Your First, Last and Best Beer

[BrisbaneToffee]

First: whatever I could get my older stepbrother (or one of his friends) to buy when I was 13
Best: Tooheys Old dark ale. Also Carlsberg Elephant beer. Have never had a beer where you've gone in an instant from "This is really good stuff" to complete blackout.
Last: Tooheys Old. I was turning into a fat, beer-gutted prick, so I gave up all alcohol. Now I'm a non-drinking, fat, beer-gutted prick. Life isn't fair!

 

[COYBL25]

Lager isn't terrible, grow up and stop being so tedious

Proper lager, the German stuff, is as good as any beer in the world and I say that as someone who doesn’t really drink lager.

 

[Nymzee]

Proper lager, the German stuff, is as good as any beer in the world and I say that as someone who doesn’t really drink lager.

I think when people hear the word lager they just picture a pint of Carling.

 

[COYBL25]

I think when people hear the word lager they just picture a pint of Carling.

I know lads who drink lager - Carling, Coors etc, who don’t know that the likes of Warnsteiner exists and if it was put on in the pub, they’d still choose to drink Carling

It’s the advertising with lagers like Carling, that’s become imprinted on peoples minds.

It’s called “ brand awareness “.

They saturate the ads for so long, that it becomes imprinted on your brain, so when you walk into a pub and see it, you subconsciously choose it, due to your brain instantly recognising it.

McDonalds, Coke etc are the kings of this.

 

[Nymzee]

I know lads who drink lager - Carling, Coors etc, who don’t know that the likes of Warnsteiner exists and if it was put on in the pub, they’d still choose to drink Carling

It’s the advertising with lagers like Carling, that’s become imprinted on peoples minds.

It’s called “ brand awareness “.

They saturate the ads for so long, that it becomes imprinted on your brain, so when you walk into a pub and see it, you subconsciously choose it, due to your brain instantly recognising it.

McDonalds, Coke etc are the kings of this.

I mean I can't really complain as I'm a Fosters drinker when on the sesh

 

[larbert toffee]

First in a pub was some kind of bitter as it was only 16p and lager was 20p, a big difference at the time, it would have been 1974 and I was fourteen, well hidden by my older mates
My favourite pint is an IPA called Gladeye by Drygate brewery from Glasgow which was on tap in my loca for a while.
My last pint was a very palatable Belhaven 80 shilling and a bargain £1.79 in the Crystal Palace pub Glasgow.
Excellent thread BTW.

 

[Kurt.]

Worst - Kestrel super strength …. It’s so thick you had to use a spoon to get it down you. It was our Friday night ‘go to’ drink when we were teenagers, think it was about 9.8 percentage strength, 3 cans of that was enough to put you in a coma for a week when you’re only 15 … vile stuff

 

[PhilM]

I mean I can't really complain as I'm a Fosters drinker when on the sesh

I would rather not have a drink than touch stuff like Carlsberg, Carling and Fosters because once you've had good lagers, you realise how terrible they are.

Like @COYBL25, I know lads who drink the stuff and come out with phrases like, "That's a good pint of Carling," not understanding it's an oxymoron.

On the other hand, a pint of Stella unfiltered, Paulaner, Warsteiner etc. are fantastic!

 

[Nymzee]

I would rather not have a drink than touch stuff like Carlsberg, Carling and Fosters because once you've had good lagers, you realise how terrible they are.

Like @COYBL25, I know lads who drink the stuff and come out with phrases like, "That's a good pint of Carling," not understanding it's an oxymoron.

On the other hand, a pint of Stella unfiltered, Paulaner, Warsteiner etc. are fantastic!

Oh I'm under no illusions that Fosters isn't that great it's just cheap, refreshing & tastes exactly the same on the 20th pint which I appreciate.

 

[Kurt.]

I do enjoy a cold bottle of Heineken now and again, or if I fancy a change I’ll pop to Lidl and get a couple of bottles of Perlenbacher but I’ve not had that in ages

 

[coollino]

Proper lager, the German stuff, is as good as any beer in the world and I say that as someone who doesn’t really drink lager.

its exactly the sort of comment i'd expect from someone who just drinks Guiness

There are loads of good UK interpretations of Germen/Czech lagers too

 

[chrismpw]

First memorable: (excluding the sip of my da's homegrown, after hours of nagging as I say on his lap aged 3) Old Peculiar - pub somewhere near Inglesham. Velvet, warm, smooth, flavoursome.

Latest: Oakham Citra in the Old Kings Head in Broughton in Furnace (on my hols) clean fresh, zesty, but not as good as when it came out ... maybe being overproduced for the market now.

Best: Oakham Bishop's Farewell ... drank in a pub in my mate's town of Charlebury near Oxford. Pale, crisp, bitter.

 

[summerisle]

First memorable: (excluding the sip of my da's homegrown, after hours of nagging as I say on his lap aged 3) Old Peculiar - pub somewhere near Inglesham. Velvet, warm, smooth, flavoursome.

Latest: Oakham Citra in the Old Kings Head in Broughton in Furnace (on my hols) clean fresh, zesty, but not as good as when it came out ... maybe being overproduced for the market now.

Best: Oakham Bishop's Farewell ... drank in a pub in my mate's town of Charlebury near Oxford. Pale, crisp, bitter.

As I know you're a stickler for this sort of pedantry, * Charlbury.

 

[Pootsy]

First would have been a can of Tennants. he ones with the ladies printed on them. (showing my age)
Last Beer was a Bierra Moretti - Acceptable 'cheapish' Italian lager.
Best is St Austells HSD - A small batch Devon brewery that brews this fine beer that gets you drunk from the feet up. Initials stand for High Strength Draught. Well worth a try if you see it on your travels.

 

[summerisle]

First 'pint', mild in the Salisbury, Granton road. Think I was 14, we were in the snug at the back. Marvellous, isn't it?.
Last one was a Guinness. Yesterday.
Best pint was a pint of Mann's brown on draught in the Gingerbread on Stanley street. I was about 20, so 40+ years ago. I would pay a fortune to try that again.
Oh, and a case of Rolling Rock
And add my first beer at 13 was either McEwans or Watney's from a party 7 NYE at home aged 12

I had Manns on draught, for the one and only time, many years' ago in Warwick - chalk and cheese isn't it. Like drinking brown gold.