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[Donn]

I've had Xingu, long time ago. It should keep OK, so save it for when you're in the mood for molasses.

I only tried it once, though, and I figure the better a brew is, the less you know about it from one sample - next batch really could come out a little different.

[TMurphy]

Newcastle Brown Ale is a personal favorite. Malty, with just the right amount of hops.

[kegmcnabb]

All these beers are VERY, VERY BAD! Save yourself the aesthetic unpleasantness and send all of them immediately to me for disposal!

[iiipopes]

Hey bloke - yes, with that selection, the Spaten is probably one of the better beers.

But, hey -- they're your beers. Everybody likes something slightly different. Some guys like something like Samuel Smith Boston Lager with its intense hops. I like British-style pale ale, like Bass Ale on tap in the UK that is only slightly hopped with something like Cascade or Kent Goldings and has a more nutty/fruity taste. Then a lot of guys just order whatever light beer is on tap and soak suds.

Try each one yourself over the course of a couple of months and then you tell us what you think of the beers.

[NickJones]

Krohnenburg 1664 is a tidy little bier , Newcy Brown ( I suppose you can have too much of a good thing) used to drink it along with Guinness..San miguel has got it's uses , really nice with a chorizo and pototo soup or a great plate of paella!!!

[bort]

-- Birra Moretti, goes well with pizza (moreso than some other beers, that is.
-- "33" Export, I believe, is Vietnamese...maybe LoyalTubist can say something about it? I've had it once before. I don't remember hating it.
-- Tilburgh's, if you like Newcastle, you'll like this. I think it's a little darker though.

In general, they're all good beers. If it were me, I'd drink the German beers a little warm (less than room temperature, but not straight out of the fridge).

[JCalkin]

The 1664 is my FAVORITE light (colored and tasting) beer. It succeeds where many mainstream American Lagers (blech) fail: in being refreshing and tasting great. I always keep these on hand for when it's hot out and I'm doing yard/car/house work.

Save this one 'til the weather gets warmer and drink it COLD. You'll thank me.

[djwesp]

The 1664 is my FAVORITE light (colored and tasting) beer. It succeeds where many mainstream American Lagers (blech) fail: in being refreshing and tasting great. I always keep these on hand for when it's hot out and I'm doing yard/car/house work.

Save this one 'til the weather gets warmer and drink it COLD. You'll thank me.

Hey josh! We should meet up and go get some pizza and some GOOD beer at Yia Yias in Lincoln. I'll be there for the NSBA in March, you?

[PolkaNoble]

From the time in the mid sixties I was in Vietnam and a two year tour in Belguim where I encountered it again.

Biere "33" (pronounced BA MUY BA, which is the Vietmanese words for the number 33, I may have misspelled it) is a Vietnamese brand. It is (was) also brewed in France. I do not know if it is a French beer that was also brewed in Vietnam or the other way around.

As far as I knew, it was the best available there at the time. Of course any American beer had been shipped over in the hold of a ship in STEEL CANS (remember those?) and for that reason, it tasted terrible. There were other Vietnamese beers available, but the were not as good. I never got sick from any of it, But we suspected there were purity and sanitation problems with any of them, Less so with "33"

[OldsRecording]

X2 on the Spaten. Very decent sipper, that.

Spaten Oktoberfest. Mmmmmm.

[eupher61]

San Miguel is from the Philippines. The stuff they sell in the PI is very, very, strong in alcoholic content..something like 22% (at least years ago it was.)* But, this bottle isn't that brew, that strong stuff is in a green bottle with a painted-on, or whatever the technique is, label, as opposed to paper.

This is probably still 6% alcohol or so. Very, very, good stuff in my opinion. I haven't had one in several years, no one around here brings in the watered-down US stuff any more. The full-strength stuff will knock out the best of beer holders after a couple of bottles.

That looks like the basic Warsteiner. Life is too good for cheap beer...but the Dunkel is even better, IMO.

Spaten Oktoberfest...I concur. Yum.

*this is factual, believe me. I had a close connection with the company at one time, through family.

[iiipopes]

As I said on another post, and it was confirmed by the type of yeast used, most beer yeasts die from their own alcohol poisoning destroying the enzymes at @ 5-6%, most wine yeast at @15%, and most of these heavy beers, barley wines, etc., end up @9%. Nothing lives that long to get above the specialized yeasts of @20, and they are not use that often because as the alcohol increases and the enzymes start to lose effectiveness, instead of fermenting to alcohol, they start kicking off ketones and the brew starts to taste like jet fuel. So most commercial brewers gauge their specific gravity of their wort so the yeast runs out of sugar to ferment before then.

What is listed on a lot of bottles of beer outside the USA that is confused with alcohol content is the starting specific gravity, or the concentration of sugar in the wort, which is also expressed in degrees. This has some bearing on the alcohol, because, of course, the higher the starting specific gravity, the more sugar in the wort, the more the yeast has to munch on, and the more alcohol, but it's not a linear function to translate that to alcohol content, without knowing the amount of fermentable sugars ratio to unfermatable sugars to start, and hence the ending specific gravity.

[bearphonium]

A hearty bottoms up to the Newcastle, Spaten and San Miguel. Newcastle and San Miguel cold, cold cold. The Spaten can be room temp to cool. But then, I like beer.

[JCalkin]

The 1664 is my FAVORITE light (colored and tasting) beer. It succeeds where many mainstream American Lagers (blech) fail: in being refreshing and tasting great. I always keep these on hand for when it's hot out and I'm doing yard/car/house work.

Save this one 'til the weather gets warmer and drink it COLD. You'll thank me.

Hey josh! We should meet up and go get some pizza and some GOOD beer at Yia Yias in Lincoln. I'll be there for the NSBA in March, you?

I'll be there. Count me in!

-J

[tubatooter1940]

Yuengling makes a "Black and Tan" dark beer that goes nicely in this cold weather.
My guitar player and I take turns buying bottles of Captain Morgan Special Stock rum for my sailboat. That stuff burns all the way down in a cool breeze. Gotta "toast the ship."