I saw this on Time Out last week: a guide to the best craft beer bars in London.
I've been to some of them before I started this blog: Brewdog; Camden Brewery; and the Old Red Cow amongst others.
Of course it's given me plenty of more ideas of where I can experience new drinks.
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25 December 2012
This stuff tastes Bile
A few weeks ago I was in my local off-licence and noticed this can of beer on sale:
Out of curisosity I bought it.
I had no idea what it was called, nor what sort if beer it was, but assumed it was a type of Ukrainian lager.
I was almost correct: it's actually a Ukranian wheat-beer, basically their version of Hoegaarden, and is pronoucned "Be-lay" (Ukrainian for "White"), and is made by Chernigivske.
In the unlikely event that you find it, I'd recommend buying it and giving it a try.
Out of curisosity I bought it.
I had no idea what it was called, nor what sort if beer it was, but assumed it was a type of Ukrainian lager.
I was almost correct: it's actually a Ukranian wheat-beer, basically their version of Hoegaarden, and is pronoucned "Be-lay" (Ukrainian for "White"), and is made by Chernigivske.
In the unlikely event that you find it, I'd recommend buying it and giving it a try.
27 February 2012
Czech & Slovak Bar/Gambrinus Excelent
On Saturday I went to the Czech & Slovak Bar in West Hampstead for a friend's birthday.
It's a pub which was set up in WWII for refugees from Czechoslovakia.
The decor is a bit strange: from the outside it looks like a suburban house, but inside it is like a hotel and various memorabilia from the old Czechoslovakia as well as both the Czech Rep. and Slovakia.
One of these was a poster of the ice hockey player Jaromír Jágr, who had an appalling late-80s/early-90s-style curly/permed mullet.
We ordered food: I had their beef goulash; Tola had a chicken schnitzel. I was a bit disappointed - while the goulash was perfectly edible, it was a bit bland and it came with what appeared to be uncooked baguette slices, which the menu described as "dumplings".
Naturally, I also had some Czech lager: I had a Budvar (aka proper, not US Budweiser) and also a bottle of this:
Gambrinus Excelent.
As to be expected, it is a Czech pilsner, and so is very nice to drink and goes down well. There's nothing - as far as I could tell - to particularly distinguish it from any other pilsner, but given that pilsners are generally decent drinks, that's not a bad thing.
It's a pub which was set up in WWII for refugees from Czechoslovakia.
The decor is a bit strange: from the outside it looks like a suburban house, but inside it is like a hotel and various memorabilia from the old Czechoslovakia as well as both the Czech Rep. and Slovakia.
One of these was a poster of the ice hockey player Jaromír Jágr, who had an appalling late-80s/early-90s-style curly/permed mullet.
We ordered food: I had their beef goulash; Tola had a chicken schnitzel. I was a bit disappointed - while the goulash was perfectly edible, it was a bit bland and it came with what appeared to be uncooked baguette slices, which the menu described as "dumplings".
Naturally, I also had some Czech lager: I had a Budvar (aka proper, not US Budweiser) and also a bottle of this:
Gambrinus Excelent.
As to be expected, it is a Czech pilsner, and so is very nice to drink and goes down well. There's nothing - as far as I could tell - to particularly distinguish it from any other pilsner, but given that pilsners are generally decent drinks, that's not a bad thing.
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