Insufferable beer snobs.

odyssey06

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

Yep, the difference between 4.2% and 5.5% doesn't sound like a lot but 6 cans at 4.2% is 125ml of alcohol while 6 cans at 5.5% is 165ml of alcohol which is pretty much the same as 8 cans of the 4.2% stuff (168ml).

I think I read something to the effect that your body can handle 2% beer.
So comparing 4.2% versus 5.5% seems like only a 25% jump.
But what you are really comparing is 2.2% versus 3.5% which is more like a 40% jump.
I find the same with wine, the effects of a 12.5 to 13% wine versus a wine at 14-14.5% is much bigger than the % suggests as it's the % above 7.5% that counts.

So it's not just about the total quantity of alcohol consumed over the course of the night. The % of each drink matters too.

lalababa

Banana Republic. wrote: »

Is there any truth in the rumour you don’t get a hangover from craft beer as there is a lot less crap put into them?

5 pints of generic in the pub...big hangover, 5 pints IPA in pub ...lesser hang over...5 pints of cloudy IPA at home...lesser hangover still....5 pints of my IPA homebrew...I get up at dawn like a jumping jacks rabbit!!🀔

lalababa

lawrencesummers wrote: »

This reminds me of a time about 10 years ago in a restaurant in West Cork, a well known place in a village near Clon, long before the craft beer thing was happening.

The woman seated opposite me was on the vino, I asked the waiter, who was also the owner what beer he had and got the reply word for word that i will never forget - "we have a eclectic mix of bottled beer".



So what are they? I had to ask.





Budweiser, Carlsberg and Erdinger.

Fair play if they had a German wheat beer!

andekwarhola

Tony EH wrote: »

No. What I am "moaning" about is the stupidity of some people paying idiot money for rubbish and pretending that it and they are something special. This runs right through the craft beer crowd.

Plus, when other producers see these fucking ejits paying over the odds for a drink, they up their own prices too...hence a pint of Guinness now costing around 5.50 in town...which, for the record, is a ridiculous price.

The knock on effect of these craft beer arseholes is higher prices for everyone.

You need to lie down, dude. You sound somewhat splenetic. Fcuk knows how aggrieved you get about other things in life if people's choice of beer winds you up so badly.

Montage of Feck

The emergence of craft and microbreweries is great as far as I'm concerned, for a country quite found of the stuff we have had a very poor culture of brewing. Its good for the economy also as its keeps money locally rather than it going to Diagio and can be a boon to hospitality and tourism.

Tony EH

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

Publicans need no encouragement to gouge customers, they did it long before craft beer became popular.

Did I say that they didn't?

They'll use any excuse to up their prices.

Including gobshites paying over the odds for their silly named bottles of nonsense.

lalababa

I homebrew with same ingredients/processes/equipment as a nano brewery.
500ml of a medium hopped IPA costs me maximum 21cent.
2.5kg malt-2.75euro
I only do 10lts at a time with 50g hops -1.50euro.
Heat to brew-1euro
The bottle itself adds another 40cent....but I re-use.
Can you imagine what a big brewery or even a micro plant can put 500ml into a bottle for??
I'd hazard a guess less than 10cent and the bottle around the same.
And as one craft beer I know that I buy in a pub 200meters from the brewery is charged 5.50euro. But I assume the pub has total control in how much they charge.
What am I saying....I don't know

branie2

For beer snobs, read hipsters

I'm confused, who are the insufferable snobs?

- lads drinking craft beer
- Guinness sages of "the pint" boring your tits off while swallowing marketing hook line and sinker about stuff that blind testing repeatedly disproves

Zebra3

CarProblem wrote: »

I'm confused, who are the insufferable snobs?

- lads drinking craft beer
- Guinness sages of "the pint" boring your tits off while swallowing marketing hook line and sinker about stuff that blind testing repeatedly disproves

Without a doubt, the Guinness Bores.

saabsaab

I saw an article where Americans were given samples of stouts and most went for Murphys and one for Beamish. None opted for the Guinness.

JohnnyFlash

saabsaab wrote: »

I saw an article where Americans were given samples of stouts and most went for Murphys and one for Beamish. None opted for the Guinness.

Would you have a link to that article? I'm not doubting you by the way, as they are all very similar easy drinking stouts.

Aongus Von Bismarck

One of the things I enjoy most when I come back to Ireland is having the opportunity to try new beers from the many small breweries that have popped up over the past few years. I live in Germany, and there has always been a regional/local brewery scene. That said, most of them were throwing out generic lagers, bocks, and wheats. It's refreshing to see breweries try new styles, and the more traditional family owned operations here now have to compete with a new generation of brewers who are offering new styles.

What I don't like is that generic pale ale that most of them throw out. I realise it keeps the lights on, but it's fast becoming a generic style of beer.

saabsaab

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Would you have a link to that article? I'm not doubting you by the way, as they are all very similar easy drinking stouts.

Link here,


https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-20276848.html

odyssey06

If one is slightly sweeter than the other it will win in a sample test... same way pepsi beat coke in 80s.

Effects

Tony EH wrote: »

If having a dislike of being ripped off means I have a "chip" on my shoulder...well...

You chip is based on your problem with craft beer brewers and drinkers.
Nobody likes getting ripped off.

MonkstownHoop

PTH2009 wrote: »

In other words these bars are grand for 1/2, not a whole night you be bored out of the tits

You can talk to your mates you know

MonkstownHoop

Pablo Escobar wrote: »

I don't know what's in Chieftain, but doesn't act like a 5.5%. I don't do more than 2 of them these days. They should come with a warning.

The Fran Well beers haven't been the same since they were taken over by Molson Coors

Reputable Rog

saabsaab wrote: »

I saw an article where Americans were given samples of stouts and most went for Murphys and one for Beamish. None opted for the Guinness.

I saw that article in which it was also claimed that Murphy’s was the most popular stout in Cork City.
Guinness is much more popular with Beamish in second.
I’m not surprised they would prefer Murphy’s as it’s sweet and watery, suited to the Budweiser palate.

CrankyHaus

Actually I've had Yanks make a point of telling me they like Murphys.

Any love for Weihenstephaner?
German beer that claims to be the oldest brewery in the world. Not easy to find in Ireland but lovely stuff IMO and well priced.

Lewis_Benson

Reputable Rog wrote: »

I saw that article in which it was also claimed that Murphy’s was the most popular stout in Cork City.
Guinness is much more popular with Beamish in second.
I’m not surprised they would prefer Murphy’s as it’s sweet and watery, suited to the Budweiser palate.

That's mad, my brother, a Budweiser drinker, also thinks the same about murphys, that it's sweet.

I find it has more flavour than Guinness, I taste more of the roasted barley in it than Guinness.
I don't taste the "Sweetness" at all.

saabsaab

Reputable Rog wrote: »

I saw that article in which it was also claimed that Murphy’s was the most popular stout in Cork City.
Guinness is much more popular with Beamish in second.
I’m not surprised they would prefer Murphy’s as it’s sweet and watery, suited to the Budweiser palate.

Have you any source that says that Guinness is more popular in Cork City?

completedit

Dark Czech beer is the only beer worth talking about.

How do people.look forward to a Heineken?

Effects

completedit wrote: »

How do people.look forward to a Heineken?

Cool. Refreshing. Gets you drunk.

Reputable Rog

saabsaab wrote: »

Have you any source that says that Guinness is more popular in Cork City?

A few publican acquaintances of mine. It’s also mentioned in the wonderful Beamish & Crawford book, there was a coopers strike in both Cork breweries in 1901 which prevented the Brewers getting their product out, Guinness moved in and never looked back.
Both Murphy’s and Beamish has to allow their tied houses sell Guinness from the mid 60’s onwards as they were losing trade to non tied houses such was the demand for Guinness.

completedit

Effects wrote: »

Cool. Refreshing. Gets you drunk.

Hate the aftertase. Yuck. Don't find it refreshing at all. It's like a waste to me. Just associate it with puking my ring up in the palace on a student night. **** me, would love to be back there now!!!

saabsaab

Reputable Rog wrote: »

A few publican acquaintances of mine. It’s also mentioned in the wonderful Beamish & Crawford book, there was a coopers strike in both Cork breweries in 1901 which prevented the Brewers getting their product out, Guinness moved in and never looked back.
Both Murphy’s and Beamish has to allow their tied houses sell Guinness from the mid 60’s onwards as they were losing trade to non tied houses such was the demand for Guinness.

Maybe in some pubs but I doubt it overall. Interesting if there were any stats on that.

Sebastian Dangerfield

completedit wrote: »

Dark Czech beer is the only beer worth talking about.

How do people.look forward to a Heineken?

I really dislike Heineken on draft. If it was all that was available, Id probably go without. If I was offered it from a cold bottle Id happily drink it though. I realise that probably makes no sense.

Edit: actually the same probably applies with Bulmers.

Reputable Rog

saabsaab wrote: »

Maybe in some pubs but I doubt it overall. Interesting if there were any stats on that.

Go into any pub in the City with.the exception of Callinans and count the number of Guinness taps v Murphy’s Taps.
One publican I know who has a very busy daytime drinking pub reckons he’s only keeping Murphy’s for a few pensioners, he’d get rid if he could.

LeBash

All these craft beers are all fine and whatever but Jesus H the next morning is an absolute lottery in what state you're going to wake up in.

I was in a place about 9 months ago that is trying to be super trendy but all the old heads who used to drink in the pub before it was done up, who are not trendy but still tied to that piece of ground as a watering hole were still there. I asked for a Heineken and the look I got back, followed by a massive "tut" and an explanation of why they don't sell it, followed by a run of beers they had and a break down of their flavours etc, etc. Now I'm a f*cking gentleman, so i politely allowed him ramble for about 40 seconds but couldn't take it anymore. I just said "OK, I havent a clue what to try, too much info to take in, can I just have a larger that has plenty of flow on the tap tonight".

2 pints that night, next day I feel like I woke up in the middle of my own autopsy, had to leg it to the jax, monster seedy headache,.......go to brush my teeth and as soon as the brush touched my tongue I blew chunks in the sink because I got a hit of the residual taste.

Im all for small businesses but i know the effects of Heineken. I know I can have 6 pints a little bit to eat and I can function at 75% the next day. Occasionally operating at 75% for a day is fine. I dont want 2 pints and feeling like I was on a 10 day session ever. Not even if my goal the next day is to get from bed to couch to kitchen table, to couch, to bed.

So as they say on dragons den "for that reason.....im out" on the whole craft beers gig.