Where the hell is that Haus on the prairie?

16:32 / 08.05.02

I just wanted to ask, what constitutes filthbeer?

Kit-Cat Club

16:40 / 08.05.02

Filthbeer - probably any one of Sam Smith's fine selection of ales and lagers, available for a pittance (well, about two pounds twenty) at your central London hostelry. Watery, strong resemblance to urine, nasty aftertaste, cheapest pint in WC1...

16:59 / 08.05.02

Right.

I'll never understand why people will drink cheap beer. I know that it's economic but isn't a pint of some golden throat warbler better than two pints of barrel-scrappen dregs of fermented horsepiss.

Cheapest pint is rarely a selling point for me. Except at the Hill on carnee day when a quid for a can of Stripe out of a bin of ice from a rasta who insists on shouting Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss in your ear as you hand them cash is about as good as it gets.

Ierne

17:15 / 08.05.02

probably any one of Sam Smith's fine selection of ales and lagers, available for a pittance... – Kit-Cat Club

Is Sammy Smith considered shite over there? Interesting...it's fairly expensive over here, as is most Brit Beer that isn't Bass.

I still find it inexplicable that some folks in the UK drink Miller & Budweiser. I hear the booze content is pumped up for European consumption, but still...yuck.

17:29 / 08.05.02

I'm not sure about Miller but I can assure you that Budwieser tastes a lot better when it's brewed in England than it does when it brewed anywhere on it's home continent. This opinion is corroborated by a number of transatlantic travelling lager tasters.

grant

18:20 / 08.05.02

For what it's worth, the Becks that gets exported from Germany to the US is a different beer from the Becks that gets exported from Germany to the Bahamas. The Bahamian one is better, say experts. Much better.

Fist Fun

21:18 / 08.05.02

I used to spend far too much time in this little pub with two types of beer. One was called Semeuse. It was 15 francs a pint, you wouldn't ever have heard of it, it went down all right but gave you a crippling hangover. The other was Kro, which you will have heard of, which went down alright and left you fit to actually do stuff the next day.
Pretty much every night kicked off with good intentions and Kro...then descended into lack of money and Semseuse. Now that was filthbeer.

the Fool

21:53 / 08.05.02

You want filthbeer, drink XXXX. Not really beer, more like swill with a dash of pee.

sleazenation

21:54 / 08.05.02

Sam smith's pubs are indeed the cheapest you'll find in central london and far cheaper than kit kat would have you believe-- and no matter how bad they are- still way ahead of bud etc in the decent beer stakes

Fist Fun

22:01 / 08.05.02

I suppose there is filthbeer and there is evilbeer. Stella is evilbeer cos it makes you wery drunk, and wery mad and stuff without you really realising. Alright in bottles take great care with pints.

Cherry Bomb

01:07 / 09.05.02

You people need to stop complaining. Have you ever been forced to drink Busch Light?

(well, not forced as such, but you get the picture.)

Sax

06:20 / 09.05.02

Bud is the most offensive piss in the world. And Miller's probably worse.

Stella Artois, on the other hand, is the Emperor of Strong Continental Lagers. And should be consumed with Bacchanalian abandon.

Carling is okay. Fosters is wank. If you go into a Sam Smith's pub, try Owd Tom. It's like Norman Wisdom on acid.

Rev. Orr

06:34 / 09.05.02

Nothing can lay a finger on the filth that is Colt45 (although Kestrel come a distant second).

There are drinkable Sam Smiths ales, but most London pubs seem to think that charging less than £3 per pint is a license to serve any old excretion with a straight face. Ah, CAMRA, the true fatbeards...

Cat Chant

09:52 / 09.05.02

Samuel Smiths beer is NICE, damn you.

Not as nice as Timothy Taylors, but then it is about half the price.

Sax

10:38 / 09.05.02

Timmy Taylors Landlord. Mmmm.

10:43 / 09.05.02

Kestrel may be shit, Kestrel Super is three times as shit (considering it is three times as strong).

For that real park-bench feel, why not make snakebite with that and White Lightning?

Bear

10:52 / 09.05.02

White Lighting is evil, every Friday and Saturday night down by the war monument, ah those were the days.

I thought the Bud in America was much better than the Bud here.

Stella is my usual, I'm not into the whole ale thing that seems to be big down here - London Pride and all that

Carling is alright when you have no money, it just Tennants.

deja_vroom

10:54 / 09.05.02

What is wrong with me? I love Miller! It's the only beer I really enjoy drinking! Perhaps the one we brew here is better than the others... although I think my lack of taste for beers is a more suitable explanation...

10:57 / 09.05.02

Where, oh where, can I get a decent apple martini in this damned city?

Oh. I mean *ahem* nothing beats a long, cool Bud after a hard day's work on the assembly line. Or a few stiff shots of Kentucky bourbon before you stand on that stage with nothing but dreams and a guitar.

My daddy was a drinking man, but he never was a drunk...

Ariadne

10:57 / 09.05.02

Well, hurray for Deva. I like Sam Smiths and was reading this and wondering if I was just odd.

I much prefer Sam Smiths pubs to the likes of the Islington bar where there's nothing but 5 flavours of lager. Bah.

Lurid Archive

11:00 / 09.05.02

I take it there are no germans on the board...

11:00 / 09.05.02

none of this poncey Bud rubbish, give me a Newcy Brown

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

11:08 / 09.05.02

heh, i like rolling rock for my continent, Bass or Guiness (or both) from wherever it is you people are from

11:12 / 09.05.02

Bass is a funny one. In the US I saw that red triangle everywhere; here, you'd only ever find it in dodgy old men's pubs (certainly darn sarf, may be different elsewhere)

11:32 / 09.05.02

Gah, Southerners. Bass is the national brewer of the People's Republic of Burton on Trent. Where do you think *Marmite* comes from, McGyver?

Oh, and on Samuel Smith's...I think the controversy may rage because, whereas their bitter may be very potable, their lager is filthbeer of the first water.

Sax

11:53 / 09.05.02

Ayingerbrau. Yak.

11:57 / 09.05.02

I thought Special Brew would be filthbeer of the first water, or even the last water, you know, the kind of water that has been passed.

For a fine tipple then please direct yourselves to Kirin or Steam Whistle

For those poor unfortunates outside of the GWN then you can't get Steam Whistle and I plan to gloat every time I drink it. It's one of the finest Pilsners ever brewed.

Apple Martini? Is that where the olive is replaced with a .......................

On second thoughts I know better than to ask that question.

12:19 / 09.05.02

Apple martini:

1 measure vodka
1 measure sour apple schnapps

There are those who add 1 measure apple juice (organic, kittens, always organic) and/or a teaspoonful of vermouth, but I feel the former saccharine and the latter a pointless concession to the idea of the martini.

Shake in martini shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a thin slice of green apple. If you must.

Or *ahem*, if you're a real man, just roll up your flannel sleeve, knock the top off a bottle of Budweiser, and enjoy the beautiful sunsets we get here in Kansas.

Ierne

12:31 / 09.05.02

Where, oh where, can I get a decent apple martini in this damned city? – Haus

CHELSEA! There's quite a few places on Eighth Avenue where you can find good ones – There's even a caramel appletini, which admittedly I haven't tried because it sounds too sweet...

Oh wait. We're not in the same city. DAMN.

I take it there are no germans on the board... – Lurid Archive

My bodega sells Spaten...not sure where that stands on the "Best of German Beers" list, but I always buy a couple whenever I go over there.

12:34 / 09.05.02

Are you kidding me.

If you're a real man you roll up those flannel sleeves, march through three foot of snow with your axe, lop down a couple of redwoods with one swing and enjoy a nice cold Canadian as you mavel at the beauty of falling snow and falling trees.

Some them damned southeners could never understand eh?

Now pass me a slice of that blubber.

13:08 / 09.05.02

I had a violet martini in the Lab once. Admittedly it was horrible, but I think it was well-made.