An American Life in Istanbul

You all remember this picture from my earlier post Back in Turkey:

Well at a friend’s birthday I brought the beers and we had a tasting. Most of the tasters were a mix of impressed, intrigued and shocked at the wide range of tastes. Most Turkish beer is made in the same way as the traditional German lagers, as are most of the imports that are available here. Drinking IPA’s, ales, stouts or fruity wheat beers is just not possible here. Therefore most of the tasters had never had beer like this. Anyway here are the pictures.

From the left it’s Erman myself and Izzy sitting behind the five beers.

Besides the beer tasting, it was after all Ali Emre’s birthday, so we grilled some chicken and beef. From the left is Ant, Adnan, Erman and Izzy all trying to get the grill going. It took quite a long time but they were eventually successful.

Thick, dark chocolaty Yeti Imperial Stout from Colorado. This and one of the IPAs were the favorite two beers. I personally don’t like it. but it seemed about half the guys liked it, half of them hated it. There was no real middle ground on this one

Ant and Izzy displaying their two favorite beers. An IPA and a normal ale. The bitter hoppy taste in these two beers happens to be what I like in beer as well.

Izzy’s beer rating system. He hated the stout.

Doruk with his favorite beer. A lot of friends have said he looks a lot like Jack Black.

Playing Ninetendo Wii.

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