Hello Hello Hivians
Food and beer they go hand in hand
Today is my birthday so I am cheating a wee bit. As is my want!
The actual beer I am having today as I write this post you will see next week!
Today however, I wanted to showcase a tasty beer I had last night, which as the clever clogs amongst you will realise comes from Prague in the Czech republic or Czechia as it seems to know now.
Prague happens to be one of my favourite European cities and one of our best Christmas holidays was in Prague a few years ago. Seeing snow in Wenceslas square was something magical.
It was also the place I had my first self-serve beer years ago!
So the beer today is Staropramen from Praha
I will go arse about tit and say it was damn tasty!
Now we can dig in and have a review ...
The Brewery
Jan Kohout and Vilem Pick had a dream to make a perfect beer by using nothing but the best ingredients, and after a few attempts they managed to create something truly special. Using authentic Saaz hops, special sorts of barley and yeast, they created a beer known today as Staropramen.
The screenshots and quotes today are from the beer website which you can find here Staropramen
If you know me, then you will know that I tolerate lagers or light beers but that I am a dark beer man at heart. Just like my beer, I like my women dark too!
Enough of women it is the beer I am here to talk about ... So let's see it
The observant amongst you will notice the pup on the glass. Funny story there as Mrs T loved it and halfinched it on our Silver Wedding anniversary on a ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam. The beer it contained was Dutch, and a mystery prize for anyone who knows the answer. Comment below and there will be a clue in a later picture ....
So yes this was a cheeky prebirthday drink last night and I had it whilst we had some awesome Chinese food.
I have been having tests all week or so and was back at the doctors yes getting some news. Results being all normal apart from high inflammation scores which as I have ankylosing spondylitus is not surprising. Although they gave no answer is to what is wrong that made me go do the tests in the first place...
My beer yesterday was to celebrate my normal liver and kidneys and all the rest. Quite an achievement after all the drinks I have put away in my quite a few years!
Maybe I should be having their 0% alcoholic beers, but truth be known I have rarely drunk in the last three years. Only on special occasions!
And birthdays are a special occasion ....
I did actually take a premeditated picture for this post and this is it!
Remember I said about commenting what beer the glass contained....
here is a clue ....
The beer did have quite a malty taste which I like, I dunno it just feels like you are having a beer and not just drinking fluffing water!
It did have that lovely amber colour which is quite inciting there is nothing worse than that insipid pale yellow colour which is reminiscent of dishwater or worse yet pale piss!
It goes equally well whether sipped or chugged, yes there was more than 1 bottle involved!
Talking of bottles .... I love embossed glass which the glass drinking vessel displayed but so did the bottle ...
Since we are on the topic of bottles ... I take my hat off them because did you see the fluffing size ....
Yes it is 660ml! Now we are talking ....
The price ... I can't remember but it was reasonable I know that!
THE VERDICT
Oh fuff yes ... I will be buying again!
Posting about a beer on a Saturday on the Beer Community ....
It is a whole bunch of fun, so check out The #BeerSaturday Challenge - Week 372
Next to @detlev who was a huge Beer advocate when we were on tsu many years ago, the biggest beer affecianado I know on Hive is none other than @godfish and when I did pick this beer at the supermarket yesterday I did so with him in mind.
My football team Rangers signed a played on load a couple of weeks ago and he scoried his first goal. Actually the first skillful player Rangers have signed for ages...
He gave him a good review ... the player is Václav Černý and we signed him on loan from Wolfburg
This is #BeerSaturday week and I would like to invite @godfish to write a post in any language about beer with at least 3 pictures.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!
All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo Photos taken with Mrs T's smartphone.
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It's strange how everyone praises Czech beers from commercial breweries bought outside the Czech Republic. Here in the Czech Republic, I would not buy Staropramen a second time. We have much better beers brewed in craft breweries.
I think that is often the case with any country, but you tend not to see the local craft beers commercially available in a local shop overseas. Had there been different Czech beers I would have got them, but there wasn't, we can only buy what is in front of us. When I was in the Czech Republic I did try some that I had never heard of and were recommended to me. Thanks for stopping by 🍻
It is true that the selection of foreign beers in local shops (anywhere in the world) is very limited. Then (perhaps out of curiosity) you buy what you see :-)
hehe exactly 😜
:-)
Pre-birthday beer looks flippin good, only try buy in bottles, what a bottle! Size really matters that is enough to sip through a rugby game, talking of rugby did you hear our Springboks did us proud again this mornings news.
Happy Birthday Ed and have a stupendous day! Congrats on results about all the bits and bobs still working, a little oiling every so often does do the trick...., you only live once!
!BEER
Oh wow I see you hammered the Aussies! Well done...
Thanks Joan, hehe yes it was a big bottle. Yes I think that little oiling does help now and again!
He he our boxer did it again last night in Perth UFC, we're on a good home run hopefully spills into everyday life via sport.
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oh wow, it seems Perth is a lucky city for South Africans!
Ah well let's hope things are looking up Joan
Would be hunky dory if this craziness disappeared. 🌞
Oh heck yes it would!
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Happy Birthday, Uncle Teng! Glad you enjoy your beer and congrats for the good test results of your laboratories. Be healthy and take care!!! 🤗
Aww salamat Ayane 😁
Happy Birthday TG, may you celebrate many more years.
Thanks Edith I'll drink to that 😁
Happy birthday. You share the day with my wife, her sister and a close friend.
Have a great day :-)
Cheers for that Nathan. Happy birthday to your wife and her sister. Do they have special Thai traditions for birthdays?
Hoping your Leeds have a better season and get backup again!
Happy birthday to you boss boss.
That beer's name is too long, I could hardly pronounce it 😂😂
Hehe it was a long name, honey is much shorter!
Lol, sure
Last time in Prague, I was in a hotel 3 streets away from their factory, on Staropramen Street.
Happy birthday man!
Oh brilliant, I am guessing you could smell it!
Thanks so much man 🍻
How does tasty beer taste? Haha.. am really curious...
!PIZZA
Hehe inquisitive Jane 😁
Tasty beer.. good question, I guess water does not really have a taste, coffee has a coffee flavour and a tasty beer has a flavour that you can taste from the ingredients .. malt and even a hint of chocolate in here... Shall have to have a tasting session with I think 🍻
I believe everyone is got a choice though. As for me I prefer my cold beer after food. It tends to complement the phase.
Happy #beersaturday
Oh yes you are right we all have choices. For me after food is usually coffee or a liqueur 🍻
Cheers and happy birthday! Staropramen in Prague with dinner is a great combination!
Thanks so much Seck it was a win win 🍻
Happy birthday♥️😁. Long live the aristocratic nose😌. So sad that I'm not that familiar about beers. I only knew few of them and I don't think it's in your liking.😐.
Aww salamat Asia, hehe and yes a word a day!
And a Happy Birthday to you Ed, may it be that you will get many more.
!BEER
Thanks Zac I appreciate that 😁
You are welcome Ed.
Happy Birthday. I was born in August too. Reading this post of yours reminded me that I haven't gone for my medical checkup yet this year. Let's take care of each other's health.
I looked up Staropramen and found that it is available in Japan via internet mail order. I would like to try it next time😀
Oh happy birthday to you too! Yes I think it is a good idea to have checkups, I hadn't had one since before Covid!
Oh really you can in Japan. So what Japanese beer do you recommend, it has been quite some time since I drank any!
I'm new to beer and don't know much about the variety, but I did enjoy the “Yona Yona Ale.”😍 I'll post a link to their website. If you can get it, give it a try!
https://yonayonaale.com/en/
Happy Beer Saturday 🍻
Oh thanks for this @go-kyo I learnt that drinking age in Japan is 20, here it is 18. And that that Yona Yona ale is an American Pale Ale, interesting as IPA is what we use here or India Pale Ale!
Now to see if I can find it hehe!
Staropramen is a decent beer. Still haven't made it to Prague. Was supposed to have a friends stag there a few years back, but monumental beast from the east snow put a stop to that and had to make do with Dublin for those who could make it to Dublin, even that was challenging!
Oh god the beast from the east, that was the last time we got snow and what an amount it was too! Ah that's a pity you never got to Prague, mind you I can imagine getting anywhere was challenging we could hardly get out of our street!
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Oh, this one :)) We have literally hundreds of better breweries than Staropramen in the Czech Republic, some 50 of them in the captial :) The good ones don't often get exported, and if so, you'd only buy them in dedicated beer stores. But they are worth sampling. Staropramen is just... well, a shabby industrial brew which is often cheaper than water.
That is the problem, you can only buy what is stocked in your local corner shop. I remember during our Brewing module at university finding out that most good beers should be not drunk more than a few miles from where they are brewed, as that is when they are at their best. One reason why micro breweries have become so popular..
The other is they actually care about the brewing process, don't save on ingedients, and are not afraid to produce batches of same beer with a tad different tastes.
I don't know about the Scottish situation, but the difference among industrial and craft brews here in Czechia is huge.
Same in most countries I think, what gets exported is the mass produced stuff with cheap ingredients. Local craft brews often use the best ingredients, but they cost, and I know with the cost of living still going up no matter what the government says, I have noticed some craft breweries shutting down as they can't go on.
Fortunately, beer is too important to us to let the craft breweries shut down :) Quite the opposite - they keep booming here :))
Happy belated birthday! It is fun to vicariously enjoy a beer. 😀
Thank you, and yes I agree with you 🍻
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