Sorry to disappoint you Boris, but it tastes pretty useless wherever
you buy it - unless you are hot and need a cold drink. The stuff that
you find in the Czech Republic is the original stuff, full strength and
full taste, untainted by Anheuser and his chum. The fad over here for
drinking mass-produced yellow beer is just that, it will pass. When I
and my fellow staff on the Squadron go to the pub for a beer with our
students, we drink the chewy beer, they drink garrrrbage like Carling
or Grolsch (see below).
You might be interested to know that when a British mass producer of
beer (I hesitate to use the term "brewer" for the big boys) makes some
lovely German or Dutch beer under licence, they manage to put the taste
of profit in, displacing the original taste and strength. Although I
have tins of Grolsch and Stella Artois in my house, I drink it because
I am thirsty in the evening (and I have had enough tea... ;-)), not
because it is something to savour.
Chris
On 4 Nov 2003, at 12:37, Boris Grigorov wrote:
Jim wrote:
...a tour of Ireland and was surprised to see most of the younger
people in the pubs drinking Budweiser and paying a lot of money for
it...
Then me writes:
Did you actually try the Budweiser they were drinking? There is a big
difference in taste, depending where you buy it. I never understood
why the citizens of St. Louis, MO (the worst place I ever lived in my
entire life...)put up with the Budweiser sold in the stores there,
which is crap. When I came to US, I tried it and was going to aks for
a refund, because thought that the bartender watered it down to sell
more...but was told that "this is how American beer tastes".
Funny enough, when you go to Grants farm which is owned by the Comany
and it is in St. Louis, you can drink two free beers if you are an
adult (needles to say, no one counts and it is not unusual to see moms
or dads with their little kids, coz it is a kiddie place, having hard
time defying gravity...). The beer tastes pretty good and I liked it,
but you cannot buy it at the store like that. This is throughout
entire Midwest. There are Southern states, that have what it is
called the 3/2 law and the beer there is even more watered down, you
can drink a whole case and never get drunk. Better by sparkling
water, tastes the sam and you save big. I was once at a party with
some business types and they were bragging about the clever way to
maximize the profit in beer making...duh, but it tastes like crap
(that was in St. Louis...)I did not say anything...I knew this
conversation was not about taste, they admired something else in it
and that's why they liked it.
Move to CT or MA, the Budweiser tastes almost as the one I had on the
Grant's farm, cross the border to VT or NY, tastes like in
store-bought in Saint Louis (did I tell you how much I hate that
city?). Lucky for me, I live in CT and buy it on a regular basis. If
I move, I know I would miss it. It has an unique taste which I like
very much (when the real thing is not watered down...)
I was told that in Czech republic it tastes completely different, so
in Ireland they might be paying big bucks for quality you and I are
deprived of...my guess is coz we drink the profit maximized beer...
Coke is kinda like that, it tastes different from country to country.
And how this went from Volvo to Lukas fridges then to British pubs and
now beer is beyond my imagination...
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