Hmm.. thanks Jeff. I will try to sample one of those then. Prague is one place I'd like to visit!
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Hmm.. thanks Jeff. I will try to sample one of those then. Prague is one place I'd like to visit!
The Belgian beers are the "best" imho, & if something as subjective as taste can be judged that way: they invented beer.
Heiniken is a staple of my diet, but I'll drink just about anything.
For an unusual treat I recommend gueuze lambic. It is a sour beer along the lines of hoegarden. Harder to find, has a cork in the bottle
Cheers!
Tennant's is a great pint.
my favs. are Kilkenny, Guiness & Caffrey's ... just don't buy 'em at the bar, they charge an arm and a leg around these parts :thumbsdow
If you enjoy a dark beer try NewCastle Brown Ale. And the LCBO is definetly the place to mix and match.
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...nkhamunale.JPG The heiroglyphics say it all
Kronenbourg 1664 is a good beer too. dark blue tallboy cans at the LCBO.
Best thing to do is go to LCBO, grab one of their 8 pack holders and start at the top and try all of their individual cans. After that, you can narrow down what you liked.
Also, don't limit yourself to imports. There are some damn good micro-brews coming out of Canada...particularly from BC and Alberta. Unfortunately, I don't know how much of it you can get in Ontario. If you can find it, try some stuff from Big Rock Brewery, Granville Island, Phillips Brewery. Some really good stuff.
Don't forget Quebec! St-Ambroise, McAuslan, Boreal... drooooollll...
Is it beer o'clock yet?
Czechvar, and for my taste, the best pilsener on the planet.
Caffreys , if you can find them
ok. Just had my first beer in Prague today. Krusovice dark. Very nice for a dark beer, not too heavy. 1 down about 50 or so to go!
thanks to everyone who posted on this for me, tried some great beers. have to say im now stuck on Stella!
Tried Kingfisher last night for the first time, (I'm a Stella guy) and it was awesome!!! Tried Hoegaarden too, didn't like it. Recently tried Dos XX amber, it was okay but I'm not a fan of the ambers.
Anyone ever had Strongbow Cider? I thougth I ordered one (those train samples at Barley Mow's) but I checked the wrong box..
Hoegarden has always been a favourite of mine. I've only ever had it at the bar, and at the Honest Lawyer, it comes in a huge glass. It's fantastic.
After a couple of those, I'll have a couple of St. Ambrose Apricot Wheat Ale.
Leffe Blond as was previously mentioned is really good.
I'm starting to get into wines a little now too, ever since the movie Sideways :P
Fallys
aka Scott
Strongbow is a dry cider , very nice if served cold (like most drinks) it has a crisper taste ,and is a pale yellow colour , however Magners or Taunton are a sweeter cider ,and a little more palettable (which is not always a good thing the next day) and have a more orange tint to it. They're all good and worth trying to find your favorite.
Another fave of mine albeit a "local" beer is the St. Ambroise Blonde Pale Ale, it is a gloriously tasty brew.
I managed to try the following in Prague: Kruckovice Light / Dark, Pilsner Urquell, Staropramen, Budweiser Budvar Light / Dark and a few others that escape my memory. I had a small preference to the dark beers, but all in all, they were quite tasty.
The best part is, the beer is literally cheaper than water. We regularly found places where it was 30 CZK (czech crowns) which is roughly about $1.50 Canadian for a .5 litre glass. I even saw a couple of places where it was 25 CZK or $1.25 / beer. Crazy cheap!
Sounds like an awesome time. I remember before the Euro, beer used to be that cheap in a lot of places. I was in Amsterdam 1 year before the Euro and beer at every cafe was either 2 or 3 Guilders, $1.20-$1.80 CDN. I was there the year after and they had just substituted the Euro price for the Guilder price, so 2-3 Euros per biertje, $3-5 CDN. It's even more now. :(
Ya, if you ever get a chance to go, do it. Incredible city. You can't swing a dead cat without finding a place to drink a beer.
It's cheaper than Canada in a lot of places in Europe, Germany, Spain, etc. but not like in Prague.
In Oslo and Stockholm, it is ridiculous, approximately $10-$12 CAD for 1 beer - that's the normal price. In Madrid I paid 8 EUR for 1 small heiniken at a posh nightclub.
enjoy.
have u ever tried tsing tao beer?? its decent!