Lately I have been laying off the stout because I do not want to become what that name implies. So the Guinness has been off the menu and I have been enjoying Peroni. This is an Italian imported beer and is a nice simple light larger. It is a great alternative to Heineken although some people think it is skunky. Now I think Heineken is too skunky for me so I am fine with Peroni. It's great with pizza or a veal parm sandwich.
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Peroni- La birra che ha fatto Vegevano famoso!
I have had a few bottles of Peroni, and found it tolerable. It is a light lager, but doesn't taste thin.
Like you I am a fan of the darker beers (I scored a 5 Litre can of Munich Hofbrau Haus Oktoberfest friday night), but sometimes the lighter lagers go down good.
They are great with spicy food.
There is a Thai beer that I am increasingly fond of called Singa.
I reccomend it highly.
Except for me spicy food is a Taco Bell taco.
Without the hot sauce.
Ouch.
You have to give Thai a chance.
Spring rolls are a batter eggroll and chicken sate is just chicken grilled on a stick with peanut sauce.
Phad Thai is a great noodle dish and beef with Thai basil is as good as it gets.
Just stay away from stuff with coconut milk. That shit sucks.
Peroni is great, so is a Moretti. Both are tasty for lagers. But then you would expect that, they are Italian!
Trey
Skunky?
(left out again...)
(in the rain...)
(Hey, someone's left a cake out here. And the recipe's all blurry.)
Beers get a skunky smell and taste when they are exposed to light. It is worst for beers in a clear bottle, like Newcastle, which is typically skunked. Once you taste it, you know it. It is a crime when a good beer gets ruined through careless handling.
Trey
Hey guys, want to see me taking it on the chin? A couple of guys over at Dr. Helen's blog are raking me over the coals!
Trey
Beers get a skunky smell and taste when they are exposed to light.
You're right Trey, and you can read about it here. Light causes the breakdown of a component of hops, and the susceptibility also correlates with the "hoppiness" of the beer.
Brewers have known this for a long time. Brown bottles do a better job of protection but still fail.
I prefer beer from the keg when I go out, and usually drink it from a can at home.
You have to give Thai a chance.
I'm a Thai man myself and we're blessed with a pretty decent one out here. Also, a really good Japanese restaurant opened here recently. What I like about these places is that they're all family owned and everybody who works them seem to be family too.
Alcohol makes me crazy so I try to limit my drinking to only five or six days a week.
In Pennsylvania and three other states, I am not allowed to drink Old Grand Dad 100 proof.
Chickenlittle, what an outstanding link! Great detail and practical advice. I am hoisting one to you pal.
Trey
and usually drink it from a can at home.
...after pouring into a mug kept in the freezer.
Here's the hing about Peroni. It's brewed in.....Mikwaukee. Yep.
Mrs. Haz and I took a tour of the Miller Brewery one Saturday last spring. It was part of a "how many breweries can we tour in one day" event. But that's another story.
Anyhow, we toured the brewery and the huge warehouse where Miller stores beer waiting for shipment. There were many, many brands of beer awaiting shipment, including Peroni.
There were free samples at the end of the tour (else why take the tour?) including Peroni. I asked out tour guide if Miller was the US importer and he said no, Miller contract brews Peroni for delivery in the US in order to eliminate the cost of shipping it from overseas breweries.
It's brewed on Plank Road in Milwaukee, capisce?
I'm with you on Singha Thai. It's a very good beer, similar to Kirin, which is brewed in Japan.
...after pouring into a mug kept in the freezer.
Unless it's really cheap stuff, in which case I like to smush the can in my fist and fling it before I reach for another.
hahha, when I was a frat rat in State College, we would routinely buy a bottle of something and wrap it tightly to the screw-top in the brown paper bag in which it was dispensed and pass it around the room.
Need to look at the label?
Don't drink, bitch.
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