Imperial has the more attractive bottle of the two main beers of Costa Rica
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I like beer. I like to drink it. I like to smell it. I like to just look at it. I like beer bottles, beer kegs, even beer cans. There is nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day.
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Paul Cone has kindly submitted this picture of an Oly stubby - 11 ounces of throat cooling delight
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A friend mentioned to me that there are a lot occurences of the word “beer” (34 as of 10 January 2002) in my journal. That gave me the idea to make a beer page on my site.
There are two kinds of beer that are readily available in Costa Rica: Imperial (pronounced eem-pair-ee-all), and Pilsen (peel-sehn). They are both manufactured by the same company, and they compete with each other. Imperial is a dark beer, an ale, I guess, and Pilsen is, of course, a pilsner.
I generally try to drink local beers. When I lived in Texas, I drank Lone Star when I could get it (Lone Star on tap is heaven!), or Shiner Bock, if not. I do love Fosters, though and I've never even been to Australia.