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I saw Christoffel Robertus double malt beer while I was wandering through the Liquor Store today. It's a Dutch beer. I didn't know anything about it, other than, it has a REALLY COOL flip-top. XD At $3.00 a bottle (330ml; a little over half a pint), it was a bit insane. Our local beers are usually just over $1.00 a bottle and are pretty good.
But the flip-top got me, so I got one to try. =)
Wow, that's a fantastic beer. =O
I don't drink often, so the $3.00 isn't so bad when you average it over time. There is also a Christoffel Blond, but I generally prefer dark beers. The only exception I can think of is a light, apricot beer that I had with lunch at a pub/restaurant near Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA. But that felt more like a fruity soda-like drink to me.
I actually didn't really like it, at first. See, this is strange. With regular alcoholic beers, if I like it, I will know and admit that I like it. And I'll have as much as I can handle. If I don't like it, I just won't have any more.
But this rye drink was like a weird addiction. For some bizarre reason, even though I consciously didn't like it, I kept reaching for another one, and another one. I'm not like this towards other alcoholic beers (thank goodness!).
* 黑麥汁 sounds like "black Chinese calligraphy ink" to me because in Cantonese, "墨" ("ink") and "麥" (general term for "wheat") are exactly homophonous. XD XD XD
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Which, if you know my family, is dead on. ( dutch conservative weirdos)
I'm a fan of the single foreign beers; $3-6 bucks for a pint of something new or interesting isn't so bad.
Though, I don't really go through a big volume of beer, so a bottle every now and then is good. I can't even think about buying a 12 pack... that's too much commitment.
$1 per bottle? I don't think even that Kokanee swill is that cheap, is it?
12 packs are for the office =)
The Granville Island Brewery ones were $20 for a case of 12.