just something interesting

I saw a tv commercial for heineken beer with some blonde singer singing something about the golden age.
I searched..found the song name"Golden Age-The Asteroids Galaxy Tour".
found the mp3 if anyone wants,easy to find online...its a catchy song

live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJQgo0QpSs

Its a danish band by the way :) we are always so happy whenever someone enjoys something someone from our country made.

haha, the same tv stop was transmitted in my country last year.
it was a HIT!!! , everybody was like crazy searching for that song!

is a good one!

In that case, I'll say that Heineken sucks, and mention that I've really enjoyed beers by Mikkeller, To Øl, Beer Here, Wintercoat, Indslev, Hornbeer, Nørrebro, Djævlebryg, Herslev, Raasted, Amager, Midtfyns, Evil Twin, Ølfabrikken, ...

Danish brewers (mostly) rock!

I am happy now.

It's about the worst dutch beer there is. But their marketing is great. I prefer Grolsch, Brand, Hertog Jan, ... (but to be honest: Czech Pilsner Urquell is the best!)

Have any of you beer connoisseurs tried Point Special? I had never heard of it before columnist Mike Royko's taste panel named it best American beer.

P.S. I was in Wisconsin earlier this week, where I got the Point Special that's in my refrigerator as I write.

Heineken is good enough for 007

Shaken, not stirred ;-)

I heard there is a heineken beer,wonder what it's like.

but actually over the last few years.I lost my taste for beer in favour of a good wine.a german wine .. a Liebfraumilch I like

oops I meant:
I heard there is a heineken DARK beer,wonder what it’s like.

Is being the best American beer kind of like being the tallest midget? ;-)

A while back, Big Rock Ale (Warthog, IIRC) from Alberta was the only North American beer to make top ten list of Michael Jackson (the beer guy, not the rock star).

Michael Jackson drank it with his fruit loops

@CleverHunk - as one of the largest multinationals in the brewing world, Heineken are responsible for hundreds of dark beers. E.g. they bought up Zywiec, so now brew a Polish baltic porter . And of course, owning Beamish, they produce Beamish . However, if you mean them being honest to the customer and actually owning up to who brews the stuff in the branding, there is a Heineken Dark Lager . I've not had it, and I'm in not rush.

@darse - There are some stunning US brews. It's just that none of them are faithful in style to what they claim to be. (The tradition for not following European recipies starts from day 1 in the USA, when they first arrived they didn't have the right grains, so they brewed with a fair proportion of maize as a substitute.) Alas many of the US brewers of the interesting beers have been tempted into doing to beer what US actresses have done to breasts - and taken them to absurd artificial, and quite hideous, extremes.

no offense to anyone.but I'm no a fan of most american beer.
but I did try one that was great:

stroh's fire brewed beer,I beleive it was a signature edition at christmas a few years ago.

There are lots of great micro-breweries in the States, and that's been true for many years. (At least since the 90s, when i had great local beers in places like Wisconsin, and San Fran). I'm just taking a jab at the major brands (although to be honest, i've always liked the way an MGD goes down:).

I was recently talking to a brewer (the owner of Amber's brewery in Alberta, maker of Sap Vampire Maple Lager). He is a very interesting and funny guy. He mentioned that there are now only two major brewing conglomerates in the world -- one in Belgium, and one in South Africa. They've all amalgamated into two all-powerful mega-corporations. Apart from local breweries like his, there are no truly Canadian beers, and no American beers either. The governments allow the well-known brands to advertise as though they were national, but it simply isn't true anymore.

So i guess i'm wrong to diss American beer, since it isn't really American. :-p

s/in/from/
then
s/from/named after one of the subsidiaries from/

Each of InBev, SAB-Miller-Coors, Carlsberg, and Heineken have basically hundreds of subsidiaries around the globe. They also have hundreds of brands, many of which they dress up as if they are still local breweries, preserving the brand loyalty from days before "foreign investment" came in. Worse than that, typically up to 98% of the profits made in foreign countries simply gets returned to the shareholders in affluent Europe and north America, not benefitting the locals in any way at all.

As a European I ought to like the idea of foreigners buoying up our economy, as a sliver of it will be extracted as corporate tax, but I still abhor the amoral way that all of the above companies do that. Thousands of breweries have been closed down because of it, even in the last few decades (hundreds in the UK alone).

Buy local. If the brewery has internationally traded shares, it's *not* local - if you sniff around, you'll probably find it's >=50% owned by one of the big guys already. Or if you're really lucky, by two of them (Corona (= Modelo) in mexico is basically 50% owned by Molsen-Coors (= SAB-Miller), and 50% owned by Anheuser-Busch (= InBev)).

In most countries InBev kept a local beer together with introducing to Belgian brands (Leffe (strong beer) and Stella, I think) as far as I understood.

Leffe blond. now we're talking!

I was gonna mention Leffe Blonde. It's been a fave since my first sip.

Here (in Belgium) in most cafe's and restaurants, we might have the choice between some brands of similar beers, except in specialized cafe.. they offer more than a few:-). If you want to have a real stong beer and you are belgium, try Duvel. i know in Rotterdam you can also find it easily