Went out for a coaches meeting last night and the pub had Brooklyn Lager on tap. Result. It's not a lager as in weak yellow piss **** stuff that's served in British pubs as per @Red Hadron Collider . Still, it was a fine beer. I also like a Moretti but it's gone daft how much it is, was £4.95 a pint last time I bought it in Bath. When Autumn and Winter are about, prefer an ale. Never walk into a pub and even think of ordering a Guinness.
I only drink Guinness by default. I can drink lager but I don’t enjoy it unless it’s hot weather. Though I can’t stand that Brooklyn lager, it’s the lager equivalent of craft ale and tastes hoppy and zesty. If I wanted a zesty drink I’d have grapefruit juice. I do treat myself to a couple of pints of bitter once a month, though can’t drink it like I used to as it destroys my guts.
I don't think it's at all hoppy myself, it's not like the IPA's that can be way over the top. Definitely don't find it to be zesty? We talking about the same stuff, Brooklyn brewery does other beers too? It's not gassy either, went down a treat. Lager is definitely a summer drink though, preferably out of the bottle. Or small can, but I've no beard now so I can't be drinking that.
For my palate it is. Tried it once in London in a pub where the ale was just hideous. Though you drink ales I don’t like. I can’t stand ipa. I tend to lean toward a traditional bitter, bankss, Timothy Taylor, bathams though it was the bathams which I think sent my gut over the edge. The lagers I do like are the more malty ones. Czech beer or German dark beers being the preferred.
If a better quality lager such as moretti, sagres, staropramen was the same price would you still drink that piss water carling? I think out the cheap lagers in pubs fosters is better than carling.
What about it? I would order carling if I had the urge to ruin the drink with a splash of lime cordial. That or fosters.
Apart from the fact it tastes of absolutely **** all, or what I suspect diluted piss tastes like, I suppose there is nothing wrong with it.
Not really a fan of IPA at all, that's not my default ale. The local we watched football in in Bath only had one drinkable ale, was called Proper Job and is a Cornish IPA. Could only stomach two before I had to change to something else. Bath Gem is superb. That's an Amber Ale or something. Pub we stopped in in mid wales last week sold Butty Bach, that's another I could happily quaff a few of.
There are simply too many poncy craft beers now, find a couple you like and stick with then as there's a load of **** ones out there. I like bitter but you don't see much of the Old Style Bitter with a light carbonation anymore just this smooth crap.
There's a lovely dark lager I drank in Mexico called Victoria. Unfortunately, you can't get it outside Mexico
I used to drink a bit of ale but not so much now. Usually drink lager but occasionally a pint of bitter or a pint of stout. One thing I can't do is cider
I can drink that stuff all day and I’m normally not a big drinker. I prefer the draught but you don’t see it in many places.
