If the mechanic is drinking wine...

N Sperlo wrote: Last night after working on my friends car, I had a glass of red wine in order to get the awful taste of Bud Select out of my moth.

Depending upon what red, smooth move.

Drinking generic American Swill, horrendously bad move

ransom wrote: MG: Samuel Smith's India Ale, or maybe a gin and tonic?

G&T's go well with MG's, but for true MG aficionados it's Old Speckled Hen.

In reply to aussiesmg:

Cheap, local, sweet, and yummy. It won awards. Even the bottle says so.

Ojala wrote: I was just having some La Ceoulette while working on the Saab. The two activities went together so well that I went online to look up this beer and this thread came up as a result. The thread has me wondering: Is La Ceoulette really the best beer for working on a Saab?

Definitely not. La Choulette is French. I think that would be the perfect beer for working on a Citroen. For a Saab... I think you need to be drinking Carlsberg.

Or one of these:

Actually, I believe the correct answer is either Red Seal or Old Rasputin. Those beers are hugely popular in Sweden.

Try some reds from Kaiserstuhl region- they are very good.

And I would avoid the beer brands you mentioned, they are all "national" and mostly from Bavaria- look for the locally brewed stuff, I'm sure it will knock your socks off.

When I lived in Freiburg, just south of Trier, there was a brand called Rothaus- it was run by the state of Baden-Wuerttenburg and was awesome.

I doubt there is much Schwab influence there, but I think their beers were the best. If you see a Schwaben Bräu you can't go wrong.

The basic equation for beer in Germany is the more local the more better.

Have fun!

ransom wrote:

MadScientistMatt wrote:

ransom wrote: BMW: Anything from Ayinger

How about a Reisling? German wine is a lot better than wine snobs give it credit for.

It was really just the first thing that sprang to mind. I'm no wine snob (or aficionado), but I'll be in Trier in about two weeks, so I'll have to give some of that region's wine a try... Though I expect to do more sampling of the goods from Ayinger, Hacker Pschorr, and Erdinger, (and Weihenstephaner, Spaten, Paulaner...), being more of a beer person. Truth be told, I don't *usually* drink while working on the car, and I'm really more prone to British and local beers when I'm done or done enough... Even working on a German car.

And, as an added bonus, I can teach you the essential phrases to memorize to survive there.

Such as:

Wo ist das Klo- Ich muss kotzen: Where is the bathroom I have to puke
Zeig mir die Fotze: Show me the Bob Costas!
Das ist hier ein Schnitzelfest: This place is a sausage fest.
Tekno kotzt mir an: Techno music makes me barf
Ich bin hier leer: Get me another beer!

Working on British cars equals this:

aussiesmg wrote:

N Sperlo wrote: Last night after working on my friends car, I had a glass of red wine in order to get the awful taste of Bud Select out of my moth.

Depending upon what red, smooth move. Drinking generic American Swill, horrendously bad move

paranoid_android74 wrote: When I lived in Freiburg, just south of Trier, there was a brand called Rothaus- it was run by the state of Baden-Wuerttenburg and was awesome.

Rothaus is still around, but hard to get outside its natural habitat. I love that stuff, but then again that was our beer of choice when I grew up (especially the Tannenzäpfle).

BTW, "just South" has a different meaning in Europe, Freiburg and Trier are considered reasonably far away from each other in Germany . That's at least a 3 1/2h drive, if traffic isn't too bad. And there are a few places along that route where it tends to get really bad.

ransom wrote: It was really just the first thing that sprang to mind. I'm no wine snob (or aficionado), but I'll be in Trier in about two weeks, so I'll have to give some of that region's wine a try... Though I expect to do more sampling of the goods from Ayinger, Hacker Pschorr, and Erdinger, (and Weihenstephaner, Spaten, Paulaner...), being more of a beer person.

Trier is wine country, and German wine has massively improved over the last 20-30 years. I'd stick to wine up that way .

Out of the beers you listed - and as someone who's lived in Bavaria - I'd probably stick to the Erdinger and the Weihenstephan. Ayinger is pretty decent too, but the others I'd give a miss.

Trier is also pretty close to Köln, so for a more local flavour have a Kölsch or three. I'd also go look for local craft beers, in Germany they usually combine brewery and restaurant. A quick google found these guys: http://www.kraftbraeu.de/home.html

No idea if they're any good, and no English site either.

Rats, didn't see how old the the thread was. Thought Per and KatyB were back.

I won't even look at a beer while wrenching. I'm mechanically challenged enough as it is and would probably wind up with a 2 cylinder motor.

Quite right on the distance, I lost sight of that. It was almost 20 years ago when I lived there. And since I was a student I didn't drive anywhere- it was all trains.

Our normal brew of choice was Ganter, Rothaus was a special treat. All my friends were from the Stuttgart area, so they would often bring cases of goodness back after visiting home. Schwabenbrau Urtyp was my all time favorite.

BoxheadTim wrote:

paranoid_android74 wrote: When I lived in Freiburg, just south of Trier, there was a brand called Rothaus- it was run by the state of Baden-Wuerttenburg and was awesome.

Rothaus is still around, but hard to get outside its natural habitat. I love that stuff, but then again that was our beer of choice when I grew up (especially the Tannenzäpfle). BTW, "just South" has a different meaning in Europe, Freiburg and Trier are considered reasonably far away from each other in Germany . That's at least a 3 1/2h drive, if traffic isn't too bad. And there are a few places along that route where it tends to get really bad.

I've most likely broken a law by drinking Guinness while working on a Firebird.