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

They sell it in the cons, both bitter and mild.
The bitter tastes great but is, i believe, a maelstrom of chemicals. It certainly left me with a sore head and I don't do hangovers.

Guess that is on Keg rather than cask.

Speaking of headaches, all that Caffrey's, Killkenny tosh that was doing the rounds in the mid 90's.

2 pints of the stuff would leave you feeling like you'd done 15 rounds with Marvin Hagler, and then Thomas Hearns was just about to start on you.

Not good

I loved Caffrey's, smoother than a Drop kicking rugby players conquest.

you can still get cafferys in the rodney, 2.20 a pint,, bargain... i have a bottle of the the last ever beer ever produced at greenalls called . "the last post " in my drinks cabinet, never been opened. priceless.

slight thread drift but does the rodney have sky sports?

yes

good.... the mrs wants to go out for a few drinks friday night and she hasnt been in there since it was done up.... rugby for me as part of the deal = winner.