Beer recomendations

[Wilse]

Agafaster wrote:
 for Scots beers you might hunt out a McEwen 80'- (pronounced 80 shilling)

My favourite beer.

You might find that McEwan's Export (a standard 'heavy' Scottish beer - featured in 'So I Married An Axe Murderer') is easier to source though.

[Wilse]

@hancock:

He was looking for recommendations, not a demonstration of over-consumption.  ;-)

[Wilse]

r0jaws wrote:
I've got to stick my oar in here.
Scottish beer? as the colloquialism goes 'Get Tae F**k!'
Quite frankly Scottish beer is dismal, its a shame as they do the best whiskey's known to man.
80' is the best of a bad bunch.
English & Belgian Beers are the way forward, with German just a gnats whisker behind.
Ireland only have Guiness, God awful Caffreys 'Cream flow' bitter, and Harp Lager (God help us all). All my family come from NI but I wouldn't drink the beer even if I'd just crawled out of a desert!
Get yourself some decent Porters, or any Adnams brewery Real Ales.
If you don't have to sieve it with your teeth as you drink, it's lemonade.  

Well, if we all liked the same beer, it'd be a boring old world of booze.
I personally find any ale (real or otherwise) served at room temperature vile.
Guinness leaves me cold too.
Having said that, I can appreciate that there is obviously something to be said for both as so many people love them.

[Wilse]

Turambar wrote:
You're all forgetting the mighty Tennents Super. A finer brew there never was.

Aaahhhhh..... the mighty Purple Tin!

Not dissimilar to Duvel

I beg to differ.

Alcoholics drink it all the time and those guys must know their beers eh?

They know value for money in terms of alcohol content, I'll give you that.

That said, I'd probably class myself as a functioning alky yet I'd rather drink my ain pish than a Purple Tin.

Don't get me wrong, I'm anything but a lager snob but there's a line....

Cheers!
:pint: