fair play to both Carling and Fosters for actually producing drinkable, even nice premium bottled beers.
As you know, i'm a Real Ale man of discernable tastes (bar gladly putting away the odd pint of Abbot Ale or Greene King), but recently i've been enjoying a few bottled beers, and y'know what, Carling Chrome and Fosters Gold really aren't at all like their undrinkable ratpiss sister beers.
Now, i'm not sure either would stand up in draught, or even cans, and clearly neither compare to the Kings of bottled lagers - Estrella, Cusquena, Paulaner, Cobra, Modelo, etc, but both, particularly the Chrome, are pretty decent bottled beers.
Couldn't really care less what you cardigan-wearers think on the issue, particularly those who rate Corona, just letting you know.
Cheers.
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They're both nice beers, Carling Chrome perhaps a little too tasteless
worth the price seeing as they're usually on offer
I care.
I care that people should be drinking Budvar.
no, you're wrong.
i drink a lot of lager (LAD etc) and those are genuinely the worst. I am left absolutely clueless as to why you would make such a hideously misinformed statement. And you clearly do care what we think about it/you or you wouldn't have started this thread, so there's that
i rememember once being trapped somewhere they only sold carling
think it was barfly in liverpool. i kept leaving them around half drunk because i couldn't bear to finish them, but then obvs buying new ones because it was the only "beer" they sold. had a few vodka lemonades in between for the change, but come on, i'm not 16.
actually
how old are you?
sounds a bit like you're pretty new to this whole beer thing
and went straight for the ales for the coolness, and are now shocked to discover that some lagers are drinkable
thought you concluded your thoughts in your last post?
i concluded THOSE thoughts
i have many!
They're clearly not the worst...
as weak, tasteless versions of both already exist.
I'm not doubting that you drink your fair share, but i'd wager that we're talking pints of catpiss in student bars and not bottled beers. If you're telling me that yes, you reguarly drink continental bottled lagers, and because you want to taste them, not just to get off your face, then sure, i'll take your opinion on board.
well yes that was a comment to carling/fosters in GENERAL
but
1) i'm not a student
2) thankfully i don't live in the uk anymore so don't have to put up with carling/fosters anymore
3) tend to pick my favourite places depending on what beers they sell, and when i go there i drink my beer in pints like a grownup UNLESS it's from one of the dozens of micro breweries that are crowding my home town, but that's hardly what i drink when i'm getting drunk
based on these facts and my growing annoyance at this debate, i conclude that my opinion in worth more than yours
that's fair enough.
you should be on halves, though, really.
why's that?
not looking for a row, really...
just pretty old-fashioned in that respect. prefer a lady (or any other kind of woman) to drink from a small glass.
not sure why, just think it's a bit uncouth.
:'')
the funniest thing about this exchange is that I can't tell for sure if
whiterussian really does know who forza is and is just pretending not to for the sake of a laugh.
what? i have no idea who it is
not tried them
but will do now. I like a decent lager. Had Brahma the other day. I swear it had no taste whatsoever but my appreciation of lager has been diminished by the fact that I'm used to the full flavour of real ale.
no mention of Peroni?
Abbot Ale
lol
think you've misread the context there, chief.
my favourite brewries would be Thornbridge, Marble and Phoenix.
you know what, i have misread it (i missed the word bar)
my apologies.
I've never drunk either carling chrome or fosters gold.
Love the Thornbridge Jahan.
i drank 1.5 pints of guinesse last night
guinesse! the best a man can guess!
you all
drink shitty beer.
it's weird how i read that as
you all don't judge your own self worth based on which beer you drink
hahahahahahah
Might not be rubbish
but theres always something better to buy and drink. Always. If its the last thing left at a party, yeah, go for it.
it's better than Becks.
it's better than Stella.
it's better than Budweiser.
it's better than Grolsch.
it's better than Heineken.
it's better than Fosters.
it's better than Carling.
so no, there isn't ALWAYS something better to drink.
glad to clear this up.
Maybe if you only drink at the Wetherspoons on picadilly gardens
Most places that arent full of cabbage water smelling mongols generally have things better on tap YOU SNIPPY BASTARD
Alex-in-Ciderland wants his joke back, pal.
Average price of a pint round me's about £3.50, which by Northern standards is pretty high.
You're unlikely to find any of the above on draught round here, tbh.
you know that a real Real Ale man of discernable tastes
would never admit to being able to tell the difference between any lagers, don't you?
you're wrong again there, champ.
cheers.
Good grief you are a boring, boring man.
haha
good grief!
dunno...if I have lager I will usually have a budweiser
Haven't tried them
by my contribution to the thread is thus;
There is a great Estonian lager called Saku - much better than its main rival A le Coq
Try it if you see it BUT don't be fooled into buying Saku Gold as it is a much inferior product
/Estonian mates
.
on the right day (a hot, summers one) I'll happily drink any lager
though preferably not out of a can.
I have seen Carling in odd bottle shaped metal cans
Basically they are standard 500ml cans but with longer shape and a cap you need to jimmy off with a bottle opener. They sell for over £2. I am baffled what the point is.
These annoy me so much.
an aluminium bottle?! NO! It's a FLIPPIN' can.
oh last weekend i drank 4 cans of KARBON
fucking had never even heard of it before
http://www.drinksplus.co.uk/karbon.html
One lager that seems pretty popular in indie bellend circles
is Red Stripe. Absolutely fucking rank
it's OK in tin form
one of the better ones, I'd say
i'm trying to think if i ever saw it outside of a can
it could be blue for all i know
It's okay.
but it doesn't compare to Oranjeboom, DAB, or virtually any of the Polish beers.
Cheers.
When will Audley Harrison learn.....
lol
c'mon then, let's hear it...
genuinely don't think it's possible to not like any of those beers.
not sure why you're being so insecure about this. if you're actually living back in Scandanavia, and earning a iving, etc, then i fully accept you'll be exposed to good, reassuringly overpriced beers, it's just, y'know...you did used to be a UK-based, uni-going (self-confessed) beer monster, right, so you can see why people might be suspicious of your opinions on the subject of quality beers, yes?
insecure? dude
i'm not the one starting threads about it saying "I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS". I'm expressing pretty clear opinions.
I guess I just thought it was funny that at first you were saying how varieties of Fosters/Carling are decent, and then further along in the lager discussion you're going on about Polish beer like a right snob. I'm not having a go, really, it was just funny so I did a lol
Is it possible to be snobbish by saying you like Polish beers?
They're extremely popular, mass-produced beers that are sold in virtually every off licence in Britain...it's just they're pretty strong and don't taste like muck.
it just sounded funny ok
i think maybe you're taking this all a little too seriously
and somehow that's making me act all serious business about it as well, so everyone loses
i didn't lose i'm not involved and i drank a beer called karbon and i suspect redstripe might be blue
I like Red Stripe
then again, I am an indie bellend
It's alright
Will chose Oranjeboom, Tyskie, Carlsberg Export and Stellar 4% over it though
I don't mind a bit of Carling Chrome tbh
there's at least one place I visit relatively regularly where it's by far the cheapest beer
I had a lovely pint of Titanic *something* last night.
Might've been 'cappuccino', can't remember.
Cheers.
i really really enjoyed that beer you gave me on saturday.
can't even remember what it was. it felt like a really nice sympathy beer though. thanks.
Was it Oranjeboom?
It was lovely and cold.
no idea. i was just resting a bit after trying to keep everything on track
but basically failing!
Me and my housemate both enjoyed the drummer sticking her finger up at that man whilst banging her drum.
She was great.
haha, alex yeah
she is well cool
With a surname like that, I'm not surprised.
amazing :D
Thanks, want a beer now.
all beer tastes pretty much the same
most real ales are fucking rank
who cares what you drink
1000 this's
Has this descended into a straight-up beer chat now?
I've been enjoying Meantime's chocolate porter recently. It doesn't taste anything like chocolate, mind.
Probably gonna drink loads of Fosters tomorrow. Pretty comfortable with that.
Fucking adore Meantime's chocolate porter (and in fact a few of the Meantime range)
Don't know what you're on about though - obviously it doesn't taste like a bar of chocolate, but it's got one of the stronger chocolate flavours of any stout/porter I've had.
Went on a tour of the Meantime brewery the other weekend, it was great.
They're currently doing a Pacific Pale Ale made with New Zealand hops, and it was the absolute dog's bollocks.
Why can't I get into Ales?
I try everyone else's ale whenever we go into a pub and I am yet to find one that doesn't taste like stale wrongness.
Maybe your tastebuds just aren't mature enough yet, pal.
Y'know, like if you try feeding a baby a strong cheese, or a really sweet desert, it's going to struggle, so you're best just giving it mashed-up bananas.
I find that mashed up banana sometimes has too much taste for me
Normally prefer some cardboard or something like that.
Ease yourself in with an IPA, I'd say.
Don't tend to have a particularly strong ale-y taste, usually served cold.
I know fuck all about ale though.
Most real ales taste like dirt
But every decent pub will have at least 1 ale that tickles ye fancy
For me, the search continues......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUWgE0EVQ9c
:D
tip: don't try them all at once
LOLOLOL
idk, ales are pretty good generally, i guess you just haven't found the right one yet eh
It's always a bit of a guessing game, but ask to try them.
Do you like hoppy beers? Sweet beers? Dark? Tasting like coffee? You'll find something you like.
Unrelated: I was at a beer festival the other week and overheard a bearded man at the bar expounding on his drinking: "You see, me, I like to drink with the seasons... summer, a nice IPA, then as autumn rolls in, start on the bitters, then come to the porters in winter time...' I wanted to be his friend.
that's pretty much my entire beer outlook right there
The darkness of my desired ale is usually in some way proportional to the number of hours of sunlight in a day.
I somehow ended up in a 'recommend me a beer' conversation with a complete stranger in the supermarket.
I surprised myself by being able to quote percentage strengths off the top of my head. Said stranger appreciated my input. We both bought Fosters.
You both failed
Why? He bought Fosters because it was on offer.
I bought it because I like it...
The only way you could have failed harder is if you ended up being a tin of baked beans.
becoming a tin of beans would only be a success...
Tennent's.
while we're talking about beer
what are your opinions on Fullers Honeydew?
I, for one, am quite fond of it.
Drinking a Stellar 4 now
it's a very nice canned larger, tis quite! Plenty of flavour and nice n smooth ensures a refreshing beverage when out of the fridge but perfectly drinkable even at room temperature 8/10
Got some bottles of mongoose in the fridge
will report back later with an in depth review. Try and contain your excitement, wont yer.
Tonights drinking will include
Stewart's Hefeweizen
Marstons Old Empire
Harviestoun Bitter and Twisted
in that order and then, by that time taste stops mattering and I'll start cracking through some Fosters. The only real problem I face is shaving off the beard in between being a beer snob and a
lairy idiot
I tell you what's a good beer
Budweisser.
;-D
Budvar's good.
I'm regularly told Budweiser on draught's good, but i'm still yet to see it in any pub.
Bud in bottles has zero taste and zero alcohol effect on me.
The mainstream lagers are like energy drinks for me
They all taste the same. Apart from Fosters which tastes like piss.
That's not fair
Carling tastes like weak piss
^ This
In a world full of shite mainstream largers; Carling is clearly the worst! I'd say Fosters was at least drinkable
I actually think it's the other way round.
Fosters is just skank, while Carling is drinkable but incredibly bland.
True. Budweiser on tap is the Holy Grail.
Plenty of bars in the Northern Quarter offering Budvar though. I wouldn't pick a venue based on beer alone though, personally. However I went to a wedding once with ONE choice on tap. Poor.
a bottle of regular strength beer having zero alcohol effect on you isn't the sign that you're a discerning beer aficionado
it's the sign that you're an alcoholic
whenever I drink ale
it starts off nice, then gets really bitter.
I don't know if I like ales or not.
I bought a pint of Rogers today
was infuriated to learn that it's a fucking mid-strength jobby.
There outghta be a law against selling mids without a huge fucking neon sign flashing, "Do Not Buy: For Lightweights Only".
it's the kind of thing you'd at least expect a good barman to point out
my rule is: if it's weak, or it's a v expensive beer, the barperson should be telling me before i commit.
i'd bet some serious money (if i had it)
that you couldn't do a blind taste test on 95% of bottled supermarket beers. you could probably pick out stella, but that's it.
haters will invariably hate, but i actually like corona. of course it's probably just my mind telling me to notice a difference, but i always think it's got a bit of added depth to the aftertaste.
Not sure.
The ones i prefer, especially stuff like Estralla and Cusquena, have a pretty distinct taste, as does Sol, and Peroni, Heineken, Caring Chrome, Becks, and course the carbonated ones taste very different, even if they're not all high on flavour.
Most might not be great beers, but they have their own tastes, and i'm pretty sure i could tell them apart.
i'd bet some serious money (if i had it)
that you couldn't do a blind taste test on 95% of bottled supermarket beers. you could probably pick out stella, but that's it.
^this absolutely.
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Paulaner <3
Beer is what you want it to be
If you want to get pissed or just want something refreshing then yeah any old lager will do, because that's basically what it is for.
If you want something because you want to really enjoy the taste then, unless you have startlingly undeveloped taste buds, it won't.
Not sure if this thread adds anything to this pre-established dynamic.