PB’s your last beer supped thread

[flipflop]

Ok. I’m sure I’m among folks here who love their beer. I’m a lapsed CAMRA member who misses real ale more than anything when he’s away from home.

So, let’s have a thread describing and recommending the last beer you had. Even you funboys who drink only lager served at just above 0 kelvin can join in.

I’ll start contributing when I go home next week. But my first pint will be of this

[ROB]

Most often I drink Coopers Pale Ale.

When I can actually find it on tap, I drink Jame Boags Premium Lager server at 0 degrees kelvin. ;)

[Q]

I’ve been stuck with nothing but the imported crap version of Beck’s these days.

I still dream of;

I could be the worst in the world for all I know, but I cut my teeth on that shit and it’s more than just a drink to me.

[coldharvest]

The last beer I had was an alcoholic ginger beer…..delicious.

[Stiv]

@coldharvest wrote:

The last beer I had was an alcoholic ginger beer…..delicious.

Now that looks damn good the alky in me would even add a spike of dark rum and loads of fresh lime to that.

Last beer? Hmmmm 4 years ago I couldn’t even tell you what it was it feels like a century ago.
:(

Best,
Stiv

[Chimborazo]

I had no idea there was such a thing as ginger beer with alcohol. I was actually going to say ginger beer…I love it. It would definitely be my last beverage if I was faced with execution. However, if I was simply faced with never drinking alcohol again, I wish I could say something quality like a Boddington’s, Murphy’s, etc. (which I like), but if it was summertime I’m going to have to go with an ice-cold Budweiser. Yeah, I said it. I don’t particularly like it, but for some reason, I think I’d miss it. Please don’t lock my account.

[Stiv]

Funnee Chim I kind of feel the same way about Heinekin that’s brewed in Europe as opposed to the US formula.

I once spent a day playing golf in Provence S.France and the Mistral was blowing constant and of course very very dry and those chilled small bottles of Hineykin tasted so fab with just a bowl of fresh fruit, bread and some funky cheese…. just perfect.

Best,
Stiv

[Gyppo]

[khalampre]

Well if I am to be honest….

Lone Star

[flipflop]

@khalampre wrote:

Well if I am to be honest….

Lone Star

What is that, some Texan lager?

[khalampre]

Like most American beers it is beer flavored water. I can get a six pack of 16oz cans for $4.99.

[flipflop]

You sound like this guy :lol:

“Eight Ace” – eight cans of Ace Lager £1.49

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Ace

[Q]

With all the Boche that migrated to Texas (and wtf is it about Texas and Germans??), you’d think we’d of had a decent beer to represent the motherland.

You’ll find Lone Star sandwhiched in between the Beast and that beer in the white can that simply says, “Beer”.

[flipflop]

German shant is pisswater, they should stick to making sausages and invading Poland

[khalampre]

Man I go for the low cost stuff, but my English is not that bad. I have met several people from the UK that I have had to really pay attention to when they spoke. The language in the cartoon you posted is an example of why I have to take a close listen.

[Q]

@khalampre wrote:

Man I go for the low cost stuff, but my English is not that bad. I have met several people from the UK that I have had to really pay attention to when they spoke. The language in the cartoon you posted is an example of why I have to take a close listen.

Couple gigs back I worked with a team consisting of brits and americans. I turned out to be the unofficial translator in the group having grown up around brits. English being different from Americanese and all.

On the same token, I have family from Texas and Louisiana that I have to translate what they are saying for my wife. Especially the coon asses in the clan.

[ROB]

What the hell is a coon ass?

Does anyone like beer that’s kinda sweet? I was tasting this beer called Bees Knees. It tastes like beer but smells kinda like honey. Interesting, but I couldn’t drink too much of it. Something about sweetish beers makes me want to puke, but it kinda reminded me of high-alcohol Belgian dark beers.

[Q]

@ROB wrote:

What the hell is a coon ass?

Does anyone like beer that’s kinda sweet? I was tasting this beer called Bees Knees. It tastes like beer but smells kinda like honey. Interesting, but I couldn’t drink too much of it. Something about sweetish beers makes me want to puke, but it kinda reminded me of high-alcohol Belgian dark beers.

A coon ass (coonass) is a denzien of Louisiana from the countryside below the I-10.

I think M-A claims coonass.

As for sweetness, am not a fan but the wife loves Kitachino Nest and Tsing Tao.

[flipflop]

@khalampre wrote:

Man I go for the low cost stuff, but my English is not that bad. I have met several people from the UK that I have had to really pay attention to when they spoke. The language in the cartoon you posted is an example of why I have to take a close listen.

The accent being lampooned is from North England, possibly Yorkshire or Lancashire. The comic “Viz” is produced in Newcastle, so to them they’re ripping the piss out of “Southerners”. Everyone else would call this accent “Nothern”, or if you’re Cockney these aliens are “Facking norvern monkeys” :lol:

[flipflop]

@ROB wrote:

What the hell is a coon ass?

Does anyone like beer that’s kinda sweet? I was tasting this beer called Bees Knees. It tastes like beer but smells kinda like honey. Interesting, but I couldn’t drink too much of it. Something about sweetish beers makes me want to puke, but it kinda reminded me of high-alcohol Belgian dark beers.

There’s a pub in Hastings, that shall remain nameless, where they specialise in these sickly sweet 110% proof Belgian mentallist beers. It’s not good getting smashed on this shit, it sends you loopy. Some of them are served up like chemistry projects, bell jars in wooden stands with handles etc. Maybe it’s some kind of weird Brussels in-joke? I don’t get continentals at all, fucking odd lot.

[2Charlie]

My local fav:

(alt+p)

Mothers milk:

(alt+p)

http://www.guinness.com/en-ca/thebeer-draught.html

[coldharvest]

Had some of this the day before

lovely local brew

[flipflop]

Old Peculier is a champion ale, very similar to this little beauty I was downing after the match on Saturday in Brum. Lovely stuff

[rickshaw92]

Lotsa nice beers there. Just a bit more than 6 months to go till beer fest. I can hardly wait.

[jamesintheworld]

I drink Bintang Beer about every night – its Indo Beer, not bad

~James

[rickshaw92]

Alcohol content James? These little things are important you know.

[jamesintheworld]

@rickshaw92 wrote:

Alcohol content James? These little things are important you know.

Bintang Beer Alcohol Content: 5%
James Alcohol Content: 86%

~James

[vagabond22]

Sad about Indo – they’re very lax towards drinking and lots of other stuff their cousins the Muslim Malays take seriously yet they get the bad rep bc of the Bali bombings and a little internecine warfare every now and then.

My last beer was a Dos Equis and nothing to brag about but at least they refrigerate the mugs.

[flipflop]

One of my favourite tipples, it never lets you down this one. If in doubt about a pub go with London Pride (if they serve it).

The legendary Bow Street Runner in Hove

Getting the tequilas in…..when ale is not enough

[rickshaw92]

@flipflop wrote:

One of my favourite tipples, it never lets you down this one. If in doubt about a pub go with London Pride (if they serve it).

The legendary Bow Street Runner in Hove

Getting the tequilas in…..when ale is not enough

£2.50 a pint all over Centeral London. Gotta love it!

[coldharvest]

Years ago I walk into a London pub and ask for a pint, the Barmaid pulls me a pint and places it in front of me saying “that’ll be £2.”
“£2!!!! what the hell??? You trying to tell me this beer costs almost $5 Canadian!?!”
Her eyes widened and then she replied “Canadian? sorry Luv, thought you was American, 75p. please.”

[Stiv]

Flippin fancy boi’s!! 8)

[flipflop]

Nutty Black (Dark Mild) from Thwaites, a nice little tipple the day after a heavy night out.

Best thing is that the Pump House in Brighton serve it up in an old-fashioned pint pot if you want one ;) :D

[Chimborazo]

Too bad this isn’t around anymore.

[Sean Rorison]

Currently going through all the Lambics I can find. Some are awful. Some are pretty cool. I just like the idea of people socking barrels of mashed grain away for a few years until they explode. And drinkng the remains in celebration.

[flipflop]

Yesterday in the Barrowboy and Banker pub beside Southwark Cathedral. Fuller’s Discovery pale Blonde Beer – lovely and smooth. Fuller’s is one of my all-time favourite brewers

[rickshaw92]

@flipflop wrote:

Yesterday in the Barrowboy and Banker pub beside Southwark Cathedral. Fuller’s Discovery pale Blonde Beer – lovely and smooth. Fuller’s is one of my all-time favourite brewers

innit. Used to live down that way, lots of good drinkin places. The George Inn is good if ya like a bit of heratage, a bitchin drinkin spot on a nice summers day.

[_JohnnyF_]

posted this at the BFC too. below the lovely Vetter 33 and it’s side effect. slightly caramely tasting beer at 33% alcohol served in 330 ml glasses at the Vetter Gasthaus in Heidelberg Germany.

[flipflop]

Is that your bird drinking the fizzy water Johnny :?: :?: :?: :?: :wink:

[_JohnnyF_]

it’s actually my sister. she’s not really a drinker, at least not at lunchtime

[jamesintheworld]

@_JohnnyF_ wrote:

it’s actually my sister. she’s not really a drinker, at least not at lunchtime

Thats the best time to drink, besides the morning

~James

[Wild in Africa]

Normally my favourite pint at home is a London Pride or a Wadworths 6X but you know what I’m drinking now? Freakin’ Barbican!! ZERO Alcohol content!!! Why, because I am in the freakin’ Islamic Republic of Sudan where they remove portions of your anatomy if you appear to be enjoying yourself in any way. However I think I’m getting into an Embassy bash later in the week where at least a pint or two (Boddingtons last time I was there) might be on offer.

[flipflop]

You’ll probably get a blowjob if you buy one of those FCO slags a Babycham :wink:

[Wild in Africa]

I say, you are a cove, Flip Flop old chap! Well no FCO BJs (not that I was expecting one) but a couple of bottles of most excellent Spitfire Ale, which hit the spot. Probably the last drop of booze I will have before getting home in 12 days.

[flipflop]

Aye, “Spitfire: The Bottle of Britain”. I call ales like Spitfire or London Pride the “Backbone Beers”, as in when the last real ale pub closes or finally gets converted into a funboy wine & lager bar, these signature ales will fight a rearguard action until the last barrel drips dry.

Re: FCO trollops, I speak from experience, not that I dipped into that river personally, but I did get paid to watch over it. Not a pretty sight.

[rickshaw92]

Fine brew that spitfire.

http://www.shepherd-neame.co.uk/humour/wallpaper1999/downed.bmp

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b297/Podie77/Spitfire/Spitfire10.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b297/Podie77/Spitfire/Spitfire1.jpg

London Pride is good as well, £2.50 a pint in Centreal London, cheap as chips and ya dont have to go to a spoons.

[coldharvest]

I’ve been hitting the cider lately.

[flipflop]

@coldharvest wrote:

I’ve been hitting the cider lately.

Fucking wurzel :lol:

This evening I will be mostly drinking a couple of bottles of this

The original brown ale – forget that geordie muck – and nice and light on the old gut. A perfick companion with bangers, mustard mash, onions and gravy.

[flipflop]

Got a quadruple stash of these puppies to relax with tonight. CAMRA champion bitter 2008

[rickshaw92]

Went through a tonne of Stella over the games.

[flipflop]

Stella Artois – the drink of choice for 8 out of 10 wife beaters

[ROB]

Had a six pack of this last night. Very light and drinkable but probably not a beer lover’s beer.

[_JohnnyF_]

I prefer perroni to stella but then I prefer amstel to Perroni….so I guess I prefer amstel to stella is what I really wanted to say.

did you like that fine piece of logical induction Mr Flop?

[Sean Rorison]

Interestingly enough, Paris’ premiere microbrew store is located right next to Paris’ most widely advertised swinger’s club… what the fook is up with these fookin French?

[flipflop]

@_JohnnyF_ wrote:

I prefer perroni to stella but then I prefer amstel to Perroni….so I guess I prefer amstel to stella is what I really wanted to say.

did you like that fine piece of logical induction Mr Flop?

Erm…yeah ok mate :)

Peroni is a nice bottled lager – I hate keg/draft beer and can only stomch lager in a bottle. There’s a very nice and cheap and gen Italian restaurant round ours which serves bottled Peroni with exquisite hand made pizza and pasta – not a place for real ale out of a cask BTW.

All shant has it’s time and place – ice cold bottled Peroni with a hand made prosciutto and mushroom pizza = ace 8)

I’m a real ale nut, not a real ale snob :wink:

Okaiy

[_JohnnyF_]

when I usually have ales or stouts I am at the pub for a meal too. Because by that time I am very hungry and it usually takes ages for the food to come, ales’ viscosity is what helps me last a bit longer. It’s basically a good substitute for food at certain times :)

[rickshaw92]

Spend a bit of time travellin around Africa and you will find that any beer is a good substitute for food at most times.

[flipflop]

I’ll drink lager with a Ruby Murray (phal or maybe a ghey vindaloo), Italian, chinky or Thai. Real ale with sunday roast, fish & chips, bangers n mash etc.

Wine? Strictly a split-arse drink unless you share a cardboard box with a small thin dog and have three teeth :P

[rickshaw92]

Wine is a womans drink fo sho.

[ROB]

What the fuck does “split-arse” mean?

[Sean Rorison]

Jiuft had onnea dese:

Really nasty stuff. It seems as though the Flench only get the worst reject beers from Bavaria…. floor-droppings, if you will. Paris isn’t a bad place to nab Belgians, though.

[flipflop]

@ROB wrote:

What the fuck does “split-arse” mean?

You antipodeans I thought were dab hands at the old cussing :?:

Here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=split+arse

[Slam]

Good old trusty Red Stripe. About to hit the Londis Premium Lager next.

[ROB]

Not bad at all.

[flipflop]

We used to call Lowenbrau “Loony Juice” when I was mobbed up :twisted:

[flipflop]

Spent the weekend in north Devon, some great pubs down that way. One odd thing (which didn’t apply to these two boozers) was that a few places served up real ale ice-cold, as cold as keg lager :?:

[rickshaw92]

Ya know Flip, I cant understand why punters cough up perfectly good beer money for the privlege of goint to some poncy ass club when the whole country is awash with pubs, many with long rich historys. Mind boggling and mind numbing at the same time.

[flipflop]

Especially with late opening times too :D

[ROB]

Had one of these last night.

Gotta admit, I am just not a fan of Pilners.

[rickshaw92]

Mmmmmmmmm Pilsener. I took a brewery tour at the Pilzen brewery in Pilzen, Czech Rep. and it was good.

[ROB]

Usually when drinking I can tell exactly which beer will give me a hangover the next morning. That way I can continue to drink or stop. I consider it quite a gift. :)

With Pilsener I get that feeling from the very first beer.

[flipflop]

You fuckers stopped drinking?

Here y’are, in the local on saturday for the Cup Final:

x 12

[flipflop]

This thread has brewer’s droop :shock:

[ROB]

Didn’t stop drinkng – jyst haven’t had anything different lately.

aAm about to head down the pub so will try to rectify that within the hour! ;)

[ROB]

Tusker beer is fricken great. No preservatives so it doesn’t kill you in the morning but still has 5%

[Sean Rorison]

Post by ROB on Tue May 18, 2010 11:49 pm

@ROB wrote:

Am about to head down the pub so will try to rectify that within the hour! ;)

Post by ROB on Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:42 pm

Tusker beer is fricken great.

That’s some bender you went on there, ROB! :D

[ROB]

Don’t stop ’till you get enough!

[flipflop]

Legend sesh

[Wild in Africa]

Having recently returned from a month in Kenya I was happily surpised to sample the products of two new Microbreweries in Nairobi. Beer in Kenya till recently has largely been a choice of Tusker or the lesser products of Kenya Breweries Ltd (although Guinness and Heineken have also been brewed under licence). Now though the Sierra Brewery is producing a new range of beers, an Amber (more like a dark lager), a Blonde and a Porter, and all very drinkable. Also along the Ngong Road a new outlet simply called ‘Bar Brasserie, produces a range of beers under the ‘Big Five Brewery’ label including strong Belgian style beers and stouts. All very positive developments increasing the range of drinkable beverages in an hitherto monoculture of beer drinking.

[ROB]

Nice. Any chance you could post a pic of the labels?

When are you heading back?

[Wild in Africa]

Not unless I go to their website Rob and download them. Not going back to Kenya for a while…new job now covering the Middle East so upcoming travel to Egypt, West Bank/Gaza, Lebanon and possibly northern Iraq….watch this space.

[ROB]

Kurdistan?

Sounds like interesting times!

[flipflop]

I was in Liverpool this weekend (photos to follow of the match up there), and re-aquainted myself with an old favourite; half a pint of bitter mixed with:

Known locally as a pint of “Brown and Bitter”

Sweet as

[Sean Rorison]

I’ve been samplin’ French beers lately – in fact there are some really amazing French brews, but there are also some really awful French brews. It’s like the whole microbrew phenomenon is hitting here at once and some of these breweries are riding the wave while offering some shitty products that would get them beaten senseless in England or Germany.

Here’s a reliable entry into French beer:

Guaranteed to make an impact.

[ROB]

You know I don’t think I could even name a single French beer.

[_JohnnyF_]

Kronenberg

[flipflop]

Belgian strong beers are better, helps if you’re a mentalist alchy too

[ROB]

Beers of the world

[flipflop]

@ROB wrote:

Beers of the world

Great idea that :lol:

I’ve been all over this one recently, beautiful

http://www.darkstarbrewing.co.uk/

[flipflop]

It’s winter, so I’m spending more time in the pub. This is a great ale from Oxford’s Wychwood Brewery, on tap at Southampton before our game there on Tuesday night (0-0). A ‘winter warmer’ if ever I saw one

[Jefe]

“It’s not often I drink beer (think of the most interesting man in the world commercial)
but when I do,

It’s on SPECIAL! (normally dos equis in the commercial)

[rickshaw92]

@_JohnnyF_ wrote:

Kronenberg

French, therefore gay.

[rickshaw92]

Last beer I had was Stella and that was a month ago.

[Penta]

No! Really? You’ve stopped drinking? Or are you in a dry country?

[rickshaw92]

@Penta wrote:

No! Really? You’ve stopped drinking? Or are you in a dry country?

I am savin money so I can go to a dry country, odd that innit? And I wanna get a way cool canon 500D so I might be able to take nice pics for a change. Egypt then Sudan for just after the referendum Ethiopoa and Somaliland. Should be a hoot. No dope either M’ Lady, the farmasootical test centres frown on such things you know.

[Penta]

I’m duly impressed, Mr Shaw.

[rickshaw92]

I’m duly thirsty M’ Lady! 8) :wink:

[_JohnnyF_]

@rickshaw92 wrote:

@_JohnnyF_ wrote:

Kronenberg

French, therefore gay.

funny u mention that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khJKq_kJK7Q

[flipflop]

Football was off yesterday because of the weather, so I got a bit of xmas shopping in, that was until I popped into my local for a pit-stop and found they had just got this in on tap. Greene King are one of my favourite brewers, and this one is as good as the rest. A great session ale, easy on the gut and nice and tasty. Fuck shopping

[flipflop]

Finished Chrimbo shopping yesterday, just in time to head up the pub for the Sunday footder. Imagine my pleasant surprise when I found a pub with soccerball on the goggler AND this strong little winter warmer on tap. A couple of mulled wines to keep the wifey quiet and a few good scoops for me. Everyone’s a winner 8)

ABV 7%, hohoho

[ROB]

I gotta admit, I am jealous of the selection you guys seem to have over there.

We do ok, but I don’t think we have the sheer number.

[flipflop]

The one thing the Brits will ALWAYS rule the waves in – real ale

[flipflop]

One of my all time favourite ales, found on tap in one of the best pubs in Brighton, the Bath Arms. I’ll be heading out again shortly for a few more!

[flipflop]

Quiet afternoon with the match on the radio

[flipflop]

Have you farts turned into shandy drinkers??

Sunday drinking in town, Dark Star American Pale Ale in one of the coolest little city centre pubs going

[mikethehack]

Not the last one I tried, but definitely one of the tastiest:

Never tried the below. I mean the beer.

[mikethehack]

[flipflop]

:mrgreen:

[ROB]

I was drinking an interesting microbrew on Saturday night.

I was going to post it in this thread.

Problem is that I was already well pissed by the time I started drinking it so I cannot remember the name of it.

[rickshaw92]

Problem is that I was already well pissed by the time I started drinking it so I cannot remember the name of it.

Trooper!

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