Beer: Crap/Not Crap?

[Roadkill]

Bugger it, that's my principles out of the window. I'm off to ASDA on the way home 'cos I believe they stock badger beers. I'm going to get pissed on Golden Glory this evening.

 

[Spion]

Home brew bitter for me, mmmm

 

[Yetman]

Not much point in drinking unless you're getting drunk is there? Unless it's something really tasty. Not like beer then.

?!?! I love drinking, dont really like being drunk though.

You cant beat an icy cold becks on a summer day, or a frosty pint of the good shit after a hard days work.

Beer is fucking great

 

[Orang Utan]

Really? I generally drink a drink because I like the taste of it... wouldn't just drink something to get pissed.

Hmmm, then I don't understand why people drink beer and things like tequila cos they taste a bit nasty

 

[editor]

Beer rocks. But I'll drink other stuff too.

But not Guinness. That's horrid.

 

[baldrick]

Is that like fruli (sp?) that's quite nice, but sickly sweet so couldn't drink too much of it.

liefmans/timmermans do fab fruit beer

 

[Biddlybee]

Hmmm, then I don't understand why people drink beer and things like tequila cos they taste a bit nasty

They might like the taste of them? I hate sambucca or anything that smells of aniseed, but loads of people I know like it

 

[Orang Utan]

It's very refreshing when drunk very chilled in teh summer.

That is true - a Budvar can be pretty refreshing.
I guess I'm talking about booze to get drunk on rather than booze to be sociable - I'd rather have a glass of wine but can't quite get used to the fact that you can get it in pubs - I did have a bottle of wine in the pub the other day though, but I can't quite imagine doing it in someplace like The Albert just yet.

 

[Orang Utan]

They might like the taste of them? I hate sambucca or anything that smells of aniseed, but loads of people I know like it

Yes, cos it gets you smashed very quickly

 

[Onket]

liefmans/timmermans do fab fruit beer

Right, that's the stuff I had. Ok for half a bottle, then you have to force down the rest.

Oh, you've edited it. The link you had was what I'd had before.

 

[May Kasahara]

Beer is wonderful. There's nothing like a really nice ale. It does the job of getting me drunk too, in sufficient quantities, though I don't really drink to get drunk anyway much of the time. I just like the taste.

Exactly. Beer is AMAZING. Orang, you're a wrong 'un. I take your point about it not necessarily being the best vehicle to pissedness (although Mr K did once see an advert for Super T that ran something like "For the drinker who knows where he wants to go, and wants to get there quickly"), but there is a whole cornucopia of delicious beers and lagers that should not be so lightly dismissed IMO.

Me and the mister are well spoiled for beer, due to having an amazing offie up the road which is a kind of beer specialist. This week we've had a few nights of sampling some mental Belgian beers, including Piraat, Judas and Christmas beer, which is only brewed on one day of the year and is apparently the strongest beer in the world at 14%. Or, if I fancy a beer but am not fussed about getting wankered, I can pop up and purchase a few ales with lowish alcohol content, around 3.5%, before kicking back to enjoy the taste with nothing more than a pleasant low-level fuzz around the brain. On hot summer days or any other time when refreshing hop-based pleasure is required, a cold bottle of Tyskie, Goose Island Honkers Ale or delicious creamy Erdinger Weissbier slips down the throat like nectar.

All of this explains why I am no longer the skinny slip of a girl that I used to be, but who cares. I love beer.

 

[Yetman]

Beer.

I've just realised where your name comes from

 

[May Kasahara]

I've made myself thirsty for beer now

 

[Kuso]

Would (almost) never buy it as a carryout. I hate tins of beer and would only drink the odd bottle of Corona in the house. Don't mind the occassional pint after work with work mates or something, on those occassions when its not really the right time to be chucking spirits down my neck.

 

[Juice Terry]

I've just discovered this stuff, its bloody lovely!

and 7.2% so you don't have to drink gallons to get tipsy

 

[Funky_monks]

Tangleyfoot and Golden glory, I can see the appeal

But I hate that floral shite. Ginger and beer aint so bad, but I can only ever drink one 'fly'....


Beer (not lager) and cider are me drinks of choice. I rarely drink 'em with the express purpose of getting pissed, although thats what usually happens.

Beer is liquid bread - whats not to like?

And cider.....as it was once said (in 'Fantastic Mr Fox', I believe) is like drinking sunbeams and rainbows!

 

[pembrokestephen]

After years of drinking beer at the pub, I've had an epiphany - I don't actually like it, apart from the odd Guinness, but even that tastes rank sometimes. Lager is pretty foul and ale is absolutely disgusting. I don't know why I've been drinking it. Taste aside, it's not a particularly efficient way to get drunk - you have to drink loads of it and end up bloated and gassy. From now on it's wine and spirits for me. Poll to follow.

Make your own! There is nothing better!!

 

[LDR]

I like the occassional guinness and the odd sip of real ale and that's it. lager is so unbelievably vile I'm amazed that anyone drinks it.

She stole my thoughts but swapped regular for occassional(sic).

 

[northernhord]

Beer is a fine bevridge especially if a bit of care has gone into its brewing, Lager is shite, only worth drinking where the beer is completley undrinkable and even then cider is the usual option

 

[Orang Utan]

I drank beer last night and I liked it

 

[fruitimix]

If only I knew an offie that sold Badger ales in this part of London. I'd kill for a bottle or two of Golden Glory...

they sell it in most threshers..

 

[snoogles]

Beer is amazing stuff and I rarely drink anything else (wine = sometimes, only if I'm in a restaurant or something, shitty lager and spirits = never).

Three cheers for real ale

In the Metro the other day there was something about Young Fogeys, who apparently are mostly London-based young people who drink real ale and like Radio 4 (guilty as charged )... didn't think I was really a fogey, but there you go...

 

[Spion]

Beer is a fine bevridge especially if a bit of care has gone into its brewing, Lager is shite, only worth drinking where the beer is completley undrinkable and even then cider is the usual option

It's quite possible to have quality lager. It's a perfectly legitimate style of beer and only differs from ale in that the yeast is of a different strain and ferments in a different way. Trouble is, the big brewers spotted lager's natural mellowness and used it as a basis for almost completely removing the taste in their pasteurised versions for the mass market.

Some of the bottled stuff is quite nice - Urquell, Budvar

 

[guinnessdrinker]

But not Guinness. That's horrid.

you're off to the reeducation camp, young man

 

[sojourner]

I drank beer last night and I liked it

Even funnier, is that I didn't bother reading the first 3 pages, but the first post I see on page 4 is this

Beer - not crap, but I don't drink very much of it, and in fact, I'm only here now cos I'm neckin lager for a change

 

[pembrokestephen]

Beer is a fine bevridge especially if a bit of care has gone into its brewing, Lager is shite, only worth drinking where the beer is completley undrinkable and even then cider is the usual option

I think you may be comparing apples and trousers there, northerhoard!

If you compare a fine artisan-crafted real ale with (say) Foster's, then I'd completely agree. But Foster's is the lager equivalent of something pretty nasty beer-wise, say post-Whitbread takeover Boddington's or similar.

Lager's a different sort of drink, but if you look at some of the better pilseners, or the more traditional varieties like the Vienna lagers, or bock/doppelbock (lager method, but not what we'd think of as lager - they're dark, for a start), I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.

I may take advantage of the winter temperatures to get a batch of lager brewing (lager likes to brew for MUCH longer at very low temperatures, then condition for a long time also at low temperatures - "lager" in German means "to rest" or "store").

 

[northernhord]

Yeah Ive tried the better 'largers' some of aint too bad but I really should have said the lager thats generally available in pubs here, the stuff thats force brewed in three days or whatever ominous method they use

 

[pembrokestephen]

Yeah Ive tried the better 'largers' some of aint too bad but I really should have said the lager thats generally available in pubs here, the stuff thats force brewed in three days or whatever ominous method they use

Well, yes, the lagers that are generally available in pubs are, not to put too fine a point on it, complete shit.

They brew them to have no real flavour beyond a very slight bitterness to counter the sweetness of the brew, so they're essentially coloured alcoholic sweetened water.

I heard a bloke on the radio saying that choice of lager brew was an entirely aspirational thing, to do entirely with the brand, and nothing to do with how the drink actually tasted. A triumph of marketing over quality...

Depressing. What happened to ale in the 70s (CAMRA) needs to happen to lager. There should be some EU rule about not being able to call the gassy piss we call lager here by that name.