Gouden Carolus Christmas (Belgium)
This is already my second "Christmas beer" of the festive period, and my first question is: Why do they have to be so strong? It's almost as if the breweries want us to spend Christmas completely trolleyed. This one is 10.5%, although it's Belgian, so this is nothing unusual for them. I smelled the beer, it smelled like licorice. Then I tasted the beer, it tasted like licorice. The beer hides the strong alcohol content really well, it's like you're just drinking licorice juice. The good news is that nowadays I like licorice, I didn't when I was a child. So if I'd have tried this as an eight-year-old I wouldn't have liked it... and social services would probably have come round to take me away from my parents.
Budweiser (USA)
Of all the beers that are in this book, it's the inclusion of this one that I understand the least. Budweiser is one of the most bland and flavourless beers in existence. Apparently it's in the book because of Anheuser-Busch's commitment to quality and consistency. Only the finest quality ingredients go in to making Budweiser, we're told. Which seems to me a little like taking your antique mahogany dining furniture and processing the crap out of it to make toilet paper. King of beers, my arse.
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