What is your staple drink?

coillcam

Hi all first post here in this forum, can't believe I missed it until now.

As thread title suggest, I'm curious as to what people are drinking these days as their old reliable drink.

I'm a 22 yo man and my numero uno is Smithwick's, sometimes with the occasional dart splash of Guinness if I'm feeling "special". I won't drink it everywhere though as I've gotten some horrible pints but back home in the local it is so creamy, smooth and an all round orgasmic experience. I'd drink Guinness or Heineken from time to time for variation and bottles of miller/corona/Heineken if there was horrible pints somewhere ie. a nightclub. Keep me as far away from the jaeger bombs if possible, serious damage to be done thereafter.

So what are you into? Tell us your most regular/staple tipple please.

Stout, Ale, Lager, Weissbier, Cider, Vodka, Whiskey, Rum, Gin, Wine, brandy, other liqueur, Alcopops(*shudders*). What does it for you?

biko

Ale

Yeah a Special is great done right. Otherwise Guinness or sometimes Carlsberg.

coillcam

Lager

I'll be voting ale obviously but I'd say it'll turn out like this.

1. lager
2. Stout
3. Vodka
4. Cider

noby

Lager

Ale for me. While not exclusively an ale drinker, I drink a wide range of beers, but I guess ale would cover most.

KnifeWRENCH

Coca-Cola

slayerking

Lager

Ale!!
I like to try lots of different styles of beers but I'm pretty much an ale drinker, mostly.
Not really in the Smithwicks sense, more coz my fav beers are the Trappist beers, namely the rocheforts and chimays.

noby

Lager

Quick, close the poll now before all the lager drinkers fall out of bed and start voting. [/stereotype]

BeerNut

Lager

I'm another ale-head. I probably drink more Galway Hooker than anything else.

oblivious

Ale for me to

kenmc

Lager

Ale of some sort for me mostly. Never smithwicks though.

admiralofthefleet

Ale

stout and/or ale for me

shanel23

Rum

Whiskey - Irish of course followed by pints of stout

yoyo

Weissbier

My prefrence for beverage is lager

Nick

Honey-ec

Vodka

Wine, although sadly the selection in most Irish pubs leaves rather a lot to be desired, which is why I generally tend to drink at home.

gurramok

Ale

Stout in the pub as Ale not commonly available on tap other than Smithwicks which is not my fav.
From the Offie, it has to be Ale followed by Stout.

Wine

I've been drinking nowt but weissbier for the last year.

Mr Magnolia

Lager
Stout
Whiskey
Wine

Probably in that order though it depends on circumstances.

Jemmy

Rum

Whiskey all the way!

Jameson, yum yum yum!

Max_Damage

Lager

square_igloo wrote: »

Coca-Cola

Stone the heretic!

Blisterman

Wine

If available, i'll generally go for Weissbier, preferably Hefe Weizen like Paulaner or Erdinger.
But, unfortunatly, in England it's generally not, so I go for ale.

However, if a pub has a beer I particularly like, or am interested in trying, I'll go for that.

pdebarra

Lager

Most of what I drink is ale.

I'm fond of stouts as well, but they're not so common, really (good thing, too, or my cellar would be full to overflowing of O'Hara's Celebration).

Weizenbiers I also like, but they're more of a summer thing, I think.

Lagers I rarely drink.

Spirits I do not drink (with the exception of that bottle of ouzo from the little old lady in the little shop in the little town somewhere in Greece...).

Wine, sometimes. Cider, never, nor alcopops.

_blank_

Lager

Ale.

Smithwicks, always with a guinness head, until I notice large bottles of McArdles on a shelf somewhere.

London Pride at home usually, or some other ale on sale in the offo.

I will try the odd lager too.

But I'm finding it increasingly hard to stomach any more than three pints of lager in a night.

carlowguy32

Weissbier

i like curim wheat beer, anyone hear of it, superquinn have it and some tescos

oblivious

Des wrote: »

Ale.London Pride at home usually, or some other ale on sale in the offo.

Nice alright, there ESB is also very good

oblivious

carlowguy32 wrote: »

i like curim wheat beer, anyone hear of it, superquinn have it and some tescos

Yep Carlow brewing company do some good beers, really good stout

http://www.carlowbrewing.com/

IronMan

Ale

I drink Stout in a pub, but am growing to dislike it, a bland drink, with a guaranteed "head" the next morning. Pint bottles of Guinness if the place sells them (am I the only one noticing that more and more places are actually stocking pint bottles of it?).

Jameson, either with ice, or sometimes with ginger ale if I dont feel like beer.

At home, its exclusively either pint bottles of Guinness, or the unbelievably delicious London Pride. Although a 6 pack of Sam Adams finds it way into my trolley when it is in stock. If I see a new Ale being stocked, I will pick a few up, apart from Bishops Finger, which I think is putrid stuff.

BeerNut

Lager

IronMan wrote: »

apart from Bishops Finger, which I think is putrid stuff.

It doesn't sit well in clear glass bottles. I like it when it's good, but have had a fair few bad ones so only buy it when Superquinn are selling it for €1.75 a go.

oblivious

BeerNut wrote: »

It doesn't sit well in clear glass bottles. I like it when it's good

Yea dam light striking, its such a pity that a beer that use a decent amounts of hops use clear glassing know it will probably sit on a shelf longer that something like miller

whitser

Alcopops

cider mostly. will have odd guiness. or at home polish/cheq beers.

Aidric

I'll always have a Guinness to start when I'm out. I like a few Erdingers when I'm kicking back at home or a glass of Villa Maria sauvignon blanc.

Passenger

A pint of the Black stuff.

Tar.Aldarion

Alcopops

Pint would be cider.
Apart from that jameson and orange juice. Gorgeous

Redpunto

Weissbier

lager, lager, lager

and fizzy wine

and champagne

Not in that order, only in terms of how the bank balance is.

hoprodrye

Ale. Sierra Nevada usually, sometimes Harpoon to save a few dollars. When in Ireland it is stout or wine. From Dublin but even there it's a beer wasteland for the most part. Reckon I'd be close to teetotal if I moved home.

BeerNut

Lager

hoprodrye wrote: »

even there it's a beer wasteland for the most part.

That's far from true. You just have to know where to look.

hoprodrye wrote: »

Reckon I'd be close to teetotal if I moved home.

More for the rest of us

hoprodrye

BeerNut wrote: »

That's far from true. You just have to know where to look.


More for the rest of us

I don't doubt there's good beer in Ireland. I've been to the Porterhouse and they had a good selection but it's too much hassle going in to town and to be honest I wasn't gone on the clientele. In most locals in Ireland it's Guinness or nothing for me. Just saying that most nights I'd opt for nothing. Now, if my local had Galway Hooker I'd be delighted.

BeerNut

Lager

hoprodrye wrote: »

In most locals in Ireland it's Guinness or nothing for me.

Well there's your rookie mistake: looking for good beer in the pub.