There is one funny thing about beer which is worth mentioning.
In the Czech Republic, you can buy bottled beer. You can buy lots of brands (usually, like, 10 000 Czech brands, but also some Belgian and Dutch, and very few German), in two different sizes (0.5 l and if you are lucky than also 0.33 l).
Here, the beer reality is different. First thing is, they sell many brands. Not only thousands of English / British brands (mostly ales and IPAs, with cheerful labels), but also many international brands (Indian (Cobra and others), Chinese (famous Tsing Tao), Japanese (e.g. Asahi and Kirin Ichiban, do not mix with Kirin Amgen!), Thai (Tiger!), Greek (Mythos, of course, and also this one which is not really Greek but I don't know the right adjective form of 'Cyprus'), Dutch (my favourite Grolsch, which is very popular with all home brewers because of the reclosable bottle), German (wheat beer as well as lager, too many brands to list them), French (mostly this beer with year but also other more obscure brands), Italian (Peroni), Spanish (mostly San Miguel), US (Coors Light and Budweiser, which I don't like!), Polish (many brands, e.g. Tyskie), Czech (many many brands, for example the real Budweiser or the absolute classic Pilsner), and so on, and so on).
However, what I find even more interesting are the bottle sizes. Apart from the 'classic' 0.5 l and 0.33 l you also have pint (understandable here in the UK), 0.66 l (...two small beers in one bottle, and I bet many Czech people would consider this ideal size!), 275 ml, 450 ml, 375 ml, 250 ml, and then many random numbers which I don't remember because they are so random!
It's "Cypriot". O_O
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