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@badradger said
top 5 Carlsberg special brew
Grolch
Kronenbourg
Stella
Peroni
A man after my own heart. I would add Corona and Carib [local] to that list. Had a few Canadian brews and they were not bad. But European beers are generally the best

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@badradger said
top 5 Carlsberg special brew
Grolch
Kronenbourg
Stella
Peroni
I'm with you except for the special brew.
Dang that stuffs dangerous.

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@the-gravedigger said
I'm with you except for the special brew.
Dang that stuffs dangerous.
My aunt use to make home brew back in the day, my cousin and I would borrow a bottle of it without her permission of course as we were both in our teens. He was a couple years older. Tasted terrible because we would get it before it was properly brewed but what kick and the two of us would get pretty sloshed with only one bottle about the size of pickle Jar. Dumb things we did back then!!!

-VR

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It’s time for the reminiscing show, our special guest today - Rusty. Tell us more about your aunt.

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@trev33 said
It’s time for the reminiscing show, our special guest today - Rusty. Tell us more about your aunt.
If you were looking for something interesting, sorry to disappoint you she only made it for her own personal use.

-VR

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When I'm in Montreal it's Labatt Blue. Works for me.

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@shallow-blue said
Well, they are, but...

English beers do not always travel very well. American beers sometimes do. Anchor is rather nice, even in a bottle in Europe. I've drunk a lot of good English beer in England, but not as much outside of it. Speckled Hen... don't make me laugh! And Newcastle Brown is... not actually bad, but pathetic. Compared to the locally brewed beer in your l ...[text shortened]... English have not caught up to that. They still limit their good beer to casks, and to their island.
This is the impression I have, that to drink good English beer one must travel to the very England itself, and drink the local beer onsite.

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@the-gravedigger said
When it comes to beer the British are brewers.
The North Americans are chemists.
I agree with this observation.

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@great-big-stees said
Years ago I started trying beers, that I could get my hands on, from around the world. I would buy a new one (usually bottled, though expanded to cans) every time I'd see one that I hadn't tried. I started saving the containers thus beginning a collection. By the time I stopped I had amassed a collection of 600+ each a different one. In all the 600+ there was only one ...[text shortened]... t the numbers. My 600+ collection was dwarfed by just a couple of those countries (combined I mean).
Locally for a while I was able to get St. Peter's English Ale (I think that was what it was called) which tasted herbal with a hint of honey -- very nice! Unfortunately I haven't seen it at my local store recently.

Something I like about that brewery is their "St. Peter's Without" line (not available up the street). Aside from people trying to increase their dry days, I imagine that line might appeal to people who would like less-sugary soft drinks.

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As for Canadian beer, I've had Labatt's and Molson's, and they weren't really memorable. Maybe Canada needs more monasteries with breweries attached?

Victoria from Mexico I do like -- haven't had it in a while, though, and should try to be moderate tonight so as not to jinx my Covid vax tomorrow.

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@kevin-eleven said
This is the impression I have, that to drink good English beer one must travel to the very England itself, and drink the local beer onsite.
Especially dark beers don't travel well, a Guinness in the states is no where near as nice as in Ireland. I think they make the stuff in America but ingredients aren't goung to be the same, it's the same with chocolate, both are called Cadbury but ours is much better.

I've bought quite a lot of American beer in small cans that travel well, ipas mostly, Tesco usually has a nice selection of craft beer. Remember seeing cusqueña in Sainsburys years back, had a little giggle, the Peruvian piss water.

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@very-rusty said
If you were looking for something interesting, sorry to disappoint you she only made it for her own personal use.

-VR
Now there's a fair point -- there might be a lot of home-brewers in Canada who brew great beer, but not on a large scale for distribution, let alone for export.

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@earl-of-trumps said
When I'm in Montreal it's Labatt Blue. Works for me.
In Montreal one drinks Molson's not Labatt's. The only Labatt's product that is consumed in Montreal would be 50 and then only, on the sly.

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@rajk999 said
A man after my own heart. I would add Corona and Carib [local] to that list. Had a few Canadian brews and they were not bad. But European beers are generally the best
Non-factory European beer, certainly. For obvious reasons. But Carlsberg? Grolsch? Kronenbourg? Peroni?

Cthulhu seawater f&#ck, STELLA!?

No. That's not the best. That's merely better than the worst that the rest of the world has to offer. But I've had better USAnian beers, better Asian beers, hell, probably even better Australian beers than any of those five. Especially Stella Artois.

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@kevin-eleven said
This is the impression I have, that to drink good English beer one must travel to the very England itself, and drink the local beer onsite.
There are people who claim that even within England, you have to go to the village itself, and drink the beer there. It can't be bottled, it has to be pulled from the cask; and the cask won't travel, either. I don't think I can agree that far.

However, I do agree with the practice. Not because the beer can't travel, but because it means you will, and both visit a lot more places and drink a lot more different beers.