Beer!

Beer hater here!

why dont you like beer?

spectrefate wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

i just bought four cans of bettabuy lager from the supermarket for 88p thats like one dollar sixty cents. i dont know what it tastes like yet though

88p for four cans? Wow I bet that beer is just dee-licious!

So how was this beer, Gooch? Any good?

TheGooch wrote:

why dont you like beer?

I never liked the taste nor smell. I prefer Brandy or Rum, but I usually don't drink either.

Tomorrow I'm gonna have my annual Christmas beer test. I've bought all the diffrent brands, and will pour them down, 1 at a time hopefully, and find the best one.

I'm touched... one of my twenty-something co-workers just asked me for beer advice. He sez he's going to a bar tonight that has "74 different taps and 100 different bottle beers" and sez he "can't just do Bud in a place like that, what's good?"

I recommended anything from the Sierra Nevada, Saranac, or Pete's Wicked families.

Fat Freddy wrote:

spectrefate wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

i just bought four cans of bettabuy lager from the supermarket for 88p thats like one dollar sixty cents. i dont know what it tastes like yet though

88p for four cans? Wow I bet that beer is just dee-licious!

So how was this beer, Gooch? Any good?

dude it was absolutley revoltingly bad so it was.

it tasted like sparkling spring water with a tiny bit of alcohol in

TheGooch wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

spectrefate wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

i just bought four cans of bettabuy lager from the supermarket for 88p thats like one dollar sixty cents. i dont know what it tastes like yet though

88p for four cans? Wow I bet that beer is just dee-licious!

So how was this beer, Gooch? Any good?

dude it was absolutley revoltingly bad so it was.

it tasted like sparkling spring water with a tiny bit of alcohol in

Sounds yummy. But hey, you get what you pay for.
So is this "Bettabuy" also the name of the store where you bought it? The label is so generic looking that I thought maybe it was some store's cheap-o "house" brand

yes freddy it is the cheapo in hous brand of the supermarket morrisons where i work. the can on there is actually the nettabuy bitter. the lager has a blue can. thankgod i have a crate of real beer in the pantry now.

of course the bettabuy range is now called the value range

TheGooch wrote:

yes freddy it is the cheapo in hous brand of the supermarket morrisons where i work. the can on there is actually the nettabuy bitter. the lager has a blue can. thankgod i have a crate of real beer in the pantry now.

of course the bettabuy range is now called the value range

Haha, nothin' wrong with drinkin' some of the cheap stuff now and again. It makes the good stuff taste so much better.

I used to collect beer cans when I was in college and MAN, I drank some of the most GOD AWFUL ghetto-brew stuff just for the sake of that collection... I'd go to stores and any time I saw a can that I didn't have or some brand I'd never heard of, I'd buy one just so I could empty it and add it to my shelf. Sometimes I was pleasantly surprised by what was inside those oddball cans, but other times...

i cant say i have ever been that obbsessed about beer. i was just doing some shopping and wanted beer on the cheapo and i certainly got it

TheGooch wrote:

i cant say i have ever been that obbsessed about beer. i was just doing some shopping and wanted beer on the cheapo and i certainly got it

My college friends and I used to try to out-do each other as to who could find the cheapest, most odd ball, obscure beers. Man, we drank some swill in those days.

Our favorite was this stuff called Midnight Dragon which was $1.25 for a 40 ounce bottle (most other 40-ouncers went for about two bucks at the time)... for a cash strapped college kid, that stuff was a quick cheap way to get where you wanted to go...

We were also briefly obsessed with a malt liquor (beer on steroids) called "CRAZY HORSE" which was simply unreal... tasted like battery acid but one 40 ounce bottle was about the equivalent of a six pack... one of those bottles was all you needed, that stuff had a kick like a mule.

Thankfully my tastes have progressed some from those days...I don't think my body could handle any of that cheap swill nowadays... if I tried, my liver would probably run screaming from my body...

you cant buy bog ass bottles here just 440ml cans, 568ml pint cans or two litres bottles of cider

I picked up a 6-pack of some killer stuff called "Flying Dog Doggy-Style Pale Ale" over the weekend... the name cracked me up so much that I simply HAD to try it.

Their web site is pretty funny too, check it out beer lovers:
http://www.flyingdogales.com/

Fat Freddy wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

i cant say i have ever been that obbsessed about beer. i was just doing some shopping and wanted beer on the cheapo and i certainly got it

My college friends and I used to try to out-do each other as to who could find the cheapest, most odd ball, obscure beers. Man, we drank some swill in those days.

LOL!!! Thank God you survived!

has anyone bought any of that revolting beer at those 99cent stores. At our local one we got Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Milwaukee.

Fat Freddy wrote:

TheGooch wrote:

yes freddy it is the cheapo in hous brand of the supermarket morrisons where i work. the can on there is actually the nettabuy bitter. the lager has a blue can. thankgod i have a crate of real beer in the pantry now.

of course the bettabuy range is now called the value range

Haha, nothin' wrong with drinkin' some of the cheap stuff now and again. It makes the good stuff taste so much better.

I used to collect beer cans when I was in college and MAN, I drank some of the most GOD AWFUL ghetto-brew stuff just for the sake of that collection... I'd go to stores and any time I saw a can that I didn't have or some brand I'd never heard of, I'd buy one just so I could empty it and add it to my shelf. Sometimes I was pleasantly surprised by what was inside those oddball cans, but other times...

Trust me, you don't know what bad beer is until you've had some Middle Eastern beer. They use famalgahyde (yes the same things used for preserving corpses) and it is double .

that would actually be horrible

EvyMetal wrote:

has anyone bought any of that revolting beer at those 99cent stores. At our local one we got Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Milwaukee.

They sell BEER at 99 cent stores?? Not around here. Too bad. I actually like Pabst Blue Ribbon!!

HAVE YOU NO SHAME?! Please, Old Milwaukee DESTROYS PBR!

T-Roy wrote:

HAVE YOU NO SHAME?! Please, Old Milwaukee DESTROYS PBR!

T-Roy Please stop being insolent for just one second!
Milwaukee's Best (Light) is the king of third rate swill!


Side Note: I actually saw Old Milwaukee being sold in a reputable store the other day. I thought that went out of production in the early 90's!

How about Hamm's, any fans? I've never had it, but I've always wanted to!

T-Roy wrote:

HAVE YOU NO SHAME?! Please, Old Milwaukee DESTROYS PBR!

Back in the day we used to call Old Milwaukee "Old Spillway"

I have had it.

The 12 packs have a horshoe and the words "Good Luck" printed under it.

You'll need it.

"FROM THE LAND OF GOLDEN WATERS!!!"