On Saturday 19 January 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > @Alan: > Drive to Hermanus, they have it there. ;-) > > The best beer in my book is Pilsener Urquell. Unfortunately, South > African Breweries (SAB) has bought the brewery over there. I can't > tell a decline in quality yet, but a friend of mine, a brewer at > Namibia Breweries, tells me they can measure it already.
Can't stand the stuff myself. Fizzy. Like lemonade.... > In the long run, SAB will fuck Pilsener Urquell like they have fucked > the beer of every brewery they have bought. Except Miller's. That was already a complete cock-up and SAB didn't have to change anything to meet QA standards :-) > I have been told, though, > that there are quite some micro-breweries in South Africa that still > make good stuff. And most of them come from Namibia! I rather like Windhoek. Heineken, English ales and of course Guinness top my list. I won't even mention the real German stuff as it's practically unavailable - doesn't survive the trip out here well. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
