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the worst beers are my favorite beers. because the only reason im drinking beer is if i want to get drunk for real cheap. bad=cheap, so im stoked. ill drink a 40 of steel reserve any day, 2$ PBR at Doc Holliday's on ave. a, six of natty ice, dollar bud specials...im poor, i want to get drunk. anyone familiar with yuengling??? anyone growing up in pennsylvania goes through the yuengling rites...its actually a pretty good beer though...

― amy, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

oo! and i really really really love drinking hard lemonade and smirnoff ice and stuff like that...i dont know what to classify them under...

― amy, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think Mike Hanley just called me a tart! Take it back, you rascal.

― Ally, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think Smirnoff Ice is an alcopop. I was quite into that sort of thing (and Bacardi Breezers, what an aspiring Essex girl I am) until my boss told me that's what his 17 year old daughter drinks. In my day it was cider but kids are clearly growing up faster these days.....

― Emma, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Alcopops - Classic or Dud is on its way I think....

― Pete, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tarty tart Ally of Tartytown!

― Mike Hanley, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

We have bar here called Hoegaarden, done up in motif of that beer. Hence "did you meet your girlfriend at the ho garden?" and even more hilarious madcap japery!! Belgium beers: had (twice) and quite liked Leffe Blonde. Ordered from bargirl thus, "I'll have a leggy blonde" and readily apparent, NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY THAT.

― AP, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The best Belgian beer is Duvel. It tastes lovely and blows your head off in the nicest way possible. After drinking a few bottles around my birthday last year I ended up unable to speak properly, then running shouting through streets, then thinking it would be a good idea to get up at a party and sing Foxgloves and Magnetic Fields songs in front of very minor indie pop stars. It was a fun night. I think.

― Ally C, Sunday, 8 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So do I. And I've never even heard about it till now.

― the pinefox, Monday, 9 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

can I put in a good word for Mild? I've had two very good Milds lately, M4, which is brewed by Wychwood, and Home.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Highgate Dark Ale! Highgate Dark Ale! They had some in the Head of Steam t'other ... actually it was yonks ago come to think of it and YUM YUM it were lovely.

If it was possible to hug pubs, I wd hug the Head of Steam.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hoegaarden, Budweiser, Corona + Lime, Tsing Tsao, Sapporo, Peroni - I drink all of these. I also like Miller, haha. Lots.

― David H(owie) (David H(owie)), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

BLATZ.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

And Budvaar = crotchming.

― David H(owie) (David H(owie)), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

hoegaarden isn't nice and neither is budweiser, H.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

1) cooper's sparkling ale (australian, it's got bits in)
2) theakston's old peculier (and not just for the name)
3) stella (haha! evil!!)

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Best North American beer is Clancy's made by Moosehead but only sold in New Brunswick, I know I've sung its praises elsewhere here. European beers I'd take Leffe Brun or Hacker Pshorr over Hoegardden. When in America I doubt one can get better then Sam Adam's Octoberfest.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

sam adams'=yuppie beer.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

David H(owie) = on crack. Budvar is lovely, Budweiser is rub.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

what rickyt said

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 31 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

For years I have pretended to like Budvar but I'm not sure that I do. It's got a.. funny taste. American Budweiser obv. rank tho yes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 31 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Keiths = Canadian Yuppie beer for a few more weeks, they'll find a new one.

sam adams'=yuppie beer.

Still good beer

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 31 October 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Spotted Cow (Wisconsin, USA)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 31 October 2002 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes. Yes, I'm on crack.

― david h (david h), Thursday, 31 October 2002 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like budweiser and hoegaarden but not budwar

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 October 2002 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

radeburger - germany

tsing tao - china

― gygax!, Thursday, 31 October 2002 19:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Crotchming with foamy head: Classic or Dud?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 31 October 2002 19:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

N., you mean you've been a victim of beer-canon-rockism?

Crikey.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Much as I love our American friends, beer and cheese are two subjects on which they're just going to have to bow to superior taste buds of Europeans. Canadians are exempt as they have given us Sleemans. Or rather they've mostly kept it for themselves, as I've only just managed to find it in the UK.

I really can't be doing with calling Budweiser "Budvar" nonsense. I've heard in the US it's called "Czechvar". How fucking insulting is that? It's like suddenly deciding that the Simpsons must be refered to as the Yanksons because we've just decided to use the Simpsons for some pathetically inferior product of our own.

I also have a strange fondness for Turkish beer.

Yes, Duvel is mighty fine. I tried some witbier in Brussels which was even nicer than Hoegaarden, but I've forgotten what it was called for some reason. Maybe I'd been drinking.

― Tag, Thursday, 31 October 2002 23:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

they call budvar "budvar" in the "czech republic."

great beer+cheese in america=wisconsin. let's not say the US=just the same all over.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 November 2002 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

I also have a strange fondness for Turkish beer

...by which you might possibly mean TROY, which I will forever associate with the Rough Trade RoTa free gigs at the Notting Hill Arts Centre!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 1 November 2002 09:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.orval.be/images/produits/brasserie/histoire/brasserie_histoire3.gif

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 1 November 2002 09:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

"they call budvar "budvar" in the "czech republic."

They do? I stand corrected. Anyway, my understanding is that in Europe the Czech Budweiser was sold as Budweiser and the American imitation was sold as merely "Bud", whereas in the UK both were allowed to trade under the name "Budweiser". "Czechvar" just sounds completely absurd.

Anyway I was only kidding with my mischievous generalisations. Americans I know seem very fond of their "watery, domestic". And there is something 'traditional' about beer in cans and sporting events. I'm still not convinced about the cheese though.

Efes is the Turkish beer I like.

― Tag, Friday, 1 November 2002 10:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mmmm Old Speckled Hen Pale Ale seemed oh so tempting last night. It started off well with the beer, which, being served at the Dove in Hackney (nobby beerophile pub), was very tasty indeed. So that gets my vote currently.

Then I drank a bottle of Stowells' Tempranillo and danced like a fool with Shoreditch TwatXors. Oh my head.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah. "czechvar" is dumb.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oval is great but my very favourite beer is brewed by Anne De Rijk in Herzele, Belgium (who've I met at a beer festival). A small traditional brewery, it has survived the multi-nationals, through dedication and by producing exceptional beer with wonderful pure clean quality.

Mrs De Rijk's grandfather established the brewery which is still barely known outside the immediate area. Perhaps beer of this quality can only be produced on a small scale but I do wish it was more widely available. I only know it as the owner of my local café was so impressed he travels down to Belgium every month to ensure his is one of only two places in Holland that serves it.

Beer writer Michael Jackson on De Rijk

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

In cheque rep Budwar is a brand of budweiser beer. budweiser is a variety.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mmm, Old Peculier. I really dig that stuff.

Austrian beer is great stuff, better than German (heresy!). That said, I really miss American microbrews as long as they don't get too fancy with the flavourings, and intend to reacquaint myself over the Thanksgiving holidays.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 1 November 2002 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Austrian beer is great stuff

Yay, Zipfer!

― Simeon (Simeon), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

I just noticed Stevo mentioned Taylors Landlord in 2001; it didn't make an appearance at Oxford pubs until mid-2002 and now it's everywhere!

I discovered a new candidate yesterday - Exmoor Beast! It's dark, it's nummy and it's 6.6%!

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

BILLY BEER!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

whatever i'm drinking right now, that is Hollandia. but fuck beer, FRIENDS is where its at. my friends are giving me the confidence to say all the things i have been too shitscared to say ever since i came to this forum. and i ain't no pussy.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Prospect golden ale = numlicious, from The Ridley brewery in Chelmsford.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i should start a new board called I Love Beer - would anyone be interested in that?

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chris is so on the money re: Prospect that there's not even a tiny shiny hint peeking out from underneath. This is not a comment on the size of his bum though. For lo, I can verily talk.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

j. fail: I would be interested.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, I don't really drink that much beer, but I like:

Corsendonk [Belgium]
Corona [Mexico, duh]
Zlatorov [Slovenia] --- The YUMMIEST.
St. Ides Special Brew [snoop dogg drinks it...]

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

st. ides special brew isn't beer.

maybe i'll create the beer board when i make I Love American Football (before next year's NFL season starts, which is really when i drink the most anyway).

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ally--your initial post of 2 years ago still rings true to this day (minus the amstel). Though I miss St. Amboise, Boréale Blonde, Cheval Blanche, and Griffon Pale terribly.

― cybele, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I would feel terribly sorry to see beer talk siphoned off to another board which I didn't have time to read.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

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idk! i'm okay with bud but i think it tastes weird out of bottles. kind of poisonous. and i'm in missouri, we'ere supposed to fuck w budweiser exclusively but idk :-/

― no hongro (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 17 October 2009 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link

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