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A friend back from a car trip to Germany gave us a few bottles of Oettinger recently. Quite pleasant, but, as Helen says of these German beers, rather banal.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 05:17:21 AM EST
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Actually, now I remember, it was a Warsteiner.

But I will take good, banal bier any day over the stuff they drink in Finland.

No, I didn't stay long enough to be qualified to dismiss a nation's brewing prowess so... dismissively. On the basis that "90% of everything is crap", it's probably fair to say that I would have been just as unimpressed drinking random popular beers in most countries (I would except Belgium and Germany, there are probably other countries to add to that list)

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by eurogreen on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 09:08:24 AM EST
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I made the mistake of drinking the locally popular beer in Berlin once, on the theory that it shouldn't be possible to sell bad beer in Germany.

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 02:10:26 PM EST
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Berliner Weisse ? Only drink it with the wormwood essense (the green stuff). Then it's fantastic. But it's not so much a beer as a soft drink, being only 2% proof (or something like that)

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 03:44:47 PM EST
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I forget the label. It was some years ago.

Pretty sure it was a pilsner, though.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 04:23:51 PM EST
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Finland isn't really a beer country. Neither is Sweden, so I am not dissing on the former eastern half of the realm. Flavorless lagers is what we have.

If you want drinks with history up here, it is all in the booze department.

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by A swedish kind of death on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 05:25:14 PM EST
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I was aware of this, but I'm not a spirits man. And there was a fair amount of beer drinking going on, and frankly it was beer weather (absolutely phenomenal, especially compared to the cold wet French spring I came back to.)

This was at about 9.30 pm on Monday.

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by eurogreen on Wed May 15th, 2013 at 06:55:10 PM EST
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The Lowdown - Quality Swedish beer

I know and like Skottskallens beer. I've had a Nils Oskar beer, which was very good, but don't know their range very well.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu May 16th, 2013 at 03:34:08 AM EST
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