Well apart from desperados.... its certainly better than tuborg

Your middle paragraph, Cat, rings a little true with me, allthough I never ended up staring down the big white telephone.
A large drinking sesh in Blackpool for 10 of us (started at midday, curtailed for an hour or two for food and a shower etc) got us to Yates' at about 1030 ish, when after virtually all day on Stella, we all went on a mad half hour dash on Yates' Aussie White......the smell of it now, 16 years on, makes me heave. HORRIBLE

I have to say I have a thing for chilled Desperados on a hot day. Beautiful.

Also Heineken, bought anywhere but in the UK, is as good a lager as you can get as well.

Amstel, served in the bar at the hotel malibu, perpignan in 2006, fooking fantastic stuff, 5 euros for less than a pint is not.

Everything tastes good when you are on holiday!

cuban all inclusive lager doesnt !

or for that matter, does Polar lager (a Venezuelan "brew", in Margerita)...awful

one inexplicably popular lager; Budweiser.

Pretty much ubiquitous when you go to Florida, the only decent American beers you can have as an alternative are Samuel Adams Boston or Michelob Ultra which are like a heavier, brown ale.

i can't understand how people like san miguel, bloody horrible that stuff.

Likewise, anyone ever tried Carlsberg black gold?

I'd rather steep my own socks in tepid water, after 36 holes of golf in hot weather, anfd then drink it, than have Budweiser...truly awful

Now, the Czech Budvar on the other hand.....MMMMMM

San Miguel, Cat, I find to be lovely, but only drinking it very occasionally, as I quickly get bored of it

An absolute BELTER I'm drinking at the mo, is alcoholic Ginger Beer
Not the expensive Crabbie's stuff @ £2 odd in supermarkets, but the Aldi equivalent, called Church's Ginger Ale...it's FANTASTICHE, and 70p a bottle cheaper, good value

Peroni for me at the moment

Or Cobra and a curry

anyone remember the Harp ad

"You could have a Lionel Blair haircut like mine"

"But Lionel Blair doesn't have his haircut like yours"

"He does if he comes here"

EKU 28 anyone?

It's minging in England. In spain it tastes nicer.

Proper draught Greenalls Bitter, from a hand pump or the electric pumps you only used to see in the North ( they had a glass cylinder on the bar where you could see the beer being drawn into ) was a very fine pint indeed. Thomas Greenalls Original was even better, but not widely distributed. Ironically, you could get it for while in the late 1990s in Milton Keynes and a few other far-flung locations when Greenalls owned a pub/restaurant chain.

Festival was from the dark period when fizzy keg beers were trying to take over. Every brewer had one, with Double Diamond probably the most famous. All such beers were fundamentally chemical crap but very profitable. Thanks to the efforts of CAMRA, they have largely disappeared.

It does, but Estrella Damm is better still