Thread: Thailand's Chang Beer Wins Gold Medal in the 2008 World Beer Championships

Originally Posted by Texpat

A Honda Integra is badged as Acura in the US.

As someone already said, don't assume the same piss we all know as Chang is the same beer the judges were drinking.

It probably isnt knowing how things here operate. Ive had Chang in the UK and it tastes just as rough as it does here.

'100%' malt lager...?? Huh?

Got caught with a knee in the nuts last night, but fortunately I'd had 3 large changs already, so it didn't hurt.............................much

I think that beer medal competitions are mostly fixed-up farces. The brands seeking the most marketing mileage and branding image improvement, and would put up the budget invariably win. A real beer tasting competition of any meaningfulness to the consumers should be one where the judges are serve bottles direct from the neighbourhood supermarket.

Its all bolliks, everybody has a different taste hence likes a different beer, i recon Heineken and singa is absolute shite but i can drink chang no problems. Other punters wouldn't touch chang with a barge pole.

Who gives a fuk Eh.

Give me a dark lao anyday.

^Some cvnt that posts 150 times a day and has only been a member 3 months promised me 3 cases for New Year, but didn't come through

He shall remain nameless of course

Originally Posted by JoGeAr

I got this for Xmas. I was amazed. Chang??

That's a pretty shit selection all-round, Chang's better than Miller and Heineken, but Sol and Corona are the best of a bad bunch.

^Tried a bit of that Corona when I was just back in NZ. Not bad at all.

Originally Posted by melvbot

Heres my description

"Colour a bit like your wee when youre sick, chemical aroma with a hint of som-tam follow through on a sloppy wet fart, bumpy entry into the body of a 50 year old bargirl, with a hint of Klong water. Finishes with a gag reflex inducing taste of dirty underpants with a pa-laa fade. Hold your nose and swig it quick."

You should drink it ice-cold, melv.

There is a reason you get ice-cubes with a Thai beer.

Originally Posted by Mid

The distinguished tasting panel described Chang as: "Bright golden color. Honeyed raisin toast aromas with a hint of lychee follow through on a crisp, smooth entry to a dryish medium body with a hint of apple, nut, and a solid roasted grain character. Finishes with a crisp, balanced earthy hop and pizza dough fade. A very nice food beer."

Thanks for the new signature distinguished tasting panel, a classic if ever there was.

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

It's a drink for softies and pooves is what it is.

Actually I think the opposite. 90% of the blokes I've met in Thailand who drink Chang were closet alkies. It always seems to be the hardcore drinkers slugging it back.

Bullshit,,,,,,,,,,,,,Get a life other than a bar stool

Chang just gives me hangovers. I'll take Lao beer first.

Always thought 'lager ' meant old or kept .This means it is a dead drink,with no yeast still working.

Originally Posted by crippen

Always thought 'lager ' meant old or kept .This means it is a dead drink,with no yeast still working.

Nope.

Lagered beer is brewed colder than a regular ale and uses different yeast to do so. The only reason it is a dead beer is because it is filtered after brewing to remove the yeast and sterilise the beer.

You can have a 'live' lager and the one I drank at my mother's old pub was hand drawn from a cask and tasted bloody lovely - nothing like regular lager at all in fact.

Originally Posted by melvbot

Heres my description

"Colour a bit like your wee when youre sick, chemical aroma with a hint of som-tam follow through on a sloppy wet fart, bumpy entry into the body of a 50 year old bargirl, with a hint of Klong water. Finishes with a gag reflex inducing taste of dirty underpants with a pa-laa fade. Hold your nose and swig it quick."

Very well described.

Not a beer drinker but I must admit I do like draft Chang occasionally .
It tastes nothing like the bottled stuff !

As an aside - after reading the Lager = Beer comments

Many many years ago I was working in a factory in the Black Country (West Midlands - UK) and we had some German potential customers visit .
I was delegated to take them out for lunch at a traditional pub meal .

Took them to "The Jolly Crispin" near Dudley - a traditional pub - got the food ordered and then it came to the drinks.
I ordered a pint of traditional "Holdens Golden" bitter and the German guests asked for pints of lager .
The landlord who was a giant of a man and one of the last 'illegal bare knuckle' boxers in the area - drew himself up to his full height - grabbed one of my guests by the forearm and said - '' Look 'ere sonny- we don't serve 'ITLER PISS' 'ere so it is mild or bitter or you can fuck off!

They soon got the taste for bitter

We got the order as well so they didn't take it too hard - probably thought it was traditional humour !

He was wrong too as we don't drink lager.

^
May be but I wouldn't have dared to tell him !

Most awards on beer labels are just fake over here !

If you take a close look at all those medals the bottles wear, you will discover that none medal is complete... The text will just be Muni and not Munich, etc...

Chang will now probably be the first to print out a full text on the medals...

The headache Chang is able to produce is definitely strange and turned me away of that brewage...

Originally Posted by forreachingme

The headache Chang is able to produce

probably what the gold medal was for!

Originally Posted by Mid

New York, N.Y. (PRWEB) -- You might say that Thailand's Chang Beer is hoarding gold. Gold medals that is. The smooth, crisp and full-bodied premium malt lager import recently picked up its second international gold medal in 2008.

Makes no sense, the beer is crap like all Thai beer. I would never drink Chang unless I was in Thailand.

Originally Posted by crippen

Always thought 'lager ' meant old or kept .This means it is a dead drink,with no yeast still working.

Yep, "lager" actually means "stored".

Lagers are usually stored (lagered) at very low temperatures for about a month, after fermentation. The yeast wont be active at lagering temps and virtually all of the yeast cells will drop out of suspension during the process.

Mass produced lagers are also filtered and pasteurised, which further kills and removes any remaining yeast cells.