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I Am A Tennent's Drinker

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  • #32
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,425 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I am a Tennent.


  • #33
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I like Harp, draft. You make me feel posh OP!


  • #34
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭KungPao


    If I'm joking around about cheap bad beer I'll usually mention Harp and Tennent's, but actually I think the newer import Canadian Molson is worse.

    It tastes like nothing.

    It's like fizzy water with food colouring.

    That said, I buy it sometimes for the low alcohol level (4%) just to keep on the straight and narrow...I'm in the process of cutting way back on the grog. No more 6% German wonders for me :(


  • #35
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Stheno wrote: »
    It's worse than buckfast

    How many have you had?

    Buckfast is grand stuff. Dunno how it still has a reputation as a "scumbag" drink given that it's about seven quid or ten yopes a bottle. Much cheaper wines out there.

    Tenents however? No justification. Pure puddle water.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,774 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tennants isn't a bad beer at all, drank it when visiting Scotland and ended up buying cans of it here for a while after words. Another drink like many of the cheaper beers that has a totally incorrect reputation for being awful because it's a bit cheaper.

    Bavaria is my main choice of can now but certainly wouldn't be against a few cans of tennants.


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  • #37
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    If you were a real aficionado, you'd be on the Super. :pac:


  • #38
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    KungPao wrote: »
    If I'm joking around about cheap bad beer I'll usually mention Harp and Tennent's, but actually I think the newer import Canadian Molson is worse.

    It tastes like nothing.

    It's like fizzy water with food colouring.

    That said, I buy it sometimes for the low alcohol level (4%) just to keep on the straight and narrow...I'm in the process of cutting way back on the grog. No more 6% German wonders for me :(

    That Molson is basically Carling marketed under a different name and packaging imo. It's their brand and brew.

    Just a middle of the road mule piss lager.


  • #39
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,747 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    As a student, 8 cans for a tenner you can't go wrong.


  • #40
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,900 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    When I was a student, I got a slab of Tennents in an off license sale. It was the worst beer I've ever tasted. Took me a month to get through 12 cans. Even then, I gave the rest away.


  • #41
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    My great grandfather was a tenement drinker. Does that count?


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  • #42
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And I'm Wile Sound!

    Have you ever met a drinker of the Scottish lager of the Gods that wasn't? Everyone should take Tennent's into their hearts, even if I am biased.

    Why don't you drink Tennent's?

    A great 'on the dole' drink... cheapest in Lidl


  • #43
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    My dad always has stuff like Tennents and Holsten Pils in their house in the summer for when the friends from England are visiting. Any left over will remain there until Christmas day when there's no other drink left.
    Not great stuff at all at all, but will do if stuck.


  • #44
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    My dad always has stuff like Tennents and Holsten Pils in their house in the summer for when the friends from England are visiting. Any left over will remain there until Christmas day when there's no other drink left.
    Not great stuff at all at all, but will do if stuck.

    Holsten Pils is still on the go? :eek:


  • #45
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    A euro a can down in OBriens the last while the Tennants Lager is. Can't go wrong really, not the greatest by any means but better than that Canadian, Coors, Budweiser Miller muck that sells for double the cost...

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



  • #46
    Sonderkommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Sonderkommando


    I have heard before that it got it's name because the only people to drink it were people living in tenement houses in Glasgow where it was first brewed. Don't know how true that is though.

    I find it drinkable but there are nicer cheaper lagers imo.


  • #47
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why don't you drink Tennent's?

    I'm not a homeless jakey, that's why.
    One More Toy wrote: »
    A man went into a bar in glasgow and asked for a larger shandy

    Surprised he didn't get battered for asking for a small shandy in Glesga in the first place, never mind a larger one.


  • #48
    dandyelevan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭dandyelevan


    Ole Dandy fell in love with Tennants many moons ago but his local Pub didn't stock it.
    Then, on a wonderful June evening in the mid-90s I entered my local watering hole to see a wonderous sight.
    A brand, spanking new Tennatts Tap!

    My ole face lit up like...like...well, like...I was happy.

    'Had it installed by popular demand.' smiled the Barman, an' ole Dandy dove straight in!

    On the fourth pint the friendly Barman dropped a clanger.

    'You know Dandy, he announced solemnly...I sold just the one pint o' that Tennants since it arrived four weeks ago.'

    Later...worst dose o' the galloping trots ole Dandy ever had...and he hasn't touched a drop since.


  • #49
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    anncoates wrote: »
    If you were a real aficionado, you'd be on the Super. :pac:
    The Super isn't made by Tennent's any more, I'm loyal to the brand.:pac:


  • #50
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    kfallon wrote: »
    Holsten Pils is still on the go? :eek:
    Pretty sure he had it in recent years.

    Unless I'm mixing it up with some other football hooligan lager. :pac:


  • #51
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    The Super isn't made by Tennent's any more, I'm loyal to the brand.:pac:

    Translation: I can't handle the turbo juice. :)


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  • #52
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,181 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    At the age of 10 i remember i stole a can of Tennants & a cigar off the oul lad, climbed the tree in the back garden.

    Cracked open the beer and sparked up the cigar and sat up there until i was done. That's when i became a man. What a great memory, so i'm all for Tennants.


  • #53
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    That Molson is basically Carling marketed under a different name and packaging imo. It's their brand and brew.

    Just a middle of the road mule piss lager.

    Agreed, Carling is basically Molson. Nobody in Canada drinks Carling and Molson is only drank if there is nothing else to drink. The Canadians keep the good beer in the country and export the crap. Same as most countries I suppose.


  • #54
    Jamsiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And I'm Wile Sound!

    Have you ever met a drinker of the Scottish lager of the Gods that wasn't? Everyone should take Tennent's into their hearts, even if I am biased.

    Why don't you drink Tennent's?

    I drank it when I lived in Scotland, got used to it.
    I also drank McEwan's too.
    I developed a taste for the Belhaven Best


  • #55
    FelineOverLord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭FelineOverLord


    I remember the cans back in the 70's with the pics of topless women on them. As kids we'd find the empties dumped around the woods after people had been knacker drinking.


  • #56
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And I'm Wile Sound!

    Have you ever met a drinker of the Scottish lager of the Gods that wasn't? Everyone should take Tennent's into their hearts, even if I am biased.

    Why don't you drink Tennent's?

    Until you've drank 'The purple tin' you haven't lived.
























    In a doorway


  • #57
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Even tonight as I was walking home from the pub.....

    I thought you were from Donegal,should you not be driving home from the pub?


  • #58
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    is anyone old enough to remember the Guinness-and-a-dash-of-blackcurrent craze? the thoughts of it now are giving me the shudders..

    In my experience that silly crazy was only exclusive to the ladies. Thankfully I've never heard of, nor witnessed, the horrifying sight of a man putting blackcurrant into his Guinness.


  • #59
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why don't you drink Tennent's?

    Short answer: because it's piss water.

    Long answer: because it's piss water.


  • #60
    spodoinkle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭spodoinkle


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And I'm Wile Sound!

    Have you ever met a drinker of the Scottish lager of the Gods that wasn't? Everyone should take Tennent's into their hearts, even if I am biased.

    Why don't you drink Tennent's?

    15 years ago me and some mates went to Rossnowlagh with 24 cans of tennants each.

    We drank said cans, ate a can of beans each and passed out.

    The next day we all threw up said cans of tennants and said cans of beans.

    I havent been able to look at tennants since.


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  • #61
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Tennants is grand.

    I drink many different types of beer, there's that beer category that are all pretty much the same

    Tennants
    Bud
    Heineken
    Carlsberg
    Warsteiner
    Becks
    etc etc


    Chill the ass out of any of them and you'd struggle to tell the difference.

    People are funny, I once met this guy in a bar in Amsterdam saying this Magners he was drinking was the closest thing he could find to Bulmers but it was nowhere near as good :rolleyes:


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