Your favourite Beer

Red Pepper · 04-04-2014 11:49PM

candy-gal1 wrote: »

Ah Snakebite through a straw, that takes me back!!

Takes me back too. Lethal. I never remembered much from those nights.
But the headaches next morning....:eek:

CrabRevolution · 04-04-2014 11:50PM

Beer seems to be the topic where boards has its most jarring difference with the normal public. If you asked everyone on the street the beer they most often drink, at least 90% would say Guinness, Heineken, Smithwicks, Corona etc.

On boards though, a sizable minority, if not a slight majority will name craft/microbrewery type drinks. Not saying either is better than the other, just that its interesting to see how craft beers seem overrepresented on boards.

dan1895 · 04-04-2014 11:50PM

rambutman wrote: »

yeah the brew dock across from connolly station have it on draft - so does the black sheep on caple street. From the off-license the Pale Ale variety and the torpedo (coming in at 8%) are pretty good too.

Porterhouse should have it too.
O'Hara's red and stout and trouble brewing sabotage and dark art are a couple of my favourites at the moment.

Stained Class · 04-04-2014 11:51PM

I remember being in the States years ago drinking cans of something called Moose Drool.

Cant remember what it was like, I was in such a states.

BraziliaNZ · 04-04-2014 11:52PM

I love cans of Lech. On draught it's Guinness. Although you can't get as good as Dublin here it's not bad in some places.

Legs.Eleven · 04-04-2014 11:52PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Beer seems to be the topic where boards has its most jarring difference with the normal public. If you asked everyone on the street the beer they most often drink, at least 90% would say Guinness, Heineken, Smithwicks, Corona etc.

On boards though, a sizable minority, if not a slight majority will name craft/microbrewery type drinks. Not saying either is better than the other, just that its interesting to see how craft beers seem overrepresented on boards.

Yeah but just because you drink those beers out of lack of choice in most (almost all) pubs (Heineken, Smithwicks etc.), doesn't mean they're your faves.

Normally do =/= what you actually WANT to do.

pappyodaniel · 04-04-2014 11:55PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Beer seems to be the topic where boards has its most jarring difference with the normal public. If you asked everyone on the street the beer they most often drink, at least 90% would say Guinness, Heineken, Smithwicks, Corona etc.

On boards though, a sizable minority, if not a slight majority will name craft/microbrewery type drinks. Not saying either is better than the other, just that its interesting to see how craft beers seem overrepresented on boards.

If I'm out I'll tend to go to pubs that I know have a decent selection of beers. If I'm in a pub with a limited selection I'll drink Smithwicks or Guinness. At home I'll always go for a nicer craft beer with 1or2 I've never tried before. But if asked the question "what's your favourite beer" I'll give an honest answer and am fully aware I'll sound like a hipster prick...

De Bhál · 04-04-2014 11:56PM

Tyskie

csallmighty · 04-04-2014 11:56PM

Red tick beer

fleet_admiral · 04-04-2014 11:58PM

mc ardles is a lovely beer

Stained Class · 04-04-2014 11:58PM

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Beer seems to be the topic where boards has its most jarring difference with the normal public. If you asked everyone on the street the beer they most often drink, at least 90% would say Guinness, Heineken, Smithwicks, Corona etc.

On boards though, a sizable minority, if not a slight majority will name craft/microbrewery type drinks. Not saying either is better than the other, just that its interesting to see how craft beers seem overrepresented on boards.

Ah shure, they're just trying to 'outsophisticate' each other & show how cosmopolitan they all are.

Haven't had a Smithwicks in a while. Might be time to get back to the auld Red Diesel.

senordingdong · 04-04-2014 11:59PM

Anything but Budweiser.

05-04-2014 12:00AM

Guinness in the pub, Bavaria in the house.

BraziliaNZ · 05-04-2014 12:03AM

I love Zywiec aswell. Polish beers are great. There's like 1000s of these ale things here in England but they're just not my bag really. The only ones I like are the chavvy ones like Tetleys and John Smiths. You get hipsters coming in asking what the guest ales are etc... and can they have a sample. Urgh. It all tastes the same. Like urine that has been soda streamed and then let go flat again!

kelbal · 05-04-2014 12:04AM

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Young's Double Chocolate Stout.

Bought one of these last week. Absolutely fantastic. Don't be put off by the name, the chocolate is very subtle - gorgeous beer.

fonecrusher1 · 05-04-2014 12:06AM

I loves drinkin a few Dutch gold before headin down the bookies. Then over to da chipper and more gold later back in mams at my place.

roadsmart · 05-04-2014 12:06AM

'Stormy Port' and 'Buried At Sea' stouts from Galway Bay brewery,
Double Stout from Sheperd & Neames.

Insect Overlord · 05-04-2014 12:09AM

Chimay Blue or Delirium Nocturnum if I'm buying in a good offie.

Beamish or Guinness in most pubs.

Geuze · 05-04-2014 12:10AM

I like:

Guinness Extra Stout
Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

O'Hara's Leann Follain stout

and I love geuze.

BBDBB · 05-04-2014 12:11AM

surely the point is NOT to have a favourite, that way you can keep trying lots of different ones to try and find one

still looking

BraziliaNZ · 05-04-2014 12:11AM

An File wrote: »

Chimay Blue or Delirium Nocturnum if I'm buying in a good offie.

Beamish or Guinness in most pubs.

Beamish is the bomb, and cheap, my brother loves the stuff. It's like Guinness we say but more coffee-ee if you know what I mean!

BraziliaNZ · 05-04-2014 12:12AM

Geuze wrote: »

I like:

Guinness Extra Stout
Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

It's funny, I live in a mostly black area and they all drink bottles of foreign Guinness out on the streets etc. I thought it was so bizarre when I first moved here. The strong stuff that's like 7.5% or something. It's nice I think but I'd only have one, so malty!!!

Banjo String · 05-04-2014 12:14AM

So many quality beers atm.

Tyskie
Lech
Zywiech

(Polish beer and great stuff)

Coopers sparkling ale. (Australian, delicious)

O'Haras pale ales (brewed in Bagenalstown, it's really, really good)

My current fave though, Lomza (unpasteurised) it's Polish, 5.8% and I'll swear it's hangover proof.

Ded_Zebra · 05-04-2014 12:17AM

At the moment my favorites are Liberty Ale and Fire Rock Pale Ale. I do change my mind quite regularly though because I get tired of whet ever I'm mostly drinking. Heineken is my main fall back beer but in a pub I mostly drink Smithwicks.

I do like to try beers that I've never had before so if I'm in a pub or a shop with a good selection I'll try something new

Geuze · 05-04-2014 12:19AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

It's funny, I live in a mostly black area and they all drink bottles of foreign Guinness out on the streets etc. I thought it was so bizarre when I first moved here. The strong stuff that's like 7.5% or something. It's nice I think but I'd only have one, so malty!!!

Yes, Guinness FES is a big seller in Africa.

I think it is the main type of Guinness sold there??

It is very nice.

Yes, it's 7.5%, it's oily and treacly.

It's 2.63 in Tesco today for a 33cl bottle.

BraziliaNZ · 05-04-2014 12:22AM

Geuze wrote: »

Yes, Guinness FES is a big seller in Africa.

I think it is the main type of Guinness sold there??

It is very nice.

Yes, it's 7.5%, it's oily and treacly.

It's 2.63 in Tesco today for a 33cl bottle.

Well I'm in South London not Africa but errrrbody looks African 'round here! It's 1.29 for a bottle in the corner shops here. You can buy this non alcoholic malt Guinness drink here too,

http://www.globalfoodpittsburgh.com/img/p/38-425-thickbox.jpg

weird innit, blacks seem to like that malty stuff.