Dutch Gold

Chemical Burn

OK, I have to get this off my chest. Why do people give you looks when you purchase or drink a can of Dutch gold It is a nice Goddamn beer. It has a fresh crisp taste and goes down very well. It is not the cheapest of beers, I have seen cheaper. It tastes very nice (I think so anyway). the only reason (well, I think anyway) it has a bad reputation is because scum bags drink it, then idiots use the excuse .. oh that's a bad beer, scum bags drink it so it must be bad for you ...BOLLOCKS .... the only reason scumbags drink it is because it is cheap, for ffs, if Miller did a deal where they sold 10 cans for a Euro, then scum would be drinking it. Get over yourselves, Jesus. It is a nice beer. I'm sick of people bashing Dutch Gold and people who choose to drink it, ie, me.

Scum drink it because it is cheap, doesn't mean the beer is inferior quality or taste. It's a European Pilsner, far miles better than Budweiser, Miller, Coors, etc and other American lagers. The only difference in cheap beers and expensive ones is largely due to the water used. ie, Guinness and other fancy stuff gets their water from Wicklow Mountains and other cheaper breweries source water from other location, ie midlands regions or hard / limescale water. that's all.

tl;dr version: Dutch Gold not ≠ bad
Only reason scum drink it is because it is cheap
Cheap ≠ Bad
Dutch gold tastes nice


If anyone here bashes Dutch Gold .. have you ever drank a can ??

MrStuffins

You find Dutch Gold tasty eh?

They are giving you a look because you obviously have a massive long beard housing many different types of parasite and crazy eyes like you've just ingested many many rocks of Crack-Cocaine.

You must do, if you find Dutch Gold tasty!

Mr Benevolent

I drink alcohol, but I don't drink beer anyway

I've never tried it, but Bavaria gets the same rep, a pity as it's a grand beer, and I'm a beer snob.

crockholm

you tramp

davet82

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

I heard the zombies in 28 Days Later were drinking dutch gold

Ilik Urgee

I drink but would only take Dutch if I had to / if offered out of politness

Free wifi OP?

Chemical Burn

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

I've never tried it, but Bavaria gets the same rep, a pity as it's a grand beer, and I'm a beer snob.

If you look in my fridge right now, you will see an array of beers, from about 7 different countries, if I recall correctly:

Quilmes - Argentina
Stella Artois - Belgium
Becks - Germany
Sapporo - Japan
Qingdao - China
Chimay and Duvel - Belgium
Peroni -Italy
Efes - Turkey

Local off license sells all kinds, I have tried beer from many, many different countries. Probably much more than the fools bashing Dutch Gold and I can safely say that Dutch is nicer than Miller, Budweiser and Coors.

donvito99

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Yes. It's certainly better than Tuborg, Prazcy at any rate.

--Kaiser--

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

There are worse beers than Dutch Gold. I'd wager most of the people who look down on Dutch Gold drink Budweiser, Coors Light or some similar piss-like beer

cson

Funnily enough they don't sell this in the Netherlands. Well not Amsterdam anyway.

I wonder does Continental Europe or some other far flung place have Leprechaun Piss or something similar masquerading as some exotic imported beer.

MJ23

I drink alcohol, but I don't drink beer anyway

Swamp juice

Chemical Burn

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

There are worse beers than Dutch Gold. I'd wager most of the people who look down on Dutch Gold drink Budweiser, Coors Light or some similar piss-like beer

Thank this guy here please. He deserves it.

kwestfan08

Wouldn't drink Dutch myself but I am a Bavaria drinker. I drink it out of choice not necessity and find it to be the nicest can of the mainstream beers you can get.

hatrickpatrick

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Dutch is alright. To be honest, if I'm looking for a cheap beer to bulk buy for a session or something, Dutch would be on my list, but if I could get Tuborg I'd much prefer that, think it tastes a lot better and also it doesn't go flat as quickly.

Ironically enough, Stella Artois I find is a bit nasty, but I'd still drink it. The only beer I absolutely wouldn't touch is Exelscior. I'm fairly sure it kills brain cells one sip at a time.

latenia

It's fine as long as it's very cold and you throw away the last 5th of the can which is always vile tasting.

ArnoldJRimmer

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Used to drink it all the time because it was cheap and tasted alright, but the hangovers were pretty bad. Still wouldn't refuse a can if it was handed to me, but would never go drinking it for the night again.

irish_goat

I drink but would only take Dutch if I had to / if offered out of politness

Chemical Burn wrote: »

The only difference in cheap beers and expensive ones is largely due to the water used. ie, Guinness and other fancy stuff.

Guinness is far from fancy and that is a ridiculous statement.

osarusan

Dutch Gold is absolute filth.

It is a lot cheaper though than a number of beers which somehow have a reputation for quality which are also absolute filth.

shopaholic01

If you like it so much why do care what other people think?

FatherLen

I drink but would only take Dutch if I had to / if offered out of politness

dutch is muck. tuborg or bavaria are the same price and they're much nicer beers, not great beers but certainly better than dutch.
I think i may have recently found one of the nicest cheap beers on the market too. rheinbacher in aldi is less than 7 euro for 6 half liter bottles and it is a really nice pilsner.
So to answer your question op, no i probably wouldn't drink dutch if i had a choice.

Sergeant

Most lager is piss in fairness.

FTA69

To be perfectly honest about it all those lagers taste pretty much the same, and that is the case whether it is watery p*ss like Dutch Gold or watery p*ss like Budweiser. People bang on about Corona but that's only more palatable due to a lime being stuck in the bottle. There's no massive range between generic lager and Dutch Gold is as good a drink as most of them.

Dravokivich

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

I have no qualms about stating I have drank Dutch Gold on many occasions and I'll do it again, darnit!

darren527

If its not Dutch, it costs too much

Banjo String

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

I don't drink Dutch gold in fairness, but that's more or less cos i tend to stick to my usual beers, which tend to be :

Coopers sparkling ale
Tyskie
Lech
Franzikaner

And occasionally Perlenbacher/Rhinebacher

My mate, who worked in pubs in Belgium for years reckons the same as chemical burn though, as in Dutch gold/Bavsria have an unjust bad reputation over here, as he reckons it's definitely not considered that bad in the region of Belgium he lived in (just over the border from Eindhoven)

omahaid

I only drink Horst Anderwaggen's Premium Sauerkraut Stout or Cannes de Bière

Banjo String

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Chemical Burn wrote: »

If you look in my fridge right now, you will see an array of beers, from about 7 different countries, if I recall correctly:

Quilmes - Argentina
Stella Artois - Belgium
Becks - Germany
Sapporo - Japan
Qingdao - China
Chimay and Duvel - Belgium
Peroni -Italy
Efes - Turkey

Local off license sells all kinds, I have tried beer from many, many different countries. Probably much more than the fools bashing Dutch Gold and I can safely say that Dutch is nicer than Miller, Budweiser and Coors.

Oh, btw CB


I'm on the way over for a par-tay...... :cool:

Banjo String

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

darren527 wrote: »

If its not Dutch, it costs too much

Fair play, waiting nearly four years to post that lol:pac:

BillyMitchel

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Beer situation is strange and all down to marketing. I was in Holland recently and in fairly posh clubs the most expensive beer on tap was Bavaria (in around €6) and its one of the cheapest here.

Dutch Gold, drank it for years when I was younger as it was all I could afford. Have to disagree though OP it tastes like piss but each to their own I suppose.

Wouldn't look down on anyone for drinking it though.

summerskin

I have three fine bottles of Felcher's Old Scrote in my fridge.


And some nice beer too.

AEDIC

Dutch Gold in my opinion has a tinny aftertaste and it gives me the worst hangover headaches ever, so personally I think its rank because of that, but I certainly wouldnt give anyone dirty looks for drinking or buying it.

kingtiger

I drink alcohol, but I don't drink beer anyway

if beer doesnt have an alcohol content of 5% or more, I will not drink it

Cienciano

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

There are worse beers than Dutch Gold. I'd wager most of the people who look down on Dutch Gold drink Budweiser, Coors Light or some similar piss-like beer

Big difference between coors light, bud etc than dutch gold though. Those big american beers have no taste. They're inoffensive flavours. Where dutch gold actually tastes like shíte.
I drank dutch gold years ago when it was the cheapest, but there's way more beers around now that are far more drinkable if you buy a box of them.

Blatter

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Beer situation is strange and all down to marketing. I was in Holland recently and in fairly posh clubs the most expensive beer on tap was Bavaria (in around €6) and its one of the cheapest here.

Is it the same Bavaria though? They seem to have varying types of beers.

B.A._Baracus

Lets be honest, Dutch Gold is cheap. There for it's going to be of a 'cheaper quality' to put it nicely :pac: But it's still a beer. You get drunk.

Havent had it in a few years. Memory tells me it's weaker than most beers tho. But hey, its cheap.

--Kaiser--

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

AEDIC wrote: »

Dutch Gold in my opinion has a tinny aftertaste and it gives me the worst hangover headaches ever, so personally I think its rank because of that, but I certainly wouldnt give anyone dirty looks for drinking or buying it.

If you drink beer from a can, it's going to have a metallic aftertaste. Just pour it into a pint glass

mattjack

kingtiger wrote: »

if beer doesnt have an alcohol content of 5% or more, I will not drink it

Have you tried the hand gel they have in hospitals ? apparently its alcohol content is quite high.
Some say its bad for you , buthad itsno ef on me fect and I can still nyahhhhh drive ..............

AEDIC

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

If you drink beer from a can, it's going to have a metallic aftertaste. Just pour it into a pint glass

You could drink it out of a tramps smelly sock and it would still have a tinny aftertaste....

And I dont drink out of cans....how very dare you :P

BillyMitchel

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Blatter wrote: »

Is it the same Bavaria though? They seem to have varying types of beers.

No idea but it seemed to have the same label.

TeddyTedson

Dutch Gold is a vary variable beer. It can taste great or taste like bud/water.
Royal Dutch, now there's a beer you don't see much of anymore.

--Kaiser--

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

AEDIC wrote: »

You could drink it out of a tramps smelly sock and it would still have a tinny aftertaste....

And I dont drink out of cans....how very dare you :P

Neither do I, bottles all the way

Menas

Dutch gold is only sold in Ireland so don't expect to get it in the Netherlands under the same name.
Bavaria on the other hand is sold widely in the Netherlands and is a fine drink.

Interestingly in terms of sales of canned beer in Ireland dutch gold comes third after Budweiser and Heineken. That is a lot of pee stained tramps buying it or else it has gone mainstream.

Richard Hillman

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

I owe my teenage years to Dutch. I will be eternally grateful for what it done for me. My drinking habits are now different but it will always have a special place in my heart.

Sergeant

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Interestingly in terms of sales of canned beer in Ireland dutch gold comes third after Budweiser and Heineken. That is a lot of pee stained tramps buying it or else it has gone mainstream.

It's gone totally post-ironic. Heading down to Electric Picnic with Fintan, Aodhán and Sorcha in the camper van with a couple of acoustic guitars and 144 cans of Dutch.

Koptain Liverpool

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

Dutch gold is nice enough. Better than Bavaria, Prazky, Hackenberg etc
It's certainly better than Bud and Miller.

If I'm after cheap beers these days I usually go for carlsberg (4 for €5) as long as it not the northern Irish 3.8% piss.
I've recently been going for Estrella Galicia a cheap Spanish beer at €5 for 4 as well.

kwestfan08

kwestfan08 wrote: »

I am a Bavaria drinker. I drink it out of choice not necessity and find it to be the nicest can of the mainstream beers you can get.

Same here Bavaria is my first choice when getting cans/bottles for drinking at the house etc, way ahead of Heineken, carlsberg etc. Guinness would be my first choice but only on draught.

As an added bonus Bavaria is usually really cheap, last two slabs I got were 24 cans for 20 euro, happy out.

SEPT 23 1989

Drank gallons of Royal Dutch beer in my youth

is it the same beer rebranded?

Sarky

I drink but would only take Dutch if I had to / if offered out of politness

Chemical Burn wrote: »

Local off license sells all kinds, I have tried beer from many, many different countries. Probably much more than the fools bashing Dutch Gold and I can safely say that Dutch is nicer than Miller, Budweiser and Coors.

That's a bit like saying Leukemia is the best type of cancer to be fair.

TheUsual

I drink alcohol, but I don't drink beer anyway

"There are two things I hate in this world. People who are racist, and The Dutch."

Cheap beer, nobody will drink it on you at a house party.
Comes with free shiny track suit.
Student champagne.

Celly Smunt

Yes

All beer tastes the same.There,I said it.

ArnoldJRimmer

I drink, but wouldn't touch Dutch Gold

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Drank gallons of Royal Dutch beer in my youth

is it the same beer rebranded?

Nope, it was normally around 10p more expensive per can, so I used to drink it on special occasions