Comments for Beer, oh beer http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com Beer tasting, at a somewhat pedestrian pace Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:01:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Prazdroj - Master 13˚ by hrunars http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/prazdroj-master-13/#comment-235 hrunars Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:01:31 +0000 http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/prazdroj-master-13/#comment-235 Yes, this beer's really amazing, (well, the darker one, actually), got it from tap in Plzen last week. Meee. Wants. More! Yes, this beer’s really amazing, (well, the darker one, actually), got it from tap in Plzen last week. Meee. Wants. More!

]]> Comment on Corgon - Svetly Leziak by radek http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/corgon-svetly-leziak/#comment-220 radek Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:36:57 +0000 http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/?p=137#comment-220 this beer sux this beer sux

]]> Comment on US Beers: News (w/e 13 June) by Pivní Filosof http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/us-beers/#comment-218 Pivní Filosof Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:29:29 +0000 http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-218 I think is a difficult question to answer. Ideally, we should strip the big brewers from their massive marketing budgets and see how the consumer behaves. If the recent Czech beer festival is anything to go by, then Czechs would choose the small breweries over the big ones. Though, if that would be the case in the long run, it's difficult to say. In the US the craft brewers have indeed made an impact, but I think much of it is due to the sheer size of the country, which keeps many smaller industrial breweries from having a nation wide impact. There is also a difference between Czech and American craft brewing. The Americans seem more interested in brewing stuff that bottles wouldn't bother to do, whereas the Czechs are a bit more conservative (in average), brewing beers more alike the industrials in style, only that they make them better (generally speaking) I think is a difficult question to answer. Ideally, we should strip the big brewers from their massive marketing budgets and see how the consumer behaves.
If the recent Czech beer festival is anything to go by, then Czechs would choose the small breweries over the big ones. Though, if that would be the case in the long run, it’s difficult to say.
In the US the craft brewers have indeed made an impact, but I think much of it is due to the sheer size of the country, which keeps many smaller industrial breweries from having a nation wide impact.
There is also a difference between Czech and American craft brewing. The Americans seem more interested in brewing stuff that bottles wouldn’t bother to do, whereas the Czechs are a bit more conservative (in average), brewing beers more alike the industrials in style, only that they make them better (generally speaking)

]]> Comment on US Beers: News (w/e 13 June) by DavidM http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/us-beers/#comment-217 DavidM Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:14:03 +0000 http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-217 Interesting. If you generalize and state that the beer market has two types of consumer then you are talking about different audiences: those who drink mass produced, 'general' beers; those who seek out and drink craft beers. When it comes to which beer can be considered "the country's beer" then you would have to look at which sector you are talking about: for general beers (mass produced) choose the beer that either has the best market presence for the general beers, probably the one with the best marketing; for craft beers it would be always open to debate/argument since you need to "discover" the craft beers and try them out. So another way of looking at this is do you associate a country with it's big brewer or the craft brewers. For me CZ is more associated with the regional/craft brewers and main concentration on brewing a few, specific styles. This perception is in danger only because the big players are moving in a marketing a few Czech Beer brands in a big way Interesting. If you generalize and state that the beer market has two types of consumer then you are talking about different audiences: those who drink mass produced, ‘general’ beers; those who seek out and drink craft beers.

When it comes to which beer can be considered “the country’s beer” then you would have to look at which sector you are talking about: for general beers (mass produced) choose the beer that either has the best market presence for the general beers, probably the one with the best marketing; for craft beers it would be always open to debate/argument since you need to “discover” the craft beers and try them out.

So another way of looking at this is do you associate a country with it’s big brewer or the craft brewers.

For me CZ is more associated with the regional/craft brewers and main concentration on brewing a few, specific styles. This perception is in danger only because the big players are moving in a marketing a few Czech Beer brands in a big way

]]> Comment on US Beers: News (w/e 13 June) by Pivní Filosof http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/us-beers/#comment-216 Pivní Filosof Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:20:45 +0000 http://beerohbeer.wordpress.com/?p=183#comment-216 Evan brought me a couple of those italian beers, I reviewed them in my blog, and one of them was simply fantastic, Chocarrubica. But now I have another question, what should really be considered American, Czech, German, etc beer, the better known, best selling, easiest to find ones, or those regional/craft ones that very few people seem to know? Evan brought me a couple of those italian beers, I reviewed them in my blog, and one of them was simply fantastic, Chocarrubica.
But now I have another question, what should really be considered American, Czech, German, etc beer, the better known, best selling, easiest to find ones, or those regional/craft ones that very few people seem to know?

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