Decent pub in Warsaw/Poland

misconseptions neither Belgium nor Holland are part of

lagerholes themselves. Guinness is not the beer of my

home in Finland.

Hi Marcus, are there still a few Poles left in Poland? Where I live we have 20+ of the towns bus drivers who are Polish & when I shop in Lidle supermarket one third of all the customers are speaking Polish & other Eastern European languages. All part of being in Europe I suppose.

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More than you can imagine.

The same thing in Finland. We have 0,4% of the population muslims/africans/non-finns etc. and they all meet, live and shop at Lidl. Strange stuff.

I guess the Poles are fleeing the country in search for a decent real ale outlet.

Marcus

In a week I didn't find any. Though in Wolsztyn we found a strange substance brewed in Poznan called "Dog In the Fog", which someone alleged was meant to resemble British beer. Maybe it does on a dark night, having overdosed on too much tomato ketchup.

It would still be full of Poles :-) I noticed a Polish resturant has opened nearby. I wonder if they do Zapikanka (?sp)

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Dog in the fog is a normal lager mixed with juice and sugar - after the fermentation. It tastes exactly like it's supposed to - try mixing sugar in water and add a cheap lager. Great...

However the Belfast Irish Style Beer is very drinkable.

Mmmmmm! Memories of lager and lime.

if You'd like some help on Polish beer and places with decent beer please let me know. our country is surely not a beer paradise, but it's not a beer desert neither. we need some time to develop right "beer culture".

if you wonder why people buy stuff in cheap discount stores like Lidl try to find more information how "high" salaries are here in Poland :p

if You tell me which parts of Poland you'll be visiting I'd be happy to help here in this newsgroup or privately via art[at]browar.biz (replace [at] with @)

KeithS a écrit :

No, definitely not. Believe me, you want to give that one a wide berth. Never been able to determine wht the weird flavour iun there was, but it certainly does not remotely resemnble any kind of british beer. Yuk.

Marcus Räder a écrit :

Well, you'll have to revise your expectations a little bit, for a start !!

Wide selections of beer, such as those of some specialist Finnish and Scandinavian outlets, have not reached Poland yet. Possibly because the average wages in Poland aren't high enough yet to make widespread import of foreign speciality beers a viable business.

Besides, typical polish beer specialities, such as Porter (9%ish bottom-fermented black beer, somewhere between a Doppelbock and an Imperial stout) are fading away fast. You may be able to find bottles of Zywiec Porter, Ciechanow Porter and the odd can of Lodzkie Porter in some delis, drinks shops or even petrol stations in and around Warsaw, but they're not really widespread in bars.

On the other hand there's probably more right under your nose than you'd suspect.

For one it's still pretty much a miracle that a fine crisp and hoppy pilsner such as Zywiec is still as widely available as it is. (Give Tyskie a wide berth, though...) In draught form, when fresh, Zywiec really is a great session beer, despite it's 5,6% ABV. You may find the hopping has a "weird" edge to it, but that's due, I'm told, to Lublin / Lubelskie hops, a local strain descending from czech Saaz / Zatec, and it's to be appreciated as a noble and traditional taste. The polish hop industry also grows a variety called Marinka, which apparently is a local parent to Styrian Goldings (and therefore UK Fuggles). On a sidenote , amicro has started last year in Krakow under the name Stary Krakow. The first beer I tried last October was pretty encourageing, that is an amber ale using Lubelskie and Marinka, which ended up resembling a pretty decent Düsseldorfer Altbier, but with a peculiar, yet very interesting edge to it.

Things are moving extremely quickly in Warsw, pubs change hands very often, and its very difficult to keep anything up-to-date... so maybe you should look up the creation date on those pages before dismissing them as "dingy"...

Cheers !

Laurent

I assumed it really was a blend of dog and fog...

but it