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Hi, new to the area and we are looking for a place to buy some import beer such as Leffe Dunkel, Konig Ludwig Dunkel, basically decent Belgian and German dunkel/dark beer. Thanks~!
Safeway in Centreville is definitely the place to go. a very helpful staff will assist you in finding the right beer or wine for your sophisticated pallet.
Based solely on breadth of selection I think that Total wins, but I agree with the comment that storage and handling for many of these is questionable. Most just sit on the shelf at room temperature and some of these (especially the single bottles) cannot have a lot of velocity.
On the other hand, Whole Foods (especially the Fair Lakes location), has a good mix of 'everyday' beer (e.g., Sierra Nevada) along with harder to find or lesser known brands. The beer guys know their stock pretty well and I find them helpful unless they are crushed on a Saturday afternoon.
The imported beer is already tainted with perservatives and because of the perservatives they can sit on the shelves for a while and not have the taste be affected.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/2009 04:05PM by FurfaxTownie.
As to your original post, you won't be finding Leffe Dunkle anywhere anytime soon, as they do not not import it to the US. Same goes for any of the other Hoegaarden lines outside of the standard witbier.
fwc Wrote:
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> In order of quality/quantity...
>
> Whole Foods in Vienna (ask for Jason)
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> Norm's Beer & Wine in Vienna
>
> Rick's Wine & Gourmet in Alexandria
>
> Total Wine (many locations) but lots dusty bottles
> with unknown handling
Whole Foods in Fair Lakes also has a great selection, though Vienna seems to have a better (quality) selection of Belgians.
Light does the most damage to beer, not storage temperature.
kevin Wrote:
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> another +1 for Norm's. the guys in there are
> really cool and their selection is sick for a
> smaller store. glug glug glug!
Yet another +1 for Norm's... perhaps the only store in the area that has kasteel rouge.
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please learn what you talkn bout son
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Date: August 04, 2009 05:20PM
FurfaxTownie Wrote:
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> The imported beer is already tainted with
> perservatives and because of the perservatives
> they can sit on the shelves for a while and not
> have the taste be affected.
Light is by far the worst single enemy to any brew. However a bigger problem is the cooling down and heating and cooling down that many beers unfortunately face now a days. I more or less stay away from all beers that are bottled in a green bottle, definitely prefer brown, and of course love those Belgian Delirium bottlers with their opaque bottles.
Meet me at Burke Lake Park tomorrow, I'm sure we can work something out... PM me if you want to know what color spandex I'll be wearing.
Typ1calT33N Wrote:
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> I'm a teenager and when I saw the word, "beer", on
> the list of forums, naturally, I clicked on it.
>
> Anyone interested in contributing to the rampant
> alcoholism of today's youth and buying me some
> booze?
>
> C'mon! I'm a teenager; I'm invincible and anything
> I do is justified because I'm in high school
> therefore it's all good!
Typ1calT33N Wrote:
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> I'm a teenager and when I saw the word, "beer", on
> the list of forums, naturally, I clicked on it.
>
> Anyone interested in contributing to the rampant
> alcoholism of today's youth and buying me some
> booze?
>
> C'mon! I'm a teenager; I'm invincible and anything
> I do is justified because I'm in high school
> therefore it's all good!
You people are all to supercilious. All things being equal, compared to domestic beers, imported beers (which have preservatives added to them and are pasteurized) have a longer shelf life. More likely then not, a store that specializes in beer is not going display its selection in the front window facing due east or west. Most stores are already basically controlled environments, consistent temperature, and indirect light (lights over head, beer on shelf).
True most German beers do taste the same, thank the German brewing laws for that. English beers however, are worse and taste just as bad in England, if not worse, then they do here. Beer from dirty countries such as India, taste better.
FurfaxTownie Wrote:
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> You people are all to supercilious. All things
> being equal, compared to domestic beers, imported
> beers (which have preservatives added to them and
> are pasteurized) have a longer shelf life. More
> likely then not, a store that specializes in beer
> is not going display its selection in the front
> window facing due east or west. Most stores are
> already basically controlled environments,
> consistent temperature, and indirect light (lights
> over head, beer on shelf).
>
> True most German beers do taste the same, thank
> the German brewing laws for that. English beers
> however, are worse and taste just as bad in
> England, if not worse, then they do here. Beer
> from dirty countries such as India, taste better.
Yeah.. Total wine & Beverage. your posts are so on point