Would you rather get champagne from a plastic cup or sparkling wine in a proper glass?

[Forg]

If’n you’re not a big fan of it, it’s better super cold!
Hmmm … Champers Squishies anyone?

 

[TheCollecter]

Quality of plastic cup is also a factor… while all plastic is undesirable, there are polystyrene coffee cups (yes I was served real Champagne is one in last 10 years) that really have no place, none

 

[Berlin]

Better too cold than lukewarm in my view. But really, many beverages are awful lukewarm- they served us slightly heated cans of beer on a Chinese Domestic flight not too long ago and it was as baaaah as one would expect. Give me an ice cold French champagne in a plastic cup over that any time!

 

[ols]

Got 13 hrs in SIA PE SIN to ZUR coming up soon to find out what the plastic cup experience is like.

 

[Flyingwombat]

Whilst I like a Veuve Clicquot, I find most champagnes overrated. Many of the good Tasmanian sparkling wines are much better. Give me one of those in a glass please. Keep your plastic and your champagne!

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Whilst I like a Veuve Clicquot, I find most champagnes overrated. Many of the good Tasmanian sparkling wines are much better. Give me one of those in a glass please. Keep your plastic and your champagne!

Veuve is indeed overrated.
Try a Nicholas Feuillatte instead.
My French friends all drink it.

But try a millésime if you can find one.

 

[cjd600]

Beer in a cold can is fine (preferably not frozen as AA once served up In J though)

 

[Forg]

Beer in a cold can is fine (preferably not frozen as AA once served up In J though)

But … beer is like champagne, for those who actually like it … if it has actual flavour, it shouldn’t be close to zero degrees C. Stuff like VB, xx_X et al need to be close to zero so you can’t taste it, but proper beer needs to be at the sorts of temps British pubs have in their cellars.

 

[Larko1]

Stuff like VB, xx_X et al need to be close to zero so you can’t taste it

 

[Berlin]

proper beer needs to be at the sorts of temps British pubs have in their cellars.

Proper beer needs to be served from a wooden barrel, preferably in Munich or the Zcech republic. Everything else is washing up water.

 

[cjd600]

But … beer is like champagne, for those who actually like it … if it has actual flavour, it shouldn’t be close to zero degrees C. Stuff like VB, xx_X et al need to be close to zero so you can’t taste it, but proper beer needs to be at the sorts of temps British pubs have in their cellars.

lol this was a Sam Adams

 

[Forg]

Proper beer needs to be served from a wooden barrel, preferably in Munich or the Zcech republic. Everything else is washing up water.

Traditional German or Czech beer is … OK. But nothing special. It’s when they get progressive that things get tasty, but Straya and France (from recent first-hand experience) and yes the USA (despite the reputation caused by their volume beers) can do at least as well.

lol this was a Sam Adams

Actually they do OK for relatively a high-volume brewery. Way better than the Tooheys, Carlton, xx_X etc similar-volume chemical dishwater churned-out here!

 

[Berlin]

Traditional German or Czech beer is … OK. But nothing special.

 

[Forg]

I should clarify what I meant ... Germany doesn't have anything as bad as VB or xx_X due in part to the "purity laws", so if you're talking about just going to a beer garden & buying whatever they have on tap then yeah you're way behind the 8-ball in Straya by comparison.
But once you start shopping for the "good stuff" you don't need to be focusing on German product or to be in Germany to do that shopping.