From time to time, we will blog about particular teams, perhaps digressing a bit about how we sourced the beer or anything else that springs into my mind.
After Uruguay's dreadful performance yesterday, I felt you should know more.
As everyone knows, Nortena is Uruguay's beer of choice. Try as we might, we could not source it. So we needed to field a substitute.
We happened to be in Oxford's Cowley Road with a bit of time to spare before enjoying an Indian at the splendid Aziz and then going to the Big Pink gig at what is now the O2 (we preferred it in the Zodiac days). We found this amazing beer shop, Classic Beer and Wine. It was filled with unusual and hard to obtain beers - at amazingly low prices. We rootled around and found "Patagonia", in a discount basket, available at 50p per bottle. We realised it was out of date at that price (couldn't read exact death date) but this was a chance we were willing to take. As we left the store, we realised it only sold out of date beer and wine.
And this was what represented Uruguay yesterday. It was ghastly, completely off. Ugh.
The moral of the story - buy full price at discount stores. At 50p a bottle, you get what you pay for.
Any why Patagonia to substitute for Uruguay? Well, it's geographically relatively close, loosely speaking... We could not source beers from Algeria, Honduras, Paraguay or Chile either, so these too have substitutes. We limit the competitors in our beer world cup to lagers of around 5% strength, so that like competes with like. If we allowed bitter or stout in it would be a bit like having rugby players running all over the footballers, not fair. So that limits the substitutes (no banana beer in our competition!).
Must go. Day 2 will be action packed.
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