which country is the best?

[blingbling]

at brewing their beers?

biased views encouraged in this thread

by best i mean like, how does the country's top 5ish beers compare to other nation's top 5ish beers?

[jorismo]

You can't compare... Every country has its own type of beer and every country has its own taste. If you compare, for example, the German beer to the Czech beer you will taste a big difference. There's a different use from ingredients, serving temperature (British beer is not really cold served, Dutch beer is almost chilling cold served) etc etc.

And, everybody has his or hers own taste of course...

[KeepIt]

Belgium Beer soooo good but usually high in alcohol content so you gotta be careful

[twinspark]

One vote for the czechs, besides our own of course. If I had to choose one brand, this sticked with me in store today ;

[drakkie]

Two full crates of Heineken in the back give me better handling and higher topspeed in the tunnels. We Dutch did pretty good to create multi-functional beer.

Edit:
After tonight just one left...

[LotusLocost]

One vote for the czechs, besides our own of course. If I had to choose one brand, this sticked with me in store today ;

Karhu must be Finnish for bear
I have only tried Lapin Kulta, very good beer!

I like Heineken as well.. Just opened one..
Danish is also very good, Carlsberg on top with Tuborg on second..

Iberian beer must taste like shit...

[Coventrysucks]

British beer is not really cold served

Because Lucas make their fridges!

But seriously British ALE is not served cold because it isn't supposed to be.

Beer/Lager is served cold, but apparently not quite as cold as some other countries.

Belgium wins, anyway.

Blonde Bier + I've just been enjoying a few rounds of Kriek

[twinspark]

Karhu must be Finnish for bear
I have only tried Lapin Kulta, very good beer!

Personally I find Lapin Kulta one of the worst Finnish mainstream beers. Karhu is originally from my hometown so I can be called biased for saying it's the best, but it has won some international awards.

[LotusLocost]

Personally I find Lapin Kulta one of the worst Finnish mainstream beers. Karhu is originally from my hometown so I can be called biased for saying it's the best, but it has won some international awards.

I see... But we only get the mainstream over here..
I usually drink it when I'm on ski holiday in Sweden..
Taste doesn't always matter when your mildly drunk
I will check if I can order the Karhu beer here, maybe it's possible from the liquor store.

[twinspark]

I see... But we only get the mainstream over here..
I usually drink it when I'm on ski holiday in Sweden..
Taste doesn't always matter when your mildly drunk
I will check if I can order the Karhu beer here, maybe it's possible from the liquor store.

It's the most popular beer in Finland nowadays, but I don't know how much they export it. And I agree, it's the few first ones in which the taste really matters.

[NSXType-R]

Not sure, but I do wonder sometimes. On another note, how's Tsingtao?

[Rockefella]

Like Jorismo said, every country has it's own thing with brews. Obviously, microbrews would take the cake, but I don't really have a favorite country for beer.

My favorite mass produced beers are Becks, Guinness Draught, Pilsner Urquell, Samuel Adams, and Stella Artois, so that covers Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the U.S., and the Czech Republic.

EDIT: Heineken = no. Tastes skunked as hell.

[my porsche]

Ireland.

[CdocZ]

I have a disposition towards Czech beer.....I am hoping one day, to go to Europe and visit several beer loving countries and go throughout them testing various brands and brews

[Luxurioux]

Asahi Super Dry Beer, or maybe Asahi Nama Beer from Japan.