Argentina and Uruguay

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Message TBone P beers 27081 º places 544 º 00:19 Thu 1/23/2014 Ok - tell me your best tips for Buenos Aires and Montevideo We travel there in late February.
Message hopbomber beers 88 º places 40 º 00:50 Thu 1/23/2014 Drink wine!
Message wutangfinancial beers 212 º places 33 º 01:12 Thu 1/23/2014 Originally posted by hopbomber Drink wine! +1,0000
Message TBone P beers 27081 º places 544 º 02:48 Thu 1/23/2014 You guys don’t know about thriving microbrewery scene (one of the hottest around) in Argentina? Ratebeer alone lists over 180 breweries!

Message CanIHave4Beers P beers 4373 º places 76 º 05:13 Thu 1/23/2014 Originally posted by TBone You guys don’t know about thriving microbrewery scene (one of the hottest around) in Argentina? Ratebeer alone lists over 180 breweries! Had no clue, but that’s pretty cool to know. Report back for sure.
Message Borresteijn P beers 11292 º places 404 º 05:46 Thu 1/23/2014 I’ve read some info on Gazza’s scoopergen page, but that’s already from 2007. Might give you an idea.
Message Oakes P admin beers 30614 º places 1135 º 08:14 Thu 1/23/2014 Originally posted by TBone You guys don’t know about thriving microbrewery scene (one of the hottest around) in Argentina? Ratebeer alone lists over 180 breweries! I won’t say hottest around but there’s a lot of beer in BA. AFAIK most have been around for a several years now. Enough to keep you busy, that’s for sure. Uruguay is behind the curve still at this point. The upside is that it is surrounded by places with solid beer scenes so eventually something will happen there but I don’t think it’s happened yet.
Message HenriqueBraga beers 131 º places 27 º 08:27 Thu 1/23/2014 There is not much in the Uruguayan scene, but a place you should not miss is The Shannon pub at downtown Montevideo. They have both Davok and Mastra, the country’s best microbreweries. In Bs As, you should go to Antares at Calle Armenia (Palermo) and Buller’s at Recoleta (right in front of the cemetery.

Message chriso P beers 7540 º places 736 º 10:35 Thu 1/23/2014 Originally posted by TBone Ok - tell me your best tips for Buenos Aires Lars Persson from Malmo is an expert on all things (particularly beery) Argentina. Last time I saw him he was about to take a trip lasting several months and has spent a lot of time there before. He’s resenaren on RateBeer but not very active here. http://www.ratebeer.com/user/126185/ He hangs out with Anders a lot so you can no doubt contact him that way if he’s not logged on here much recently. You probably know him anyway.
Message TBone P beers 27081 º places 544 º 01:41 Tue 1/28/2014 Thanks for information, especially to Henrique for Montevideo tip.
Message humlelala beers 1377 º places 89 º 02:56 Tue 1/28/2014 Originally posted by TBone You guys don’t know about thriving microbrewery scene (one of the hottest around) in Argentina? Ratebeer alone lists over 180 breweries! I agree very much that you can often be positively surprised at the availability of craft beer in countries that until recently were predominantly perceived to be beer deserts. One should therefore take care to do a bit of basic research when travelling to a country before deferring to the standard assumption that "drinking wine" is the only viable route. I have had positive experiences myself in finding craft beer made in such unlikely places as the south of France, Greece and Tenerife and I’m sure that these are not the only countries where pockets of surprisingly good (and fresh) beer can be found if one makes the effort to look for it. For Argentina there was never a doubt in my mind that there would be interesting beer to taste considering the country’s history as a recipient of not insignificant numbers of German immigrants.