What is your favourite beer?

Mr. Wexford Doyle

Which beer is your favourite?

Personally, I only drink Guinness and Smithwick's, but, occasionally, I might have a Bulmers or a Heineken.

Statistically, lager is the most popular beer in Ireland, followed by stout, then followed by cider and then ale.

So, what are your favourite beers?

Hitman3000

Peroni.

Omackeral

Single plum floating in perfume served in a man's hat.

tomwaterford

Cider

Smithicks.....I'm old before my time

Burial.

Mr. Wexford Doyle wrote: »

Which beer is your favourite?

Personally, I only drink Guinness and Smithwick's, but, occasionally, I might have a Bulmers or a Heineken.

Statistically, lager is the most popular beer in Ireland, followed by stout, then followed by cider and then ale.

So, what are your favourite beers?

Cider is not beer.

I-like-eggs,mmm

Leffe

thesandeman

Cider

Bridewell.

branie2

Coors Llght

Omackeral

I dunno what I'm allowed to drink. If I drink a beverage that's not widely available I'm a craft beer wanker but if I say I like Heineken I'm drinking mass produced p*ss. I'll just stick with the heroin.

GLaDOS

Omackeral wrote: »

I dunno what I'm allowed to drink. If I drink a beverage that's not widely available I'm a craft beer wanker but if I say I like Heineken I'm drinking mass produced p*ss. I'll just stick with the heroin.

Gin?

Mr. Wexford Doyle

Burial. wrote: »

Cider is not beer.

I always though it was beer. If not, then what is it?

jacksie66

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Hitman3000

Mr. Wexford Doyle wrote:

I always though it was beer. If not, then what is it?

Fermented fruit juice.

GLaDOS

Mr. Wexford Doyle wrote: »

I always though it was beer. If not, then what is it?

Ciders are made from fermented fruit, beer is made from fermenting malted barley/wheat.

Omackeral

GLaDOS wrote: »

Gin?

My favourite. Only in a Marty Morrissey head-sized goblet though, with juniper berries and organic kale in it.

FNSolidSnake

Sapporo

faceman

Stout

Free beer. But when thats not available:

Lagunitas
Sam Adams
Wicklow Wolf

Peroni if none of the above is available. The Heinos and Carlsbergs of the world are very watered down dish water that lacks any sense of flavour. But if Im stuck....

Stout
Guinness

Craft Beer
Crafty Brewing Company American Wheat Ale
KPA Kinsale Pale

Lager
Estrella Damm

Cider
Savanna Dry

All subject to change, except for Guinness.

donegaLroad

Leffe
Bishops Finger
Guinness


there is a very nice one in Aldi at the moment called Medusa.

Mr. Wexford Doyle

I'm just wondering, which lager would generally be more popular, Carlsberg or Heineken?

I hardly ever drink Carlsberg but do sometimes have a Heineken and enjoy it.

McCrack

I like all beers tbh, ive never had a beer and thought it was horrible. I used like dutch gold back in the day but they had to be very chilled.

Mr. Wexford Doyle

Mr. Wexford Doyle wrote: »

I'm just wondering, which lager would generally be more popular, Carlsberg or Heineken?

I hardly ever drink Carlsberg but do sometimes have a Heineken and enjoy it.

Heineken probably.
Carlsberg to me has a nasty aftertaste.

brevity

Tiger beer

XsApollo

Guinness if I’m in a pub.

Budvar everywhere else.
Not a beer drinker and drink no other beer but love Budvar out of a pint bottle.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Don't drink alcohol.

Hitman3000

XsApollo wrote:

Budvar everywhere else. Not a beer drinker and drink no other beer but love Budvar out of a pint bottle.

Budvar is very nice, ever tried Staroprammen?

The Backwards Man

I'll drink anything as long as it's Tennent's.

Omackeral

brevity wrote: »

Tiger beer

Good shout. Great with a meal I've always found.

XsApollo

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Budvar is very nice, ever tried Staroprammen?

Yea one bottle is nice, but I couldn’t drink a lot of it.
It’s lovely to have one if your having one :-D
Very strong flavour.

raxy

Cider

McCrack wrote: »

I like all beers tbh, ive never had a beer and thought it was horrible. I used like dutch gold back in the day but they had to be very chilled.

If it had to be very chilled then you don't like it. They chill beer to disguise the taste, thats why you have the chilled beer taps in bars.

I'd go for Kinsale pale ale but just tried the Mccargles little bangin IPA which is very nice too.

OldMrBrennan83

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smilerf

A Brazilian beer called Brahma

Aongus Von Bismarck

I always associate Irish lager drinkers with fat men in replica jerseys sitting in a pub roaring at 'Man U' playing on the telly.

I'm not much of a beer man, but I occasionally enjoy a dunkelweizen. Especially if I'm having a cured meat and cheese plate in some rustic rural tavern here in Germany.

OldMrBrennan83

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Mr. Wexford Doyle

Would Budweiser be a more popular lager than Carlsberg and Heineken?

theteal

Not sure I have one. It really depends on my mood at the time. I had 2 bottles of Hobgoblin last night and they really hit the spot.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I always associate Irish lager drinkers with fat men in replica jerseys sitting in a pub roaring at 'Man U' playing on the telly.

I'm not much of a beer man, but I occasionally enjoy a dunkelweizen. Especially if I'm having a cured meat and cheese plate in some rustic rural tavern here in Germany.

Ah.

He's back.

I, for one, missed him.

But I should confess, I'd Carlsberg from a boot and weigh just over 10 stone.

theteal

Mr. Wexford Doyle wrote: »

Would Budweiser be a more popular lager than Carlsberg and Heineken?

Probably for 17 yr olds who don't like the taste of beer

OldMrBrennan83

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elperello

Burial. wrote: »

Cider is not beer.

No it's not but you can drink it with a lager top. A bit more lager and it can be called Snakebite. (for a reason!).

Another tip for Guinness drinkers.
Have a half of cider before your pint of Guinness. A whole new experience.
Try it, you'll thank me.

smilerf

Patww79 wrote: »

Used to love that but I always thought it changed when the bottle went from curved to straight.

Didn't notice me self

SeanW

Stout

Cider is not beer. I did not vote for it for that reason.

Lager is my poison of choice when I'm on the beer, I especially like German beers, such as the brews sold in Munich. Tastes light, but hits you like a freight train.

Outlaw Pete

Grolsch, been drinking it since I was 15...... comes in the best bottles too.





For a brief time in the late 80's some people (not me) would attach them to their boots.

Owryan

Leann Follain

valoren

Cider

Brewdog 5am Saint.

Delicious.

Arghus

I used to drink all the different types of craft beer that I could get my hands on. I'd try to never order the same beer twice in a row, this went on for a good long while.

Then, eventually, I had to acknowledge that 95% of all craft beers have nothing wild or unusual going for them in the taste department: some are hoppy, some aren't; some are treacly and heavy, some aren't - but after a while it all gets very similar. There's a chronic disparity between the high falutin' nonsense that's claimed on behalf of the majority of the craft beers out there, and what that all really amounts to in the real world in terms of taste. There's templates there that can't be deviated from all that much.

That's not to say that I think craft beers suck, but there's a lot of smoke, mirrors, and baloney wrapped up in it - most give you a version of something you've had before and will get again, under a different name. And the teeny minority of beers that do genuinely offer something different are, generally, not the ones to stick to for the long haul.

So I just went back to the regular stuff. Not Carlsberg, Heineken, or Budweiser though: those three are genuinely awful beers. Budweiser, in particular, is truly revolting: how can something that is essentially tasteless, still end up tasting so bad? How people continue to drink it is a mystery to me. Seriously.

I think Peroni is very drinkable. Nothing crazy or, let's face it, even mildly exciting in taste terms, but it doesn't taste bad and it has a bit of a crispness to it that helps a lot.

Smithwicks has at least got some taste going for it and it's available everywhere and - most importantly - I can drink a lot of it without falling down.

I met a fair few hardened beer snobs over the years that were always ready to denigrate Guinness in favour of some black forest gataeux stout or black pudding Porter or some such crap that they thought was immaculate. Guinness!, they'd shout, Chemicals, muck, yadda, yadda, yadda... To be honest, I don't care if Guinness is 99% toxic waste: a good Guinness is the real deal. And those idiots didn't have a clue what they were talking about.

ArnoldJRimmer

Cider

Scraggy Bay beer made by Kinnegar brewing. Only drink it when I'm home in Donegal and its given me some pretty bad hangovers in the past, but its so tasty.

Not sure if its age, or the fact that I rarely drink it these days, but Guinness absolutely destroys my guts for days anymore. Last time I drank it was months ago in Mulligans of Poolbeg St, so not as if I'm drinking dodgy pints. But gonna be a while before I touch it again I reckon

Birneybau

Founders All Day IPA

Birneybau

natashaob6 wrote: »

Don't drink alcohol.

I'll do what I want. Narc.

Shenshen

Cider

Right now, I would say my favourite bottled beer is Doom Bar, an ale from Cornwall made by Sharp's Brewery. Their Sea Fury is very nice, too.

On tap, my favourite is Chieftains IPA by the Franciscan Well brewery.

I really like the fact that there is more choice these days, that you can try new beers wherever you go. I'm originally from a town in Germany with ca 70k inhabitants, and 10 breweries - so I grew up spoilt for choice. It's nice getting some of that here, too, now

suicide_circus

A creamy stout.