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Crivens said:
That is fighting talk buddy. Most parts of Germany don't recognize that as "beer". But it is a brotherly rivalry, it is the history and tradition behind it.

And I also have some Belgian beer around and test it. Some nice things.

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I have my personal preferences for food and alcohol. I think that most people around the world would recognize that personal preferences, esp. food-related ones, are a pretty stupid reason to fight.

Make fun of others, that's understandable. Fight - nah.
 
Crivens said:
That is fighting talk buddy. Most parts of Germany don't recognize that as "beer". But it is a brotherly rivalry, it is the history and tradition behind it.

And I also have some Belgian beer around and test it. Some nice things.

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Toch geen kroket uit de muur :)
 
astyle said:
IMHO, best beer is German, esp. the Kolsch...
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Crivens said:
That is fighting talk buddy. Most parts of Germany don't recognize that as "beer".
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Flamewar? Heck yeah, count me in, whatever it is - Z80/6502, BSD/Linux, Czech/Irish/Belgian/German beer, I'm ready! 🤪

Seriously now, until recently I thought that only black I can drink is Guinness, but recently I discovered Czech Podkrkonošský Speciál Novopacké and I love it!!!
As for the lagers, I'm still undecided what I love more – Czech or Belgian.
Unfortunately I have no access here to one lager that really has special place in my heart: Namibian Windhoek, especially Windhoek Special (red label)
 
astyle said:
I have my personal preferences for food and alcohol.
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As you should! The thing with Kölsch is, it has a low alcohol percentage. So it jokingly gets called lemonade (sometimes other things). While it is a beer, it does not get taken that seriously by everybody. Kinda like the Russians who only recently labeled beer as alcohol (was soft drink before). We have a wide range of beers, and it would be missed if it disappears. What makes this "fighting talk" (not seriously) is that it triggers the "Do you even know what else is around here?" response.
 
Crivens said:
Kinda like the Russians who only recently labeled beer as alcohol (was soft drink before)
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This reminded me of one of my fav scenes from Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (paraphrase, not a literal quote):
Stalker: Hey, drop that vodka, I told you - no drinking before going to the Zone!!!
Writer: Oh well, then we'll order a beer...
 
Crivens said:
As you should! The thing with Kölsch is, it has a low alcohol percentage. So it jokingly gets called lemonade (sometimes other things). While it is a beer, it does not get taken that seriously by everybody. Kinda like the Russians who only recently labeled beer as alcohol (was soft drink before). We have a wide range of beers, and it would be missed if it disappears. What makes this "fighting talk" (not seriously) is that it triggers the "Do you even know what else is around here?" response.
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Please don't confuse Kolsch with Kvas. And please get your facts straight about Russians. Kvas was is in fact low-alcohol (0.5-2% ABV), while Kolsch is 4.4-5.2% ABV. Kolsch appeared in 17th century, Kvas appeared in 8th. Don't believe me, read Wikipedia.

BTW, when I took a class on alcoholic drinks in college, I had top marks in class specifically on beer.
 
The alcohol percentage is lower than tripel but higher than a lager. It's a nice beer but sweet, like brown sugar. Not the bitter yeast taste of tripel.
Speaking of yeast, when you drink the bottom of a Westmalle Tripel you no longer have constipation.
 
astyle said:
IMHO, best beer is German, esp. the Kolsch...
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Germany (where I grew up, and still have a passport from) is a strange country. It is very anti-united. People hate each other. The reason for that is the beer. The following mathematical theorem is true: For all cities or villages V in Germany, there exists a neighboring city or village N, and N makes the worst beer in the world, while V makes the best beer in the world. This is how enemies are created. Sometimes the people from N look at the recipe for making V's beer, and make it themselves. That is how friends are created.

The beer rivalry between Duesseldorf (Alt) and Koeln (Koelsch) is famous, and historic. The two towns also differ in just about everything else.

In reality, most towns in Germany have decent local beer. It is a question of taste. I lived for two years in Hamburg, and never developed a taste for the local lager beer there (Holsten and Astra), but you can find good Flensburger easily. And in most places, there is a small local brewery that makes excellent stuff.

fjdlr said:
I live on a distant planet that its (rather primitive) population calls Earth.
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To quote Monte Python's galaxy song: pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, cause there's bugger all down here on earth.
 
My (Southern European) country has more than 6,000 islands and islets, yet only around 227 of them are inhabited. Which country is this?
 
ralphbsz that theorem is used to prove multiverse theory. The only way for it to be true is that there is one universe for each beer to be best in. Stands to reason.

astyle it is still said about Kölsch that it is the only substance known to man that can be used to dilute tap water. But it is a good refreshment in summer, quite like the Berliner Weiße. Drinking some "Doppel Bock" or ice Bock might land you in trouble. It's horses for courses. And while it is a rivalry, it is still a friendly rivalry. I have never seen the police be involved, in numbers, in a dispute about beer. Soccer is a whole different story.
 
Alain De Vos said:
To go uphill.
We have the best french fries.
And we have wafles the Bruges and wafles the Liege.
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Funny, Tomorrow evening I go for a dinner in a Belgian pub. My country is approx. 19.200 km away from Belgium.
Really looking forward for a cold Stella (or better 2) and let's see what's on the menu.
 
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Crivens said:
astyle it is still said about Kölsch that it is the only substance known to man that can be used to dilute tap water. But it is a good refreshment in summer, quite like the Berliner Weiße. Drinking some "Doppel Bock" or ice Bock might land you in trouble. It's horses for courses. And while it is a rivalry, it is still a friendly rivalry. I have never seen the police be involved, in numbers, in a dispute about beer. Soccer is a whole different story.
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If you can dilute tap water with it, it only goes to show just how pure in form that beer is, and nothing comes closer to compliance with Reinheitsgebot. :P
 
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