Favourite Beer

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Good call AC!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Not my cup of tea though - too stupid & clean-cut for me!!!! :lol:
 
We've been down this road before. Bar me, there is not one decent alcoholic on this site. I was dying tonight but I still managed to put away 7 pints when I finished at 1.30am. Funny thing is I and am not even close to drunk, in fact I'm more sober then when I woke up. Somedays you can drink other days you cant but its a hell of a lot of fun.....

For the record, one forum member has seen be locked. Did the forum member notice though?
 
Brian H, you had cricket tours to the Rhondda Valley...........about what era would that have been and can you remember what teams you played against?

I used to don the whites in the late seventies but I don't remember playing against any tourists :blink:

Colin
 
I love those Normandy/Brittany ciders, especially the "doux" ones, 2% alcohol. The problem is they cost about €1/€1.50 in France for a 75cl champagne style bottle and nearly €5 over here, so someone is on a nice little earner.

Guinness is my beer, but I'm a savage, I'll try anything - even those alcohol infused dishwaters popular in Engerland.
 
My Uncle is over from Australia at the moment, and I took him down our local for a meal and a pint. His eyes lit up when he saw they served "Old Peculiar" and drank 3 pints during the meal. He was over 3 years ago when he first started drinking it and said that on a recent visit to an Island off of Singapore he found a small "English" bar that served it. On their way over to the UK again this year they went back to this small Island, and found that the bar had been closed. He was absolutely gutted. They had only gone to the Island for the beer. :D
 
Guinness for me.

Most of the Guinness on sale here is shite, though, so I go for London Pride. I like Abbot Ale from bottles when I am at home or at a party.

I went home for a wedding at the weekend, and the Guinness was absolutely revolting, so I supped Warsteiner for the night. Not bad, and it had me up dancing with the groom's granny, so I might try that again.
 
Originally posted by Colin Phillips@Sep 19 2005, 08:01 AM
Brian H, you had cricket tours to the Rhondda Valley...........about what era would that have been and can you remember what teams you played against?
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We had some great tours there - one of the best was the year in which it didn't stop raining and not a ball was bowled! We were known to have more than one tour a year - Holland was another favourite - and our Welsh tour was at the end of May. This was during the mid to late '80s - the last, I think, was in 1988 or '89. We used to base ourselves at a small hotel in Tonyrefail and played, among other teams, Nant-y-moel and Pontyclun. The big game, though, was always Pontypridd on the Bank Holiday Monday. We loved playing at Ynysangharad Park, where Glamorgan had played. They would put out a team of mixed firsts and seconds to match our strength. You'll guess from that fixture that we were a bit strong for some of the other teams that we played but we ensured a reasonable handicap by indulging in excessive beer consumption and the playing of silly games until the early (well, not so early) hours of the morning.

Our proud claim is that we were never defeated in Wales, even in one game that followed a very interesting night at the Tonypandy Liberal club disco.

I remember one outing along with our opponents of the day to the Alun Evans Darts and Social Club on Barry Island. In those days I was a smoker, but I had to go outside a couple of times as the atmosphere was really stifling - not surprising as it was, as I recall almost totally unventilated! Alun Evans, who was a Welsh international darts player, would have approved of this thread as beer was probably his favourite subject. The vast quantities that he consumed during his career and after almost certainly led to his death in 1999, while only in his early fifties.
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Sep 18 2005, 09:54 PM
Good call AC!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Not my cup of tea though - too stupid & clean-cut for me!!!! :lol:
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:blink: Is PDJ not clean cut ? OK even i have to admit he is not stupid !
 
I wouldn't say I have a favourite and I'm not really a pub-goer. However, I am very partial to Guinness and I'd say a majority of pubs don't do a bad job of serving it. I was round the Guinness factory in Dublin last year and was very disappointed that the brew tasted no better there than in most pubs. (The very cold Guinness they serve nowadays does nothing for me, btw. It's a shameful attempt at kow-towing to the tasteless youth of today.)

At home I tend to go for the decent German stuff sold in Lidl's. If I need to shop locally, the offie sells 6x500ml Stella for £5.50 and six Miller for £4.99. Miller tastes too bland for me, too much like soapy water. The Lidl's stuff sells for £4.49 for a pack of 6x500ml bottles but they also do an acceptable can for 65p. Both are around the 4.8/4.9 mark and are brewed strictly in accordance with the German Brewing Law (only natural ingredients).
 
Nothing compares to Dublin Guinness.

The best blond beers are from the Czech Republic - Pilsner Urquell and Staropramen. The average German beer is also pretty decent, but I would but Bitburger top of the list.

For brown beers Belgium leads the field by the length of the Newmarket straight.

The average pint of lager in Britain or Ireland is really terrible. Why go to such trouble to produce something so bad?
 
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Beer - Stella
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