real export vs any uk lager

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how come any export lager that's not brewed in uk tastes better than anything that's brewed and canned in uk? i've got some export turkish lager here that tastes better than anything tinned in uk but i'd bet if brewed and canned in uk would taste absolutley revolting, so why is it?
 
maybe in uk we have to add some ingrediants or preservatives to these lager/beer recipes to obey our laws or something, it's just the uk brewed compared to the export is like, erm a bit of funkyness? flavour? like an over aged flavour maybe? still drinkable fine :) but just not as ummm, clean? tasting. i think.
 
dunker said:
how come any export lager that's not brewed in uk tastes better than anything that's brewed and canned in uk? i've got some export turkish lager here that tastes better than anything tinned in uk but i'd bet if brewed and canned in uk would taste absolutley revolting, so why is it?
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Because you aren't exactly comparing like for like, you might simply prefer the taste of foreign lagers over homegrown and that has absolutely nothing to do with the canning/bottling here, it is down to the recipe. If you picked something like say Guinness (as suggested by Hades above) then you could compare it being brewed in Ireland to brewing on the UK mainland and quite possibly also brewing in the rest of Europe because they all follow the same recipe or I should say that you could have done as I believe everying has reverted back to Ireland now. It was pretty universally acknowledged that Irish brewed pints consumed on the Emerald Isle were the best and that does come mainly down to the brewing/packaging process.

I'd disagree about the fact that any lagers brewed here are undrinkable, granted Carling is cooking lager but there are plenty of equally poor continental lagers as well, you probably simply haven't tried them. There is also a bit of a corrollory of the placebo effect whereby people seem to assume that a lager not from these shores has to taste better, some do certainly but I couldn't say they taste better than all. It is also worth noting that many lagers that are nominally foreign are bottled here under licence.
 
Nah the foriegn stuff is much better. With the exception of US Budwiser where the UK versin is better.

Largers in the UK taste like camels **** compared to those on the continent. Some of it is receipe, but also remember that the water in each country and even region in the UK is different so will affect taste too.

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Gilly
 
I completely agree with the OP. I've forgotton how many times I've opened up a beer (having previously been enjoying that brand) to find that it tastes terrible, then looked on the label to discover that it's now brewed in the UK.
 
englishpremier said:
Nah the foriegn stuff is much better. With the exception of US Budwiser where the UK versin is better.

Largers in the UK taste like camels **** compared to those on the continent. Some of it is receipe, but also remember that the water in each country and even region in the UK is different so will affect taste too.
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Does Budwiser even count as a drink :D
 
Alibaba99 said:
Does Budwiser even count as a drink :D
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Not really, as an alcoholic drink anyway, it is merely a smoothing path between being hungover and being ready to face a real beer/lager. Bland, inoffensive but with some alcohol to numb the worst effects of coming out of a hangover.

While I freqently drink continental lagers because I like the taste I wouldn't be so quick to discount our own homegrown options, some taste great, some taste acceptable and some taste like stored urine. Same as continental lagers, it is just that you probably find fewer of the rubbish brews make it to our shores, in much the same way that poor home-grown lagers don't get exported in standard form.
 
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