What's your opinion on Grolsch?

[ScottM]

For the last week or so I've been drinking a Grolsch here and there. I only started buying them in order to get the bottles but I'm finding the beer to be fantastic. It's YEARS since I tried a Grolsch, I'm thinking back in the kiddy-bob, alco-pop, disco-hop days and at that time I remember not liking it at all.

Now though, wowzers.... I'm loving the stuff. It's a really clean lager but unlike most other commercial lagers (even the more premium ones) the hops come through BIG.

Crisp, clean, refreshing with a lovely aroma and big flavour thanks to the hops. Win win for me.

The beggers need to drop the price though as, at £2 a bottle in the shops, it's highly unlikely to become a regular for me once my stash is up :)

 

[mickthetrick]

i like a few bottles in the summer. the swingtop bottles also come in handy

 

[graysalchemy]

Something I used to drink back in 1986 when I was at school.

Grown up since then :lol: :lol:

 

[ScottM]

Something I used to drink back in 1986 when I was at school.

Grown up since then :lol: :lol:

You reckon?

 

[Stu]

Scott, I'm right there with you.

I bought a few bottles last weekend (for the empties of course) before I ended up buying 36 off ebay.

I have to say I feel very dirty saying it too, but it is incredibly tasty. Very hoppy, as you said, and surprisingly grown-up.

For those above, try a bottle - it may well surprise you!
Something I remember from the 80s and 90s was that a lot of lagers were tastier than the creamy rubbish you buy today (Newquay steam Pils and lager were favourites of mine when I lived down there too).

 

[pittsy]

all i can say is on draught its sh*t and gives me a hangover with just 4 pints every time (3 visits in a row over xmas) the taste is also poor , you should go to a specialist pub and try some real lager like Warsteiner or some german/belgian pils.

 

[Dr Mike]

It's years since I've tried it but I remember from the 90s that the stuff in the pot-stoppered bottles was much nicer than Grolsch on draught or in cans. Perhaps the bottled stuff was the original Dutch import and the rest was 'brewed under licence in the UK' ?

 

[ScottM]

all i can say is on draught its sh*t and gives me a hangover with just 4 pints every time (3 visits in a row over xmas) the taste is also poor , you should go to a specialist pub and try some real lager like Warsteiner or some german/belgian pils.

Must say if something gave me a hangover after 4 pints, I wouldn't be going for another 2 visits after. Especially if my opinion of it is **** to begin with.

I don't really see the need for me to try "real" lager (what's your definition of real btw?) as I quite enjoy the ones I always have. I would probably try something that, in your opinion, is good and think it tastes rotten.

Attitude on here really stinks at times. Can't mention something that I like, if it's a main brand, without getting told I'm drinking toilet water compared to what's out there. It's almost like jealousy of the companies doing well for themselves with their tried and tested centuries old recipes.

 

[ScottM]

It's years since I've tried it but I remember from the 90s that the stuff in the pot-stoppered bottles was much nicer than Grolsch on draught or in cans. Perhaps the bottled stuff was the original Dutch import and the rest was 'brewed under licence in the UK' ?

I really didn't like the canned stuff. I vaguely recall trying it on draught and not liking it but I didn't like any beer/lager back then.

I can't be sure but I think I may have tried the draught in more recent years, if it is the pint I'm thinking of then it really wasn't impressive but I think I would probably put that down to the pipes/setup as everything else I tried in that pub was rotten too

 

hi scott i love Grolsch its the best lager around ...
as for the price ...
well i only buy it when its 3 for a fiver.. .
and then it was only for the bottles...

regards mick... :hat: .

 

[alanywiseman.]

Personally I think it is Ok out of a bottle but not draught, way to fizzy. I find the carbonation better in the bottles.

The kind of lagers I prefer are hopper like brew dogs 77 lager or an American craft brewery lager.

 

[ScottM]

hi scott i love Grolsch its the best lager around ...
as for the price ...
well i only buy it when its 3 for a fiver.. .
and then it was only for the bottles...

regards mick... :hat: .

I'm starting to think that myself mate. I've certainly not tried one I prefer more off the shelf anyway. I guess in that sense it's worth it. I'll need to stock up when they do 3 for a ruby lol.

Personally I think it is Ok out of a bottle but not draught, way to fizzy. I find the carbonation better in the bottles.

The kind of lagers I prefer are hopper like brew dogs 77 lager or an American craft brewery lager.

Yeah I did notice that it was lightly carbonated for a lager. Got my Wife to open one last night and she screamed while opening it, she was terrified lol. Made my night

Brew dog love their hops eh

 

[Moley]

I'll need to stock up when they do 3 for a ruby lol.

:wha: Surely you mean 3 for a Lady?

I will confess to occasionally drinking lagers but wouldn't personally buy Grolsch, the bottles are green and they aren't even half litres.

 

[ScottM]

I'll need to stock up when they do 3 for a ruby lol.

:wha: Surely you mean 3 for a Lady?

I will confess to occasionally drinking lagers but wouldn't personally buy Grolsch, the bottles are green and they aren't even half litres.

I don't mind the green so much, my storage is in the garage anyway and generally in fridges

the 450ml is a bit of a pain though.


As for the Ruby, I'm so used to saying it that I wrote it. Years ago we (apprentices in work) jumbled up all the slang terms for things that get used in the work a lot. Sky diver and ruby murray were just a couple that got thrown into the mix

Not heard of a "lady" though lol.

 

[PD]

I love their bottles and am collecting them as I go along ( my lhbs has the empties in occaisionaly ). Colour doesn't bother me too much as I store in the gloom and not for long !
The first brew I put into them was a St Peters Red Ruby Ale and it was stunning, and the look on my wifes face when the bottles were opened was priceless.
Grolsch lager itself is another matter. Far too fizzy for me ( gives me the burps chronic) and its only a so so taste as far as I am concerned

 

[pittsy]

didn't mean to be rude Scott it is just my opinion , i had no choice where i was going at xmas and it was the better lager being sold at the time . I would of thought if you like that type of lager then you would love the other sort .

 

[PD]

ScottM wrote

Attitude on here really stinks at times. Can't mention something that I like, if it's a main brand, without getting told I'm drinking toilet water compared to what's out there. It's almost like jealousy of the companies doing well for themselves with their tried and tested centuries old recipes.

I think that's rather unfair, its an open forum. Folks post a question " whats a good beer/lager, what do you think of this/that "
Folks answer ( well I certainly do ) in their own opinion....ask 10 people and you get 10 different replies.

Its one of the problems with text type discussions/arguments, every point of view comes across as definate and final, when its not.

What really gets up my nose on many forums is people not liking the replies given because they don't fall in line with their own views or ideas.
Perhaps every post should have a sticker attached......In my humble opinion.

rant over......HLT switched on for today's brew !

 

[ScottM]

didn't mean to be rude Scott it is just my opinion , i had no choice where i was going at xmas and it was the better lager being sold at the time . I would of thought if you like that type of lager then you would love the other sort .

I know you didn't mean anything by it bud, it's just annoying as it's just the normal attitude on here. It's not even seen as an issue as it's the way of thinking for the majority of members. It's like a huge rolling bandwagon against anything that's produced in anything larger than a bucket but the responses, in general, are almost of a bullying nature.

Anything produced in anything larger than a micro-brewery is commercial, flavourless, rank dishwater and anyone who enjoys such a beverage knows nothing about real beer and has the palate of a coke addict with no nostrils...... etc, etc, etc.

I will drink just about any lager, and I enjoy most.... some clearly more than others but that's life. I wouldn't berrate anyone who enjoys something that I don't into thinking that they are inferior to me because I consider what I prefer to drink to be superior to what they do.

IMO Grolsch is near the top of what I have tried, Pironi is up there too. Both lovely refreshing pints of lager. The only people, IMO, who disagree are ale drinkers who prefer something akin to a dessert beverage..... that's my opinion though, I don't put down ale drinkers for their preference. It's also perfectly plausible that if you are used to drinking ale that lager is going to be tasteless in comparison, if you are used to something full of flavour with notes of all different things, then drinking a clean pint is going to be more comparible to water. What people don't seem to grasp is that it's the same when the shoe is on the other foot, I only recently tried a couple of different beers (leffe and another one), to me the leffe was like a banana dessert (I don't like bannanas) and the other one was like soup. To ale drinkers the flavours may be considered normal, to me they were far too overpowering..... although the hops in the later was nice.

My new appreciation for Grolsch is simply because of my new found love of a hoppy beer. Everything else, for me at least, needs to be light for me to enjoy it fully.

 

[ScottM]

ScottM wrote

Attitude on here really stinks at times. Can't mention something that I like, if it's a main brand, without getting told I'm drinking toilet water compared to what's out there. It's almost like jealousy of the companies doing well for themselves with their tried and tested centuries old recipes.

I think that's rather unfair, its an open forum. Folks post a question " whats a good beer/lager, what do you think of this/that "
Folks answer ( well I certainly do ) in their own opinion....ask 10 people and you get 10 different replies.

Its one of the problems with text type discussions/arguments, every point of view comes across as definate and final, when its not.

What really gets up my nose on many forums is people not liking the replies given because they don't fall in line with their own views or ideas.
Perhaps every post should have a sticker attached......In my humble opinion.

rant over......HLT switched on for today's brew !

Yeah, people answer. But not without a dig at what is being asked, or a comment on it being tasteless... or as one of the mods implied in this very thread.... not a grownups beverage.

If you were on this side of the fence you would see things a lot differently than you do, it's only ever the minority getting constant crap from the majority that ever notice problems. Same in every walk of life, same on every forum where every other bandwagon rolls out.

 

[PD]

what's this side of the fence ?.... I'm just a home alone brewer same as you