Speights in the UK?
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@Bones said in Speights in the UK?:
@MajorRage does it help that one of the founders is from Wainui?
Only if the man bun is perfectly positioned and symmetrical.
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@MajorRage said in Speights in the UK?:
@Bones said in Speights in the UK?:
@MajorRage the who what?
This thread is about somebody trying to find camel's piss beer in the UK.
That link you've posted, looks like those who prefer to only get the aroma of Camel's piss going across the middle 3/8 of the pallet with fresh seasonings of eidelflower, a hint of cranberry & dashings of honeydew melon, bee's dick cheese & porpoise ear wax in the back.
Or as they call themselves, the beer superiors, who dominate the beer thread.
I should be offended and outraged by this but I'm not.
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@MajorRage if my memory serves me right it....oh you mean his hair.
To be fair I'm just excited that @Kiwiwomble is sending me some fantastic beers, even if they are a bit late.
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@Bones said in Speights in the UK?:
@MajorRage if my memory serves me right it....oh you mean his hair.
To be fair I'm just excited that @Kiwiwomble is sending me some fantastic beers, even if they are a bit late.
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@Crucial said in Speights in the UK?:
@Kruse said in Speights in the UK?:
@MN5 said in Speights in the UK?:
@Kruse said in Speights in the UK?:
@MN5 said in Speights in the UK?:
@Kruse said in Speights in the UK?:
I assume you tried the obvious - sanza.co.uk - they're currently out of stock, but it looks like they expect more stock in one weeks' time.
Otherwise - yeah, @MN5 's idea has merit, although I can't think of any beers in the UK which have that particular NZ not-really-ale-not-really-lager colour or "taste". Maybe Carlsberg with some food-colouring? Or Red Stripe?I know what you mean, the UK has other beers that are just as shit as Speights and then some but there is a definite "UK" flavour to them. It's a different kind of generic blandness if that makes sense.
Yeah - UK has proper ales. And proper lagers.
Whereas NZ has some bastard-child of the two, somehow. I don't know the technical details of how they did it, but - when you can call Tui an "East India Pale Ale", and Speights a "Gold Medal Ale" - they really did find a way of turning gold into shit.Maybe try mixing some bland ales, with some bland lagers, and see what you get. Get some bottles, fill them up, away you go. Genuine Speights.
Tui Is The Worst Beer in New Zealand
Tui is a scourge upon our entire society. Fuck Tui. It looks and tastes like Speight’s with a little bit of poo mixed in. It’s exactly the same as every other generic NZ Draught style beer, but somehow manages to be worse. On the
Hell yeah. I'm going to relish reading that, I just read the first line, and wholeheartedly agree.
I got forced into drinking some when visiting family, and actually felt physically ill after a couple of stubbies. I considered checking whether perhaps they were actually past Best-Before-Date, but didn't bother... it's just that shit.
Fuck, I hate Tui. Even back in the day when the only choices were DB Draught, Lion Red, Export Gold, Speights, Tui, CD, Ranfurly Draught, Rheineck, etc.... and I knew that I could barely taste the difference between most - Tui was the worst.
That's right, I'm saying it... Tui was worse than Rheineck. Tui was worse than Ranfurly Draught.
I miss Joseph Kuhtze.
Well, there you go. I’ve just been doing some checking and it turns out that is the first time that sentence has ever been used, by anybody, ever.
It’s like an infinite monkey moment, always technically possible but nobody really believed it would happen.
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@Kiwiwomble not after that dismal effort at posting a gif. How many edits now?
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@Bones ....three, phones are hard to use man
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@Crucial said in Speights in the UK?:
They are all basically the same beer in a different can now.
I was going to post this, but figured I had before. It's all Lion Red with the addition of things like caramel and sugar and has been since at least the 70's. thats not a theory it was told to me by one of Lions brewers and confirmed by a senior manager.
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Is this the bit where I admit I virtually never drink alcohol anymore...
I occasionally have alcohol free beer (Erdinger is actually very good)
I generally avoid consuming calories in liquid form nowadays and I never want to get drunk so I find a nice low alcohol beer actually works better for me.
Will still have grog on occasion (I haven't banned myself from it or anything just don't want it) but it was always mainly for work with clients.
That's why I liked getting a few bottles of Monteiths, 3 bottles would last me like 6 months as I really only wanted a taster every now and then
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@Davesofthunder said in Speights in the UK?:
I occasionally have alcohol free beer (Erdinger is actually very good)
I was speaking to someone who has had to give up drinking for health reasons and he mentioned that, as well as a Russian beer he has been drinking, said both were good, he also has a no alcohol Gin (that he said is more expensive than normal gin!)
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@taniwharugby said in Speights in the UK?:
@Davesofthunder said in Speights in the UK?:
I occasionally have alcohol free beer (Erdinger is actually very good)
I was speaking to someone who has had to give up drinking for health reasons and he mentioned that, as well as a Russian beer he has been drinking, said both were good, he also has a no alcohol Gin (that he said is more expensive than normal gin!)
I want to try that just so I can say I have.....but fuck spending 50 or 60 bucks for it !
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@Davesofthunder shipyard ipa zero is also good, as well as the guiness before it was recalled.
Avoid brewdog zeros, leffe zero, peroni zero.
When you really fancy a beer tho due to thirst / heat, Heineken zero is hands down winner.
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@MajorRage said in Speights in the UK?:
@Davesofthunder shipyard ipa zero is also good, as well as the guiness before it was recalled.
Avoid brewdog zeros, leffe zero, peroni zero.
When you really fancy a beer tho due to thirst / heat, Heineken zero is hands down winner.
Being in that state for many months in Sydney fooled me into thinking Tooheys New was a good beer.
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@Davesofthunder said in Speights in the UK?:
Is this the bit where I admit I virtually never drink alcohol anymore...
I occasionally have alcohol free beer (Erdinger is actually very good)
I generally avoid consuming calories in liquid form nowadays and I never want to get drunk so I find a nice low alcohol beer actually works better for me.
Will still have grog on occasion (I haven't banned myself from it or anything just don't want it) but it was always mainly for work with clients.
That's why I liked getting a few bottles of Monteiths, 3 bottles would last me like 6 months as I really only wanted a taster every now and then
mods. ban hammer!! this is obviously a bot
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@MajorRage said in Speights in the UK?:
@Davesofthunder shipyard ipa zero is also good, as well as the guiness before it was recalled.
Avoid brewdog zeros, leffe zero, peroni zero.
When you really fancy a beer tho due to thirst / heat, Heineken zero is hands down winner.
I found BrewDog Nanny-State to be a remarkably drinkable super-low booze option, when I was on a ride around the countryside but had to stop in somewhere to watch morning-hours rugby.
That was the one and only time I ever had it though, so... small sample size. -
My mate owns Hawkesbury Brewing Co here in Sydney, they do a zero-alcohol beer which is different in process from the others. They actually brew the beer then take the alcohol out, or something like that.
Beer is called Hawkesbury Prohibition Pale Ale.
http://hawkesburybrewingco.com.au/prohibition-pale-ale/
No idea if it's any good, cos no-alcohol.
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@voodoo said in Speights in the UK?:
My mate owns Hawkesbury Brewing Co here in Sydney, they do a zero-alcohol beer which is different in process from the others. They actually brew the beer then take the alcohol out, or something like that.
Beer is called Hawkesbury Prohibition Pale Ale.
> No idea if it's any good, cos no-alcohol.
doubtful
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