What is your Lager of choice ?

[Spike]

As folk grow up they grow out of lager and move to Real Ake
It takes some folks longer to mature

[ClaretinJapan]

You can at the supermarket - one of my current faves. Though the can looks disconcertingly like an urn.

The cans for both must be different in the UK. The Asahi can is just a normal can, easy to scrunch up and throw away. There is a new Asahi can where the whole top pulls off, so the can becomes like a glass and the head surfaces.

[tarkys_ears]

Ugh... knew it would be 10 seconds before the CAMRA nobheads all piled in on lager.

I get it. I like ale. I make craft beer. I drink lager. The topic is about lager.

If you can't keep it on topic or not have a 2-bit rant about it, make your own thread about "real" ale.

[Bosscat]

My lager of choice depends where I am ... I don't drink it out of choice in the pub ... Ale for me ...

But I do enjoy Peroni when eating at Zizzis (or other Italian restaurants) ... Efes in Turkiye or Cyprus... Starpromen goes down well too.

[Sapperclaret73]

Crystal by Joseph holts is brilliant. But usually stick to Ales and stouts. Do like a good neck oil.

[Claretitus]

Lager? I’ll pass thankyoooooooo

[AlargeClaret]

I see the real ale curmudgeons didn’t take long to arrive . I like an occasional real ale , but the beards ,bad teeth ,grumpiness , moaning about prices and folk music are a tad off putting .
As for lager it’s much of muchness but “ clean “ filtered lagers like Corona , kingfisher ,Moretti , Tsing tao, Singha etc are a decent choice as are most original recipe “ single country “ lagers .Try to avoid “marketing beers” like Madri ( pretend Spanish )and pig swill like Budweiser .

[Garnerssoap]

Kozel 10 degree.

If you must lower yourself to staropramen, i believe lidl do the czech brewed version.

Is that still true about Lidl ? If it is I’m going to Dale winton it today . Their German pilsner used to be German brewed krombacher but then they changed it to burton brewed pish

[Clovius Boofus]

I like an occasional real ale , but the beards ,bad teeth ,grumpiness , moaning about prices and folk music are a tad off putting .

Sounds like a theme pub. Where is it?

[Dyched]

Wasn’t real ale invented by lager drinkers who became annoyed with that one friend who kept turning up and didn’t offer anything to the conversation? Feed it to him and naturally all the real ale drinkers attracted each other and drifted to the corner of the bar where they comb each other beards?

[Enola Gay]

I've always liked those Hobgoblin "what's up lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?" t-shirts. Makes the real ale bores much easier to spot/avoid.

Love a Grolsch if it's the full 5% one, very partial to an Asahi. Generally drink the Northern Whisper Helles in The Bridge as it's only 4%, although I will branch out into the German bottles (Tegernseer, Chiemseer, Paulaner, Lowenbrau) and always keep an eye out on the tap at the end with the rotating German/Belgian stuff. Berliner Pilsner was on all-too-briefly a week or so ago and a couple of pints of the Flötzinger Spezial Hell they've got on now went down like a fat kid on a seesaw last night.

[Culmclaret]

Has there ever been a lager that you don’t have to chill first in order to hide its taste

Lager has taste?

[jrgbfc]

I've always liked those Hobgoblin "what's up lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?" t-shirts. Makes the real ale bores much easier to spot/avoid.

Love a Grolsch if it's the full 5% one, very partial to an Asahi. Generally drink the Northern Whisper Helles in The Bridge as it's only 4%, although I will branch out into the German bottles (Tegernseer, Chiemseer, Paulaner, Lowenbrau) and always keep an eye out on the tap at the end with the rotating German/Belgian stuff. Berliner Pilsner was on all-too-briefly a week or so ago and a couple of pints of the Flötzinger Spezial Hell they've got on now went down like a fat kid on a seesaw last night.

Haha spotted one of those t shirts at Colne beer festival once. Gave me and my mates a good chuckle.

[DingleDangle]

Madri, Moretti or Poretti when out for a meal, depending on who's serving what, wherever I'm eating.

At home......it's a nice, chilled 660ml bottle of Innis and Gunn Original Single Malt Cask Beer.......lovely!

[LincsWoldsClaret]

Lager has taste?

Apologies. My mistake.

[basil6345789]

JW Lees Manchester Craft Lager. Very nice but hard to find

Greenhill Bowling Club

[willsclarets]

Camden Hells

[ŽižkovClaret]

Is that still true about Lidl ? If it is I’m going to Dale winton it today . Their German pilsner used to be German brewed krombacher but then they changed it to burton brewed pish

I believe so. Should say on the label

[gandhisflipflop]

At the moment it’s bavaria. It used to be £1 a bottle (500ml) but it’s now gone up to £1.50 over the last 18 months but it still represents brilliant value and they’re popular because it’s hit and miss when I go into Padiham whether or not they have them in. I now get a couple each time I go in just so I’m not disappointed on a Friday night.

[gandhisflipflop]

Are people saying Carling , and also Madri, on here really serious ?
For myself I can’t really understand why, other than on a baking hot day, anyone would prefer lager to a nice IPA or pale ale but if I had to choose it would def be German , say Paulaner or Kozel.

Carling is rank bad. They only had carling on at Sheffield Wednesday, I bought one but couldn’t drink it, it was that bad.

[tarkys_ears]

I've always liked those Hobgoblin "what's up lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?" t-shirts. Makes the real ale bores much easier to spot/avoid.

Indeed!

[Burnley1989]

Carling is rank bad. They only had carling on at Sheffield Wednesday, I bought one but couldn’t drink it, it was that bad.

Ditto, my mate had bought them at HT, I tried to force one down and almost gipped in the bin next to me, ended up whizzing it

[ŽižkovClaret]

Do they still do Czechvar in Tesco?

[Putneyclaret]

Estrella Galicia, lower ABV than Damm.

When I was a junior lawyer in the 70s, my firm represented Kronenbourg in negotiations to license Whitbread to produce 1666 in the UK. The deal nearly fell through as Whitbread would not accept Kronenbourg’s quality standards. Result is that we have crap UK brewed lagers.

[JR1882]

CAMRA REAL ALE BINGO GAME, how many can you find….

- rubbish
- dishwater
- tasteless
- any reference to “Burton”
- mass produced sh**e or similar term
- I drink ale
- tosh/pish/muck - any colloquial slang
- any reference to the lost art of brewing

[gandhisflipflop]

Ditto, my mate had bought them at HT, I tried to force one down and almost gipped in the bin next to me, ended up whizzing it

Fiver well spent

[Exeterclaret]

Do they still do Czechvar in Tesco?

Yeah, at the relative bargain of £1.65 a bottle in my local one. Better than any UK brewed macrolager.

[Quicknick]

As folk grow up they grow out of lager and move to Real Ake
It takes some folks longer to mature

I started on real ale, then changed to lager. Lol