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All my friends are of an age that they drink pale ale or bitter. I’m still a lager man and don’t think I’ll ever change. I need to change from Peroni and Moretti….
I'm probably an outlier here but I'm not a fan of beer, lager or ale. It only makes sense to me with a curry (probably because my taste buds have been obliterated by spices). Outside of that give me a short mixer any day of the week.
ps it may have been the amount of off the rock flake petrol washed yayo I was consuming in the mid 90's but i seem to remember drinking Red Guinness ?? around the Ilford/ Seven kings area back in the mid 90's. Around the same time as Calders and caffrreys was eveywhere.
Like tears in rain , and Double Diamond, all these beers will be lost in time.
[Post edited 13 Nov 2025 7:36]
"The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
Old skool libations Hofmeister , in a helles version, and the Mighty lowenbrau seem to be making a comeback in pubs and shops.
Annoying that we can't get the original strength alchemy of 5%+ Cruzcampo, or Mahou red in this country, unlike estrella Damn and estrella galicia which fortunately are available in their original beauteous formats.
Can't go wrong with Adnams as a brewery imo. Also some German Cracking pilsners knocking about these days in Spaten , Krombacher , Bitburger and warsteiner.
Trying a new beer called 'Samson' this weekend on my perfect Draft machine. It's Czech so hopefully it will be decent. A 10 pingt keg to work through as I watch England getting laced up by the all blacks and then the Eubank/ Benn nothing burger.
Sounds like a plan.
[Post edited 13 Nov 2025 7:58]
"The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
ps it may have been the amount of off the rock flake petrol washed yayo I was consuming in the mid 90's but i seem to remember drinking Red Guinness ?? around the Ilford/ Seven kings area back in the mid 90's. Around the same time as Calders and caffrreys was eveywhere.
Like tears in rain , and Double Diamond, all these beers will be lost in time.
[Post edited 13 Nov 2025 7:36]
I used to like Caffreys when it first appeared in the 90's - 6% and creamy. Think they reduced it to 4% a few years later and it wasn't the same.
Mostly drink IPA's now but quite like a pint of Staropramen when I fancy a lager.
As far as old beers go, I recently had a couple of pints of Boddingtons cask, now brewed by JW Lees of Manchester. Brought back memories of the old adverts with Melanie Sykes
[Post edited 13 Nov 2025 8:55]
Extra mature cheddar......a simple cheese for a simple man
a) Could they make it taste any more p1ssy than it already does? b) I still can't believe anyone goes into a pub and willingly asks for a pint of Foster's out of choice!
Old skool libations Hofmeister , in a helles version, and the Mighty lowenbrau seem to be making a comeback in pubs and shops.
Annoying that we can't get the original strength alchemy of 5%+ Cruzcampo, or Mahou red in this country, unlike estrella Damn and estrella galicia which fortunately are available in their original beauteous formats.
Can't go wrong with Adnams as a brewery imo. Also some German Cracking pilsners knocking about these days in Spaten , Krombacher , Bitburger and warsteiner.
Trying a new beer called 'Samson' this weekend on my perfect Draft machine. It's Czech so hopefully it will be decent. A 10 pingt keg to work through as I watch England getting laced up by the all blacks and then the Eubank/ Benn nothing burger.
Sounds like a plan.
[Post edited 13 Nov 2025 7:58]
The pub I play darts in had Hoffmeister in steins. Mercifully they'd taken it off as I play on a Monday and it was ruining my Tuesdays at work
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