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Temerarious Trout
174 Posts
On October 12 2012 00:10 Zetter wrote: Depending on the brand, Radler doesn't taste a lot like beer anyways. =D Hah! What's the tastiest brand of beer there, and considering the price:taste ratio, which is your favourite? | ||
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schaf
Germany1326 Posts
On October 11 2012 17:54 zatic wrote: Drugs. Medical drugs, prescription or not, are ridiculously expensive. One of the usual items Germans bring back home from a foreign trip is a box of aspirin. That's because original Aspirin in Germany is almost €1 a pop. Practically all medication, prescription or not, can only be sold at specialized, licensed drug stores - one of the more outrageously obvious examples of lack of free market hurting customers. The pharmacy lobby is pretty powerful though, and have successfully blocked all attempts to liberalize drug sales; And obviously big pharma is happy with the prices. This is so true, me & my girlfriend always take the drive to the netherlands. Her anti-baby-pill costs 13euro there for 6 months, in Germany you pay like 60 or 70... | ||
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heynes
Germany201 Posts
On October 12 2012 00:23 Temerarious Trout wrote: Hah! What's the tastiest brand of beer there, and considering the price:taste ratio, which is your favourite? Augustiner Edelstoff ![[image loading]](http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/2/2/8/0/7/augustiner_edelstoff_flasche_glas.jpg) | ||
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Temerarious Trout
174 Posts
Nice. | ||
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Kahurz
Germany35 Posts
On October 12 2012 00:31 heynes wrote: Augustiner Edelstoff Damn, now i'm thirsty =/ | ||
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VenomBRA
Netherlands168 Posts
Yes, it's Berlin Central Station: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolomargari/4907801314/ Here's an easy way to find where a picture comes from, I find it quite useful. 1. Right click the image and choose to Copy Image URL 2. Go to Google.com and choose Images, on the top bar 3. Paste the URL and search. Google will say "For matching images, try search by image" 4. Click the link and you'll get the search results for similar images, like this. | ||
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zer0das
United States8519 Posts
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fortheGG
United Kingdom1002 Posts
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Zetter
Germany629 Posts
On October 12 2012 00:23 Temerarious Trout wrote: Hah! What's the tastiest brand of beer there, and considering the price:taste ratio, which is your favourite? It's a regional beer, called Schorsch's Haustrunk, it's really good. It has a really unique taste and I can't recall ever drinking a beer which tastes comparably. And as every beer in Germany the price is cheap. (There's still beer that's a lot cheaper. The best price:taste ratio would probably be Oettinger wheat beer) If you ever get your hands on a wheat beer, you should try it. I haven't tried a wheat beer yet which didn't taste good.  To me most german beer tastes good, there's actually not a whole lot you can do wrong when buying german beer. Except Beck's and beer from cologne perhaps, those taste very much like water. :p | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
For Radler you have to use Pilsner, so you get a good mix of the bitter beer and the sweet lemonade. If you take Weizenbier it'll get a very sweet taste. | ||
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r00ty
Germany1099 Posts
On October 11 2012 23:11 zatic wrote: Tap water is drinkable everywhere, but only enjoyable in some places. Where I currently live it tastes so disgusting that I can't even cook or make coffee with it, and rather go thirsty for a weekend if I forgot to by bottled water. It really depends on what you want to do during that week. If you want to visit 2 or 3 major cities, use the train. If you also want to check out some more remote landmarks, get a car. Generally the places you would want to visit as a tourist should be well connected by public transport, but a car might still be more convenient. You can easily spent a week in a city like Berlin or Munich alone. I would suggest traveling though, Germany is quite diverse and you would miss out on a lot. I'm feeling you with the tab water. In the village i grew up the tab water was amongst the best nationwide. Can't drink it anywhere else... They even build a pipeline to some spa town "Bad xxxxxxx" because it's just so good and theirs did not meet the requirements for the "Bad" title anymore. Bitches stealing ma water. -,- From a health perspective, you can drink it everywhere though. If there's a problem it's most likely the piping in your house. To the question about the best beer: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/uzPOr.jpg) A little on the expensive side (20x0,5L/15€), but worth every cent! The difference is, it's completely selfmade. Most beers are made with industrial hop pallets, yeast etc. They still do everything themselves and you can taste it. | ||
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Zetter
Germany629 Posts
On October 12 2012 01:40 Skilledblob wrote: oh god please dont ever recommend Oettinger to someone. It's bottled piss, dirt cheap but if you drink it you know why. For Radler you have to use Pilsner, so you get a good mix of the bitter beer and the sweet lemonade. If you take Weizenbier it'll get a very sweet taste. From that post I can pretty much conclude that you never drank Oettinger wheat beer. It's not much worse than other wheat beers. Generally speaking the quality is not proportional to the price. | ||
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Rimstalker
Germany734 Posts
On October 11 2012 22:30 opisska wrote: what. What? WHAT? You consider bread good and cheap in Germany? What the hell are you smoking? Probably something cheap i guess? Really, the main thing I ever hated on going to Germany is, how it is impossible to get any edible piece of bakery without getting a mortgage of to pay for it! Just to put things into perspective: you can buy a kilogram of fantastic, cruspy, long-lasting fresh bread for about an Euro in Czech Republic. Even better, we have these small pieces of baked material (I have no idea how to call them in english, in german, maybe brotchen can be near) that you buy for less than 0.1 Euro apiece, everywhere. That my friend is called cheap food! I have lived three years in Prague and have to say: Czech bread is rubbish. The only bread of somewhat acceptable quality in Prague can be found in Kaufland (which is German). There are some nice things to be found in bakeries for cheap prices, but bread is not one of them. and @whoever was asking: German tap water is most excellent (usually better than bottled stuff), I'm drinking very little else. I dare anyone to eat a bread like this (top right), still warm out of the oven, with butter and not jizz his pants http://www.brot-haus.de/aus-der-backstube/holzofenbrot.html edit: Whenever my Czech friends come visiting, they are very eager to go to German bakeries. | ||
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Irratonalys
Germany902 Posts
Except Beck's and beer from cologne perhaps, those taste very much like water. well , i am from cologne , and you coulve just admitted that you cant handle the awesomnes that is Kölsch. By the way , the first law that was passed in the world concerning the quality of food was about Kölsch released in 1429 which states that beer brewed in cologne can only contain 4 ingredients. personally , theres just nothing better than an ice cold Reissdorf ![[image loading]](http://www.saulustig.com/e107_files/public/1327484021_2770_FT39721_reissdorf-koelsch.jpg) | ||
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Ezteban
Germany8 Posts
On October 12 2012 04:06 Irratonalys wrote: well , i am from cologne , and you coulve just admitted that you cant handle the awesomnes that is Kölsch. By the way , the first law that was passed in the world concerning the quality of food was about Kölsch released in 1429 which states that beer brewed in cologne can only contain 4 ingredients. personally , theres just nothing better than an ice cold Reissdorf come on he's right about the koelsch..  imho becks doesn't taste like water but has a bitter taste. like a lot of the northern pilsener (flensburger (recommended!) or jever (you love it or hate it, really bitter) last night I actually had a few augustiner edelstoff AND tegernseer hell, what a nice surprise to seee them both recommended! :D to all visitors: if you like german beer, go to a small brewery and take a tour, maybe you have to book in advance via internet/phone (the big brewerys offer tours too but I didn't have the same fun or food or amount of beer I expected, last time I went to the becks brewery and it was more like a marketing event... :-( ) but normally it's really worth it nice blog btw! love it for more information pls visit also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_beer EDIT: on topic: public transportation can be really expensive or relatively cheap. for train their exist a few possibilities to get cheap prices sometimes and if you get lucky they are really good. (check out the l'tur website for that for example) EDIT2: tipping: I know that people sometimes (better rarely) don't tip at all if the waiter/waitress was not sufficient to the expectations. but thats depending a lot on very many factors. I don't like that behaviour. if I can afford it,I tip. BTW: tipping in pubs is a thing for itself, isn't it? | ||
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Proseat
Germany5113 Posts
When you mentioned water prices being high, at first I thought you were talking about the housing amenity. Because that, along with electricity, is really expensive in Germany I find. And you really ought to buy your bottled water at a discounter (and not go for shiny Perrier, Evian, or volvic). And I agree, one of the best things of Germany is its bread. Sure, there are few places in Prague where you can get good bread, too, but mostly I find it to be inferior. Caraway seeds in bread? Seriously? Who ever thought that was a great idea?! :r Freshly baked sour-dough bread, rich spongy humid middle with a nice brownish golden, slightly floured crust, preferably still fairly warm from the oven... you'd kill for it.... yum. | ||
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Scorch
Austria3371 Posts
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On October 12 2012 02:38 Zetter wrote: From that post I can pretty much conclude that you never drank Oettinger wheat beer. It's not much worse than other wheat beers. Generally speaking the quality is not proportional to the price. thanks but I will stick with my Franziskaner Dunkel ![[image loading]](http://www.kegworks.com/images/blogpost/franziskaner/hefe-weisseDunkel.jpg) | ||
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targ
Malaysia445 Posts
so a few years back many of my friends went to Germany to do their undergrads. according to them studying there was free/very cheap (cannot remember which) as long as they passed some German exam. I wonder why Germany is so generous as to offer such cheap education to foreigners, as I've never heard of America/the UK giving such offers. is it to promote usage of the German language worldwide? | ||
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Bigtony
United States1606 Posts
Great writing. | ||
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