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Originally Posted by Beernip
Glad to here you are making your private escape from the land of the pilsner back to hoppy ale. 
When I was in Slovakia last year I go to be friends with the innkeeper and his wife. She pulled out the homemade slivovka before I left and we proceeded to get smashed (well I did) on the stuff. It was far better then most of the commercial stuff I tried. |
Well, I love the Czech pilsener.
For *good* beer here we get, luckily, some of the following:
Erdinger, Paulaner Hefeweizen, Budweiser light and dark (Czech, not American), Pilsner Urquell (though it seems to be gone right now), Krušovice light and dark(Czech beer), Westmalle, Duvel, Chimay and a ton of Belgians. Lot of the great Belgians, like Rochefort, are here but only at ONE pub. No stores have those. But Westmalle Tripel, Duvel, Gouden Carolus and the 3 Chimays are at the store. SO I get by. I drink like 75% or more of Belgians.
The ONLY Croatian beer that is acceptable is Velebitsko Pivo, which is basically the only craft beer brewed here. Their beer is pretty good. But yeah, most of the stuff made anywhere near here is from the lager family. And, as it is in many places, people have irrational loyalty to some crappy beer just because of the city it's from. On the coast, for instance, the beer from Zagreb is not so popular because people don't like the the big city people so much. Instead the drink a very similar industrial lager that's not from Zagreb. It's like football teams but with beer.
There's some good brown beer from Montenegro though called Nikšičko Pivo. That's a decent dark lager. And Belgrade had some decent beer in one place while I was there.
Ah anyway. Choice is limited. For me to get a true injection of west coast hops, I have to make it myself.
Glad you enjoyed your plum brandy in Slovakia. Never been there myself but have spent some time watching UEFA cup games with some Slovaks last year on the sea here. Rowdy and fun people.
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