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invictus43 said:
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!! :-)
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Volume would most certainly change the calorie count. lol
 
Shaman said:
I drink a lot of good beers... won't drink the cheap stuff unless it's free. :D

Lately my favourite beers are:

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Excellent choices! ****** the LCBO won't take Smashbomb. Can't get it in the city.
 
jc100 said:
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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Well first, I was talking about the "Jacobsen" that I couldn't find.

As for Czechvar/Budvar... They still call it Budweiser in Europe. In N.A. they had to change the name because A.B. owns the name.

"The original Budweiser Bier or Budweiser Bürgerbräu, was founded in 1785 in České Budějovice (Budweis), Bohemia, which at the time (until 1918) was part of the Habsburg Monarchy. The company began exporting to the US in 1871. In the U.S., Anheuser-Busch started using the Budweiser brand in 1876 and registered it two years later.

A second company (now named Budvar) was established in 1895 by mainly Czech brewers, which also started exporting beer under the name Budweiser (being the German way of referring to something from the city such as a beer, while "Budějovický" means the same in Czech). These exports into the US market led to the Budweiser trademark dispute. Negotiations between the three companies, the two from the original town and the American Anheuser-Busch, about using "Budweiser" reached an agreement in 1911 that allowed Anheuser-Busch to use the brand "Budweiser" only in North America."
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I didn't have Budweiser until I was well into my beer drinking days..like 10 years in..and I thought, my god, this is tragic beer!!! :-) I hope Czechovar is better!!
 
Grolsch is my beer of choice.
 
MMMmmm Yuengling, $16.99/24 at Wegmans in Niagara Falls. One of my favorite cheap beers.

Thanks for this thread, a few beers I haven't tried have been mentioned that I'll have to try out.
 
Japanese Sapporo!
 
There's non alcoholic beer in Freshco now, lol
 
kickstartt said:
Japanese Sapporo!
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I'm not sure but I thought I saw that this was brewed in Missisauga.

If you like Kronenbourg 1664 then look for other beers from Alsace..Boris (in the small 250ml bottles) is really good and if you can ever get it then Fischer lager is great. Pelforth Pale Ale or Pelforth Brune are from Alsace too and are really nice.
 
jc100 said:
I'm not sure but I thought I saw that this was brewed in Missisauga.
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I thought Sleeman brewed it in Guelph..but we're on the same page here..it's not imported. Having said that, I like Sapporo..clean..little aftertaste...good carbonation.
 
I used to like the funky cans that turned into "glasses" as the whole top popped off. For a different asian lager I really like Tsing Tao...it's cheap too and tastes pretty good.

You guys should have a "beer club". I'd come along if I was closer...I used to go to one before where a group of guys would meet to try different beers in pubs around town etc but they all had families and all conversation turned to babies and diapers. I got bored with that and left.
 
Myztyk said:
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.
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Whaat??

The problem is that there's no local good beer, at least not one I'd call good.

Do you really think that the imported stuff from Europe sits significantly longer around than the local stuff? 10 days from Hamburg to Montreal, 7 from Rotterdam ..... not really an issue if you ask me.

Ontario is good ... for ice wine, not for beer ... ;-)

ps: have you noticed that the word Pilsner is used just by about every local brewery now?
 
jc100 said:
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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You didn't get the story quite correct ..... it's the longest lasting legal label dispute known to man ... LOL

The US thieves have been trying to step on the toe of relatively small brewery (not by the Czech standards, by by wolrdwide numbers) from Europe for decades, but they have been loosing more often than not lately. Of course, not on the home court, but elsewhere it would be a different story.

Budweiser and Czechvar are very two different things. I'd say it's like Honda vs. Trabant (google it if you don't know). It's not the same recipe, nor the ingredients. Go to LCBO and buy Czechvar, then go back an get a bottle of US Budweiser. It should be day and night .... if it is not, you need a medical help or something else is wrong.
 
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Here's the top 5 every beer fan should try ... you can get most of them here I believe. Except for the last one if I am not mistaken.

Pilsner Urquell®
Budvar®
Staropramen®
Radegast®
Gambrinus®
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