All the windows?
Maybe your friends aren’t all that good?
No, just camera shy.
I can say with 100% certainty that my nights in the 1970s were not special…
I’ve always found this Polish Mountain Highlander Indiana Jones-type to exude a raw, animal ruggedness:
Well of course! How better to keep out the tattoo artists!?
There is a Czech beer called Zubr (“Bison”) <
<cough, cough>
It’s Polish, brewed in Bialystok. Nitpickers know that the l has a slash and is pronounced like a ‘w’.
I tried to post the Wiki link, but it then shows the whole article.
Having done a fair amount of testing Slavonic beers in the vicinity, both Czech and Polish, Zubr comes out as one of my favorites, very flavorsome. Best of all are some local craft beers.
Out of curiosity, which Czech and Polish beers are sold in the Yew Ess of Eh?
Two completely different beers, two different countries, same name.
The Polish version is actually a “Homeless Gentleman’s” piwo, cheap and strong, typically not sold in pubs or restaurants, always one of the lowest priced options in any supermarket, liquor store or ubiquitous Zabka mini-mart, while the Czech pivo is “respectable” and sold along permium brands like Pilsner Urquell, Holba, Kozel Lezak, Starobrno (perhaps one of the 5 best beers on Earth) or Budweiser Budvar (absolutely one of the 5 best beers on Earth)
I’m going to be a dumbass and ask why the “pearl necklace” label would be THAT offensive. Yes, yes, I’m aware of what sex act “pearl necklace” refers to, hence the lipstick lips/female human body on the dog.
But it seems to me like the only people who would be offended by the sly reference are prudes who wouldn’t have encountered the term anyway and would just think, “oh yeah, oysters, therefore pearls. Weird label, but okay.”
It’s not like anyone is going to look at the illustration (which is awesome) and say, “goodness gracious me, I have led a sheltered life in which the only acceptable sex act is missionary position intercourse, but now that I have seen this label I am deeply offended to realize there are other options.”
Am I missing something? Or is my mental prude-ometer distorted?
Two completely different beers, two different countries, same name. <
Curious. There are plenty of Czech and other beers in the local supermarkets, but I have never seen the Czech Zubr.
The Polish version is actually a “Homeless Gentleman’s” piwo, cheap and strong, typically not sold in pubs or restaurants, always one of the lowest priced options in any supermarket, liquor store or ubiquitous Zabka mini-mart, <
Lowest price? Nope, the better known brands such as Lech or Tyskie, or low-end such as Harnas and a few others.
, permium brands like Pilsner Urquell, Holba, Kozel Lezak, Starobrno (perhaps one of the 5 best beers on Earth) or Budweiser Budvar (absolutely one of the 5 best beers on Earth) <
I used to love Pilsner Urquell but it seems to have changed over the years. Staropramen is very good, one of my favorites, as is Budvar. There is a Polish brand called Kozel (Goat, yes, really), I can’t remember sampling Kozel Lezak. In the second league I would put Holba and Zloty Bazan (Golden Pheasant), good beers but not the very best. Don’t know if it is exported, but we often buy Lomza (pronounced Womzha, yes, Polish pronunication is fun).
In the UK there has been a rash of beers with novelty names, after the success of Bishop’s Finger.
I loved both Pilsner Urquell and Staropramen when I visited the Czech Republic in '94. After returning to the U.S., I discovered that both brands were imported here, but they didn’t seem to taste nearly as good as I’d remembered from the trip – I wasn’t sure if it was from being transported, or a different formula being used for the exports, or what, but both brands disappointed me when I drank them here.
Isn’t that a Tasmanian tiger?
First, at least in Poland, Lech or Tyskie are NEVER cheaper than Zubr, at least under normal circumstances, (at special sales or closeouts, possibly?) both are mainstream, even upmarket brands, and Zubr is without question a “Budget Friendly” offering that is seemingly favored by the down & out, although granted a step above the very cheapest, higher alcohol labels like the aforementioned Harnas and Tatras which are not sold in pubs or restaurants.
Also, Kozel is a Czech beer, not Polish, although admittedly the Kozel sold in Poland, (like Heineken, Carlsberg and Grolsch for other examples) is contract brewed there by a licenced domestic Polish brewery. Actual Czech Kozel is nice, the Polish knockoff is nothing to write home about, although of course that is likely just my snobbery and the power of suggestion talking.
For my money, the best two Polish piwo are Perla Chmielowa (Pils) and Namyslow Pils, both are from independant breweries but still widely available throughout Poland.
You can understand or have encountered a term and still be offended by it, or at the very least, find it off putting.
If I sold brats (sausages) and called them Upper Deckers and maybe had a picture of a bathroom door labeled “MENS” on the package, sure a lot of people won’t catch the reference. But the ones that do understand it aren’t necessarily going to be unoffended just because they’ve encountered the phrase in the past. In fact, those are the ones most likely to be grossed out by it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure plenty of people would have found it amusing. But my store is small and my beer space is limited so I tend not to have a lot of brands that won’t sell quickly and I was worried that that one would sit around too long.
Cool, thanks for explaining your rationale. And now I must Google “upper deckers” to see what that means.
Is “the best beer Miller ever made” damning with faint praise? Not trying to be snarky, I just remember drinking a lot of high life in high school because it was moderately priced and way better than Coors.
I admit I never tried it in Germany, our family’s village there has its own beer, plus every town had something local worth trying. So perhaps worth a try next time I’m over there.
Oh, fuck! I was just thinking I didn’t realize there were so many animals on beer labels, then I thought back to my days in Brazil, with Antarctica (Pingie) and Bhrama (Bull).
I drank a train-load of both of them. But both were pretty good depictions, so would not qualify for this thread.
I don’t drink beer, but I used to work for a company that made it. Staropramen is available unpasteurized in Prague. Some people care about, some people don’t: I used to be able to taste pasteurized milk, but it didn’t bother me a lot, and modern pasteurization has improved for both beer and milk.
So…would you buy my Upper Decker brand bratwurst?
Yes.
Most Miller beers are mediocre macro corn water. Good enough to drink with a pizza but nothing spectacular.
They got the contract to make Lowenbrau in the U.S. and it was quite good. But there were rumors that they adulterated the recipe by adding adjuncts.
The last time I had Lowenbrau was in Italy in 2012. On drought from a little old man with a small beer cart. 1 Euro for a (approximately) 10 ounce glass. Holy cripes was it good.