What Is The UK's Worst Brewed Lager? , We Take A Look At 9 Fake UK Brewed European & World Lagers
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Carling will always be my worst. Brewed with depression
"Brewed with depression extract" - not even the real fucking thing.
Brewed with concentrated blandness.
Thx for ur comment, nicely put :)
Carbonated piss
Carling comes with fag ash readily tapped into the can.
This is like being a designated driver watching your mate getting pissed.
Worryingly he probably only drank about a pint 🥴
Ha ha, and slowly watching everyone start talking bollocks!
On Fosters? How old is your mate? 6? 😂😂
🤣
I’d rather be the designated driver than get drunk on any of that sh*te
The sad thing is that most people won't see these as the worst beers in the UK, they'll genuinely see them as 'premium' beers! It's incredible how low people's standards have become.
The reality is that "premium" has nothing to do with quality. It now means "more expensive because it has to pay for a huge advertising budget".
they were always low :)
They don't chase flavour , they just wanna get drunk
Surely what matters is your enjoyment of the beer
How many people consider carling or fosters premium?!!
Madri is the worst, just for the fact it isn’t Spanish or ever has been. It’s a completely made up lager only ever brewed in the uk
Brewed in Tadcaster. Truly awful stuff!
He gave Madri an 8 mark not that long ago 😂😂😂 with its glucose syrup too ??????
Madri is shite for sure
Interesting to find out it's actually carling of old 🤔
So? I don't give a damn about the country of origin
Frustrating when it's sold as a foreign beer when it's not.
It's a damn shame that in most sports / lager pubs nowadays you can't even find one decent lager on tap
@analogdistortion
Down south some ok ones fro fake ‘craft brewers’ have crept in.
Camden lager and Beavertown Lager for example. You don’t see carling or foster for example, much at all.
@@edstar7894 I don't like any of the beers you've mentioned. It would just be nice if there was a decent lager on at the lager style sports pubs. They could just serve one lager from a decent Czech or German brewery.
I used to be a bar/cellar manager of a Scot&Newcastle pub in the mid 90s that sold Becks on draught, they bought whitbreads out and I cried when we had to change it to Kronenberg
I offered a homeless drunk,a can of Bud Light, and he said no thanks,I don't drink that piss!
The original is hardly better (having spent a few years over there...). You know that mass brewing is in a bad place when it is brewing a shite version of a beer that was never that great to begin with. All of those reproduction beers are pretty appalling.
If ever a man was “taking one for the team” it’s right here, drinking 9 beers purely for public interest. Legend status unlocked 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
What you on about he gave Madri, glucose syrup and all an 8 mark not that long ago, he never mentioned glucose syrup in it then 😂😂😂 I can not stand any of those shite lagers and there additives. Craft ales, bitters, ipa, stouts for me
Like watching a review of nil all draws
The things you do to enlighten the masses about Britain's rip of fake beer 😂🍺 This is wrong and should be made illegal, after all you can’t call a Cornish pasty Cornish if its made in Devon.
If you buy a pasty in Devon,
you can just call it BETTER.
@@truthteller99999 You could do but I wouldn’t. I live in Devon and I can tell you the places in Cornwall where you can buy excellent pasties, well above average. From Lands End to Liskard, I can’t say the same for Devon.
@@jameskrell4392 Well, I could tell you where to buy amazing pasties in Devon, but I won't waste my time, as you've already closed your mind and don't deserve them.
It was when we were in the EU - there’s a directive that we participated in developing to protect regional produce.
I used to drink Stella back in the 1970's. It was then imported by Whitbread's and had a beautifully floral smell to it and you got the occasional piece of hop in your glass from the dryhopping that they gave it in the cask. It was strong too, five pints and you probably wouldn't be making work in a fit state the next day. Nowadays it's just an OK lager.
Had a mate who worked at Whitbread as a chemist.... in the late 80's/90's he was part of a group of chemists tasked with speeding up the brewing process of stella whilst matching the taste. I wonder what chemicals they added and filtered to attempt that objective
Much respect to you for drinking these cans of swill in one sitting.
What do you wanna bet that after filming, he picks an argument with a neighbour or maybe a random piece of kitchen equipment.
If it's the neighbours playing that shite music he's well within his rights.
@@olinpaul That shite music is pretty shite
He'll put a vest on first.
The sad thing is Holsten Pils, Stella and even Bud used to be amazing beers when they imported them back in the late 80s and 90s
yes lamot pils & kaltenberg too
I remember drinking Holston Pils in the late 90s until i couldn’t walk just to get a free ‘Oooo, suits you sir” T shirt in the local boozer.
@@Noone-lm9mkit's always been pi55
You can still get the imported Stella's here in Coventry but you have to go to an independent off licence.
Regular Holsten beer was very good too. Orange can. Used to see it on draught too.
I once went out with a girl and her surname was Carling. Two fingers for head was accurate.
that looks like a line up of the usual suspects suspected of a heinous crime
I bet Simons garden hasn't got any slugs.
Not any live ones that’s for sure
Fosters only became popular in the UK due to the Barry McKenzie cartoon strip in the early 70's. They chose Fosters lager for the character as it was recognised amongst the Australians as being an absolute joke of a beer. But Brits didn't realise, started buying it in large quantities and Fosters pushed it to the limit with the successful Paul Hogan adverts in the 80's.
No one in Australia drinks that cat piss Fosters
Here in North America no beer drinker wants to be seen drinking BudLight
Nonsense, it’s the second most sold beer.
Fun fact, it’s more popular in Republican leaning counties…
@@Shelmerdine745 No Male wants to be seen leaving a supermarket with a case of Bud Light
@@Shelmerdine745 it was destroyed by a bloke dressed up as a girl and telling the drinkers they were not worthy or woke enough
@@josephberrie9550
How was it destroyed when it’s the second most sold beer?
You either don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re lying.
Republicans still buy the beer and enjoy it (no idea why) despite the silly propaganda.
The best selling beer is Mexican, by the way. How do you like that?
Carling had the greatest adverts on UK TV in the 80s. Particularly the cowboy one spread over 3 adverts with the spoof washing powder and love songs album after the actual advert. 👏👏👏
My pet hate is formerly premium beers that have been moved downwards to fill a role in a conglomerates portfolio or line up usually after a take over or merger.
Lowenbräu for example.
"What's the difference between Bud Light and sex in a canoe?" "They're both f**king close to water"
Thanks to Python .
boom boom
Shouldn’t that be what’s the similarities, and not what’s the difference?
Would that sex in a canoe involve Dylan Mulvaney....?
Yeah, brewed in Mortlake - literal translation, "Dead Water" - exactly what it is...
Guys, it's pretty easy: Just avoid any lagers under 5% and those made with maize, glucose syrup or rice. This way you'll likely be ok. It's not 100% waterproof, but a good rule of thumb.
Glucose syrup is the work of the devil , A USA food and drink filler to bulk it out the product as cheaply as possible .
I don't think they even have to label that though, I'm sure some of the Polish lagers (which are decent compared to the shit he's just drunk) have something like that in which adds sweetness, but you won't see it listed on the can...
What lagers are 5% and over and available in the supermarket or local shop? San Miguel, Holsten, any others? I can't think of any. I'm all in favour of stronger and nicer lager, but often can't find anything in my local shop.
@@nickbrown6457 Budvar, Staropramen, Tyskie, or, if you can't find those, Heineken. Tyskie and Heineken are not great beers, but are much better than any of the crap showcased in this video.
Rice can be ok if it's traditional for the brewing region - basically south and east Asia. *If* it's done well.
This is the equivalent to comparing different types of animal piss.
😅
Thankfully, I live in Bavaria, Germany. Until the EU overturned the 500 year old German Purity law, due to EU rules on trade agreements, it was ILLEGAL to sell these fake, chemical, beers in Germany, ILLEGAL!
The mystery to me is, why do they call it lager in the first place? no one else does, lager means store/warehouse in German.
Beer is called bier!
My local off licence was carrying imported San Miguel and it was great. Had a really distinct flavour. I used to get a can every few days. Then one day I was drinking a can and the flavour had gone. Looked on the label and it said "Brewed in the UK"
A friend of mine only ever has all these crappy brands in his fridge. Whenever he offers me one I politely decline and ask for a cup of tea instead!
Which is the worst is a matter of personal preference but one thing is undeniable.
Making purchasers believe by labelling that a beer has been brewed abroad when it has not and only having a tiny note on the rear of the can denoting the true origin is deceitful and should be banned. The origin should be prominently stated on the front of the can and on the pump.
It's always a surprise how marketeers have completely exploited the Brits' complete disinterest in quality. What saps we are. Dismal.
Do these brewers hold their customers in contempt?
If you look at the people who drink these beers, you'll see that the contempt is justified.
@@heiltd1286Astute.
It still amazes me how you walk through Tesco and see people pick up a crate of carling…. It isn’t even any cheaper!
The power of Marketing
I think what it is, is that it is just ROUTINE for some people.
For the past 25 years they have been just grabbing a crate of carling/fosters or whatever cheap crate they have on offer at the front of the shop, they probobly dont even go down the actual beer isle.
Alot of people who started drinking in the 70s/80s and even 90s are like it.
What i think it is, is back then, the supermarkets didnt have the massive selections we do now. It was probobly just a a small selection of cheap lagers, then a few different ales.
My Dad loves trying all the "craft" beers, but even to this day, he just grabs a 4 pack of boddingtons or fosters, purely out of habit.
Everyone should ditch this generic dish water beer. Simon did a really good bit of consumer research on super market beers many videos ago. It's generally cheaper and better tasting beer over these farty Burton beers.
So how cone he gave Madri an 8 mark not long ago, glucose syrup and all to boot, never mentioned glucose syrup then mind. I would not wash my car with any of them
They brew 💩 beer for 💩 people
It's one of the ways I decide who I DON'T want to be friends with.
Amstel for me. That dog shit was the last straw for me a few years back, and made me go looking for decent beer.
Amstel in the Netherlands is so much better, it’s night and day different.
I had Amstel in Spain...couldn't get half way down the pint, absolutely dreadful stuff
It's one of those things you only buy once.
The whole UK lager brewers need a big shake up , and start making proper larger . Absolutely no reason why we can't have a decent home brewed larger in the uk
Who wrote this, Loadsamoney? He was always 'larging' it 😂
It does. But why should beer be sabotaged by tax. We have high living costs and nothing to show for it.
It's 'Lager' not 'Larger'. What's concerning is that people like you will be voting in the upcoming General Election.
@@heiltd1286put that can of Stella down 😂
@@jimmymcguire8217 I don't drink Stella. Stella Unfiltered on occasions.
Well, for me, larger is always inferior to proper ale. Having said that, I personally don’t think you’re getting the best experience out of a can anyway, should always be from a bottle! Cans always make the beer gassy and taint the flavour some what
ffs mate its lager it says it on all the cans and bottles......DUH
@@josephberrie9550 I suppose you know what your on about! I vertically don’t ! Have another can, think you’ve already had a couple !
Cans don’t impair a beer’s flavour any more than a keg will 😅, cans can’t leak gas but capped bottles can to a small degree. Either way, I agree there isn’t a single ‘beer’ in this test that’s really going to stand up favourably against a decent well-kept ale.
My local is a One Stop owned by Tesco so I can get Old Peculiar and Timmy Taylor's Landlord but to name a few ! 👌
It's no wonder we have so many people dying of diabetes in this country. They're all sitting there in their compression socks drinking sugar added shite and enjoying it. A great British brewed lager would be fantastic but I would still go for German lager all day long, cheers Simon, taking one for the team once again.
If you bothered to look there are some great British lagers. I'm astonished by the complete absence of inquisitiveness that most people exhibit.
Try west brewery st.mungo made in Glasgow. Set up by a German micro student then sold on, but the beer remained great. Perfect German lager! BTW draught about Scotland it is amazing and won German awards.
A north american hall of shame is required- budweiser, coors, canadian molson etc. All taste like sh!t.
Michelob (brewed in the US) used to be pretty decent - never could stand the rest.
carling isnt 4%, they have previously been to court regarding false advertising, its closer to 3.7%. unbelievably they somehow got away without prosecution and can legally advertise it as 4%
It's + or - 0.5% tolerance on labelled ABV I think
@@jammybizzle666 Carling advertises the lager as 4% alcohol by volume (ABV) but it has been brewed at 3.7% since 2012.
ABV was reduced in order to cut tax on Carling products, the firm said during a hearing brought by HMRC.
According to EU laws relating to the labelling of alcohol, products are allowed an ABV tolerance of +0.5% or -0.5% on products between 1.2% and 5.5% ABV.
Carling are cutting their ABV by over 7%. Scandalous.
Not true @@MalcolmXpat
You missed Corona, which is now brewed in the UK. Was one of my favourite beers, I served in the royal Navy for 12 years and knew that no matter where in the world you stopped Corona would always taste the same. The flavour profile changed a few years back and that coincided with the brewing coming to the UK
It's a race to the bottom. They are widely bought as they are often the cheapest lagers in the supermarket, depending on which brands turn it is to have the best deals that cycle.
Correction. Holsten is still brewed I Hamburg. In Altona. Altona is a Hamburg district. It’s just not brewed in the old brewery since Carlsberg bought it.
Simon is correct in saying that soft water is essential to brew lager. However, the sulphurous Burton on Trent hard water was found to brew some of our best pale ales and IPA's ( India Pale Ale ), most well known are Bass and Marston's Pedigree. So much was this an essential guarantee of quality ale that two south east England breweries, Truman's from London and Ind Coope from Romford opened new breweries in Burton in the nineteenth century. So, Simon, please do not rubbish Burton on Trent, our capital of brewing,
Absolutely agree. No doubt that water makes a huge difference and Burton is still the gold standard for hoppy ales. The diatribe against the high calcium and sulphate water needs to be qualified. Simon is correct though, there is no reason other than economies of scale for brewing lagers with that water.
The guys at Maku Brewing in Finland were singing your praises, Simon. I was drinking their excellent beer all weekend at the Iskelmä music festival in Pori.
Now Simon that is the ultimate ' TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM'😂😂
Here in England we are good at cider and craft beer
Best lagers are Czech and German you don't get hang overs with them english lagers are full of chemicals
Fosters is the worst beer ever
Full bodied review. Excellent viewing. Your bravery in drinking some of that, deserves a medal.
How is this allowed. I used to work in what was Dept of Trade & Industry Consumer Affairs policy covering origin marking. You could put a geographic place name on a product even if not from there so long as you put a corrective place & description on there so as not to mislead consumers. While I'm at it, all British Lager is absolute rubbish and not at all good for you as full of chemicals . Ale is way better.
Great lesson by the way thanks for this video...
Great review! 100% agree with you as to why don't we just have our own national lager rather than badly copying everyone else.
hi Simon That is why I do not buy Heineken-branded products produced in Manchester. I would rather spend my money at the lights of Robinsons or Joseph Holt, or smaller local breweries in Greater Manchester and the north-west of England.
Holts bitter - bang on mate , but their lagers are good too !
@@markmanc-zw3td Yeah, correct, my friend. The lager I'll drink on draft is Joseph Holt's Diamond Premium Lager.
Heineken is corn syrup like- dreadful stuff. 🇨🇦
@@Jbaxter736 When I was younger, there were lots of choices of beers from smaller Gtr Mcr breweries- Boddingtons (not at Strangeways & crap now imo) Holts, Wilsons, Lees, Oldham Brewery,Hydes, Robinsons, Chesters (under Whitbread moved from Gorton to Salford) And if that wasn't enough you'd get the odd Tetleys from over the hill in Yorkshire Leeds.
@@markmanc-zw3td Samuel Smith also had quite a lot of pubs in the Salford area back then, and they were also from Yorkshire.
You kno you sank them jars when the camera went off 💪🏻😂
Hi Si ! Just beers before The shower, after an afternoon on the beach, no more.
Tks for your review !🍻
Also I got to admit I drink a bit of bud light on Keg (much better than Can) to keep me sober sometimes saves me getting in too much trouble..
Bud Light is 4.2 percent in the US and it tastes a bit better too. Ours at 3.4 percent is just totally embarrassing, we surely have THE worst lager in the world now don't we? We've been turned into a laughing stock due to tax.
Bud light is absolutely disgusting to me. Tastes like somebody's mixed in some sugar water with an already crappy beer that they forgot to hop.
Bud light, when regular Bud isn't pissy enough.
@@chirimoya4067 ahaha
@@analogdistortion It is, I bought a keg on sale the other month and it was the worst thing I've ever had. However when I was in Texas people seemed to buy it and I had some, it tasted a lot better.
@Vote.ReformUK The only good bud is Budvar from Czech the rest is shite!
Yeah, I feel your pain. Here in germany it's getting hard to find the philipinian or spanish brewed San Miguel. Most shops now have the german brewed version (brewed by Becks). That one is a very decent german beer, but has absolutely nothing in common with the spanish or the philipinian which are great and refreshing on a hot sunny day. Now I always have to check the barcode. The first 2 - 3 numbers are the country of origin:
40 to 44: Germany
480: Philipines
50: UK
84: Spain
If you want I can send you a bottle or a can if you want to rank the 4 versions of the beer.
Oh Simon, absolutely loved Holstein Pils, made some back in the 90’s with grains and a brewing boiler from a book from my local health shop on brewing beers like you buy. It was the best larger I had ever made. Think I need to start brewing again and buy loads of gear 😂 🍻🍻🍻
Watching you get slowly sloshed and reviewing those rubbish beers is more entertaining than watching England at the euros 😀😀
Nice one Simon 👍🏻
No one is drinking bud light especially in America cause of DM
DM ?
Dylan Mulvaney
Danger mouse
Yep - that whole publicity stunt was disgusting.
@@Tomtoms-tomtoms😂😂😂
Home Bargains got Spanish brewed Mahou 4 pack 330ml bottles for £4.99 just now ,what a difference in quality compared to other UK brewed Spanish beers
Mahou is really great.
Victoria Malaga is much better than Mahou IMO.
@@MLAM168 I agree that it's better but I wouldn't say it's much better.
I've gone off larger over the years. When I'm on holiday I like it. I thought it was just me but I now realise it's because the beers I loved (1664 ) are completely different now they are UK brewed
larger what the eff is larger..is it nearly the same as LAGER
There’s zero reason to have to buy anything like this, pretty much every supermarket these days sells at least 1 proper, German lager, even Stella unfiltered is brewed by Camden Town brewing company and is a relatively inexpensive step up from this garbage!
I'm not an expert but didn't Camden (where I live) get bought into Heineken?
@@pigknickers2975 they did, you’re absolutely right but they’ve sort of been left alone as I think they were already profitable. Most of their beers are still somewhat decent
Absolutely right, San Miguel is utterly foul.
Not worse than carling
Thank you for doing this important work.
A few points - working in islands pubs in the1980s. Bitters from Burton - Draught Bass and Marston’s Pedigree. The hops masked any flavours in the water. In Birmingham there were two main lagers - Carling and Skol. I guess Carling wouldn’t resemble today’s Carling. Skol was by Allied Breweries I presume in Burton. At that time most customers drank lager and lime. If you have to drink most of the beers reviewed here it might be worth adding lime! Skol actually disappeared from pubs when allied merged with Watneys to form Carlsberg Tetley.
In my;local Tescos you can boxes of most these on special offer. If I have the chance it’s better and cheaper to head to Lidl for Perlenbacher.
Luckily I've never had the misfortune to buy any of those lagers. I always stick to German pilsners (but avoid Becks). My local pub sells Pilsner Urquell on draught - Perfection!
You know Pilsener Urquell is Czech right? Brewed in Plzen. They've been swallowed up by a mega brewery so that'll undoubtedly get Burtoned soon. Budvar seems to be the only safe option now, owned by the Czech Republic and not for sale - water, hops and barley only.
That moretti is stronger than you think and leaves you a rocking hangover
Super video, all these beers which I sampled firstly in the mid 90s made me turn to bitter and real ale 🍺
Thanks for the video, always enjoy the reviews & I'm not too far away in Pontypridd. I always felt like a mad hatter saying I enjoy Fosters over many other lagers & I felt my taste buds were crazy compared to others, this video has provided me reassurance it's best listening to your own taste buds not what the majority say. Thank you ❤
If you ever get the chance to try the original Filipino San Miguel go for it. In the little brown bottles. You sometimes see it in Asian shops.
You should try Nigerian Guinness. I bought a six pack in Peckham once.
@@pippin1ful pure bliss
I think Carling was always 4%. It was weaker than the premium lagers, but a bit more than the carlsberg / fosters / skol type stuff. A quick google suggests they have brewed it at 3.7 since 2012, but kept marketing it at 4% as you mentioned. Of course, in the old days, we got the "export" versions at 5% which were much better than the bog standard ones- Fosters export, Heineken export etc No idea whether they were uk brewed though.
Grrat video Simon I just picked up some Red Stripes as they used to be good.
Carlsberg Export is definitely brewed in the UK (iirc as with San Miguel in Northampton, but who knows where it is with the way these big brewers like to chop and change ). Madri used to be brewed in Tadcaster as well
It still is brewed in Tadcaster, and Burton
Yes the carlsberg export is brewed in the UK. Maybe that's the straw that broke the camels back for you 🤣
My theory on fosters is that it stood still, whilst the others around got cheaper and sweeter.
It's ABV was reduced in 2022. Still my favourite macro lager though.
I love your videos sir! Subscribed
Holsten was one of the first bottled beers I drank in 85/86 Loved the stuff. In fact Skol special strength was the only other one available around then. Along came Bud and becks a year or two later. Think San Miguel is the most bastardised on here. As all the weaker one's have just been summer, barbecue beers. Shame what they've done to Moretti , that was a nice beer at one time.
The late Andy Fordham, world champion darts player, once drank 25 Holsten Pils every day with 6 steak n’ kidney pies.
Clue….. he’s is dead ffs 🤦♂️
The Viking was my sports hero and I met him in Brussels once as we were staying at the same hotel. He and his mates were divvying up a massive pile of cash as I walked past his room! Weird, yes - they actually left the door open. But true.
My other hero was the snooker legend Bill Werbuniek who drank 20 pints during a match. Proper men.
@@Ken_oh545I have more respect for someone who appreciates English beer and regards it as the best in the world. That kind of person drinks in a restrained and civilised manner. That's a real man to me.
That's definitely a darts player's diet!
@@heiltd1286 Real Ale Craft Beer is your man. He is a Welshman who drinks in a restrained and civilised manner 🏴
Cruzcampo 'Seville' ...coming at you from an industrial estate in some Godawful part of the UK - Salud mis amigos !
What annoys me is they charge a premium price for a large bottle of Madri. More than Estrella or Victoria Malaga!!
Stella 4.6% crap now, supermarkets are doing 18 cans for £12... yeah!, find a offy that does imported stella 5%... 1.50 a can, worth it!
So what beer would you choose if you had to pop to your local shop to purchase some? Obviously none of these but I'm due to pop round the shop in a bit to buy some for the footy... Probably go for 4 bottles of Unfiltered Stella
Get yourself some Skol lager 😀
The main problem I have is how hard it is to find out where a lager is brewed. They're always cagey about it and I would love for there to be a website that has a big up to date list.
If the barcode starts with 50. UK brewed. I learned that on this channel, tbf...
Heinekin is Manchester and Tadcaster
Carling is Burton upon Trent
Carlsberg Molson Coors is Wolverhampton, Tennents is in Glasgow, That's were some of the lager is produced in the UK
@@scottlouis4076 What about with PerfectDraft? They're even worse as on their site they try to trick you with "Brewery" and it's just the name of the brand, never the exact place of origin.
And often you pick one that USED to be imported, but they've changed and you wonder why its not as good as it used to be.
@davefb I find Red stripe isn't to bad mainly as is contracted out by Heinekin to Charles Wells Brewery just wish it would go back to 5% again
Another excellent video Simon, unfortunately the uk don't know i to produce a good lager, except independent breweries, Samuel Smith's organic pure brew lager is the best brewed UK lager
Golden Eagle from Brew York is a nice lager
Carlsberg export is also UK brewed. The marketing has always been its export strength despite being 0.2% abv weaker
Carling was never 4.6%. It was originally 4.1%, then lowered to 4% Madri is also a totally different liquid and has none of the characteristics of Carling anyway. I do work for MolsonCoors btw.
Whatever. They’re both crap lagers.
It has shite, glucose syrup in it
Simon gets quite of lot of his facts wrong TBF
In 1976 I found Fosters in a shop near me. It was in an odd shaped can, sort of fat, I can’t remember the abv but it was good, or so I thought at the time. Now I wouldn’t touch it. Earlier than that I previously drank Carling Black label and it seemed ok then. Remember, lagers weren’t as popular as bitter and it wasn’t unknown to get flak if you were drinking lager in a Johns Smiths bitter area as I did. It was known as a woman's drink if it had a dash of lime in it. Hofmister came along and we thought it was German but I think it was brewed in Hartlepool.
Some of the beers in your list were good and brewed in there original countries up to quite recently. I had one of the last 660ml bottles of Morreti in this country. I knew the change was coming as the small bottles were already brewed here. Now 4.6 the flavour is much reduced and I have stopped buying it. To me none of them are worth buying. In fact the corner shop near me has both Fosters and Carling at a reduced price due to the expired date. It’s been there for a fortnight and no ones buying, I think that says it all.
That Fosters was the proper stuff imported in to UK. Fat can with a ring pull (pint I think), slightly cloudy but an excellent beer. Tastes like cat’s piss now.
@@stever7097 Thats the one.
Ironically Hofmister is now brewed in Bavaria.
@@tonymccool4698 Has some recently in a smart pub, very nice.
@@tonymccool4698 I haven’t seen it for years
Just back from a month in the Philippines and I can tell you that the San Mig Pale Pilsen tastes a lot better there than here. There is also SM Lite (5%) and SM Red Horse (8%) which taste fine in 40°C heat. But there is a huge opening there for microbreweries (although it is happening a little in Manila)
I would absolutely love to visit the Philippines Simon, I bet the food is incredible
I remember winning a "Spot ill hens" T Shirt in a Holsten promotion at the George and Dragon in Twickenham in the early 90s
People are drinking Bud Light because it's far lower calorie than any other common beer and also isn't crazy alcoholic. On a sunny day in a beer garden when you're restraining yourself it's often hard to find quaffable ales around the 3.5-3.6 range, as pubs seen to think people won't drink it if it's under 5%
Your not wrong ' i like a more lower alcohol Ale ' they tend to ruin them all ' like super strong lagers tennents super 🤢🤮 IPA or even MANNS brown Ale are better 👌
@@Leon-lt5gv a pub I sometimes go to always has a low strength ‘proper’ beer on tap and I appreciate them for that. There are some really nice juicy ales out there under 4% and if you enjoy a pint in the week it’s a sensible option. Obviously not drinking anything at all is more sensible, but y’know.
Carlsberg has a brewery in Northampton located on the banks of the River Nene.
And ironically right opposite the Malt Shovel one of the finest pubs in the country (well it used to be - havent been there in a decade). They used to say that Carlsberg plant was operated by shifts of 6 people, a totally mechanised operation. And I used to go in the Railway up the road at Far Cotton, a very funny pub indeed.
@@Ken_oh545 My folks used to run The Bird In Hand in Regent St, now long gone ofc...
I go to Sainsbury's and get 3 Estrella Galicia for £6 and Mcewan's champion ale 7.3% 4 for £7 and it is lovely
I totally agree that we are being hoodwinked by the brewers into buying these fake British-brewed lagers. But interested in your comments re Burtonisation. The lagers are terrible but isn't their water meant to be good for ales? Hence why Burton became the big brewing town hundreds of years ago. Anyway I applaud you for calling out the brewers and their fake lower ABV lagers.
When it first came to UK in those welded cans it was a delight but as soon as they brewed it in UK it became undrinkable .
Fosters I'm guessing? Super tough cans = I worked in an offy in 1984, flew off the shelving.
@@pigknickers2975 it used to be smooth creamy and tasty but for last decades is weak , gassy tasteless dishwater , shame .
@@alanthomson1227 Yeah, total junk. Pour it down the toilet, cut out the middleman!
I feel like part of the problem is that Burton water and Burtonised water is great for ales but for lagers it’s no good. I wonder what the composition of the water in Pilsen is like?
I did have a can of UK Cruzcampo recently and I was surprised that I didn’t find it too bad and I felt it tasted similar enough to the original; although it’s been a few years since I had some in Spain and it wasn’t really one of my preferred beers there anyway.
I am convinced that there is a brewery in Burton with only one massive brewing vat and a canning line with all the Euro Fizz brands that go through it - same stuff - different cans
Holsten pils is one of my favourites 😂 drank it since was 17
Carling is brewed by Molson Coors.
Crucial work brother….cheers 🍻
I can't believe that anyone would be surprised that light, commercial lagers are on the sweet side.
Carling. Fosters close second.
As soon as they stop importing it the quality goes down..usually its due to the water..the only exception for me is draft Guinness..Fosters was ok originally, now id rather have a glass of pop.😅😂