The best lager on sale in the UK, suggestions please
Discussion
OllieC said:
dazco said:
OllieC said:
Perroni is overrated and costs about £4.
How is it overrated? By whom? Clever marketing has persuaded the UK market that it is a premium product (which, I guess, it is compared to the indigenous lab piss made in the UK)
OllieC said:
Just my personal opinion, lots of people seem to like it to be fair, but I dont think it is anything special (bar the price)
So it's not really overrated, it just isn't to your taste.I sound like I am being sarcastic but I am not, I thought you was going to share a revelation with us like it is rebranded Fosters or something.
Must say that as a bitter drinker all lagers taste pretty much the same, yes of course those higher in alcohol have a fuller taste but once they are chilled down to 'ice cold' one can't actually taste much anyway. A pint of the stuff on a hot summers day is fine to slake the thrist but after a pint or so all I want to do it piss...
RichB said:
Must say that as a bitter drinker all lagers taste pretty much the same, yes of course those higher in alcohol have a fuller taste but once they are chilled down to 'ice cold' one can't actually taste much anyway. A pint of the stuff on a hot summers day is fine to slake the thrist but after a pint or so all I want to do it piss...
I drink both ales / bitters and lagers - but I definitely drift towards European beers if I'm not drinking bitter. English lagers are mostly awful - InBev have a lot to answer for - not only did they ruin Boddingtons, they churn out loads of pasteurised lagers which all taste the same.V8mate said:
Of course it is.
Why the wink? What is your definition of a premium lager?
It was brewed as a premium drink, marketed as such, priced as such, and perceived to be as such.
It's a fine tasting 5.1% lager that was brewed to compliment Peroni's standard lager, which is very popular in Italy.
What makes it not a premium drink?
craigjm said:
I would generally agree. However, try some of those that I list in my first post above and you will be pleasantly surprised at how complex lager can be.
Yes, I'll do that but summers a thing of the past now for 5 or 6 more months! I suppose with bitter being a 'live' beer one can taste the difference in water (hard or soft), hops, barley, yeasts etc. or maybe at my age I've just been drinking it for so bloody long that I can tell a northern brew from a Kentish or London one. Perhaps when I was a young lad bitter was in the ascendance whereas lager was just homogenised crap and that influenced my taste. 
dazco said:
V8mate said:
Of course it is.
Why the wink? What is your definition of a premium lager?
It was brewed as a premium drink, marketed as such, priced as such, and perceived to be as such.
It's a fine tasting 5.1% lager that was brewed to compliment Peroni's standard lager, which is very popular in Italy.
What makes it not a premium drink?
Surely you can't just bang a label on and declare it as such. Or if your standard fare is bad enough to make an dishwater seem appetising, your premium option might only be on par with an Australian beer.
Is there a minimum requirement for labelling ale as premium?
(Yes, my google appears to be borked.)
Premium is purely a measure of ABV strength.
They need to be above a certain % - i think it might be 4.5 or 5% alcohol.
IIRC it dates back to the days when people drank mild and other very low proof ales, and "premium" beers (what we would recognise as normal strength today) were comparably expensive for the average working man of old.
They need to be above a certain % - i think it might be 4.5 or 5% alcohol.
IIRC it dates back to the days when people drank mild and other very low proof ales, and "premium" beers (what we would recognise as normal strength today) were comparably expensive for the average working man of old.
Wadeski said:
Premium is purely a measure of ABV strength.
They need to be above a certain % - i think it might be 4.5 or 5% alcohol.
IIRC it dates back to the days when people drank mild and other very low proof ales, and "premium" beers (what we would recognise as normal strength today) were comparably expensive for the average working man of old.
Thanks.They need to be above a certain % - i think it might be 4.5 or 5% alcohol.
IIRC it dates back to the days when people drank mild and other very low proof ales, and "premium" beers (what we would recognise as normal strength today) were comparably expensive for the average working man of old.
I was quite surprised when I first came to the UK and saw the beer being 4.x%. I'd only ever bought / seen 5.x% in SA, which is deemed standard stuff there. Anything less was marketed as light.
dazco said:
V8mate said:
You're right. In Italy it's not a premium product. Just a 'workers' drink.
Clever marketing has persuaded the UK market that it is a premium product (which, I guess, it is compared to the indigenous lab piss made in the UK)
The Peroni we get in the UK is a premium drink. Clever marketing has persuaded the UK market that it is a premium product (which, I guess, it is compared to the indigenous lab piss made in the UK)
Pints said:
I was having this very discussion with my brother yesterday. What makes a lager "premium"?
Surely you can't just bang a label on and declare it as such. Or if your standard fare is bad enough to make an dishwater seem appetising, your premium option might only be on par with an Australian beer.
Is there a minimum requirement for labelling ale as premium?
(Yes, my google appears to be borked.)
I really do not know. I just know that this is one of Peroni's premium lager and that Peroni brew a lesser lager that is seen as a normal lager in Italy.Surely you can't just bang a label on and declare it as such. Or if your standard fare is bad enough to make an dishwater seem appetising, your premium option might only be on par with an Australian beer.
Is there a minimum requirement for labelling ale as premium?
(Yes, my google appears to be borked.)
Maybe the chap below is correct when he says is the strength of the lager.
dazco said:
OllieC said:
Just my personal opinion, lots of people seem to like it to be fair, but I dont think it is anything special (bar the price)
So it's not really overrated, it just isn't to your taste.I sound like I am being sarcastic but I am not, I thought you was going to share a revelation with us like it is rebranded Fosters or something.
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