Which Beer Do You Actually End Up Drinking The Most?

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A neccessary corollary to the 'best beer' thread.

1. Stella Artois draught

2. Ayingerbrau standard

3. Grolsch

― Tom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Whatever the house bitter is. Usually Courage of some nature.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

fosters. because i always go in shit pubs that have no beer.

― gareth, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

house bitter, hoegarden or stella. If the pub looks busy or likely I might try their handpulls, but that can be risky.

― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I MUST have a Hoegarden when I get over to the UK. Alternately, I've got to find a shop that sells it in the Boston area.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Palm, De Konninck, Hoegaarden + Hoegaardse Das, + if I feel vaguely homesick a pint of Murphy's Stout at the local 'British/Irish' pub; though being surrounded by bulb-picking crusties moaning about the 'bloody Dutch' usually ensures I don't stay very long.

― stevo, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Sam Adams, for the reasons Gareth mentioned.

― Nicole, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Amstel Light.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

warning its viciously expensive and there are better white beers about. Names escape me at the moment. It is mainly a hype drink, although it is getting down to reasnoble prices, at least in some places, although I've heard of £4 a pint which is quite frankly a joke.

― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

hoegaarden in the embassy bar on essex rd is £4. hoegaarden is also shit so...

― gareth, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Token real ale(usually disappointing, unless Fuller's pub) or Budvar. Used to drink lots of guinness when no real beer available but have now sworn off it after realising correlation between consumption of the black stuff and unpleasant bowel experiences the next day.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Budvar &/or Newcastle Brown Ale.

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― Norman Fay, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Hoegaarden tastes like that horrible moment when some shampoo-ey water inadvertently dribbles into your mouth, surely.

― stevie t, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

On a hot summers day its the nectar of the Gods. Incidently its often served with a slice of lemon in Belgium + Holland and pronounced something like Who H'Garden.

― stevo, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Red Stripe or Amstel Light. But I drink vodka a lot more than beer.

― Lesley Higgins, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I have no particular favorite or standout, actually, I think I'm always trying new ones just to see what they're like. And since I'm not a pub crawler by profession like Tom ;-), there you are. I fall back on Guinness when required, though.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Heineken. Guinness the odd time. Used to drink Harp a lot but it's nasty on the tummy.

― Michael, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Guinness is the fail-safe; Newcastle, Goose Island, Stella quite often; and Pabst Blue Ribbon more often than one would wish to admit (too late, but when in a stool-bum bar in the Midwest...)

― scott p., Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Corona.

― JM, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Rolling Rock.

Perhaps there's a really good reason I hate beer. Like, I'm drinking the wrong stuff?

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Yes, David, cause Rolling Rock to real beer is like Oasis is to the Strokes.... I mean... erm... heh heh. ;-)

― masonic boom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Comparing the Strokes to Oasis? A double-pronged insult, is it not? (Not that I've HEARD the Strokes - I'm still hoping for more of a taste of those Moldy Peaches.)

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I heard the strokes on Front row last night and they were indeed rubbish.

― Ed, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

At home: Beck's.

At a bar: Budweiser in a bottle.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

And these days: ginger.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

bottle of bud is definately the classic while out.

― amy, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Corona. I guess I like the lime. Heiniken. When I'm feeling cheap and beer-busty, Bud Draft.

― Arthur, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Bud Light (gotta support the hometown). Or Honey Brown.

― bnw, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

the great thing about fosters is we export the thing - nobody in their right or wrong mind would drink that shit in australia, even if they were in the desert and all the koala's piss had dried up. serves you poms right for colonising us i guess.

― Geoff, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

As white beers go, Leffe is a pretty good Hoegarden substitute.

Top Tip Drinkers: Don't mix white wine and powerful decongestant tablets unless you want think you have been chucked out of a bar and wake up the next morning unable to perform simple tasks like having a shower without having to lie on the bathroom floor for several minutes first.

― Emma, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Kronenborg seems to slip down my throat most often - with the Fat Man himself Mr Ayingerbrau coming a close second. Yesterday though had a Grolsch, Cobra and Red Stripe all on tap which played havok with my late doors digestion.

― Pete, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Cooking Lagers: Tennants, McEwans, Miller (when in Scotland); Carling (when down South).

Posh Lager: Kronenbourg; Grolsch; Budvar; Staropramen.

Stella guarantees a hangover, Kronenburg almost always does.

― alex thomson, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Guinness.

Plus: London Pride, in pubs that serve it. Rubbish overpriced lager, at gigs. Light ale for the price and the Smiths. In cans, Miller - why is it better value than comparable lagers?

I never found out whether Steady Mike forgave me for filling his fridge with Hoffmeister and 'Ship Ale' that time.

― the pinefox, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

Black Sheep, very quaffable. Unfortunately probably end up drinking John Smiths smooth due to it's unavailability outside N Yorks.

In Scotland Tennents 70 shilling or Belhaven Best, not that they're the best of course.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

I did forgive you, Pinefox - I just didn't want to be *seen* doing it, and thought of as soft on bad lager.

I haven't been out of the house in 9 days (and I've been on chlorpheniramine maleate) - I can't actually remember what beer tastes like. I think Sam Smith's OB tops my chart since I moved to London (before that it was Hoegaarden - 99p bottles from Tesco).

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

two months pass...

hoffmeister rules, i got 24 for £9 in somerfield in newquay! can some one help me with a web address for hoffmeister, i want them to sponsor my football team!

― Alex Norris, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-five years ago)

ten months pass...

Stella Definately, There is nothing finer!!

― Graeme Andrew Allcock, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Smithwicks. It's the Irish beer that's most like an English beer.

― DV, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

since going into sam smiths pubs a lot more often i have rediscovered the lovely soverign bitter. cheap, vegan and v v tasty (a bit like me really har har)

― katie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

London Pride - lots of pubs in Oxford serve it. Despite drinking in the Three Goats heads fairly regularly, I have bever noticed Sovreign, prolly coz i head straight for the Extra Stout when I'm there...num num. In about equal quantities after London Pride, I drink Morrells Varsity, Morland Original and Ruddles County. Theakston XB if I'm in the Radcliffe Arms.

― MarkH, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sixteen years pass...

The bubbles in a glass of beer exhibit a kind of reverse gravity; they accelerate as they ascend

― calstars, Sunday, 13 January 2019 18:58 (seven years ago)

Probably the Lidl weissbier if I'm at home. Guinness in a pub.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 13 January 2019 23:22 (seven years ago)

annoying as fuck posts in the style of stephen kinnock's lie dream attempt of eating an orange smugly as poss.

stella, tesco lager, heineken ... anything considered.

― calzino, Monday, 14 January 2019 00:45 (seven years ago)

Suddenly I feel like a calzone

― calstars, Monday, 14 January 2019 00:58 (seven years ago)

he managed to vastly outsmug you in the course of calling you smug

― rip van wanko, Monday, 14 January 2019 01:07 (seven years ago)

was it the beer that got fancy

or was it me

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 January 2019 01:09 (seven years ago)

Yeah right, that

― calstars, Monday, 14 January 2019 01:16 (seven years ago)

As white beers go, Leffe is a pretty good Hoegarden substitute.

u wot m8

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 14 January 2019 11:51 (seven years ago)

Kane

― Evan, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:43 (seven years ago)

seven years pass...

I keep going back to German beers. No one does it better imo. Right now I am enjoying an Ayinger Oktoberfest.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 7 November 2026 04:16 (one week ago)

I’m going to be very basic and Australian and say Coopers Sparkling Ale (“Coopers red”). It’s a beautiful, well but not aggressively hopped golden ale with a cloudiness due to secondary fermentation in the bottle. A distinct bread-iness to it, seems almost nourishing. Also the last major family owned brewery here.

― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 7 November 2026 19:51 (one week ago)

Currently it’s Schneider Weisse with half a slice of lemon, which the bar staff know as “gay lemon” (only my partner and I like to drink it that way, even though WE ARE RIGHT).

― mike t-diva, Saturday, 7 November 2026 20:45 (one week ago)

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― Bob Six, Saturday, 7 November 2026 21:10 (one week ago)

I've always said that Germans perfected beer. Anything beyond that is fancification.

Any of the Schneiders or Ayingers or Weihenstephaners will do it for me.

― Josefa, Saturday, 7 November 2026 23:56 (one week ago)

I’ve been drinking German beer lately too. I found that I can get a six-pack of tall-boy 16 oz cans of Radeberger for only $10. Incredible value.

― o. nate, Sunday, 8 November 2026 02:03 (six days ago)

Vladimir Putin, assigned by the KGB to their office in Dresden, DDR, in the 1980s, assisting the East German Stasi and also supervising them, acquired a taste for Radeberger, which remains his preferred beer, in Russia, and when he travels to the European Union.[7]

-Wikipedia

― Josefa, Sunday, 8 November 2026 02:08 (six days ago)

My go-to will always be Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. But I am going through a 12-pack of Creature Comforts (Athens GA) IPAs.

― insufficiently festive (WmC), Sunday, 8 November 2026 02:24 (six days ago)

Been on a Bochi-Bochi rice lager kick lately. Refreshing, but not too thin

― pj, Sunday, 8 November 2026 03:25 (six days ago)

Hoegaarden or Leffe if I am reliant on a supermarket. Probably Chimay if I can be bothered to order online.

― ShariVari, Sunday, 8 November 2026 10:25 (six days ago)

^ This is exactly the sort of thing that the lovely Emma B prefers if there is no wine on offer. This has led to many hilarious moments in crap pubs where she asks if they have Leffe

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 8 November 2026 11:56 (six days ago)

Rothaus Pils is almost always in the house.

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 8 November 2026 14:32 (six days ago)

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