Today, Vicki and I went to Beers of the World to spend her Groupon. I got a variety of different beers, and I’m going to be mentioning them here just so I can look them up for next time.
Today’s beer was “Uerige”. I bought it because I was trying to remember a beer a German co-worker brought me from Germany back in the early 1980s when I was working at the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. It was a really nice beer, and I would probably buy it again. But it turns out that what I was remembering was Lohrer Urtyp 1878 beer. And it’s not listed on the Beers of the World web site. Oh well, maybe they’ll have that some day.
The other good thing was the movie “Battle : Los Angeles”. A few months ago, we went to see “Skyline”, and actually to tell you the truth, I’d originally thought “Skyline” was the movie I’d seen the really cool trailer for, but it turns out that “Battle : Los Angeles” (BLA) was that movie. “Skyline” suuuuuuuucked. It was just awful. I kept thinking “these people are horrible and unlikable, why don’t you show us what the Marines are doing?” BLA was the movie I was hoping for in Skyline. It was all about the Marines. And it wasn’t just better than Skyline, it was good. Yeah, it was escapist, yeah it was cliched in places, yeah you spend the first 20 minutes trying to play “match the noble death to the flawed but fundamentally good character”, yeah the scientific principle that aliens would invade for our water was laughable, but it was still engaging and fun.
My favorite brand is “augustiner”, I lived 20+ years in munich/germany, so that was a natural choice.
Some people may find strange that they spend _zero_ on advertising – and they have been around 1328 – no typing mistake.
And 51% of the company belong to charitable objectives.
You do not need to trust my words, you can check http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustiner-Br%C3%A4u
I now live 200km to the west, and they only offer international beer in the supermarket, it’s a wine state, at least 30 local brands are offered at the very same supermarket.
In the southern states lager / pale ale is much more popular than pilsener. I never liked pilsener. In the south, beer is served in “liter” size mugs (around 0,25 gallon), in the northern countries you get “0,2 liter” (around 0,05 gallon) – even if your a big, heavy guy with gray hair.
By the way, Drinking age is 18 years, just like driving and voting.