and tasty, but then they are gone and impossible to find :|
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on May 04, 2019, 10:03:25 PM
Quote from: dreadnaut on May 04, 2019, 03:52:01 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 03, 2019, 10:54:17 PM
Pripps Blå/SWE (after visiting Sweden, I managed to find out the brand name)
Ah, that was a staple when I was living there. I had forgotten about it!

The UK has been swept by the "craft beer" trend, which means every pub has different beers on rotation. That's great, some are really interesting and tasty, but then they are gone and impossible to find :|

In Sweden, the 'staple' beers are rather mediocre or  bit worse. From the 'cheaper' cathegory (still expensive for Hungarian pockets), Mariestad's Dunkel was the best. Pripps Blå was below average.

On the other hand, Oppigård's craft beers were surprisingly good and very tasty. They simply (New Sweden IPA, Amarillo APA, Indian Tribute) ashamed the craft beers of traditional beer-producing countries like Slovakia, Czechia, Germany and maybe even Belgium. They are expensive (around 2.5 EUR/0.33 l) but so fvcking great!
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: dreadnaut on May 06, 2019, 08:08:52 PM
Quote from: Akoss Poo on May 04, 2019, 10:03:25 PM
Pripps Blå/SWE (after visiting Sweden, I managed to find out the brand name)

This. And the "reduced alcohol" versions sold in common shops are even worse...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 27, 2019, 10:42:08 PM
Monyó Dead Rabbit Double IPA (HUN, 9.5% alcohol, 949 HUF/0.33 l): the most expensive alcoholic pee I have ever drunk. Strange bitterness, too alcoholic taste & sour cornish backtaste. Never ever... Mark: 4/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on May 29, 2020, 11:42:20 PM
I'm pretty sure that Lise would be fond of Desperados (5.9% alcohol, with tequila taste). For me, it's a sweet coctail.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Overdrijf on May 30, 2020, 04:40:28 PM
Desperados: at least it's not Corona.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on July 18, 2020, 09:47:23 PM
Quote from: CTG on July 27, 2019, 10:42:08 PM
Monyó Dead Rabbit Double IPA (HUN, 9.5% alcohol, 949 HUF/0.33 l): the most expensive alcoholic pee I have ever drunk. Strange bitterness, too alcoholic taste & sour cornish backtaste. Never ever... Mark: 4/10.

Faxe 10% (DEN, 10% alcohol, 1499 HUF/1 l): another shitty extra strong beer. Tastes like a cheap festival beer, tuned with toxic organic solvents and some additional alcohol. At least it kills fast. Mark: 2.5/10.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, a three-times champion of the world, Michael van Gerwen. He will demolish Dolan (or at least I hope he will).
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 12, 2020, 09:00:28 PM
Eichbaum Festbier (GER, 5.5% alcohol, 0.95 l beer + 1 l mug: 1799 HUF)
The name tells everything. Nothing special, a drinkable light beer without sour or strange backtaste. Not memorable either. Ideal choice after a hard workday. Mark: 6.5/10
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on September 14, 2020, 04:10:10 PM
Quote from: Overdrijf on May 30, 2020, 04:40:28 PM
Desperados: at least it's not Corona.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on September 14, 2020, 11:38:39 PM
Quote from: JTK on September 14, 2020, 04:10:10 PM
Quote from: Overdrijf on May 30, 2020, 04:40:28 PM
Desperados: at least it's not Corona.


Quote from: Krys TOFF on May 31, 2005, 10:04:15 AM
My favorite is Corona with a quarter of lime put into the neck of the bottle.

It's Töff's favorite. There's no Corona beer in Hungary.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 15, 2020, 09:11:42 AM
Well, when I was in California in 2013, I tasted Corona beer, I gave it a 5.5 mark.

I tasted Desperados this year, well, it is not really a beer, I found it drinkable but not good. Not my taste.

When I was in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2016, I tasted a drink very much like Desperados. Its name was Bandido (Cerveza con Tequila). It was a little bit better than Desperados. I drank it among the sand dunes in the warm December wind.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on September 15, 2020, 10:00:30 AM
Okay... tried to make a joke... failed...
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Overdrijf on September 17, 2020, 01:05:24 PM
Quote from: JTK on September 15, 2020, 10:00:30 AM
Okay... tried to make a joke... failed...

It's our solemn duty to make corona jokes until we're done with this mess, or it's done with us.

The beer that happens to carry the name is just an unfortunate collateral casualty. Or a good target of opportunity.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: JTK on September 17, 2020, 01:28:35 PM
Yep, I see it absolutely like you do! 8) And - by the way - I like the Corona beer.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister on September 17, 2020, 09:26:14 PM
Quote from: CTG on September 17, 2020, 04:49:26 PM
Oh c'mon, these corona jokes are soooo outdated. We have no Corona beer here, but the most popular Hungarian sugar brand is called Korona. Every fuckin' meme site was full of that shit in February/March.

Well I must agree. Maybe we don't have Corona beer, but yes, we have Corona sugar, Corona box of matches, Corona Winehouse in Eger... I saw Italians listening to their 90s disco star, Corona, on the balcony, during their quarantine. Btw there is Corona Borealis and Corona Australis on the sky... Poor Czechs, Norwegians and Swedish, they must pay with corona (koruna, krone etc.) every day... and so on... It is so damned outdated to say the least...

However, I must admit that I'm still laughing at "Who killed Goliath? _ _ _ I D -> COVID" joke.  ;D
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on November 07, 2020, 02:47:55 PM
Before I forget...

Corsendonk Rousse (BEL, 8%, 849 HUF/0.33 l): long-lasting foam, "uniform" Belgian taste, maybe a bit too sweet. Not really characteristic, but still a fine one. Mark: 7.5/10.
Title: Re: Beer
Post by: CTG on June 03, 2021, 10:18:18 PM
Guinness Hop House 13 Lager (IRL, 5%, 519 HUF/0.44 l): generally I really hate British (and Irish) beer. The classic Guinness and Kilkenny just sucks. However, this one seems to be something different. It tastes like a strong beer, with quite a pleasant balance of sweetness/bitterness. Excellent drink for an early summer evening. I was really shocked. Mark: 8/10.
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