Lager Lager Stella Artoris

[Jeremy]

Yeah I picked up some Cesar Augustus from Sainsburys. It rules.

[apbremer]

-Fizzy euromuck. Wouldn't wash my boots in it.

[ultraburner]

Zwiec by a mile. Lovely stuff.

[Mick Mac]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Corona and Sol taste of nothing. Like, actually

> nothing. You have to drink them icy cold and stick

> a lime in to find it even palatable. Bonkers.

>

> I'll drink a lager from time to time, mainly when

> the temperature rises, but I'd challenge even

> regular drinkers to tell the difference between

> the major brands. The only difference between

> Fosters, Carling, Carlsberg etc is marketing. A

> good pilsner can be pretty decent though. The

> Brick House micro-brewery in Peckham do a good

> one.

>

> And just as cheap mass prouced lager is crud, so

> is the ale equivalent. Anywhere serving John

> Smith, Boddingtons or Tetley smoothflow should be

> avoided like the plague. Yet travel 200 miles

> north to Yorkshire and genuine hand-pulled, well

> kept Tetleys is a thing of beauty and joy. It

> converted my missus to ale drinking.

I can just picture your missus now DC, with her big beer gut, beard and CAMRA tshirt. I know her type alright.

[mrcee]

Red Stripe, light, fresh etc

[david_carnell]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> I can just picture your missus now DC, with her

> big beer gut, beard and CAMRA tshirt. I know her

> type alright.

Two out of three Mick. She doesn't wear tshirts.

[Brendan]

I've given up. It's all too confusing. These days if I want refreshing I just put more ice in my bourbon.

[ratty]

Stella has reduced its alcohol content - check it out it is now down to 4.8 and a much nicer drink because of it imo!

[????]

5.2 was King - new one is crap.

[Otta]

Reminds me of when they released the "light" 4% version. My mate said "what's that gonna be called then, child beater"?

[Mick Mac]

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> 5.2 was King - new one is crap.

But the missus seems a lot happier.

[????]

Anyway I'm off home via the offy with 4 cans of 4.8% for ?4.28......

...used to be ?5 for 6 (5.2%s an all) at Bossman before it got poncey

[Mick Mac]

I missed it before but MF describes the old Stella Artoris as a little drop of "do as you are told". Even the girls laughed....

[StraferJack]

Well, they would, wouldn't they

[Mick Mac]

Indeed, too scared not to.

Lighten up SJ.

[Dopamine1979]

I remember reading somewhere that the whole macho image of lager was a deliberate marketing strategy in the 80s/90's as they were generally considered girly drinks prior to that.

[????]

It wasn't all a marketing ploy...The hot summers of 1975/76. more travel abroad, revolting kegged bitter, the trend was well underway before the 80s.

[Seabag]

I'm with ????'s re the lager thing. Holsten Pils was the first propper lager I remember back in 82, it was all about the quality, purity and tradition. I remember seperate fridges and the likes, it was good

Then bottled Grolsch came along (I still have the scar where someone smashed one into my face) and things developed from there, from what I remember. Actually, that was the advent for premium pumped lagers that had been sold previously in bottles. Fosters, Heineken and the likes followed

Yuk to most of them now. Mind I did drink a pint of Doombar this weekend in Cornwall, that stuff is the new lager, surely ?

[Otta]

For years Heineken was something you wouldn't touch over here, because it was Heineken "Special Filter" and was 3.5%. You had to buy an expensive Heineken Export for the proper stuff. It was only around the turn of the century that they sorted that shit out.

[Jah Lush]

Drinking in the Dog in the 70s it was all about the bottled white top Skol Special and Laughing Brew (Lowenbrau).

http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag237/jahlushhead/lowenbrau-445575_p_zpsdb285651.jpg

[Parkdrive]

Bottled Lowenbrau imported from Germany back in the early 70's and drunk at the Grove Tavern in Camberwell was a favourite of mine, as was Tooheys and Swan lager when they were imported from Oz. Very nice when served cold. Fosters and Castlemaine Four X used to be decent when it was brewed in Oz and exported to the UK, also back in the 70's.

[Jah Lush]

Tuborg Gold was another from those days.

I used drink in the Grove Tavern 70s and 80s too PD.

[Otta]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Bottled Lowenbrau imported from Germany back in

> the early 70's and drunk at the Grove Tavern in

> Camberwell was a favourite of mine, as was Tooheys

> and Swan lager when they were imported from Oz.

> Very nice when served cold. Fosters and

> Castlemaine Four X used to be decent when it was

> brewed in Oz and exported to the UK, also back in

> the 70's.

Aw Tooheys. Drank A LOT of that when I was in Oz. I think I went for "Tooheys New".

[Parkdrive]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Tuborg Gold was another from those days.

>

> I used drink in the Grove Tavern 70s and 80s too

> PD.

Good choice Jah, it was a great watering hole

[Parkdrive]

Otta Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

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> > Bottled Lowenbrau imported from Germany back in

> > the early 70's and drunk at the Grove Tavern in

> > Camberwell was a favourite of mine, as was

> Tooheys

> > and Swan lager when they were imported from Oz.

> > Very nice when served cold. Fosters and

> > Castlemaine Four X used to be decent when it

> was

> > brewed in Oz and exported to the UK, also back

> in

> > the 70's.

>

>

>

> Aw Tooheys. Drank A LOT of that when I was in Oz.

> I think I went for "Tooheys New".

I had a mate back in the 70's that worked for Quantas. If I remember rightly they had an office in Piccadilly, and they used to have office parties which I used to go along to, and we were able to buy cases of Tooheys and Swan at discount prices from the office manager. Happy days.