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convex   
17 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / Not all is bad for Poles in Scotland! [167]

Do you really think someone would ship their own job abroad, people don't do that companies and governments do that.

Yes, people do that. If you dangle the incentive of "savings", people will make that choice. Blaming things on some third party doesn't cut it. People love cheap. They reap what they sow.
convex   
17 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / Not all is bad for Poles in Scotland! [167]

BRITISH people should pay more for BRITISH services and products. The BRITISH people decided long ago to take the lead in the race to the bottom.
convex   
17 Jul 2010
UK, Ireland / Are the working class in the UK now shunned in the 'new' Poland? [53]

It's a dog eat dog world. If you can't live within your means then do something about it.

Amen

The Mexican illegal immigrants (in the States) are allowed in for one reason only, and that's to lower wages so that the business owners can make more money. Same for outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China and service jobs to India. Let's be honest it's slave labor. The native cannot compete.

The native stopped paying for quality a long time ago and demands cheap products. The race to the bottom started a long time ago.

besides a disgusting urban legend

what's that sponsoring thing I keep hearing about?
convex   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

There is very clearly something wrong with your tastebuds. Perhaps you'd better able to taste beer if you removed your head from your anus.

Hilarious. You actually might like it in there, some light notes of Lomza.

On that, as with so many other things, you are 100% wrong. Here are just some of the breweries that prove you know as little about Polish breweries as you do about how beer should taste:

Cheers you wonderful human being.

Number of breweries
1845 1846 1876 1891 1900 1914 1938 1939 1987
1100# 632# 397# 248# 500* 312* 144 138 78

Anyway, the number of local Polish brewers compared to neighboring countries is pretty low.

Let me know if you want some Perla effect. I'll make you a good deal.

Convex doesn't like those beers, only porters I guess. Which is fine.

I like a good pale lager. A GOOD pale lager.
convex   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Beat that, Belgians!

They manage to make beers that actually taste good.

As to our thread's title, "additives" and "adjuncts" are both VERY DIFFERENT things))))

Adjuncts are additives to beer nazis.
convex   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Seriously, man, visit a GP.

I just feel sorry for you. I feel that not all hope is lost. It will take some training, but you CAN BE FIXED.

Czerna Hora?

It's Kutna Hora, the one with the bone church. Beer is called "Lorec".

there are some still, but it is true they are endangered species...

Do you know if there is a list of smaller breweries anywhere?

I am looking on some bottles and compare what they've written there, e.g. 14% extract, 12% etc... And what is strong in Czech Rep. is weak in Poland.

Got you now. That's a measurement of degrees plato, derived from the OG. Basically tells you how much sugar is in the wort. It's more or less proportional to the end alcohol content.

Most Czech pilsners are between 10-13*...from what I can remember...
convex   
16 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Yes, but I can appreciate a good pils. Brackie is good :) Perla is disgusing. Try to drink it at anything but freezing cold. Lomza smells like ****. Ciechan isn't horrible, it's boring considering it's unpasteurized...but why drink mediocre beer?

The unfiltered pilsner urquell that they give you at the end of the brewery tour is amazing. Also a good pils in Kutna Hora and Liberec, the names escape me right now.

There are a lot more local breweries in CZ. The local brewery seems to have died off here.

- eehh? that they have MORE extract? I don't know how else to put this.

Sure, explain it. More grains during mashing or more hops during the boil? Longer boil (not hoppy enough, that can't be it...)? I have no clue what you're talking about.

Also, the breweries brew from grains, not extract.
convex   
15 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Ciechan isn't that great, it smells like a hospital glove and is too sweet for my taste.

Grand Imperial is much, much, much better, my second favorite supermarket porter.

Heveliusz Kaper is the best lager that I've managed to find in Poland.

Zywiec Porter is damn near perfect, especially considering where it comes from.
convex   
15 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Rubbish, even my local Carrefour express stocks five different types of unpasteurised beer that knocks the socks off American beer!

Not buying it. Try an ACME or a Boulevard IPA, available nearly everywhere now. Flying dog is all over the place as well, most everything in their lineup is amazing, none of them pasteurized. So many great microbrews in the US.

The domestic lagers suck here, and most places don't stock too many porters or bocks. So you're stuck drinking crap. Kopernik is a semi decent drink, but it's hard to find. Same goes for Hevelius Kaper, which I'll try to hunt down tonight...

Real beer have only 4 ingredients:

Well, I'll have what the Belgians are having. You enjoy your boring lagers.
convex   
15 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

they have more good ingredients than most other beers, more extract and are stronger.

what makes you think that? When you say more extract, what do you mean exactly? They are light on maltiness, and definitely not hoppy. balanced out to give you complete boredom. Good beer for when quantity counts.

The porters here on the other hand....
convex   
15 Jul 2010
History / The Grunwald Battle: Today is 600th anniversary of the greatest medieval battle. [66]

Not a wide-known fact outside Poland, but the Grunwald battle (15.07.1410) was one of the most spectacular victories and one of the biggest battles in medieval times.

Not sure about being one of the biggest...or that spectacular for that matter. Do completely agree with you on the second part however..
convex   
15 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Pale lagers in general are boring beers. Not a big fan of the style.

Light beers are heresy anyway. The beers consumed by 99% of the population here are sad pale lagers (Tyskie, Lech, Warka). Big mass produced beers that aren't all that creative.

People like sh*tty light beer, around the world. That's why Zywiec Porter doesn't sell well here (even though it's an amazing Porter). Breweries know their audiences, and their audiences like pale lagers.

The quality of the beer in the US is way higher due to all the microbreweries. There is zero excuse to drink bad beer in the US. It's a bit more difficult to get decent beer here. Homebrewing is picking up though, which is great. Hopefully that will spawn more microbreweries.
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Food / WHY IN POLAND PEOPLE DON'T USE ICE? [142]

...Maybe, just maybe, they look older because....and wait for it now...they've had a harder life. They've only had freedom for the last 20 or so years. USA has had it for centuries...- see the difference now.

*cough* bs, bs, bs *cough* *cough*

Any excuse on why Czechs and Slovaks don't look older than they are?
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Food / Do Polish beers contain adjuncts? [34]

Most Polish beers are pale lagers... fizzy watery swill....

This bottle of Lech doesn't have anything that violates the reinheitsgebot...
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Food / WHY IN POLAND PEOPLE DON'T USE ICE? [142]

Obviously you don't drink corn syrup for its health benefits - its probably one of the major factors of American obesity.

amen. it's in everything over there.
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Food / WHY IN POLAND PEOPLE DON'T USE ICE? [142]

And the answer is: Because Poland is not the USA or "other country".
Poland is Poland. Any comparison leads to a certain FAIL.

Not really. Ignoring a good idea is...well, there's a word for that.

Now, head back in the sand!
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Work / Wage and Salary rates in Poland [37]

I guess as long as they don't complain about it, it's alright. There are plenty of opportunities to make a decent wage here.
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Work / Wage and Salary rates in Poland [37]

Let's be realistic - anyone earning less than 1600 a month with a degree has failed badly if they live in a big city.

For fucs sake, I'm paying people €125 a day to do site surveys and basic basic installations/maintenance. I can't find enough qualified people...
convex   
14 Jul 2010
Life / Car Crime in Poland [28]

I think you're full of it, but an XK would be a much better option.
convex   
13 Jul 2010
Love / Polish Girl & an Arabic Guy - at first it was hard, but now it's great! [46]

a sane christian or any person for that matter would never eat pork anyways. do u realise that pigs eat their own babies and more times than none their own ****.....

Uh, you're confusing pigs with chickens. You obviously don't know your animals, I'm wondering what all other BS you buy into without doing your research...
convex   
12 Jul 2010
History / The Untold Battle of Britain [205]

The goal in any war is always physical extermination of the enemy.

The goal in war is to achieve a set of stated objectives. Sometimes exterminating the enemy is the objective, sometimes it's bankrupting them by buying their treasuries...
convex   
12 Jul 2010
Law / Laundromats in Poland? Good business venture or not? [90]

They're out and the apartment has been sold. Was a bunch of breeders. Curious as to how often this happens...

One a side note, anyone have statistics on how much of the housing stock is government owned?
convex   
12 Jul 2010
Law / Laundromats in Poland? Good business venture or not? [90]

washing machines. the apartment above mine was owned by the city for a while. they had a family in there that would run their washing machine 24/7 because they didn't have to pay for water or electricity. They had a side business washing clothes for people, restaurants, you name it. Always big containers of clothes being shuffled up and down the stairs..
convex   
12 Jul 2010
Life / Children in Krakow Apartment Playgrounds [21]

I second that.

Kids have every right to play in a playground.

And I have every right to blast geto boys for the kids listening pleasure.
convex   
12 Jul 2010
Life / Car Crime in Poland [28]

LP 640 Lambo

I second Wroclaws comment. Less worry about theft, more about suspension. Terrible choice of touring car for cee...

Terrible choice of touring car for cee...

And yes, I want one.