The Beerometer
We're monitoring the price of a beer across continents and paying careful attention to volume and availability.Thirsty work, but in the aid of more informed drinking. Cheers!
Ah... English bitter! After a tour of Tongham's Hogs Back Brewery we better understand the English penchant for warm, flat, strangely named ales.
Another excellent African lager. Mosi, a Zambian beer, is a malty and refreshing 4% A.B.V brew, named after Mosi oa Tunya (The Smoke that Thunders), Victoria Falls.
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The Islay Special, which we stumbled across at the so named pub in Glasgow, cost £2. A half pint of best bitter and a shot of scotch, mixed, it is cheap and intoxicatingly good.
The Three Stouts: Guinness, Beamish and Murphys. Ever present, patiently poured and, yes, better at the source.
Sangria is a Spanish miracle, the transformation of wine into water. Find a large container, fill with cheap wine and lemonade, drink liberally, until drunk enough to pour what's left over friends and passers by.
Amstel, the archetype of fine Dutch beer. Named after Amsterdam's long since canalised river, the malty brew can be found everywhere.
Served in steins, glasses bigger than the average person's head, Munich's beer is legendary. Augustiner, which traces its origins back to a 14th century monastery, is the city's most venerable brewery. Its helles, a smooth, 5.2% pale beer, deserves consumption by the litre.
Efes could be blamed for wide ranging evils: painful early morning bus journeys in bright sunlight on bumpy roads, the poor behaviour of various Scotsmen and, at a stretch, the death of Turkey's first president. But it's reasonably good, reasonably cheap beer. And it's suitably named: Ephesus is one of Turkey's many ancient sites. The Turks inherited more than ruins from the Romans. A few Efes, and they're ready to conquer the world once again.
Chai or, in Egypt, shai is the ubiquitous Middle Eastern drink. It's served black, in small glasses, and drunk often. Syrians, in particular, seem happy to spend the day between a flurry of slowly sipped cups.
Ah... English bitter! After a tour of Tongham's Hogs Back Brewery we better understand the English penchant for warm, flat, strangely named ales.
Another excellent African lager. Mosi, a Zambian beer, is a malty and refreshing 4% A.B.V brew, named after Mosi oa Tunya (The Smoke that Thunders), Victoria Falls.
+ The Islay Special, which we stumbled across at the so named pub in Glasgow, cost £2. A half pint of best bitter and a shot of scotch, mixed, it is cheap and intoxicatingly good.
The Three Stouts: Guinness, Beamish and Murphys. Ever present, patiently poured and, yes, better at the source.
Sangria is a Spanish miracle, the transformation of wine into water. Find a large container, fill with cheap wine and lemonade, drink liberally, until drunk enough to pour what's left over friends and passers by.
Amstel, the archetype of fine Dutch beer. Named after Amsterdam's long since canalised river, the malty brew can be found everywhere.
Served in steins, glasses bigger than the average person's head, Munich's beer is legendary. Augustiner, which traces its origins back to a 14th century monastery, is the city's most venerable brewery. Its helles, a smooth, 5.2% pale beer, deserves consumption by the litre.
Efes could be blamed for wide ranging evils: painful early morning bus journeys in bright sunlight on bumpy roads, the poor behaviour of various Scotsmen and, at a stretch, the death of Turkey's first president. But it's reasonably good, reasonably cheap beer. And it's suitably named: Ephesus is one of Turkey's many ancient sites. The Turks inherited more than ruins from the Romans. A few Efes, and they're ready to conquer the world once again.
Chai or, in Egypt, shai is the ubiquitous Middle Eastern drink. It's served black, in small glasses, and drunk often. Syrians, in particular, seem happy to spend the day between a flurry of slowly sipped cups.
