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Insufferable beer snobs.

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    #272
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Effects wrote: »
    Yeah, you definitely have a chip on your shoulder.

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


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    #273
    Doctor Jimbob
    Registered Users Posts: 7,634 ✭✭✭Doctor Jimbob


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    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.

    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).


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    #274
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    I just want to know where can I pick up some of this Wizards Piss.

    Wizard-Piss_900x.jpg?v=1553156791

    Wine rather than beer , but it is available :eek:


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    #275
    Sebastian Dangerfield
    Registered Users Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭Sebastian Dangerfield


    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.

    Is the person who pays 10-12 euro for an organic chicken an arsehole, driving up the price of a basic one in Aldi? Is the person paying 3-4 for a sourdough loaf an arsehole? Why cant they eat Brennans like everyone else?

    Your argument makes no sense. I spent €100 on a dinner for my family in a pub on Friday night, and €4 of that was 4x €1 for blackcurrant. Some pubs in Dublin (the Galway Bay ones from memory) charge €1 for a pint of tap water with a meal. Publicans need no encouragement to gouge customers, they did it long before craft beer became popular.


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    #276
    odyssey06
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    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.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #277
    lalababa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭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!!🀔


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    #278
    lalababa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭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!


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    #279
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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.


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    #280
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,530 ✭✭✭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.

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #281
    Tony EH
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    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.


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    #282
    lalababa
    Registered Users Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭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


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    #283
    branie2
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    For beer snobs, read hipsters


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    #284
    CarProblem
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    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


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    #285
    Zebra3
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    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.


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    #286
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭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.


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    #287
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭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.


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    #288
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭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.


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    #289
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭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


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    #290
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,338 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #291
    Effects
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    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.


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    #292
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭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


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    #293
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭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


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    Reputable Rog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭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.


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    #295
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭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.


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    Lewis_Benson
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    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.


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    #297
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,815 ✭✭✭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?


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    #298
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Dark Czech beer is the only beer worth talking about.

    How do people.look forward to a Heineken?


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    #299
    Effects
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    completedit wrote: »

    How do people.look forward to a Heineken?

    Cool. Refreshing. Gets you drunk.


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    Reputable Rog
    Registered Users Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭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.


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    #301
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭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!!!


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