Insufferable beer snobs.

Deleted User wrote: »

What's wrong with calling someone "dude"? The hipster type chap isn't exactly averse
to using this American slang himself. Hardly derogatory when one is conversing to a bloke
in the service industry, especially if he's young. If he called him "mate" or "friend" the OP
would have suffered more "hounding" perhaps.

We're not in America. Hipsters don't all speak American either.

Mate is not normal in Ireland either.

I fcking want a Guinness reading this.

Guinness is all about balance.

The taste of it is not something I think about too frequently; It tastes like Guinness.

I'm in love with the texture, the way it hits the back of your throat, the velvety quality of a really good and cold brand new pint.

Guinness strikes, for me, the perfect balance between some heaviness and some smoothness. Other stouts are either too heavy or too light, or too stuffed with out of place flavourings, designed to give some personality. Guinness is just right.

The whole good v bad pint debate isn't really about taste in my eyes. A bad pint is just alright, a good pint is creamy, refreshing and delicous and goes down before you even know it's happened.

Though, I must confess to have never drunk Guiness from a can. Doesn't feel right to me.

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

I love beer

Guinness, but not Craft Stout
Heineken but not Craft Lager
IPAs, but not DIPAs
Citra Beers, but not Saison
Pale Ale but not Red Ale

There is no right or wrong, only what you like and what you don't

Red ale is a funny one. I've drank some that were really tasty and then others that were terrible. Like genuinely terrible, vaguely tasted like vomit.

I got into the IPA's a few years ago and I love to try them all - but most are ****e beyond measure. I'm partial to a local one and I keep a few bottles in the fridge but!!! I'm perfectly happy with me Carlsberg on a night out and I'd go for a Harpic if I could get it, had it up the North a few years ago and I can't figure out why it stopped going down this way.

Each to his own is my thing but definitely there are way too many gob****es who look down their noses at any of the established brews and will dull the ear of you talking rubbish about craft beers.

My question always is, if Guinness / Heineken / Carlsberg etc. etc. are crap and rubbish, how is that they've been around for 200-300 years??? Is it reasonable to surmise that the better breweries go bust while the cr@p one's survived?

Of course, Budweiser (IMO) may be the proof that that hypothesis is true

MrMusician18 wrote: »

It's the people you are with that makes a session in the pub interesting. Modern bars with their TVs and loud music are designed to stifle conversation so you drink more.

If you get bored in a conversation bar it says more about the company you're keeping tbh.

Hate them in a pub I never get bored in a pub, talking. Not too sure of those with me though.

Strumms wrote: »

Not according to Guinness,

Yeah the pour thing is great marketing stuff.

Also the nitrogen gas in the pubs to cause the settling effect. People looking at it like it’s amazing. If Budweiser was put on the Guinness system it would settle just like a pint of Guinness.

Temptamperu wrote: »

I dont drink much as I said 2 pints and im drunk. nice way to save money.

Handy. What do you do after the first twenty minutes in the pub?

saabsaab wrote: »

Handy. What do you do after the first twenty minutes in the pub?

Becomes the OP...........WINK WINK

crying in my Belgian fruit lambic reading this thread

Ah jasus, I didn't go near a pint in nearly 10 years and ye have me gasping for one now!!

Cushtie wrote: »

Ah jasus, I didn't go near a pint in nearly 10 years and ye have me gasping for one now!!

It was about the same for me before tonight.