In for the night. Just liberated the Polish shop for my sustenance 😊

Edited September 21, 20223 yr by deane koontz

16 minutes ago, Nordkurve said:

Erdinger Alkoholfrei Weißbier is pretty good.

It’s the best by a distance.

It’s actually really good as a hangover cure.

1 minute ago, Spider said:

It’s the best by a distance.

It’s actually really good as a hangover cure.

...and it's made in my local Town

7 minutes ago, Spider said:

It’s the best by a distance.

It’s actually really good as a hangover cure.

Not gonna be having any of those til after Aug 😂

Googled it. Its good for folic acid and b12. May as well prescribe it to pregnant women 👍

22 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Googled it. Its good for folic acid and b12. May as well prescribe it to pregnant women 👍

I kid you not, in the Hospitals here in Bavaria the people recovering from Heart Attacks are given a couple of Weißbiers every day.

1 minute ago, Nordkurve said:

I kid you not, in the Hospitals here in Bavaria the people recovering from Heart Attacks are given a couple of Weißbiers every day.

Good enough for me, off to tescos I go. 

25 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

Not gonna be having any of those til after Aug 😂

The alcoholic version used to be available in Morrisons. I'd send you some of the Alcohol free over, but you know, postage costs now are stupid.

The Erdinger 0.0 has something like 43 calories per bottle and genuinely tastes brilliant. They advertise it as an isotonic drink - beer is actually good for you. Scouts honour.

You can drink it at work, whilst driving, with breakfast etc..

1 minute ago, Spider said:

The Erdinger 0.0 has something like 43 calories per bottle and genuinely tastes brilliant. They advertise it as an isotonic drink - beer is actually good for you. Scouts honour.

You can drink it at work, whilst driving, with breakfast etc..

Can see me sat drinking it at my desk and the Matron walks in 😂

Just now, Spider said:

The Erdinger 0.0 has something like 43 calories per bottle and genuinely tastes brilliant. They advertise it as an isotonic drink - beer is actually good for you. Scouts honour.

You can drink it at work, whilst driving, with breakfast etc..

When I first started working at LTU in Düsseldorf the vending machines actually sold beer. When I moved to Munich with them they had stopped that practice but when you bought a Coke it still came up with Paulaner Hell in the display

Just now, Nordkurve said:

When I first started working at LTU in Düsseldorf the vending machines actually sold beer. When I moved to Munich with them they had stopped that practice but when you bought a Coke it still came up with Paulaner Hell in the display

Germans get most things right - apart from music.

Great engineers, bizarre sexual tastes, efficiency, amusing toilet pans, and of course the beer.

Used to go to cologne a lot with family and if I could speak the language I’d love to live there.

 

2 minutes ago, Spider said:

Germans get most things right - apart from music.

Great engineers, bizarre sexual tastes, efficiency, amusing toilet pans, and of course the beer.

Used to go to cologne a lot with family and if I could speak the language I’d love to live there.

 

Schmutzbeutel

They beer vending machines in the street in Japan

Edited March 7, 20215 yr by Zico

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Germans get most things right - apart from music.

Great engineers, bizarre sexual tastes, efficiency, amusing toilet pans, and of course the beer.

Used to go to cologne a lot with family and if I could speak the language I’d love to live there.

 

Most of those Toilet Pans for inspecting your deposits are gone now  Music wise, it depends what your Genre is really. Die Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte are OK. Silbermond for the softer stuff. Scorpions were a great Rock band. Rammstein of course.

Köln is a mad City. Very lively and utterly crazy during the Fasching season.

10 hours ago, Casino said:

If youre supping supermarket stuff, i dont think anything beats NM Faith

Tonight has been 5 different Rivingtons and 2 Overtones

My local is finally getting a load of overtones in this week

1 hour ago, bolton_blondie said:

Cheers, not a clue how to pronounce that one though 

Weak beer

1 minute ago, boltondiver said:

Weak beer

It actually means Wheat Beer  and is pronounced "Vice Beer". One quirk about ordering a lager here. Hell is like normal Lager, you would order "Ein helles" for one, but if you wanted two it would be "Zwei Helle". the plural is the wrong way round for some reason.

Edited March 7, 20215 yr by Nordkurve

Whooosh

I don’t think I’ve ever even tasted an alcohol free beer. Don’t see the point other than for pregnant women. 
 

if I want a beer I will have a beer. If I don’t I will have summat else. Not sure what the point of them actually is. 

Just now, Escobarp said:

I don’t think I’ve ever even tasted an alcohol free beer. Don’t see the point other than for pregnant women. 
 

if I want a beer I will have a beer. If I don’t I will have summat else. Not sure what the point of them actually is. 

It is a very strange concept.

1 minute ago, Escobarp said:

I don’t think I’ve ever even tasted an alcohol free beer. Don’t see the point other than for pregnant women. 
 

if I want a beer I will have a beer. If I don’t I will have summat else. Not sure what the point of them actually is. 

Like vaping 

I bought some this week for my attempt at dry march, thought it might help me through the weekends, psychological or something 

Got two in and it had the opposite effect, it made me miss alcohol so gave up

Alcohol-free beer is bad enough, paying the same or more for it as the real deal is an atrocity.

All of them are shite, without exception.

Which is why Home Bargains flog them for about 29p a can or bottle - nobody wants them.

Last time I was in they had the Carlsberg, Becks and Peroni ones in.

Edited March 7, 20215 yr by Youri McAnespie

Erdinger is just a nice drink. 
 

@Nordkurve I always used to make sure I was in Köln in February for the climax of the festival (Feibervassnacht or summert like that), utterly amazing nights out by the Dom.

51 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

I don’t think I’ve ever even tasted an alcohol free beer. Don’t see the point other than for pregnant women. 
 

if I want a beer I will have a beer. If I don’t I will have summat else. Not sure what the point of them actually is. 

If you are going out for a meal and you are driving it is nice to have an alcohol free beer as opposed to a coke or water.

Just now, Nordkurve said:

If you are going out for a meal and you are driving it is nice to have an alcohol free beer as opposed to a coke or water.

In your opinion. In mine I would rather drink water or Diet Coke. Or pretty much any soft drink rather than an alcohol free beer