What do you drink?

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:22 pm

You a CAMRA member Requiem? I'd totally forgotten about real-ale; the festivals are pretty sweet IMO.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:29 pm

Nope just your commonal (pub) garden drunk, whose local has a different speciality ale every month .

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:30 pm

Its because most people see beer as the be all, end all in drinking.
Beer is a leisure drink when other people are drinking it at some place in a bar where you can't afford anything else.
The stuff tastes like shit and everyone knows but won't admit it.

Plus, it has a terrible amount of alcoholic content. Highest beer i've seen was 10% and it tasted like absolute shit, while the 5% Canadian beers are easily the most drinkable. Americans get this weak assed 2-3% stuff and think they developed drinking.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:37 pm

My country has alot of decent cheap wines, so I mostly drink wine tho I always love a good cold beer.But mfg is right beer does taste like shit, usually you have to drink quite a few times before starting to like it, and most people only drink it cold.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:42 pm

thats true... but cold beer really goes down well on a hot day. And the matter of aquiring taste applies to drinks like wine, rum, whiskey (totally awful shit but every here in Scotland wants a wee dram,whatever that is).

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:48 pm

Beer is an acquired taste, it is stupid to out and out say it's awful.

Mandy: I'd heard American beers are usually 2-3%, surely this cannot be true?

Arjuna: A wee Dram is a reference to Drambuie, it's just a brand of whiskey.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:51 pm

adorable

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 5:53 pm

congratulations, you have sextuplets

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:14 pm

that guy looks pregnant.. tard

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:16 pm

It's a matter of taste, requiem.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:26 pm

Yeah I know, but still the majority of wine drinkers are pretentious snobs. smile

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:29 pm

When I drink beer I usually have either Hahn Premium, Victoria Bitter or if I got the cash to spare I may indulge in an imported beer like Guinness, Heineken or LÃƒÂ¶wenbrau.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:49 pm

And the majority of beer drinkers are fat, ugly, redneck and stupid?

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 7:59 pm

Got milk?

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:16 pm

Bit hard to get a red neck when you're in the pub all day supping pints. smile

Aren't all drinkers stupid? smile

BTW Arjuna I've just remembered 1/16th of an ounce is called a dram in the old imperial measuring system, so a dram is also a measure of whiskey.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:35 pm

I was just saying, saying most wien drinkers are snob makes you look full of shit.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:50 pm

thanks.

Isn't it the popular perception that drinking beer makes you working class and wine makes you a snob?

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 9:59 pm

Most wine drinkers are yuppies, and some are snobs. Mostly the yuppie part, though.

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:02 pm

Heh I dunno about Canada, England or Israel but in latin countries all social classes drinks wine, it doesn't belong to a specific class, beer on the other hand is more of a youth drink or a summer drink. Aquiring taste applies to wine too, but it's takes less time to start enjoying it.

Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 1:11 am

It sure is. Maybe if they are lucky they can get some 4%. Americans aren't allowed to have alcoholic beer because they get excited and cause mischief.