Got Beer? Willing to Travel

I love Belgian beers myself, in fact pretty much any beer will do - as a matter of fact, you have inspired me to get my butt up and fetch a Canadian Blue:)

You go Aaman!

I am also looking forward to the fish tikka masala that my wife is making right now and washing it down with an Amber Ale to make it a perfect Saturday afternoon!

Drink beer!

Wow, you really love your beer - its the first time i've ever heard anyone say "luckily, i moved to wisconsin." lolzz

what do you recommend to someone who loves her chardonnay and thinks beer tastes like decomposing grain?

I lived up the road from the Miller factory for two years:)

Amrita, a recommendation would be palate replacement surgery - evidently there is something wrong if someone doesn't like beer:)

Amrita I was about to suggest "to each his own", but then I liked Aaman's suggestion a little bit more.

As for living in Wisconsin, what's there not to like, specially in a calm and easy-going college town like Madison? Friday fish fry is always a bonus.

y'all are just mad coz that snooty french waiter snickers every time you ask him for CH-at-EW Mar-GOWX.

go ahead.. name a beer good enuff to change minds with. :P

"Wisconsin beer?" Come on, American beers are to put it mildly ... water.
You should go to Scotland and have a Deco, a pairing of Kronenbourg and absinthe.

isnt absinthe illegal? where can i get some? :)

It is illegal in most of the civilized world. Except for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Oscar Wilde was a big fan of Absinthe. He said "After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

Amrita, when it comes to beers, there is no one size fits all solution.

You could like Ales or your could like Lagers, you could like Wheats blends or you could like Barley, you could like them sweet or you could like them bitter, you could like them dark or you could like them light. That is why I suggest that you go to a local micro-brewery, order all their sampler and go from there.

Still two of my local favorites are HoneyWeiss
and Spotted Cow.

I am not sure if you'd get them wherever your fortunate enough to live :).

Anil: Maybe someday I will be fortunate enough to try your suggested combination. For now, I'd satisfy myself with local beers - which I think can hold their own in front of other beers.

hey, all respect to madison. i was only kidding. do i need to say moo... erm, more? :) sorry couldnt resist.
will find a microbrewery and then i'll tell you all about it.

anil - no kidding. well, london just moved up the list then.

While I am not qualified enough to debate the relative merits of American and European beers (I am a teetotaler). From what I have heard from friends in Europe American beer sure seems to have some credibility issues. Particularly my British friends compare it to the liquid waste excreted by the kidneys and is produced by the process of filtration which is eventually expelled from the body :)

Nothing like good old beer talk.

Now when will some one come up with the tharra and Indian local varieties? :D

Anil you are a teetotaler? Aaman, are you sure we allow those kind of species to write and comment at Desicritics?

@vikas: I know it is a shame :) But if it is any consolation I do have lot of experience driving drunken people home. I have been the designated driver for about 6 years now.

Designated driver! Well you do serve a purpose then :)

There was a bangalore brand called "Knock Out Beer"... man... it really was what it meant.... knocked me straight out after the first bottle, when i had it for the first time.

I love beer.... so much that my ex-gf had to dump me.. but that.. sigh .. .is for another day

I'm not sure which was more entertaining - the article or this string of comments :-) Good stuff, Vikas. If you ever get the chance, try BeerLao - the beer from Laos. Along with Newcastle, it's the only beer I've ever really liked. Many Europeans (Belgians, Dutch, Germans, Brits) reckon it's the best beer in the world - and they should know!

South East Asian and further east, one gets great beers - Kirin, Tiger, Sapporo,...

Beer Lao... now, there's an invite! :D

Kirin and Sapporo can't hold a candle to Asahi Super Dry beer (available in all sizes from the sampler sized can to Jumbo (please bring your truck) size).

Perhaps the freakiest beer bar I have visited was in Little India, Singapore. The bar was straight out of a western, polished glass, high stools, wooden floors, the works. The music however was 50s and 60s MGR and Sivaji Ganesan and the bartender had a big Shaivite namam (three strips of ash) on his forehead.

Oh my god! So many beers to drink and such a short life!

I've not had Asahi (my loss) but how could I forget Sapporo? That enticing silver colored can and that taste!

So I did what you recommended and went out to a brewery and tried their sampler. they had two kinds, a seasonal and a "normal" and we tried both. it was loads of fun and i'm afraid the beer became kind of incidental towards the end but then, thats the hallmark of all good alcohol, right? the sucky taste of it gradually became more and more bearable and by the time we were through the second sampler, i must say i even enjoyed a glass or two. the espresso beer was the strangest thing i ever drank and while my friend made gagging noises, i thought it was rather nice. neither of us understood the technical stuff that the menu told us about but we are in mourning for that one glass of red stout or watsis as it was called, that was missing as they were out of it. we remain convinced that that must have been the best one.

thanks for suggesting a fun evening vikas. samplers, everybody!

Thanks Amrita - I am glad that you had fun and that there was no need to implement Aaman's suggestion :).