The beer is very sad. (unless all you like is fizzy yellow lagers)<\/p>\n
The brands here are:<\/p>\n
Except for the Heineken, all the brands have a couple different formulations, though for the most part, they taste identical to me.<\/p>\n
The Heineken is brewed here in Egypt under license. It is almost <\/em>as “good” as Heineken you can get elsewhere.<\/p>\n The other day I met a gentleman from Munich (he lives here now). I asked him what he drank and he replied that he liked the Sakara Gold, but he told me of another beer.<\/p>\n There is a brand called Luxor that has been started by an upstart company here in Egypt. Well, they have a hefe-weizen. Supposedly, they have imported a Bavarian to be their brewmaster. I didn’t have the appropriate glass (sigh) so I poured off enough of it so that I could swirl the remainder to get the yeast in suspension. Then I topped off the glass.<\/p>\n It had some nice esters and good (mild) flavor with a clean finish. All in all a pleasant surprise. Now if I could just find in a store. (The major chain of liquor stores is owned by the Al Ahram brewing which is the competor for Luxor, so it isn’t carried there)<\/p>\n What about Oktoberfest?<\/p>\n Well, we were wandering around the other day, doing some clothing shopping to augment our meager supplies of linen and cotton clothing, when I saw a sign at the Sheraton for “An Oktoberfest Celebration”<\/p>\n They advertised “genuine” Bavarian food, beer and music.<\/p>\n Ok, this I gotta see.<\/p>\n So we went back a week later for the kickoff night of Oktoberfest. (Since Ramadan starts on the 22nd, I assume they had it early to avoid that conflict) Unfortunately to get into the bier garden, you had to pay for the food buffet, which was LE110\/person (about $20). We weren’t hungry enough to pay for a buffet.<\/p>\n Oh the Bavarian beer? They had Paulaner crystal and hefe in bottles. (And Sakara Gold on draught). The Paulaner was LE57 (about $10!<\/strong>). An outrageous price for Paulaner, even at the Sheraton.<\/p>\n We had one (at least they had the right glass) and went home.<\/p>\n This country is really starting to get on my nerves….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The beer is very sad. (unless all you like is fizzy yellow lagers) The brands here are: Stella (not Stella Artois) Sakara Meister Heineken Except for the Heineken, all the brands have a couple different formulations, though for the most part, they taste identical to me. The Heineken is brewed here in Egypt under license. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFound one last night at a restaurant. I hurriedly snatched the (1\/2 liter) bottle from the waiter before he did something stupid with it.<\/p>\n
\nWell, they had a fenced off “bier garden” that had food, beer and an egypto-bavarian oompah band. (gack).<\/p>\n