One of my favorite minor debates ever!
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Later this year I’ll be drinking some Fine Disregard Semillon and Grenache.
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So, going to France on Sunday. A great place to have a drink or three. And, will be limited to the occasional weizenbier. I wonder if the French have any or if it’s only the allemande. If y’all know of any, let me know.
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When in France and drinking beer, I go for either a Kronenbourg 1664 or “pression” which is their standard draft lager.
I don’t know what part of France you’re visiting but, if you’re in regions like Alsace or Lorraine that border Germany, you’re likely to find a more broad selection of beers than elsewhere, because…you know.
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Modern CdP ain’t that far off from sangria.
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God bless you, sir.
A former teammate and I were barnapped in Toulouse one afternoon during Rugby World Cup 2007. We drank the hell out of Kronenbourg that day (soixante quarte as the locals call it).
You can find a decent amount of Belgian beer in Paris (at least, I did the last time I was there fifteen years ago). Like you, though, I usually stuck with Kronenbourg or what local lager is on draft, which was always decent or at least unoffensive.
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C’est comme ça.
Fun Fact: I was in Paris on business and had engineered an evening away from my (exhausting) clients. I went to a nearby cafe for dinner and vowed to conduct the entire evening in French. The waiter came over and asked me (in French) what I wanted to drink, and I ordered “Soixante Dix”…which means “Sixty-Ten”.
The waiter returned with my Soixante-Quatre and the menu in English.
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Option - 0 to get to the degree symbol on a mac. This reply is en fuego. 100ºF
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What am I drinking?
Not one of these…but I want to.
First time I was in Paris, my then girlfriend and I went out to dinner with one of her friends (they’re both French). The maitre d’ walks us to our table and as he’s handing out menus my girlfriend asks him for one in English. They chat a moment and after he walks off, she starts laughing. Apparently, the maitre d’ was relieved to find out I was an American who spoke very little French because he tried chatting with me but I didn’t say anything to him. To be fair, I was completely oblivious to the poor guy’s attempt to be friendly.
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We went to a pretty solid Belgian beer bar while in Paris, but I fear I drank away the brain cell that had the name of it.
@JimR Do you remember the name of that Belgian beer bar?
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That does look tasty. I don’t know that I’ve ever had a cocktail with Suze, but I want to try.
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Suze is great. The classic cocktail with Suze is the aptly named Yellow from France:
Good luck finding Yellow Chartreuse, though. Haven’t been able to buy a bottle anywhere in the last two years.
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There’s Suze, and then there’s Big Suze.
I have a couple of bottles of green Chartreuse that I bought a year or so ago. Hadn’t been able to find it for years, then lo and behold there were like six bottles sitting on the shelf at Spec’s. Haven’t seen any since.
This is the national emergency we need to be discussing, not the current war zone in Portland.
In all seriousness, it’s crazy how difficult it is to find Chartreuse (green or yellow). I know the monks can only make so much. But two years ago I could go to my local and get as many bottles as I could carry. Now, bupkis.
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The monks said they were going to cut back and concentrate on doing their monk stuff.
Mr. Trappist Monk sir, may I have a Chimay in a frosty schooner, please.
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