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Lager Snobbery

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    #212
    jack presley
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    Ipso wrote: »
    Is Sam Adams Boston Lager available in Ireland?

    Yeah, I buy it regularly enough. Molloy’s and O’Brien’s sell it anyway and I’m sure other off licences do too.

    A beautiful drink.


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    #213
    [Deleted User]
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    Some of the Carry Outs have the Boston lager too.


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    #214
    andekwarhola
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    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    Honourable mention - Lithuania - Svyturis Ekstra - an excellent larger that I drank regularly in the 18 months I was living there.

    You can get bottles of it here. Seen it in some off licences.


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    #215
    Richard Hillman
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    To be an ultra beer hipster...

    The best local beer for a country I have been too was South Korea. Cass Extra and Hite are the most popular drinks over. Cass is magnificently refreshing.

    I'm sure somebody from Korea will be calling it piss and that they don't know beer until they've had Carling.

    Big shout out to Croatia with Ozujsko and Karlovacko. I had a non alcoholic Ozujsko at a football match and it was the first non alcoholic beer that I really liked


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    #216
    ben.schlomo
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    You can get bottles of it here. Seen it in some off licences.

    Dunnes have sold it for years.


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    #217
    ben.schlomo
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    To be an ultra beer hipster...

    The best local beer for a country I have been too was South Korea. Cass Extra and Hite are the most popular drinks over. Cass is magnificently refreshing.

    I'm sure somebody from Korea will be calling it piss and that they don't know beer until they've had Carling.

    Big shout out to Croatia with Ozujsko and Karlovacko. I had a non alcoholic Ozujsko at a football match and it was the first non alcoholic beer that I really liked
    Ozujsko isn't bad alright, even from the plastic bottle.


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    #218
    circadian
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    To be an ultra beer hipster...

    The best local beer for a country I have been too was South Korea. Cass Extra and Hite are the most popular drinks over. Cass is magnificently refreshing.

    I'm sure somebody from Korea will be calling it piss and that they don't know beer until they've had Carling.

    Big shout out to Croatia with Ozujsko and Karlovacko. I had a non alcoholic Ozujsko at a football match and it was the first non alcoholic beer that I really liked

    Washing down some gamja-tang with Cass. Memories.


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    #219
    RWCNT
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    You can get some pretty damn decent German lager on the cheap from Aldi (I live in England but I think it's much the same stock as you get in Ireland).

    Rheinbacher is a personal fave. Purity law FTW. Far prefer it to Heino, Carlsberg or any of that. I've never had a mass produced American lager available in UK or Ireland that I've enjoyed. I did gave some Miller Hi Life when I was in the States that was tasty enough.

    As far as the mainstream widely available lagers go I have a soft spot for Stella.


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    #220
    Zaph
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Anyone like Budvar?

    I don't drink a lot of lager these days, but Budvar is one that I've always been a fan of. They also do a black lager that I'd love to try but I've never seen it on sale in Ireland.


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    #221
    BeerWolf
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    You call that swill a drink?!

    snob2.jpg


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    #222
    Melanchthon
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    Anybody else drink Dutch Gold on occasion, think they must have changed the recipe a few years back as its pretty refreshing, best of the low end beers IMO despite its reputation


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    #223
    bigpink
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    All the hipsters coming into clearly old school pubs looking for IPA s


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    #224
    Macy0161
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    Melanchthon wrote: »
    Anybody else drink Dutch Gold on occasion, think they must have changed the recipe a few years back as its pretty refreshing, best of the low end beers IMO despite its reputation

    Always preferred the Royal Dutch, as my chaser for the buckie....


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    #225
    andekwarhola
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    bmc58 wrote: »
    Bass was a pretty good drink.


    That ad was quite interesting. Talking about the taste of a beer etc. Like something the usual suspects would be tearing their hair out about, unless it's Ronnie drew style guff about Guinness.


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    #226
    Pherekydes
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    Was given the gift of 4 bottles of beer from the Mescan brewery, based in Westport. I've just had 2 bottles, 8.5% and 8.8%. :eek: Definitely...

    ...something. I'll give my verdict when I sober up. :pac:

    Normally drink Miller. On nights out I drink Carlsberg. Somebody brought up Rockshore as re-labelled Bud. No way. They don't taste anything alike.

    Had a very nice one the other night: Galway Bay Helles. A good un.


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    #227
    Billy Mays
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    Can't go far wrong with any helles tbf


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    #228
    harry Bailey esq
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    Acosta wrote: »
    If people are taken in by those Rockshore ads then they deserve to drink ****e beer.

    I've had rockshore. Barman gave me a free pint of it a few months ago when they got the tap in. Twas a scorcher of a day and I necked it in two swigs, wouldn't win any awards but as a thirst quencher it serves its purpose. I'm on the Guinness at the moment, it's going down nicely although the first one was a bit of a struggle


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    #229
    Jamsiek
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    American beer is piss in general.

    I partly agree for the big brands but I don’t agree about the west coast beers around Seattle and Portland and also Vancouver in Canada. Some great beers in these areas.
    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Heineken is average to awful. Carlsberg is perfectly fine on tap most of the time.
    I find they can be bad but it can depend on where you are.
    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Carling on tap has a head on it much like Don King's 'fro but it will do in a pinch and actually isn't that bad.
    Not keen on Carling, a Canadian beer that’s impossible to find in Canada, they just export it like the Australians do with Fosters.
    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Tuborg is fine on tap and can.
    It’s ok I guess, cheap anyway
    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Bav will give you bad hangovers.
    Im not familiar with this so I’ll take your advice, not keen on the hangovers
    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Bud is mostly for kids who want to get drunk real quick in a field somewhere and men in bootcut jeans.
    Has a redneck image too, awful stuff
    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Quite like Tiger on tap.
    Yes, I’ve had worse


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    #230
    [Deleted User]
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    The NW of the US does have some excellent beer.


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    #231
    Jamsiek
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    smelly sock wrote: »
    Heinekens , Carlsbergs Coors etc have been brewing for hundreds of years. They are the biggest selling beers in the world. They must be doing something right.
    Marketing, like McDonald’s except with beer
    smelly sock wrote: »
    And you dont sound like a twat ordering it.
    A pint of plumbers precum.
    A real twat would be the one having a problem with what someone else was drinking.
    smelly sock wrote: »
    I have drank Moosehead before. Is that a craft beer?
    Nope


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