Me and a mate
once decided to buy pretty much every rubbish lager we hadn't heard of from a corner-shop type place, lots of random eastern european stuff with silly names, think 8 Ace from Viz sort of thing. 'Twas a good night, and for the most part they weren't as bad as we thought they'd be, but anyway.

Our main amusement came when over the next few months we started seeing these in gastropubs as apparently stylish imported beer, and see stupid people buying their Lech in Wetherspoons and thinking they're really stylish, when what they're drinking can be bought for about 50p a tin at a cornershop. The twats.

Yes, perhaps I should wait until Wednesday before wandering off topic into a bit of a rant, sorry.

Yes, I am a real ale twat, and get irritated by the "ooh, it's imported and in a bottle, therefore I'll pay three times as much for it" attitude.
(Bearded Whumpus In chav Britain, schoolgirl offers sweets to YOU!, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 13:38, 2 replies)

I am also of the real ale pursuasion
And think it should be law that every pub carries at least one. And as for paying 3 times as much for a third less in liquid volume...

I don't hate lager per se, it just bloats me and the chemicals give me a stonking headache that I don't get with real ale. At a push I'll drink draught bitter, preferable Tetleys or Boddingtons. But I can't stand John Smiths - it gives me a worse headache than lager... Foul.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 7 Jan 2008, 15:10, closed)

Belgium, man, Belgium!
I pootle off to my local supermarket and get beer for ~75p a bottle.

Saw exactly the same stuff in Waitrose (ooh, poncy) for about £2-3 for utterly identical bottles.

Including the 10 cents apiece on the empty bottles if returned to a Belgian supermarket.
(Happy Idiot Talk now has an alibi for, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 15:44, closed)