lawdy, I'm impressed!
hmn, but it's in a glass by crickey! try it against one from the bottle and you'll stick with bottle. honest. it's like reverting back to being pre-weened
I'm just on my third bottle since it's currently on 3 for £4 at asda which makes it a bargain. cheaper and ten times more palatable than a bottle of bad quality generic red wine for the same price. it's definitely one of the tastiest of the high strength generic beers imo. scottish too, so it should flow thru your veins nicely.
You mean neck it from the bottle, student style? No lovely wide-mouthed glass receptacle? A sure recipe for beer foam up the nose I would have thought? Presumanbly not for you but my nasal passages may be bigger and more prone to accommodating beer foam.
I will say this, I hope you are not chilling it, I think it serves best at, or perhaps a shade below room temperature. I feel that way about most ales. Lager/pils etc must be cold of course, but that's because you don't want to allow lager to develop it's so-called "flavour". Only lager that's
really worth drinking in by book is Staropramen, although I can enjoy a Red Stripe, Kronenbourg or a Heineken. Stella, Tennents, McEwans, Budweiser, Fosters, Carlsberg etc are all no-go areas for me.
I'm not a huge fan of Guiness (unless we're talking the foreign exports as discussed earier in this thread) but I find the recent trent for Extra-Cold to be a bit contrarian. Avoiding chilling brings out flavours, and Guiness definitely has plenty of that. Also I've been told in one pub that it's exactly the same product as the normal stuff except it's passes through a "supercooler". The pub in question charged 80p more for the Extra Cold which I thought was a ripoff but this may not be a common practice.
Right, finally, on to the movies thread.
Oh wait, before I do that, have you tried "Old Jock" from Broughton Breweries (based in the village of Broughton, next to the town of Dunbar, on the south coast of the Firth of Forth)? It's a favourite of mine, nice and strong at 6.4%, dark and full of flavour yet quaffable. It might be available in your local ASDA or Tesco.
It surprises me, but having drunk a lot of proper beer of both English and Scottish varieties, I find the Scottish beers are just all-round better quality. The flatness of many English beers is never a good start, I like a good head to my pint.
Fuck it all this talk of beer is making me thirsty, I'm opening my third bottle.
