"Richard Casady" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 May 2009 06:42:02 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On May 30, 9:03 am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009 06:51:44 -0400, John H
wrote:
One of my favorites while stationed in Germany was a Czeck beer called
'Pilsner Urquell'.
Pilsner type beer is named after it.
Casady
Actually Pilsner Urquell (a fairly decent beer) got it's name from the
area, Plzen.
The beer is named for the town,' pilsner' , meaning what they brew in
plzen. All the rest of the so called pilsners are named for Urquell,
the only brewery in town for, I think, 400 years. Pilsener is a
common claim, Urquell is the only true one. Pretty good beer. Some
think it is the worlds best. Hard claim to verilfy, maybe if you
specify high volumn.
Carlsberg and Tuborg, Danish, were good forty years ago last time I
had some. Beer is always on charter at every newsgroup.
Casady
I used to like Carlsberg and Tuborg. I don't see it that often anymore.
BTW .... the handle I've been using for the past 20 years on the Internet,
"Eisboch" is a variation of the spelling of "Eisbock", a particular type of
beer. Coors used to produce an "Eisboch" seasonally and I happened to grab
the name one day when prompted for a screen name on the old Prodigy Internet
service. Been using it ever since.
Eisboch