It's a lager, not a tune

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When I was a lad, Oranjeboom was a nasty looking, Skol-like tinned beer. It was TV advertised by (I think) buxom bavarian wenches singing (to the tune of Eye Level by the Simon Park Orchestra) "OranjeBOOM, OranjeBOOM, it's a lager, not a tune/OranjeBOOM, the order of the day/OranjeBOOM, OranjeBOOM, it's a lager, not a tune/So get your lips around a pint today". It was terrible.

Then it vanished for about ten years, and now it's meant to be a fancy premium beer, and it turns up in nice bars with nice drinks, alongside the Duvels and the Chimays. How did it happen? Doesn't anybody remember? I feel cheated.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

it's not a drug. it's a drink.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

It's been on tap in the Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon since at least 1998.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

(and yes, the first time I saw it there I thought blimey, I haven't seen that name for a while)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

You can still get knock down crates of it at Iceland, but as for the othermatter I think its called Brand Relaunch.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

it's not a drug. it's a drink.

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― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Aaah, the Pabst Blue Ribbon of the Netherlands.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Ha, the only associations I have with it involve the Betsey Trotwood, yes.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

It's a Schlager, not a tune.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

it's originally dutch but is now "brewed under licence" in bedford or some other such end-of-civilisation hellhole. it tastes like arse but it's 5% abv and you can get 8 cans for a fiver in some places, so it's perfectly acceptable to give it to guests you don't like very much.

― stelf)xxxx, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

8 for a fiver in bargain booze. great when money's tight at the end of the month.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

i actually think this beer is the reason that lager top or lager and lime were invented.

― stelf)xxx, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

The brand was bought by Allied Breweries in 1968, who sold it on to Interbrew (now InBev) in the 1990s, apparently.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

YES! YES! It's horrible! But cos it comes out of big tall fancy looking pumps, people believe it's good. It makes me a bit angry, but more, it makes me worry which big tall fancy pumps I get tricked by...

(xpost) Ah, that's starting to make some sense.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

i actually think this beer is the reason that lager top or lager and lime were invented.
I just had a Mexican variant called a michilada, which has beer, lime juice, hot sauce and Worcestershire sauce. I liked it, although apparently many Mexicans don't.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

What's up with the Red Bull prominence? My barfly days are in the past, but even I did not dare to assume that caffeine and alcohol could be consumed in immoderation at the same time!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Move along Grandad.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Grandmom. Oh, that's right, I was doing cocaine at the time!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

oh so it's a lager! we saw bars seemingly called "ORANJBOOM" in amsterdam and i was curious, but not so much that i bothered asking

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

What would happen if you drank an Oranjboom and then an Irn Bru?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

maybe you'd end up wearing a kilt and clogs with your finger up a dyke?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Um, Momus to thread?

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

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