{"id":688,"date":"2008-06-29T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beerasia.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/expat-beer-lovers-question-of-life.html"},"modified":"2008-06-29T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T05:48:00","slug":"beerasia-the-expat-beer-lovers-question-of-life-bottle-or-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"beerasia: The expat beer lover&#8217;s question of life &#8211; bottle or can?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tA recent comment was made about cans of imported Carlsberg tasting bad, raising an ever important question &#8211; bottle or can?<\/p>\n<p>In all fairness most expats in Asia don&#8217;t have a lot of choice thanks to national beer monopolies, excessive import taxes and poor distribution systems.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule domestic brews are always the freshest but it is always necessary to ask yourself a number of questions when buying a beer:<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Is the bar, shop or restaurant busy enough to ensure a regular turnover of their stock?<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; If not, then which beer appears the most popular or reasonably priced?<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; What brew are the locals drinking?<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Are the locals poor, alcholic peasants or rich urbanite?<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; Are you a poor, drunk backpacker or an microbrew swigging jetsetter?<\/p>\n<p>You have to weigh up the information and figure out what will work out best for you.<\/p>\n<p>Country to country and beer to beer quality varies wildly but I would have to say that bottles are best if the selection is very fresh, if more than a few months then cans are a better option if good storage has been maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Anything more than a few months old and you are pretty much screwed either way <a href=\"http:\/\/beerasia.blogspot.com\/atom.xml\">[beerasia.blogspot.com]<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?sub=postcosm&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbeerasia.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fexpat-beer-lovers-question-of-life.html\" title=\"other blogs commenting on this post\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.technorati.com\/images\/bubble.gif\" alt=\"Technorati talk bubble\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\tA recent comment was made about cans of imported Carlsberg tasting bad, raising an ever important question &#8211; bottle or can?In all fairness most expats in Asia don&#8217;t have a lot of choice thanks to national beer monopolies, excessive import taxes and po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.browbrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}