>>< Wild Cheering > Great to hear, Dragan. And tell oRox to let you have some time on-line (and that her presence has been missed).
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>I'd probably be working from home for several months, so I'll probably be able to squeeze a few minutes on alternate weekends :)
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>All the messages from this thread have been duly forwarded.
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>>PS - Found a good dark beer here in the states yet, or have you taken to brewing your own.
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>We celebrated this with Heineken, though it had to be the light one. Haven't seen the dark Heineken around here for more than a year. And, of course, dark Amstel is nowhere to be found - the last one I had was in Hungary, while we were waiting for the visas to be signed.
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>The one good dark one I found here is Shiner Bock. These guys were Czech Germans, who landed in Texas few generations ago and realized there's no decent beer around, so they brought a family of brewers from home and started a brewery. They claim, and IMO live up to their claim, that they still feel the nostalgy and the beer is the same as it was back home.
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>The only reason why Czech beers are not generally known as best in the world is that they are neither licensed nor exported. The Czech drink it all by themselves. You may try Pilsner-Urquell, which is as close as it can get, that's the only exported one I found. After a few bottles you get to pronounce the Czech name of the city (Plze?). BTW, Budweis is just the German name for ?eske Bu?ejovice - if you ever read about "The good soldier ?vejk" by Jaroslav Ha?ek, he was allegedly born there. And trust me, I've drank the beer produced in that place - Budweiser is nowhere near.
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>SET BEERNOSTALGY OFF

You might try finding a bar/restaurant with its own micro-brewery. Some of them make some pretty good dark. For myself, since there's nothing like that around me (Atlanta has some, but that's 50+ miles away), I generally stick with...yep, you guessed it Bud. The imports are just too expensive (give the amount of beer I drink< g >).