The gentrification of Heineken

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

^^^ I'm mostly talking about what passed for Heiny in Chiny.
China imports nothing from the West except marketing campaigns and brands. Why would they need to, when they make everything. Period.? They can just get away with making a lower quality for domestic consumption, for the 99% of their citizens who've never left China and don't know the difference.

Beer Chang is all I really drank in Thailand, that and this one other brand I can't remember, both of which give a fierce hangover. Is it true they add formaldehyde to their beer in Thailand as a preservative?

 

[Doooofus]

^I'd heard formaldehye was a preservative in their whiskeys i.e. Sangsom, don't know whether it's the same with beers (or whether any of it is true???)

 

[zhuk]

in aus, fosters is like the bogan beer from hell, nobody drinks it, but overseas, everyone thinks it's the shiznits for some reason 8)

pissweak shite indeed^^the sooner everyone else realises that, the better lol


can't go past Coopers IMO. We used to do coopers home brews years ago and it was much cheaper...esp for a student share-house

hmmm...pity i can't drink anymore

 

[-Guido-]

IMO though, Heineken is rubbish...

HERESY! LOL!

 

[narco anonomous]

Ummm I'm origionally from Germany which has around 3,000 micro breweries and I am kind of very turned off by comericial beer here in America. Usually I just say fuck it and drink steel reserve but ocasionally I have a bavaria(tastes like water) or newcastle brown ale but ummm yea my advice to beer fanatics in the states is make your own, its cheap, not hard to do, and you can make excellent beer.

 

[joystick]

triangulation.

 

[BigBenn]

Other lagers? Try Yeungling. Decent taste (more hoppy than Heiny, IMHO), decent effect, claims to be the oldest beer in America. No image or class / ethnic associations. Yet. Not expensive. Yet.

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[yepyepwoah]

I find Molson Canadian to be the second worst Canadian beer, trumped only by Labatt Blue in terms of mediocrity. Moosehead and Alexander Keith's are much better at equal or lesser cost.

Up here Corono and Heineken are about the same price but with decidely different tastes. I find Corona to be the ultimate beer to drink lakeside on the dock on a hot day. Heineken has always been lumped in with the imported european beer's here, priced similarly to Bass and Beck's.

how bass, becks, and heineken can be semi lumped together is beyond me. hahah.

bass is good, other two not so much. only time i'll drink heineken is when it's the best of the 50 cent bottled beer at a club.

 

[yepyepwoah]

^ i enjoy becks. i have recently discovered becks premiere light. i'm not a huge fan of light beers but, at about 60 calories a bottle, it's drinkable diet beer


close - i'm in san francisco, ca

new york must have a ton of places which sell good beer - both bars and stores. i'll eat my hat if you can't get a pint of boddingtons on draught somewhere in new york. have you tried that? i warn you - it's like drinking milk...

aside, it's relatively easy to brew quite excellent beer at home for a small investment in equipment, a small outlay per batch for ingredients and a willingness to keep everything incredibly clean. but that's probably another thread...

alasdair

isn't becks premier light only 2.3 or something similiar alc%? why even drink it hahaha.

and half the stuff you listed I've seen in a grocery store (and i live in texas). guido, you're just not lookin at the beer when you go out I guess

 

[ebola?]

>>I am kind of very turned off by comericial beer here in America.>>

That's probably because it is horrid.
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I'd give some of the micros on the West coast a try though.

ebola

 

[Sprinklervibes]

Meh, Heineken or Grolsch, I'd drink any Belgian beer over that any day(even the shitty ones). They taste more like water than actual beer
I was at a metalfestival a month ago and when it was done there were unopened Heinekens all over the place, but not the other popular kinds of beer like Jupiler, Stella, Carlsberg.. I wonder why :D

 

[alasdairm]

isn't becks premier light only 2.3 or something similiar alc%? why even drink it hahaha.

because, sometimes, there's more to drinking beer than simply getting drunk?

and half the stuff you listed I've seen in a grocery store (and i live in texas).

i don't remember him asking for a list of beers you can't buy in a grocery store in texas. he asked for some lagers i would recommend and that's what i gave him.

my post was intended to give him some pointers. what as the purpose of your post?

alasdair