Big Brand names whose products are way overrated

snoopboggybog wrote: »

You keep going on about it been the same liquid.

If you gave me a cup of tap water and a bottle of Ballygowan I suppose I wouldn't be able to taste the difference?

Next time your in a pub have a large bottle and then have a pint and let me know if you can taste the difference. The large bottle is more watery than the pint and that is a fact.

Is your tap connected to the Ballygowan spring? They're not the same liquid if it isn't

Both the draught and the bottle are made at the same time on the same plant. You are imagining any other difference.

Go get the two people required to double blind it. You won't tell any difference, cause there isn't one.

snoopboggybog wrote: »

So you couldn't taste or notice the difference between say a bottle of coors poured into a pint glass or a pint of Coors from the tap?


Riiiiggghttt

For any beer - once they're the same product, at the same temperature, to the same height in the glass - no. Because its the same beer. If I'm given a half filled pint glass with a giant headed, warm beer in it I'll be able to tell it was from a bottle; but that's not taste based.

I'm not sure if bottle and draught Coors come from the same brewery here, btw; but that isn't a very common split.

You have convinced yourself based on visual or other cues - that a bottle of most beers is under a pint; that they are unlikely to be the same temperature (pint bottles are often room temperature and regularly opened fridges aren't as cold as chilled lines), that bottles are often poured badly.

Visual elements have a huge impact on food. People were convinced that Heinz's green ketchup was a different product. It was exactly the same with a taste inert food dye - but everyone expects ketchup to be red, not green.

Everyone does this, to some extent. When you make an effort not to be swayed by it you will stop believing things are different when they are actually just presented differently.

jj880 wrote: »

Five Guys.

Absolute nonsense.

If you think they're dear here; look at the prices in England (NI is the same franchiser as here) :eek:

snoopboggybog wrote: »

We have to agree to disagree as I know we can't change each others opinions so this will be my last post on it but I know for a fact points are better probably because of the gas used. I would be able to tell the difference every time. Maybe your not a big drinker but would be able to tell right away.

The liquid indeed might be 100% the same but there is no way that cans can equal the way a pub pours the pint and the head it gets due to the gas used. No possible way.

That's the end of it now from me

I write about pubs and pub history, "not a big drinker" would not be what anyone would use to describe me!

The line gas is the propellants, the dissolved gas is the majority of what you drink

jj880 wrote: »

Five Guys.

Absolute nonsense.

Bunsen or Ricks wipe the floor with it, and for nearly half the price.

snoopboggybog wrote: »

100%, they even said the same about Smitwicks. Imagine comparing a can of Smithwicks to a nice creamy pint of it.

There completely different.

I do think lads would find it difficult to differentiate between Beamish and Guinness in a blind pour.

Strumms wrote: »

Ricks is probably the most underrated burger in the city. Huge and delicious. Prob with Ricks is brilliant location but tiny shop for the demand they have...

I’ve mentioned “Ricks” on this site before. For the price, it has to be the best “value for money” burger around.

Really is an excellent burger.

Some people do take issue with the fact that the meat is halal. Ridiculous stuff. I mean, really??

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

Sure Guinness on draught is excellent in some pubs and undrinkable in others are you saying that’s imagination also?

A can of Guinness does not taste anywhere near as nice as even a half decent pint, the consistency is different and the head is very different. It is easy to tell the difference, they are basically a different drink.

Stale product is 99% of the 'bad pint' thing in pubs. Actually means the cans are a more consistent decent product.

Are you scared of the blind taste challenge I gave you? Cause you didn't reply to that

L1011 wrote: »

As soon as someone eulogises 'creamy', you know they've been got by the marketing people

Jesus, as a moderator, I thought you'd know better. Clogging the last 7/8 pages of this thread with ****e talk about Guinness. Just open a new thread to debate the merits

snoopboggybog wrote: »

Your actually deluded if you think you can't notice the difference between a can and pint.

Have you ever, ever applied actual scientific method to this?

I guarantee that you cannot tell the difference when blinded. If you like the look, sure, you like the look.

"creamy" and so on is total marketing nonsense that you have totally fallen for. If you were given a pint of actual cream you'd probably vomit half way down.

There is nothing wrong wrong with preferring the visual, mythological or whatever properties of draught - but deluding yourself that its a different product is anti factual.

Saying you prefer draught = fine
Saying draught is better with unprovable, pseudoscientific nonsense = not

Strumms wrote: »

You would certainly know the difference between a can and a draught pint... and you wouldn’t even need to put either product to your lips... the head for a start, out of the can, it dissipates to fairly thin and flat looking after a two to three minutes, draught, generally not...

You're entirely describing visual differences.

Strumms wrote: »

It depends on your taste but certainly if you blindfolded me, same type of glass, one a pulled draught pint, the other poured from a can that had been in the refrigerator I’m telling the difference I think..

But are somehow certain you could taste the difference blindfolded?




People here are trying to insist that the same liquid has magical properties when coming from a tap; without every actually trying anything that excludes visual differences.

If you like the look of it - fantastic, keep liking it. Stop pretending it changes the liquid.

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

I will absolutely take on that challenge when it can be arranged sometime down the road.

Great. Prepare to be horrified

(we have actually met in real life, for the benefit of other posters)

Vestiapx wrote: »

I didn't realise that LeAnn Foll was in German shops.

Oharas have investment by the firm behind Estrella Galicia and have a huge distribution network. Only Irish beer you'll find easily in Estonian for instance, Guinness being rarer