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Very few jobs are as difficult as that of the professional beer drinker.
The great Slovenian beer rivalry between Laško and Union recently took a surprise twist when the former bought the latter. Ljubljana-based Union tried to escape by running into the arms of its Belgian lover, but Laško would have none of it, and carried beautiful, innocent Union away like a horny bull.
Now that almost all of Slovenia’s beer are belong to Laško, the rivalry seems a bit pointless. Luckily for me, this site is all about being pointless, which is why I give you:
Ohhh… My Head: ratings for 6,754 beers from 144 countries.
The ratings on the site are carried out by a gang of professional, Swedish beer drinkers. That’s right, professional. What else do you call tasting 40 beers a night? (Don’t say college.) Their rating system goes from 0 (undrinkable) to 5 (excellent). Belgian beers currently dominate the top three spots, and make up half of the top ten. The rasberry-flavored Drie Fonteinen Schaarbeekse Kriek is currently in first place, with absolutely perfect scores.
In the meantime, Slovenian patriots and alcoholics will be disappointed to see that no local beers made it past the "very good" hurdle — and three beers got the dreaded "undrinkable" tag: Union Smile, Laško Bandidos, and Uni Brez Alkohola.
Which brings us back to the original question: what’s the best beer in Slovenia? Laško or Union? According to the Swedes, it’s neither. They picked a beer I’ve never heard of: Adam Ravbar Kvasno Pivo, from Domžale. Has anyone ever tried it? Could it really be the best?
Their complete set of ratings for Slovenian beers is here.
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It’s quite famous local beer. I drank it some years ago, but it didn’t swept me from my feet. So I’m not sure if it really is the best beer, i doubt it actually. I’ll get you a bottle when we meet next time.
i tried it, too. wasn’ too bad (and they have a nice gostilna, those ravbar dudes). and their beer is similar to that haler beer from the podcetrtek/olimje brewery (their gostilna isn’t too bad either; i don’t think they serve baklava, though :-).
I still prefer the smooth taste of Guinness or perhaps Caffrey’s
I tried it. I wasn’t that impressed. It depends on personal preferance but I like my beer to be a bit more bitter. I reminds me of an average Irish beer you get in pubs here.
Seems like they overlooked Celjski Grof while they were on a drinking excursion here. Just as well, though. It’s the worse of the bunch IMO (not counting the cheep, disgusting SPAR beer they’re raping us with at INTERSPAR.)
Actually, one of the worst beers i ever tasted was stella artois. But i bet there are even worse products out there.
I’m going to have to go with Coors Light as the worst beer out there, with Miller Lite in close second.
I am surprised the Kratochwill beers got such high marks, I think it might be the microbrewery bias.
Hey there! This is probably the wrong place to ask this, but I’m going to ask it anyway ^_^ (my email’s not working right now, and I refuse to use hotmail or yahoo)
Anyway…
I was just wondering is there a page on this site where you can view all previous posts made since the begining of Glory of Carniola (if indeed you have kept those posts)? I’m not talking about the “Categories” section where every thing is laid out according to its relevence, but more of an “Archives” section where you can read posts according to what month/day/year they were posted- disregarding wheter it belongs to Slovenia or say Natalija Verboten categories.
If you don’t have such a page, it would be very helpful to those of us who want to experience the full uh, glory of Carniola.
If however you indeed have such a page, I apologise right now for being so dumb and not see it. After all I am from Bosnia so I have an excuse
Thank you in advance Micheal!
PS. I hate all beer. No matter if it’s Czech or Japanese. It all tastes the same. Bitter, carbonated crap in liquid yeast form. Bleh…!!!
Hm, let me help you with that…
In the beginning, the Earth was empty and barren…
Bosnjakinja: It’s funny that you mention it, because I just recently tried to strip out the archives entirely. (I’m having some serious bandwidth problems..)
Anyhow, you can use crni’s method, or go by month starting in January 2004 and