Lager.

[Chippy_Tea]

The carling thread in the snug makes amusing reading but I wonder how many members started drinking Carling and fosters when they started drinking.

I used to drink lager and only recently discovered I like other beers I still like a pint of lager so may be in a minority.

The poll is open and the floor is yours. :thumba:

 

[An Ankoù]

Not enough options.
I started drinking other beers, then discovered lager and still drink it now and then.

 

[Oneflewover]

Ditto. Started drinking ale, whilst also enjoying a lager from time to time. I don't get this blanket anti-lager vibe we get on here from some people. A good lager is a thing of beauty. A poor lager is pish of course as is a poor ale.....

 

[Horners]

Always drank bitter, moved from North West to London and liked neither the taste of the brews on offer nor the manner if serving. This combined with a gross inconsistency in how beers are kept drove ne to lager as 'stock' drink when out and bottles of ale at home. This has gone full circle and will drink bitter in a lot of London pubs but still enjoy a lager especially of a sunny lunchtime.

 

[Stephenj]

I started drinking Stones cos my dad did. Not sure you can still get it. What style would you say Stones is?

 

[Cwrw666]

Me & the mrs had a phase many years ago of Fosters and Grolsch. Happily common sense prevailed. Don't mind a proper quality continental lager occasionally though, but UK factory lager is just p1ss.

 

[HarryFlatters]

I love good beer, whether that's a lager, or an oatmeal porter, or a NEIPA, it doesn't matter.

Good beer is good beer, and what I drink is mood and situation dependent. I don't want and imperial stout when it's 30°c outside, and I'm not mad keen on a bottle of Beck's when it's snowing.

I could drink wheat/wit/blanche/weissen at any time though I'm a wheat drinkin' fool

 

[Clint]

Most lager offered in the UK is dreadful. I will drink lager,in fact there's one in my Beerwulf box.

 

[Brew Dad]

The differences between commercial lager and ale were negligible when I first started drinking as a young man in Canada. Molson, Labatt, Carling, their products were all pretty similar. And still are.

I guess I should apologize to you all for Carling, not the best beer Canada ever produced. Almost impossible to find here these days, in fact.

 

[dad_of_jon]

last lager drunk was efes it was complimentary in the brussels hotel I was staying in. nice drop. I used to drink stella when it was 5.2% and before it was brewed in the uk. It USED to be good. tried a fosters/carling once couldn't finish it. San miguel was also good the last time I tried it a few years ago and peroni, don't know if they are the same thesesdays.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

started drinking other beers, then discovered lager and still drink it now and then.

New poll option added.

 

[kelper]

None of your options suits me. I drink lagers when abroad. Some would be hard to tell from ale they are so flavoursome. In a hot country a nice cold lager in a glass from the freezer is very refreshing. I like sampling local brew around the world but would never drink lager in the UK.

 

[Pavros]

I started drinking Stones cos my dad did. Not sure you can still get it. What style would you say Stones is?

Stones is a Yorkshire bitter.

I started drinking McEwans Scotch and Newcastle Exhibition as I found the lagers on tap in pubs tasteless and still do. I do drink foreign lagers as they have some flavour - Stella in Brussels bars 25 years ago was a very nice drink. I just can't stand the tasteless rubbish of foreign lagers 'brewed under licence in the UK'; it's like they only received half the recipe. And don't get me started on Carling Premier and that awful Hophouse 13...

 

[Norfolk79]

Started off drinking Lager (never been a fan of Carling or Carlsberg even then) and have since seen the light and now drink ales (mostly which I've brewed myself). Although I do still enjoy the odd pint of lager.

 

[steve denholm]

Mostly Pales now but enjoy a good Camden Hells every now and again

 

[Tom Parsons]

Ironically, my love of great beer has led me to drinking cheap lager quite a bit of the time when I am in pubs with a poor beer selection. I consider it a different category of drink to "real beer" and I quite enjoy it's refreshing water-like qualities.

Personally, I struggle more with bland ales

 

[An Ankoù]

Ironically, my love of great beer has led me to drinking cheap lager quite a bit of the time when I am in pubs with a poor beer selection. I consider it a different category of drink to "real beer" and I quite enjoy it's refreshing water-like qualities.

Personally, I struggle more with bland ales

Guinness used to be the fall back position when there was no decent beer, and I remember that the first one always went down "in one". Last time I had a Guinness I could hardly taste it. It wasn't an "extra cold". Maybe I've had too many chicken phaals and my taste buds have burnt out.

 

[Clint]

Maybe is gone crap....

 

[Drunkula]

I wrote two sensibly reasoned arguments here but have deleted them and revised it to: lager kits are crap!

 

[-Bezza-]

It makes me so, so sad when you go into a pub and there are nothing but lagers on tap. It makes me even sadder when the people you are with get excited because one of them is Peroni.