So What Are We Drinking Tonight?

NSW · 03-06-2012, 05:33 PM

Mmmmmmm....

**Janszoon** · 03-06-2012, 11:37 PM

As usual:

BastardofYoung · 03-07-2012, 01:44 AM

bob. · 03-07-2012, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tore

In my general opinion, mass produced beer can be good, but it does not rank very high quality wise. Buying such beer, whether it's Budweiser, Beck's, Warsteiner or Newcastle Brown Ale, is like getting a frozen pizza instead of going to a great pizza place or making a great homemade one.

To get really good beer, you should either brew it yourself (it's not that hard to make beer at least as good as the mass produced) or get beer from the small special breweries or micro breweries that produce stuff using methods that are not economically feasible for large scale production, but which produces excellent beer. Quality beers like these are finally getting more popular in Oslo and there are now several places that have special deals with smaller producers, both in and out of the country.

Although they have great beer, the downside is of course that these places are pretty ****ing expensive. You have to expect to pay 80 NOKs and up. >.<

i agree with you to a point.....i do brew my own beer and have for almost 15 years (i must say i've gotten pretty darn good at it

) and i support out local brewery almost weekly and actually plan weekend trips throughout northern California centered around how many breweries we can go to....on the other had although i agree that mass produced beer is in essence mass produced beer....there is a huge difference between the quality in flavor between say a Budweiser and say a Sierra Nv

FRED HALE SR. · 03-07-2012, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janszoon

As usual:

My dad can never get enough, hes a bourbon and coke guy for life. If I delve into bourbon or whiskey its normally irish.

anticipation · 03-07-2012, 01:35 PM

fucking get some.

jackhammer · 03-20-2012, 04:23 PM

WTF?

My favourite beer is Carslberg Export. Relatively cheap but with a decent taste but after buying a load for the festival this weekend I just happened to notice that it didn't quite taste right and then noticed on the side of the can 4.8% vol. Eh? Are my eyes deceiving me? Apparently not:
British beer gets weaker- MSN Money
The whole reason I drink Export (apart from it's taste) is it's usual 5% vol because any beer below 5% just doesn't taste good to me and just doesn't 'hit' me at all.

Now I understand companies wanting to save money but you just can't make an inferior product and A) charge exactly the same amount (it has actually gone UP in price at Tesco's) and B) not inform customers of this. I am very pissed off as I brought some back with me and it tastes like all the other cack lagers now (Carling, Fosters etc).

Of course the government are as usual at the root of this and ripping companies who of course have to pass that off to consumers to absorb the hit. If it carries on like this I will have to get onto Special Brew (!) or cider which is currently £2.66 for 3L @ 5.3% vol and is actually damn good!

Please don't tell me I should be drinking spirits instead. Yes I SHOULD but I can't afford them and work far too many hours to function constantly.

Bollocks.

**Goofle** · 03-20-2012, 05:52 PM

I am about four glasses of red wine (14%) down. Not feeling anything.

BastardofYoung · 03-22-2012, 02:16 AM

Key · 03-26-2012, 12:48 AM

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03-20-2012, 04:23 PM	#2037 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	WTF? My favourite beer is Carslberg Export. Relatively cheap but with a decent taste but after buying a load for the festival this weekend I just happened to notice that it didn't quite taste right and then noticed on the side of the can 4.8% vol. Eh? Are my eyes deceiving me? Apparently not: British beer gets weaker- MSN Money The whole reason I drink Export (apart from it's taste) is it's usual 5% vol because any beer below 5% just doesn't taste good to me and just doesn't 'hit' me at all. Now I understand companies wanting to save money but you just can't make an inferior product and A) charge exactly the same amount (it has actually gone UP in price at Tesco's) and B) not inform customers of this. I am very pissed off as I brought some back with me and it tastes like all the other cack lagers now (Carling, Fosters etc). Of course the government are as usual at the root of this and ripping companies who of course have to pass that off to consumers to absorb the hit. If it carries on like this I will have to get onto Special Brew (!) or cider which is currently £2.66 for 3L @ 5.3% vol and is actually damn good! Please don't tell me I should be drinking spirits instead. Yes I SHOULD but I can't afford them and work far too many hours to function constantly. Bollocks. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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03-07-2012, 01:35 PM	#2036 (permalink)
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