[Closed] beer advice

If you just sit there and cane a pile of cans, why bother changing? You'll get no more out of it.

There are quite a few types of Leffe, and IMO all are good.
Personal fave is Ruby.

Is it important that you get your 8-10 cans worth?

Do you have a special drinking vest?

Stick to the lager. Carlsberg though? That's cooking lager. Upgrade to wifebeater

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Once you go onto the ale, its a slippery slope. You'll be growing a beard, wearing a cardigan and moaning constantly 😉

I had a bottle of Leffe 9 the other day.

Holy awoooooga! That's a beer and a half!

As a recent convert, I've found that I drink Ale alot slower than larger. I'll go through only 2-3 500ml bottle of ale in an evening, but can easily go through double the amount of largers (Becks, Carling etc...)

many varieties, the blond is 6.6 so take it easy 3 should be safe, also you will notice a difference in the morning, prepare to be outside.

5 little leffes I reckon, dunno what that is in big leffes. Personally I'd go for the 4 for a fiver Old peculiar at ASDA (goes shopping...)

if i go for the 750ml leffe's how many would be the equivilant to 8-10 cans.

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It's strong stuff.

Get the Leffe Brun, it tastes much better.

For those of you having a go at the lad for having a few cans of lager in a Friday night - get over yourselves.

I suppose some of you think a good idea of a Friday night is to bathe in warm assess milk, whilst sipping on a mungbean tea, listening to Enya?

this (and the big ole bike ride I'm just back from) is making me thirsty. Leffe is lovely stuff.

+1 for Brun. Yummy stuff

4 bottles = 8 cans

Are you Homer Simpson?

When you finish the third 750ml bottle please come back on here and tell us how it's going.

Should be entertaining.

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i wouldn't call 8 cans a pile, my point was that i've not paid much attention to any alternatives to lager and i'm not sure of strengths etc and how they equate. it was lasts weeks thread on the virtues of leffe that got me interested in giving it a go. i didnt want to overdo it on the first attempt hence the comparison to quantities of lager.

on the above advice i reckon im about right with 3, 4 max

Brun is much nicer.
But by the time you get to your 6th can-equivalent, you won't care about the taste, and it's pointless having spent the extra on it.

You do realise you're having over half of the [b]maximum[/b] weekly alcohol intake in just a few hours, right?

Edit: I undercalled it - by my calculation, a 750ml bottle of Leffe is 6+ units of alcohol. If you have 4, [b]that's your entire weekly limit used up in one evening[/b]. I bet you drink a good bit more during the week as well. Keep doing that for a few years, and say goodbye to your liver.

Your choice, obviously.

Once you go onto the ale, its a slippery slope. You'll be growing a beard, wearing a cardigan and moaning constantly

not to mention the conversion to single speed!

You do realise you're having over half of the maximum weekly alcohol intake in just a few hours, right?

Killjoy.

Edit: I undercalled it - by my calculation, a 750ml bottle of Leffe is 6+ units of alcohol. If you have 4, that's your entire weekly limit used up in one evening

Whats worse than a Kiljoy is a pedantic one who's calc are wrong, it's 5 Units (I had an empty one to check on)

You do realise you're having over half of the maximum weekly alcohol intake in just a few hours, right?
Edit: I undercalled it - by my calculation, a 750ml bottle of Leffe is 6+ units of alcohol. If you have 4, that's your entire weekly limit used up in one evening. I bet you drink a good bit more during the week as well. Keep doing that for a few years, and say goodbye to your liver.
Your choice, obviously.

BORE

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Whats worse than a Kiljoy is

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1 of each, report back your favourite later...

my usual friday night consists of 8-10 cans of carlsberg

genuine question... is this just sat on the sofa watching TV, or have you got mates round?

I'm going to ignore all the pontificating above and try and answer the OP's question

Think about it this way, it comes in wine bottles and is just over half the strength of wine. That should give you a good idea of how many to partake

Leffe blonde is good stuff. Prefer German Weissbier myself though Frankensicher is my favourite

mikewsmith - Ok, so 3 bottles is [i]only[/i] 15 units, against a weekly limit of 21, agreed? And the recommendation is no more than 4 units in any one day.

So setting out to have 3/4 of a maximum weekly limit, possibly the entire amount (depends on whether that 4th bottle gets opened) is inherently stupid. It's the OP's life, but don't expect everyone to say that it's a smart idea.

Look at it another way. A bottle of standard-strength whisky is 28 alcoholic units. Most people wouldn't dream of drinking over half a bottle of Scotch by themself in an evening, but that's what three bottles of Leffe equates to.

Killjoy? Wait until a relative is told they've got cirrhosis, and that their life will be irreversibly shorter as a result. Not a bundle of laughs, let me assure you.

I had a small bottle of the 9% leffe and I was monged out for a whole evening. I am a lightweight though.
Enjoy your leffe with a nice chorizo salad, dont just neck it ,savour.

you don't 'savour' leffe... it's flippin beer, not a BJ

Nickf off.

Most people wouldn't dream of drinking over half a bottle of Scotch by themself in an evening,

Quite right, no point leaving the job half done.

GG - cheers for the hilarious comment. Still, someone who names himself after a child abuser is obviously a wildly funny guy.

Now go and get completely pie-faced. It's clearly what real men do. I'm off for some tofu.

So setting out to have 3/4 of a maximum weekly limit, possibly the entire amount (depends on whether that 4th bottle gets opened) is inherently stupid. It's the OP's life, but don't expect everyone to say that it's a smart idea.

but it's a sign of manliness and anyone who doesn't think so is "Gay" and a "lightweight" and perhaps a "jessie"
it may not be smart but it's socially acceptable, lets your mates know you are 'a Man' and very cool.

lets your mates know you are 'a Man' and very cool.

I find whapping my wang on the table much more effective.

Mr smith, the original post was not meant as any kind of boast, I'm a little surprised by the reaction as I don't think it's particularly excessive. It may not comply with our "guidelines" but I have never really paid any attention to or equated my intake to these guidelines. I work all week and have a drink on a fri night (don't get s**tfaced) and don't consider that irresponsible or detrimental to my health

nickf- sort out your anger management issues before you come back please, judging other people must get tiring.

I'm having some cider and I never drink more than 2x 660ml bottles of beer in a night at the very most.

I also mix my cider / beer with herbal drinks / tea's + honey.

That shite most people drink is just for peasants, I'm to sophistoceted fo dat 😉

i'm not judging you, it's down to the individual what they imbibe.
i was merely commenting on societies mores that have been acceptable for centuries.

Just been to tescos and got 2 blonde and 2 brun. Tbh 4 bottles looks like a lot, I reckon I sample one of each for starters.
Ps - got a kebab too while I was out, I'm def going to hell now

sounds like a relaxin friday night in to me. get some tunes on. sorted. no doubt someone'll be along to criticize your taste in music in a bit. hey ho. That leffe is moreish though 😉

I've done the maths and worked it out - 10 x 440ml cans of Carlsberg (non export) is the equivalent of 2.57 750ml bottles of leffe brun or 2.53 bottles of leffe blonde.

Bear in mind that it's almost twice as strong; you'll find it suprisingly easy to drink it too quickly especially if you are used to that kind of volume ...

Brune is best, then pop out to Asda (don't drive!) and pick up some 'blue' Chimay...

Kebab and a mix of leffe...If u don't have the beer sh*ts tmoro your a machine !...slight hijack but anyone find bombadier gives them extraordinary wind...loud and offensive.

 

I was going to say 4 bottles, all power to your elbow.

If you don't get on with the Leffe try Heineken, thats a nice lager IMO.

Or try some pale / golden ales / IPA for something different.

You can't beat London pride or ESB or slightly sweeter, bath ales barnstormer...

Opened a blonde first, quite impressed so far - a hell of a lot more going on taste wise when you're used to carlsberg!

Carlsberg is piss.

But it gets worse, I've got 12 cans of Fosters to get through that someone bought as a Xmas present.

Bit of a distraction, but where can I get Ruby in England ?

Depends if she's taken her love to town or not.

(I know, poor joke... coat getting in progress..)

The Leffe blonde is a bit sickly after a couple. Get a hold of some Baltika. That is better for skelping a few back and enjoying being merry.
Or maybe some Singha or Asahi if its just a change you're after.

Actually, forget beer if u wanna get pished, get three bottles of Henry Westons vintage cider. 8.2% of Appley badness. Lovely...

It's a bit of a change and something with a bit more flavour I'm after. I reckon I'm on the right lines with leffe, I tried various ales before but thought they were a bit sweet and sickly after a while. Can't wait to get a go at the brun but I'm taking my time with this one first ...

This is torture! Im waiting on my mate coming round with the beers. He said 8 oclock!! 🙁

Bobbyg81. - at least you're getting some beer in. Diagnosed coeliac in the summer so pretty much restricted to cider now. You wouldn't believe how tedious that becomes, or how quickly it is to reach(and ignore, then pass) your weekly limit. Ahem - sorry Nickf....

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Aspalls organic tho...isn't it...mmmmm

Cromer....circa 1996...pub nr the pier...7 pints of old peculiar...too late for food back at the campsite...5 day old pork pie off a mate.. killer trumps under canvas ensued...marvellous

Nickf - please keep your comments to yourself. My brother died last year from liver disease, i found him in his flat after 5 days. Not the best experience i have had. Be constructive in your posts not just spouting off for the sake of it.
Oh! and leave folk alone. if the guy wants to drink 10 cans of beer, lager, leffe, wifebeater so what?? does it affect you?

if the guy wants to drink 10 cans of beer, lager, leffe, wifebeater so what?? does it affect you?

The guy is probably somebody's brother.

STW....organising an argument about a piss up....

Mountainlight - I'm wondering the same thing. I love Ruby Leffe but can't find in anywhere.

Jaysus aracer, as I said earlier I don't consider my Friday night escapades to be remotely dangerous of irresponsible I think your getting it a little out of proportion

Marco, I appreciate your pro choice attitude, it would seem that you could well be expected to have a much more extreme opinion.

On a lighter note, blonde has been dispatched, brun opened and sampled and I think I prefer it

you don't 'savour' leffe... it's flippin beer, not a BJ

British lager lout stand up chucking it down yer neck Vs European quality savour it sit down drinking

I know which one I prefer. Probably best you stick to fizzy lager, fella.

I don't consider my Friday night escapades to be remotely dangerous of irresponsible

Plenty of doctors would disagree with you.

Plenty of doctors would disagree with you.

Many doctors are very unhealthy.

If you can keep track of what you're drinking you don't have a problem 🙂

I know which one I prefer. Probably best you stick to fizzy lager, fella.

sorry, not a fan of lager...
tonight I have sampled the following:
- St Peters Golden Ale
- Hog's Back TEA
- St Austell Admiral's Ale
- Skinners Heligan Honey

The Admiral's Ale was the best.

Got a St Peters The Saints Whisky Beer, but might leave that for another night.

Brew Dog - Punk I.P.A. Heaven in a bottle. I'd rather have a bottle in front o'me than a frontal lobotomy.

Not really a recommendation....

Next time see if you can find some of these to try.
Trappist Rochefort,
Chimay (any)
Duvel
Orval
McChouffe,
All nice belgian beers. Leffe have a Rose and a Tripple thats worth trying too. Hoegaarden is nice as well.

Def prefer the brun to the blonde, which of the above list is more brun than blonde?

Trappist Rochefort, but they all taste different.

Be careful with the trappist beer, a lot stronger than it tastes. 🙂

nice to hear you are enjoying your leffe andrewni! makes a change from the carlsberg eh! guess what, you haven't fallen over in a drunken stupour.

Kevevs,
I'm suitably impressed, if I wake up dead tomorrow I'll humbly accept "I told you so's" from the naysayers but in reality I think I'll survive. Back on the brun now, it's def much better! Cheers! 😀

Never rated the Leffe beers much - bar the Radieuse. There are so many nice Belgian beers but expensive here. Well worth visiting Belgium for the beers.

I find all the Leffes a bit cloying and treacle-y. Not really looking for such a hit of sweetness in a beer. Seem to taste a bit better on draught though, out of that s****y big glass.

Mind you, Carlsberg is at the opposite end of the beer taste spectrum, having very little other than a metallic chemical twang of an aftertaste. It Its stablemate, Tuborg, just shades it as the worst of the cooking lagers.

You should give a few wheat beers a go - something of a happy medium between the two, more refreshing than a lot of ales and not too sweet:

Weihenstephan
Schneiderweisse
Franziskaner
Erdinger
Erdinger Dunkel
Hoegaarden

All available from most big supermarkets.

Well I reckon 10 tins of Carlsberg, half a bottle of white, a bottle of red and dancing about like a fanny to The Prodigy is a good night!