Arany Aszock 4.5% - 219 huf/ 70p
Very much like wife beater (stella artois) on the nose, and quite like that in the mouth, but heaps more drinkable, not being as fizzy, and having more malt flavour.
Dreher 5.2% - 179 huf/60p
More hoppy than Arany Aszock on the nose, but really quite flat and dull in the mouth.
Steffl 4.5% - 215 huf / 70p
A bit of eggy, stella on the nose. not good. Tastes a bit like stella, and a bit eggy. Not a world beater.
Kobanyai 4.5% - 185 huf / 60p
Smells a bit like carling. tastes a bit like carling.
So, what have we learnt? Well, our lovely tour guide Anna told us today that if in Hungary, you want beer, you go to the Czech rep, or germany, or any other nearby place. Seems they acknolwledge that they don't do it as well as their neighbours.
The wine? We had an ok bottle of dry tokaji in the hotel, and 2 spectacularly bad ones from tescos (admittedly paying no more than around £3 each for them). A red pinot noir, with more residual sugar than you could shake a stick at. The girl couln't even grit her teeth long enough to finish the glass. Secondly a white, that just tasted like shit. Not good in any way either . The winner so far in the wine dept is a bottle of fizz; hungaria extra brut, that could just about stand toe to toe with a uk supermarket's especially bad cava. More work and research required here, clearly.
Happy new year everyone. Cleggton and the YL.
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