beer

[nexus-6]

seems like ages since we've had a good thread about beer, so i thought it was time to revive the much-loved and endlessly debated topic of the drink.

so here are the categories (please add more)
(international beers accepted, locals preferred, specify if tap or bottle, and only one beer per category)

1. best post-work beer
2. best club beer
3. best pub beer
4. most overrated beer
5. best advertised beer



here are mine

1. hahn premium - bottle (longneck if its been a long day)
2. coopers pale ale- bottle
3. vb or tooheys old - both tap.
4. corona - easy one.
5. VB - aussie through and through.

[Sir Pimpsalot]

1. (a hard earned thirst ....) guinness
2. heineken
3. james squire
4. steinlager
5. cougar (i know it aint beer, but c'mon)

[hmiller72]

1.Stella
2.Pils: only beer I can stomach off chops.
3.Stella
4.VB
5.Duff (sorry, Bud)

New catagory : Which beer do you drink at home?

6. Pils.

[MadMike]

1. Tooheys Extra Dry
2. Asahi
3. Boddingtons on tap!! (Cream of Manchester...mmmm)
4. Corona (add overpriced piss to that as well)
5. Bud (the new <a href="http://www.adcritic.com/content/budweiser-how-you-doin.html">"How you doin"</a> ad is genius)

<b>MM</b>

[drew]

one of the best topic on itm in a long time, nexus

1. vb
2. asahi/budweiser
3. vb/old/stella/becks on tap
4. carloton cold
5. vb/budweiser

[Lambretta]

1. best post-work beer Any Beer tastes good after work.
2. best club beer Hahn Premium
3. best pub beer Tooheys New
4. most overrated beer VB
5. best advertised beer Boddingtons UK run ads 7 years ago. or XXXX also UK ads, or any ad's from the UK cos 99.9% of Australian ad's are total shite. Yeah the Cougar ad is great (agreed).
6. best home beer Fosters (always a 6 pack in the fridge)
7. best party beer Fosters (noone is likely to steal it)

[Sherbos]

1. best post-work beer -- San Miguel Super Dry
2. best club beer - Asahi
3. best pub beer - Cascade/Becks on tap
4. most overrated beer - Heineken
5. best advertised beer - VB
6. best home beer - San Miguel Super Dry
7. best party beer - Tooheys New
8. best day after beer - Any/All of the above

[FunkStu]

1. Stella Artois (pissed in no time)
2. James Boags
3. Tooheys New
4. Foster's (but not in Australia)
5. Carlsberg (in England)

[Juggalo Muli]

1. Tooheys Extra Dry
2. Hahn Premium/Crownies
3. Cafferys/Kilkenny
4. Tooheys New
5. Extra Dry

[buda]

1. Becks ($4 schooners at buda's local = yay)
2. Stella (taste)
3. Peroni (crisp)
4. Squires (hearty)
5. Pils (best aussie standard price bottled beer)
6. VB (best standard draught beer)

[Beegie]

1. best post-work beer - Toohey's Old
2. best club beer - Becks / Stella
3. best pub beer - James Squire Ale
4. most overrated beer - Crown Lager
5. best advertised beer - "Give that man a new"

[lyric]

1. anything cold!
2. Tooheys Extra Dry (weak as piss and easy to get down!)
3. Cartlon Draught on tap
4. Corona
5. VB - "a hard earned thirst" - but apparently chicks don't drink it!

[star_317]

Okay as with most girls I am not a big beer drinker - but - the only beer I DO like is Corona! So I disagree with most of you who all say it is over rated, I find it quite nice and refreshing!
I hate VB.

[cake]

...look beer is just crap....im wondering whether it is an aquired taste..cause its so gross that id think youd have to force it down everytime before the day when you can actually keep a straight face after a sip...or is it part of the male genetic makeup that they like the taste of beer?

[fUnKy1]

Nothing beats a cool Stella!

[lyric]

"Beer - is there anything it can't do?"

- Homer J Simpson

[Sherbos]

mmmm... beer

[Milky Crate Kid]

The Homer Simpson Beer Song:

Doh, the stuff that buys me beer
Ray, the guy that sells me beer
Me, the guy that drinks the beer
Far, the distance to my beer
So, I think I'l have a beer
La La La another beer
Tea - No thanks I'm drinking beer
Which will bring us back to D'OH!!!!

The answers to Nexus' questions go:

1. Hahn Premium
2. Hahn Premium
3. Hahn Premium (on tap at the Sheaf in Double Bay)
4. Crown Lager - pulled from the same vat as Fosters, I worked for CUB.
5. Hahn Premium

I like Hahn, if you get a chance do a tour of the factory out at Camperdown, they give you a schooie glass at the start and you tour the place pulling beers off 10000 litre vats at all different stages of the process. Jaime = Messy.

MCK

[Beegie]

MCK- I almost took a job at CUB earlier this year. Nice fringe benefits of 6 cases per month!

[Spitchen]

cake - you must be a girl! ;-)

Beer is good. If i believed in God, i would say that it

1. Best post-work beer = Cascade Pale Ale on tap
2. Best club beer - NONE, too expensive but if i have to, Boags
3. Best pub beer - same as 1., always go to pub after work
4. Overrated - Corona, thats why they give you lemon with it.
5. Advertised - Guiness, those ads from a few years back were cool.

[Milky Crate Kid]

Better than when I worked there about five years ago, we got excellent discounts and good promo stuff but we were never given rations, that rocks!!!

Take the job, the fringe benefits'll have you an alcoholic in 6 months but its well worth it!!

MCK

[djsimonmann]

1. best post-work beer - New
2. best club beer - the cheapest
3. best pub beer - New
4. most overrated beer - Crowns
5. best advertised beer - VB... you can get it sucking a cow, matter of fact I got it now !

Best Aussie Beer - Redback...

S.

[Beegie]

I'm regretting not taking it...

[MadMike]

The Homer <a href="http://www.nubo.ru/songs/mp3/beer_song.mp3">"When I Was 17"</a> beer song.

:)

<b>MM</b>

[Milky Crate Kid]

"When I was seventeen....
I drank alot of good beer...."

Love mah Homer.

MCK

[Shif_T]

1. best post-work - tooheys old (must be of the tap)
2. best club beer - becks
3. best pub beer - guiness
4. most overrated beer - corona (mexicans should stick with tequila)
5. best advertised beer - easily guiness, agreeing with spitchen...but them tooheys new ads are also preddy ingenious...

[sax3000]

Best post-work: Tooheys Extra Dry
Best Club beer: Becks
Best Pub beer: Tooheys Extra Dry
Most Overrated: Corona/ Pils
Best Advertised: VB (especially the olympics ads)

[jayblue]

1. best post-work beer - Boags
2. best club beer - Asahi/Stella
3. best pub beer - Boags
4. most overrated beer - Corona (the lemon - say no more)
5. best advertised beer - "Who Is James Boag?"

[redambition]

im not a big beer fan.... for me....

there are two...

Stella Artois (tap or bottle)
and any good pilsner (sometimes spelt pilsener)

i used to drink crownies til i learnt the CUB secret....

REsiDent itm i prefer spirits

[jayjay]

is that really true about crownies or is it one of those urban myth things???

jayjay = devistated if it is true. (well not really, i like the taste but crownies cost more)

[Agent 42]

1. best post-work beer - New
2. best club beer - Cold (usually because that's all they sell)
3. best pub beer - New
4. most overrated beer - Crown
5. best advertised beer - New
6. best dinner beer - Hahn Premium (especially the dinner serving/
long neck type)

[Junk Science]

MM - love your one and two

1. Tooheys Dry
2. Asahi
3. Tooheys New (Tap)
4. VB
5. Castlemain XXXX (UK advertising)

[Sir Pimpsalot]

what's the CUB secret?

[Fabmacca]

1. best post-work beer - Stella
2. best club beer - Pils
3. best pub beer - Reches Pilsener (how do you spell Reches anyway?)
4. most overrated beer - Crown
5. best advertised beer - Guiness

New Category
6. Best time to drink beer - in summer after mowing the lawn or after playing golf

[jayjay]

best tap / pub beer - carlton draught!!!

[fUnKy1]

Yeah...i'm with pimps....what's the CUB secret???

I like my Crowns...

fUnKy1 - gEtTiNg VeRy NeRvOuS

[Lambretta]

Boddingtons ad.

Sexy Woman is sitting in her luxury penthouse getting ready for an expensive night out on the town.
Glamour clothes, little black dress etc and she's applying cream to her face and neck.

Guy walks in, obviously a "Mr has everything"

Guy walks over to lady who is applying cream, when suddenly you realise the Cream is actually a Pint of Boddingtons "the Cream of Manchester".

Man smells woman and says in Broad Northern accent

"By 'eck you smell gorgeous tonight Petal"

Lady raises her eyes and knows she's in for a good time!!!!

Farkin classic. Bart Cummings at the races pales in comparison.

[redambition]

CUB secret....

crownies are pulled from the same vat as fosters... put me off them for life.....

ew.

REsiDent itm has respect for beverages

[muzik_response]

wtf? cake <b>loves</b> guiness. ? :P

[Shif_T]

pffft...psychological...ohh no, its from the same vat...its still a diff beer, as they do whatever they do to beer...i.e. double hopp it, and so on....what did u think they had a different vat for each and every beer???

the taste of beer is also very dependant on the water...

[Sir Pimpsalot]

where did u hear that red?

[redambition]

i have my sources pimps.....

shif.. i dont think you heard me.... same vat as FOSTERS....... ew.... fosters.. the beer i hate most....

REsiDent itm why are we debating this anyway?

[Sherbos]

Crown is awful anyway... as is Fosters. You can't go past the smooth smooth taste of San Miguel.

[Shif_T]

vb is worse...that @!#$ is the scourge of this earth....

[innA]

1. best post-work beer --- Stella Artois
2. best club beer --- Heineken
3. best pub beer --- VB
4. most overrated beer --- James Boags
5. best advertised beer --- Budweiser and Heineken

[tranceE]

VB and only vb. nothin like a bit of vagina breath!

[littleblonde]

I love Toohey's Extra Dry - it is kind of tradition.. and Becks :)

VB & Fosters are revolting

[FunkStu]

Nearly forgot the best at-home beer ever: Witbier :)

[buda]

old admiral at the lord nelson is tastey.

[FunkStu]

Purist ;)

[girlDJ]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Beeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

/me belches & undoes the top button of her blue stubbies shorts

#1 = ASAHI - undoubtedly the worlds smooooothest beer. drink it cold & crisp.

#2 = Stella Artois - when you're feeling feminine

#3 = Nastro Azzuro - drink it and feel famous

#4 = Becks - reminds me of David Beckham... Mmmmm..... *drool sum more*

#5 = XXXX - gets you pissed when you're broke.

Madmike - you're a nut *smirk*

[Dbauch]

Who are you....? *thinking crafty thoughts*

<b>MM</b>

[Fondue]

1. best post-work beer : Pilsner Urquel
2. best club beer : Tooheys Dry
3. best pub beer: James Squire Pale Ale on tap or old on tap
4. most overrated beer : Miller
5. best advertised beer: Carlton Cold

[Twiddle Bug]

Um, I LIKE beer, but I kind of don't GET beer. They all taste the same to me, or if I notice a difference, they still taste....like beer, basically. Do you REALLY like other brands more than others? Why?

Twiddle Beer's For Boys Bug

[nexus-6]

twiddle bug, i think you have taken naomi klein's point too far. (theres one thing i never thought i'd say)

[Twiddle Bug]

Not likely! Naomi Klein is overrated and making a big storm in a teacup. A pissup in a brewery, if you like. No, I just genuinely can't tell the difference. But then, I guess your average Chisel fan would say that about electronic music. Hmmm.

[meandarkdirty]

You're telling me you can't tell the difference between Guinness and Asahi?

[Twiddle Bug]

Well yeah, ok, you can tell the difference between the different STYLES. But same style, different brand - who knows?

[meandarkdirty]

I know what you are saying but I wouldn't want to take it up with <a href="http://www.beerhunter.com/" target=new>this man.</a>