Beer

[lised]

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

[CTG]

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).

[CTG]

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.

[CTG]

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

[CTG]

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

[CTG]

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.

[CTG]

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...

[BonzaiJoe]

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.

[CTG]

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...

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...).

[CTG]

Silence is broken because of a new beer...

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.

[alanrotoi]

Try Quilmes

[CTG]

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[alanrotoi]

So log in the chat then...

[CTG]

So log in the chat then...

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Nah okay, just for a few seconds.

[Chulk]

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Lucky you, that sucks!