The Sun beer tasting guide - sponsored by Carling

[MyQul]

Pfft - what a complete none issue. So what if this beer is £22.50 a pint. Noone is making people buy it.

Where are all the outraged Sun articles on the cost of a Lamborgini? You can only drive up to 70mph on Britains motorways even though a Lambo can do around 200mph . The fuel economy is terrible, there too low, they havent got a boot to speak of and they're crap for the environment. But that's right, noone is make people buy one

 

[Clint]

Seems like a bit too much interested from M....I recon he's the UK commissioned brewer for it...in his hipster lair.

 

[MyQul]

Seems like a bit too much interested from M....I recon he's the UK commissioned brewer for it...in his hipster lair.

*strokes white fluffy cat* Soon all these craft brewers will be drinking my Carling for £22.50 a pint Mwahahahahah!!!

 

[AdeDunn]

Or, looking at it another way, as in value for money. Just think of all of the darned awful pee water that people buy that isn't worth the 75p a can it gets sold at!!!!!! I can turn the tap on, pee in it for flavour, and it'll taste about the same at a fraction of the price.... !

I'd rather pay £5 for a pint of something delicious, than £3 for a pint of dirty water any day of the week....

As to Carling, that stuff was the first beer I ever got bought a pint of, and nearly put me off beer for life!!!!! Just why?!?!?!?!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Should a beer costing £22.50 be any better than one that costs £5 a pint, we all have different tastes if you are stupid enough to pay £22.50 and you don't like it in my book you deserve everything you get.

 

[AdeDunn]

Should a beer costing £22.50 be any better than one that costs £5 a pint, we all have different tastes if you are stupid enough to pay £22.50 and you don't like it in my book you deserve everything you get.

Imported beer, that contains blue mountain coffee... Blue mountain coffee alone costs a small fortune, at around £25 for 125g. Add in the costs of shipping it over here, all of the extra duty, overheads, hipster tax etc... If you look at the price and think "By the gods, that's stupidly expensive beer! I wouldn't pay that in a month of Sundays!" then you're just not the person they are trying to sell it to anyway. Heh, there are plonkers out there paying a fortune to drink coffee made with beans pooped out of the backside of a poor abused palm civet after all (originally they would follow them around and just collect the poop after they naturally ate the coffee, now though they keep them caged and force feed them on the stuff.).... To think, you thought train station coffee tasted like poop!.....

Oh and no, I wouldn't pay £22.50 for a pint of beer. I'd put a bit more to that and buy a nice bottle of Glenfiddich or Glenmorangie in the supermarket instead.... Or maybe by a sack of malt.... When I used to take my wife to visit London, we only drank in The Cutty Sark (one of my fave pubs when I was a student, before they gentrified Greenwich) the one time, the other times we went in the Weatherspoons there as it was cheaper.... Beer was much nicer in The Cutty Sark, but how much for a pint? I'm from the midlands Chippy..... Not quite northern, not quite southern.... lol

 

[Clint]

Yeah but look at all those blind testing programmes and such...the cheapest product often comes out tops..I do agree though if you put a massive price tag on crap some idiot will buy it .
Clone time... who's up for a copy with similar ingredients at a tenth of the price?

 

[AdeDunn]

Yeah but look at all those blind testing programmes and such...the cheapest product often comes out tops..I do agree though if you put a massive price tag on crap some idiot will buy it .
Clone time... who's up for a copy with similar ingredients at a tenth of the price?

I'd need to have a go at brewing a stout full stop first, then have a go at brewing a coffee stout, then a coffee stout made with slightly better coffee. But yeah, willing to bet it'd taste better, but then it wouldn't be stupidly high ABV like that stuff!

 

[MyQul]

Yeah but look at all those blind testing programmes and such...the cheapest product often comes out tops..I do agree though if you put a massive price tag on crap some idiot will buy it .
Clone time... who's up for a copy with similar ingredients at a tenth of the price?

Thats because, often companies sell their products at not what there worth or how much it cost to produce (plus a bit of profit, taxes, etc) but what they think people will pay regardless of the cost of production

 

[jceg316]

To Ol tastes like dishwater, yeah better stick with Carling...

 

[stigman]

Buxton snap gate, had it at the tap house spot on loved it.
Evil twin biscotti break had it in a can from my local. A bit sweet but loved it

Love among the ruins probably the sour/Kreik I ever had.

Cloudwater dipa Citra what can I say.

Northern monk/siren craft. To/ol these guys always seem to knock my socks off whenever I get a beer of there's.
Also I don't pay london prices either looks like they pay almost double what I do. But probably earn twice what I do aswell.

 

[jceg316]

Buxton snap gate, had it at the tap house spot on loved it.
Evil twin biscotti break had it in a can from my local. A bit sweet but loved it

Love among the ruins probably the sour/Kreik I ever had.

Cloudwater dipa Citra what can I say.

Northern monk/siren craft. To/ol these guys always seem to knock my socks off whenever I get a beer of there's.
Also I don't pay london prices either looks like they pay almost double what I do. But probably earn twice what I do aswell.

Spot on! Living in London if you know where to go beers aren't that expensive. From what I remember Euston Tap, Old Fountain, a few more 'local' places sell pints for cheaper than places like Craft Beer Co., which is a nice bar but on the expensive side.

 

[Leon103]

In London overnight on the 11th. Staying near Euston. May try the £22 pint

 

[MyQul]

Spot on! Living in London if you know where to go beers aren't that expensive. From what I remember Euston Tap, Old Fountain, a few more 'local' places sell pints for cheaper than places like Craft Beer Co., which is a nice bar but on the expensive side.

This ^^^ Theres loads of pubs that sell beer for about £3 per pint if you get out of central London and buy hand pull beer

 

[marshbrewer]

When I used to go to London Town for meetings, I often used to frequent a Samual Smith's pub near Kings Cross that had almost normal prices.

Can't for the life of me remember it's name.