Ice cold in Alex...

[Fab Foodie]

.... The local lager.... At 3am....

 

[swansonj]

.... The local lager.... At 3am....

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I'm sure it felt all the better after you'd hand-cranked a three ton lorry backwards up a sand dune - twice...

 

[EltonFrog]

And watch out for that Sylvia Sims, she might have too many buttons undone on her blouse. The trollop.

 

[hopless500]

What, no Carlsberg?

 

[Fab Foodie]

What, no Carlsberg?

It wasn't worth waiting for .....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Agreed. It tastes like boiled stinging nettles ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

And watch out for that Sylvia Sims, she might have too many buttons undone on her blouse. The trollop.

They certainly don't make them like that anymore ....

 

[perplexed]

Too much lager can lead to Qattara Depression...

 

[swansonj]

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In passing: I always thought Harry Andrews (left in picture - albeit I only really remember his roles here and against Sean Connery in The Hill) had a magnetism about him that made me surprised he didn't attain greater stardom.

 

[Tim Hall]

And watch out for that Sylvia Sims, she might have too many buttons undone on her blouse. The trollop.

Like a Hyde Park floozy, who's down on her luck.

 

[growingvegetables]

Try it in the Windsor Bar in Cairo! Stuck in a 1930s timewarp

And they serve Stella's dark brown spring beer - for a very short season in ...... spring! Or they did 30 years ago.

 

[Illaveago]

I find that if I drink ice cold drinks I get a terrific pain in the bridge of my nose.

For plane spotters you get to see a Bristol Beaufighter in the film.

 

[Globalti]

I went to Egypt once and hated it; too dirty, too noisy and too chaotic. Drinking lager is my only pleasure when I'm stuck in some African hotel, bored out of my skull. You can drink yourself into a stupor but it doesn't do much for your fitness. My regular cycling buddy recently confirmed that hotel gym equipment being as horrible as it is, there's no incentive to exercise so all you can do is crack open another bottle and count the hours until that lovely silver bird takes you home on Friday.

My most treasured export beer picture, from the DR Congo:

 

[hopless500]

Agreed. It tastes like boiled stinging nettles ....

I wish it tasted that good.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

@Fab Foodie
Sakarra Gold is marginally better, it's a straightforward / standard local lager with none too much of a flavour to speak of, but it's not as bad as Stella Star and it's okay for quenching a thirst without making you pull funny faces from the aftertatse. As you're finding, Egyptians don't really do beer. Possibly why that nice John Mills chap chose Carlsberg!