Who drinks satzenbrau?

JoeSchmoe

Recently I have become bored with the usual selection of draught beers available in most pubs and have been drinking a lot more bottled beers, Tiger and Budvar mostly coz they come in the pint like big bottle, These aren't available in every bar so when I arrive in a new hostilery I have a squint behind the bar to see what bottled beers there are. And there it is, like the omnipresent bottled beer Jesus, Satzenbrau (and usually holsten pils is it's holy ghost like partner) even in backwater aul fella bars with just a guiness and a smithwicks tap you can get satzenbrau!!!

Who is drinking Satzenbrau? never in my 15 years in pubs have I come across anyone drinking Satzenbrau, but somebody must, Is it a "half of mild for the missus" option with the older generation or what?

Have you ever drunk Satzenbrau?

Dublin8

:eek: what the hell is this

i am a fish <piesces>

drink water like fish too

best thing available on this planet WATER

i do drink other drinks too but water tops the chart
about 4 liters average a day :eek:
and u know we can never run short of water
as it rains here loadzzz :eek:

toiletduck

no but i worked in a pub and remeber that we were always well stocked with it even though it was only on rare occasions that anyone would order it.

babaduck

We used to always drink Satz when young, free & single. It's lower in cals & higher in alcohol than regular beer so we got piddled quicker! Actually it's a decent tasting pilsner... must order it next time we're out for nostalgia's sake.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

maybe the brewery's have an agreement with the pubs to provide it - it is distributed / brewed by Guinness. There are far better Czech beer's out there - Budvar being the most obvious example.

Blisterman

Where I worked, noone ever ordered pints of Stella Artois. They must have used the same keg since I got there. It wasnt until they ran promotions where you could win stuff, that anyone ordered it.
It was 20c more expensive than every other beer, which is probebly why. Strangely in England, it's cheaper than every other beer. That goes against their whole advertising campaign.

rubadub

Satzenbrau is a very nice drink, but almost everybody is totally ignorant about it, it is a pilsner beer. It is rarely advertised anymore even though it is made by guinness. There was an ad years ago which was trying to pass it off as a sophisticated drink, I think a woman was drinking a glass of it, so instantly it became a "bird's drink", most don't even know what it is. I have had people think it was cider or a west coast cooler style drink.

I remember ordering it at a free bar and all my mates saying "what are you drinking that for you ponce"
, asked them "do you know what it is",
-"yeah a drink for women and ponces"
"actually its a beer and is 5.5%"
within an hour the pub had run out of it.

Same happened at a work christmas party, all slagging saying "taking it easy on the weak stuff you big jessy".

Ritz also suffered from the "women's drink" advertising, though you do see women drinking it. But the only woman I have ever seen drinking satz is in the ads.

Kernel

rubadub wrote:

Ritz also suffered from the "women's drink" advertising, though you do see women drinking it. But the only woman I have ever seen drinking satz is in the ads.

I worked in a pub for 6 years, and it is a woman's drink. No men ever drank it, but their wives occassionally did (now they drink Coors Light). It is a girl's beer, as are many little bottles, drink pints ya big jessy!

Kevin_rc_ie

yeah i only remember selling it to girls back in the dark days of me being a poor little lounge boy.

brings back memories.

Wertz

That stuff gets you knotted. Nice bitter tase to it too. Used to drink it in cans years ago.
When I worked in pubs it was like as someone else suggested, mainly drank by women (though not exclusively), but I'm going back a good decade or more.
Ritz? lol can you still get that? Easy to drink...just cider with a different taste really...

Kevin_rc_ie

it's a dry perry.

tastes like piss.

Crash

piss tastes nicer.

fischerspooner

I buy cans of it sometimes and my mates slag me for being a chick, while they sup away at Heineken. It's a really strong lager, stronger than stella, so therefore it should be more "manly" than most beers. It doesn't even LOOK girly, must have been the ad you're talking about.

Dustaz

rubadub wrote:

Same happened at a work christmas party, all slagging saying "taking it easy on the weak stuff you big jessy".

Ritz also suffered from the "women's drink" advertising, though you do see women drinking it. But the only woman I have ever seen drinking satz is in the ads.

Like it or not, both Satz and Ritz were aimed squarely at women. The high alchohol percentage was just an extra selling point (in general young women want to get as drunk as possible, as quickly as possible)

This stuff used to fly off the shelves when i was working in pubs about 15 years ago. They were superceded by the rise in alcopops and now the mroe 'sophisticated' bottled beers.

rubadub

We used to go knacker drinking near a golf course and this guy about 45 used to always be around, he was a bit slow, he always drank cans of it. Thats when I first realised that it was a decent strong drink.
It is certainly not a girl's beer, it has a very strong beery taste, I couldn't drink it all night. Budweiser, now thats a girls drink weak taste. Maybe women do just drink it since it is lower in calories. Pilsner beers are brewed to absolute completion, so all the sugar turns to alcohol and you are left with a very dry beer.
If guinness put satzenbrau on draught in pubs word would quickly spread about it being 5.5% and it would be a top seller.
I only drink guinness in pubs mainly because it is the only thing worth buying. Bottles of satz cost a lot and other draught beer is crap.

I buy cans of it sometimes and my mates slag me for being a chick, while they sup away at Heineken

do you not slag them back for drinking their 4.3% flavourless shandy

rubadub

Dustaz wrote:

Satz and Ritz were aimed squarely at women.

Ritz, maybe. But I havent seen a satz ad in years. As I mentioned the second the guys in the free bar found out about its strength they were all drinking it. Only one of my mates buys bottles in pubs, of heineken, bottles are way overpriced.
I think guinness are missing out on a huge seller by not having it on tap. What are the top selling draught beers here bud and heinken, not much competition there!

smoke

i work in a wholesalers and they order in a fairly large amount of returnable Satz so someone must be buying it

Wertz

They used to do a draught pilsner here...Kronenburg I think it was called...not seen that in years (not round these parts anyway)

Heineken is muck tbh and overpriced muck at that...

smoke

They do Kronenbourg in 250ml bottles in Tesco the odd time. Other than that I think I've maybe seen someone deliver a case to Turks Head. If you want it on draught, a few places to it on draught: Break for the border, but it's disgusting for some reason. And Zanzibar were its ok. Best bet is bring a van to France and fill up on 40oz Bottles that sell for not much more than a euro.

rubadub

I am 99% sure kronenbourg is not a pilsner, in fact it is quite sweet tasting (relatively). Unless they also do a pilsner in their range, most over here is 1664 though there are others available.

Miller had its own "pilsner" in cans. It was called miller lite everywhere else since it is low in calories, they new it would be shunned over here if it got the "lite" labelling, so they called it pilsner, it is only 4.2%, most "true" pilsners are 5%+

Bulmers also fell for the mistake of calling it bulmers light instead of "bulmers dry" and adding none of that sweetner crap.

Wertz

rubadub wrote:

I am 99% sure kronenbourg is not a pilsner, in fact it is quite sweet tasting (relatively). Unless they also do a pilsner in their range, most over here is 1664 though there are others available.
.

I'll bow to your superior knowledge on this, as I meant 1664.

Blisterman

Actually I think the reason it's not called Miller Lite, is because it's brewed in England (Unlike MGD, which is brewed in Cork), and here I don't think they're allowed call stuff light.
Marlboro light don't say light on them, and Coors Light is called Coors fine light beer.

StupidLikeAFox

Why do people think that drinking stronger beer makes you more of a man?

rubadub

Actually I think the reason it's not called Miller Lite, is because it's brewed in England (Unlike MGD, which is brewed in Cork), and here I don't think they're allowed call stuff light.

I read it in an article at the time of its launch. How they did surveys about it. I have NEVER seen a guy order a bulmers light.

ColHol wrote:

Why do people think that drinking stronger beer makes you more of a man?

Apparently most think the opposite and slag men for drinking the stonger 5.5% "bird's drinks", and stick with the weaker "real man's" drink bud or heineken

carbsy

All the young girls used drink Satz circa 1990.

Blisterman

Maybe he meant stronger tasting. Coors light is pretty weak tasting. Still nice to drink in sessions.

Inciidentally, are you able to get standard Coors in Ireland? I wanna see what that tastes like.

Kernel

rubadub wrote:

Apparently most think the opposite and slag men for drinking the stonger 5.5% "bird's drinks", and stick with the weaker "real man's" drink bud or heineken

Pints and bottles mate, pints and bottles. If I drink a pint of Guinness or Heineken I'm drinking about twice the volume of what a bird drinker has, in a particular round. Plus, you can drink pints all day, try doing that with satz/alcopops/ritz etc.

Panjo1982

I have worked and lived over a pub for near 18 years and i can honestly say that Ritz became a big hit in the mid 90's and was usually drank with a splash of blackcurrant added..

As for Satzenbrau, Although it is a stronger tasting and stronger in alcohol content it is, was and always will be a womans drink. All the posh ladies drank it in where i worked. As far as i know we still sell around 48 bottles a week.