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STAR (Beer) - When I am in Nigeria. Budweiser (Beer) - When I am in the UK. Ginger Beer - When I am Bored. Water - When I have to. Apple Juice - When I have

STAR (Beer) - When I am in Nigeria. Budweiser (Beer) - When I am in the UK. Ginger Beer - When I am Bored. Water - When I have to. Apple Juice - When I have spare pennies. Plain Tea - When I want to feel like a Geek. Milk - When I feel I should add some muscle. Sprite - When.. When.. Whenever. Coffee - Never again. Except I want an upset stomach. etc - When I feel like being random. At the moment, Water.

iuguy 16y ago
Wait, you go to the UK and drink Budweiser? Are you mad, sir? There's beautiful fine British ales to be had, not to mention the congregation of the world's finest lagers. Next time you're in the UK, please try a Peroni, a Staropramen or a Schneider Weisse if you're used to Bud and get the opportunity. Also Nigerian Guinness is pretty tasty too :)
- dfox 16y ago
  This depends on whenever it's american "budweiser" or original Budweiser (Budvar). With original Budweiser being certainly better that anything Staropramen, but you are probably in for a hangover, as it has particularly high sugar content for light beer (the brewery had even financed scientific study few years ago into what caused this).
  - cynicalkane 16y ago
    Budweiser Budvar is a fantastic beer, but Busch Budweiser actually came before it. The original Budweiser is apparently sold as "Burgerbrau" in the US, something I've never heard of. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Budweiser https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Budweiser
    - iuguy 16y ago
      The article you've linked to says it's the other way around. The Burgerbrau Budweiser beer came before the Busch one and was exported to the US a year before Busch started marketing their version of Budweiser.
    - vetinari 16y ago
      When talking about specific companies, yes, Busch was first. However, in this case, this is "regional trademark", the beer with this name was brewed in Budweis (Budejovice) long before the company was established. It is a name of the town, after all. The same way for Pilsner. "Pilsner Urquell" (Plzensky Prazdroj) is brewed in Pilsen (Plzen).
      - cynicalkane 16y ago
        The point is the identification of Budvar as "original" is misleading at best. A better word would be "authentic".
- djb_hackernews 16y ago
  I lived in the UK for a bit and was amazed that brits actually aren't beer snobs. In fact, all of my coworkers seemed to enjoy Stella, which is worse than american macro beers. Not to mentioned Budweiser is all they serve in football stadiums. Also according to my Italian friend Peroni is the pabst blue ribbon of european macrobrews.
  - iuguy 16y ago
    I know, it's depressing about the Stella, and Carling too. Especially when there's amazing ales like Landlord, Jaipur and so on. I don't know pabst blue ribbon, but Peroni is the closest to a drinkable mainstream lager I can find in the UK.

iuguy 16y ago

Wait, you go to the UK and drink Budweiser? Are you mad, sir? There's beautiful fine British ales to be had, not to mention the congregation of the world's finest lagers. Next time you're in the UK, please try a Peroni, a Staropramen or a Schneider Weisse if you're used to Bud and get the opportunity. Also Nigerian Guinness is pretty tasty too :)

dfox 16y ago
This depends on whenever it's american "budweiser" or original Budweiser (Budvar). With original Budweiser being certainly better that anything Staropramen, but you are probably in for a hangover, as it has particularly high sugar content for light beer (the brewery had even financed scientific study few years ago into what caused this).
- cynicalkane 16y ago
  Budweiser Budvar is a fantastic beer, but Busch Budweiser actually came before it. The original Budweiser is apparently sold as "Burgerbrau" in the US, something I've never heard of. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Budweiser https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Budweiser
  - iuguy 16y ago
    The article you've linked to says it's the other way around. The Burgerbrau Budweiser beer came before the Busch one and was exported to the US a year before Busch started marketing their version of Budweiser.
  - vetinari 16y ago
    When talking about specific companies, yes, Busch was first. However, in this case, this is "regional trademark", the beer with this name was brewed in Budweis (Budejovice) long before the company was established. It is a name of the town, after all. The same way for Pilsner. "Pilsner Urquell" (Plzensky Prazdroj) is brewed in Pilsen (Plzen).
    - cynicalkane 16y ago
      The point is the identification of Budvar as "original" is misleading at best. A better word would be "authentic".
djb_hackernews 16y ago
I lived in the UK for a bit and was amazed that brits actually aren't beer snobs. In fact, all of my coworkers seemed to enjoy Stella, which is worse than american macro beers. Not to mentioned Budweiser is all they serve in football stadiums. Also according to my Italian friend Peroni is the pabst blue ribbon of european macrobrews.
- iuguy 16y ago
  I know, it's depressing about the Stella, and Carling too. Especially when there's amazing ales like Landlord, Jaipur and so on. I don't know pabst blue ribbon, but Peroni is the closest to a drinkable mainstream lager I can find in the UK.