Top 5 Beers

PARlance · 21-02-2016 12:12AM

Newfound Land IPA
Rarewood Pale Ale
Gold Medal Special Brew
Red Mist Ale
Bearded Brothers IPA

My top 5 is so hipster that none of them even exist yet.

smurgen · 21-02-2016 12:22AM

1.chimay white.
2.chimay blue
3.chieftain ipa
4.guiness
5.bemish.

Now I'd drink a lot in between and it changes from time to time but that chimay is top notch.also the Sierra nevada stuff is ace.good quality beer but I don't know enough about the brands to throw up specific names.

smurgen · 21-02-2016 12:25AM

Kinsale blacks ipa is.also a really good inexpensive craft beer.I'd recommend it.

Fleawuss · 21-02-2016 12:26AM

magentis wrote: »

Is this a hipster only thread?

Worse. Neckbeard territory.

smurgen · 21-02-2016 12:27AM

timthumbni wrote: »

I think there is very little difference between any beers, expensive or cheap, that I've drank. I would sometimes know the difference between the weaker or premium strength lagers but nothing to do with the price of them.

Everyone takes notions about what their favourite beer is. At the freezing temperature I like my beers there's feck all difference in taste to me anyway. Here is my current top 5.

Lidl stubbies.
Stella
Bavaria
Tiger
Tennents

A lot of it is just pure bull**** and snobbery.

I laughed recently when they blind taste tested vodkas and grey goose the most expensive came last. Grants came top. Lol.

May be different if you are only having a few beers. If you are having a skinful then go for the Dutch gold or whatever is cheapest.

I think Stella is quality.very cheap and tasty but tiger is rubish.it's a premium beer and like washing up liquid.

dd972 · 21-02-2016 12:27AM

Veltins
Porterhouse Red
Jupiler
Pilsner Urquell
Rodenbach

smurgen · 21-02-2016 12:27AM

Plates wrote: »

Delirium Tremens
Duvel
8 Degrees Big River
Founders All Day IPA
Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter

Good list!

Hulk Hands · 21-02-2016 12:29AM

1)Guinness

2)Goose Island IPA
3)O'Hara's Red Ale
4) Corona w/ lime
5) Blue Moon

Glen_Quagmire · 21-02-2016 12:30AM

dd972 wrote:

Veltins Porterhouse Red Jupiler Pilsner Urquell Rodenbach

Porterhouse red is a serious drink!

dd972 · 21-02-2016 12:34AM

Glen_Quagmire wrote: »

Porterhouse red is a serious drink!

I'm slavering like Pavlov's dog, and that's just thinking about it.

21-02-2016 12:44AM

I usually drink stout, so I would go with:

Guinness
Beamish
O'Hara's Leann Folláin
Galway Bay's Buried at Sea
Young's Double Chocolate

Sorry Murphy's.

For other beers, I would go with:

Cobra (definitely my favourite lager)
Curim (lovely Irish wheat beer)
Blue Moon (as long as it has the orange, it's not the same without the orange!)
Harbin (a Chinese lager I have yet to find anywhere in Ireland

)
Kirin (Asahi is also good)

And this may be sacrilege to beer snobs but I also quite enjoy Desperados.

smurgen · 21-02-2016 12:52AM

LordSutch wrote: »

1. Whistable Bay (Shprd Neame).
2. Hopping Hare (Badger).
3. London Pride (fullers).
4. Fursty Ferret (Badger).
5. Cobra beer (Cobra Beer).

London pride is a nice beer. Cobra is good too.definitely way better than tiger and it's normally a choice between the two.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-02-2016 12:53AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Budweiser
Bud light
Carlsberg
Coors
San Miguel

You need to get out more.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 21-02-2016 12:55AM

Brewdog IPA
Augustiner
Duvel
Chimay
Berlinerweisse

suicide_circus · 21-02-2016 12:57AM

Früh Kolsch
Porterhouse Plain

21-02-2016 12:58AM

Tiger
Hoegarden
Blue Moon
Porterhouse Chiller
Spaten

Honourable mentions to Asahi and Heverlee.

Zaph · 21-02-2016 01:14AM

Some interesting choices and beers I wouldn't touch myself, but each to their own. However the people who mentioned Desperadoes should probably just leave the thread now.

seamusk84 wrote: »

Friar Weiss and Hoegarden, nice. Can't beat a pint of Hoegarden with s slice of lemon. Proper refreshing.

Glen_Quagmire wrote: »

This man talks sense

I'm sorry, but fruit has no place in beer!

21-02-2016 01:21AM

When someone starts banging on about Old Bishops Foot and all that wannabe hipster stuff there should be one simple question...what are they like after 12 pints. Or else it's like asking the kids what's their favourite drink and they all say Coca Cola while the unpopular kid says it's the real lemonade he drink when his parents once drive through Tuscany...

Zaph · 21-02-2016 01:26AM

Deleted User wrote: »

When someone starts banging on about Old Bishops Foot and all that wannabe hipster stuff there should be one simple question...what are they like after 12 pints. Or else it's like asking the kids what's their favourite drink and they all say Coca Cola while the unpopular kid says it's the real lemonade he drink when his parents once drive through Tuscany...

I think generally you'll find that people who are into craft beer will either drink session strength beers which are no different to pints of Heineken, etc. or they'll only have a few beers. If I'm drinking a 10% imperial stout I certainly won't be drinking 12 pints of it.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-02-2016 01:26AM

Will always be Art Guinness number 1 myself. Throw me on a pint of plain Mick and forget about all of those fancy taps. Smooth porter flowing down the hatch

Nekarsulm · 21-02-2016 01:41AM

Smithwicks
Limeburner (Kinnegar brewing, Donegal)
St Mel's Brown Ale (Longford)
Celtic Warrior (Hylands brewery, Cavan)
Hoegarten

uberjinks · 21-02-2016 01:41AM

Pisswasser
Old Grumbly Knob

Eutow · 21-02-2016 01:42AM

Deleted User wrote: »

When someone starts banging on about Old Bishops Foot and all that wannabe hipster stuff there should be one simple question...what are they like after 12 pints. Or else it's like asking the kids what's their favourite drink and they all say Coca Cola while the unpopular kid says it's the real lemonade he drink when his parents once drive through Tuscany...

The "hipster" (yawn) stuff isn't available in pint quantities in bars. Even if it was, the strength, 10% ABV or more, would have you on the floor before you reached that point. The price of said pint would be a huge turn off as well.

Instead, sessionable drinks would be drunk. I like Hoegaarden, Fullers London Pride, Titanic Stout, Hobgoblin and Adnams for example.

smurgen · 21-02-2016 01:49AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

When someone starts banging on about Old Bishops Foot and all that wannabe hipster stuff there should be one simple question...what are they like after 12 pints. Or else it's like asking the kids what's their favourite drink and they all say Coca Cola while the unpopular kid says it's the real lemonade he drink when his parents once drive through Tuscany...

Well it's like this if you want to binge you on the wrong thread. If you manage to.keep down any of the beers I've listed and not manged to puke after 12 servings you should probably go to the hospital.these are not meant to be drank en masse.when it comes to craft beer it's definitely about quanlity and not quantity in that instance.

uch · 21-02-2016 02:32AM

1. Guinness
2. Guinness
3. Guinness
4. Guinness
5. Smithwicks

21-02-2016 02:35AM

smurgen wrote: »

Well it's like this if you want to binge you on the wrong thread. If you manage to.keep down any of the beers I've listed and not manged to puke after 12 servings you should probably go to the hospital.these are not meant to be drank en masse.when it comes to craft beer it's definitely about quanlity and not quantity in that instance.

How many pints did you drink before you jumped on the craft beer bandwagon?

Cos I'll tell you, even if your friends don't, that craft beer is an excuse to give those fellows who never really drank anyway a beer to talk about. As in, conversation used to be "how many pints" but the people who can't handle that conversation have switched it to "what pints"' to give themselves an "in". When the history of drinking us written up, far more stories will start with "well I'd had 22 pints of Guinness" than "we drank 3 bottles of belgain beer"

pat25c · 21-02-2016 02:50AM

I don't get all the hate for craft beer drinkers . I enjoy my craft beer & it's not so I can lord it over anyone, it's just that I want some verity in my beer & not be constantly served the same boring five beers . It's like hating someone for wanting a Chinese or an Indian instead of bacon & cabbage or stew .

uch · 21-02-2016 02:51AM

Deleted User wrote: »

How many pints did you drink before you jumped on the craft beer bandwagon?

Cos I'll tell you, even if your friends don't, that craft beer is an excuse to give those fellows who never really drank anyway a beer to talk about. As in, conversation used to be "how many pints" but the people who can't handle that conversation have switched it to "what pints"' to give themselves an "in". When the history of drinking us written up, far more stories will start with "well I'd had 22 pints of Guinness" than "we drank 3 bottles of belgain beer"

Lads I'm dyslexic, can someone translate this for me

Zaph · 21-02-2016 02:54AM

uch wrote: »

Lads I'm dyslexic, can someone translate this for me

Basically you're no craic unless your beer consumption can be measured in gallons rather than pints.

Easca Peasca · 21-02-2016 02:56AM

1. Beamish
2. Guinness
3. Murphy's
4. Heineken
5. Smithwicks

Must try a few more stouts, anyone care to recommend a few?

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