Believe it or not, there is another Beer World Cup Competition being run out there. We've entered it. The draw was yesterday and we drew...... Argentina....
It's fair to say that it was a little disappointing.
If we'd drawn North Korea, we could have described how a friend got in touch with a friend in South Korea and she went to the supermarket and bought 2 bottles and couriered them over. You can only courier over a maximum of 2 bottles at a time because of the customs laws.
If we'd drawn Slovenia, we could have described how a friend arranged for 8 tins to be included in a shipment he was receiving, and how he presented them to us in a special, football shaped container (which we will use to present the contestants for our tastings).
If we'd drawn Ghana (easy peasy to source!!) we would have described our trip to Brixton (to see LCD Soundsystem as it happens) and secured the bottles at an outrageous price and then found they are all out of date, which may put Ghana at a bit of a disadvantage. (Hope they play Nigeria at some stage. Beer experts will get that reference.)
If we'd drawn Honduras, we would have described how we tracked down Port Royal on an American website, and with great excitement put in our details (including credit card) to get it shipped over, only to find that the website was a ghost of a company that had died. (We now check our credit card bill very carefully).
But oh no it's Argentina. Good old Quilmes. Only Argentinian beer available in the UK (so not even the excitement of having to weigh up Sagres vs Superbock for Portugal). Easily available. And not even an very exciting beer, either good or bad. It reached the quarter finals in the Boxbeck 2006 Beer World Cup, where it was knocked out by Germany (Uriech).
Never mind. Come on Argentina!!
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