Budvar.

legs11

wow, this is some serious $hit..

I had 3 pints last night but couldnt put up with it, i had to revert to more normal beer like heineken after that...

anyone here do an all nighter with budvar, id say you would end up having a brain tumour after that stuff..

judas101

lovely stuff but the hangovers are manky

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legs11 wrote: »

to more normal beer like heineken

By "normal" do you mean mass-produced, chemical filled piss?

jaffa20

Light head!! lol Budvar isn't that strong. Try some Belgian beer like Leffe or Duvel and let me know how you feel

Zaph

I was drinking draught Budvar all night in the Market Bar a few weeks ago. The morning after was hangover free. Top quality, chemical-free Czech beers ftw.

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Zaph wrote: »

I was drinking draught Budvar all night in the Market Bar a few weeks ago. The morning after was hangover free. Top quality, chemical-free Czech beers ftw.

Wouldn't be a big fan of Budvar myself, too hoppy for me.

But yeah, the Czechs make the best beers.

I wonder could The Czech Republic take America to court for stealing the Bud name, and making that reprehensible gank that bears the name.

Bastards.

Zaph

DesF wrote: »

I wonder could The Czech Republic take America to court for stealing the Bud name, and making that reprehensible gank that bears the name.

That is actually one of the world's longest running trademark disputes. Ironically enough, Anheuser Busch successfully blocked Budějovický Budvar, the makers of Budvar, from selling their beer in the States for many years. It's now sold there as Czechvar, and that American p1ss is sold in much of Europe as Bud. AB have made a number of offers to buy the Czech company, but they've been rightly told to fcuk off.

rubadub

I love it. Many think these beers are expensive in pubs but they are actually quite cheap. e.g. my mate drinks bottles of heineken, maybe €4.80-5 these days. I got a €5.20 spaten and was pleased with the price.

If the €5.20 bottle was the usual 330ml instead of 500ml then my bottle is only €3.43, very cheap compared to other beers. If you take the higher alcohol into account it is a very good buy, not to mention the quality.

Frisbee

I like this beer and would love to drink it all night.
However as a student it is FAT too expensive for me so I end up sticking to Fosters.
Another nice Czech beer is Pilsner Urquell, was in Prague last weekend and a pint was less than 2 euro.

legs11

Hoegarden i prefer, dont think i get too bad hangover from that

i agree all the mass produced piss on tap here is a joke, bud, heineken, harp.
blahhhhhhhhhhhh, but not much of a choice...

if you live in the sthicks you got sod all choice in booze. either bud (weiser) or harp or heineken.

stella is quite good. but nasty hangovers..

King of Kings

budvar is piss
although less piss than the regular mass produced piss

becks vier / becks - all night no hangover if that's whjat you're after
i'm lucky cos it's the nicest beer imo

Zaph

King of Kings wrote: »

budvar is piss
although less piss than the regular mass produced piss

becks vier / becks - all night no hangover if that's whjat you're after
i'm lucky cos it's the nicest beer imo

I'm sorry, but if you are calling Budvar piss then you know nothing about beer. It may not necessarily be to your liking, in the same way that Becks wouldn't be to mine, but to call it piss is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time.

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Zaph wrote: »

I'm sorry, but if you are calling Budvar piss then you know nothing about beer. It may not necessarily be to your liking, in the same way that Becks wouldn't be to mine, but to call it piss is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time.

:pac:

Agent Smith

King of Kings wrote: »

budvar is piss
although less piss than the regular mass produced piss

becks vier / becks - all night no hangover if that's whjat you're after
i'm lucky cos it's the nicest beer imo

just leave now.

kthaxbai

Creamy Goodness

King of Kings wrote: »

budvar is piss

so you're saying we should all piss into glasses for free budvar?

can you taste it first you seem to have a good taste for beer.

Also worthy of mention is 1795 Budejovicke Pivo. I think it's from the same brewery as Budvar. Lovely stuff, can be gotten cheapish from dunnes stores too.

Galvasean

I'm a big fan of Budvar from the bottle.
Alas my local have a Budvar tap but never clean the damn thing. :mad:

Talliesin

Budvar tastes like beer. This automatically makes it vastly superior to the majority of crap sold as "beer" in the majority of pubs.

DesF wrote: »

I wonder could The Czech Republic take America to court for stealing the Bud name, and making that reprehensible gank that bears the name.

If they get away with calling it "beer", it's no worse that they get away with naming it after a town thousands of miles away from where it comes from.

I think they should at least learn how to pronounce "budweiser" though, instead of adding random "wuh" sounds in.

My German pronunciation's crap too, but at least I make an effort.

DJ_Spider

Slightly OT, but I noticed that Tsing Tao in bottles is stronger than carlsberg bottles! I regulary buy six packs of Tsing Tao from Tescos, (It's the only way I can have a six pack!) but the other day they had none so I bought a pack of Carlsberg. It wasn't the same as the draft you get in pubs, and I looked at the alcohol percent the other night. Tsing Tao was 4.7% and carlsberg is only 4.3%!

mayordenis

i've always found budwar to be adequate at best,
but back to the mass produced queif-grog anyone on here who drinks bug, heineken, coors or carlsberg(especially the various light alternatives) should be ****ing ashamed - if you get a hangover it creates a mental block for more drinking and constant drinking = ultimate beer gut.
****.

The Hill Billy

Beautiful stuff. Especially when sold as proper draught as in Czech Rep, Germany, Austria, etc. - straight from the barrel with no gas. Not that we'd be lucky enough for them to sell it like that over here.


Vote "Yes" next time for better beers!

Lemming

Zaph wrote: »

I was drinking draught Budvar all night in the Market Bar a few weeks ago. The morning after was hangover free. Top quality, chemical-free Czech beers ftw.

Hang on a sec ... roll this conversation back.

You can get Budvar on draught now? Jiggedh jiggedh jiggedh :pac:


Incidentally yes I like Budvar. If it's behind the bar, I'll drink it.

Talliesin

mayordenis wrote: »

but back to the mass produced queif-grog anyone on here who drinks bug, heineken, coors or carlsberg

Carlsberg actually tastes nice in Denmark (so, for that matter, does Tuborg). It just doesn't travel well. It may taste like muck here, but it's not fair to consider it purely in terms of what it's like here.

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Talliesin wrote: »

Carlsberg actually tastes nice in Denmark (so, for that matter, does Tuborg). It just doesn't travel well. It may taste like muck here, but it's not fair to consider it purely in terms of what it's like here.

Is the Carlsberg bought here even brewed in Denmark?

oblivious

Talliesin wrote: »

Carlsberg actually tastes nice in Denmark (so, for that matter, does Tuborg). It just doesn't travel well. It may taste like muck here, but it's not fair to consider it purely in terms of what it's like here.

Thats is a bit of grass s green on the other side of the fence. It don't need to travel as its brewer under license in Dublin by Diageo. The major of draft lagers aren't worth writing about, but if its muck here the are plenty of ye out there buying it. If you want a change vote with you feet and don't buy the stuff

oblivious

DesF wrote: »

Is the Carlsberg bought here even brewed in Denmark?

Maybe the stuff from Northern Ireland, but i would suspect that Diageo would do their best clamp down, since they have the license for to brew it here

jester77

Budvar is a quality beer, although of the Czech beers my favourite would be Staropramen, particularly the Granat.

It's great here, almost impossible to find the other Budweiser imposter and with a crate of 20x500ml bottles of Budvar costing around €12 you just can't go wrong

monkeyfudge

jester77 wrote: »

Budvar is a quality beer, although of the Czech beers my favourite would be Staropramen, particularly the Granat.

Yes. I completely agree. Staropramen Granat is fantastic. I always drink lots when I'm in Prague. Is it available here yet?

jester77

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yes. I completely agree. Staropramen Granat is fantastic. I always drink lots when I'm in Prague. Is it available here yet?

I would presume it is. It's available here in the supermarkets with the regular Staropramen so I don't see why it wouldn't be in Ireland.

monkeyfudge

Ah you're in Hamburg.

My local off License is a very good one with a great selection of imported beers and I was talking to the guy who runs it about a year or so ago about Staropramen Granat and said they don't export it outside of the Czech Republic. But if you have it over there, maybe there's a chance it will eventually find it's way here.

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monkeyfudge wrote: »

Ah you're in Hamburg.

My local off License is a very good one with a great selection of imported beers and I was talking to the guy who runs it about a year or so ago about Staropramen Granat and said they don't export it outside of the Czech Republic. But if you have it over there, maybe there's a chance it will eventually find it's way here.

Which offo are you on about?

monkeyfudge

DesF wrote: »

Which offo are you on about?

McHugh's on the Malahide road. Just next to the Cosy Takeaway.

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monkeyfudge wrote: »

McHugh's on the Malahide road. Just next to the Cosy Takeaway.

A fine establishment indeed.

chopperbyrne

More a bottles of Lech man myself.

Very nice beer.

Big bottles too.

Talliesin

oblivious wrote: »

Thats is a bit of grass s green on the other side of the fence. It don't need to travel as its brewer under license in Dublin by Diageo.

No it's not.

A nice-tasting beer called "Carlsberg" is brewed in Copenhagen.

Dreadful swill I wouldn't drink if I was dying of thirst called "Carlsberg" is brewed in Dublin.

Zaph

Talliesin wrote: »

No it's not.

A nice-tasting beer called "Carlsberg" is brewed in Copenhagen.

Dreadful swill I wouldn't drink if I was dying of thirst called "Carlsberg" is brewed in Dublin.

Once upon a time Carlsberg was brewed by Beamish & Crawford in Cork. It was lovely stuff altogether. Then Beamish started brewing Fosters (late 80s/early 90s) and lost the Carlsberg licence to Guinness (later Diageo) and the beer changed completely, to the point that it became undrinkable. In 1994 myself and a mate, a Carlsberg drinker, were delayed in Tenerife airport. He went and got 2 pints, which turned out to be Carlsberg, and hated his because it tasted different from what he drank at home (he drank something else before switching and so didn't remember the "old" Carlsberg). I, on the other hand, was much happier because it was the same stuff we used to be able to get before they switched brewer. Last decent pint of Carlsberg I've ever had.

oblivious

Zaph wrote: »

Once upon a time Carlsberg was brewed by Beamish & Crawford in Cork. It was lovely stuff altogether. Then Beamish started brewing Fosters (late 80s/early 90s) and lost the Carlsberg licence to Guinness (later Diageo) and the beer changed completely, to the point that it became undrinkable. In 1994 myself and a mate, a Carlsberg drinker, were delayed in Tenerife airport. He went and got 2 pints, which turned out to be Carlsberg, and hated his because it tasted different from what he drank at home (he drank something else before switching and so didn't remember the "old" Carlsberg). I, on the other hand, was much happier because it was the same stuff we used to be able to get before they switched brewer. Last decent pint of Carlsberg I've ever had.

But why get nostalgic about a beer when the brewer couldn't give a toss about you. As they allow their beer to be brewer under license and product an inferior product and cant be bother in entering this market in any real sense.

jester77

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yes. I completely agree. Staropramen Granat is fantastic. I always drink lots when I'm in Prague. Is it available here yet?

Picked up a 6 pack last night
Has the import label on them so it should be possible for the offies to get their suppliers to import it.

truecrippler

Do they sell Budvar on tap in the Czech Inn? Might head there on Saturday for the craic and scope out some Central European chicks.

DublinWriter

Zaph wrote: »

That is actually one of the world's longest running trademark disputes. Ironically enough, Anheuser Busch successfully blocked Budějovický Budvar, the makers of Budvar, from selling their beer in the States for many years...

I think that was all to do with American companies legally ram-raiding the Axis countries in the years after WWII to grab products that the could market in the states. The receipe for Budwesier is based on Budějovický Budvar.

Prime example being 'Fanta' being taken by Coca-Cola from the Germans.

Zaph

oblivious wrote: »

But why get nostalgic about a beer when the brewer couldn't give a toss about you. As they allow their beer to be brewer under license and product an inferior product and cant be bother in entering this market in any real sense.

Not particularly nostalgic for it, just making the point that it used to taste a whole lot better. I agree though, breweries should be more concerned with how a beer with their name on it tastes if they're not brewing it themselves.

DublinWriter wrote: »

I think that was all to do with American companies legally ram-raiding the Axis countries in the years after WWII to grab products that the could market in the states. The receipe for Budwesier is based on Budějovický Budvar.

Not quite. Beer has been sold in the States under the Budweiser name since the 1870s. Budweis is the German name for the town of České Budějovice, and budweiser is a style of beer, in much the same way that pilsner was a style originally brewed in Plzeň, or Pilsen in German. The original immigrants who started Anheuser-Busch in the States were brewing in the Budweis style, but then started to market their beer under the name Budweiser, thereby kicking off the long-running trademark dispute.

truecrippler

Or... where in Dublin City Centre do they cell it on tap? Bottles if not on tap... preferably in a pub. I'm interested in trying this out.

Zaph

truecrippler wrote: »

Or... where in Dublin City Centre do they cell it on tap? Bottles if not on tap... preferably in a pub. I'm interested in trying this out.

The Market Bar, Fade Street, just of George's Street. Possibly the Czech Inn in Temple Bar too, can't remember.

truecrippler

Cheers dude, can't wait till Saturday.

DenMan

Cheers Zaph

Love to head down to the Czech Inn, heard some good things about it...:)

tony 2 tone

DublinWriter wrote: »

I think that was all to do with American companies legally ram-raiding the Axis countries in the years after WWII to grab products that the could market in the states. The receipe for Budwesier is based on Budějovický Budvar.

Prime example being 'Fanta' being taken by Coca-Cola from the Germans.

That last bit aint true, according to snopes.com any way.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/fanta.asp

Czech Inn has Starmopramen on tap, if memory serves me. As does Issac Butts. not sure about Budvar though. There is only one way to find out! Fact finding mission

Zaph

tony 2 tone wrote: »

Czech Inn has Starmopramen on tap, if memory serves me. As does Issac Butts.

They do, and so does the Bull & Castle and Bijou in Rathgar if anyone's in that neck of the woods. there's somewhere else too, but can't think where right now.

heggie

you can get budvar almost anywhere in bottles now

Zaph

heggie wrote: »

you can get budvar almost anywhere in bottles now

Yeah, but the problem is that the fridges are always full of crap beer, and if there are a couple of people drinking Budvar, or another decent beer, the cold ones don't last vert long.

heggie

true alright. Notice pilsner urquell is coming into the market in a big way here recently, so we're getting more choice when out

Zaph

Haven't seen that anywhere yet. It's the one Czech beer I really don't like, although when I was in Prague it was everywhere and almost impossible to avoid.