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Post by Nobull on Jan 23, 2010 0:46:35 GMT
I know it's a repeat from the original Mass Hibsteria thread, but still feel it's a good one to repeat.
Your desert island (or isolated mountain lodge) pub has 5 draught pulls at the bar. What are they?
1. Creemore Springs Lager 2. Guinness 3. Staropramen 4. Westmalle 5. Caledonian 80/-
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Post by ali on Jan 23, 2010 13:12:59 GMT
1. Tennents Lager - Now, I know what you're thinking, but honestly, it's always the first pint I have when I go home, usually with my brother at about 11am in Wallyford Miners Club, just after polishing off more Scottish breakfast than a horse could shite at my maws. Therefore, it's number one.
2. Guinness - winter's evening in my student days, pop across the road from my flat in West Preston Street to the Junction Bar with whatever book I was studying at the time, pint of Guinness, sit by the fire, marvelous.
3. McEwans 80/- - as served in the Hole in the Wa', Musselburgh circa 1983/4. The first time I realised there was more to beer than chemical fizz. Also, less chance of projectile vomiting.
4. Oranjeboom - De Hems Dutch Bar, Soho. I don't know if it's still the case, but when I was down there visiting my brother in the early 90s, De Hems was the only pub in Britain to sell draught Oranjeboom. Not an experience to be missed....or repeated all that often (for the sake of your brain cells)
5. Fat Tire - from my local in Atlanta, the Universal Joint. Nice drop with a lovely chocolatey aftertaste. Would be further up my list if they didn't insist on serving it too fecking cold.
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Post by hiblog on Jan 26, 2010 23:42:14 GMT
1. Deuchar's IPA, a justified champion beer of Britain several times. 2. McEwan's 80/- as served at The Athletic Arms up to c.1982. Not as it is served anywhere now which is rank rusty water. Drinking 80 bob now is like seeing someone you once loved reduced to an emaciated crack hoor. 3. Fuller's London Pride as served by Terry in the St Radegund, King Street, Cambridge. 4. Pilsner Urquell as served in Prague up to about 1996 - reputedly it's hard to find as good a pint as you used to there these days. 5. Hmm, struggling for a fifth, so many to choose. Something Belgian or Dutch? Something dark, strong and malty for those long winter nights on the desert island... Can we have a rotating guest beer washed up on the shore once a month?
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Post by hiblog on Jan 26, 2010 23:52:13 GMT
Yes, I'd struggle to include any local NZ brews in the list. There are a lot of boutique breweries these days - it has become quite the trendy thing. There are good numbers of interesting beers of all types made around New Zealand now - which they then mostly filter to fuck, pasteurise and serve as cold as an Altnaharra ptarmigan's toes. Also they are mostly too strong at 5% plus to be decent session brews.
I really don't understand the cold thing especially - apart from the fact that it disguises the tastelessness - as it's not as if NZ swelters in tropical temperatures for most of the year. Makes sense in Atlanta I guess, but Wellington? Dunedin?
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Post by ali on Jan 27, 2010 11:42:48 GMT
I really don't understand the cold thing especially - apart from the fact that it disguises the tastelessness - as it's not as if NZ swelters in tropical temperatures for most of the year. Makes sense in Atlanta I guess, but Wellington? Dunedin? It really pisses me off. In the height of summer, I'm more than happy to drink ice cold Stella and save the better beers for the colder weather. Unfortunately, Atlanta is populated by ignorant slack jawed racist redneck mouth breathing bottom feeders who think Miller Lite (sic) is the ultimate in beer perfection so, shoot, it should all be served ice cold y'all. Anything else is communistic socialism. Unlike the Murphys, I am bitter.
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