I've come to the conclusion that pub lager is rubbish

You will probaby need to find a Wetherspoon's to get this or some supermarkets like Morrisons sell it but try a beer/lager called Zywiec... Polish and tastes pretty good... 5.7% ABV IIRC
 
Zywiec and Tyskie are pretty dull beers but much better on tap in Poland than a lot of the standard pub beers you get here. 8 pints of the stuff and no hangover!
 
They all taste the same. It made me sad when they started putting San Miguel on tap too, brewed in England - probably in the Carling factory. Oh dear.

Overriding taste is generally the pipe cleaning solution, yes.
 
kibblerok said:
carling makes me weep :(

so disappointing walking through the supermarket to see two thrids of the beer aisle dominated by crap lager like carling, fosters and stella :mad:
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I was with you until Stella, how dare you liken it to Carling. :mad:

Now if you can excuse me I am off to wretch at that comment. ;):D
 
mjt said:
Hoegaarden is a Belgian unfiltered wheat beer, flavoured with spices and orange peel.
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In other words, it's stupidly flavoured weissbier.

Yellow beer/aka lager is only drinkable from bottles, and when it has been put in the bottles by either the Germans or the Czechs. And I mean really put in there by them, not just given a German name but actually brewed in this country. Go and drink some Budvar or Urquell to see how it is done properly.


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cymatty said:
I was with you until Stella, how dare you liken it to Carling. :mad:
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Its a very different taste to carling, but the end result is the same.... disappointment :p

I was talking in terms of the mass produced generic crap - which stella is and unfortunately dominates the supermarket shelves because of the price breaks the brewers of these give supermarkets, muscling out better brands.

cymatty said:
Now if you can excuse me I am off to wretch at that comment. ;):D
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That'll be the stella :D
 
kibblerok said:
That'll be the stella :D
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I was waiting for that comment. You didn't disappoint. :D

I don't mind buying generic stuff as the price is right if you are having a few beers with the friends. However if I want a beer to enjoy I will look at Leffe Blonde/9, Duvel, tripel karmeliet etc. :)

Generic stuff serves its purpose and makes you appreciate the better stuff even more.
 
I tend to stick with Guinness over here, lager beer is fine in europe over here it is sour tasteless crap.
 
cymatty said:
I was with you until Stella, how dare you liken it to Carling. :mad:
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I was thinking the same!

You just can't beat a chilled pint of stella but some places, no matter what you order it tastes like fizzy ****.

I took a pint back three times once before switching to vodka at the place.
Prolly pipe cleaners etc as mentioned above.
 
mjt said:
no, because Weissbier comes from Bavaria :confused:
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I love how you're implying Hoegaarden has an exotic edge when it's one of - if not the most - weak and flavourless continental beer imaginable. You can call it witbier or weissbier, it's a poor example of either.
 
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Lysander said:
I love how you're implying Hoegaarden has an exotic edge when it's one of - if not the most - weak and flavourless continental beer imaginable.
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i never implied it has an exotic edge :confused:

Weissbier has to be brewed in Bavaria to be called Weissbier, much like Champagne and the Champagne region outside Reims.

belgium is hardly exotic!
and for the record i don't even like Hoegaarden all that much. there are about 500 better beers in belgium :p

i see you edited your post.
i was just being a pedant ;)
 
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Tyskie, Zywiec, Pilsner Urquell, Heineken.
Only stuff that tastes good.

Then it's either Guiness, Abbot or IPA for me.

If none of these are available I'd rather do drinks or just juice.
 
Wiki said:
Traditionally draught beer came from wooden barrels, also called casks. In the 1950s these began to be replaced by metal casks of stainless steel or aluminium, mainly for quality reasons as they could be sterilised and the beer was therefore less likely to spoil, but also for economic reasons. An additional benefit of the switch to metal casks was that staling from oxygen in the air could be reduced. Subsequently, in the early 1960s a form of metal cask, known as a keg, was introduced which allowed for more efficient cleaning and filling in the brewery.

The essential differences between a traditional cask and a keg are that the latter has a centrally located downtube and a valve that allows beer in and gas out when filling and vice versa when beer is dispensed. Also kegs have a simple concave bottom whilst the barrel or cask design allowed sediment to be retained in the cask. This aspect of keg design meant that all the beer in the keg was dispensed which therefore required that the beer be processed by filtration, fining or centrifuging, or some combination of these, to prevent sediment formation. Lastly, kegs have straight sides unlike the traditional barrel or cask shape. In order to get the beer out of a keg and into a customer’s glass, it can be forced out with gas pressure, although if air or gas at low pressure is admitted to the top of the keg it can also be dispensed using a traditional hand pump at the bar.

By the early 1970s most beer in Britain was keg beer, filtered, pasteurised and artificially carbonated. This change was largely driven by the customer's dislike of sediment in his beer. However, most British brewers used carbon dioxide for dispensing keg beers. This led to beers containing more dissolved gas in the glass than the traditional ale and to a consumer demand for a return to these ales. By contrast, in Ireland, where stout was dominant, the use of a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen for dispensing prevented the beer from becoming over-carbonated. Some of the last remaining natural beers in the world were about to disappear forever.[citation needed] Though rare examples of natural beers could still be found in the farmhouse beers of Northern Europe and the maize beers of South America for example, in essence the last great stronghold of natural beer was about to be wiped out. In 1973 the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) was founded in Britain to save what they came to term "real ale".
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And thus, keg beer tastes ****ing awful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cask_ale#The_history_of_cask_and_keg_beer
 
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