New draught beers

sir John jonson

I'm sick of paying four or five euros a pint for beers like carlsberg and heiniken(or any diago beer) every time i head out for the night, which is becoming less and less of a rarity. does anyone know of cheaper beers coming on the market like bravaria which is selling for 3 yoyo. are there going to be more brands like this or had i better get used to braveria.

merlinsmerryman

Fosters is available in a few places. Again priced €3 a pint.

rubadub

fosters is 3.40 in my local, you get the slaggings "why are you drinking that piss?", to which you can reply, "what else is there to drink on draught thats better?", to which the reply is "eeehhhh, yeah I suppose!"
erdinger is great if you can find a pub with it, it is not cheap but acutally works out fairly cheap in the long run as it is a much higher % and they pour you an actual pint! rather than a pint glass with a head it is an oversized glass with a pint line.

Civilian_Target

Warsteiner.

noby

"they pour you an actual pint! rather than a pint glass with a head it is an oversized glass with a pint line."

Are you sure you don't mean a 500mL line? I'd check again if I were you

rubadub

noby wrote:

"they pour you an actual pint! rather than a pint glass with a head it is an oversized glass with a pint line."

Are you sure you don't mean a 500mL line? I'd check again if I were you

99% sure it is the pint. I am always very aware of stuff like that, I have seen normal pint glasses with the 500ml marked out. The erdinger glasses are very tall with a big bulb at the top.

noby

The erdinger glasses are very tall with a big bulb at the top.

Yes, but they still have a 0.5L line, and then room for head. The Germans wouldn't be big on imperial measurements. I'm sure it would hold a pint, as there is plenty of head-room left (being a wheat beer) but any time I've gotten erdinger, or the like, on draught it's been 0.5L + head.

j22

Erdinger Weiss is a lovely and has a fairly high %. Its a bit expensive but a lovely beer none the less. Also its served in the coolest glasses in the world.

steveland?

rubadub wrote:

99% sure it is the pint. I am always very aware of stuff like that, I have seen normal pint glasses with the 500ml marked out. The erdinger glasses are very tall with a big bulb at the top.

A pint is 568ml, therefore it should be filled over the 500ml point. If you ever get a pub that fills it to the 500ml point complain...

Usually from the 500ml point up you'll get 68ml of head but that's unavoidable unless you say "with no head please..."

Erdingers have particularly big glasses because the head on them are always going to be huge (unavoidable with Weisbeirs). Really you're supposed to wet the glass first but that just ain't gonna happen in a busy pub.

When I worked in a pub I used to pull my after-hours pints in an Erdinger glass when management wasn't around because you get an extra mouthful

I've heard in Glasgow you can get Kronenburg Blanc on tap and they have a little rubber ring on something beside the drip tray. They put the glass down rim first and it shoots water into the glass and moistens it so the beer clings to the inside of the glass.

Clever but I can't see them implementing it in busy pubs/nightclubs any time soon.

Bavaria is actually drinkable from a tap, as is Fosters imo...

I can't think of any others that'd be as cheap but you can get Kronenburg on tap in lots of places in Dublin city centre (Thing Mote or whatever it's called now, White Horse...)

If you're that desperate you can always pop into the Pav in Trinners and have a few cans of Bavaria :P