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Not had any booze for a while and just fancied a couple tonight. I like Asahi if I can get it but my local doesn't have it, so I'm gonna taste test a few and compare notes  ;D

So tonight its Belgium v Spain v Denmark v England v Italy

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I can tell you without tasting that my favourite is the cider :D

i used to drink export, but i won't have any Carlsberg products since they closed the brewery in leeds.

I enjoy peroni but would prob go for san miguel as it looks a bigger bottle.

my fav

the belgium cider at that

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Yeah I spotted b4 u posted lol

oh... had this at a mates house and enjoyed it

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there is a lovely peruvian beer too - its name escapes me

I also like Asahi. Oranjeboom is great but rare to see. Love most 5.0% plus lagers tbh. Heineken has always served me well.
King of them all though....

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So Peroni's not bad, fairly middle of the road with an ever so slight after taste I can't describe. I'll give it 6/10

Yuengling, you only get it in Pennsylvania (and surrounding states) and Florida.

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lech

polish

yummy

peroni on draught is nice...not an  expert by any means, 3 pints and the wife carries me to bed (or leaves me on the sofa)

Had a burger on New Oxford St.  Stumbled into random pub across the road and saw Oranjeboom.  Pretty sure whatever they had in the barrel wasn't Oranjeboom as it tasted crap (but I was pretty full on burger so no beer was going to slide down..)

The spitfire is fine, I'm not really a massive bitter fan anyway, its not got me jumping up and down for another or anything so 6/10 again

If export tastes the same as it does on tap that should be a clear winner.

Surprising really as the standard stuff tastes like rat's piss.

Enjoying the San Mig the most so far. Fairly clean taste, and is the first one to not have a slightly different after taste 7.5/10

I saw that and thought about trying one, next time maybe.  :)

Super Bock is a good shout, I like Cobra as well. WTF is that about with Carslberg export being pretty decent but Carlsberg is unfit for human consumption.

http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/acatalog/

Order from here- International Mixed 24 box is normally decent and provides vast array- all Belgium stuff obv real good

I just quite like beer, any beer but I'm not that keen on Becks.  That Stella Cidre is quite nice.

Some of that seems a bit overpriced, not sure a tenner for a beer is good value.

The Carlsberg export has the least flavour of all the beers so far, but it still has a nice smooth taste though. I'd say its a 7/10

Am feeling tired now, just gonna finish the carsberg and keep the cider for another night  ;sleep;

lightweight! Get it down ya :D

Its a school night FFS!   (http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/zz142/halloweencat02/smiley_54SLEEP.gif)

I had a glass of alcoholic ginger beer tonight. That was nice.

Sooooooooo The San Miguel was the winner, I enjoyed that  :)

2 5 3 4 1

Actually tasting them all one after the other, has made me rate them differently than I thought I would.

my dad brews his own. v v good.

liking the love for the PT beers here (sagres and superbock) but honestly, I'll now present your winners:

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and

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I'll get flamed for this, but German beer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Belgian beer ainec

seeing as you introduced a cider from the start, this is quite possibly the nicest drink available in the uk

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heh - thread prompted me to go looking for that as well.  £2.59 a bottle on that linky on previous page :)up

drinking it makes you go all blurry though

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Nicer version of Kopperberg ? Never seen it up here but Kopperberg is very tasty, although it's welcome to heartburn city if you have more than 2 bottles.

actually scrap that - currently 3 for a fiver in Asda. 

It's welcome to A&E for me if I have more than 2 bottles.

nicer yes but they're not even in the same ballpark. this is soooo much nicer

the pear one is available in asda and the strawberry one in morrisons iirc. the bar in brighton that sells it really annoyed me on saturday by being closed at 9 o'clock

Haha, gg. I like to mix it with having lager as just drinking pints can get a bit boring and I get sick of the taste of lager sometimes.

Niceeeeeeeee, will give the Strawberry one a try and report back my findings.

lol u did drink like 236876896b creates

Strawberry cider WTF? GTFO ya poofters, this is a proper man's thread  :D

Back in the year 2000 I was a student living in Swansea and decided to take a page out of Loaded's book magazine and do a Euro 2000 beer competition for the Uni paper. So gathered some mates and got a beer/drink from each of the nations competing played them off in the proper groups, knockout rounds etc

Only living in Swansea back then it wasn't possible to get a beer/cider etc from all the nations so compromises had to be made. So Skol represented Portugal (couldn't get Superbok) as Scolari was the manager and Stella represented Greece as the best known player - at least to us - was Stelios Giannakopoulos who played for Bolton at the time. Long story short these two ended up in the drinking final and obv Stella won, think it might have been the only paper in the world to predict a Greece vs Portugal final and the Greeks to win!

Too many nice ones to choose from but most Fullers ones suit by tastes and like Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams etc. Cider wise I think Brother's Toffee Apple Cider is the nuts.

Any lager is shite. Most Beers/Ales own it. T Tailers, John Smiths Smooth.

You can save your lager shit for southern puffs. :P

I think beer is pretty digusting. Obvs Stu Hopkin just unfriended me on facebook right now.

But the only thing close to beer that I don't mind drinking is probably Koppabergs and similar, so fruit ciders?

Ok I like the sound of that. I'm gonna do this as an ongoing thing for a laugh. Reckon I will have a few group stages and the winner of each group goes through to the final stage.

Once I have 5 or 6 beers from a bunch of groups i will have a final and decide on my favourite to win!

So San miguel goes through from round 1  ;D

Better re-name the thread I guess.

I only tried the pear one but it's gorgeous - tastes just like pear drops

woodseys beer diary

Not happening mate, simply cba. A few weeks of fun sounds good though  :)up

Morrison's website is absurdly terrible but Tesco sell the Strawberry and Pear one, £2 a bottle, reasonable.

Can i nominate Tooheys New to represent Australia in the Beer World Cup.

Sure dunno how I'm gonna do it tbh. Reckon I will just get a bunch of beers from each region and decide a winner from each. They will need to be reasonably available locally, I'm not chasing after specific brands just for the sake of it and going far out of my way.

definitely go with the ho's suggestion of Lech for the polish entry. they've got loads of gooduns but I probably drank more of this than any other while living there and it's easy to get over here

Its probs gonna be slightly more random than that. I reckon I'll just pick a region and hit the supermarket and see what they have!

http://www.sanza.co.uk/Tooheys_New.asp

Bollocks I'm not ordering stuff online, this is just a laugh and now't else  :D

My favourite bottled beer available in supermarkets is Black Sheep.

I drank that once, it did not end well.

You have to remember the chances of me finding single bottles of many of these random beers will be small in my local supermarket/off licence.

Yeah tesco extra is my local  :)

I think I'll do another european round anyway  ;)

Anyone tried smoked beer? That's "interesting".

Think those Rekordlings taste just like Ribena, which isn't really ideal, not too keen on the Brothers either - it's just cider with syrup in it (they gave me a free pint for necking a shot of syrup on its own).

Quite like the Koppaberg elderflower and lime but after a bit of practice my home made stuff is nicer :)

If it's Belgian beer it has to be............................

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Sheep, sheep, sheep!

Love Black sheep, drank many a pint when I was at uni. Unfortunately it tends to be more of a guest ale in Nottingham pubs as opposed to a permanant offering.

me and my dad once drove to bulgaria and back. On the way back something fucks up on the car and we stop in leuvren belgium. End up in some beautiful town centre full of students and around 5/6 cafe bars around a statue. The car wont be ready until the morning so the new MO is clearly get pissed as farts. We sit outside a lovely cafe bar in the blistering sunshine and a waitress comes out to serve us. I order a blonde beer, maybe leffe, maybe hoegarden was fkin strong and defo an amateur choice. My dad likes to think he is a purist, so asks for a local beer, the woman says "stella, ok?" he says, nah something local, local. She became very tilted and grabbed his head and swung it 180 degrees and the stella brewery was about 40 yards accross the road. My dad trying to be a smart arse got owned. We were both smashed and were forced to eat some nuts and bombay mix with the rest of our beers and we did our knackers on some strange pinball/bingo type game where you must get certain balls into loads of holes as the balls descend, tricky esp when drunk as lords.

peroni is way way way overrated imo, im a big fan of bottled grolsh and also cruzcampo, further afield little creatures pale ale brewed in freo perth is excellent and can be obtained 200m from my house from a great little wine merchants.

I think peroni in bottles is pretty rank, it's nice on tap though.

Birra Moretti

Like to try the local stuff when on holiday, best 2 are these.

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^^^^ Zagorka is the best Bulgarian beer imo. Though they are all pretty good.

had an amazingly nice thai beer in a Dublin restaurant last year, can't for the life of me remember the name.

Without doubt the finest lager is KASTEEL CRU, not sure you can get it any more though.

Really wasn't expecting much when i went but yeah both good, just prefer the Kamenitza personally.

The Cristal  is Cuban, another pleasant surprise.

Would buy here if i could.

Group 2

Best of British

Not gonna drink all these tonight lol, Will just drink 'em as I fancy over the week. Wanted to include a Welsh and Scots beer too really, but the only ones I could find in Tesco were stout which I fucking hate.

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Also its gonna be a night mare getting some beers as they only sell them in packs of 4-6 or in those big bottles that I'd prefer not to have really.

#notthemanforthejobimo

"HOPKINNNNNNNNN"

If you're going for best of British, got to include:

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imo.

My personal favourites ATM are Tiger, Kobra and Kriek the mrs really enjoys Kriek so when I buy them in for 'her' it's win/win

Aldi stocks singles.

Ahh, nits paradise too, could be a winner  :)up

Its a bit hit n miss regards what they stock but usually plenty of choice.

This tastes like dandelion and burdock right. Top drink

Pedigree is not bad, fairly middle of the road I guess 6.5/10

Gotta try St Mungo.  Might not get it down south though.  Although Waitrose stocks it.  Refreshing and gets you hammered.

http://www.theglaswegian.co.uk/glasgow-news/news/2008/11/06/exclusive-city-toasts-patron-saint-with-new-st-mungo-brew-102692-20873098/

Tanglefoot- I like this one, not had it since I was a student. It has a strongish distinctive taste I like  7.5/10

Where newcastle brown ale?

London Pride, basic but excellent imo. Really surprised if it's not top of this small BoB poll

Don't really like it so there wasn't much point me buying any only to say that  :P

imo the worst 2 beers by a long way are bud and becks both taste like utter piss.

I like:

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these get you smashed:

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for your run of the mill beers Grolsch always goes down well.

Innis and Gunn Oak aged beer.

2 for £3 in sainsburys at moment aswell for a brucie

this stuff is the nuts ^^

^^^ Sigh I'll be at 30 stone by xmas if I follow everyone's suggestions  :D

that's an easy tee up but you've been good to me with thailand advice so I'll just say have a few on me mate :)

Done the other 3 tonight. Tbh they are hard to separate from each other as they don't taste massively different. The one that stood out was Tanglefoot so that wins this round.

Round winners

First random round-  San Miguel

Best of British-         Tanglefoot

LOL, Think I'm only a stone heavier than you mate, and I have less hair so less weight there  ;sexybanana;

Belgian Kriek - The naughty secret yummmmm

Hands down winner IMO. Haven't had a Ko in aaaaaaaaages....absolutely lovely.

Anyone remember Newquay Steam Beer ?

Slightly ot but if your ever in the Black Country.
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LOL the first time I ever got proper ratted was on that stuff, on a geography field trip from school  :D

Yep, used to drink it a LOT when in Amsterdam. Sitting out on a terrace, nice bit of sunshine and a lovely Ko in front of me.

Happy days.

Then you moved to Scotland, and now you drink far more.

Nah, can't sit outside here without freezing your neh-nehs off.

Aye, but you can sit inside and drink when there's nothing else to do!

Been buying up various beers over the last week or so, will resume this soon!

Scared to buy any beer here. You go to the supermarket to buy beer or lager and even when you buy Heineken or Grolsch they look at you with their "Look at him, Mr Fancypants and his imported fancy lager. Tennents not good enough for ya??" and then they stab you.

Winner, anyone had/like this?

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