Excluding the following countries, who have lists here, what are your favorite beers? Don not include: USA, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, United Kingdom, Ireland. I would really like to see a "rest of the world list"
Austria: Stift Engelszell (Trappist Brewery...I've only had Gregorius) Stieglbrauerei (assorted stuff...not bad) Trumer (Pils...ok ya it's produced in the States now for this market) Schloss Eggenberg (Samichlaus) Far from a complete list.
Tanzania - Safari, Kilimanjaro, Serengeti, Castle, N'dovu Uganda - Bell Lager Kenya - Tusker Thailand - Singha, Beer Chang
As a man who has lived many years of his life in Thailand, all I can say is that we have dramatically different tastes in beer...
What I'd really like to see is a drop-down menu to look at beer scores/reviews by country...as opposed to the small selection you can choose on the right side once you go to Top Beers. I travel a lot, and it would be great to just select Bulgaria or India or something and get a list of what the BAs here have rated as top beers from that country. Maybe one of the computer-smart dudes here knows how to get the system to spit out a sortable list of beers from a specific country?
Caribbean love: Jamaica: Red Stripe and Dragon Stout Antigua: Wadadli St Lucia: Piton Dominican Republic: Presidente Costa Rica: Imperial I realize the majority of these are AAL sorts probably brewed elsewhere, but whatever.
Israel has a really solid craft beer scene right now, so I'm kind of amazed anyone still likes Goldstar - the country's answer to Natty Bo. Breweries like Jem's, Alexander, Malka, Dancing Camel, and Herzog all make solid stuff. In Ghana, Castle Milk Stout was an expat favorite, and when I lived in Guyana, Carib Beer and Mackeson Stout filled my needs fairly well.
Aupa Tovarisch | Laugar Brewery S.L. Had this in Spain this summer. The shop owner where I bought it told me it could hold its own with any stout on the market today, and he was correct.
Not likely. Singha and Chang are the only ones I had while I was there years ago. This was before I got into craft beer, and I wasn't exactly seeking out the country's finest. That said, I still enjoy Singha and Chang now and then.
Off the top of my head I've got Austria: anything from Augustiner Braeu Salzburg Czech Republic: unpasteurized Pilsner Urquell from a tankovna pub.
I was living/working in Israel for 3 years prior to moving to London. Hung out with the owner of Jem's a couple times and Dancing Camel was probably one of the better ones there. However, living there is what reignited my homebrew hobby that went dormant for a few years due to the kids. Pretty lousy beer scene in general outside those few you mention (which are pretty hard to find most places BTW).
I was in Bratislava a couple weeks ago and thought the Zlaty Brazant was pretty decent. The brewpub we went to (Bratislavsky Mestianski?) was pretty uninspired though (referring to the beer...the food was good and it was a nice place).
Have you had any of the beers from Schleppe? They were my surprise find last month in Vienna after being recommended at both Beerlovers and Mel's Craft Beer Bar. I also picked up some Stift Engelszell beer but haven't had it yet.
Greece: Voreia IPA. If this beer was available in the US, it would be all the rage. Bulgaria: I like most of the mainstream and major regional lagers but especially Kamenitza.
Chang is delicious when it's ridiculously hot and humid. In related news, I just saw Beerlao on the shelf at Bottleworks in Seattle, but I haven't tried it stateside yet. I'm guessing I won't enjoy it as much as I did in Laos in the much cooler PNW.
It is, indeed. I would add that it's not bad over ice, which is how they served it in northern Thailand. When in Rome (or Chiang Rai, as the case may be)...
Some cousins of mine took a trip to Norway two or three years ago and brought back a stout like beer that was supposedly brewed by one of our distant relatives in his barn. Whether he was actually our relative or just a guy they ran into who sold them some beer I'm still not sure. Stuff wasn't half bad though.
One of my favorite beer+travel experiences was running into a birthday party at a bar in Tha Khaek in southern Laos. We drank with them, and it was just what you describe--fill a glass with ice, fill it with beer, toast, drain the glass, repeat. Fantastic for the climate, and the ice doesn't melt so much if you chug the beer.
The Czech Republic is an obvious oversight. I was going to go with a take on the model whose micro-organisms were put in the brew kettle, but I'll just say Pilsner Urquell instead. This is a perfectly good thread and it doesn't deserve that.
I realize its just me on this but I love the big, boozy sweetness and malts of some Lithuanian brews, particularly Rinkuskiai. Werewolf (the 8.2% one) and Before After were a blast to drink.
My in-laws are Polish so here's a bunch of beers from Poland for you. Most are similar to your average AAL but Tyskie and Zywiec are nice malt forward brews. Okocim O.K. Beer Warka Radler Cytryna Zywiec Lech Premium Tyskie Lezajsk
Pohjala from Estiona is a great brewery. Easily competes with the top brewers in Europe. Napar from spain made one of the best BA Barley wines I ever had.
Estonia - Põhjala x To Øl Cellar Series Taanilinn Cognac BA New Zealand - Garage Project Death From Above New Zealand - 8 Wired Hopwired Spain - BIIR 4B Oude Gueuze Spain - BIIR Sweet-Sour Red Series
India - just no. That's where I learned what skunked beer was. South Korea - Jeju IPA, the rest of the domestic craft was bloody awful. Way overpriced imports. I saw bottles of Chimay going for $47. Mongolia - nothing as expected. Imports exceeded my expectations though. China - Tsingtao on draft, cleanest most refreshing beer I've ever had and cheap beyond reason. Russia - a handful of trite IPAs. Decent imports and good amount of craft dedicated bars. Baltika in all its forms is disgusting. Costa Rica - mostly all domestic piss, the craft was like amateur homebrew.
Okinawa- Orion Beer "FOR YOUR HAPPY TIME" as they say on the bottle cap....and yeah, I know it's part of Japan; just thought it was worth mentioning New Zealand- Moa Brewing's assorted beers (I happen to like breakfast beer and their imperial stout but their Pils is good too)
