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Do you drink crap or quality beer?

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  • #32
    That_Guy
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    Miller is piss? :(


  • #33
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    DVD-Lots wrote: »
    Love it!!! Kudos to english ales, proper ones mind, not ure newcastle brown shee-ite. y.


    Agree, I really need to start trying out a lot more :p That said even the main brands are nice, like Courage Best. Also had a really nice one in Cardiff Brains Bitter was very nice, would go back to Cardiff for that alone :D


  • #34
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    weiland79 wrote: »
    Do you put the slice of lemon in the Kristal?

    Never have been given it, and wouldn't anyway, I don't like lemon!


  • #35
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I just gave my brother a taste of the Gulden Draak. He made a face and nearly spat it out. Ha. Philistine.


  • #36
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Ive been Tuborg lately. Ive downgraded from heineken but it still gets me pissed.


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  • #37
    GiftofGab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    Cans of tuburg and pints of heineken. Some might argue that tuburg is piss but I always thought it tastes like a high quality beer plus it's cheap. I like my beer to taste like a plain and simple beer, not like a beer with an extra taste or twang.


  • #38
    weiland79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭weiland79


    minidazzler wrote: »
    Never have been given it, and wouldn't anyway, I don't like lemon!


    Yeah fruit doesn't belong in beer except maybe in Desporados or Corona to mask the awfulness,But it is how it is drank in Germany.


  • #39
    Lollymcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    I'd drink anything, I'd prefer something nice like Erdinger - the winter one, can't remember it's name - all the German Wheat beers give me a really bad headache, regardless of how much I drink...


  • #40
    WolfForager
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭WolfForager


    Spent the summer in belgium, can't get back into heino and what not now. Did a bit of pre-drinking in a mates apartment last week, myself sipping the Duvel whilst everyone else was jugging dutch :P


  • #41
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    Actually now that i think of it, I had really nice beer in alsace, cant remember the name. Didnt get to enjoy it much though because my mates topped it up with shampoo, i was hiccuping bubbles for an hour.


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  • #42
    weiland79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,320 ✭✭✭weiland79


    Lollymcd wrote: »
    I'd drink anything, I'd prefer something nice like Erdinger - the winter one, can't remember it's name - all the German Wheat beers give me a really bad headache, regardless of how much I drink...

    But Erdinger is a wheat beer.


  • #43
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Is there a reason for this? We always hear the hype about the "Irish pub" being the best in the world :confused:

    The selection of beers on tap is awful.

    Publicans seem to be fairly unadventurous as do a good percentage of the punters.

    Plenty pubs have never heard of something as common as Budvar.

    It's a pleasure to come up to town and have some quality beers in The Porterhouse or Bull and Castle.


  • #44
    Lollymcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Lollymcd


    weiland79 wrote: »
    But Erdinger is a wheat beer.

    I know... I suffer for the cause!!!


  • #45
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Publicans seem to be fairly unadventurous as do a good percentage of the punters.

    My local is kind enough to keep a supply of Erdinger and Paulaner on tap. It's the only good beer in the place. Admittedly, my usual was always Beck's before I saw the light.


  • #46
    mudokon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭mudokon


    DVD-Lots wrote: »
    Love it!!! Kudos to english ales, proper ones mind, not ure newcastle brown shee-ite.
    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Agree, I really need to start trying out a lot more :p That said even the main brands are nice, like Courage Best. Also had a really nice one in Cardiff Brains Bitter was very nice, would go back to Cardiff for that alone :D

    You should check out the Hop Back Brewery beers.


  • #47
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    mudokon wrote: »
    You should check out the Hop Back Brewery beers.

    Pfft. Tactical Nuclear Penguin.


  • #48
    moonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭moonage


    Beer is beer and it all tastes pretty much the same to me.

    Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.


  • #49
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    Publicans seem to be fairly unadventurous as do a good percentage of the punters.

    Plenty pubs have never heard of something as common as Budvar.

    It's a pleasure to come up to town and have some quality beers in The Porterhouse or Bull and Castle.

    +1


  • #50
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    moonage wrote: »
    Beer is beer and it all tastes pretty much the same to me.

    Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.

    you need to try a few more

    ;)


  • #51
    g5fd6ow0hseima
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    moonage wrote: »
    Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.

    You're not drinking for the taste? Its about gettin hammered, right


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  • #52
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    moonage wrote: »
    Beer is beer and it all tastes pretty much the same to me.

    Anyway, I'm not drinking if for the taste. I don't see the point of paying two or three times as much for some fancy beer.

    Drowning your sorrows eh?


  • #53
    Asphyxia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,740 ✭✭✭Asphyxia


    When we have the money I like buying a box of Budweiser and keeping it in the fridge don't usually get cheap beer unless we are going to a friends house for a party or barbecue and need a good bit but don't have the money.


  • #54
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Well being a true connoisseur, I tend to go for Bavaria.

    Sheer excellence.


  • #55
    shovel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 463 ✭✭shovel


    KungPao wrote: »
    Well being a true connoisseur, I tend to go for Bavaria.

    Sheer excellence.

    +1


  • #56
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2455/3940416669_4b1f05f9ef.jpg


  • #57
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    I can understand coffee snobs to a certain extent but beer snobs????

    It all goes out the same way regardless of what you drink.


  • #58
    moonage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭moonage


    Tiffany Tall Sandbag wrote: »
    You're not drinking for the taste? Its about gettin hammered, right

    I drink for the effect (like everyone else), which sometimes involves getting hammered.

    It makes me laugh that some people think they mainly drink alcohol because of the taste.


  • #59
    Misanthrope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Misanthrope


    Samuel Smiths Organic Ale

    Longtrail IPA

    Sierra Nevada Summerfest Lager

    Whale Tale Pale Ale

    All very tasty


  • #60
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    If I buy bottles I usually opt for the following if available:

    Tsingtao

    Leffe Blonde

    Peroni

    Maisel's Weisse

    London Pride

    because I like them, but I often drink cheaper stuff like Heineken, Becks, Stella and Lech too. Also try whatever new is in Lidl and Aldi too.


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  • #61
    mikemac
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    Erdinger


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