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Carlsberg Elephant

Post by Niner » Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:35 pm

In Alabama the alcohol content of beer has been controlled for a long time. The high end used to be about 5%. However, higher alcoholic content beer is now allowed to be sold because of an effort to change the rules by small batch breweries and citizen demand. It also has opened the door for some old line major brewery offerings too. One of them is the Elephant from Carlsberg. It is brewed in Copenhagen Denmark and imported into the US. It's a Pilsner style golden Lager. And....it has a 7.2% alcohal content. Has a smooth taste and not noticably more potent in moderation. It is more expensive though. A six pack is two or three dollars more than other premium imported or domestic beers.

Think I'll stick to the PBR as the kind I stock the beer fridge with. Although.. if the Carlsberg were within a dollar or two of a six pack of PBR I might make the change.
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Re: Carlsberg Elephant

Post by DuncaninFrance » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:21 am

What's PBR?
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Post by Karl/Pa. » Wed Apr 06, 2011 8:19 am

Pabst Blue Ribbon

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Re: Carlsberg Elephant

Post by DuncaninFrance » Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:15 am

Thank you Karl, looks a bit, well, ordinary.................'Waits for Vern to jump on me'........................ :loco: :loco:
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Re: Carlsberg Elephant

Post by Niner » Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:37 pm

Ordinary is good Duncan. What's wrong with familiar and ordinary? It's liquid comfort food for the alcoholic haze of memory of times long past. And....when you are retired you can afford it better. :bigsmile:
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Re: Carlsberg Elephant

Post by Niner Delta » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:20 pm

Getting PBR was a treat in Nam, they used to have a lot of Carling Black Label and Falstaff, yuk. :mrgreen:

Alabama has a 13.9% ABV (Alcohol By Volume) cap on beer, so you can get some pretty stout beer, Robert.

Arizona is about the same, a group of friends we drink beer with has a party every year, and everyone has to bring
beer that is over 10%.
And someone always brings one of these in the 3 litre size. :mrgreen:
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Although it is technically ale, not beer. Is there really a difference? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Re: Carlsberg Elephant

Post by Niner » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:38 pm

Hey Vern, I liked the Falstaff. You know......it was the beer that Dizzy Dean used to sell on the Saturday Baseball Game of the week when he and PeeWee Reese use to call the games. He used to always made it a special point to send out his warmest regards to the Papa Joe Greasydick family. The owners of Falstaff.

The one I hated in Nam was the Hamm's . Now that was skunk beer right up there with the Carling Black Label. But as you and I remember the premium beer just about never made it past the senior NCO's and Officers in the big base camps.

Correct spelling..."Papa Joe" Griesedieck

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Post by Niner Delta » Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:55 pm

When in base camp, always went to the NCO club because they had good beer and hard liquor drinks.
I still have some 25cent drink chits from NCO club, only place I could get a mixed drink, you had to be an E-6 to buy
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Post by Niner » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:12 pm

The Alpha company mortar section had an E6 in charge and he was going to some major base once. I asked him to get me a bottle of Early Times. Well...he was E6 alright, but he wasn't 21 yet so they wouldn't sell it to him. The world is insane isn't it? Or is it just the Army?
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Re: Carlsberg Elephant

Post by Aughnanure » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:13 pm

Finally remembered what the decent American beer was that we got in Korea. These posts jogged the hazy memory cells (getting hazier every year !). . . . Pabst.
It was the only really good beer that we got, apart from Aussie beer.
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