Beer on ice? ... Come on

boardfriek

There is something annoying going on lately as Pubs starting to serve glasses with ice cubes when you order a bottled beer.

Whats the Story with this?

Beer on ice??? Never!!!

m@cc@

boardfriek wrote: »

There is something annoying going on lately as Pubs starting to serve glasses with ice cubes when you order a bottled beer.

Whats the Story with this?

They've in fact served you cider. Glass the cnuts!

boardfriek

Nope. It happened with Budwar, Miller, Budweiser.......

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

you come from a "traditional beer country" but you're ordering budweiser?

something doesn't make sense..

Dunny

'The fcuk is Budwar??

m@cc@

boardfriek wrote: »

Nope. It happened with Budwar, Miller, Budweiser.......

Essentially soft drinks anyway. You just got unlucky with the Budvar.

There's a secret code phrase you can say to the barman so he doesn't give you ice.

It's "no ice".

You can even say please afterwards!

Martyn1989

I work in a pub, and for some reason the majority of people when getting a bottle of bud/miller/coors/heino take a glass of ice (especially women) I dont understand why they would do it, the last thing you need is watered down beer.

Min

Its just H2O in the piss...

boardfriek

Martyn1989 wrote: »

I dont understand why they would do it, the last thing you need is watered down beer.

That exactly is the point!!! You got it!

mikemac

boardfriek wrote: »

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As a beer lover this seems very odd to me and coming from a traditional beer country

Oh so you have taste and knowledge and like craft beers and know about obscure brands?

boardfriek wrote: »

Nope. It happened with Budwar, Miller, Budweiser.......

So WTF? Drinking this big brand commerical pish

You've completely contradicted yourself

mikom

boardfriek wrote: »

As a beer lover.....

boardfriek wrote: »

Nope. It happened with Budweiser.......

Does not compute.

Sergeant

Have yourself a pint of Ale, served at cellar temperature. Problem solved, and it actually tastes of beer, which is a wonderful substance when not disguised as that fizzy yellow stuff which is chilled to just above zero.

robinph

Sergeant wrote: »

Have yourself a pint of Ale, served at cellar temperature. Problem solved, and it actually tastes of beer, which is a wonderful substance when not disguised as that fizzy yellow stuff which is chilled to just above zero.

Exactly, the bubbles and ice cold temperature are used to disguise the terrible taste.

Drink a proper beer.

strokemyclover

What are you doing ordering beer anyway OP? As we all know....beer for men, fruit-based drink for the lady!

Big Nasty

Ice in beer is just wrong - though lots of women do it for some reason.

It's not a 'new' thing at all.

Lapin

boardfriek wrote: »

There is something annoying going on lately as Pubs starting to serve glasses with ice cubes when you order a bottled beer.

Whats the Story with this?

Beer on ice??? Never!!!

I agree.

I've only ever seen this done in Ireland too.

I worked as a barman both here and abroad and was shocked by customers asking for ice to go with their beer when i moved back to Ireland.

The bar manager told us we should offer the customers ice if they ordered a bottle of lager.

I never did. Its against everything I believe in when it comes to serving beer.

biko

boardfriek wrote: »

Nope. It happened with Budwar, Miller, Budweiser.......

Drink Guinness.

mikemac

biko wrote: »

Drink Guinness.

With a drop of blackcurrent
Blackcurrent mi wadi makes it even better!

Lapin

feelingstressed wrote: »

With a drop of blackcurrent
Blackcurrent mi wadi makes it even better!

You wanna be here

Son Of A Vidic

Ice in Beer? Are we in Saudi Arabia with no air condition or something? But I suppose the sultry Irish climate warrants ice in Beer. :rolleyes:

Gunsfortoys

That certainly is friekish behaviour op...

jdivision

People are brainwashed by all this ice cold ad nonsense

Sergeant

jdivision wrote: »

People are brainwashed by all this ice cold ad nonsense

Ice cold beer, the two part pour, we know of no brand produced by any other brewer which costs so much to brew and age, probably the best lager in the world, to Arthur -- all marketing and advertising based bullshít.

WhiteRussian

biko wrote: »

Drink Guinness.

Guinness, I feel, has quite a generic, bland taste compared to what's on offer in the shtout market. Some indigenous brewery will put more effort into a strong stouty taste which is mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Dravokivich

Why are you getting a glass in the first place?

:eek:

WhiteRussian

Dravokivich wrote: »

Why are you getting a glass in the first place?

:eek:

Yeah that doesn't really make sense since the beer comes in a glass bottle!

Martyn1989

WhiteRussian wrote: »

Yeah that doesn't really make sense since the beer comes in a glass bottle!

Two words "rat piss", even before bottles get to a pub cellar theyve been sitting in all sorts of places, when stock is being done you wouldnt believe the filth that has to be wiped of some bottles (dust etc)

Big Nasty

Martyn1989 wrote: »

Two words "rat piss", even before bottles get to a pub cellar theyve been sitting in all sorts of places, when stock is being done you wouldnt believe the filth that has to be wiped of some bottles (dust etc)

There was a big 'scare' about that around ten years back. Many pubs started handing out a napkin with bottle beer so you could wipe it clean!

Knifey Spoony

WhiteRussian wrote: »

Guinness, I feel, has quite a generic, bland taste compared to what's on offer in the shtout market. Some indigenous brewery will put more effort into a strong stouty taste which is mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Can't go wrong with a pint of O'Harra's, which is how a true stout should taste. Or even Raven Stout, which has to be one of the nicest drinks I have ever tried. There is just something wrong with having a Guinness after having one of those stouts.

Einhard

LOL, I love the fact that, as well as social, music, and all the other types of snobbery, we now have beer snobbery! Some people just like the taste of Miller and Bud, some don't. If you're in the latter camp, it doesn't make you some form of refined, superior connoisseur...it just means your taste buds are wired differently!

Zebra3

Einhard wrote: »

Some people just like the taste of Miller and Bud, some don't.

Miller and Bud have a taste? :eek:

Mensch Maschine

Well yeah. If you seem someone drinking Budweiser it tells me: A) they might just like it. B)They're not very adventurous when it comes to beer C)They are not very cultural. D) It's the drink of knackers mainly and underage working class drinkers because of it's light, brewed with rice flavour.

I'm a total snob. Nah, American beer is just pretty rank. Miller tastes really light and sweet, Budweiser leaves me with a raging headache.

Give me, Becks, Guinness, Smithwicks, Lech anything but Bud.

I_am_LOST

Einhard wrote: »

LOL, I love the fact that, as well as social, music, and all the other types of snobbery, we now have beer snobbery! Some people just like the taste of Miller and Bud, some don't. If you're in the latter camp, it doesn't make you some form of refined, superior connoisseur...it just means your taste buds are wired differently!

I don't like Miller or Bud myself, but yeah, I've seen loads of beer snobbery on boards.ie

Luckily, doesn't seem to happen in real life. Let people drink whatever the fúck they want to

That said, I WILL slag any man who drinks alcopops

Benny_Cake

Ice in beer is quite the done thing in Thailand. In addition to keeping the beer cold for longer in the tropical heat, it also helps in masking the taste of the local brew! Never have I seen it done here - grounds for execution surely?

boardfriek

Actually this post was more around in issue in general. Not really connected to a certain brand. But I guess a few of the guys here would see it differently once someone got served ice cubes in a Guinness

oldyouth

I never get ice in ANY drink in a pub. Dirty filthy stuff in most of them

Ihatecuddles

Did you just forget about this thread for 2 years?

boardfriek

Yeah...I did. But you did not

Sir Arthur Daley

The ice cubes are surely melted by now :rolleyes:

joolsveer

boardfriek wrote: »

Nope. It happened with Budwar, Miller, Budweiser.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery

Budvar is a good beer.

The Backwards Man

You take a jump to the left. . . .

sawdoubters

is for girly men

years an years ago the Brazen Head would bar you if you asked for a cold beer


I still like my women cold
and my beer warm

Frank Lee Midere

Einhard wrote: »

LOL, I love the fact that, as well as social, music, and all the other types of snobbery, we now have beer snobbery! Some people just like the taste of Miller and Bud, some don't. If you're in the latter camp, it doesn't make you some form of refined, superior connoisseur...it just means your taste buds are wired differently!

Or they pretend they are. Some of my friends are craft beer snobs and the amount of crap I'm forced to drink. They hate bland - well after tasting some Irish craft beer stout I have learned to love bland lovely smooth Guineess, a stout whose aftertaste is not reminiscint of rusting razor blades.

joolsveer

Keep the beer from freezing.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/28/267772060/illinois-train-conductor-s-challenge-keep-beer-from-freezing?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

Banjo String

Anyone that drank in the empire bar in Belfast during the late 90s (my student days) might remember the beer they sold called 'arc'

The bar person placed a special shaped pint glass on a disc shaped rubber mat that spun the glass round furiously, while ice cold water was drizzled on the outside of the glass. Meanwhile, the beer filled the glass which was ice cold and had little ice particles in it (not slush puppy consistency, but had ice in beer), the end result was an ice cold pint, that remained kinda ice cold for the best part of 3/4hour or so.


Can't recall the strength of the beer, or if it was even nice (i was a student goddamit, all beer was nice then) but the novelty was something else.

Good times.

Beer snobbery is the latest manifestation of the hipster mentality.

And it's very tiresome :rolleyes:

Cienciano

The right way to serve a beer is to serve it the way the person who's paying for it wants it

Matt_Trakker

Cienciano wrote: »

The right way to serve a beer is to serve it the way the person who's paying for it wants it

Naw, customers are idiots.

minidazzler

Cienciano wrote: »

The right way to serve a beer is to serve it the way the person who's paying for it wants it

This x100. I more often than not will give a lady a glass with ice when she orders a bottle of coors light, because in my experience more often than not they will request it after I'm done serving them anyway. But other than that, it's only Cider that automatically gets a glass with ice.

Now, if you ask for it, I'm giving it straight away.

xxyyzz

Deleted User wrote: »

Beer snobbery is the latest manifestation of the hipster mentality.

And it's very tiresome :rolleyes:

TBH, I wouldn't consider it snobbery that people are willing to be adventurous and sample new and different beer. Granted there are some holier than thou folks out there ramming their opinions down your throat in the same way that there is the typical Irish attitude of putting people down for trying something different.

The big beer brands are all pushing these extra cold beers because it numbs the tastebuds and you don't actually have to taste the beer. Try a room temperature budweiser and see how you get on. If you are happy drinking the big brands, fair enough, but there are far better beers out there. This is a fact, not snobbery.