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Beer snobbery...

Fedayn said:
Well who cares, I like drinking it. Lovedly on a hot day and easy to drink all night.

However I am also happy to drink Somerset inbreadsd home produced apple produce.... Just to remind me what a real hangover is like.
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complete with dead rats and anything else that fell into the vat while they were making it.

You weren't using those brain cells anyway
 
DapperDonDamaja said:
It's analagous to Snickers bar eaters calling mars bars eaters poo-munching idiots.
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more like people who appreciate proper chocolate wondering what on earth all those mars and snickers eating fools think they're munching on.
 
I tried Budweiser yesterday just to see if my mind has changed about it and if it tastes better now. It doesn't. It still tastes 'orrible.
 
Kronenbourg is cack. I'd rather burst all my spots and collect the pus in a glass.

Budweiser on draught is the most amenable of drinks.
 
Bud is disgusting.. I was forced to drink it at a gig last week (it was either that or Guinness or wine). So I had a pint, and while the first half was drinkable because it was cold, the dregs of the pint actually made me gag. So I was forced to drink wine for the night, resulting in me getting completely langers.:D

Proper Czech bud on the other hand is very lovely stuff. :)
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
Mass produced American beer is watery piss. Snobbery has nothing to do with it.
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True American (mass produced) beers are like making love in a canoe . . .



. . . They're fucking close to water.





Much of the micro-brewery stuff is delicious though.
 
Magners - horrible (sickly and not refeshing even when cold)
Budweiser - Bland, bland, bland

Kronenberg - bog standard lager but considerably better than American Budweiser
Stella - similar league to Kronenberg

Prefer San Miguel, Staropramen, Becks or Amstel.

I'm not madly keen on yeasty microbrewery style beers though.

These are my opinions at the moment.
 
toblerone3 said:
Magners - horrible (sickly and not refeshing even when cold)
Budweiser - Bland, bland, bland

Kronenberg - bog standard lager but considerably better than American Budweiser
Stella - similar league to Kronenberg

Prefer San Miguel, Staropramen, Becks or Amstel.

I'm not madly keen on yeasty microbrewery style beers though.

These are my opinions at the moment.
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San miguels nice, its one of my faves also. Just wish it was stronger.
 
I tend to like lagers when they're imported to Britain, but as soon as they start making them here they taste rubbish. What do we do to them to ruin the taste so much?
 
Maggot said:
I tend to like lagers when they're imported to Britain, but as soon as they start making them here they taste rubbish. What do we do to them to ruin the taste so much?
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One of the most important ingredients in beer is water, and the particular quality of the water where a beer is brewed is often the single most important factor that makes it what it is. 'Brewed under license' is something of a con.
 
nino_savatte said:
Sorry, but it isn't snobbish to regard US beers like Budweiser as "piss". The only reason it's served ice cold is to numb the tastebuds. :p
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Seconded. I fucking hate the Americans brainwashing about super-cold beers. Chilled piss-water is still piss-water. It's a shame because there are some damed good beers across there, for a general beer I tend to stick to Sam Adams seasonal but I do go and look for the local micro-breweries for an IPA or porter depending on how I'm feeling.
 
It's far easier to just drink anything, sure, some beers are better than others, but some beer is always better than no beer at all :)

If it gets me pissed I'm happy :)
 
tarannau said:
Bollocks. The problem with American beer is that "Dry', "Extra Dry' and 'lite' similar descriptors have actually increasingly come to mean 'with little taste of beer' or 'inoffensive beer-hinted beverage'

Dry my arse, it's just largely flavourless chemical piss. Worst experienced at sports venues, where you get giant cups of marginally flavoured beerwater.

What's the point? If you don't like the taste of beer, don't drink beer. Sodas, ciders, alcopops and shandies thataway>>>>>

OK, so I don't want a heavily flavoured spoon-stick-in-it porter every day, but choosing a drink largely on its flavo(u)r-free nature just seems daft
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Quoted for truth.

My theory is that most Americans don't really like beer so much as they like the idea of beer. They're victims of all that lifestyle advertising extolling the virtues of enjoying a cold, icy beverage on a hot day among well-dressed, upwardly mobile friends, none of whom, in the ads at least, ever seem to even slightly inebriated. Those who don't drink it for the lifestyle associations, I suspect, drink it because it's a predictable alchohol delivery system and because it's cheap.

Sad to say, that's as true of Canada as it is of the States-- our most popular brands are as non-challengingly banal as anything produced by the major breweries south of the border, but at least ours has the redeeming feature of containing a sufficiently high amount of alcohol to make one forget about how awful it is sometime after the fourth or fifth pint.

There's beer I drink for the flavour, from our local micros, mostly; and there are beers I drink for the buzz. Lately, the latter are one of two-- either Faxe 10% from Denmark or the somewhat sweeter Gubernija Grand 9.5 from Lithuania.
 
I'm a beer lover, not a beer snob. Love Jennings and Shepards Neme, but most things that are hand pulled are nice. I'd rather drink larger though then bad bitter served like larger and as larger goes then bud is alright. Budvar is nicer mind.
 
DotCommunist said:
Most 'foreign' beers are brewed under license in the uk by interbrew. So think on beer snobs
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er, by volume, yes, by type, no - a small selection of the most widespread foreign brands are brewed under license, most others are imported. Even some very common foreign beers - Becks, for example, and most Polish lagers - are always imported. Anyone who doesn't know this has no business calling themself a beer snob!
 
DapperDonDamaja said:
I get a very noticeable beer taste from Budweiser and that ilk of beers. It's just lighter and more refreshing. The kind of think I'd have after a tennis match or something.

I think the problem with these types of objections is that they come from people who've knackered their taste buds from decades of smoking or otherwise abusing their tastebuds.
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it's not a moral issue - I don't like 'light' tasting beer, but I do like Iceland pizzas and The Bill - liking shit stuff is nothing to be ashamed of.
 
'Beer snob' is often just the term applied to people who actually like the taste of beer by people who don't, and who therefore seek out the most tasteless beer they can find - or by people seeking to shore up their common-as-much credentials by declaring their love of all that is shit.

However, true beer snobs are truly the scum of the earth. They are the sort of people who would turn up their noses at a pint of Carling (or even a tasty ale), but who would happily pay £3 for a tiny bottle of Corona with a dirty great piece of citrus fruit poking out of it. If you want to drink something watery, fair enough - buy half a Fosters for £1.50, don't spend the equivalent of seven quid a pint on something chemically identical :rolleyes:
 
Its sad, in a way. I think we make some of the best beer in the world. If this were France, say there would be "Appelation Controlles" slapped all over them, and locals would be fiercley proud of their local brews.

Yet, once again, the Brits seem to think something foreign and often more expensive is somehow better than our stuff.

Beer and Ale FTW!
 
We used to have some nice micro-brewery Catskills beer when I was a student in New Hampshire in 1994. The Bud is pish, however, as is the beer over here in France - either 1664, Kronebourg or Stella. The Pelforth is the nearest they come to OK beer, and OK is all it is.

Becks I'm impressed by. Went around the brewery in Bremen, and a lot of the ingrediants arrive by boat from....Britain! But I guess the local water is the key. Every Becks anywhere in the world is brewed there. No licences whatsoever. Although they have been taken over by evil Inbrew, who were taken over by some evil Brazilian multinational brewer.
 
We should try and celebrate english beer more. I try to quite regularly, but finances mean that sometimes it has to be cheapo larger.

So lets here it for quality UK ales. I'll start with some of Cumbria's finest which has to be Jennings Cocker Hoop. Sadly its no longer a guest ale at my local so have to make do with the bottled stuff.
 
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