joker smoker wrote:funny to see the snobbery around here when it comes down to personal choice.
Fair enough - but then there's choice and informed choice. Many people choose burgers from MickeyD's because they don't know any better. For them, the argument is McD's versus Burger King. It's a bit like the Stella vs. Kronenbourg argument.
joker smoker wrote:Variety, they say, is the spice of life or as the song says ''if everybody looked the same , we'd get tired of looking at each other.''
I couldn't agree more - but Stella (and Carling, and Kronie) - in fact any mass produced chemical lager/bitter from the big megabreweries are the total opposite of variety, and are processed, not brewed. The recipes are designed by cost accountants with spreadsheets, not by brewers with passion!
joker smoker wrote:Now i might prefer to drink European beers made cleanly with spring water but if my glass is empty and someone offers me a beer I don't normally buy I would probably accept it or decline politely. If they offered me diamond white however , I'd probably ask myself what I'm doing hanging out with parafin lamps and get the hell out of the bus shelter or graveyard or whatever god forsaken place I'd found myself in!
European beers? Why man for god's sake! You live in the country that still makes some of the best beers in the world! And you're in Brighton. Get yourself to a pub that sells Dark Star beer and get some HopHead, Summer Solstice or their American Pale Ale down you. Of course, the Germans and the Belgians do make some superb beers too.....
You're smack on on the Diamond White though...
Good Q deserves good beer. There's no other way to do it...