Peroni — Fine Italian Beer
To think, this beer survived a voyage across the Atlantic, across this great continent of ours, only to end up in my supermarket, to be tasted by me, whose reaction was… “yup, it’s beer.” Considering the distance it traveled, it sure tastes an awful lot like Rolling Rock. I wonder if I have fallen for the mystique of a beer imported from Italy, which happens to be Italy’s equivalent of Schlitz. Or Rolling Rock. I admit to putting imported beers on a bit of a pedastel, giving them a handicap because you look so Continental when you drink one. “Yes, Yves”, I would say, holding my Peroni in a frosted mug imported from Switzerland, “I do find Andorra to be a bit of a delight this time of year. So, how should I say, Andorra-ble! Har har har har!” Then Yves would slap me with a can of Schlitz. Yes, for all I know, Peroni’s is my own personal equivalent of Christopher Lambert, the star of “Highlander”, so well beloved in America, and yet considered annoying in his home country of France. See — I’m already becoming insufferable after drinking this beer, I’m starting to quote obscure facts about Europe. Somebody take this beer from me before I spend a quarter at the University of Hamburg studying Goethe…All in all, though, not a bad beer. Decent to drink, a little skunky from its trip overseas, but I’d Goethe get more from the store anytime…
SwillJockey 6:54 pm on July 9, 2007 Permalink
Be wary of any beer in a clear or green bottle….especially if it’s of foreign origin. The only thing you should drink from a clear bottle is soda pop and even then be wary. It’s probably “vintage”, or as us laymen put it, downright ancient!
I don’t know why, but Corona is a possible exception to this rule. Maybe only because us aging GenX’ers are looking for an excuse to appear young still. Sigh.
Walt Liquor 6:35 am on July 10, 2007 Permalink
Yes, I’m guilty of that one — it’s probably a misguided plan to feel young that led me to review Mickey’s Malt Liquor last time. One taste brings you right back to those giddy early days of drinking, when you couldn’t afford anything better. I need to find a method to feel younger that is easier on the liver…
Frosty 8:32 am on July 10, 2007 Permalink
Somewhere in Germany someone just did a review of Rolling Rock, calling it the American equivalent of Warsteiner. Comparing it to David Hasselhoff, so beloved in Dusseldorf, so annoying at home…