If you're only trying to get smashed, try vodka!!!
Not sure I am tracking....didn't say anything about getting drunk. Just calories/fat.
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Beer review
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Not sure I am tracking....didn't say anything about getting drunk. Just calories/fat.
Wow, another Unibroue fan! whenever I buy Maudite at the Beer Store, there's a layer of dust on the pack. We're few and far between!
invictus43
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Not sure I am tracking....didn't say anything about getting drunk. Just calories/fat.
Well I always giggle a little when people say Guinness is "like a meal" or it's "really strong and heavy" and I'm thinking to myself, little do they know it's a light beer with only 180 calories!!
I love Guinness..it's a great all-rounder.Ya... I've tried 10W30.. it was good
While in Europe I liked this one
I got this one in a gift pack... Loved it but can't find it anywhere... I'm sure it's expensive
I don't remember how this one tasted but I like the bottle. The bra scratches off.
Did someone mention Guinness?
At the bar I usualy order
And in Newfoundland I got a kick out of this one
OK so the Czechvar that you're trying to find has a very, very interesting story behind it. That is the original Budweiser...it used to have the Budweiser label on it and tasted nothing like the piss with that name now. Anheuser Busch bought the recipe years ago and the rights to the name and then ****ed it all up. They also prevented the Czech company from using the name again so they changed it to Czekvar, but if you look, the label is still similar to the Budweiser label. It's a great beer and one of the true Pilsner lagers available. You can get it occasionally from the LCBO.
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Tend to stick to local stuff. I shudder to think at the "beer miles" imported product is exposed to. Both from an environmental impact and stability impact.
Really like the stuff from Flying Monkeys up in Barrie. They make a great balanced IPA.
Mad Tom's IPA from Lake of Bays brewing is also great...however, can be hard to find.
Black Creek IPA is also a nice one.
I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention Crazy Canuck IPA (can you sense a theme here?) from our friends at Great Lakes Brewing.
Steamwhistle is always a stand-by in the summer, nice light refreshing Pilsner for those hot summer days.
Oh...and sorry to burst the Guinness guys bubbles....but most beer doesn't contain any fat. And calories in beer are driven by alcohol, protein and carbs. Only reason Guiness has fewer calories is because it's got less alcohol. You could drink light beer and get the same benefit.
However feel free to continue justifying your beer-wiped-off-a-bar-top-with-a-dirty-rag-and-filtered-through-an-ashtray taste. I justify it once a year too.
Some beers actually improve in the bottle with age, some have a small secondary fermentation too so although things like lager are best drunk fresh not all beers need to come locally. I'm a bit of a beer buff....used to brew my own and I try anything I can. Not many I don't like apart from Rauchenbier from Germany...which really does taste like an ashtray as it's smoked beer.
I completely agree with you! Many IPA's and EPA's have residual "sediment" which is yeast left in the bottled which actually continues to ferment over time. However, those beers represent a stunningly small % of the imported beers available at the LCBO or Beer Store. ( Will caution that drinking said yeast can leave you with more than a bit of gas the next day.
) You haven't lived until you've enjoyed a Worthington's White Shield that you buy at Christmas one year and drink the next.As stated, my preference for local stuff is actually driven in large part by environmental impact. Beer is heavy and bulky. Shipping beer halfway around the world so I can enjoy something I can get from down the street? Doesn't feel very environmentally responsible to me. Just my POV...doesn't need to be anyone else's.
Corona, Heineken, Stella Artois are some of the largest selling imported beers in the province. Thus they have the fastest turnover and are most likely the freshest among the set in most cases. All are lagers...all are coming from halfway around the world. Here's some food for thought...Non-pasteurized beer lasts about 30 days before it goes stale and needs to stay refrigerated. The big macro guys pasteurize and it makes it last about 90-120 before it starts to turn. How do you think the imported guys make sure their stuff doesn't turn before it gets here? I'll give you a hint...it starts with P and ends with atives. How else do you think they make a beer that has a shelf life of a year?
Reinheitsgebot my ***. 
Note: I recognize that a few beers from overseas using heightened hop levels which act as natural preservatives. The fact is...the big guys don't, hops are expensive.
Happy to discuss further...worked in the industry for over 7 years and would consider myself a bit more than a buff.
Well I always giggle a little when people say Guinness is "like a meal" or it's "really strong and heavy" and I'm thinking to myself, little do they know it's a light beer with only 180 calories!!
The morning after crap is also a lot of fun. Nothing on earth puts a washroom out of order quicker than a night's worth of stout.
Red Cap on tap.Holy jeebus.I swear it works better than phosphate soda!The morning after crap is also a lot of fun. Nothing on earth puts a washroom out of order quicker than a night's worth of stout.
invictus43
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The morning after crap is also a lot of fun. Nothing on earth puts a washroom out of order quicker than a night's worth of stout.
Haha! Totally!!
And the Dutch Oven is working good too that night!!
Well I always giggle a little when people say Guinness is "like a meal" or it's "really strong and heavy" and I'm thinking to myself, little do they know it's a light beer with only 180 calories!!
Is it really that high??? Most domestic full strength lagers are in the 150 range.
Must be the carbs or something.
I completely agree with you! Many IPA's and EPA's have residual "sediment" which is yeast left in the bottled which actually continues to ferment over time. However, those beers represent a stunningly small % of the imported beers available at the LCBO or Beer Store. ( Will caution that drinking said yeast can leave you with more than a bit of gas the next day.
As stated, my preference for local stuff is actually driven in large part by environmental impact. Beer is heavy and bulky. Shipping beer halfway around the world so I can enjoy something I can get from down the street? Doesn't feel very environmentally responsible to me. Just my POV...doesn't need to be anyone else's.
Corona, Heineken, Stella Artois are some of the largest selling imported beers in the province. Thus they have the fastest turnover and are most likely the freshest among the set in most cases. All are lagers...all are coming from halfway around the world. Here's some food for thought...Non-pasteurized beer lasts about 30 days before it goes stale and needs to stay refrigerated. The big macro guys pasteurize and it makes it last about 90-120 before it starts to turn. How do you think the imported guys make sure their stuff doesn't turn before it gets here? I'll give you a hint...it starts with P and ends with atives. How else do you think they make a beer that has a shelf life of a year?
Note: I recognize that a few beers from overseas using heightened hop levels which act as natural preservatives. The fact is...the big guys don't, hops are expensive.
Happy to discuss further...worked in the industry for over 7 years and would consider myself a bit more than a buff.
He he...Corona...there's a reason why there's a trend to put lemon or lime in beers from hotter countries. Now it's more trend, but it used to be because the citric acids neutralised the off-flavours produced in brewing in warmer climates. Basically...it's to take the taste away from ****** beer. Now the brewing is more controlled so it's much more trend than anything else. Stella Artois is a good Belgian beer but I don't rate Heineken at all. If you can, try to see the documentary "Beer Wars". Very interesting, they do a blind taste test with Coors, Budweiser etc etc with a few people and no one can tell the difference. It's about the way the big breweries have taken over the entire industry and made the beer bland. The resurgence of independants is a great thing though. Best beer I ever brewed was in a condemned council flat in Salford UK used as student housing (the cheap bastards), in an airing cupboard where some water softener accidentally dropped into the brew mix (there were clothes in there too). Later that year the ceiling of the apartment collapsed on a guys bed just when he got up to go for a whizz....and a few years later they demolished the lot.
Anyone that's really into beer in a big way should work their way through a Belgian list...my faves:
Kwak: Beer flavoured with a hint of liquorice
Gouden Caroulus: A hint of corriander in a strong warming beer
Chimay/Duvel Dubbel and Tripples....really good Abbey beers. I prefer the tripples as they are stronger in alcohol and have a stronger taste.
Blanche de Bruges: a wheatbeer with nice citrusy flavours, probably one of the best "whitebeers" (like Hoegarten), great on a summer day
Kriek/Gueze" Kriek is the sour cherry flavoured version of a beer that's brewed in a really weird way...in open top vats where natural yeast starts the fermentation. Try Gueze which is the unflavoured version I think...for a truly unique taste. Kriek is very refreshing too.
In cans from Germany try Holsten Maibock and Festbock. These are always in the LCBO....great beers from a can....beware though, I think they are about 8ish%.
British ales: Spitfire is good..London Pride is a good one too. Nothing beats these beers pulled fresh from a cask though. If you can get your hands on it, Theakston's Old Peculiar is an amazing beer (it's almost treacly), but again, much better on draught.
Kwak: Beer flavoured with a hint of liquorice
Gouden Caroulus: A hint of corriander in a strong warming beer
Chimay/Duvel Dubbel and Tripples....really good Abbey beers. I prefer the tripples as they are stronger in alcohol and have a stronger taste.
Blanche de Bruges: a wheatbeer with nice citrusy flavours, probably one of the best "whitebeers" (like Hoegarten), great on a summer day
Kriek/Gueze" Kriek is the sour cherry flavoured version of a beer that's brewed in a really weird way...in open top vats where natural yeast starts the fermentation. Try Gueze which is the unflavoured version I think...for a truly unique taste. Kriek is very refreshing too.
In cans from Germany try Holsten Maibock and Festbock. These are always in the LCBO....great beers from a can....beware though, I think they are about 8ish%.
British ales: Spitfire is good..London Pride is a good one too. Nothing beats these beers pulled fresh from a cask though. If you can get your hands on it, Theakston's Old Peculiar is an amazing beer (it's almost treacly), but again, much better on draught.
Hobgoblin Ale is actually one of my faves
invictus43
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Well, ya got me wondering..so I did some googling..
A pint of Guinness is 210 calories, or 126 for a standard 12oz bottle. A Heine is 150 for 12oz. I was thinking of the tall boy label from the draught cans they have here..that would be about half way between 126 and 210 calories. So maybe 180.. All in all, a light beer! Destroy that crapper EnglishJ, knowing full well you're watching your waistline withe care!! Guinness has no refined anything.....ever met an Irishman who's had a few? Having said that...I love Guiness but I prefer Murphy's stout. OK..other interesting tidbit...the Guinness you buy here tastes nothing like the true Irish Guiness unless it's been specially imported unpasteurised (as Mystyck noted above). Years ago before the European Union put strangleholds on exporting and selling unpasteurised foods I used to go to a bar that imported the Guiness direct from Dublin fresh every week or so. Ordered my Guiness and then sat down for a while to wait for it to be poured the proper way.....very slowly. It was amazing stuff. This bar was in Paris and was the favourite of the Foreign Legionaires....they came in and put their kepis (hats) in a pile and then had a few drinks. Absolutely no one went near the pile of hats....those guys were not ones you wanted to make angry. They had some interesting stories though. The bar used to be a whorehouse too. Great place for a pint!
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