Word: pilsner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of unpleasantly sharp and metallic aftertastes -- were Manhattan Brewing Co.'s bottled Gold lager and its draught Oktoberfest and Amber beers. In bottles, Anchor's Porter, Liberty Ale and Wheat Beer, Boulder's Porter and Extra Pale Ale lacked authority, as did Minnesota's August Schell's Pilsner and Cold Spring Export "water-made." The best by far was the sophisticated, convincingly German-style Samuel Adams lager, followed by the clear, refreshing Dock Street Amber from Philadelphia and the tangy, cider-like New Amsterdam Amber. The heady, all malt Eau Claire lager from Wisconsin was perhaps the most interesting...
DESCRIPTION: Definitions of lager, Pilsner, ale, porter and stout. Color illustration: Glass of beer...
...follow the story, the newsmen bivouacked at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, plying diplomats for information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel...