Do you drink crap or quality beer?

Mr Benevolent

Well? Do you? I used to drink piss. Bud, Carlsberg, Heinken, Miller, I used to drink them all. But I've had an epiphany.

Most beers aimed at the Irish market are piss.

So I decided to start drinking the good stuff. Gulden Draak and Delirium Tremens/Nocturnum, Chimay Red/Blue, champange... it just makes drinking more pleasant. Gone are the days when I'd try to swallow the dregs of a warm Pisswater and gag violently, thinking someone had violated my pint with their urine. Now beer actually tastes nice.

Who's with me? We're supposed to be one of the biggest drinking countries in Europe and we have the taste in alcohol of a sixteen year old French teen drinking Corona near a puddle. Without the lime.

Edit: Am imbibing Gulden Draak at the moment. Oh dear god is it good.

Biggins

Bottled - never tap. The best also if in stock.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Whatever I can lay my hands on. Being in Berlin it's eitehr Sternberg or Pilsator at 42c a bottle. Unless I'm in Belgium, in which case I generally work my way throug the drinks list methodically.

flyton5

I like world beers...Peroni and the like. Cant stand beer in cans...

weiland79

Be careful the sh!t beer drinking nazis dont like the good beer drinking nazis to talk about their superior beer around here.

MJ23

Pints of Heino. Cans of Heino at home, the bottles of Heino are stinking, smells like someone farted in the bottle before the cap was put on.

minidazzler

Depends where I am. I will generally get Guinness in a regular bar, Schneider Weisse Kristal in Franciscan and if I am drinking at a house, I'll get carlsberg or tuborg.

AnonoBoy

MJ23 wrote: »

the bottles of Heino are stinking, smells like someone farted in the bottle before the cap was put on.

At least that would give it a bit of flavour!

RICARDO1982

Erdinger and Paulaner are good beers. I dont know how anyone can subject their guts to the aul "Dutch Mold" !!!

alwaysadub

I'm drinking a bottle of Erdinger at the minute, but when i'm out i usually drink Heineken..which is a step up from Bud, which i used to drink.

squod

MJ23 wrote: »

Pints of Heino. Cans of Heino at home, the bottles of Heino are stinking, smells like someone farted in the bottle before the cap was put on.

It's called 'Ken, k?

TheZohanS

All beer, with the exception of German wheat beer, tastes crap tbh.

Both. Prefer the likes of Duvel, Chimay, Leffe, Erdinger but can enjoy a pint of Heineken sometimes.

weiland79

minidazzler wrote: »

Depends where I am. I will generally get Guinness in a regular bar, Schneider Weisse Kristal in Franciscan and if I am drinking at a house, I'll get carlsberg or tuborg.

A man after my own heart, although i prefer the regular Schneider Weisse bier to the Kristal, Fransiskaner is pretty good too and if you ever come across Augustiner Helles, it's a fantastic lager also from Munich.
Guinness when I'm in the Pub with a neat Jameson to taste.

Mint Sauce

bottles of peroni, tiger, and kronenberg 1664 from the offie, shame not to many of the pubs round here serve them on tap.

heineken or guinness in the pub.

really want to go to belguim after drinking some 8% stuff brewed by trappest monks a mate brought back from there (thats the beer, not the monks).

gurramok

Erdinger drinking here now. The German beers are seriously higher in the quality stakes from your Heino, Bud, Miller, Carlsberg. Try alternating between the two and then you appreciate the crap(Heino, Bud etc) that the Irish mass market has been fed.

OPENROAD

Fullers London Pride :):)

http://www.fullers.co.uk/master/content/images/1/1/909/1476.jpg

Brian CivilEng

There are plenty of Irish beers that are well up there with the best in the world. Dungarvan Helvick Gold, Galway Hooker, O'Hara's Leann Follain, O'Hara's Stout, O'Hara's IPA, Porterhouse Celebration stout, I could go on. There are some great world beers but I like to keep it local when the quality is there.

karlog

Fosters. Everyone says its crap but i like it, and for the price its a win win situation.

minidazzler

weiland79 wrote: »

A man after my own heart, although i prefer the regular Schneider Weisse bier to the Kristal, Fransiskaner is pretty good too and if you ever come across Augustiner Helles, it's a fantastic lager also from Munich.
Guinness when I'm in the Pub with a neat Jameson to taste.

Gonna have to check out some of those then, I don't think I ever had the heffe Scheider Weisse, so will try that next week I think!

Links234

I don't really drink much, but when I do I would prefer something like Paulaner

gurramok

abitofacomedian wrote: »

There are plenty of Irish beers that are well up there with the best in the world. Dungarvan Helvick Gold, Galway Hooker, O'Hara's Leann Follain, O'Hara's Stout, O'Hara's IPA, Porterhouse Celebration stout, I could go on. There are some great world beers but I like to keep it local when the quality is there.

True, they are quality. Its the mass produced bland crap on draught that are in most Irish pubs that we object to!

Blame the Diageo and Heineken breweries.

HalloweenJack

If I'm staying in and drinking, I go for the euro cans in O'Brien's, Tuborg and Amstel have been the ones there lately. They're good enough.

If it was readily available, I'd go for Castlemaine. Used to be able to get it in O'Brien's but haven't seen it in years.

I like Mahou Classic too but haven't ever seen that here.

I don't like Heineken or Carlsberg. I don't get the big appeal with them.

Normally in a pub, I'd go for pints of Fosters, then Bud.

Mr Benevolent

abitofacomedian wrote: »

There are plenty of Irish beers that are well up there with the best in the world. Dungarvan Helvick Gold, Galway Hooker, O'Hara's Leann Follain, O'Hara's Stout, O'Hara's IPA, Porterhouse Celebration stout, I could go on. There are some great world beers but I like to keep it local when the quality is there.

I admit to not trying any Irish beers lately. A trip to the Porterhouse is in order.

Links234

oh and hobgoblin!

weiland79

minidazzler wrote: »

Gonna have to check out some of those then, I don't think I ever had the heffe Scheider Weisse, so will try that next week I think!

Do you put the slice of lemon in the Kristal?

nlgbbbblth

I find that the selection in a small number of city centre pubs is good - I can generally find a quality beer there.

Off licences are good too. Supermarkets not bad.

However the majority of pubs (rural and urban) have a sh*te selection. That's the annoying thing.

strokemyclover

Confab wrote: »

Well? Do you? I used to drink piss.

That is all!

DVD-Lots

OPENROAD wrote: »

Fullers London Pride :):)

http://www.fullers.co.uk/master/content/images/1/1/909/1476.jpg

Love it!!! Kudos to english ales, proper ones mind, not ure newcastle brown shee-ite. But I do like budget beers more as I cant justify the prices of some of the better beers. When they're on offer I like Cobra, Tiger and Brahma. Otherwise it's miller for me for budgetry reasons only.

OPENROAD

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

However the majority of pubs (rural and urban) have a sh*te selection. That's the annoying thing.

Is there a reason for this? We always hear the hype about the "Irish pub" being the best in the world

The selection of beers on tap is awful.

Teutorix

Nothing better than a can of dutch with the brekkie.

That_Guy

Miller is piss?

OPENROAD

DVD-Lots wrote: »

Love it!!! Kudos to english ales, proper ones mind, not ure newcastle brown shee-ite. y.

Agree, I really need to start trying out a lot more That said even the main brands are nice, like Courage Best. Also had a really nice one in Cardiff Brains Bitter was very nice, would go back to Cardiff for that alone

minidazzler

weiland79 wrote: »

Do you put the slice of lemon in the Kristal?

Never have been given it, and wouldn't anyway, I don't like lemon!

Mr Benevolent

I just gave my brother a taste of the Gulden Draak. He made a face and nearly spat it out. Ha. Philistine.

Pauleta

Ive been Tuborg lately. Ive downgraded from heineken but it still gets me pissed.

GiftofGab

Cans of tuburg and pints of heineken. Some might argue that tuburg is piss but I always thought it tastes like a high quality beer plus it's cheap. I like my beer to taste like a plain and simple beer, not like a beer with an extra taste or twang.

weiland79

minidazzler wrote: »

Never have been given it, and wouldn't anyway, I don't like lemon!

Yeah fruit doesn't belong in beer except maybe in Desporados or Corona to mask the awfulness,But it is how it is drank in Germany.

Lollymcd

I'd drink anything, I'd prefer something nice like Erdinger - the winter one, can't remember it's name - all the German Wheat beers give me a really bad headache, regardless of how much I drink...

WolfForager

Spent the summer in belgium, can't get back into heino and what not now. Did a bit of pre-drinking in a mates apartment last week, myself sipping the Duvel whilst everyone else was jugging dutch :P

Teutorix

Actually now that i think of it, I had really nice beer in alsace, cant remember the name. Didnt get to enjoy it much though because my mates topped it up with shampoo, i was hiccuping bubbles for an hour.

weiland79

Lollymcd wrote: »

I'd drink anything, I'd prefer something nice like Erdinger - the winter one, can't remember it's name - all the German Wheat beers give me a really bad headache, regardless of how much I drink...

But Erdinger is a wheat beer.

nlgbbbblth

OPENROAD wrote: »

Is there a reason for this? We always hear the hype about the "Irish pub" being the best in the world

The selection of beers on tap is awful.

Publicans seem to be fairly unadventurous as do a good percentage of the punters.

Plenty pubs have never heard of something as common as Budvar.

It's a pleasure to come up to town and have some quality beers in The Porterhouse or Bull and Castle.

Lollymcd

weiland79 wrote: »

But Erdinger is a wheat beer.

I know... I suffer for the cause!!!

Mr Benevolent

Publicans seem to be fairly unadventurous as do a good percentage of the punters.

My local is kind enough to keep a supply of Erdinger and Paulaner on tap. It's the only good beer in the place. Admittedly, my usual was always Beck's before I saw the light.

mudokon

DVD-Lots wrote: »

Love it!!! Kudos to english ales, proper ones mind, not ure newcastle brown shee-ite.

OPENROAD wrote: »

Agree, I really need to start trying out a lot more That said even the main brands are nice, like Courage Best. Also had a really nice one in Cardiff Brains Bitter was very nice, would go back to Cardiff for that alone

You should check out the Hop Back Brewery beers.

Mr Benevolent

mudokon wrote: »

You should check out the Hop Back Brewery beers.

Pfft. Tactical Nuclear Penguin.

moonage

Beer is beer and it all tastes pretty much the same to me.

Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.

OPENROAD

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Publicans seem to be fairly unadventurous as do a good percentage of the punters.

Plenty pubs have never heard of something as common as Budvar.

It's a pleasure to come up to town and have some quality beers in The Porterhouse or Bull and Castle.

+1

Mint Sauce

moonage wrote: »

Beer is beer and it all tastes pretty much the same to me.

Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.

you need to try a few more

g5fd6ow0hseima

moonage wrote: »

Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.

You're not drinking for the taste? Its about gettin hammered, right