Dr.susse's beer review.

Dr.Susse

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Dr.susse reviews a close friend for his light hearted Gone Gonzo post review (A feat that is now not an achievement anymore)

BEER.

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed - Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.
Jack Handy


Yes the pale ale, the process of fermenting starch, hops and yeast. The ....... drink with....... support groups.
Beer is the drink that makes you love, hate, dance, cry, laugh, think you are stronger than you are, kiss strange maybe not one hundred per cent women types and the thing that makes you stumble home with a shoe missing where you vomit in a nearby pot plant on your way up stairs to collapse into bed realizing the next day this is not you house and the frightened family down stairs wants to who you are and why you are in their kitchen.
It should probably be said that,

WARNING THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS ALCOHOL AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSUMED BEFORE DRIVING AND OR DANCING

I started drinking beer when some very kind parents said why not give him a small taste? And my reaction to this my first sip of sin you ask? Well it was to recoil in distaste and resulted in a humorous (from my parents point of view) attempt get my taste buds as far from my mouth as possible. Sadly my hyper sensitive 8-year old taste buds were not ready for the concept of beer O clock and it was a few more years till I could embark on every beer drinkers ultimate quest to shut down their liver or enjoy the revelation of a chunder down under.
Scans forward ten years and I have now a basic grasp of some of the drinking do and do not, such as-

-Do not try the mates warm English beer without a label (It is probably not what you think it is.)

-Do not wash dry mouth out with a pale beer the next morning.

-Do mix beer with Fruit loops thus creating beerial

Now as a medical professional (With a PhD in furniture sales) I can fully and incorrectly say that this drink of miracles can not only make your singing better and make everyone else in the pub want to hear you sing twice as loud but it also (being a depressant) can cure the blues.
Yes the drink that predates most intelligent thought and has been successfully killing that very thing ever since is from this imaginary doctors point of view, a very good drink! Give a drunk a beer, a beard and a crowd he becomes a philosopher, give two strangers some of the drink and you have two new friends or a bar fight. It helps you form opinions on things you have never heard of before; it makes sport better and also makes books more intense. Who else here has been reading Lovecraft while tipsy and the different squiggly lines begin to dance about like a Zumba fitness DVD.

You know now that beer is good but there are a lot of different types out there. Which one should you drink? Since all of them is not an affordable or livable through-able answer here is a few different examples.

Fosters.
Do not be confused rest of the world! Fosters is not Australias beer of choice. Paul Hogan has lied to you. In fact a large percentage of Australia hates the drink and refers to it as something that will get me banned for it posting here.


Think of Fosters as a holiday attraction. The locals advertise and sell this spot so that the tourists stay away from the good spots, in doing so not spoiling the good stuff. So Fosters is the beer Australia sells to the world as we laugh hiding our good beer under our Akubras and in our kangaroos pouches as we then hop to work on Skippys back. (You have not seen a car accident until you have seen a multi kangaroo crash on a four lane highway.)

V.B or XXXX


Some might not like me saying these two are the same but they are both the cheap, not amazing but not too bad tasting, drinking mans beer. I enjoy A long neck of V.B as I do XXXX just remember Queensland and Victoria. N.S.W is the best state and Tooheys is a better beer!

Tooheys old
Australia has some strange beer names but at least a certain Sydney suburb has not built a brewery yet (Woolloomooloo, I did not make this name up) on to the beer.


A very nice stout beer, meaning that it is thick and fills you stomach when drinking for a long period of time. This beer also has the nice mild after taste of honey and happiness. I swear when this is being poured for you it comes out of the tap as a rainbow and
Budweiser


America, home of the free. I have a friend who quite likes Budweiser, we do not let him talk much, and he ensures me that it is a smooth refreshing beer. Maybe refreshing was not a good word to describe the beer my friend because to me it is water that you can get drunk off. Sure it does not taste horrible but what is the point?

To the Irish beer
Guinness

There is now a mark on my monitor because when seeing this heavenly pint I reached for it on reflex. I feel speaking any more about this beer would be redundant because I can assure you it is my favorite beer and trashing my credibility completely I even drink it from a can.

Heineken


The European beer. Everyone seems to know of this world beer and It being like most majorly mass produced things tastes like mass production. Good on Heineken for becoming the third largest brewer in the world with their no after taste beer but I shant tell you to drink or not to drink it. It is your choice.

Sheep Shaggers

No this is not a beer from New Zeland it is from Scotland and like its name it is a funny beer. I had a big night on sheep shaggers and for the next week I could only taste the very drinkable but flavorful beer. I recommend it but do not drink more than ten in a night unless you really like the taste.

So that is it a Dr.susse beer review. If you choose to comment do not feel like you have to be kind I am a big boy now you wont hurt my feelings, in fact be ruthless, list a bunch of things you would rather do than read another poorly thought out sentence of someone you will probably never meet. In summary thanks for reading.
"May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
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S.R.S.

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Love the stuff, can't get enough of it. I have this killer hangover from the manabar, so I won't be doing that again for a while.
 

saintchristopher

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Mate, if you think Dudweiser is the best beer America has to offer, someone has lied to you.

There are dozens of totally respectable breweries here in the States, from Harpoon to Magic Hat to Yuengling, but in the Northeast, quality beer starts and ends with one name:

Samuel Adams.

You want a style? They've got it. Lagers, ales, lights, porters, stouts, fruit flavors, double bocks, seasonals. There is a Sam Adams beer for literally every occasion.

I don't know if the export all the way over to you, but i'd find out if i were you.
 

King of the Sandbox

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You dissed Budwiser.

You're just like all the rest.

/sobs in the corner into his 'water you can get drunk on'.

Nah, in all seriousness, I can drink the Bud all night long, literally, because of it's lightness. It's not horrible, but I'm not in that camp of drinkers who think good beer has to taste like it's been fermenting in a troll's ass for at least seven hot summers.

Grolcsh, I'm looking at you.

The only beers I really drink anymore are Newcastle Pale Ale or Budwiser, depending on how much I plan on drinking.

I've recently become a fan of malted beverages. These ones in particular.


Overall; Good review, but needs moar and moar diverse beer.
 

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saintchristopher said:
Mate, if you think Dudweiser is the best beer America has to offer, someone has lied to you.

There are dozens of totally respectable breweries here in the States, from Harpoon to Magic Hat to Yuengling, but in the Northeast, quality beer starts and ends with one name:

Samuel Adams.

You want a style? They've got it. Lagers, ales, lights, porters, stouts, fruit flavors, double bocks, seasonals. There is a Sam Adams beer for literally every occasion.

I don't know if the export all the way over to you, but i'd find out if i were you.
Oh man, I couldn't believe how good the American beers I drank were when I was there recently (fat tyre, Alaskan amber and a few Hawaiian local brews that I can't remember the name of), I didn't have a chance to try sam adams, but I explored enough to find that all American beer isn't nearly as bad as the watered down, often 'light' shit they try to market as American beer down under. They are seriously right up there with the good Australian beers (Coopers, red hill etc), despite what the general opinion seems to be.

At the OP, seems like a generally good review, but you didn't really talk about any good Australian beers (tooheys is middle of the road at best, far better than VB, carlton draught or XXXX but still not fantastic), and that makes me sadface.
 

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saintchristopher said:
Mate, if you think Dudweiser is the best beer America has to offer, someone has lied to you.
Agreed. Living in Colorado, I've been spoiled by all the smaller scale breweries. Probably the best is New Belgium (makers for Fat Tire, 1554 and others). There are dozens of others as well. I can't even drink Coors or Buttwiper or any of those generic light beers. Seriously, they're just piss water by comparison.
 

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I agree with most other posters.





I think an Australian friend of mine said it best, "Fosters Australian for Piss."



On the other side though, I disagree with the Guinness assessment. Granted, Guinness is miles ahead of the other big Macrobrews, save Sam Adams, but there are much better stouts out there. I was a particular fan of brewery called Smuttynose. Their porters were unbelievable.



This post made me realize how much I miss a good microbrew; I'm in Japan now, and pretty much there are 4 big breweries (Kirin, Sapporo, Suntory, and Asahi), and they all tastes pretty much the same. Very, VERY light lagers.
 

Dr.Susse

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saintchristopher said:
Mate, if you think Dudweiser is the best beer America has to offer, someone has lied to you.

There are dozens of totally respectable breweries here in the States, from Harpoon to Magic Hat to Yuengling, but in the Northeast, quality beer starts and ends with one name:

Samuel Adams.

You want a style? They've got it. Lagers, ales, lights, porters, stouts, fruit flavors, double bocks, seasonals. There is a Sam Adams beer for literally every occasion.

I don't know if the export all the way over to you, but i'd find out if i were you.
The problem with Australia is we don't get many imports unless you live near a Dan Murphy?s which I don't but when I thought I should review a American beer I wanted to do one every one would know and I have drunk so bud was the choice. (Adams is the beer I want to try next.)
 

Dr.Susse

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searron said:
I agree with most other posters.





I think an Australian friend of mine said it best, "Fosters Australian for Piss."



On the other side though, I disagree with the Guinness assessment. Granted, Guinness is miles ahead of the other big Macrobrews, save Sam Adams, but there are much better stouts out there. I was a particular fan of brewery called Smuttynose. Their porters were unbelievable.



This post made me realize how much I miss a good microbrew; I'm in Japan now, and pretty much there are 4 big breweries (Kirin, Sapporo, Suntory, and Asahi), and they all tastes pretty much the same. Very, VERY light lagers.
It may be hard to get in Japan but an Aussie Porter called Sheaf is a cure for light beer blues it's so strong you can drink pure yeast and still think it's light. My kind of beer.
Edit: The irony in this post is I'm still a little tipsy from the Irish pub I just got back from.
 

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*GASP* You compared xxxx to VB! Thats it, my Victorian pride is at stake! But really, xxxx is not nearly as harsh as VB. VB is like drinking sandpaper.

Now that that is over i request a sequel with more bear, for there is always room for more. Perhaps put a mention to microbreweries in. And if you can get it the Mirboo North brewery.
 

Dr.Susse

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ottenni said:
*GASP* You compared xxxx to VB! Thats it, my Victorian pride is at stake! But really, xxxx is not nearly as harsh as VB. VB is like drinking sandpaper.

Now that that is over i request a sequel with more bear, for there is always room for more. Perhaps put a mention to microbreweries in. And if you can get it the Mirboo North brewery.
I'll get on it and destroy my liver yet. To the bottle shop,,,,, they?re not open? DAM IT ALL!
I think I will do another though *strokes chin* with more odd beers and my homebrew (don't tell the government).
 

wooty

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I'm going to go on a hunt for Sheep Shagger now, even just to own the bottle as a gimmick if I dont like the taste.
Interesting choices in the beers there, I do admit that I quite like VB, despite not being a big lover of bitter. Must be the Australian in me as I prefer it to most of the English bitters that I've tried.

As for the American beer, I'd say that Coors is the worse of the two "big contenders", maybe its just irony that Coors' symbol is snowy mountains, as thats primarily what it is, snow and food colouring. At least to me

Edit, also in the categories of European beers, look for once called "Lech" if you've not already tried it. Its a little Polish brew we tried in Europe and never looked back
 

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Avaholic03 said:
Agreed. Living in Colorado, I've been spoiled by all the smaller scale breweries. Probably the best is New Belgium (makers for Fat Tire, 1554 and others). There are dozens of others as well. I can't even drink Coors or Buttwiper or any of those generic light beers. Seriously, they're just piss water by comparison.
Kind of funny that ski areas seem to always have top notch breweries around them(nothing to do without snow except drink, lol).

Long Trail and Magic Hat in Vermont are two great American breweries that you can tour, sample, and have lunch at. Magic Hat Circus Boy is my favorite beer for the summer; light, super smooth Hefeweizen. Long Trail has a few great beers I like, most notably the Blackberry Wheat, Hibernator, Pollenator, and Imperial Porter.

As far as Budweiser getting the most notice, it's true, but my mainstream American beers of choice are Yuengling, oldest brewery in America and Rolling Rock; quite possibly the only two things worthwhile to come out of Philadelphia other than the Liberty Bell.
 

Dr.Susse

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wooty said:
I'm going to go on a hunt for Sheep Shagger now, even just to own the bottle as a gimmick if I dont like the taste.
Interesting choices in the beers there, I do admit that I quite like VB, despite not being a big lover of bitter. Must be the Australian in me as I prefer it to most of the English bitters that I've tried.

As for the American beer, I'd say that Coors is the worse of the two "big contenders", maybe its just irony that Coors' symbol is snowy mountains, as thats primarily what it is, snow and food colouring. At least to me

Edit, also in the categories of European beers, look for once called "Lech" if you've not already tried it. Its a little Polish brew we tried in Europe and never looked back
Try Dan Murphy?s for sheep shaggers! It comes in a bottle somewhere between a normal and a long neck and should be in the foreign beers section. (not in the fridge part)
I feel like I gave a short hand to American and European beers so to rectify if I ever do another there will be bigger better foreign beers.
EDIT: should of checked where you lived before sugesting where to buy. In your case drive to Scotland.
 

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Heineken is disgusting. Really, I'm Dutch, we make the stuff and I still consider the stuff disgusting.

I'd recommend Pauwel Kwak



It's Belgian but ok their beer is better than ours. This beer's a joy to drink, it's fairly heavy, taste, feel and %. The glass typically used makes drinking it the real challenge though. If you drink too fast, you'll get the entire ball at the bottom in your face. This tends to happen after 4+ Kwaks.
 

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I'm truly spoiled that I live in Portland, Oregon.

"Today, with twenty-eight breweries within the city, Portland is home to more breweries than any other city in the country." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_OR

There are even 5 species of hops that are named after places in Oregon. The only problem with our beers is that we don't export a lot of them. I think Widmer Brothers Brewery does a lot around the United States, but I'm pretty sure we don't do anything international yet.
 

PedroSteckecilo

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Unfair appraisal of American Beer, that's like judging all Canadian Beer on Molson Canadian, which you shouldn't... because it's not good beer.

They do brilliant work with Belgian Blonde Beer down there and I believe that Rogue Brewery is also American, and they make damn good stuff.

Like Canada, America's good beer is all in the Micro-Breweries.
 

Dr.Susse

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PedroSteckecilo said:
Unfair appraisal of American Beer, that's like judging all Canadian Beer on Molson Canadian, which you shouldn't... because it's not good beer.

They do brilliant work with Belgian Blonde Beer down there and I believe that Rogue Brewery is also American, and they make damn good stuff.

Like Canada, America's good beer is all in the Micro-Breweries.
Yeah I kind of regret doing Bud. But that is the only American beer Import I can get here in Australia. Most Micro beers have a personality to the taste but in the case of the mass produced world wide distributed beer's like Budweiser/Heineken it tastes exactly that Mass produced.

If there is a next time I might do just obscure beers instead of the ones everybody knows but hey you can't please everybody.

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