May 11, 2004 05:43 AM
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(Updated May 11, 2004 05:46 AM)
This is a very unpretentious beer from down under and its a mass produced label. easily available, it does not have snob value. The ingredients do not include armadillo dung or beetle juice. Why write about a bog standard plain and ordinary beer? The answer is it combines well with spicy food.
Lets say the plan is not to get drunk but to enjoy good conversation and good spicy indian food. Fosters fits the bill. Chilled on a hot summers day it is a very palatable beer and comes in standard and larger cans here in the UK. It is low alcohol around 4% rather than our desi knockouts which pack a punch around the 12% mark.
Its amazing that cobra, kingfisher and tusker are popular beers in 'indian' restaurants in uk. They are purchased as the punter feels that an exotic name and origins from an exotic location must mean a good beer-wrong!
Go unpretentious. Do not drink loads. Get in the habit of sipping on a hot day and occasionally passing the chilled can over your brow. There is nothing more therapeutic, apart from the occasional munch on a kebab and the anticipation of the biriyani to follow. More recently I discovered that cashew nut pakodas go extremely well as a starter with date(khajoor) chutney.
Enjoy, in company, never alone.
cheers.
