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I like it for it's bitterness. I'm sure it sells in part due to the awesomely simple label. It's golden, you know?

Anyway, something you'd recommend instead? A bitter tasting pilsner kind of beer?

(Drinking a Chimay Blue at the moment, next will be a Grolsch)

I much prefer Belgian beer over German, but Jever is "ok" I guess. Not much of a fan of pilsen overall.

Had a Cuba Libre. And a Ranglum (50ml Gosling's, 25ml Wray & Nephew's, 15ml Falernum, 25ml lime juice, small dash simple syrup -- by Gonçalo De Sousa Monteiro at Le Lion).

b1os, have you told earlier which rum and cola you use for your Cuba Libre?
Simply HC3 + Coca Cola?

No, not HC3. I prefer other Cuban white rums, for example Ron Varadero 3. But a split of white and dark rum is great too, less lime though (1/4-1/3 of a medium lime as opposed to 1/2 for plain white rum). I currently just have Appleton white which I don't like at all. So I use about 20-25cl of coke, 4cl Appleton white and 3cl Myer's rum (again, no other strong dark rum..).
An amber rum should provide the same qualities (freshness of the white rum, richness of the dark rum) though.

And yeah regular coke. While I enjoy other cokes (Fritz Kola for example), they just don't work in a Cuba Libre.
Edited by b1os - 11/17/12 at 3:30pm

I understand liking more Belgian beers than German ones. For one thing I can think of more Belgian ones, but there are probably loads of German beers I don't know off. I seem to remember liking Prinzregent Luitpold (Weissbier) a lot. I'm sure there will/would be many more.

I agree, Appleton White is quite "sprittig".

For some time now my spirits cabinet holds an unopened bottle of Ron Caney Carta Blanca Superior 3 Anos, maybe I should try to get my hands on a tray of glas bottled Coke and give it a try?

The thing is, I've never seen "microbrewery" beer in any German bar/restaurant, which is quite unfortunate for a country with such a beer culture. Nor in most stores.

@Louis: Good idea.

Mmh, I've been to Osnabrück to a small local brewery/restaurant. I'm hazy on the beer quality. On the other hand I've a hard time imagining there to be less than one in any similary sized city. I don't live in Germany, though.

It's just my experience in Hamburg. The most I've seen was Weihenstephan, and in a rather medicore café. There's (edit: at least) one beverage store in Hamburg that stocks dozens and dozens of beers. But they're all <1€ which seemed a little odd to me (I expect good beers to cost at least 1€/0.33l.. but maybe that's the wrong mindset.. I guess I'll give some a try next time I'm in Hamburg; overall I much prefer wine and liquor to beer though)

Btw, Courvoiser VSOP is definitely a good value for 30€/liter even though it's a rather big player. Unfortunately, my order for Macallan 12 was cancelled. I receive the Coeur de Cognac by Rémy Martin though, looking forward to it (I don't think it was a bad purchase for 25€/0.7l).
Edited by b1os - 11/17/12 at 4:25pm

Hmm. I was going to say that I strongly prefer something like Victory Prima Pils to Jever, but I just realized you're not in the U.S., and I'm guessing there's not much demand for American pilsners up there in Friesland.

Is the label golden, as well?

Sounds to be something I'd like (after reading up on it). But unless they have it in the bigger beer stores in Utrecht or Amsterdam (which I don't even frequent) I'm not sure I'll get to try it anytime soon.

I found this thread that describes the taste I'm looking for pretty well: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bone-dry-pils.24433/

Looks like this:



It's nothing special to look out for and definitely not worth paying extra for as an import--just a really decent pilsner. Turns out I've had most of the American plisners mentioned in that thread and very few of the European ones. Very gauche of me.

really, we're recommending Victory Prima Pils now? what has this thread come to...

Sidecar
2oz Courvoisier VSOP
1oz Cointreau
.75oz lemon juice

Lagunitas Lil Sumpin Sumpin.

Love this beer.