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If I do drink beer at lunchtime I certainly don't drink anything lagerish unless it's a very hot day. If it is very hot odds are I drink something soft anyway.
I couldn't care less about them making a 4% Stella, it's hardly a particularly special beer and I don't make any effort to drink beers because of their strength, it's the taste I buy beer for.
I do like how a few years ago most lagers were ~4%... Carlsberg, Heineken etc. Then they all got replaced with "continental" versions at 5%. Now they are all being replaced with 4% versions.
Much as I like the stronger lagers, I have come to the following conclusion: the strength is required to mask the inferior quality.
I got fed up with real ales a while back, but I'm coming back to them now. If you want taste without going overboard on the % then bitters & porters are the way forward.
I kept noticing that my favourite lagers were getting stronger and stronger - that's because the old addage was true all along - lager is pish! Any lager below 5% tastes thin and bland. Now you are starting to see more 5.5 - 6% lagers appearing - bad news for more than 1 or 2.
So with lager you really are just buying tramp juice - no wonder I was starting to get worse hangovers when I went out (thought it was an age thing - I now realise I was drinking twice as much alcohol over an evening!).
Much as I like the stronger lagers, I have come to the following conclusion: the strength is required to mask the inferior quality.
I got fed up with real ales a while back, but I'm coming back to them now. If you want taste without going overboard on the % then bitters & porters are the way forward.
I kept noticing that my favourite lagers were getting stronger and stronger - that's because the old addage was true all along - lager is pish! Any lager below 5% tastes thin and bland. Now you are starting to see more 5.5 - 6% lagers appearing - bad news for more than 1 or 2.
So with lager you really are just buying tramp juice - no wonder I was starting to get worse hangovers when I went out (thought it was an age thing - I now realise I was drinking twice as much alcohol over an evening!).
Still can't grow a beard though.
There's some very nice organic cider about which I find doesn't give me a hangover. Then again, neither does magners, but it does taste like tulipe.
"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."
Much as I like the stronger lagers, I have come to the following conclusion: the strength is required to mask the inferior quality.
I got fed up with real ales a while back, but I'm coming back to them now. If you want taste without going overboard on the % then bitters & porters are the way forward.
I kept noticing that my favourite lagers were getting stronger and stronger - that's because the old addage was true all along - lager is pish! Any lager below 5% tastes thin and bland. Now you are starting to see more 5.5 - 6% lagers appearing - bad news for more than 1 or 2.
So with lager you really are just buying tramp juice - no wonder I was starting to get worse hangovers when I went out (thought it was an age thing - I now realise I was drinking twice as much alcohol over an evening!).
Still can't grow a beard though.
100% correct.
"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell
Stick to propper british 'real ale' if you want a good tasting strong beer. Not this continental 'pop.'
How about some facts? I would suggest that you do some reading up on beers first and then comment. As a starting point. because beer is mostly water a lot depends on where it is brewed.
Second point most British beers are brewed in a hurry and the fermention is killed of artifically; this is not the case in most European countries that have far better regulations.
Many European brands are brewed in the UK and ****ed-up and so are not the same as the original brand.
I have many other points but that's enough for now.
"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell
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