Beer Discussion

[Wolfang]

Are you fucking kidding me, a beer topic with no mention of BELGIAN beers? Yet I see people mention this piss called Heineken????


Belgian beers beat German beers on anyday . Not only are most beers in the world owned by Belgian companies (biggest beer multinational on earth);

http://www.ab-inbev.com/go/brands/brand ... brands.cfm
^find your local beer

We also have the largest amount of abbey brewed beers, viewed, worldwide, as the best beers in the world.

Every village brews it's own good beer.

The city I live in brews Stella Artois (and is the home base of Stella), can buy at 90 cents per pint.

Belgium also hosts the (literally) daily tradition of Cantus, which is basically the Belgian october fest, except it happens year-round.
(Here is one I went to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3dTrIp6 ... re=related )

[Farn]

Bear-beer! The most popular beer in Finland, and we drink a lot.

[burgingham]

Belgian beers beat German beers on anyday .

lol

viewed, worldwide, as the best beers in the world.

That is because the rest of the world doesn't know what a good beer is.

[NuberT]

Not only are most beers in the world owned by Belgian companies (biggest beer multinational on earth);

so big companies are now cool and stand for quality?

My favorite is Radeberger Pilsener http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Qxcf7TeN4

[Wolfang]

Did you miss the part where I said we also had individually produced abbey beers?

also, the largest beer-rating site;
granted, most of the users are american, but no one forced them to vote for all those Belgian beers. IIRC Westvleteren was best in 2010 & several other years.
http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/be ... 012011.asp

[sabinati]

Did you miss the part where I said we also had individually produced abbey beers?

and these are almost good enough to make me live in a monastery for the rest of my life

[Wolfang]

Yes, I believe there are only 7 monasteries producing beers worldwide, 1 of those is in Holland, the rest are in Belgium

[burgingham]

I know at least 2 or 3 German ones off the top of my head.

Edit: Yeah googling told me as I expected that we have dozens of monastery breweries.

Here are the ones in bavaria alone: http://www.typisch-bayerisch.de/index.php/brauereien/klosterbrauereien/

Guess they feed you beer propaganda in Belgium

http://besten.welt.de/Essen-Trinken/Zigarren-Spirituosen-Champagner-Co/Geschmackvolle-Biere-rund-um-die-Welt/Lieblinge-der-Experten-Die-besten-Biere-d

Just in german, but this is a list of the best beers in the world. Most of them are German, some American and one or two from Belgium.

[jorb]

Personally I would probably easily fail any double-blind test made with regards to beer tasting, and am generally happy as long as it tastes good and contains alcohol, and I've found through experience that you can get that in most civilized countries in the world.

[Wolfang]

There is a difference between abbey beer and Trappist (monastery) beers, Trappist beers are still brewed in monasteries by actual religious orders, in small amount, whereas abbey beers can be mass produced by anyone, and any beer can get the name of an abbey beer.

Belgium probably has hundreds of old abbey beers as well.

To become an official monastery beer (brewed by monks) you need to meet certain criteria, something only 7 monasteries in the world meet. This is an official beer 'badge' like you'd give to wines like chardonnay or for being an official champagne.

As to the link of 'best beer in the world', my site was american, and thus less bias concerning European beers (I'm sure a lot more German immigrants went to the US in comparison with Belgians), whereas yours is obviously a German 'census', and it doesn't look like they were chosen by a select, or large, group who take an interest in beer, but rather a magazine or website promoting the 'luxury (german) lifestyle'.

But tbh, the Belgian vs German beer argument is probably the most common beer argument around (the only worthy one, since no other country can actually compete). I stick to my opinion, you to yours. I have no problem with that.



























But might I add, that whenever I go to Germany, the beer is sooooo easy to drink (like water/ not bitter ^^) .