Country tickers

I love the concept of trying beers from different countries, but I don’t go out of my way to have an indiscernible pale lager just because it’s from another country.

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Theydon_Bois

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by humlelala

Originally posted by Bill Becker
My main goal is styles, of which I recently reached 100.

But there are only 76?

100 on BA.

and you’re very welcome to them, stick the word ’american’ in front of every style and there’s your 100!
why not stick the name of every US state in front of every style as well?
Texan Dark Ale.
5,000 styles - YAY !!!

The number of styles is not set in stone so back off, brother.

Originally posted by SarkyNorthener

Originally posted by SHIG

Originally posted by Drake
It’s not my primary goal, but it is fun and I’m always on the lookout for random country ticks.

This is how I go about it too. Specially while traveling to beer deprived countries.

Come on, the beer isnt that bad in Texas.

It’s fun, but after having tried beers from lots of random countries that I’ve found on the shelves on local stores, I’ve kind of backed off on making this as big of a priority as slogging my way through a bunch of skunks, oxidized, old light lagers is not really fun, interesting, or informative.

I could probably get another half dozen new country rates at stores around here, but I’d probably rather just wait and try to get a beer from them if I’m in those countries or at least maybe somewhere nearby.

So, quite a number of us here.

And I agree with what you say: the down side is definitely that you end up (mostly) with pale lagers, many of them totally crappy.

But for me, like someone said, it is just amazing finding and drinking a beer from Angola or Bosnia, never minding how it tastes. You can always fix this with some nicer brew after.

And another downside is rthe fact, that it gets extra difficult finding new countries when you are around 80 country ticks. Then you really have to resort to trading.

But still, a fun hobby, that is.

My goal is all styles and many more regions by the end of the year and also add 10 more countries. Quiet a few boring beers to go through to reach this goal, but as someone else said always cool to think that I am consuming a beer produced in far-away places...

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Theydon_Bois

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by humlelala

Originally posted by Bill Becker
My main goal is styles, of which I recently reached 100.

But there are only 76?

100 on BA.

and you’re very welcome to them, stick the word ’american’ in front of every style and there’s your 100!
why not stick the name of every US state in front of every style as well?
Texan Dark Ale.
5,000 styles - YAY !!!

The number of styles is not set in stone so back off, brother.

Would you prefer an English back off or an American back off?
I suppose there could be a Scottish back off as well !?

Originally posted by Theydon_Bois

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by Theydon_Bois

Originally posted by Bill Becker

Originally posted by humlelala

Originally posted by Bill Becker
My main goal is styles, of which I recently reached 100.

But there are only 76?

100 on BA.

and you’re very welcome to them, stick the word ’american’ in front of every style and there’s your 100!
why not stick the name of every US state in front of every style as well?
Texan Dark Ale.
5,000 styles - YAY !!!

The number of styles is not set in stone so back off, brother.

Would you prefer an English back off or an American back off?
I suppose there could be a Scottish back off as well !?

I’ll take one of each please.

Ticking countries is à nice sport and you make new friends;)

Originally posted by MarkoNm
So, quite a number of us here.

And I agree with what you say: the down side is definitely that you end up (mostly) with pale lagers, many of them totally crappy.

But for me, like someone said, it is just amazing finding and drinking a beer from Angola or Bosnia, never minding how it tastes. You can always fix this with some nicer brew after.

And another downside is rthe fact, that it gets extra difficult finding new countries when you are around 80 country ticks. Then you really have to resort to trading.

But still, a fun hobby, that is.