What are you Drinking?

[Liep]

They had a few new Evil Twins on draft down at the local pub. Excellent.

http://eviltwin.dk/beers/

[derspiess]

Waiting for them to figure out how to tap the La Trappe Witte at this place.

Having a Moinette Blonde while I watch.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Bacardi and diet coke.  The Bacardi is winning.  Wife will be back from Jazzercise soon.  I don't reish aving to eat Chinese food thne. Damn.

[derspiess]

They had a few new Evil Twins on draft down at the local pub. Excellent.

http://eviltwin.dk/beers/

Dang, they make/made a lot of styles.  I have not tried any yet.  They have the US-made stuff at a couple local places. Might pick some up.  What do you recommend?

[fhdz]

Bacardi and diet coke.  The Bacardi is winning.  Wife will be back from Jazzercise soon.  I don't reish aving to eat Chinese food thne. Damn.

The Bacardi is, indeed, winning.

[MadImmortalMan]

Supporting the locals.

[Capetan Mihali]

Bud Select 55.  I can't drive 55, but I sure as hell can drink it.  

That's a great slogan I just thought up, but as you probably guessed, the beer sucks ass. 

Points in its favor: 1/3 calories of real beer; (slightly more than) 1/3 the alcohol of real beer, at like 2.5% ABV.*  So you can have one or two or three with no real ramifications except a cool drink going down the hatch.  Like with a ham sandwich.

And what I really figured out in it's favor: if you're a whiskey man, that is a straight-up bar-drinking whiskey man (as Otto described once memorably about the art of getting plastered), it's the ideal chaser.

*Before Euros get testy, American beer (e.g. Bud) has always had as much alcohol content as any European lager e.g. Heineken/Stella/most pilsners, and a good deal more than most British ales.  The ABV vs. ABW thing tends to confuse; 3.2% ABW (under which you're good to sell at gas stations etc. in Utah, Colorado, Minnesota, etc.) = 4.0% ABV.  Bud and kin hover around 5.5% ABV; the good German pilsners I love are usually in the high 4s.  So the Yank pisswater can't-hold-his-drink thing is probably true, but not because of weak alcohol beer.  Weak taste, obviously.

[Syt]

I picked up one of the cheap white spritzers you get in the fridges near some supermarket checkouts. The ingredients are soda water and "White Wine from Italy".

It's not so good.

I prefer a proper Viennese wine for spritzer, to be honest. And it's better at a Heuriger, where you order wine and water separately in bulk and then mix them yourself. Also: food at the Heuriger is often awesome.

[derspiess]

Speaking of Austrian booze, I had that Engelszell Gregorius last night.  It's brewed (or infused) with honey, so I was worried about it being overly sweet.  There is some sweetness, but it's actually pretty well balanced.  Could pass for a Belgian dark ale easily.  9.7% ABV. 

I don't think I've ever had an Austrian beer under 8%, not that my sample size is very large.

[Syt]

Haven't tried that yet. Of the higher % ones, have you tried the Samichlaus?

Personally, I prefer my beers to have around 5% - with the occasional bock (Andechs is awesome).

[Liep]

They had a few new Evil Twins on draft down at the local pub. Excellent.

http://eviltwin.dk/beers/

Dang, they make/made a lot of styles.  I have not tried any yet.  They have the US-made stuff at a couple local places. Might pick some up.  What do you recommend?

I wish I could remember the names of two I tasted, but it's not exactly names that makes any sense and it was late. I do remember the styles though: an Imperial Stout and an IPA.

I've only tasted one beer from them that I didn't like and it was called 'Tørst' or something.

[derspiess]

Haven't tried that yet. Of the higher % ones, have you tried the Samichlaus?

Personally, I prefer my beers to have around 5% - with the occasional bock (Andechs is awesome).

Yep, I first had Samichlaus back around 1994-ish (damnit I'm old).  Love it.

[Syt]

I drink beer mostly for refreshment, so the high-% ones are usually out for me.

I've seen AC/DC beer in cans at the supermarket this morning - it caught my eye because the cans were not the usual 0.5l, but pint sized (0.568l). Some internet research suggests it's brewed by Karlsberg (not Carlsberg), but I have no idea about their quality.



I also noticed that they have the Danish beer Faxe in the handy 1 liter cans.

[Caliga]

Some internet research suggests it's brewed by Karlsberg (not Carlsberg), but I have no idea about their quality.

I very much doubt it's going to be high.

[Syt]

Yeah, gimmick beers are rarely drinkable. Except the Ottakringer varieties: "16er Blech" in a tin sheet design (16er Blech or 16er Tin is a colloquial term for Ottakringer in the can, because they're in Vienna's 16th district), and Ottarocker for the open air festival season.