>the UK's most popular, most ubiquitous, generally cheapest and chavviest lager is actually CANADIAN

Wtf?

The notches on the pint glass so you can interlock them to carry more is genius tbqh, Norf scientists must have worked tirelessly on it.

carling is such shit tier beer holy fuck. the only place i’ve ever had it is van city

>>21454918 (OP)
San Miguel is actually the most popular nowadays

>>21455442
which is also shit

Carling literally tastes like someone made lager from dirty water. Baffling how it's so popular.

>>21454918 (OP)
Ent many pubs serve that. Fuck off Hyacinth

>>21454918 (OP)
There is no reason to be drinking this piss in the year of our Lord 2025 when every single part of our country has a multitude of local breweries making every kind of beer under the sun.

>>21454918 (OP)
>Nucleated bottom
Lads, how do I get a bird with a nucleated bottom?

>Vertical grooves that help the glasses interlock together

Fucking what?

>wider at the top and thinner towards the middle, allowing hands to easily wrap around
just like my penis

>>21456798
Does the UK have a bunch of new craft breweries, as in breweries founded within the last thirty years? I'm a yank and I've always been under the impression that the brewing scene in Europe is dominated by old breweries that make good beer so there's not much reason to open new small craft breweries like we have in the US.

>>21454918 (OP)
>Tactical grip

>>21456996
They aren't really that small. BrewDog, Beavertown and Beer52 are pretty large. And obnoxious.

>>21456996
Plenty of old breweries but loads of hipster ‘craft’ shut as well.
The Numale soy IPA fad seems to have died thank God.

>>21457015
>The Numale soy IPA fad seems to have died thank God.
I've been watching the sections they keep that shit grow smaller and smaller. I also never see any of it bought, i.e. it is always fully stocked, opposed to the proper ales and beers that depending on when I go will be out

>>21456996
Yes, though our idea of "craft" I think is different to yours since it's more like a rediscovery of traditional British styles which nearly went extinct I believe in the 70s. Our biggest national pub chain, Wetherspoons, will always have at least 5 varieties of local beers and they're often cheaper than the macro lagers. Actually, they do a yearly "festival" where for a week they'll rotate various beers from all over the country, it's pretty great. Overall, the scene seems pretty healthy to me.

>>21454918 (OP)
Stella man meself.

>>21456889
They work like cog teeth to make carrying 3-5 pints back to your table easier

>>21454918 (OP)
I genuinely don't understand why /ck/ even bothers discussing beer. It always goes the same way:
>person 1: I like [generic lager]
>person 2: [generic lager] is piss

I'm a pretty seasoned beer drinker, mostly drinking ales, but this weird snobbery around beer is so weird. A nice cold lager can be refreshing on a hot day. That being said, I do prefer the crisp, fruity notes and bolder flavour of a nice golden ale. As for Carling, it's not something I'd ever order, but I'd happily drink it without complaining. I guess for us it fills the same role as a 'lite' beer does for Americans.

>>21457322
>It always goes the same way:
that's how it is for everything. even the thread talking about milk lol

>>21457322
Aye but lad I'd rather drink Stella or something before Carling.

Like I'm going for the Moretti or Estrella or whatever first, then the Stella or San Miguel, then literal dog piss before Carling.

I would pick it over Carlsberg or the "Bud Lite" that's being pushed over here now though.

>>21457329
Did you even read my post? You just did exactly what I'm complaining about. Carling is so mild there's no way anyone actually finds the flavour offensive, it's just snobbery.

There's only one lager I genuinely hate and it's Kronenbourg. Don't know why but it tasted undrinkable to me. I genuinely avoid all French beers for that reason.

>>21457341
nta but Carling genuinely tastes bad. I can drink pisswater lagers just fine as they're borderline carbonated water, whereas just Carling has this awful rotten flavour to it imo

>>21457322
Every thread is the same way on every board no one will reply to threads unless its possible to argue over something.

>>21457420
You've got me curious now. Haven't had Carling in years, I think I'll try one tomorrow just to see whether it's really as bad as people say.

>>21455442
because it's one of the few 5% lagers you can still get a crate of at the supermarket.

>>21456884
It’s easy to catch them, they aren’t too smart

>>21456996
most beer drinkers in Europe drink macrobrews purchased from a grocery store that are no different than Coors or Bud. Stella, Heineken, Guinness, Beck's. stop taking their shitposting seriously.

>>21456996
Brits and Paddys drink lager to get fucked up
Continental Euros drink lager and pils to refresh themselves like a coca cola. if they want a bigger buzz they'll switch to wine or spirits

>>21454918 (OP)
Whoa. I had a vague UK origin story in my head. Funny that one of our cheapest rye whiskies, Firstwatch, is also Canadian.
Anyway, pic related is one of the most popular and cheapest lagers here in South Africa. Not sure how direct the lineage is, or if other countries know about it. Not my first choice, but if it's the only draught available at a bar, I'll drink it. Decent nutty malt flavour, and good bang for buck at 5.5%

>>21457515
lmao your 3.7% beer is so fucking dumb. i hate the uk and its nanny state bullshit. there’s almost no beer above 3.7% while in california i can buy beer from 2% to like 12%

>>21460676

A real beer mist be strong in rye, on the bitter side wich a noticable weight in the throat. 6% MINIMUM and preferably bit darker in colour.

>>21457259
I will never understand how people are more willing to pay £4.50 for a Carling or Coors Light than £2 for a Doom Bar or Worthington. How is it worth this much to you to drink the absolute worst beers on the tap?

>>21460676
I saw plenty of standard strength beer when I visited the UK last year, but I did notice that strong beer (6% or higher) was kinda rarer and more expensive. Also spirits were a bit expensive, not as bad as Scandinavia or Canada but you're still getting taxed there.

>>21457329
Moretti is great, but if they have it, Ichnusa is a far superior Italian beer
Especially the unfiltered kind

>>21457277
Which wouldn't be a problem in the first place weren't they shaped in this retarded fashion

>>21455557
The standard for lager in the UK is hilariously bad

People are so ingrained to drink Burton on Trent fartwater they may genuinely think it's what good beer should taste like

I just picked up a rare Spanish brewed Mahou in Sainsburys, among 2 dozen bottles of the British brewed pish and the quality even between those two is night and day

>>21457015
IPA's have been replaced by Sour's which is a bigger massive regression imo

I go into my speciality beer store and see an entire shelf of the most bizarre concoction of sours (and nobody seemingly buying them) and see half a fridge selection of decent lagers. All I genuinely want is more than one option of black lager

>>21461701
>I go into my speciality beer store
Cringe.

>>21457341
Kronenbourg sold in the UK is brewed in Manchester, French lager generally has a better standard compared to ours and their Kronenbourg is decent compared to the crap we get

>>21461704
I didnt want to say off license that stocks local breweries and imported beers/wines/liquors, which is rare where I live

>>21461692
>I just picked up a rare Spanish brewed Mahou in Sainsburys
>bragging about knockoff Madri, the faggiest beer available

>>21461727
you had me for a second

Carling is to Canada as Fosters is to Australia

>>21462122
How sad is it that the country which basically invented ale now mostly drinks imported lagers so shit no one in their country of origin drinks them?

>>21457322
>weird snobbery
but generic lager literally, genuinely tastes like piss. i just don't get it.

>>21456889
>>Vertical grooves that help the glasses interlock together
>Fucking what?

The UK is a dystopian nightmare that bans waitresses, forcing peasants to line up at the bar and wait like sheep before _carrying their own beers_ back to their table.

>>21460676
every beer above 6% tastes like shit
go drink spirits if you want to get wasted

>>21460676
I'm not sure what this shemale is on about, certainly not beer in my country. Although admittedly, they all used to be stronger. More 6%+ and now it's 5%+. That's because everybody got fucked up and had fights. I don't think that's changed, it just costs more. You have to pay for your fight now. Or do what I do and neck a 200ml from the off licence on the walk in between pubs

>>21462585
>I'm too much of a pussy to order my drinks at the bar and carry them. Plus I get to tip the waitress 30%! Golly, I love the taste of that boot and I love how it feels on my neck

>>21454918 (OP)
Nobody, NOBODY, likes Carling. And I’m saying that as a connoisseur of pretty much every other shit lager out there. Carling is the absolute worst.

>>21462695
>please m'lord, may we have a beer?
>oi, you got a loicense for that beer?!
>yes your worship, payed thru the 78% GST tax
>well then... I'll allow it, but only three!
>thank you, guv'na
>inshallah

>>21463683
Well that's fucking grim. It's like a 12 year old has come up with they gayest scenario due to their ignorance and naivety and they've done it with limited brain power and certainly no persona.

Best UK brewed macrolager?

Moretti Sale di Mar surprised me how tasty and full bodied it is, it's a shadow of the Bierra Messina it's based on but it's leagues better than the rest. Never seen it on draught or even sold in anything more than 4 pack bottles though

>>21457015
>>21457082
I'm kinda jealous, I live in a small city in the US that has like 27 breweries and it's like 95% IPAs this time of year, most of which seem to be ultra-pretentious bullshit that somehow manage to taste really thin and watery but overpoweringly hoppy and skunky at the same time.

At least it's better than what I saw in LA over the last few years where the whole beer section at every supermarket got cut in half to make room for 100 different unbearably sweet seltzers though.

>>21463721
Poretti is an alright drop which I think is UK brewed these days. UK Staropramen is alright as well compared to some of the alternatives

>>21461692
>The standard for lager in the UK is hilariously bad
it deserves it. lager almost killed ales in the UK and most lager is dogshit to begin with

>>21463836
>lager almost killed ales in the UK
This is what happens to your culture when taking any sort of pride in it is effectively illegal

>>21463756
Haven't tried Poretti but yeah it's UK brewed as well, Italian beers is the new Spanish beer trend here, I've seen a lot of the new Menabrea UK brew about this year too

I think the UK Staropramen is very stinky though

>>21463836
Even the macro ales sold in pubs and shops are shite compared to what they used to be like, granted we were always more used to funky tasting hopped ales but popularly consumed beer tastes across the isle is worse

And people who condemn lager by the standard in the UK really don't know what a quality helles, pils or Swartz is capable of

>>21463966
>And people who condemn lager by the standard in the UK really don't know what a quality helles, pils or Swartz is capable of
usually it is yanks laughing over them getting 0.5 abv extra on a pissy beer but has never tasted a basic german brew like paulaner

at the start of the year i tried stella artois in belgium. common as muck in the uk, had to find it in a corner shop as i guess they are embarrassed of it. marginally higher abv, did taste slightly better but piss is piss. i also dont subscribe to the nonsense of "all those 0.5s add up" some people have, just drink better quality beer

>>21463694

I graciously accept your surrender.

What does "real" ale taste like?

>>21464304
>brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide
It being "real" doesn't do anything magical, but I like malty amber ales the most. Some say they taste kind of like liquid bread, but that's what I like about them.

>>21464304
It isn’t fizzy like keg beers or most bottled beer. “Real Ale” isn’t really a style just the method of dispense, it’s generally synonymous with cask conditioning, but also includes bottle conditioning.

Isn’t served with extraneous CO2 and isn’t filtered or pasteurised, the yeast remains in the cask and it’s taste isn’t destroyed by the processes that keg uses.

>>21464304
Like other anons said it's a way of conditioning and serving beer rather than a style in itself. Theoretically you can have any type of beer as real ale but some styles lend themself more naturally as they were traditionally served that way like bitter, mild and porter

>>21464060
It's not just the ABV but Stella is worse in Belgium now as well because it's brewed by AB inbev who have lowered standards across the board, we just get an an even worse locally brewed product of it

The common brit i think are under the impression paulaner is a wanky swanky beer beer because the only high street retailer stocking it is M and S, and that doesn't fit into the REAL BRI-ESHH beer drinking marketing scene we have. I'd bet most would rather drink a fucking Becks than paulaner lager

>>21460800
Kek
Foreigners always seething at their betters

>>21465271
>AB inbev who have lowered standards across the board
interesting, i didnt realise

>the only high street retailer stocking it is M and S
ive seen it at tesco (big one, not an extra), but usually pretty well stocked so not popular for people

>>21454918 (OP)
Cooking lager.