Mindless bollocks

[Skyryder]

Local beers?? I'm a Hogshead man myself. Tend to like the dark beers. Some of the local boutique breweries make good beer. Hereford Bitter is one. Forge was another that I liked but a lot o people could not stand it. Had a slight metallic tast. Can anyone remember the Lucky beers. There were three. Brown Yellow and I think it was Green label. Not too sure the brewery but if my memory serves me correctly two of the labels were binned and the other rebranded into Bavarian. This was a big seller but I did not like it so started drinking stout instead to everyones horror. Spitfire was my favourite import but it is not on the shelves anymore. This is an English bitter. Guinness a bit over rated in my view but if you want to have a liquid meal look no further. Now lets talk about malts

Skyryder

[moko]

Some of the Foster`s ads are quite funny,dont know if they`re the same ones shown elsewhere,latest one has an Aussies guy debating hairstyles with his Barber,ends up he`s got a nassive quiff that keeps his Fosters in the shade.We get the Stella ads too,that`s really popular in Britain and the Guiness ads are legendary,they spend a fortune on them.

[greenhorn]

I once knew a guy who drank guiness and of all things raspberry. I cant remember if it was raspberry juice or cordial. He reckoned it was great and quite a common combination.
Anyone heard of that one before?

[LB]

I used to drink coke with raspberry cordial - it's quite nice. I don't like beer, but imagine it would be a bit the same? Pubs will serve coke and raspberry if you ask for it (well, they used to, it's been years and years since i've asked for it)

[jrandom]

I used to drink coke with raspberry cordial - it's quite nice. I don't like beer, but imagine it would be a bit the same? Pubs will serve coke and raspberry if you ask for it (well, they used to, it's been years and years since i've asked for it)

I always see kids mixing coke and raspberry at the Burger King drinks machines. The idea makes me retch.

Perhaps I should try it sometime.

[Slim]

I once knew a guy who drank guiness and of all things raspberry. I cant remember if it was raspberry juice or cordial. He reckoned it was great and quite a common combination.
Anyone heard of that one before?

I've heard of raspberry in lager (seemed very common in the OE experience in London of various people I know), but not in Guinness. I have heard of putting a shot glass of a spirit in the bottom of a Guinness - a Depth Charger???

[greenhorn]

I always see kids mixing coke and raspberry at the Burger King drinks machines. The idea makes me retch.

Perhaps I should try it sometime.

Tell you what, if you try adding an equal measure of everything on offer at those machines, the drink ends up the most disgusting colour. Which kind of makes me wonder, with the deal you get at Burger King along with the superior burgers an all, why oh why is McDonalds still in bussiness?
I remember a brand of beer when i was a teenager called "Leopard Paw". Anyone remember it? I dont think it lasted long, something to do with the fact its name was too closely associated it with a type of cat conjuring up all sorts of images as to the beers main ingredient...
Anyway McDonalds is to fast food what Leopard Paw was to beer.

Remember the thread is named Mindless Bollocks

[Hitcher]

I remember a brand of beer when i was a teenager called "Leopard Paw". Anyone remember it? I dont think it lasted long, something to do with the fact its name was too closely associated it with a type of cat conjuring up all sorts of images as to the beers main ingredient...
Anyway McDonalds is to fast food what Leopard Paw was to beer.

Remember the thread is named Mindless Bollocks

Leopard was, from memory, brewed at Hastings and was New Zealand's first canned beer -- before tear tags were invented! "Paw" was, from memory, Leopard's last gasp.

[Mongoose]

I've heard of raspberry in lager (seemed very common in the OE experience in London of various people I know), but not in Guinness. I have heard of putting a shot glass of a spirit in the bottom of a Guinness - a Depth Charger???

Larger and lime perhaps, but raspberry?? Sounds gawd damn awful.
Back to the ads, those Lion Red ones would do nothing to encourage me to try it, hell it would take a lot more than an ad to get me to try Lion anything
Every now and then you see some cracker ads on those world wide best of advertisement programmes on telly.

[vifferman]

Leopard was, from memory, brewed at Hastings and was New Zealand's first canned beer -- before tear tags were invented! "Paw" was, from memory, Leopard's last gasp.

Phark! That's going back a ways (1975 or summat?)
Two things about it - the 'cans' were the tinned steel cans (not aluminium), and the beer tasted very metallic, possibly from the can dissolving, as well as like cat's piss (presumably) tastes.

[Mongoose]

Phark! That's going back a ways (1975 or summat?)
Two things about it - the 'cans' were the tinned steel cans (not aluminium), and the beer tasted very metallic, possibly from the can dissolving, as well as like cat's piss (presumably) tastes.

Specially if you waited until you were in London before trying the Leopard cans, imagine the time spent by the brew in those cans before being opened in the UK.
Ooops, guess that makes me Phaaarken old, huh?

[Slim]

Larger and lime perhaps, but raspberry?? Sounds gawd damn awful.

I might have had my wires crossed.

I was thinking of the Snakebite, which appears to be Beer, Cider & a dash of Raspberry Liqueur

[pete376403]

Stout and raspberry is lovely, they should feed babies on it. Used to get Vita-stout up at the Rimutaka Tavern, haven't seen that for a while.
My formative drinking years were spent at the Rimutaka, they used to serve spirits and mixer by the jugful, that is, 10 nips of whatever and fillup with the mixer. You could get pretty pissed, pretty quick. Cheap, too. used to be $2.50 for a jug of bacardi and coke

[Hitcher]

Phark! That's going back a ways (1975 or summat?)
Two things about it - the 'cans' were the tinned steel cans (not aluminium), and the beer tasted very metallic, possibly from the can dissolving, as well as like cat's piss (presumably) tastes.

You remember well, Grasshopper!

[Motu]

Saw some Vita Stout in Waiuku a couple of weeks ago,did a double take...thought I was back in the 70s,maybe it was that old? You could also get cider in the big beer bottles....still partial to a cider I am.Raspberry? we used to mix equal parts vodka,ouzo(sp?) and raspberry soft drink...3 bottles of serious stuff.

Yeah,our first ''cans'' were steel - you had to carry around an opener.We used to see actors crush a beer can in the movies or TV,but it was impossible with the steel cans....no,a mate of mine used to collapse a steel can down flat,he had to work at it,making the sides a square then rotating it down flat....impressive if you didn't know he'd spent the last 10mins working at it under the table.