Comments on: Drinking Buddy http://erikras.com/2009/11/17/drinking-buddy/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: herrbutzie http://erikras.com/2009/11/17/drinking-buddy/#comment-4776 herrbutzie Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:32:05 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=3452#comment-4776 In 2009 Carlsberg was the 4th largest brewery group in the world employing around 45,000 people.[3] In 2009 Carlsberg was the 4th largest brewery group in the world employing around 45,000 people.[3]

]]> By: sgazzetti http://erikras.com/2009/11/17/drinking-buddy/#comment-4775 sgazzetti Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:35 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=3452#comment-4775 Sorry -- me again. Just realized that the link in the above comment doesn't really make sense. Intended to link to <a href="http://isoglossia.com/2006/03/16/zlatorog-the-soap-the-beer-the-goat/" rel="nofollow">this one</a>, which makes marginally more sense in the context. Sorry — me again. Just realized that the link in the above comment doesn’t really make sense. Intended to link to this one, which makes marginally more sense in the context.

]]> By: sgazzetti http://erikras.com/2009/11/17/drinking-buddy/#comment-4774 sgazzetti Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:53:53 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=3452#comment-4774 I appreciate your fetishizing this object. My education in beer began on my year-long exchange, not so much in Italy (Nastro Azzuro? Really?), where I was studying but on my travels to places like the UK, Belgium, Germany, and the other usual suspects. The irony is that the microbrewing revolution that took place, particularly in places like New England and the West & Northwest, where I spent my later twenties and early thirties, completely spoiled me not for imported beer but for beer brewed behind that door there. So since I returned to Europe -- some of the more lager-obsessed parts of Europe -- at 37 I have been pining (PINING, I tell you) for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (California), Cadillac Mountain Stout (Maine), and Moose Drool (Montana). Though Bulgaria makes a handful of pretty fantastic bocks, The Slovenian beer scene is <a href="http://isoglossia.com/2005/06/20/lako-vs-union/" rel="nofollow">pretty damn two-dimensional</a>. I appreciate your fetishizing this object.

My education in beer began on my year-long exchange, not so much in Italy (Nastro Azzuro? Really?), where I was studying but on my travels to places like the UK, Belgium, Germany, and the other usual suspects. The irony is that the microbrewing revolution that took place, particularly in places like New England and the West & Northwest, where I spent my later twenties and early thirties, completely spoiled me not for imported beer but for beer brewed behind that door there. So since I returned to Europe — some of the more lager-obsessed parts of Europe — at 37 I have been pining (PINING, I tell you) for Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (California), Cadillac Mountain Stout (Maine), and Moose Drool (Montana).

Though Bulgaria makes a handful of pretty fantastic bocks, The Slovenian beer scene is pretty damn two-dimensional.

]]> By: Erik R. http://erikras.com/2009/11/17/drinking-buddy/#comment-4773 Erik R. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:50 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=3452#comment-4773 On the flip side, the European exchange students in the States will walk into the grocery store, pick up a six pack and head towards checkout, and their American friends have to say, "Dude, what are you doing!? You can't buy that!" Nothing like a good exchange program to teach you that foreigners are weird. :-) On the flip side, the European exchange students in the States will walk into the grocery store, pick up a six pack and head towards checkout, and their American friends have to say, “Dude, what are you doing!? You can’t buy that!”

Nothing like a good exchange program to teach you that foreigners are weird. :-)

]]> By: simon http://erikras.com/2009/11/17/drinking-buddy/#comment-4772 simon Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:13:26 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/?p=3452#comment-4772 I know a lot of American students who discovered beer on trips to Europe. Our university had an exchange programme with American colleges and it never failed to amuse us how your compatriots, mostly under the age of 21, would come over to the UK and go a bit crazy because they suddenly realised that they could legally drink alcohol. I know a lot of American students who discovered beer on trips to Europe. Our university had an exchange programme with American colleges and it never failed to amuse us how your compatriots, mostly under the age of 21, would come over to the UK and go a bit crazy because they suddenly realised that they could legally drink alcohol.

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