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― Skottie, Friday, 31 October 2003 06:46 (twenty years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 November 2003 11:25 (twenty years ago) link
Aside from "craft" beers, is the beer good in Poland? thinking of spending some time there this summer, trying to get a grip on what delights await me.
― pet friendly (Euler), Saturday, 22 February 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
I only know the brands commonly seen in Brooklyn, chiefly Żywiec and Okocim, both pretty good but not amazing. More or less typical European lagers. Żyviec makes a porter also that I've not had.
― Josefa, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
i lived there *years* ago (and in a brewing town) and it wasn’t anything special. dark sweet, toffeeish beers, and standards like Żywiec and 10.5. nothing like the best czech pilsners or the belgian beers.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
Okocim might be the best of the ever-present lagers. There is not much to pick between it and Lech, tbh. I tend to avoid Zywiec and Tyskie. They’re all good by US standards, average by German standards and sub-par by Czech ones.
There are some pretty good smaller brands you’ll find occasionally - Ciechan beers are usually worth trying.
You should be drinking wódka instead, though.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
yes, i meant to say! the wódka is where it's at. a vodka for every occasion and if you haven't had too much a soothing żubrówka jabłkowem will settle the nerves.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
good by US standards
Good Polish beers by US standards? Sure. Good beers, period, though? No way.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Saturday, 22 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Good by mainline German standards?I have problems with vodka because of collolege but I should try to overcome it. No mixing it with orange crush at any rate. Might try to fit in a few days in Lviv too but there are other threads for that.
― pet friendly (Euler), Saturday, 22 February 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
My boyfriend drinks Warka lager exclusively. /shrug emoji
Polish food has brought me a newfound love for dill and kielbasa. Other than that, I can leave it. Not that big on stewed things just generally.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
żubrówka jabłkowem
stupid q: is this apple-flavoured bisongrass vodka, or bisongrass vodka with an apple juice mixer, or an apple-flavoured vodka made by the same company as Żubrówka bisongrass vodka but without the grass?
<3 the regular Żubrówka that you can buy over here; I think the Polish shop in town has some other varieties which I have not yet investigated
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
bisongrass and apple juice mixer.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
a 24 pack of Lomza export beer (5.7% abv) has just arrived. I'm ready!
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
Seek: Kasztelan
― Sam Weller, Monday, 6 April 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
ohh nice and strong as well!
― calzino, Monday, 6 April 2020 10:15 (four years ago) link