I don't recall ever seeing a bar promoting German beer anywhere in Europe other than Germany. I haven't lived in Europe for school or work or been everywhere, but I've noticed that.
Supposedly US Budweiser sells its product in Italy as Bud. Don't know why anyone would want to drink it.
No I knew that.. I read about the legal battles a while back and saw the Italian note in the Wiki.
I was just using it as a spot to float my observation/ question about German beer exports in Europe. Beer brand ID in general and very much in Europe represents people's sentiments and nostalgia. I can get why Flanders drinks its own beer but France and Spain doesn't generally have better brews - French major brands are watery Alsatian knockoffs of German styles. Luckily for Germany people's technical and industrial consumption is less nationalistic. I always liked German beer better than Belgian because for me malt trumps hops.
Just found a discussion that says you can get German and Belgian in Italy. Guinness is around everywhere. I guess the same places where I couldn't get German, I couldn't get Belgian. What got me thinking about this was how little German beer was on offer in Flanders, but I didn't see any in France or Spain either.
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I don't recall ever seeing a bar promoting German beer anywhere in Europe other than Germany. I haven't lived in Europe for school or work or been everywhere, but I've noticed that.
Supposedly US Budweiser sells its product in Italy as Bud. Don't know why anyone would want to drink it.
Yo Ian,
It's a Czech beer. Budějovický Budvar!
Linh
No I knew that.. I read about the legal battles a while back and saw the Italian note in the Wiki.
I was just using it as a spot to float my observation/ question about German beer exports in Europe. Beer brand ID in general and very much in Europe represents people's sentiments and nostalgia. I can get why Flanders drinks its own beer but France and Spain doesn't generally have better brews - French major brands are watery Alsatian knockoffs of German styles. Luckily for Germany people's technical and industrial consumption is less nationalistic. I always liked German beer better than Belgian because for me malt trumps hops.
Just found a discussion that says you can get German and Belgian in Italy. Guinness is around everywhere. I guess the same places where I couldn't get German, I couldn't get Belgian. What got me thinking about this was how little German beer was on offer in Flanders, but I didn't see any in France or Spain either.
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