Insufferable beer snobs.

irishguitarlad wrote: »

I'd be a fan of super bock, peroni, Alhambra and moretti, does that make me a beer snob?

I’m the same, I don’t remember having Alhambra but the rest of those you find a very consistent pint both draught and indeed of course bottles as expected. They got Peroni on draught in my local about 4/5 years ago. Reps were in a few nights throwing about free pints of the stuff like it was going out of fashion. When the dust settled it was 6.10 a pint.... Heineken 4.30 then 4.50... the Peeroni taps lasted maybe a year and then gone, nobody was buying the stuff. 36.60 vs 25.80 per night.. I’d be out 3 nights a week on average then.

I first discovered super bock on a trip to Lisbon where they were giving the stuff away, 3.10 a pint.

Strumms wrote: »

I’m the same, I don’t remember having Alhambra but the rest of those you find a very consistent pint both draught and indeed of course bottles as expected. They got Peroni on draught in my local about 4/5 years ago. Reps were in a few nights throwing about free pints of the stuff like it was going out of fashion. When the dust settled it was 6.10 a pint.... Heineken 4.30 then 4.50... the Peeroni taps lasted maybe a year and then gone, nobody was buying the stuff. 36.60 vs 25.80 per night.. I’d be out 3 nights a week on average then.

I first discovered super bock on a trip to Lisbon where they were giving the stuff away, 3.10 a pint.

You were had, I paid 80c for a pint of it in Portugal last year. Absolute piss wherever I’ve had it. The stout is ok, well better than Murphy’s.

Tony EH wrote: »

Good luck finding it for that price over here though.

I like Peroni, when I'm in Italy. But the last pint of it I had here was in Peter's Pub in town. It cost nearly 7 quid.

That's not happening again.

Fûck, been about 10 years since I was in Peters, 7 quid, jeez.

Not a “craft” beer at all but Baltika is nice, very drinkable. They do a dark beer that is really nice imo.

Well excuse me, OP...!

Hmph!

I drink with my father in law quite a bit. He goes on with all this good pint / bad pint stuff from pub to pub, like its different everywhere. Sometimes compares pints in the same pub, out of the same tap, and complains its bad 20 mins after a good one came out of it. He also asks the bar person "is there much of a pour on it today", then considers their response before ordering - which they usually answer here, but gets us some funny looks in the UK where the staff dont give two fcuks about entertaining that type of thing.

He will never be as annoying as a fella who drank in a pub I worked in as a kid. Real posh dub who had a house down the west - he'd stand at the back of the queue, never feeling the need to actually approach the bar, wave a big note in the air and shout repeatedly "three guinea fowl, like a good man".

On the two pour thing, it was always funny to watch the reactions of American tourists when you'd leave the pint to settle. The tension in the air as they stared at it, wondering if you're only going to give them part of their drink, or give it to them at all for that matter. They'd stare at you, and get a blank response. They'd take a step forward, then back down. Finally, able for the tension no more, they reach out for the pint, fingertips close to the glass, just as you shout "WHAT THE **** ARE YA DOING HAVE YA NEVER DRANK A FCUKIN PINT BEFORE"

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

Complete opposite experience with Chieftan. Any more than four and Im not far from the coffin, gets me like no other beer does.

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.

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.

Do they lead to a " second surge"?

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.

That's be fair, 5.5% is strong enough, especially if you're drinking lots of it and used to stuff like draught Guinness or Heineken which are both around 4.2% IIRC.

Strumms wrote: »

I first discovered super bock on a trip to Lisbon where they were giving the stuff away, 3.10 a pint.

Ripped off Don't buy pints of the stuff, tends to warm up quickly in summer. An imperial would cost ya between 90c - 1.20 off the beaten track.

Sagres is the king of beers over there.

Effects wrote: »

Sorry, you just come across like you have a massive chip on your shoulder.
You moan about people paying more for craft beer, and blame those same people for large multinationals laughing at you, and squeezing even more obscene profit out of you.

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.

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.

Craft beer is not the reason for the increasing cost of a pint.