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I absolutely love them, at the risk of sounding sounding too L&P Forum like. What are yours? I prefer european lagers to the usual Carling etc...

I love Bitburger, Erdinger, Pilsner Urquell!

Company I work for is opening a pub in Bath (well re-naming the Rat & Parrot to The Westgate) to becoming a world beers pub. You get a passport and you "drink the world" with the chance of winning prizes. Think i will be frequenting this pub every so often :)

sounds like a fun idea for a pub!

here's one of my faves:
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For the next two days I shall be mostly living off of Amstel.

Lovely stuff. Wish I could find Bitburger on tap locally. I know Adnams pubs over in Suffolk do it!

This is true, but also in Norfolk, loads of adnams pubs. My ex used to live right next to the mustard pot in norwich, nice little pub by carrow road.

How does this work exactly?

My little bro lives there, but your pubs are pricy so I'll tell him to steer clear.

We even get Amstel on tap in our local. Gorgeous stuff

Basically everytime you order a pint in your "passport" you get it ticked off and then you drink the passport, so you try every beer on there!

Do they liquidise it?

Nastro Azzurro Peroni.

budvar

this summer i have been mostly drinking bulmers....which has made me now dislike the taste of lager....when I did partake in lager drinking and although not European, Miller Genuine Draft was my ale...in fact, as they only sold it in packs of 4 bottles south of bonnie jockland (where they sell it in packs of 15+), I emailed the UK distributors to complain...and got told there aint enough demand to sell it in such quantities.....fuck i've just bored meself!

That's because it's shiiiiite.

good shout.

i had this polish stuff once, cant remember what it was called though

If you spill your pint on it! There are 25 world beers.... And they are....

DEUS   11.5%   750ml   FRANCE
SAGRES   5.1%   330ml   PORTUGAL
ASAHI   5.0%   330ml   JAPAN
BIRRA MORETTI   4.6%   330ml   ITALY
RED STRIPE   4.7%   330ml   JAMAICA
KINGFISHER   4.2%   330ml   INDIA
TSINGTAO   4.5%   330ml   CHINA
STAROPRAMEN   5.0%   330ml   CZECH REP.
BITBURGER   4.8%   330ml   GERMANY
ZAGORKA   5.0%   330ml   BULGARIA
CUSQUENA   5.0%   330ml   PERU
PHUKET   5.0%   330ml   THAILAND
STEINLAGER   5.0%   330ml   N. ZEALAND
QUILMES   4.9%   330ml   ARGENTINA
MENABREA 1846   4.8%   330ml   ITALY
MOOSEHEAD   5.0%   355ml   CANADA
TUSKER   4.2%   355ml   KENYA
VEDETT EXTRA BLOND   5.0%   330ml   BELGIUM
CORONA   4.6%   330ml   MEXICO
TIGER   4.8%   330ml   SINGAPORE
BUDWEISER BUDVAR   5.0%   330ml   CZECH REP.
PALMA CRISTAL   4.9%   330ml   CUBA
ALHAMBRA RESERVA 1925   6.4%   330ml   SPAIN
KASTEEL CRU   5.2%   330ml   FRANCE
BROOKLYN LAGER   5.1%   355ml   USA
JAMES BOAG'S PREMIUM   5.0%   375ml   AUSTRALIA
LAPIN KULTA   4.5%   330ml   FINLAND
NILS OSCAR GOD LAGER   5.3%   330ml   SWEDEN
SAKU KIDD   5.2%   500ml   ESTONIA
MacQUEEN'S NESSIE   5.0%   330ml   AUSTRIA
MEANTIME LONDON PILSNER   4.7%   330ml   UK
FLYING DOG OLD SCRATCH   5.3%   355ml   USA
SIERRA NEVADA   5.6%   350ml   USA
CHIMMAY RED   7.0%   330ml   BELGIUM
BALTIKA   4.8%   500ml   RUSSIA
INNIS AND GUN   6.6%   330ML   UK
BRAHMA   4.8%   330ml   BRAZIL
ERDINGER DUNKEL WEISS   5.6%   500ml   GERMANY
CROCODILE   5.2%   330ml   SWEDEN
ESTRELLA DAMM   4.6%   330ml   SPAIN

I think I've only had 14 of them, some way to go. Bet they're about 4 quid each though.

About £3.20-3.45 if I remember correctly

Also there's 40 odd on that list.

Black lagers are wonderful - Czech ones in particular. Bernard do a dark and it is brilliant. And it is in Tescos.

Erdinger is good especially since they do an almost booze -free version of their wheat. Great if your partner is up the duff and hates alcohol-free Becks .

the spanish lagers i've tried have been fucking rank.san miguel etc is fucking vile.

I like a miguel if it's hot.

San Miguel and Peroni are missing from that list. Those are just the options really we have to stock!

warm lager?weirdo

What the fuck are you doing to the rat and parrot?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

If you can't get two cocktails for £4 on tuesday nights i will be FUMING

I believe that is staying along with cheap drinks deals for Uni's etc...

Try it, the microwave is your friend. Sends the bubbles nuts.

Phew!

hot lager is much more drinkable than warm.

Warm lager gets you pissed quicker.

I wouldn't normally contribute to a thread discussing lager.

But Chimay Red. Very nice. Though I would consider it more an ale than a lager. Although my last taste of it was a good 4 years ago, so I may be wrong. Sierra Nevada is more an ale than a lager too. Certainly a dark lager (if such a beast exists).

Very true.....

bulmers or bulmers light?

They do. All lager was dark until the Pilsner style was invented.

I don't normally drink lager but I make an exception for good wheat beers and black lagers.

only had bulmers light just the once and aint seen it on the shelf since...I would buy it again tho...all the talk of alcohol has just made me make my way to the fridge and get meself a bulmers....lush

I don't really like amstel, it was one of the only ones they had in amsterdam and to be honest I would choose stella over that every time, it's only marginally better than heineken and carlsberg. I like hoegaarden a lot and Staropramen and grolsch are ok. Had a few czech lagers before and I think they were alright.

You've all forgotten Arkells new Czech lager, brewed in Kingsdown.  Understand sales have not been great! :bye:

try this little beauty
http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/acatalog/Beers_of_Europe__Pauwel_Kwak_122.html

aaaaaaaargh 3.8% - bollocks -  mmmmm I'll never forget the 1664 rival lager (was it 1843? I suppose I did forget it) - yum (I think)

The mention of Arkells and beer passports reminds me of a summer back in 82, when Arkells had a promotion whereby if you visited so many of their pubs and got a stamp on a "passport" it entitled you to free beer. 

With some mates we resolved to cycle to some of their more obscure outposts and collect our stamps. Its surprising the size of their empire.

 http://www.arkells.com/pubs.php

kronenbourg 1664
lowenbrough
dab
and amstel

I did the Arkells passport tour in 1982 as well with some mates but we were lazy and drove to the more obscure outposts . Fair play to you Reg if you cycled back up Blunsdon Hill after visiting the Highwayman ! 

 Fair play...you can avoid Blunsdon, by coming around the back of Cricklade and then Purton....it's amazing how beer fuels a good pedal...much better than EPO.

Most bars in resort do Amstel, it's the last thing i'd want to drink in england (assuming fosters isn't an option).

We sell a great deal of it in the bar, as we do Peroni and Star, of which Star is my favourite.

Chimmay is the real deal, one of only 9 (i think) actual 'Trapistes' left in Belgium - which is beer brewed by monks in the monestary.  Some of the remaining 8 are only available if you make the effort the travel to the requisit monestary and really sweet talk the monks into letting you buy a crate.

We do Erdinger too, the white beer they do at least - i hate white beer - rubbish.  We also stock Duvel which we are only allowed to serve in halves because at 6.8% it is too strong for British consumption.

For the record we also sell Becks Vier, Carlsberg, Guiness Extra Cold, Heiniken, London Pride and Paulaner - all on tap with quite a selection of bottled beers from around the world too.

I love my job, I really do.

Aye, and you can then cross the Bell at Purton Stoke off your list Reg!

Where are the Southern African beers?!  No Windhoek (Namibia), and no Castle (South Africa).  Some selection of 'WORLD' beers.....

And if you come to SA for the World Cup, I recommend either of the two above, although we do have Amstel as well.  Not to mention Peroni on tap in most places. 

I love trying the different beers from around the world. Soooo much better than the cooking lager shite like Carling and Fosters that you get in the UK pubs.

Luxembourg lager is pretty rank. Diekirch is the best of a bad bunch, then you have Mousel and Bofferding which is utterly rank but the 'secret of Luxembourg' apparently. Bottled beers are very cheap and the Portuguese influence evident. The excellent Sagres and Super Bock can be purchased for between 50-90 cents a bottle.

German beers are probably my favourite, in my local (which is Portuguese) they do a great Weiss beer called Frankziskaner (I always ask for a bottle of Frank Skinner, but the bar maids never get my hilarious jape!) and trusty Erdinger is available as well. Had Paulaner before which is very nice and also had Kolsh in Cologne and a local Weissbeer in Mainz which was very very nice. Been to Bitburg before and drank Bitburger which is ok but not a massive fan of it. (its 5% on Mainland Europe, says 4.8% on that list)

Had Windhoek, Castle and Carling Black Label in SA, all pretty decent, nothing stood out massively between those 3.

Polish beers are ace. Zwiecz and Tyskie are strong but drinkable and the women that serve are usually of a very high standard.

In India I was shocked and appalled to find that the locals all drink imported piss water Fosters, I did my best to educate them, Kingfisher is a great lager however they all prefer Fosters, woe is me!! Kingfisher is 4.8% in India, on that list it says 4.2.

Brussels was great to try beer, sooooo many different types. Duval is nice, Chimay, Kwaak are the ones I can remember at the moment and I do enjoy a fruit beer in the summer which the Belgians do very well.

Spain I wasn't overly impressed with. Estrella Damm in Barcelona is adequate as is the beer in Madrid, the name I forget, however I don't like San Miguel at all.

Other beers to note are the delicious Brahma beer from Brazil which I have drunk this week as well as Staropramen from the Czech Republic which for me, is only ok.

Off to Slovakia, Hungary and Austria later in the year to see what they offer!!

The black lagers are a favourite of mine, and indeed Tesco have 3 on sale (as well as dark wheat beer).  The black lagers in Slovenia are called Temno (can't remember my fav from when I was there).  Overall, the Slovenian black lagers were good.  Obviously Czech and German lagers are top quality.  Hungarian lagers should be avoided.