Every country's most popular beer

[Gravity Aided]

I live in the States, but I can't recall drinking Bud light, when I could drink.

 

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I live in the States, but I can't recall drinking Bud light, when I could drink.

Ye Gods! Did you really drink so much of that filth that you can't remember?

 

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"Adrian, we'll always have Bognor"...

{Casablanca-style swirling music in background}

 

[swee'pea99]

It may be a cracking pint but I just couldn't buy it, what with that superfluous "s"

Assuming it's made by a chap called Banks, there's nothing superfluous about the second s.

Can't be bothered to count, but I might have had a dozen or so of those. Like others, I smirked at Bud Light.... before noticing the Carling. God help us.

 

[TVC]

I can remember 16. Most are nothing to write home about. Popular doesn't mean best. VB in Austalia is no better thsn Carling.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Ye Gods! Did you really drink so much of that filth that you can't remember?

No, back in my drinking days, I would have told you that light beer was a waste of your time and the brewers so-called talent. I was more into Miller (High Life), Anchor Steam Beer for the more refined drinking. More into whisky, I was.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I can remember 16. Most are nothing to write home about. Popular doesn't mean best. VB in Austalia is no better thsn Carling.

Carling Stag, and the auld Falstaff.

 

[FrankCrank]

.....yep, some of them look familiar, but shamefully not all. Maybe I must do a round the world trip to complete my I-Spy book of beers

One weird one I encountered in Penang (Malaysia) was 'Foreign Extra' Guinness at 8% Alc. If you were blindfolded and asked to guess, doubt you would say 'Guinness'....and after a few, doubt you'd say much in any case

 

[nickyboy]

Assuming it's made by a chap called Banks, there's nothing superfluous about the second s.
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OK, OK, I accept the second "s", but it still doth offend my eyes

In any case, I won't be buying it cos it's dark mild and that's a proper old man's drink made from the beer tray slops and that's a fact

 

[John the Monkey]

I think mild is underrated - I can remember drinking it as a tasty alternative to a lot of the bland rubbish that was around in the '90s, with the added advantage of cheapness, and making one slightly less likely to wake up with a thumping headache the next day.

Like everything else, its alcohol content has crept up - a 3.5% mild would have raised eyebrows back then.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I think mild is underrated - I can remember drinking it as a tasty alternative to a lot of the bland rubbish that was around in the '90s, with the added advantage of cheapness, and making one slightly less likely to wake up with a thumping headache the next day.

Like everything else, its alcohol content has crept up - a 3.5% mild would have raised eyebrows back then.

Hook Norton used to brew a mild and sell it in small bottles years ago, it was lovely stuff. They've had a stronger mild on draught recently. I mentioned the bottled stuff to the their top man a while back but I think it was before his time. Any road up they've just reintroduced it and I'm taking full credit for this.

 

[User169]

Craft beer is killing mild...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...er-mild-robinsons-campaign-for-real-ale-camra

 

[John the Monkey]

Craft beer is killing mild...

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...er-mild-robinsons-campaign-for-real-ale-camra

I've had milds that pee all over some of the "Golds" that seem to be the current session darlings though, taste wise - I think the article's thrust that milds are lacking flavour (and so, their demise) is a bit flawed.

 

[User169]

I've had milds that pee all over some of the "Golds" that seem to be the current session darlings though, taste wise - I think the article's thrust that milds are lacking flavour (and so, their demise) is a bit flawed.

Agree and the article appears to be based largely on the fact that Robinson's are going to stop producing their mild which hardly seems definitive.

Only last night, I was at a pub which had a Dutch-brewed mild on tap: 3,5% and pretty tasty, if a bit murky.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's a shame the writer didn't look a bit further to see what was out there and then make his own mind up. Maybe it is as simple as a lack of skill, after all the big beers can all pack a punch but then that's probably more straight-forward, it's getting body into the low-strength stuff that's an art.