Your Favourite Beer?

[Chaos Descending]

Wrong. But thanks for playing.

Where the heck do you get this from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager

"Lager (German: storage, camp, bearing etc.) is the more popular of two main types of beer; the other being ale."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lager

" a beer brewed by slow fermentation and matured under refrigeration"

http://www.stellaartois.com

"Stella Artois - Belgian premium beer brand with tradition dating back to 1366."

Is that enough or do you need more?

 

[Pingfah]

I'm Polish and even I won't drink Tyskie. Hell, I get shit at Polish bars because I won't drink it, just happened the other night actually.

Why, is it very popular there then?

I live near a rather large polish community and I hit those bars with my friend who lives there. Pretty good bars and I like Polish girls. But I catch shit for not speaking Polish (well) and being a pretty hardcore Italian. Fun stuff.

I dated a Polish girl for a while actually, although the only really Polish thing about her was her looks, she was very much English in reality. This was before you could buy Polish stuff in the UK though, which has only been the last few years since they started working here a lot.

Now all our supermarkets have big polish sections, which is great because they have lots of nice sausages.

Lager is NOT Beer.

Stella Artois is a lager, not a beer.

You saying so doesn't make it true.

Lager is a TYPE of beer, not a separate thing.

Wrong. But thanks for playing.

As far as I am concerned, lager, ale, bitter, stout are all kinds of beer.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Wrong. But thanks for playing.

Where the heck do you get this from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager

"Lager (German: storage, camp, bearing etc.) is the more popular of two main types of beer; the other being ale."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lager

" a beer brewed by slow fermentation and matured under refrigeration"

http://www.stellaartois.com

"Stella Artois - Belgian premium beer brand with tradition dating back to 1366."

Is that enough or do you need more?

In England there's a difference between Lager and Beer not recognised by other countries.

Thanks for playing.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Wrong. But thanks for playing.

Where the heck do you get this from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lager

"Lager (German: storage, camp, bearing etc.) is the more popular of two main types of beer; the other being ale."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lager

" a beer brewed by slow fermentation and matured under refrigeration"

http://www.stellaartois.com

"Stella Artois - Belgian premium beer brand with tradition dating back to 1366."

Is that enough or do you need more?

In England there's a difference between Lager and Beer not recognised by other countries.

That's very silly. That's like saying there's a difference between a "Pit Bull" and a "Dog", but only in England.

Furthermore, I think that you are in fact, wrong, and England has no such distinction. Although if you showed me some evidence I'd gladly admit that i am wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in_England

"Despite the traditional English beer being ale, more than half of the current English market is now lager (Pale Lager which is the same as a German 'helles'). These lighter coloured, bottom fermented beers first started gaining real popularity in England in the latter part of the 20th Century."

 

[Pingfah]

I am English, I drink a lot of beer, and I have never heard of such a distinction.

 

[IndyJones]

I love Hacker-Pschorr. Which you can't get in Denver. If I had known that before I moved here (and no Merkts Cheese) I would have been a lot less likely to make the move. lol.

Been drinking 312 lately. Other than that Pilsner Urquell. Or Pacifico

312 is my favorite Goose Island beer. It used to be on special on Tuesday's at my local bar. We'd get some 312 and fried cheese curds...Few things finer!

 

[Chaos Descending]

I am English, I drink a lot of beer, and I have never heard of such a distinction.

Well, to be totally honest, I HAVE heard of such a distinction, but only from English people.

It totally boggles my mind too, because "lager isn't beer" is complete nonsense. If it's not beer, what is it? It's not milk! It's not coffee!

 

[Pingfah]

I've heard that the distinction exists before, but I've always associated it with other countries, not England. Ask anyone I know and they'd all say it's all just beer.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I've heard that the distinction exists before, but I've always associated it with other countries, not England. Ask anyone I know and they'd all say it's all just beer.

It's a dialect thing.

 

[Pingfah]

What a surprise

 

[Chaos Descending]

So in other words, it's an arbitrary word choice.

Language can't make lager into "not beer".

 

[Pingfah]

You don't want to start this discussion, trust me.

 

[Chaos Descending]

You don't want to start this discussion, trust me.

Yeah, roger that. I know the sort.

Still, I can rest secure in the satisfaction of knowing that I am right, and they are wrong.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Still, I can rest secure in the satisfaction of knowing that I am right, and they are wrong.

Not really no.
Come to England and ask for a Beer in a pub and you'll get either Tetleys, John Smiths or Worthingtons. Ask for a pint of lager and you'll get either Stella Artois, Fosters or Kronemberg.

Give it a go then get back to me.

 

[Pingfah]

No, that's what you get if you ask for Bitter, which is a kind of beer.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

No, that's what you get if you ask for Bitter.

Beer and Bitter are the same thing.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Not really no.
Come to England and ask for a Beer in a pub and you'll get either Tetleys, John Smiths or Worthingtons. Ask for a pint of lager and you'll get either Stella Artois, Fosters or Kronemberg.

Give it a go then get back to me.

Why are you so eager for me to prove that these people are fools who don't understand that a lager is a classification of beer?

 

[Pingfah]

No, that's what you get if you ask for Bitter.

Beer and Bitter are the same thing.

You're just being silly now.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Not really no.
Come to England and ask for a Beer in a pub and you'll get either Tetleys, John Smiths or Worthingtons. Ask for a pint of lager and you'll get either Stella Artois, Fosters or Kronemberg.

Give it a go then get back to me.

Why are you so eager for me to prove that these people are fools who don't understand that a lager is a classification of beer?

No it isn't. You just think it is based on the limitations of other languages.

No, that's what you get if you ask for Bitter.

Beer and Bitter are the same thing.

You're just being silly now.

Look, I can go to my local pub right now and ask for a pint of bitter or beer and i'll get John Smiths etc, if I ask for a pint of Lager i'll get Stella or Fosters.
That's just how it works.

 

[Chaos Descending]

No, that's what you get if you ask for Bitter.

Beer and Bitter are the same thing.

Beer and Bitter are NOT the same thing, since not all beers are bitters. Bitters are just a type of pale ale (which is of course a type of beer).

Stella Artois, for example, is a good example of a beer that is not a Bitter.