Spoiler: Stella Artois the UK’s favourite beer brand at home, as Budweiser unseats Foster’s for 2nd

Hime wrote:

Errkal wrote:But people do it will gooseberry fool loads of other stuff why not buy quality over quantity with beer too.

Yeah there is definitely no elitism

It isn't better at all, craft beer might cost more to buy in bulk but it's the same price in a pub. I'm sure craft beer drinkers turn there nose up at the likes of Hop House, Camden Hell's, Punks IPA, etc because they're slightly more mainstream now.

<]:^D wrote:

Preezy wrote:I'm new to the beer world but even I know that the major brands are to be avoided. I certainly wouldn't pay for a pint of Fosters/Stella/Carlsberg etc in a pub, but I guess if you're at a festival or something like that and that's all there is...meh, I'd have a cider instead.

thank you! thats what i was trying to say; these beers are not worth the price, buy something else instead rather than defaulting to awful beer!
ive just remembered ice cold Kronenburg is OK to drink, thats about it of all the major ones ive tried.

Errkal wrote:

Hime wrote:

Errkal wrote:But people do it will gooseberry fool loads of other stuff why not buy quality over quantity with beer too.

Yeah there is definitely no elitism

It isn't better at all, craft beer might cost more to buy in bulk but it's the same price in a pub. I'm sure craft beer drinkers turn there nose up at the likes of Hop House, Camden Hell's, Punks IPA, etc because they're slightly more mainstream now.

I couldn't give a monkeys who makes it as long as it is made properly and tastes damn good.

Hop house is a lazy attempt at a craft lager, it tastes like every piss lager out there, a proper craft lager is a wonderful thing.

I've nerve been much of Camden fan I've always found them a bit bland.

Crasft beer is fundamentally better than piss lager it just is in quality of product, flavour etc. In a pub it also costs more as it will usually be the sam price for 1/2 or 2/3 as a point of piss.

Hime wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Hime wrote:

Errkal wrote:But people do it will gooseberry fool loads of other stuff why not buy quality over quantity with beer too.

Yeah there is definitely no elitism

It isn't better at all, craft beer might cost more to buy in bulk but it's the same price in a pub. I'm sure craft beer drinkers turn there nose up at the likes of Hop House, Camden Hell's, Punks IPA, etc because they're slightly more mainstream now.

I couldn't give a monkeys who makes it as long as it is made properly and tastes damn good.

Hop house is a lazy attempt at a craft lager, it tastes like every piss lager out there, a proper craft lager is a wonderful thing.

I've nerve been much of Camden fan I've always found them a bit bland.

Crasft beer is fundamentally better than piss lager it just is in quality of product, flavour etc. In a pub it also costs more as it will usually be the sam price for 1/2 or 2/3 as a point of piss.

No it isn't, at all. I have never seen craft beer at a significantly higher price, at least not to be the deciding factor on a person's choice.

Photek wrote:Yo Englanders. Explain beers in pubs for me in England, anytime I was in Liverpool/London most pubs had about 3-4 beers on tap, in Dublin we have about 10-12 carrying all the big brands usually. Whats the craic with that?

Ste wrote:

Photek wrote:Yo Englanders. Explain beers in pubs for me in England, anytime I was in Liverpool/London most pubs had about 3-4 beers on tap, in Dublin we have about 10-12 carrying all the big brands usually. Whats the craic with that?

Next time you're in Liverpool go the Ship & Mitre. They have shed loads there.

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Hime wrote:I'm drinking Beck's. I'm a loser

Hime wrote:I'm drinking Beck's. I'm a loser

Mafro wrote:

Hime wrote:I'm drinking Beck's. I'm a loser

Vile beverage.

Errkal wrote:

Hime wrote:I'm drinking Beck's. I'm a loser

They do a pale ale now i want to try.

I read somewhere that, based on some drinking on the show, you were getting flamed online from beer snobs. Does that happen often?
Bourdain: A lot. I would say that the angriest critiques I get from people about shows are when I'm drinking whatever convenient cold beer is available in a particular place, and not drinking the best beer out there. You know, I haven't made the effort to walk down the street 10 blocks to the microbrewery where they're making some strawberry floating Mumford and Sons IPA. People get all bent about it. But look, I like cold beer. And I like to have a good time. I don't like to talk about beer, honestly. I don't like to talk about wine. I like to drink beer. If you bring me a really good one, a good craft beer, I will enjoy it, and say so. But I'm not gonna analyze it.

I was in San Francisco, and I was desperate for beer, and I walked into this place. I thought it was an old bar. And I sat down, and I looked up, and I noticed there was a wide selection of beers I'd never heard of. Which is fine. OK, I'm in some sort of brew pub. What's good? But I looked around: the entire place was filled with people sitting there with five small glasses in front of them, filled with different beers, taking notes. This is not a bar. This is strawberry floating Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This is wrong. This is not what a bar is about. A bar is to go to get a little bit buzzed, and pleasantly derange the senses, and have a good time, and interact with other people, or make bad decisions, or feel bad about your life. It's not to sit there strawberry floating analyzing beer. It's antithetical.

It's the same way -- I've sat at tables where somebody's bringing out one fantastic, life-changing wine after another. But, you know, just give me the name, tell me where it's from, and that's OK. I don't need to know what's out of the strawberry floating hill, or who put the grapevines in, or that they were transplanted. I don't need this. I drank it already, dude. I just -- I don't care.

Hime wrote:

<]:^D wrote:

Preezy wrote:I'm new to the beer world but even I know that the major brands are to be avoided. I certainly wouldn't pay for a pint of Fosters/Stella/Carlsberg etc in a pub, but I guess if you're at a festival or something like that and that's all there is...meh, I'd have a cider instead.

thank you! thats what i was trying to say; these beers are not worth the price, buy something else instead rather than defaulting to awful beer!
ive just remembered ice cold Kronenburg is OK to drink, thats about it of all the major ones ive tried.

That is total elitism

You might enjoy other beers more but they are no more worthy of the price.

<]:^D wrote:

Hime wrote:

<]:^D wrote:

Preezy wrote:I'm new to the beer world but even I know that the major brands are to be avoided. I certainly wouldn't pay for a pint of Fosters/Stella/Carlsberg etc in a pub, but I guess if you're at a festival or something like that and that's all there is...meh, I'd have a cider instead.

thank you! thats what i was trying to say; these beers are not worth the price, buy something else instead rather than defaulting to awful beer!
ive just remembered ice cold Kronenburg is OK to drink, thats about it of all the major ones ive tried.

That is total elitism

You might enjoy other beers more but they are no more worthy of the price.

what are you talking about? a beer i ENJOY is definitely worth more than a beer i do NOT enjoy