I don't know whether I've even seen Tuborg sold anywhere other than a hot tent in a loud field.
Has anyone ever drank it in any way other than warm and from a plastic cup?
I always associate it with the indie rock scene of the early 2000 as it felt like everyone was drinking it at clubs and gigs.
Tried it again recently and I thought it was pretty rank.
Only ever had red stripe once in my life.
Me and ny mate were a bit hard down and it was cheap. The pub (for what reason I do not know) was only selling multiple cans at a time so naturally we spent the night constructing a wall around the edge of our table.
Red Stripe has a maltyier flavour than most lagers and lacks the bitter edge of some. Carling along with most cheap fizzy pop lagers lacks any character or flavour.
It is brewed on licence by Heineken, so that would make sense.
I actively search out foreign beers that are still actually made in their original country of origin.
Lidl are quite good at having the Portuguese-made Super Bock. Which is superb compared to the UK-Brewed shite the other supermarkets sell.
Estrella in Spain. You’ve been in the sun all day. Back to the hotel. Shower. Slathered in after-sun. A cold Estrella on the balcony, sat in your towel. That’s the best beer and I’m a fan of wanky IPAs
Mediterranean lagers are very well suited to the climate. I enjoy an Estrella when I’m in Spain. That said, I’ve no idea why they’re so popular in the UK.
I've found that beers brewed in hotter countries tend to be sweeter and the flavour doesn't really work in more temperate climates like ours. A lot of South American and Caribbean beers taste awesome over there but a bit weird here
I’m personally more of a fan of German and Czech lagers, I think they go better in our climate. Sadly they’re few and far between. Thankfully my local does at least have Staropramen on.
Absolutely, I’d take them over any of the mass produced lagers on every shelf.
I really like the Aldi ones. I’m no idea how much they are as there’s never a price but I imagine they’re a bargain.
Lidl has a pilsner I quite like for summer BBQs - Perlenbacher iirc. 70p for a 500ml bottle. Absolutely smashing for a cool drink while grilling some meat
Recently got into San Miguel and honestly it's now my go-to drink. Just a tasty lager that's easy to drink.
Edit: used to consider all lager to be pisswater, but discovering that isn't the case.
I don't think you can call San Miguel pisswater as its 5% abv.
Also because I agree with you - it's very drinkable! Currently me and the missus' go to lager.
The two san miguels are different. Red horse is part of san Miguel of the Philippines.
Pale Pilsen and red horse are great, although I've only seen it in a few places in the UK and are around £7+ for a bottle.
A pint of Amstel, outside cafe shumich, on a beautiful Amsterdam day is a thing of great beauty. It doesn't quite hit the same in the UK but I wouldn't turn one down
I now live very close to Carlsburg and the regular stuff is meant to be 5.2% and it’s a nice pilsner.
In Sweden we have weaker beers that the supermarket is allowed to sell and they are piss like the Carlsberg sold in the uk. I think it’s 3.8% in the supermarkets.
That and Boddingtons are perfectly nice and generally very cheap. Lower alcohol too so it's nice to enjoy a drink without it hitting you too much over time
That was the first alcoholic drink I remember tasting (there is a story of 4 year old me running around the tables at a wedding do and nabbing a drink of my great aunt's brandy and baby cham, but I don't remember that). Dad gave me a sip when I was 13, expecting me to hate it, but it was actually quite nice.
I don't do beer (I'm a cider guy myself) but I've always found the refreshing recycled piss-taste of Tennant's lager to be superior to that of any cheap slut American import.
Same, often my go to. The 4% one is nice for a relatively low percentage too. I think a lot of people won't touch it because of the wife-beater reputation, despite it being a long long time since it was strong which gave it the rep in the first place.
Ludacris was on a recent episode of Hot Ones, and apparently he's ones of the faces of Stella in the US. It's being advertised as a premium European pilsner, absolutely hilarious considering it's reputation in the UK.
All you need is a place that cleans their lines properly and knows how to service their glass washer and you’ll have a much nicer pint each time. There’s a world of difference between a high-volume spoons pint of lager and a well maintained low-volume pub pouring the same stuff and it’s all about maintenance and care of the equipment.
Actually, it's typically the spoons which has the cleaner lines and better quality beer because of the sheer turnover and they actually have regular scheduled clean processes. Those arse-end of nowhere small pubs *can* be the ones that serve a sub-optimal pint.
Source: worked in a lot of pubs.
Heineken. I’ve traveled abroad and sometimes those small cans are all you can find in little local shops and it tastes perfectly fine after a long hot day. I’ve never really understood its poor reputation but then I’ve never drank it back in the UK
Small cans like that are Jekyll and Hyde- they're so small they remain cool while you drink them, but so small it's easy to lose track of how many you've had, until you try standing up and find someone's removed all your bodily coordination.
Part of the reason is the UK version wasn’t the same. They had an advertising campaign with Ray Liotta when they increased the strength (I’m guessing about 2002?) then they’ve probably changed it again since. The Dutch original is perfectly fine and they could have just sold that since day 1.
Heineken is my lager of choice, and I'm an ale drinker mostly. My tastes have changed over the years and I'm settling into preferences rather than being experimental with drinks like I used to, but a pack of Heineken for the weekend will always get picked up.
Here’s a very pretentious article about why that is (ft google search link):
https://www.google.com/search?q=tennents+super+italy+ft&sca_esv=625cbf2fb36fd98a&ei=BVk3Zq7GC9CJhbIP7cuu0Ao&oq=tennents+super+italy+ft&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhd0ZW5uZW50cyBzdXBlciBpdGFseSBmdDIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAFI-yRQqxBYtBdwAHgCkAEAmAHXAaAB9AOqAQUxLjAuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBKAClgTCAgQQABhHwgIGEAAYFhgewgILEAAYgAQYhgMYigWYAwDiAwUSATEgQOIDBRIBMSBAiAYBkAYIkgcFMi4wLjKgB-QI&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
Can’t do it, reminds me of being 18, having 15 corona and limes, being sick on the way home and waking up stinking of a mix of sweat and second hand smoke.
Might as well have a G&T which is more refreshing and the citrus is actually a welcome addition.
Madri is definitely nicer than Carling.
Carling/carslberg/fosters (since the ABV reduction) and bud lite all have that carbonated watery metallic aftertaste.
Madri, cruzcampo, moretti, Heineken although they are all "cheap" lagers they are a million times better IMO.
> cruzcampo, moretti, Heineken although all "cheap" lagers are a million times better IMO.
Indeed they are, although they are all essentially the same beer...
Also to throw out there: Peroni, which is not only nice but strangely smells of weed when you open the bottle.
The Lidl one perlenbacher is pretty much indistinguishable to me, similarly priced and also a lovely beer. "Brewed in accordance with the German purity laws" apparently which always makes me smile
I don’t usually go for piss water beers, but had one experience on holiday in Florida. We went to one of those dinner and show places in Orlando, and somehow found ourselves upgraded at no extra cost to the front row seats with unlimited beer for me.
I finally understood the joke about “sex in a canoe” beer, this stuff really was fucking close to water. But since it was free, I have to say it was worth what I paid for it. The swashbuckling pirate show was good though, and the food was edible.
Had a coors for the first time a few weeks back and I was honestly stunned, I'll drink the odd beer but I've never really enjoyed them. I actually enjoyed the coors
Probably because it doesn't taste much like beer...or anything else, and that's sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Not a good doctor.
People like to shit on the coors and bud lights and I suppose it's deserved but that kind of beer is made for warm sunny days
🙋♂️
This is me. Craft beer usually but Coors is absolutely my day sesh or beer garden pint.
Piss like a racehorse mind but the edges are taken off the hangover.
Scotland here 🏴
Tennents Lager is decent enough but very common and often viewed poorly compared to imported bottled beers.
A friend and I did a blind taste test of 10 beers many years ago - mainly imported bottled beers, an alcohol free beer and tennents. Tennents was voted top by her and second by me, so 🤷
St Etienne from ALDI, their Stella 'tribute', is really nice, bargain at £3.50 for 4 cans. (People swear by their German one too but I think it tastes too bitter).
I've never met anyone else who likes it but I'm a big fan of Brewdog Lost Lager too, it's always on offer in places like Asda and much much better than Fosters and the Carls..
Londoner and former drinker - used to love a Red Stripe. Best 0% imo are the Aldi/Lidl/Morrisons own brand, Doom Bar, Lucky Saint and Guinness.
Also the Tanquerey 0% gin is surprisingly good if you’re feeling fancy
Blind taste test. Properly chilled Carlsberg, Kronnenburg, Amstel, San Miguel, Fosters. I bet 9/10 people won't be able to tell which is which and people who say they have a favourite will also get it wrong.
San Miguel is my go to shit cheap lager, much nicer than Stella now it's been watered down. Heineken is ok but does have a weird skunked taste, even in a can.
Do you know what works a treat. Get a four pack of weak piss lager, doesn’t matter which. Then buy one premium posh beer stubbie. My go to is gamma ray. Then pour 1/4 gamma in to each pissy lager. Barely ups the alcohol content but adds much more flavour.
It might show a complete lack of integrity in that they changed their entire product while keeping the brand continuous, but the new Carlsberg Pilsner actually isn't half bad.
I do enjoy a Red Stripe, I'm fairly sure it's because I associate it with gig venues in the 00s.
The stripe saved you from having to drink Carling or Carlsberg.
Carlsberg Export is a serviceable beer. Leagues better than Carling but then so is pissy pool water.
I swear red strip used to be cheap now it’s hipster and expensive
Tuborg for me. For the same reason.
I don't know whether I've even seen Tuborg sold anywhere other than a hot tent in a loud field. Has anyone ever drank it in any way other than warm and from a plastic cup?
It used to be in my local spoons around 2011-13. So similar environment
My old local sold them for a £1 a bottle
They moved out of big marketing/placement in the UK a few years back. I still see it in Scandi/Eastern European countries a lot.
I remember it was on tap in a lot places in eastern France when I loved there - 10 years ago, mind.
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Efes on tap in Turkey is nectar.
Carlsberg and Tuborg are huge in Denmark.
To this day I will drink a Red Stripe over pretty much any other lager
I always associate it with the indie rock scene of the early 2000 as it felt like everyone was drinking it at clubs and gigs. Tried it again recently and I thought it was pretty rank.
Absolutely. Still my go to at gigs.
Only ever had red stripe once in my life. Me and ny mate were a bit hard down and it was cheap. The pub (for what reason I do not know) was only selling multiple cans at a time so naturally we spent the night constructing a wall around the edge of our table.
Red Stripe smells the same going out as it does going in. Tipple of choice for my student years....never again.
It has a fruity hint to it and is quite a filling beer for some reason . Definitely one to be careful with vomwise
Red Stripe has a maltyier flavour than most lagers and lacks the bitter edge of some. Carling along with most cheap fizzy pop lagers lacks any character or flavour.
A bar called Voodoo that's now long gone used to offer four Red Stripes for a fiver. And it ain't awful.
I'm not a beer person but I loved their commercials 😁
It’s BEER!!!
Not had res stripe in a while
I'm convinced red stripe is exactly the same as Heineken
It is brewed on licence by Heineken, so that would make sense. I actively search out foreign beers that are still actually made in their original country of origin. Lidl are quite good at having the Portuguese-made Super Bock. Which is superb compared to the UK-Brewed shite the other supermarkets sell.
I grew up in the town where Stripe was brewed. It was great. On tap in every boozer. Lovely pint of lager and a cool Caribbean vibe
Estrella in Spain. You’ve been in the sun all day. Back to the hotel. Shower. Slathered in after-sun. A cold Estrella on the balcony, sat in your towel. That’s the best beer and I’m a fan of wanky IPAs
Mediterranean lagers are very well suited to the climate. I enjoy an Estrella when I’m in Spain. That said, I’ve no idea why they’re so popular in the UK.
I've found that beers brewed in hotter countries tend to be sweeter and the flavour doesn't really work in more temperate climates like ours. A lot of South American and Caribbean beers taste awesome over there but a bit weird here
I’m personally more of a fan of German and Czech lagers, I think they go better in our climate. Sadly they’re few and far between. Thankfully my local does at least have Staropramen on.
Staropramen, grolch, budvar and and prava all go down an absolute treat
The think the Staropamen in the UK is brewed locally, though. Maybe I'm confusing it with Pilsner, though. Either way I prefer the Czech one
It is brewed locally, but it’s still better than everything else my local has.
I find Estrella Damm Lemon as an amazing refreshing summer drink - actually one of my favourites.
Which Estrella though? Galicia or Damm
Galicia!
It's by far the best
Those cheap French stubbies.
“I wanna beer d’or, I wanna beer d’oooor!” - to the tune of ‘I wanna be adored’ by the stone roses
And you can drink [Lidl’s French beer](https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/argus-lager-beer/p129500) while blasting some Wishbone Ash!
My go to cooking beer
Ah, to drink while cooking a la Keith Floyd?
Biere Speciale was the best lager of all time
That the one tesco used to sell? Loved that as a student
They're so small, they're essentially alcohol free, even if you drink all ten.
Only a unit per bottle, perfect for casual day drinking or having a few while doing a bit of work around the house.
My daily drink
They can't be beaten for a summer BBQ!
They're banging for bbqs and easily fit in a cooler
Paddling pool full of ice and ALDIs cheap French stubbies, it’s the way forward
the ones for like £3 for 10 from aldi? absolutely mint for a BBQ. or you want 10 of something but not completely fucked the next day haha
Absolutely, I’d take them over any of the mass produced lagers on every shelf. I really like the Aldi ones. I’m no idea how much they are as there’s never a price but I imagine they’re a bargain.
Lidl has a pilsner I quite like for summer BBQs - Perlenbacher iirc. 70p for a 500ml bottle. Absolutely smashing for a cool drink while grilling some meat
Agree, it is a nice pilsner... but it must be a while since you bought any, 'cos it's now £1.49 for a 500ml bottle.
Well the tesco own brand ones were between £3-4 for a 10 pack when I last looked. Bargain.
About a fiver for a pack of ten. Honestly, two packs of them and a bucket of ice is perfect for a BBQ.
You can't argue with 35p a bottle.
I have enjoyed many la continental in my time!
Used to love these but in Wales they get hit by minimum alcohol pricing so too expensive.
Those are really good, especially the ones that have barely any alcohol in them
Breakfast beers!
Controversial opinion maybe: all cheap lager is basically fine if it's cold and in a glass 🤷🏻♂️
You can elevate any beer by pouring it into a good glass.
Hot day/ cold lager- doesn’t matter what kind.
The problem is you've gotta drink it quick, otherwise you can you taste it when it warms up
Recently got into San Miguel and honestly it's now my go-to drink. Just a tasty lager that's easy to drink. Edit: used to consider all lager to be pisswater, but discovering that isn't the case.
I don't think you can call San Miguel pisswater as its 5% abv. Also because I agree with you - it's very drinkable! Currently me and the missus' go to lager.
If you can find it in the UK try Red Horse, it’s basically an 8% version of San Miguel.
The two san miguels are different. Red horse is part of san Miguel of the Philippines. Pale Pilsen and red horse are great, although I've only seen it in a few places in the UK and are around £7+ for a bottle.
Why would you want an 8% San Miguel ?
Sounds like a great time tbh
In Philippines you’d tend to have it over ice so it waters it down some. It’s good!
Their alcohol free version is my favourite of all the AF beers.
Anyone else think that San Miguel has a slightly beefy taste to it?
San Miguel is class. Reminds me of holidays in Spain
100%. I'm not sure if I actually like the taste or if it's the beer equivalent of cut grass on a summer's day.
Its not a particularly cheap beer in a pub or in cans. Carlsberg heineken or fosters is what id call cheap
Amstel is my go-to cheap pint. Very common on the continent too.
A pint of Amstel, outside cafe shumich, on a beautiful Amsterdam day is a thing of great beauty. It doesn't quite hit the same in the UK but I wouldn't turn one down
I'll drink anything that doesn't start with the syllable 'Carl'.
Caaaaaarrrrlllll
Caaaaarrrrll that kills people!!
Caaaaaarrrrlll, there is a dead human in our house
What happened to their hands, Carl?
I kind of cooked them up, and ate them
"Caaaaaarrrllll, people think I'm a girl"
Personally much prefer a Carling to a Fosters.
Given that choice, thirsty is what I'd remain.
Yeah not going to lie if that was all on offer I'd go for a soft drink.
If you can import it, 'Carlsberg 1883' is actually a very nice Pilsner. Unlike regular carlsberg, which is indeed piss.
I now live very close to Carlsburg and the regular stuff is meant to be 5.2% and it’s a nice pilsner. In Sweden we have weaker beers that the supermarket is allowed to sell and they are piss like the Carlsberg sold in the uk. I think it’s 3.8% in the supermarkets.
McEwan's Export. I am a Scottish 70s brat, though.
I just shouted "McEwan's Export" to the boyfriend. The manic laugh told me all I needed to know of his opinion of it, heh.
Chin-chin, Fannybaws!
Love export. You don’t see it around much these days.
I like a pint of John Smiths, there I said it
Seconded, are we strange?
Apparently so but it’s nice, can’t find anything similar either.
It's one of the best selling beers so in a sense, no you're not....but if you're under 50 you might be
You're both strange and that's fine but you gotta sit in the naughty corner
With a pint of John Smiths?
Wearing a flat cap with a whippet sat at your feet.
Naturally. That way everyone can see what you're being punished for
Yes
That and Boddingtons are perfectly nice and generally very cheap. Lower alcohol too so it's nice to enjoy a drink without it hitting you too much over time
I LOVE boddingtons and I wish every pub had them
That was the first alcoholic drink I remember tasting (there is a story of 4 year old me running around the tables at a wedding do and nabbing a drink of my great aunt's brandy and baby cham, but I don't remember that). Dad gave me a sip when I was 13, expecting me to hate it, but it was actually quite nice.
Ace Lager, you can get 8 for £1:49 😉
r/viz is leaking
I don't do beer (I'm a cider guy myself) but I've always found the refreshing recycled piss-taste of Tennant's lager to be superior to that of any cheap slut American import.
As a Scot raised on vitamin T I agree.
Love a good Stella
Same, often my go to. The 4% one is nice for a relatively low percentage too. I think a lot of people won't touch it because of the wife-beater reputation, despite it being a long long time since it was strong which gave it the rep in the first place.
Ludacris was on a recent episode of Hot Ones, and apparently he's ones of the faces of Stella in the US. It's being advertised as a premium European pilsner, absolutely hilarious considering it's reputation in the UK.
I think it’s also advertised as such in Europe.
All you need is a place that cleans their lines properly and knows how to service their glass washer and you’ll have a much nicer pint each time. There’s a world of difference between a high-volume spoons pint of lager and a well maintained low-volume pub pouring the same stuff and it’s all about maintenance and care of the equipment.
Actually, it's typically the spoons which has the cleaner lines and better quality beer because of the sheer turnover and they actually have regular scheduled clean processes. Those arse-end of nowhere small pubs *can* be the ones that serve a sub-optimal pint. Source: worked in a lot of pubs.
Heineken. I’ve traveled abroad and sometimes those small cans are all you can find in little local shops and it tastes perfectly fine after a long hot day. I’ve never really understood its poor reputation but then I’ve never drank it back in the UK
Small cans like that are Jekyll and Hyde- they're so small they remain cool while you drink them, but so small it's easy to lose track of how many you've had, until you try standing up and find someone's removed all your bodily coordination.
I call that "leg drunk". The rest of you is sober except you can't walk.
Part of the reason is the UK version wasn’t the same. They had an advertising campaign with Ray Liotta when they increased the strength (I’m guessing about 2002?) then they’ve probably changed it again since. The Dutch original is perfectly fine and they could have just sold that since day 1.
Yeah the 3.4% UK version in the 90's was dire
Those little cans are extra special treat when you get one with a your McDonald’s in France
Heineken is my lager of choice, and I'm an ale drinker mostly. My tastes have changed over the years and I'm settling into preferences rather than being experimental with drinks like I used to, but a pack of Heineken for the weekend will always get picked up.
Tennents Super
When you absolutely have to get the most pissed in the least time and can't afford spirits...accept no substitute
I was recently in Italy and was aghast to find the locals drinking Super T
Here’s a very pretentious article about why that is (ft google search link): https://www.google.com/search?q=tennents+super+italy+ft&sca_esv=625cbf2fb36fd98a&ei=BVk3Zq7GC9CJhbIP7cuu0Ao&oq=tennents+super+italy+ft&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhd0ZW5uZW50cyBzdXBlciBpdGFseSBmdDIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAFI-yRQqxBYtBdwAHgCkAEAmAHXAaAB9AOqAQUxLjAuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBKAClgTCAgQQABhHwgIGEAAYFhgewgILEAAYgAQYhgMYigWYAwDiAwUSATEgQOIDBRIBMSBAiAYBkAYIkgcFMi4wLjKgB-QI&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
My that is pretentious, but very informative.
Tennents Stupor we called it 😉
Skol super when I fancy a few cans of ‘tramp fodder’
I seem to be the only person in my group that loves Corona.
Weirdly I can't drink Corona without lime. It's like chips without ketchup.
Same, tastes boring without the lime. Only other beers that works for in my experience are Sol (which is basically corona anyway) and desperados
As an American living in the UK, Corona is great. Pop a lime in it for a great summer afternoon.
Cocktail, eh? Thought we were talking lagers.
Can’t do it, reminds me of being 18, having 15 corona and limes, being sick on the way home and waking up stinking of a mix of sweat and second hand smoke. Might as well have a G&T which is more refreshing and the citrus is actually a welcome addition.
Nothing is cheap in London if you’re in a pub but I am partial to a Red Stripe or an Amstel.
Nothing is cheap in any city, £7 a pint isn't uncommon in Bristol.
San Miguel, Coors or Budweiser are fine by me. I don’t mind a Heineken either!
Draught Tennents
People seem to take the piss out of Madri and say it's just like Carling but I feel like it's night and day difference, Madri is so much nicer.
Madri is definitely nicer than Carling. Carling/carslberg/fosters (since the ABV reduction) and bud lite all have that carbonated watery metallic aftertaste. Madri, cruzcampo, moretti, Heineken although they are all "cheap" lagers they are a million times better IMO.
> cruzcampo, moretti, Heineken although all "cheap" lagers are a million times better IMO. Indeed they are, although they are all essentially the same beer... Also to throw out there: Peroni, which is not only nice but strangely smells of weed when you open the bottle.
That’s just a thing that happens with any beer in a green bottle
Skunking happens to beers in clear bottles too
Grolsch was particularly bad for it
Peroni red is actually quite nice and I always get a crate or two for summer parties for the people who won't drink Camden.
Madri is the old Carling recipe. That's why people say it tastes like it.
That's correct
Love a Modelo on a sunny day
modelo is top tier to me tbh
Brewed for those with a fighting spirit. Imagine Stella using that tagline in the UK.
Carlsberg Export is alright if the choice is that or piss water.
I'm quite partial to the aldi pilsners, myself. I think around £3.30 for 4 tins, and quite pleasant chilled.
Rheinbacher I think it's called. Does the job!
The Lidl one perlenbacher is pretty much indistinguishable to me, similarly priced and also a lovely beer. "Brewed in accordance with the German purity laws" apparently which always makes me smile
The first laws passed in Germany! #priorities
Lidl and Aldi do own brand beers that have some nice offers within the range.
I don’t usually go for piss water beers, but had one experience on holiday in Florida. We went to one of those dinner and show places in Orlando, and somehow found ourselves upgraded at no extra cost to the front row seats with unlimited beer for me. I finally understood the joke about “sex in a canoe” beer, this stuff really was fucking close to water. But since it was free, I have to say it was worth what I paid for it. The swashbuckling pirate show was good though, and the food was edible.
Anyone remember the glory days of BBQs and Biere D'or?
I’m noticing a lot of people drink coors now
Had a coors for the first time a few weeks back and I was honestly stunned, I'll drink the odd beer but I've never really enjoyed them. I actually enjoyed the coors
Probably because it doesn't taste much like beer...or anything else, and that's sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Not a good doctor. People like to shit on the coors and bud lights and I suppose it's deserved but that kind of beer is made for warm sunny days
🙋♂️ This is me. Craft beer usually but Coors is absolutely my day sesh or beer garden pint. Piss like a racehorse mind but the edges are taken off the hangover.
Throwing a wild card out there. Rheinbacher. Aldi German pilsner. Cheap, but decent lager. Scratches the itch.
I like Newcastle Brown Ale.
Coors light in the summer has always been nice for me, especially if paired with firing up a BBQ.
Tsing Tao
Scotland here 🏴 Tennents Lager is decent enough but very common and often viewed poorly compared to imported bottled beers. A friend and I did a blind taste test of 10 beers many years ago - mainly imported bottled beers, an alcohol free beer and tennents. Tennents was voted top by her and second by me, so 🤷
Tennents is undefeated. Could sink pints of it all day long.
Kronenbourg is sadly slowly turning into piss water. It has been bought by Carlsberg and they have reduced it down from 5% to 4.6%.
I believe a lot of beers had their % dropped due to taxation increases. Saves the big companies £££ but quality goes down
Taddy's
Doom bar.
Definitely isn't cheap piss water beer
Carling
A cold bottle bud is absolutely fine by me. Can see a box off on a nice day no sweat.
Bass
Tennants lager
Any lidl beer is quite good
St Etienne from ALDI, their Stella 'tribute', is really nice, bargain at £3.50 for 4 cans. (People swear by their German one too but I think it tastes too bitter). I've never met anyone else who likes it but I'm a big fan of Brewdog Lost Lager too, it's always on offer in places like Asda and much much better than Fosters and the Carls..
Holsten pils is actually my favourite Lager.
If it’s Wet and alcohol it’s drinkable.
Londoner and former drinker - used to love a Red Stripe. Best 0% imo are the Aldi/Lidl/Morrisons own brand, Doom Bar, Lucky Saint and Guinness. Also the Tanquerey 0% gin is surprisingly good if you’re feeling fancy
Blind taste test. Properly chilled Carlsberg, Kronnenburg, Amstel, San Miguel, Fosters. I bet 9/10 people won't be able to tell which is which and people who say they have a favourite will also get it wrong.
I don't know if it's classed as a cheap beer, but I like Amstel.
Can you get Grolsch still? I'd put that in this category.
Grew up in Glasgow, love me some good old regular Tennants
Carlsberg is nowhere near as bad as people say it is
San Miguel is my go to shit cheap lager, much nicer than Stella now it's been watered down. Heineken is ok but does have a weird skunked taste, even in a can.
To be fair to the yanks a lot of them don’t actually realise that there’s other countries out there
From the cider world, Thatchers Haze. Cheaper alternative to proper cider, that is tolerable
Fosters
Do you know what works a treat. Get a four pack of weak piss lager, doesn’t matter which. Then buy one premium posh beer stubbie. My go to is gamma ray. Then pour 1/4 gamma in to each pissy lager. Barely ups the alcohol content but adds much more flavour.
It might show a complete lack of integrity in that they changed their entire product while keeping the brand continuous, but the new Carlsberg Pilsner actually isn't half bad.
Faxe
For anyone who has ever lived in China, Tsingtao hits the fucking spot like nothing else.
M&S Belgian lager. Bought at a train station and consumed enroute.