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they simply know that they don't like it
like the little kids that "don't like" sprouts so they've never actually had any 😉
no, I'd argue that, just maybe, they [i]don't[/i] know if they [i]do[/i] like it
Umm I've drunk loads of different types of bitter, still prefer lager.. Although I would drink bitter rather than carling or fosters.
doesn't really change whether it's nice to drink or not though
No, it doesn't. I'm not trying to persuade you ale is nicer to drink. You stick with your bland marketing exercises if you want. What I'm saying is that when you're popping open a San Miguel or a Cobra or a Tiger, you might not be getting that authentic experience that the marketeers and ad men are telling you you're getting. More likely it's been brewed in a big stainless steel monolith on an industrial park outside a minor city to an "authentic" (my arse) recipe and labeled and bottled according to how you feel it should look given the country from which you fancy drinking on that particular evening.
When I said:
most of us would struggle to tell the difference
I meant that outside of the bubble that the admen have created for you, you'd struggle to tell the difference between any of a number of "premium" continental lagers. Actually come to think of it, you might be able to tell the difference because the marketeers have now come up with different glasses (with the activation etched surface on the base to give you that "authentic" head) so that you know what you're drinking. 🙂 But I suspect you knew that anyway.
You may not be the only person around here with a bit of experience in the brewing industry 😉
I've had sprouts, and I know I don't like them.
The union flag is upside down on that beer bottle!!
The beer is distressed!
Because other countries have more common sense and better taste in beer than us
Tennent's Super is marketed as a premium lager in Italy...
I sampled quite a few beers whilst I was in New Zealand, it's amazing how many different colours of cold fizzy piss you can buy
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I'd be happy to pay some sort of corkage if I could take my own bottles of St Peters or Bath ales into a restaurant
German hotels usually have a basement room with a sign "Lager". Sadly, the room usually contains junk - lager being German for "store".
"There's some very nice German stuff in Aldi at the mo"
Oooh! Will look, ta.
Deadly speaks absolute truth. I would be prepared to bet that I could go into a local pub that does ales and lagers on tap, have a sample of each in a clear glass and be unable to tell the difference between any of the lagers, (with the possible exception of Grolsch, which I used to drink a lot of once), whereas I could certainly tell the difference between the ales, in some instances just by the colour, but certainly by flavour.
Here's a story:
Bloke gets home from work at the Miller brewery, calls out, "hey honey, I'm home". Wife says, "hello dear, you sound cheerful, did you have a good day?"
"A good day? I had the [i]best[/i] day! I've invented a beer with absolutely [i]no[/i] flavour whatsoever! Now they've put me in charge of the brewery"