Becks Vier

eclectichoney · 03-11-2007 9:22pm #1

I absolutely love this on draught, but it's available in so few Dublin pubs (I can only think of Doyles, O'Donohoes, Bia Bar and Sin e) Is there anywhere else? It's so easy to drink (dammit!)

_blank_ · 03-11-2007 10:21pm

Yeah, I like it too.

I never get a hangover from it.

Don't know where it's available in Dublin City though.

Harry Byrne's on the Howth Rd sell it.

P_1 · 04-11-2007 2:36am

Kenedy's, Pravda, Ri Ra, Doyles, The Pav are a few places where I deffo recall getting pints of Becks 4

GBX · 04-11-2007 2:39am

Mssrs Maguires sell it too

Blisterman · 05-11-2007 2:01pm

What is the difference between normal becks and becks vier?

donaghs · 05-11-2007 2:05pm

The most noticeable one is the alcohol strength. German Becks is 5%. Becks Vier is 4%? (or else the typical 4.3%).
I think also its brewed under licence, wouldn't expect to see it in Germany. Perhaps someone in Northern Germany can confirm this?

_blank_ · 05-11-2007 2:09pm

I don't think it's brewed under licence tbh.

Also, it's sold at 4.3% in Ireland, but 4% in the UK.

melekalikimaka · 05-11-2007 2:11pm

i hear they serve it at some concerts too...

ibh · 05-11-2007 2:11pm

I've heard that there is a big promotion push on this at the minute so it would be reasonable to assume that it will be appearing in more an d more pubs. Tastes damn good too...

ciaran76 · 05-11-2007 2:16pm

There was a promotion night a few months back in the Old Boro in Swords. They were giving away free Vier for the night after 2 pints I had to give it back as I thought it was disgusting.

I usually drink Guinness in a pub. The girls were saying they were finding it hard to shift the stuff as most the people that night were handing back their free pints !!!

_blank_ · 05-11-2007 2:30pm

ciaran76 wrote: »

There was a promotion night a few months back in the Old Boro in Swords. They were giving away free Vier for the night after 2 pints I had to give it back as I thought it was disgusting.

I usually drink Guinness in a pub. The girls were saying they were finding it hard to shift the stuff as most the people that night were handing back their free pints !!!

That had to be a bad keg or something then.

Nobody I've seen tasting this has had quite that reaction to it.

It's my, and a few of my friends, lager of choice in a normal run-of-the-mill bar. That's ex-Heino, Miller and Carlsberg drinkers who have changed to it.

loyatemu · 05-11-2007 3:22pm

not too fond of regular becks - find it too malty. Is Vier much the same taste?

BeerNut · 05-11-2007 3:30pm

DesF wrote: »

I don't think it's brewed under licence tbh.

Also, it's sold at 4.3% in Ireland, but 4% in the UK.

At the bottom of the ads at bus stops it says "4.3% Imported". Either InBev don't know how to punctuate, or it's shipped out in concentrate form, like Guinness

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heggie · 05-11-2007 4:05pm

it was on draught at ian brown

rubadub · 05-11-2007 6:37pm

I love it, my local had no decent beer for ages, no german bottles etc. I am on it all the time. I had heard it was 4.0% and thought thats what the name was, it is 4.3% now I see other adds, and the vier is the 4 ingredients (vier being german for 4).

I see it in lots of pubs and have yet to have a bad one, remarkably the head of every one has lasted right down to the end of the glass. Lovely texture, I find it easier to drink that regular bottled becks which I find a little "beery", I like regular becks- just wouldnt skull it all night.

Everybody I know keeps asking what it is like, whats the big deal, just buy a pint and try it, cant imagine anybody not being able to drink it, let alone not like it.