Nectar Of The Gods

[Slaughterday]

The 750ml leffe from lidl for €3 are indeed lethal. Look proper fancy too.

[mickO)))]

I love Guinness Extra Stout and that is my usual sup but Lidl were selling two crates of regular Guinness yesterday for €30 So myself and Miotal Trom went halves.  It'll be mahogany shites for the next week.

Can't ever seem to get a deal on the Extra Stout anywhere, and I just can't substitute with the draught shite. It will be 24 cans of excelsior for me this year because I'm poor

Is it Guinness Foreign extra that both of you talking about or something different? I know the foreign extra use to be called something different. I love the Foreign extra myself it's been my favourite drink since I first tasted it about 10 years ago. The only issue with it is that's so expensive and never goes on sale, over 50euro for a 24 box of 330ml bottles

I find it very hard to drink cans of draught these days just pure piss compared to a decent pint of Guinness. I know pints are always going to be better than cans but for me the difference in the draft is just too much.

[Born of Fire]

Guinness West Indies is decent tack too but I'd go for O'Hara's Leann Folainn ahead of it all the same.

If I'm ever out in Spain again I must pick up a few bottles of Barcelo and Zacapa rum. Cacique too actually. Seriously easy to drink stuff. Couldn't look at the likes of Captain Morgan after it.

[Anvil]

O'Brother's Red Ale is the nicest beer I've had recently.  O'Hara's do a really nice Red UPS as well. 

[livingabortion]

It would be great if they did beers like the cereal multi-packs and you got a shot of each one so you could try them to see what they're like.

[Blitzer666]

Quantity and price over quality for me!! Best bet is get 4 good quality ales, neck them, then just hit an 18 pack of cheap lager, with a few vodkas or whisky.
Job done. Wee 330ml cans of craft beer at around £2 each is a joke.

[Mithrandir]

That Hallows and Fentimans ginger beer has become a go to curer. Tastey stuff, 4euro per bottle in the offo though.

[ochoill]

Prazsky is 8 for €9 almost everywhere at the moment, delicious can.  That and Karpackie leading the pack for me lately on crispy cold cans but the Karp is €12-€14 for 8 in most spots, the Prazsky still has the edge on it and the hangover is less vicious.

Also been enjoying a few Lomza exports, You'll get 4 for €8 50cl bottles on special in Spar.  Goes down like silk, not too bubbly, great flavour.  A tap pricier than my usual cheap favourites but worth it.  The Friday go-to has been 4 of these and the 8 Prazsky now for me for a while.

[Ducky]

Rebel Red if I'm in the pub (which is handy because it's one of the few beers in Cork that everywhere seems to have).

I'm just blowing cash, the White Hag's "An Puca" is the best thing ever. Sour lemon, ginger and hibiscus. Glad this stuff wasn't around in my early 20s as I'd be both broke and an alcoholic by now.

[Paul keohane]

Rebel red for me also.

[ochoill]

Rebel Red and Chieftain are both delicious but give me easily an absolutely clinical grade hangover.  Galway Bay's Full Sail was a favourite of mine for a long time, one of my real favourites, but again it uses my body for cruel tasks after about 6 of them.

[Paul keohane]

The worst hangover iv got in more recent times has been after drinking Peroni!,didnt even drink a huge amount of the stuff,about 6 pints.

[leoos]

Has anyone tried the Carlsberg unfiltered that seems to have come on the market lately?

Had a couple of cans of it recently and it went down the hatch grand.
I'd buy them again.

[Ducky]

Rebel Red and Chieftain are both delicious but give me easily an absolutely clinical grade hangover.  Galway Bay's Full Sail was a favourite of mine for a long time, one of my real favourites, but again it uses my body for cruel tasks after about 6 of them.

Chieftain wrecks me too but I can lash away at Rebel Red all night (autocorrect originally wrote that as Rebel Wilson, FFS 😁)

[John Kimble]

but I'd go for O'Hara's Leann Folainn ahead of it all the same.

The Leann Follain is outstanding. It's nearly too good in that I find Guinness to be utterly insipid in contrast, and that would ordinarily be my drink of choice on a night out.
People can be rather dismissive of the whole craft beer scene as a bit "hipster", and true, there are those elements. But there is such a wide variety of excellent stuff out there, and most pubs seem to have an least a small selection, that I just can't fathom how people stick to the likes of Carlsberg, Miller, Heineken or, worst of all, Budweiser on a night out.