The best lager on sale in the UK, suggestions please

[mcflurry]

Mr Gearchange said:

Apparently it's exactly the same everywhere - they strip the local water of everything then put in the exact same quantity of minerals etc to reflect the water in Leuven. Supposedly this is standard practise amongst all the brewers who produce 'in market'. They were adamant about the fact that it's exactly the same product wherever you drink it.

I maintain that Stella tastes far better in Belgium and Kronenburg much nicer in France - but apparently this is psychosomatic

How can it be exactly the same if there is a different ABV in different markets?

[Soov535]

tuffer said:

Estrella Damm Inedit, £5 a bottle but you only need 1, maybe 2 if its not a School night:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?...

Last time I had a BBQ I started om the case of Leffe I bought back from France, I fell in the Bath. Utterly off my tits.

Same thing happened to me with three bottles of King Cobra. Woke up in my son's sandpit.

[Mr Gearchange]

mcflurry said:

Mr Gearchange said:

Apparently it's exactly the same everywhere - they strip the local water of everything then put in the exact same quantity of minerals etc to reflect the water in Leuven. Supposedly this is standard practise amongst all the brewers who produce 'in market'. They were adamant about the fact that it's exactly the same product wherever you drink it.

I maintain that Stella tastes far better in Belgium and Kronenburg much nicer in France - but apparently this is psychosomatic

How can it be exactly the same if there is a different ABV in different markets?

Dunno - but the recipe is apparently the same everywhere.

I didn't pursue the questioning too far - they got pissed off with me when I repeatedly referred to their halo brand as 'wife beater'.

[CanAm]

paulwirral said:

........ , brahma lager on draught in the bar restaurant opposite the philharmonic in Liverpool , I'd obviously drank that much of it that Saturday afternoon I've forgotten the name !

Surprisingly it's called The Philharmonic Dining Rooms.

[vournikas]

CooperD said:

I had a couple of Asahi Super Dry lagers last night. Very pleasant and paletable.

Given a warm summer evening in the garden, nothing comes close.

[joshcowin]

joshcowin said:

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/wcsstore7.17.2.53/Exte...

Picked this up today, will report back

Can report, was very easy to drink, not very hoppy but refreshing.

Left a very nice aftertaste!

[Trophy Husband]

Leffe Nectar. 5.5% ABV. Two 750ml bottles and I'm anybody's.



I also like the IPA's that are around at the moment, Brew Dog Punk is especially tasty when cold. 5.9% ABV. 6 of the 275ml bottles and I'm anybody's!

[tuffer]

Trophy Husband said:

Leffe Nectar. 5.5% ABV. Two 750ml bottles and I'm anybody's.

I managed 5 and was utterly ruined.

[Trophy Husband]

tuffer said:

Trophy Husband said:

Leffe Nectar. 5.5% ABV. Two 750ml bottles and I'm anybody's.

I managed 5 and was utterly ruined.

5!!! You must be a powerfully built company director!! I unfortunately am a weedy one!! However, I consider this the gauntlet thrown and will be restocking today for an attempt at 5 tomorrow evening!!

[tuffer]

Trophy Husband said:

tuffer said:

Trophy Husband said:

Leffe Nectar. 5.5% ABV. Two 750ml bottles and I'm anybody's.

I managed 5 and was utterly ruined.

5!!! You must be a powerfully built company director!! I unfortunately am a weedy one!! However, I consider this the gauntlet thrown and will be restocking today for an attempt at 5 tomorrow evening!!

Make sure you have a clear path to the Bath.

[ZedLeg]

Trophy Husband said:

I also like the IPA's that are around at the moment, Brew Dog Punk is especially tasty when cold. 5.9% ABV. 6 of the 275ml bottles and I'm anybody's!

I don't know what you were drinking but it wasn't Punk. It's 5.6% and Brewdog don't do 275ml bottles .

Brewdog do a dark lager called Zeitgeist that's good if you can find it. Proper malty flavour.

[bobbo89]

Trophy Husband said:

tuffer said:

Trophy Husband said:

Leffe Nectar. 5.5% ABV. Two 750ml bottles and I'm anybody's.

I managed 5 and was utterly ruined.

5!!! You must be a powerfully built company director!! I unfortunately am a weedy one!! However, I consider this the gauntlet thrown and will be restocking today for an attempt at 5 tomorrow evening!!

Might nip out Saturday for 6 of these and see how far into them I can get!

[Trophy Husband]

ZedLeg said:

Trophy Husband said:

I also like the IPA's that are around at the moment, Brew Dog Punk is especially tasty when cold. 5.9% ABV. 6 of the 275ml bottles and I'm anybody's!

I don't know what you were drinking but it wasn't Punk. It's 5.6% and Brewdog don't do 275ml bottles .

Brewdog do a dark lager called Zeitgeist that's good if you can find it. Proper malty flavour.

Happy to be corrected! Perhaps they're 330ml? Whatever it is it's lovely when ice cold!

[Usget]

Trophy Husband said:

Leffe Nectar. 5.5% ABV. Two 750ml bottles and I'm anybody's.



I also like the IPA's that are around at the moment, Brew Dog Punk is especially tasty when cold. 5.9% ABV. 6 of the 275ml bottles and I'm anybody's!

I always love a Leffe, but I'm sure they're stronger than that. More like 6.5% than 5.5%.

I had one last night as a nightcap after coming back from the pub. I was fine before it and completely sozzled after it.

[C Lee Farquar]

Currently demolishing a Nectar, definitely 5.5%. Blonde is higher.

5 750ml bottles? I have a proper headache after 2!

As a heads up Tesco seem to have stopped stocking it. I had to venture to a Morrisons and clear the shelf.

[SickAsAParrot]

I brought a 1 litre can/stein of Paulaner Oktoberfest beer back from Munich last year and bloody hell it was nice, and strong, it left me wondering why the you can't get the Munich breweries beers in this country, apart from maybe Lowenbrau.

[bobbo89]

C Lee Farquar said:

As a heads up Tesco seem to have stopped stocking it. I had to venture to a Morrisons and clear the shelf.

Cheers for that, was going to head straight to Tesco for it!

[arfursleep]

This stuff. New bar has opened up near me that concentrates on German / Belgium beers. The menu is impressive and lists this as award winning. Light summer lager, not gassy, not too hoppy.

you can buy it online

[tuffer]

I was serving in Bosnia in Aug 97, attached to the multinational force and HQ'd with the Americans at Tusla. We had Polish, Swedish, Norwegians, Finns and ........Belgians. The Belgians organised a bit of a party at their main HQ down near Sarajevo and a load of breweries sent over pallets of their finest wares. The leftovers were sent out to the outlying units. So, on Aug 30th 97 we set about them and got utterly trashed on Kwak and various other nasty 13% bottles of syrup. I remember it vividly for two reasons, I was woken up in the early hours to be told that Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash and, I was also killed by someone hitting me in the head with an Axe.........Or at least that is what it felt like. I swore that morning that I would never drink again, which I managed to uphold for at least 2 days.

[RammyMP]

SickAsAParrot said:

I brought a 1 litre can/stein of Paulaner Oktoberfest beer back from Munich last year and bloody hell it was nice, and strong, it left me wondering why the you can't get the Munich breweries beers in this country, apart from maybe Lowenbrau.

There's a boozer in Manchester that does Paulaner on draft, it's very good! I've been on the 5l kegs of Warsteiner from Costco lately. Unfortunately once you crack it open you have to sup the full keg before it goes flat!