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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.

Seabag

Seabag

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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 ?

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Parkdrive

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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.
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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".

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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.

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