Who drinks what beer?

[SPman]

Chanced on this ...
Beer drinkers - any further observations?...

Author: Bruce Holloway
I was amused to read an email from a barman, who after years of research, drew a correlation between Kiwi stereotypes and their attraction to certain beer brands or styles.
Some of them are cruel _ but don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger here. For instance, if you are lacking even an ounce of personality or wear adidas clobber, chances are you drink Heineken.
And those of you who watch too much TV are apparently all Speight's drinkers...... It gets worse.

Poncey gits with slutty girlfriends drink Corona (though sadly there is no hint on what the girlfriends consumed).
People who don't get out much ask for Waikato, but will always settle for Lion Red.
Cardigan-wearers drink Monteith's and middle-class urbanites go for Mac's Gold.
It's Tui or Export Gold for anyone at university, while tourists go for Speight's Old Dark.

The Corona observation was a truly inspired insight, but from my reading, many of the others appeal as marginal propositions at best. So, purely as an antidote to the community excesses of seasonal goodwill, I've compiled my own equally prejudiced list of beer demographics.

* Adolescents too young to get into pubs drink Ice beer. The saddest cases drink Black Ice.
* Used car salesmen drink Heineken.
* Sickness beneficiaries drink Ranfurly Draught.
* Techno-geeks, lawyers and politicians drink Steinlager.
* Rugby league and softball fans drink Lion Red, but would settle for Waikato.
* Gang members and bogans drink Waikato, but would settle for Lion Red.
* Anoraks and trainspotters drink Rheineck, with a touch of lemonade.
* People who go to the supermarket in bare feet drink DB Double Brown.
* Petrolheads with unnecessarily noisy 1300cc cars drink Foster's.
* Pipe smokers and men with greying beards drink Guinness.
* People trying really hard to impress drink Stella Artois
* Less astute people trying really hard to impress drink Flame beer.
* Farmers, and people who don't know any better, drink DB Draught or Lion Brown.
* Tomboys drink Export Gold, usually straight from the bottle.
* People who don't like the taste of beer drink Monteith's Summer Ale.
* Women who are "up for it" drink Crown lager.
* Radio Pacific listeners drink anything, as long as it comes in a flagon.
* Bargain hunters drink Tuborg.
* Eden Park cricket fans drink Export Gold because they have no bloody choice.
* Journalists drink anything if it's free.
* Does anyone drink Mac's Gold?

[James Deuce]

Bugger. Mac's Gold and Monteith's Summer are my faves. Guess I'm Ghey then. Just off to tell the wife.

Back Soon.

[Hitcher]

And the really fun part? In blind testing, so-called beer aficionados can't tell the difference! If you let them see what's in the glass they can generally pick the difference between a black beer, lager and brown beer but that's about as good as it gets. I have run several beer tasting events at social club dos over the years and have yet to find a beer drinker who can "beat the monkey", statistically speaking. Conclusion: People who claim to be able to discern between Lion Red, Brown, DB Draught, Tui, Speights, Waikato wouldn't have a fucking clue what they were drinking unless they poured it from a branded container. Most can't pick Stella from Lion Brown. Sad but true...

[SpankMe]

Yep, I'm "<i>up for it</i>"

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[Ms Piggy]

Speights, Heineken, Macs Gold, Flame, Monteiths Radler (that lime one).

Btw - I'm a student but I don't like Tui or Export.

[Blackbird]

and my wife isn't big on beer so that's why she drinks Summer Ale of a warm evening :niceone:

Hitcher, you are talking cobblers (a somewhat rare event perhaps) when it comes to being unable to discern different types of ale "blind" as it were. As a good Waikato lad, I avoid our regional ale like the plague. I don't even need to smell or taste it as there is incontovertible evidence about 20 minutes later. I don't think that I need go further other than to say that you wouldn't enjoy the proof that I can tell when I've ingested the stuff.

Anyway, I much prefer a good Merlot or Shiraz - typical nancy Honda owner... :2thumbsup

[Krusti]

Yeeeha....I'm a gang member! Only the other way around.....Lion Red then Waikato. Tho I did drink Monteiths Dark while in the Other Lump of dirt South of us.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Beer :apint:

[Magua]

Corona! Poncey, maybe. No slutty girlfriend to go with it though.

[What?]

I don't watch much TV, so I must be confused when I drink Speights. :confused:
Getting worried coz I quite like Monty's Summer ale. :banana:
But my fave (Hoegaarden) isn't on the list, so maybe I really am the sterotypical BMW owner... :scooter:

(can't understand why anyone would want to drink locally made Heineken - it is nothing like the real thing) :spudwhat:

[FROSTY]

hmm--well that hteory is blown away--I drink the black stuff--and I sell cars--eeep

[Storm]

I'm an ex farmer and its DB Draught for me, although, seeing as I will drink most of those beers above, makes me what? Confused? A beer whore? :spudwhat:

[k14]

Do agree with most students drinking tui but only seen chicks drinking export. Think speights needs to get added to that list for the southern students. Thats what i go for if i am paying or steinlager if its free.

[Skyryder]

If it's black I'll drink it. #1 Hogshead Dark #2 Monteiths #3 Speights Old Dark Blacki Mac ets

Hereford Bitter on the lighter side. Heinikein, and when I can get it Spitfire. I will not drink Elepahant Beer or Steinlager and Lion Red is there too.

Skyryder

[MOTOXXX]

i watch far too much tv and dont touch speights.

i just go for the option of what beer tasts good, i drinks :drinknsin :drinknsin

ps ask sparky bills how he went with his drinkin on sat night at my flat.

[Skunk]

People who don't like the taste of beer drink Monteith's Summer Ale.I am living proof of that... :confused:

[MikeL]

Copperhop...
But the home brew at 30c a bottle still beats all comers...

[speedpro]

I just finished a Lion Red, last beer a week ago was Stella Artois. Wife's just got me a Chateau cardboard Red , , , mmmmmmm,, raspberry juice with sugar!
Steinies are OK and I like Speights Old Dark and Distinction Ale.

[erik]

Copperhop...
But the home brew at 30c a bottle still beats all comers...
Home brew! that reminds me, my brother's got a home brew set and I was goign to ask him about it.

Just finished a couple of Resch Bitters because they were on special at the bottle shop. I'm a student, I'd drink Tui or Export gold, really I'm not fussy. I used to favour Speights Old Dark, but have decided it's too expensive.

[inlinefour]

Yea I like Macs Gold, and usually have a stash of DB Draught. :niceone:

[Ixion]

And by Speights I mean of course Speights Old Dark (though that Porter of theirs is a nice drop) :apint:

Wouldn't drink anything else. Unless of course , it's available and someone else is paying. Free beer tastes best of all. :niceone:

[What?]

Amazing! 18 replies and this thread has still not been hijacked and turned into a whisky thread!!! :beer:

[Slipstream]

So, purely as an antidote to the community excesses of seasonal goodwill, I've compiled my own equally prejudiced list of beer demographics.

Alright let me see...



* Techno-geeks, lawyers and politicians drink Steinlager.

:killingme I know a group of lads down here who will slap-yo-up-side-of-the-head for that one :killingme


* Tomboys drink Export Gold, usually straight from the bottle.
* People who don't like the taste of beer drink Monteith's Summer Ale.

I drink Beer, usually any beer. I'm a tomboy and I like Summer Ale :p


* Does anyone drink Mac's Gold?

Accountants and Lawyers :niceone:

[Slipstream]

If it's black I'll drink it. #1 Hogshead Dark

Loaded Hog fan huh? :wari:

[meatball]

I don't drink beer, it's gotta be bourbon or vodka or bourbon or vodka, or both, or bacardi.

[ghost]

Foreign beer, cant beat an ice cold millers, "you've just killed a small furry animal...... Its Miller time"


Kiwi beer has to be Mac's Nelson Reserve,

MMMMM BEER...

[phantom]

Back in the old days when I was learning to drink the stuff, a skill I applied myself to with the utmost devotion, it all tasted pretty much the same, being designed to pour down your throat as quickly as possible, sometimes not staying there very long at all. Now the beer barons and importers have taken note of the popularity of the small independent producers of fine ales and have started producing some decent brews. What beer I drink depends on the circumstances - nothing beats a Corona on a hot sunny day sitting in an outdoor cafe after a ride on the bike, but on a cold wintery night I'll go for a Guinness at my local "Irish" pub. Horses for courses just like bikes
:apint:

[Hitcher]

Amazing! 18 replies and this thread has still not been hijacked and turned into a whisky thread!!!
That's interesting, given that beer and whisky have so much in common...

[pyrocam]

Monteiths Radler, Tui, and the occasionaly Tuborg

I have to admit thou, one hot summer day on a drinking holiday in Mt Maunganui I walked into the Thames Pac-n-save barefoot and bought 2 trays of double brown.
disgusting.
but it got better the more you drunk it.

[bugjuice]

I reckon the most successful thread is the one that starts as beer, cos then you can't hijack it to be about beer.. and nothing else matters, apart from bikes, but we have a whole website/forum dedicated to that..

anyhoo, as for my fav, I can never remember. I try a few, find the one I like, then get drunk on it, wake up the next day and can't remember which one it was! Must get round to writing it down next time I figure it out. Never been a huge fan of beer anyway, but it goes down the hatch..

This desktop pic is more of my fav cos of the photography side of it, but I think it's worthy of showing about now..

[ratusratus]

LION BROWN SPEED TRIPLE METALLICA
:done:

[MSTRS]

This desktop pic is more of my fav cos of the photography side of it, but I think it's worthy of showing about now..
What it showed me was that the closer the beer gets to me the further out of focus go my eyes. Must be that foreign muck eh?

[bugjuice]

may be.. wouldn't really know ;)

[cammo]

i find usually that when were at the supermarket buying some beer, it usually the cheapest we can find that we buy, such as tui or flame. and all i do is watch tv, and speights makes me feel sick...what about people who drink spirits???

[Ixion]

speights makes me feel sick...

Can the doctors do nothing ? I'm truly sorry for you, it must be dreadful to be disabled like that :yeah:

[jrandom]

Some of those stereotypes are very true, and quite hilarious - the Corona one, for instance. A lot of them don't really ring any bells for me, though.

I second all the remarks about not being able to tell the difference between lagers.

I drink Guinness when I'm somewhere that has it on tap, I drink whatever lager I can get when I feel like lager, and I go to bed every night dreaming of a pint of Grafton Porter at Galbraiths.

I've been buying Mac's Blonde recently, too. I'm pretty sure I could tell the difference between wheat beer and lager in a blind tasting.

[Hitcher]

I'm pretty sure I could tell the difference between wheat beer and lager in a blind tasting.
One would hope...

[Indiana_Jones]

Guiness, Hienie and Stella are my fav.
Or if funds are low and I have no shoes on, double brown :D

-Indy

[jrandom]

One would hope...

One does prefer to understate these matters.

[Indiana_Jones]

I also like Rum and port, too much O'brian for me :D

-Indy

[FlyingDutchMan]

Well beer that I'd drink if I could afford it: Grolsch, Amstel, Heineken (do you see a trend here?), stella, montieths.

What I actually drink: Any beer (even VB, CD if its free), home brew.

What I buy: Speights, export (whatevers on sale at countdown), montieths. I'm going off speights now though it just starting to taste worse and worse. Try a speights or CD after a homebrew and its hideous!

[Waylander]

LION BROWN SPEED TRIPLE METALLICA
:done:
I'll agree with the last bit. As for beer, I don't drink it. Not strong enough for me and no flavor to any of it

[Motu]

I will drink almost any beer,I seldom buy the same in a row,always go for something a little different,never ever Lion Red or DB Bitter.I stay away from ''girl'' beers like Export and Ice....I like lagers,darks,reds,pilsners,all the good stuff.A truly different beer I could pick out in a blind test is Mikes Mild Ale from the Urenui Brewry,it's the brew that farm workers were supplied with as part of their lunch 200 yrs ago - I feel like I'm drinking something good for me when I drink that.....I get a funny look from my missus when I say that though...

[ManDownUnder]

This desktop pic is more of my fav cos of the photography side of it, but I think it's worthy of showing about now..

It has it all really...

Beer
Depth of Field
Beer
Pershpective
beerr
litng
bEEAA

awww fuggit! :thud:

[Magua]

Guiness, Hienie and Stella are my fav.
Or if funds are low and I have no shoes on, double brown :D

-Indy

What? No Corona?

[Indiana_Jones]

What? No Corona?

lol corona isn't that good, it's just oversized mexican rats liquidated :2thumbsup

-Indy

[Coyote]

I've always been more of a Ginger Beer fan

[Waylander]

Corona bleh nasty shyte if you want a good mexican beer go for this.

[speedpro]

As a young lad Leopard used to be the brew, came in shrink-wrapped twin packs. Tui ain't bad either.

I seem to recall that Mr Graeme Crosby identified something like 20 beers in a blind taste test years ago. Not just local ones either. Truly talented.

[sAsLEX]

Amazing! 18 replies and this thread has still not been hijacked and turned into a whisky thread!!! :beer:

just got 21st gift, a 16 year old bottle of Glenfiddich Single malt special reserve.

It any good JR??

[Indiana_Jones]

just got 21st gift, a 16 year old bottle of Glenfiddich Single malt special reserve.

It any good JR??

no no no, you want RUM!

AN EXTRA RATION OF RUM AND GROG FOR THE MEN MR. HOWETT!

ARGH!

-Indy

[sAsLEX]

no no no, you want RUM!

AN EXTRA RATION OF RUM AND GROG FOR THE MEN MR. HOWETT!

ARGH!

-Indy

yeah also got some bundaberg over proof which was nice, Mount Gay is also a good drop

[Waylander]

What goes good with beer or other alcohol? Cheeleaders ofcourse!!http://www.angelfire.com/dc/blackdcc/squads/DCC_squad_04-05.jpg
And the only real reason why american football is better than rugby:2thumbsup

[Hitcher]

And the only real reason why american football is better than rugby
And if there was a prize for the "Lamest Cheerleaders in Christendom" that prize would be awarded to the Hurricanes' "cheer team". Sad. Very, very sad...

[jrandom]

just got 21st gift, a 16 year old bottle of Glenfiddich Single malt special reserve.

It any good JR??

Too many JRs on this forum, but just in case you're asking me, I'm sure it's just fine and dandy. If you're worried about its fitness for consumption, you're welcome to swing by my place and share the pain...

A colleague just got back from the UK with a catalogue from a whisky shop in London. The most expensive thing in it was a bottle of Glenfiddich from 1937, going for £11,000.

I also noted that prices on the more pedestrian malts that I drink regularly were rather better than what we pay here at the current exchange rate, particularly for the Islay stuff. Laphroaig *should* be about NZD50-60 a bottle, but you can't find it anywhere for under $110, usually. No idea why.

[bugjuice]

What goes good with beer or other alcohol? Cheeleaders ofcourse!!

insert rather large pic here

And the only real reason why american football is better than rugby:2thumbsup[/i]

oh hell yeah.. and the more you drink, the better and more of them, there are!! :apint: :yeah: :apint: :apint: :yeah: :apint: :yeah: :thud:

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[2_SL0]

Beeeeeeer,,, I go with Carlton Cold, Heine, Macs Gold. OR anything FREEEEE.

[Rainbow Wizard]

Birds Liquorsave sold Black Baron for a while, to me, lots, after they dropped the price to induce sales. It was a dark lager and yes, there is such a thing. Current fav is Leffe, available in blonde and dark. Get it from Foodtown or Countdown when it's on special, I doubt you'll be disappointed. Yum.