CB Saint Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Just read in the Telegraph that Belgium is just about to run out of Stella and Leffe beers due to blockades by factory workers. Funnily enough Hoegaarden is made in the same factory but there are no reports of any shortages - can't think why
Draino76 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I heart all of those; but happy drinking any beer so not trembling with fear at the mo.
saintbletch Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Just read in the Telegraph that Belgium is just about to run out of Stella and Leffe beers due to blockades by factory workers. Funnily enough Hoegaarden is made in the same factory but there are no reports of any shortages - can't think why Presumably Belgian domestic violence will fall too. To truly appreciate Hoegaarden you have to have arrived for the Spa Francorchamps F1 Grand Prix late on a Thursday evening in the pouring rain, put up a tent in the pouring rain and then quickly nipped into a supermarket to buy 96 bottles of cheap lager for you and your mate to drink over the next 4 days. That first sip...oh my God...what have we done. But after 4 days had passed and Damon Hill have won, I have to tell you I love it.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 What?! But Stella is my beer of choice on the train to away games
St Landrew Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Big deal. Lagers in any case, so only any use for drinking when there's nothing decent to imbibe.
angelman Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I like Hoegaarden and had a very nice bottle of it last night. Better than Stella and about on par with Leffe. It used to be better before InBev moved the factory. Never could quite work out why they changed it from 5% to 4.9%
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 What?! But Stella is my beer of choice on the train to away games Don't worry yourself. The Stella over here is manufactured in a petrochemical plant on Tees-side and has never had so much as a sniff of Belgian air.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Don't worry yourself. The Stella over here is manufactured in a petrochemical plant on Tees-side and has never had so much as a sniff of Belgian air. Phew! That's alright then... I was just about to go out and panic buy. Thanks for the info DSM.
Ponty Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Big deal. Lagers in any case, so only any use for drinking when there's nothing with twigs and pond-life in to imbibe. :smt023
RonManager Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Originally Posted by St Landrew Big deal. Lagers in any case, so only any use for drinking when there's nothing with twigs and pond-life in to imbibe. :smt023 As old George (RIP), erstwhile landlord of The Willow in Winchester, used to say, way back when - 'another pint of Itchen Sir?'
RedAndWhite91 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I only drink lager on the train, not sure why. I'm going through a bit of a Strongbow phase at the moment, something I missed out on when I was 15 and drinking on a park bench. Other than that I am seemingly one of the only people in my generation to actually like, and drink, bitter and real ale. And sometimes I get the p!ss taken out of me for it!
St Landrew Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I only drink lager on the train, not sure why. I'm going through a bit of a Strongbow phase at the moment, something I missed out on when I was 15 and drinking on a park bench. Other than that I am seemingly one of the only people in my generation to actually like, and drink, bitter and real ale. And sometimes I get the p!ss taken out of me for it! Proper beer. Tbh, people who drink lager ought to have the p!ss taken out of them. They're drinking so much of it.
Durleyfos Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Big deal. Lagers in any case, so only any use for drinking when there's nothing decent to imbibe. :smt023 Like liquidised leaf litter and twigs, which as we all know is in 'real' ale?
RedAndWhite91 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Proper beer. Tbh, people who drink lager ought to have the p!ss taken out of them. They're drinking so much of it. I'll drink any booze to be honest, depends what mood I'm in.
saintkiptanui Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Beer snobs are all fat and have beards and think they are drinking Eve's pusssy juice. Beer is lager with a sickly sweet taste, although Stella has to be the most horrifc drink known to man, not only because it's tastes like cheap whiskey but it can turn a mild mannered man into a murdering nutjob.
RonManager Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 but it can turn a mild mannered man into a murdering nutjob. Tell me about it. If I had a pound for everyone I've murdered after getting tanked on lager etc etc etc....
hypochondriac Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I'll drink any booze to be honest, depends what mood I'm in. Strongbow? Go and buy some proper cider son, not that ****.
RonManager Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 (edited) I'm going through a bit of a Strongbow phase at the moment, something I missed out on when I was 15 and drinking on a park bench. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-563284/Face-Jesus-appears-cider-bottle-amazement-pub-drinkers.html R&W91 and his pals off to an away match Edited 14 January, 2010 by RonManager
St Landrew Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I'll drink any booze to be honest, depends what mood I'm in. Well same here, of course. Just that I never confuse quality with something that happens to quench the thirst. BTW, Skip. If that reference earlier was to me, I'm not fat and I don't have a beard. Go have a re-think.
La BoIS Saint Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Are bitter and real ale the same thing? Not necessarily. Basically real ale is any beer that undergoes secondary fermentation in the cask. It could be bitter, lager, mild, stout, porter, barley wine, fruit beer whatever. If any of the above are pasteurised so that the yeast is killed they stop being real ale. Eg John Smiths smoothflow is a bitter (or an apology for one) but isn't real ale.
SOTONS EAST SIDE Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 I'm a Barley Wine/Special Brew mix drinker myself.
RedAndWhite91 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Strongbow? Go and buy some proper cider son, not that ****. Most pubs only have Strongbow or Bulmers/Magners. Had a pint of Old English Cider or something up at Leeds which was nice. However, in Bedford's Strongbow is only £1.99 a pint and I can't complain at that!
RedAndWhite91 Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-563284/Face-Jesus-appears-cider-bottle-amazement-pub-drinkers.html R&W91 and his pals off to an away match Yep, that's me in the middle sitting down. Ron, how did you get hold of this?!
BadgerBadger Posted 14 January, 2010 Posted 14 January, 2010 Don't worry yourself. The Stella over here is manufactured in a petrochemical plant on Tees-side and has never had so much as a sniff of Belgian air. That says it all right there - horrible stuff Ale rules!!
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