Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sat Mar 02, 2013 1:00 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

You left to go "hit the main bars" ... that is where you went wrong.

In your early 20's, single, on a Saturday night you don't really want to be spending full night surrounded by beards and beer-bellies if you know what I mean.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:25 pm  

John_D wrote:

One of the relatively large number of real ale pubs in Huddersfield has a festival every season and, naturally, winter sees a lot of the dark beers. I can't quite remember which breweries they were, but someone did a Black Forest stout (might have been Mallinson's, that, which is odd as I'm not generally a fan of their stuff) and someone else a blueberry porter. Both were utterly sensational.

I tried a blueberry porter recently, I presume it would be the same one, and TBH I wasn't over impressed. That said I'm not a fan of either porters or blueberries. That might be relevant,

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:44 pm  

wigan_rlfc wrote:

In your early 20's, single, on a Saturday night you don't really want to be spending full night surrounded by beards and beer-bellies if you know what I mean.

Ah, you've met me then.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sat Mar 02, 2013 4:50 pm  

John_D wrote:

... Also, I'm fed up of the current trend to very light, over-hopped beers which everyone seems to be making. Whatever happened to a nut-brown ale? But not everyone is the same and long may that continue.

I know what you mean.
It's as though they are extra-hopping to make up for lack of body.
They're OK but you want something more rounded, more complex after you've had one.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sat Mar 02, 2013 7:20 pm  

The heavy hopping seems to have come from the US, pretty much every beer I've had from there has almost been chewy, they've had so many hops. I do like some of the more citrus flavoured ones, but some of them are so sour that they're awful.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:45 pm  

Perks of Immigration Part 1

Lovely little international food store down my way which stocks a multitude of great European lagers.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:27 am  

I recommend Erdinger Dunkel to those who haven't tried it!

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:28 am  

I listened to one of Michael Jackson's last radio broadcasts- he was a great rugby league fan incidentally. The programme was about the poor quality of English brewed lagers and he commented something in the line of:

"Bordeaux produces the best full flavoured wines, you wouldn't expect the locals to drink Liebfraumilch. Yet England produces the best full bodied, full flavoured beers and Carling is our best seller".

As has been previously said, people drink what is advertised. I have a colleague who was involved in the marketing of Magners cider. They were given a taste and had to come up with ideas to sell it. He said it was tasteless, but somebody in his group threw in a giveaway comment about showing it served over ice, and a campaign was born.

Remember when perry was renamed pear cider? I knew a couple of guys who drank it, until I pointed out we used to call it Babycham.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:47 am  

Marcus Notsquare wrote:

I listened to one of Michael Jackson's last radio broadcasts- he was a great rugby league fan incidentally. The programme was about the poor quality of English brewed lagers and he commented something in the line of:

"Bordeaux produces the best full flavoured wines, you wouldn't expect the locals to drink Liebfraumilch. Yet England produces the best full bodied, full flavoured beers and Carling is our best seller".

As has been previously said, people drink what is advertised. I have a colleague who was involved in the marketing of Magners cider. They were given a taste and had to come up with ideas to sell it. He said it was tasteless, but somebody in his group threw in a giveaway comment about showing it served over ice, and a campaign was born.

Remember when perry was renamed pear cider? I knew a couple of guys who drank it, until I pointed out we used to call it Babycham.

I live in Keighley and I have to admit I find it pretty frustrating when somebody orders a Carling instead of a pint of some of the fantastic locally brewed stuff we have around here.

Re: Watered down Budweiser? : Sun Mar 03, 2013 10:49 am  

Marcus Notsquare wrote:

I listened to one of Michael Jackson's last radio broadcasts- he was a great rugby league fan incidentally. The programme was about the poor quality of English brewed lagers and he commented something in the line of:

"Bordeaux produces the best full flavoured wines, you wouldn't expect the locals to drink Liebfraumilch. Yet England produces the best full bodied, full flavoured beers and Carling is our best seller".

As has been previously said, people drink what is advertised. I have a colleague who was involved in the marketing of Magners cider. They were given a taste and had to come up with ideas to sell it. He said it was tasteless, but somebody in his group threw in a giveaway comment about showing it served over ice, and a campaign was born.

Remember when perry was renamed pear cider? I knew a couple of guys who drank it, until I pointed out we used to call it Babycham.

I live in Keighley and I have to admit I find it pretty frustrating when somebody orders a Carling instead of a pint of some of the fantastic locally brewed stuff we have around here.