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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: -KEN- on August 16, 2005, 02:28:22 AM
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I finally went to the English Pub down here. I've known for a while that I could go (my friend's (more like my friend's friend's) mom works there, and they're very small and friendly, so they don't ID), but I've just now gone.
A lot of my friends were there, especially those who had graduated a year before me, which was a lot of fun. My friend Chris, who is great with things like this, had me come with him to the bar, and pick out a beer.
At first, I admit, I choked: I asked for a bud light, and both Chris and the bartender rolled their eyes. Chris says to me: "No, are you fucking kidding me? Look at your choices. Pick a real beer."
So I see a Heineken tap, and ask for that; I like Heineken, my friend and I drink it a lot.
More eyes get rolled.
"Are you kidding me? Try a real British beer or something...Boddington. It has a lot of head, and a lot of carbonation, but you'll like it."
So I open up a tab and order it. Wow, great tasting beer, but the carbonation is really something else. I'm not sure how much of it I could drink.
By the end of the night I had tried a Snake Bite (good, but too much like champagne), a Black and Tan (good), Newcastle (very good, I thought, especially as a followup to Stella), and some Stella (which I think I'd had before, and was very good.)
I mean, it's not like I'd never tried beers beyond Bud and Miller before, but I'd never tried such a wide variety of beers -- English beers, I guess. Before this, my favorite beer was Labbatt Blue. Now I don't think so.
So I open it up to you guys: what beers should I try tomorrow night when I go? What are your favorites?
Note that Cheez and Axon should STFU about small microbews that won't be available. Elitist jerkbags.
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The best beer I ever had was a British one called Bishop's Finger. It can't be that microbrew if we used to get it in the supermarket in Petoskey. Came in pint bottles.
Guiness isn't bad for a mass market beer. There was a pub in Detroit that used to serve it on tap with some kind of nitrogen carbonation or delivery system.
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Stella sucks. Heineken sucks.
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Australian beer is the best (no not Fosters. There is a reason why we export that shit)
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Australian beer is the best (no not Fosters. There is a reason why we export that shit)
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Suggestions?
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My staple beer would have to be Carlton Draught...thats an exellent beer
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Deuchars is a local favourite, a few other good Scottish and English beers. Got to give a shout out for belgin beers, over there even the shitiest of small cafes has 20+ beers each with there own special glass, very cool.
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Stella sucks. Heineken sucks.
I think I've grown accustomed to more bitter beers. Maybe Stella on tap tastes different? It seemed far less bitter than Heineken.
>>The best beer I ever had was a British one called Bishop's Finger.
Hmm...I didn't see it on tap, but maybe there were bottles under the bar. Tonight when that girl's mom works I'm going to have her check for me. Thanks.
>>no not Fosters. There is a reason why we export that shit
Thanks to Stealth's previous rantings, I deftly avoided Fosters.
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> I think I've grown accustomed to more bitter beers. Maybe Stella on tap tastes different? It seemed far less bitter than Heineken.
I've only had Stella on tap. It sucked.
> Thanks to Stealth's previous rantings, I deftly avoided Fosters.
Fosters sucks.
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Well you'll probably won't find it, but Presidente is one of my favorite beers, It's a Dominican beer and theyre' now exporting to the USA, so you may or may not find it.
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Skullsplitter (http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer/orkney-skullsplitter/1210) or, if it's too potent, Raven (http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/orkney-raven-ale-/1208/) is also a good Orkadian ale.
Take it easy with the real ale, though; unless you do a lot of exercise be prepared to rapidly develop a Homer J. Duffbelly and matching man-breasts.
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Well I'm only down here until Friday, so I'm not too worried. You'll still find me attractive when I'm a hambeast, won't you? :lick:
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The Finger (http://www.bottledbeer.co.uk/index.html?beerid=17) and I guess you could check out a bunch of English beers at the site as well.
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my friend's (more like my friend's friend's) mom works there, and they're very small and friendly, so they don't ID
just curious, how is the underage drinking thing there? is it like new orleans (so i hear) or is it like every other college campus where you get caught only if you do something stupid?
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Well the bar in question is in Boca, which I guess is quite technically a college town (PBCC, Lynn University, and FAU are all within the city limits), but underage drinking here works the same as pretty much everywhere. Gas stations and places of those nature don't really care, and will generally just charge you more if you don't have an ID. Most bars/clubs with a bouncer won't let you in, but if you do get in with an under-21 band or something, the bartenders won't generally notice if you go to the bathroom and rip it off.
This bar is really cool. Since everyone who works there (only 2, maybe three people tops, and only one or two at a time) is British, they really don't give a flying fuck how old you are.
Gainesville (where UF is, where I go to school) is easier to drink in, if only because there are so many more bars and clubs to choose from (not to mention parties), and most of them will let you in at 18 with a brightly colored wristband, and then serve you if you rip it off.
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In my freshmen year when I went to frat parties they marked hands with an X for people who didn't show an id and were assumed underage. There's hardly any enforcement though, since it's assumed your hands are only checked if there's an imminent danger that a cop or a frat brother elected to patrol parties is around. (I can't remember the proper title for that guy, but usually they do a token check of people they know are overage and ignore everything else)
I haven't been to a bar so I can't say about that, but I know at least one underage drinking establishment sells beers for wildy inflated prices (elda's).
My sophomore year I went to a lot of house parties where they don't do any kind of age checking and pot is smoked out in the open by the residents because they're cool that way. Once a cop car came to a party but they were responding to a noise complaint, and didn't search the house for all the underage drunk people hiding in rooms. They are much more vigilant around frat parties but I haven't been at a party they've busted.
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Your school sounds like hell. Frat parties with age-checking? No real bar scene? And it sounds like you've been to a house party or two where they check IDs?
I sure hope you're getting a good education...
;)
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That's because there are no girls at his school.
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Your school sounds like hell. Frat parties with age-checking? No real bar scene? And it sounds like you've been to a house party or two where they check IDs?
I sure hope you're getting a good education...
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none of the house parties i've been to check id's... the cops stopped by that one time to let the renters know about the noise complaint. but i'll be 21 in 3 months anyway so it won't matter. I guess i make it sound harsher than it is.
That's because there are no girls at his school.
that's not quite true but close enough. it means there's a whole lot less sex and relationships and more studying and drinking and videogame playing.
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Im 18 in less than a month!! Woo! Straight to the pub with me!
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NewCastle has to be one of my mostest favoritest.
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We'll get you out of Utah and I'll buy you one, ethic :)
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NewCastle has to be one of my mostest favoritest.
Yeah, I really liked it.
>>I've never had a beer.
TRUE/FALSE: I hear that when mormons drink beer they explode from having demons invade their bodies.
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true and false. they explode only after they have revealed the secrets of going to temple.
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What secrets?
(waits anxiously to hear some explosions)
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>> Stella sucks. <<
Fuck off.
Best Aussie Beer: Coopers Pale.
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Old Speckled Hen
Old Thumper
At Uni we always used to do one real ale in the student bar (the others were boring things like Best etc) so always used to have a pint at lunchtime instead of eating (its like its own little food group)... I used to organise teh Uni annual beer festival each year - ie. a day full of moving casks about, letting them settle another couple of days then having to put up with hordes of drunken students who were trying out all sorts of new beers/ales with all sorts of very strange names - ahhh those were the fun days - you used to have to roll most students out of the room at the end.
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']>> Stella sucks. <<
Fuck off.
After I tried it, I could only assume it was called "wife beater" because it tastes so bad you just feel like punching things.
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I like Fosters. John Smiths 'extra smooth' is rank.
Anyone drink Strongbow?
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I've tried it, but I'm not a real big fan of cider.
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Eh, Strongbow isn't bad. My friend loves it, but then again it's probably because her friend's mom works at the pub, like I said.
Old Speckled Hen
Old Thumper
At Uni we always used to do one real ale in the student bar (the others were boring things like Best etc) so always used to have a pint at lunchtime instead of eating (its like its own little food group)... I used to organise teh Uni annual beer festival each year - ie. a day full of moving casks about, letting them settle another couple of days then having to put up with hordes of drunken students who were trying out all sorts of new beers/ales with all sorts of very strange names - ahhh those were the fun days - you used to have to roll most students out of the room at the end.
Oohhh, Old Speckled Hen was definitely there. I don't know if I can go tonight, and it would be my last time to go before I left for school tomorrow...hmmm...
Also, I know I've told you this before, but I could totally make a marriage between us work out. Just think about it: dual citizenship! Drunken nights out with your husband, checking out men together...it's pretty much a perfect marriage.
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Yeah, I didn't mind it, but I just don't prefer ciders.
What's the European consensus on Bass?
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After I tried it, I could only assume it was called "wife beater" because it tastes so bad you just feel like punching things.
Not a big beer drinker but hate the way Stella Artois makes my mouth feel furry in the morning.
Wife beater is a streetcar named desire reference.
Everyone now sing-a-long in their heads to the musical version in the Simpsons you know it makes sense.
A stranger's just a friend you haven't met
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Also, I know I've told you this before, but I could totally make a marriage between us work out. Just think about it: dual citizenship! Drunken nights out with your husband, checking out men together...it's pretty much a perfect marriage.
wow i am in demand - i think thats the second time i have been made that offer this week (apart from the checking out men together bit) - this one sounds like more fun and you live in a warmer area :) :lol:
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Yeah, I didn't mind it, but I just don't prefer ciders.
What's the European consensus on Bass?
Hmm never tried it before. What's it like?