What do you drink when all they have is Bud Heino etc

Tigger

Just wondering what do you drink when there is nothing avalible but the mass market stuff?

Blisterman

I usually mix it up. Guinness one round, then Heineken, Carlsberg, Smithwicks. etc.

I'm a massive beer fan, but I'd hate to become a beer snob. And sometimes a cheap lager just hits the spot.

the beer revolu

Smithwicks.

The crazy thing is, I's starting to actually like it!!:eek:

Generally I avoid pubs without choice but I often travel with work and like to have a pint or two in the hotel and it does me at weddings and the like.

I'm glad they relaunched and rebranded Smithwick's a year or so ago cause a while back you'd not have found a Smithwick's tap in Munster.

daddydick

I smell a beer snob OP?

Tigger

the beer revolu wrote: »

Smithwicks.

The crazy thing is, I's starting:eek: to actually like it!!

Generally avoid pubs without choice but I often travel with work and like to have a pint or two in the hotel.

me too

Technocentral

Budvar, have never being in a pub that at least didn't have that, if I was in one that didn't even have that it would be a glass of red wine or a G&T.

T2daK

Bud Ice cold..... If not always end of with Carlsberg

Tigger

daddydick wrote: »

I smell a beer snob OP?

i'm not a snob.i was at a party in a country pub last weekend and the wife was ment to be driving: i looked at the stuff on offer and told her she should have a drink because i couldnt be arsed.

Tigger

Technocentral wrote: »

Budvar, have never being in a pub that at least didn't have that, if I was in one that didn't even have that it would be a glass of red wine or a G&T.

come to the west

Technocentral

daddydick wrote: »

I smell a beer snob OP?

Interesting that you consider avoiding pubs with no choice as snobbery, so a shop with only a few choices of goods or a restaurant with 3 things on the menu would presumably be ok with you too?

Mint Sauce

I nearly only ever drink Guiness or Heiniken.



Unless I'm holiday or away somewhere then I try and get some local stuff. Tried a view differenet varities of Cotswolds Bitter the other week. Twas good stuff.

TheWarrior

I ask for pint bottles of guinness, if they don't have that beamish, then guinness. Ocassionally I can drink a few pints of heineken but only under protes t& a very hot day.
Was out in cork last weekend with my wife, went to disco & someone bought us 2 pints of bud, I tried to drink mine (be rude not too) but my wife handed hers back saying "I'll never be that drunk".

Technocentral

Tigger wrote: »

come to the west

Was in Galway a few weeks ago had some great beers in The Bierhaus also in Cork, Dublin isn't the only place with good choices of proper beer.

Tigger

i live in mayo, you said that you'd not seen a pub without budvar. well i'd be surprised to see it in mayo

Technocentral

Tigger wrote: »

i live in mayo, you said that you'd not seen a pub without budvar. well i'd be surprised to see it in mayo

Fair enough mate, I haven't been in Mayo in about 5 years so I'll defer to you on that, on a positive note there are around 40 beers and ciders produced by Irish microbreweries so its only a matter of time before they spread out around the Country hopefully, though I find Irish people very conservative, if a beer isn't attached to a sport or on telly ads all the time people don't think its any good. I like strong flavored, hoppy beers and ales which none of the big breweries make (or make available at least, one of the nicest beers ever is Guinness Foreign Extra which I've never seen in pubs) if they did I'd drink them.

matrim

I used to normally have Heineken, but have found that I can get bored of it after a few pints now. I also don't like the extra cold taps that some pubs are putting in.

If not Heineken I'd have Smithwicks or very occasionally Guinness

Tigger

Technocentral wrote: »

Fair enough mate, I haven't been in Mayo in about 5 years so I'll defer to you on that, on a positive note there are around 40 beers and ciders produced by Irish microbreweries so its only a matter of time before they spread out around the Country hopefully, though I find Irish people very conservative, if a beer isn't attached to a sport or on telly ads all the time people don't think its any good. I like strong flavored, hoppy beers and ales which none of the big breweries make (or make available at least, one of the nicest beers ever is Guinness Foreign Extra which I've never seen in pubs) if they did I'd drink them.

Guinness foreign extra is lovely however is not gonna be around anytime soon

_blank_

More and more pubs have pint bottles of Guinness, failing that, and if the only option is "the usuals" I drink Smithwick's

T2daK

Des wrote: »

More and more pubs have pint bottles of Guinness, failing that, and if the only option is "the usuals" I drink Smithwick's

unlucky

Mo14

I'll usually just have a pint of stout, Beamish being the first choice (although I don't know of a Kilkenny pub that sells it, so usually Guinness) or Smithwicks to mix it up. I'll rarely have a lager, if I'm paying the guts of €5 for a drink I'd like to at least taste something. But I usually try and steer things to the one pub in the town that sells decent beers.

Am I considered a beer snob?

irish_goat

Pints bottles of Guinness, pint bottle of Smithwicks, draught Smithwicks, Heineken (in that order).

BeerNut

Technocentral wrote: »

one of the nicest beers ever is Guinness Foreign Extra which I've never seen in pubs

The Village on Wexford Street in Dublin stocks it.

busyliving

Pint bottles of Guinness

the beer revolu

Ah, I wasn't counting Pint Bottles of Guinness.
If they're there, I'll have that but then the endless dilemma of shelf (too warm in most pubs) or fridge (too cold).
I'll sometimes mix shelf and fridge if I have a willing partner or else have one from the fridge and suffer it cold but ask the server to take a few out of the fridge to warm up a bit if I'm staying for a few.

Technocentral

BeerNut wrote: »

The Village on Wexford Street in Dublin stocks it.

Cheers

Sarky

If I'm honest, I'd be more inclined to get some whiskey, gin or rum instead if all they had was the usual dull names on tap. I haven't seen a pub that didn't stock a decent brand of at least one of those.

kenmc

If there's nothing else I'll have a stout; Beamish then Murphys then Guinness in order of preference. It usually ends up being Guinness

johnmcdnl

Smithwicks has really grown on me lately so probably that... either that or Guinness.. really just depends on the mood...

Blisterman

Sarky wrote: »

If I'm honest, I'd be more inclined to get some whiskey, gin or rum instead if all they had was the usual dull names on tap. I haven't seen a pub that didn't stock a decent brand of at least one of those.

Agreed, but sadly in England, in many bars the choices of Whiskey are Jack Daniels or none at all. No Irish or Scotch whiskeys at all.

JustAddWater

Technocentral wrote: »

Budvar, have never being in a pub that at least didn't have that, if I was in one that didn't even have that it would be a glass of red wine or a G&T.

Budvar? Seriously I would rather just eat a loaf of bread

Zebra3

Guinness.

Which can leave me badly stung in the summer as I really dislike Bud, Carlsberg, Heino, etc and can't drink cider.