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Best lager
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Genuinely can't decide if Hürlimann a.k. Hooligan should be in the 'Best lager' or 'Worst lager' thread, so am posting it in both. Its certainly one very strange loopy juice. Possibly The STRANGEST Lager In The World.
Colossal Squid
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Although I tend to go for ale when I'm in a British pub I'm not so snobbish that I don't enjoy lager too.
Pilsner Urquell, as already mentioned, is the godfather of lager and I can always happily enjoy that stuff if I'm lucky enough to be somewhere that serves it.
If I'm picking some tins up from the offy, I often plump for Poland's Tyskie which is available pretty much anywhere these days.
And if I'm in the sort of pub that only has a handful of big brand lagers you get everywhere I'm happy enough with a Heineken.
Now of course on the continent I have many favourites. Croatia's Ozujsko is a lovely drop, as is Bulgaria's Kamenitza and Turkey's ubiquitous Efes always goes down well too. In Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic you're spoiled for choice so I usually drink whichever beer is brewed closest to where I am.
At Oktoberfest this year I drank my own bodyweight in Munich's Paulaner beer and I'd do it again!
Lager gets a bad name because a lot of the most common brands such as Carling, Kronenbourg and Fosters are complete shit however any real beer fan will tell you that the best of the lagers are right up there with the best of the ales.
Pilsner Urquell, as already mentioned, is the godfather of lager and I can always happily enjoy that stuff if I'm lucky enough to be somewhere that serves it.
If I'm picking some tins up from the offy, I often plump for Poland's Tyskie which is available pretty much anywhere these days.
And if I'm in the sort of pub that only has a handful of big brand lagers you get everywhere I'm happy enough with a Heineken.
Now of course on the continent I have many favourites. Croatia's Ozujsko is a lovely drop, as is Bulgaria's Kamenitza and Turkey's ubiquitous Efes always goes down well too. In Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic you're spoiled for choice so I usually drink whichever beer is brewed closest to where I am.
At Oktoberfest this year I drank my own bodyweight in Munich's Paulaner beer and I'd do it again!
Lager gets a bad name because a lot of the most common brands such as Carling, Kronenbourg and Fosters are complete shit however any real beer fan will tell you that the best of the lagers are right up there with the best of the ales.
Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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In no Particular Order:
Warsteiner
Erdinger
San Miguel
Hoegarden
Warsteiner
Erdinger
San Miguel
Hoegarden
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Hove / Παρος
Another favourite, but may have something to do with the circumstances that it is usually enjoyed in!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Another favourite, but may have something to do with the circumstances that it is usually enjoyed in!
Good CALL! Certainly happy days compared to the wall-to-wall Amstel they used to serve up on Greek islands. Gotta admit though that after about day four on the Mythos, I'm usually desperately seeking a big bottle of Heineken and a frosty glass.
CLACTON ON SEA-GULL
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Under the influence at this moment in time can only be peroni or maybe moretti!!!
HastingsSeagull
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Asahi
Anything Czech
Orangeboom
Many of the German ones are blonde beer and while amazing, surely not strictly lager? Warsteiner is great but Hoegarden isn't lager is it?
Anything Czech
Orangeboom
Many of the German ones are blonde beer and while amazing, surely not strictly lager? Warsteiner is great but Hoegarden isn't lager is it?
orangeboom
Great down Coasters in the mid-1980's. 8 pints of.
Cusquena, served icey cold, is beautiful.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Kirin Ichiban, Asahi, Tiger and Carlsberg Export.
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Hove / Παρος
A DARK larger, but a larger none the less. Absolutely delicious, but quite lethal! Drank a few to many of these during Euro 2004 in Tijuana and woke up with a tattoo on my arm and $500 lighter!
Think Wetherspoons sells it now!
Knightsworld
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Ale drinker normally, but I have a lager every now and again my fav 3 would be:
Stella 4
Kronenbourg
Cobra (with a ruby, obviously)
Stella 4
Kronenbourg
Cobra (with a ruby, obviously)
jakarta
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Can't believe that the PROPER Budweiser (Budvar) hasn't had a shout as yet - following a Prague visit a few years back I can confirm it is one of many MARVELLOUS Czech Beers.....