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On Saturday 19 January 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> @Alan: |
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> Drive to Hermanus, they have it there. ;-) |
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> The best beer in my book is Pilsener Urquell. Unfortunately, South |
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> African Breweries (SAB) has bought the brewery over there. I can't |
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> tell a decline in quality yet, but a friend of mine, a brewer at |
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> Namibia Breweries, tells me they can measure it already. |
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Can't stand the stuff myself. Fizzy. Like lemonade.... |
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> In the long run, SAB will fuck Pilsener Urquell like they have fucked |
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> the beer of every brewery they have bought. |
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Except Miller's. That was already a complete cock-up and SAB didn't have |
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to change anything to meet QA standards :-) |
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> I have been told, though, |
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> that there are quite some micro-breweries in South Africa that still |
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> make good stuff. |
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And most of them come from Namibia! I rather like Windhoek. |
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Heineken, English ales and of course Guinness top my list. I won't even |
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mention the real German stuff as it's practically unavailable - doesn't |
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survive the trip out here well. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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