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movinguy
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Germanicus
You probably know that your European (i.e. German/Czech) beers use significantly different hops than most American microbrews. I am surprised you
like Mexican beers because they are light on both body and hops (otherwise you couldn't drink 20 in a day).
If you pass through San Diego on your way to Baja try some of the local Stone brewing products - best stuff in the land.
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bajalera
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To get back to Mexico, Germanicus, what is this nonsense about drinking out of the bottle being uncivilized? Restaurants down here that provide cloth
napkins sometimes bring you beer in the bottle--and you would actually ask for a glass?
How rude.
As an aficionada of Negra Modelo, I'll have to admit that glasses are a good idea--that gold foil is pretty but hard to peel off.
Salud!
bajalera
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Mexitron
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Germanicus
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well, it did not quite come throughwhat exactly I ment.
Me too, I'm s o m e t i m e s drinking beer out of the bottle.
i.e. when outside > grilling/BBQ etc.
> But prefer a stine with a lid that no sparrow can pee in my beer.
What I ment was sitting in a nice (formal) restaurant. Yes, I will ask for a glass by that occasion.
Is that rude?
No, it's style!
And I did that at many occasions here in the U.S.
But the American Restaurants (mostly) do not have these fine glasses like they are used in Europe.
And: I never had any trouble , whats-o-ever when asking for a glass. Not even that the waiter was looking rude at me.
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Bob H
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The best part of drinking beer in Germany is all the special glasses they have for all the different types of beers. A good beer along with a well
prepared schwein haxe with a knoedel cannot be beat!
Bob H 
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The Gull
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Mexicali Beer
Mexicali beer was definitely around before the 70's. We were buying 'Short dogs' (small squatty bottles of about 8-10 ounces) in a case for $2.00 in
1968.
It was cheap and cold, like an ex-wife.
[Edited on 7-24-2004 by The Gull]
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bajalera
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At a restaurant in Mexico, demanding a glass to put your beer in strikes me as being right down there with asking the waiter to turn down the music
because it's too loud. Not "style," but a rude Gringo thing.
Lera
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Bob H
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How about demanding a "chilled glass". FaaahgitAboutit!! Why not just keep the ice cold beer in the ice cold bottle that it came in?
hUhhhhhhhhhhhh? 
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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thebajarunner
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Correction to Gull
You are correct... Mexicali Beer was around in and before the '70s.
This stuff ain't that... or, conversely that ain't this.
No way.... this stuff is dreadful, the original was 'interesting'
Baja Arriba!!
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Dave
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajalera
asking the waiter to turn down the music because it's too loud. Not "style," but a rude Gringo thing.
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Lera, how is asking to turn down loud music being rude? Isn't playing music at high volume itself rude and inconsiderate?
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bajalera
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In Mexico, Dave, I've never considered loud music rude and inconsiderate. It's simply how Mexicans seem to like their music in bars and restaurants.
Since it's their country, it seems to me their standards of what's-too-loud should apply--even though different from yours and mine.
I'm not sure there even IS a too-loud in Mexico. Maybe Jesse or Antonio would be kind enough to give us the word on this.
Lera
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Germanicus
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Folks, this discussion is - my guess - not worth to be continued.
A) Drinking beer out of a glass: If I am a guest in a better restaurant > dining in style.
I am certainly asking the waiter for a glass > and he will not take this as rudeness.
If I am hanging around in a 'bodega' (what's the mexican word for it?) > lots of workers around in their blue-jeans, well I'm drinking my beer out of
a bottle.
B) If I am in a better restaurant, dining with my wife, paying $50 or more per person in Mexico, (about $100 in the US) and the music is outrages
loud, I will certainly ask the waiter "if there is the possibility to turn it down" as I want to communicate with my wife without jelling into her
ears.
Sitting or hanging around in a bodega, I do have to except another level of music anyway > and I will.
No difference if I'm in the US or in Mexico or in Nepal or on the moon.
I will adjust my requests to the style of the facility I'm a guest in, but I will speak out my mind and desires > also adjusted to wrong levels of
service to a paying guest.
Bammm that's it.
Have fun with us Germans > we are not as bad as it seems to be. But we speak out our opinon > in contrary to many Americans who are just shutting up
because of what they think is so called " good behavior."
Germanicus
So what's the point?
Germanicus
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JESSE
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I hate loud music, and Mexicans ARE loud, the one thing that peees me off about my countrymen, is that they seem to get off by having others hear
their crap, i hate that!!! as far as i am concerned, they can go into a room and blast the music so loud that they bleed from their hears, just dont
let me hear your ugly tambora music as well.
I have been known to counter a late night loud banda party with a blast of my own, i play very loud Led Zeppelin at them and they get the message that
i dont like to hear their crap as much as they like to hear mine.
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bajalera
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Way to go, Jesse! Hope your view will catch on.
Lera
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