What Beers Did You Drink Today? Or Yesterday? (Part 3)

[liuzhou]

Due those incorrigible enablers, @C. sapidus and @Smithy 😂, I found myself splashing out on a six-pack of the black stuff. Guinness is barely known here and, outside of Beijing and Shanghai impossible to find on draught. Not even much there. Hong Kong is a much better bet. 

 

All I can get here is the canned, low 4.2 ABV version, imported from Dublin.  Still. Better than no Guinness. It costs around $1 USD per can which isn't bad but twice the price of local beers.

 

 

 

It's  not very clear, but so little-known is it, they feel the need to give instructions on the can on how to chill it, pour it and drink it! Those I don't need!

 

 

Edited March 19 by liuzhou (log)

[Smithy]

@liuzhou...you've made me proud!

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Last night I had my first Chimay Green Strong Blond Ale.

https://chimay.com/us/beers/chimay-150-us/

 

My new favorite.  Wonderful as long you can forget about the price.  A quart of Ortlieb's (I grew up in Philadelphia) used to go for 35 cents.  Four little bottles of Chimay Green are closer to 35 dollars.

 

[gfweb]

@JoNorvelleWalker Chimay is good stuff but that price is nuts.  Joe Ortleib is twirling in his grave ;-).  I drank a lot of Schmidts and Valley Forge back then.  I'm too young to have drunk Esslinger's or Hohenadle's.

 

I just had a couple DogfishHead 60 minute IPA. Nice.

Edited 4 hours ago by gfweb (log)

[lemniscate]

I tried this new to me Blond Ale which came in a 750ml at a very surprising low price.   I found it delicious, my tastes run primarily to strong Belgian styles.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

@JoNorvelleWalker Chimay is good stuff but that price is nuts.  Joe Ortleib is twirling in his grave ;-).  I drank a lot of Schmidts and Valley Forge back then.  I'm too young to have drunk Esslinger's or Hohenadle's.

 

I just had a couple DogfishHead 60 minute IPA. Nice.

 

My son loves Dogfish.  Schmidts makes me gag.  I was once at a trade show in the old convention center.  There was a beer vendor with an Ortlieb's tap.  I should have thrown the Schmidts he sold me in his face.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

58 minutes ago, lemniscate said:

I tried this new to me Blond Ale which came in a 750ml at a very surprising low price.   I found it delicious, my tastes run primarily to strong Belgian styles.

 

If I ever see it I will probably give it a try.