Dutch Gold is good

CodyJarrett · 04-08-2012 09:14PM

Beer is for lining the stomach before you really have a drink.

BillyMitchel · 04-08-2012 09:16PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Dutch Gold is grand. Its definitely the best of the cheapy beers. That being said, if I can afford to buy something better, which I normally can, I do.

Was great about 8 years ago when I was **** broke. Other beers in this price range really are swill. Hackenberg etc.

But with so much special offers these days for an extra euro or two you can usually get what you want now anyway. How much they charging for 6 cans these days?? Drank it in my teenage years for a long time and think we used to get 6 for a 5er but then it just kept going up and up.

marshbaboon · 04-08-2012 09:18PM

MetalDog wrote: »

Praszky is much nicer than Dutch imho.
http://res.cloudinary.com/ratebeer/image/upload/w_250,c_limit,q_80,d_beer_def.gif/beer_65432.jpg

It's actually rather nice. I'm also a fan of bavaria or tuborg.

Piriz · 04-08-2012 09:21PM

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

It's as good as any of the other **** lagers out there. I love when loads of people who drink crap like Heineken look down their noses at someone drinking Dutch or whatever. Congrats on paying double for the same mass produced ****e.

Beer snob!

J Mysterio · 04-08-2012 09:33PM

BillyMitchel wrote: »

J Mysterio wrote: »

Dutch Gold is grand. Its definitely the best of the cheapy beers. That being said, if I can afford to buy something better, which I normally can, I do.

Was great about 8 years ago when I was **** broke. Other beers in this price range really are swill. Hackenberg etc.

But with so much special offers these days for an extra euro or two you can usually get what you want now anyway. How much they charging for 6 cans these days?? Drank it in my teenage years for a long time and think we used to get 6 for a 5er but then it just kept going up and up.

Yeah, spot on. About 8 years ago was my teenage years. I suppose I have a fondness for it from then.

That being said though, these days its almost cool to drink it. Like a student status symbol. Whats even worse is Buckfast. Back in my day people drank it as it was cheap as sh't and gave an interesting drunk. These days Buckfast is like €7 a bottle... Sure you can buy a decent wine with that!

J Mysterio · 04-08-2012 09:36PM

marshbaboon wrote: »

MetalDog wrote: »

Praszky is much nicer than Dutch imho.
http://res.cloudinary.com/ratebeer/image/upload/w_250,c_limit,q_80,d_beer_def.gif/beer_65432.jpg

It's actually rather nice. I'm also a fan of bavaria or tuborg.

Bavaria is allright. Not from Bavaria though - that sh'ts Dutch too! Deutschland, of course, has high brewing standards - the Rheinheitsgebot. Probably why they gave it a German name.

Esoteric_ · 04-08-2012 09:43PM

Central heating for scangers tbh.

I'll stick with a nice whiskey.

BillyMitchel · 04-08-2012 10:00PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

BillyMitchel wrote: »

J Mysterio wrote: »

Dutch Gold is grand. Its definitely the best of the cheapy beers. That being said, if I can afford to buy something better, which I normally can, I do.

Was great about 8 years ago when I was **** broke. Other beers in this price range really are swill. Hackenberg etc.

But with so much special offers these days for an extra euro or two you can usually get what you want now anyway. How much they charging for 6 cans these days?? Drank it in my teenage years for a long time and think we used to get 6 for a 5er but then it just kept going up and up.

Yeah, spot on. About 8 years ago was my teenage years. I suppose I have a fondness for it from then.

That being said though, these days its almost cool to drink it. Like a student status symbol. Whats even worse is Buckfast. Back in my day people drank it as it was cheap as sh't and gave an interesting drunk. These days Buckfast is like €7 a bottle... Sure you can buy a decent wine with that!

A nice bottle of wine can be very nice especially if you're just chillin out but same as the beer an extra euro or two can go along way in the quality. Used to be a bar a central Dublin that on special nights they sell bottles of it for €7 , well they used too.

dj jarvis · 04-08-2012 10:09PM

worst beer HAS to be barvaria 8.6 - tastes like whiskey - bad bad whiskey
and also has a interesting side affect - makes people crystal meth violent

my tipple of choice when at home is wife beater - 5.2% of bliss

FruitLover · 04-08-2012 10:22PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Deutschland, of course, has high brewing standards - the Rheinheitsgebot. Probably why they gave it a German name.

I wouldn't call the Rheinhetsgebot an indication of 'high' brewing standards necessarily. It only mandates content (only hops, barley and water allowed); there's no guarantee on quality. There's some awful German beer out there taking advantage of people's assumption that all German beer is good.

admiralofthefleet · 04-08-2012 10:23PM

its nice cold. like any lager really

J Mysterio · 04-08-2012 10:33PM

FruitLover wrote: »

J Mysterio wrote: »

Deutschland, of course, has high brewing standards - the Rheinheitsgebot. Probably why they gave it a German name.

I wouldn't call the Rheinhetsgebot an indication of 'high' brewing standards necessarily. It only mandates content (only hops, barley and water allowed); there's no guarantee on quality. There's some awful German beer out there taking advantage of people's assumption that all German beer is good.

Good point but but by high brewing standards i meant no chemicals or additives or other ****e. Purity.

castletownman · 04-08-2012 10:35PM

Grand for a cheap booze up. I find I get looked down at by my friend's if I bring a six pack of it to gatherings now though. Must be the whole cheap student persona surrounding it.

Not as good as a single plum floating in perfume served in a man's hat though.

J Mysterio · 04-08-2012 10:37PM

castletownman wrote: »

Grand for a cheap booze up. I find I get looked down at by my friend's if I bring a six pack of it to gatherings now though. Must be the whole cheap student persona surrounding it.

Not as good as a single plum floating in perfume served in a man's hat though.

Wtf. lol.

Amalgam · 04-08-2012 10:50PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Wtf. lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRCY0BCEDjc

Meanwhile, at the Dutch Gold 'brewery'..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLbGZCL8bTw

Tombi! · 04-08-2012 11:02PM

Dutch gold is lovely, like bud!

After you get drunk and have 8 cans of any good beer.

And shut up your fúcking mouth about carlsberg. It's a step up from the rat piss that's known as dutch gold.

Then again I drank druids cider for a while so I can't talk about drink

garbanzo · 04-08-2012 11:04PM

...it aint mutch...if it aint Dutch. (Learnt that on a coach to Edinburgh once. Hysterical trip)

An0n · 04-08-2012 11:05PM

I only drink alcohol when it's free. So the price doesn't really matter at all.

If there's free dutch gold, then I'll drink it.

RDM_83 again · 04-08-2012 11:59PM

dj jarvis wrote: »

worst beer HAS to be barvaria 8.6 - tastes like whiskey - bad bad whiskey
and also has a interesting side affect - makes people crystal meth violent

my tipple of choice when at home is wife beater - 5.2% of bliss

The super strong Tennents tastes much worse IMO but I have to agree about the side effects didn;t make me violent but did think I was invincible

only drink I've never had more than one of again because of its effect on me (and I've drank as much and as fast of stronger beers, ciders and spirits).

I think they might have improved the recipe of Dutch tbh honest because started drinking it again last year and it tasted a lot nicer than i remember from my youth.

FruitLover · 05-08-2012 12:12AM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Good point but but by high brewing standards i meant no chemicals or additives or other ****e. Purity.

Meh, I'd rather have a tasty beer with a few additives than a ****e one without. Sure the original Rheinheitsgebot didn't even allow for yeast!

cocoshovel · 05-08-2012 12:20AM

fedor.2. wrote: »

Have to laugh at the wannabe connoisseurs here.

Seems to be fairly prevalent around here. I drink beer because I like the taste of it. I like the taste of Heinekin, Tyskie, Tuborg, and Smithwicks. So I drink it. Nothing more to it.
I hate people trying to force shít down your throat about how you should go around trying all the "classy" beers on the shelf in supervalu and that what I drink is horse piss and Im misguided.
I have tried some of the "fancier" beers, didnt like them, and have gone back to my usuals. Why do they have such a problem with this?

Tombi! · 05-08-2012 12:29AM

cocoshovel wrote: »

Seems to be fairly prevalent around here. I drink beer because I like the taste of it. I like the taste of Heinekin, Tyskie, Tuborg, and Smithwicks. So I drink it. Nothing more to it.
I hate people trying to force shít down your throat about how you should go around trying all the "classy" beers on the shelf in supervalu and that what I drink is horse piss and Im misguided.
I have tried some of the "fancier" beers, didnt like them, and have gone back to my usuals. Why do they have such a problem with this?

Yeah but the thing is, dutch is rat piss.
That's been watered down.

I can even take bud as a first can and can manage to drink it all night.
The only people I know who "like" dutch are the ones that are used to it (which is fine) or the ones that don't have money to get anything else.

unkel · 05-08-2012 12:34AM

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

the thing is, dutch is rat piss.
That's been watered down.

I can even take bud as a first can and can manage to drink it all night.

QFP - This will be on the internet forever and your grand children are gonna laugh at you

Chuck Stone · 05-08-2012 12:35AM

later12 wrote: »

I hate, hate, hate beer snobbery. It used to be the only beverage type to have escaped the clutches of the pedantic and the pretentious. Such was its very character and purpose - to be relaxed, laid back, not giving a f*ck.

Personally, yes I agree that there are a number of continental beers available on the market which are far more palatable than some of the old stock (Heineken, Carlsberg, Smithicks, Harp (lol), and so on).

But I'm also sick of having a trip to the pub with co-workers turning into an "Obscure Beers of the World Treasure Hunt" for the sake of it. It is getting slightly mad. I really don't care that your beer tastes "floral, with full, cherry aromas and the sharpness of pin to pull it all together. I don't care that this beer was produced by hand in one of the legendary small london breweries... I don't give a shit about how hard it is to find.

I just want beer that tastes nice, so we can move on and talk about something else. I really think some people are just discovering Headless Dog and Desperados and quite losing the run of themselves.

QTF.

Father Damo · 05-08-2012 01:53AM

Got to love self styled beer experts. They would tell you Heineken is sh1te, guaranteed if you gave them a Heineken bottled in something labelled Haaflenschoonen, apparently brewed from a 15 century recipe by some monks outside Arnhem, they would tell you it was real beer :pac:

Funniest for me is muppets who laud Budvar but hate Budweiser, despite there being relatively little difference between the pair of them apart from the tangier taste due to Budvars slightly higher alcohol level.

Amazingly, the only reasonably drinkable Australian beer is Fosters, which bizarrley is not sold anywhere on tap in Australia (it is even pretty rare in off licences)

Our man in Havana · 05-08-2012 02:00AM

Fosters is for export only as far as Aussies is concerned.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 05-08-2012 02:05AM

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Fosters is for export only as far as Aussies is concerned.

That's right, When I visited Oz people would look at you sideways if you inquired about Fosters. Castlemaine was their beer of choice.

Father Damo · 05-08-2012 02:07AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

. Castlemaine was their beer of choice.

Of all their awful beers this one must be the worst. It is pretty bizarre that the apparently macho manly culture of Queensland is fuelled by 3.4% strength toilet water

DEFTLEFTHAND · 05-08-2012 02:11AM

Father Damo wrote: »

Of all their awful beers this one must be the worst. It is pretty bizarre that the apparently macho manly culture of Queensland is fuelled by 3.4% strength toilet water

Not too bad on tap though.

zenno · 05-08-2012 02:14AM

RumDrinker wrote: »

I usually drink rum. I can easily say I'm in love with it, but today I decided to get a sixpack of Dutch Gold - for a change. I have to admit - it tastes very good, unfortunately I've heard/ read loads of stories that would associate this drink with skangers. Do skangers have good taste for beer so? Or.... I like it because I'm one myself??

Shiver...I always drank dutch gold because it was cheap but I went off it for life last week because no matter where I purchased it from the cans were bad. The taste of it has gone really bad and it might be the heat thats messing with it or it's slops that are used this time of year for the Irish market, really really nasty taste off it so am on the tuborg now and at least tuborg is clean enough and tastes fine. More than likely i'd say the dutch gold is slops though, never again will I drink that stuff.

Dutch Gold is good

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