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uziq wrote:

surely modelo is the best widely available mexican beer?

i really do not like corona. i have never enjoyed it, not even on a beach with a lime or whatever, in its 'ideal' situation. least of all on a night. it very directly gives me a tight chemical-feeling headache.

Modelo Especial is a go to for sure.

Corona is terrible. I won't drink it.

My first choice is almost always a lager from a local brewery, but most corner convenience stores only sell large brands and whatever is popular right now. Except IPA went out of style like 5 years ago and you can still find 13 different IPAs in any given store.

My default beer is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I like it best a little bit colder than room temp. If I don't want to think too much about a beer choice I go Sierra.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

uziq wrote:

surely modelo is the best widely available mexican beer?

i really do not like corona. i have never enjoyed it, not even on a beach with a lime or whatever, in its 'ideal' situation. least of all on a night. it very directly gives me a tight chemical-feeling headache.

Modelo Especial is a go to for sure.

Corona is terrible. I won't drink it.

My first choice is almost always a lager from a local brewery, but most corner convenience stores only sell large brands and whatever is popular right now. Except IPA went out of style like 5 years ago and you can still find 13 different IPAs in any given store.

My default beer is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I like it best a little bit colder than room temp. If I don't want to think too much about a beer choice I go Sierra.

interesting. cool! i get sierra nevada pale quite a lot at my local bar. it’s pricey over here though.

As for belgian beer try Jupiler, La Chouffe - but honestly the best belgian beers aren't big brand name stuff. You really need to go there at some point or buy a curated box. Every decent bar has dozens of local beer brands and there's hundreds of small time brewers all making different stuff. Brewing beer is a national pasttime to them.

Last edited by Larssen (2020-07-02 15:09:06)

Larssen wrote:

Alter, it's summer, get on the radler

Heineken in The Netherlands is delicious.

It's funny cause the dutch consider heineken to be very meh and carried by great marketing. Best popular brand in holland is Hertog Jan imo.

Not a big radler fan!

DT is good but expensive here. And you really can't drink more than a few.

I used to enjoy the odd Leffe here and there, but thinking back, I haven't had it in years.

I bought a 4 Loko. Mine says 14% though. It's crazy how they can make this thing taste like a Red Bull yet it has wine levels of alcohol. I wish I had a chance to try the ones with caffeine. Late millennials who went through high school when this was a thing are probably slightly dumber due to it. 

I usually have a cup of coffee after drinking for awhile.

vodka + red bull was always way more popular than four loko. Four loko was a fad for like six months because some college student died and it suddenly became mainstream.

it’s fundamentally a bad idea to mix stimulants and depressants in one drink. your heart is being told to speed up and slow down at the same time. it basically breaks physics d00d.

Got back from a backpacking trip in the Olympics for the 3day weekend.
Nice to get away from people but man, without the general exercise of walking around like usual, I am out of shape.

16 miles total.
Not proud of a such a short trip but I'm glad I did something with so few miles because now I'm hurting.

it was the US that kickstarted the trend for craft beer/lager, over 10 years ago. they have literally 10,000s of micro-breweries and independents. it's the US fashion that made pale ales and ambers fashionable again, not to mention fancy lager over the major european breweries. UK drinking culture has been really influenced more by US microbreweries, and their sort of indie/punk modern branding, than by belgian beer.

Last edited by uziq (2020-07-06 11:03:49)

pirana6 wrote:

16 miles total.
Not proud of a such a short trip but I'm glad I did something with so few miles because now I'm hurting.

16 miles in 3 days is no joke, but if you're not training/active then it can take a toll. I'm currently training for 40 miles. Can't expect to just get out there and do it. You'll just end up hurting yourself.

No blond / bock / weiss / dark variations? Just IPAs?