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Went out lastnight and found a couple of new Belgium beers. The first was Chima Pares Trappistes- a very good dark beer should be considering it is 9%vol and it came in a .33ltr bottle. Very good beer strong but excellent body..at least I thought so...after a few of those I tried the other: Dubuisson "Bush" Amber...good beer but after having a few of the others the mix was not the thing to do and I could have not been in the testing mood then. The Bush beer was 12%vol and it had more of a strong alcohol presence. I dont know if any of the 2 Belgiums have been mentioned before but I must say that I did enjoy the Chima.
New guy trying to build up post count I guess. If anyone knows of some really good beer over here that I should try let me know. It has got to the point I really dont know what all I have tried so I started putting the beer caps that i have tried in a glass so I could keep up with it. Dont even ask what my wife thinks about this.....

Semper Fi

one of my partners in crime just pointed me to: www.beeradvocate.com. free registration, and appears free beer events. hit me with the stupid stick if this has been brought up before.
dan

How funny, I just went and checked out the site. The funny part was is that I actually started filling guilty about my beercap glass and you were trying to tell me I needed help...or a larger glass.


Semper Fi

I'm in Belmont at the moment, but moving soon. Not entirely sure where, all I know is: eastward!

Has anyone commented or tried the Czechvar "Budvar" the original Budweiser? I have slowly started to move to a lighter beer due to me moving back to the States, I call it: weening myself off the tit, I guess you could say. It is truely a great tasting beer, a lot lighter than what I'm used to and it comes in a .33ltr bottle vise to the regular .5 ltr. Anyway for those of you that are not familiar with this beer this is a link that I found to be quite intresting. http://home.att.net/~marcobrau/czechvar.html.
Anyway this is one of those topics I tend to hope keep alive..this is really a important subject...beer that is!


Semper Fi

Hey Wyn,

Thanks for the bump - and for posting your drinking impressions while in Europe. I am jealous of your beering experience (that's right, I use "beer" as a verb. Gotta problem with that? Anybody? I didn't think so).

You'll be able to find the Chimay in the states. It is fairly widely distributed. Orval is another Belgian we can get here.

It's a good plan to "wean" yourself off of real beer. Depending upon where you are stationed next, you will almost certainly find the selection exasperating relative to your current wealth of choices. Beer Culture seems to vary widely in the US; while states like WA, OR, CA, CO (and many others) have many craft breweries, I know for a fact that Florida is a wasteland.

I adore Budweiser Budvar. Great great beer. It is actually very difficult to make a beer that "small" that is so flavorful. Again, though, I don't see it where I live.

BevMo apparently carries it -- at least online.

UUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM!!!!!

BEER!!!!

bigjohn

LOL! Trust John to get right to the heart of the matter. John, I wish I could sit down with you and watch a ball game sometime (assuming you like some sort of ball game, of course). You're a kick.

well jack.. if you are ever in san angelo(doubt it), you are more than welcome to come over and watch a COWBOYS game with me. the houston TEXANS(they picked a stupid name, kinda redundant) are starting to get fun to watch too. my wife finds me rather worthless during football season.

on friday nights, we go watch local high school football.. saturday day, we go watch the local college games. saturday night, i am usually watching college ball on TV, or playin poker with my buddies while we watch a college game. of course, sunday is full with pregame, noon game, 3 o'clock game, 7 o'clock ESPN game.. then highlights.. then, of course, monday nights game.. all in all, my weekends are pretty full.. but, i always seem to find the time to have a few beers in the middle of all that.

i cant help it. i am an addict.(to football)

bigjohn