Fred Franzia, president of Bronco Wine Co., holds a bottle of his 2005 California Chardonney. The wine won a double gold medal at the California State Fair Wine Competition. LAURA L. KOSTELAC For the North County TimesHell...I've mixed a variety of wines together and drunk them out of old mayonaise/jelly jars (much to the chagrin of my wife and her wine sipping friends.)
When it comes to beer though...my taste is very refined. I really like Guinness, Bass, Harps, Heinecken, etc.
Fred Franzia, president of Bronco Wine Co., holds a bottle of his 2005 California Chardonney. The wine won a double gold medal at the California State Fair Wine Competition. LAURA L. KOSTELAC For the North County Times
Try Dog Fish Head, you won't be disappointed.
Hey, the merlot ain’t bad at all! IMHO
2 buck Chuck is actually closer to $3 in NoVa, and surprisingly good! We’ve been drinking this for quite a while, ever since my SIL turned us on to it!
Red Red Wine by UB40 seems appropriate here.
If you haven't done so yet, try the "European Budweiser" recently (within the last couple years?) available here in the United States under the name "Czechvar". (They can't sell it under the real name here for obvious reasons.)
As good a lager as I've ever tasted.
Like wheat beer? Try the one from Paulaner.
I got spoiled when I lived in NZ. I could get a fantastic bottle of wine for about $3 USD. The NZ and AU wines were mostly very good. I was skeptical of “2 buck chuck” and was pleasantly surprised how good the Shaw wines are.
Good for you. Wine, like art, is in the eye of the beholder.
Yes, there is a fair amount of knowledge and science involved in getting the best out of mother nature but sometimes it's also just dumb luck.
One of the locals had a popular wine during prohibition. He was tight lipped about his success but in the 70s, after leading a growing industry for years, he admitted that he had allowed his chickens to roost over the fermentation tanks.
2 Buck Chuck Rocks!
Serve it any your next party - It’ll be a HIT!
Nothing wrong with that. What opened my eyes to beer was not surprisingly, Germany. I was stationed there, so I availed myself of everything I could lay my hands on.
At that time it was fairly cheap due to favorable exchange rates, and beer is still somewhat subsidized over there. What I mean by that is the bars and clubs/beer joints are setup the way the US was prior to prohibition.
A particular biergarten will be sponsored or have a contract with a specific braurei. They don’t offer competitor brands. That is apparently illegal somehow today. Another casualty of prohibition was “running a tab”, which is a much saner way of doing business. You can walk into just about any bar at random and run up a tab that night, and they don’t even know you. Here, they bring out a 5oz glass, charge 3 bucks, want a hefty tip, rinse, lather repeat. What’s truly astonishing here in the US, an appreciation for good beer has become the realm of “snobs”, which is most certainly not the case in Europe. Even the bluest of blue collar workers drinks very good mass-produced beer in Europe, at a price that is very reasonable.
Prohibition really kicked us in the nuts, and we haven’t really recovered.
I bought a bottle of 2buck (Carbernet and it actually cost me almost three bucks)at Trader Joes, I wasn’t impressed
But for that price, I have no complaints.
Best beer I ever had was brewed privately by a restaurant near Padova, Italy. It was bottled in champagne style bottles with corck stoppers and had the consistency of champagne with bubbles forming on the inside of the glass. They would not sell me a bottle to take home and it is not available anywhere except in the restaurant. These people are sitting on a gold mine.
One of the best things about Italy is the wine. You can get a bottle of very good wine for 3 euros which would cost over $35 US.
2 buck chuck!
Unfortunately the Trader Joe’s in Massachusetts are not allowed to sell wine and that’s a bummer because I’ve had the TJ’s wine in other parts of the country and for the price, it is very decent.