Do u know why Coca Cola tastes better in 0,33 Glas Bottles as in 0,5 ones?

[KaOz]

??

[JE:5]

Probably made in a different place. I had some Pepsi in Hungary and it was vile.

[Loz]

British Coca Cola tastes better than anywhere else in the world, even than in America. And every American I know who's had both agrees.

[spoon]

coca cola tastes like a bunch of chemicals with some sugar in it.

[Paddy]

i had a bottle of coke on friday, an ice cold glass one, and it was lovely.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

coca cola tastes like a bunch of chemicals with some sugar in it.

So does Stella and I like that too...

I found it very easy to give up things like McDonalds and never crave them.. but I doubt I'll ever stop drinking coke.. which happens about once a month..

[Yer_Maw]

cos its made in east kilbride

[Loz]

i had a bottle of coke on friday, an ice cold glass one, and it was lovely.


you can't beat an ice cold coke, you really can't

[spoon]

it's nice on a warm day but only for half a can. then i start tasting all the chemical shit which is masked by the extreme fizz for the first few mouthfuls.

i've drunk stella a couple of times, tastes like any other shit beer to me - sorry ;)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

i've drunk stella a couple of times, tastes like any other shit beer to me - sorry ;)

I like nice beer and shit beer.

[Loz]

Steev, you ought to try Leffe. Fantastic beer from Belgium.

http://www.suninterbrew.ua/images/leffe.jpg

It's lovely, sort of a lager, but with a proper beery head on it. And it's really alcoholic, and you reach a point, usually half way through your second bottle, where you suddenly realise you're really quite pissed. But in the nice way.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Yeah thanks loz I drink it all the time, like I say I like nice beer and shit beer :)

Coke is just a drug to me, it works out of any bottle/can/vat. Except for those shitty bar syrup things.

[Paddy]

leffe's amazin, two of the big champagne style bottles and i'm halfway to the floor, brilliant.

@spoon, coke's shit out of cans or placcy bottles, gotta be out of a glass bottle.

[spoon]

I like nice beer and shit beer.

i wouldn't say that i like shit beer, but it's useful. i was throwing back the carlsbergs on friday, which is good stuff if you're going to be drinking alot because it's not too strong and doesn't really have any sort of taste. drinking alot of nice beer, from bottles usually, gets me hammered much quicker so i try to avoid it if it's going to be a full evening in the pub or whatever.

i'm not a beer snob btw :)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I normally go with fosters or carling for the getting pissed slowly in the cheap.. in the sun lark..

[spoon]

@spoon, coke's shit out of cans or placcy bottles, gotta be out of a glass bottle.

you can only get glass bottles in bars, hotels, eaters here though, in shops it's cans or plastic and plastic is the worst, much worse than cans. it is nicer out of a glass bottle though, yeah.

[Yer_Maw]

yeah but drinking nice beer doesnt make you feel in the morning as if your teeth have been exposed to radiation and your brain feel like its had cosmetic surgery. I hate shit beer, and i hate upmarket pubs charging a fortune for shit beer.

Ill still drink it though.

[Loz]

whenever I drink fosters I get a killer headache in the front of my head, horrible beer that

[Whuffle]

chimay blue, or Duvel. OOF!

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

yeah but drinking nice beer doesnt make you feel in the morning as if your teeth have been exposed to radiation and your brain feel like its had cosmetic surgery.

No but if you get pissed on Leffe you'll feel equally but differently bad!
But yeah Stella does give a killer hangover.

[KaOz]

its all about bionade these days

http://www.fluid-style.com/images/kunde/bionade.jpg

[spoon]

I normally go with fosters or carling for the getting pissed slowly in the cheap.. in the sun lark..

on a sunny day i'd go with bulmers cider, cans. same buzz, you get locked very slowly and happily like a wino. looking forward to doing it again!

[Paddy]

yeah man, leffe, schofferhoffer, paulaner, all those good beers give you a special kind of hangover. i feel like shit after a night on the tennents, but it's nothin compared to my expensive beer hangovers.

i love all kinds off beers/ales/shit lagers, i am a beer god, give it to me, i will drink it.

[JonnySpeed]

Steev, you ought to try Leffe. Fantastic beer from Belgium.

was in some shit meaty-only gastro pub oop norf landan the other week. They had Leffe on tap. I asked for a pint and the wunt serve me it. they said it was too strong to serve in pints. my arse. I drank two halves and didn't puke or nowt. they even said it will taste horrible without the wanky glass they get given to market it. want exactly happiest experience in a pub - all over a pint vs 2 wanky glasses??

anybody explain that one to me?

[Loz]

too strong to serve in pints.

lol

I don't consider myself a heavy drinker, because I'm not, but I can easily polish off a couple of 3 pints of that stuff in an evening.

probably can't walk very well afterwards, but it's possible

[spoon]

glasses are for girls.

[V Knid esq]

was in some shit meaty-only gastro pub oop norf landan the other week. They had Leffe on tap. I asked for a pint and the wunt serve me it. they said it was too strong to serve in pints. my arse. I drank two halves and didn't puke or nowt. they even said it will taste horrible without the wanky glass they get given to market it. want exactly happiest experience in a pub - all over a pint vs 2 wanky glasses??

anybody explain that one to me?


In theory, at least, they're trying to foster a 'continental drinking culture' by getting people to sip their beer like wine instead of swilling pints.

In reality, of course, it just allows them to charge even stupider prices.

[JE:5]

Stella actually used to be nice many years ago, I can't stand the stuff now, it makes me heave.

[Paddy]

just go to morrisons, you can get 2 big bottles of leffe for a fiver.

[Yer_Maw]

In theory, at least, they're trying to foster a 'continental drinking culture' by getting people to sip their beer like wine instead of swilling pints.

In reality, of course, it just allows them to charge even stupider prices.

yeah but small glasses has nothing to do with continental drinking culture as anyone who has ever ordered a pint in a hot country knows.

The only way to get a continental style drinking culture is to treat the folk like adults, maybe then folk wont feel the need to start the sambuka competition drinking competition at 6pm in order for the evening to be worthwhile in these townie pubs that are closed at 11.

repeal the defence of the realm act now!!!

[Davenport]

any one who canes stella. Isnt drinking Stella. they are drinking the version made in Scottland which isnt Stella. Maybe you go to Belgium and try Stella at Leuven and then what do you say. you cant fuck with Stella.

[JE:5]

yeah man, leffe, schofferhoffer, paulaner, all those good beers give you a special kind of hangover. i feel like shit after a night on the tennents, but it's nothin compared to my expensive beer hangovers.

i love all kinds off beers/ales/shit lagers, i am a beer god, give it to me, i will drink it.

Shofferhoffer is lush, I only found out about it on my last day in Berlin and spent most of my time caning Erdinger dunkel. Thanks for the heads up about Morrisons, is it a special offer or is it a permanent thing?

[Loz]

I really like Cobra, too.

[Paddy]

reckon it's permanent JE, can't be sure though. you can't fuck with the erdinger dunkel, well nice. schofferhoffer also do kristallweizen, which tastes similar to the original weiss bier version but it's more refreshing. you can't fuck with the czechs either, kozel is another of my favourites.

[spoon]

any one who canes stella. Isnt drinking Stella. they are drinking the version made in Scottland which isnt Stella. Maybe you go to Belgium and try Stella at Leuven and then what do you say. you cant fuck with Stella.

Belgian stella is muck as well. let's face it, if you go to Belgium - where they make some of the best beer in the world - and drink stella artois, you are taking the piss.

[Davenport]

ever been to Leuven?

[spoon]

no, but i don't drink stella either. ask a Belgian, when they stop laughing they will tell you that it's canned pisswater made for export.

[Davenport]

They dont export Stella mate.

[spoon]

right, different stuff then...

[Davenport]

made under licence is scotland. different drink entirely.

[JE:5]

That's the thing though, i'm sure it used to be exported years ago when it was actually drinkable.

[Sheridan]

British Coca Cola tastes better than anywhere else in the world, even than in America. And every American I know who's had both agrees.


that is because there is raw cane sugar in the british coke and high fructose corn syrup in the american version.

[love_tempo]

the best coke is the mexican glass bottled coke served from a bit wheelbarrow of ice on the street in very hot weather :) Or the stuff served in bars for mixing which is like syrup. Or the soda stream cola...

It's very addictive though, me and my gf we're supposed to be giving it up cos coca cola are a nasty company like nestle. But we've both caved in several times already.

[Sheridan]

I'm drinking some stellas now.
from their faggy glass even.

http://www.zino.com.tw/products/43a0407ee902b.jpg

[Mui]

chimay blue, or Duvel. OOF!

yes. quite possibly the finest beer on the planet.

You guys don't know anything about shit beer. We invented the worst beer ever - tooheys new.

[Sheridan]

yes. quite possibly the finest beer on the planet.

You guys don't know anything about shit beer. We invented the worst beer ever - tooheys new.

I'll take your tooheys and raise you a:

http://netlinkenterprises.com/prodimages/52007S.jpg

and a:

http://www.sedhe.net/images/beer/best.jpg

[Sheridan]

on thing that racked my head was when I was in scotland and I went to a few pubs for drinking tons of people were drinking buweiser and miller high life.
I didn't understand that one bit.

[Mui]

I'll take your tooheys and raise you a:

http://www.sedhe.net/images/beer/best.jpg

but that's milwaukee's best it must be good!

I don't mind Bud. Can't stand Miller though.

[Sheridan]

if I have to drink a generic american beer I don't mind miller light. bud just has this really weird taste and is overly carbonated.

miller high life and miller genuine draft are fucking piss though.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

on thing that racked my head was when I was in scotland and I went to a few pubs for drinking tons of people were drinking buweiser and miller high life.
I didn't understand that one bit.

very strange innit. but then us brits are advertising sheep just as much as you guys are.

Crazy that the american Budweiser are sponsoring the world cup in germany! That stinks of corruption... what am I talking about? It's a sponsorship deal! It's legalised corruption!

[solitary_zen]

i wouldn't say that i like shit beer, but it's useful. i was throwing back the carlsbergs on friday, which is good stuff if you're going to be drinking alot because it's not too strong and doesn't really have any sort of taste. drinking alot of nice beer, from bottles usually, gets me hammered much quicker so i try to avoid it if it's going to be a full evening in the pub or whatever.

i'm not a beer snob btw :)

As long as the carlsbergs weren't the elephant variety :)

Stella is just the same as all the other mass marketed piss that dominates beer sales around the world (becks, carlsberg, fosters, budweiser, asahi, kronenbourg, nastra azzuro etc. etc. etc). At least where I live it is now possible to find decent brews on tap in plenty of establishments (unlike a few years ago).

I'm a proud beer snob :)

[Espresso Fetish]

the common factor here is
WATER ...

If the base is good then the finish product is going to be good
generally water for Coke, Beer and Coffee Machines are filtered down to
0.2 of a micron, this takes out pretty much all the added extras that councils put in our drinking water.

[aleks]

my favourite beer...



http://www.lecopain-bonn.de/images/jever.jpg

[wheezer]

British Coca Cola tastes better than anywhere else in the world, even than in America. And every American I know who's had both agrees.

Bullshit. I lived 5 years in the US and diet coke is the best soft drink, they can't even use the sweetener in Europe.

I think that most of the really large German breweries are no longer German, but actually Belgian. Like Löwenbräu, sold to Interbrew of Belgium. Might also have to do with the fact that Anheiser-Busch is the world's largest brewery though ;)

Anyhow Budweiser is a shit beer, give me Budvar any day!

[grobelaar]

Its the can - the metal in the can tinges the tastes - that is why drinks taste better if they are decanted out of the can.

[joe pinapples]

I have the real skinny on the differences betwixt US and UK coke. In the late 80's coca cola tried to introduce New Coke and phase out the coca cola then on sale. They did this because there is a small amount of natural flavouring in original coke and the New Coke was made entirely from man made chemicals and was therefore cheaper. Americans didnt like the change, because the new coke tasted worse, so they had to keep selling the old style recipe. What we have in Europe is New Coke.

[dirtyho]

http://www.belgianbars.com/
The Dove freehouse on Broadway Market rocks!
101 belgian beers - you have to leaf through a 10 page menu just to order a beer - lovely

[wheezer]

yeah belgians actually have the most different beers per capita in the world, proper beer nutters

[Yer_Maw]

hmm, im unconvinced pineapples as european coke contains the label "classic" implying it is the old style recipe.

www.snopes.com will give you the lowdown on new coke.

[Whuffle]

yeah belgians actually have the most different beers per capita in the world, proper beer nutters

July 21st is national beligian day. Sometime around then, they also celebrate the life of St Arnold, patron saint of brewers!

[Loz]

Bullshit. I lived 5 years in the US and diet coke is the best soft drink, they can't even use the sweetener in Europe.

diet coke is a different drink to coke

[darrell]

I just cant drink more than one or two beers now a days, i just get bagged
up.

[AVX23]

I think the reason it's different is because it's not just made in different places, but they have different grades for different countries.

[cut out]

i live within walking distance of an off license that sells 500 different beers.

fucking deadly.

Coke is probably the one uber brand i'd have a hard time stopping... i really love a glass of proper coke every now and then.

[spoon]

pepsi are rumoured to be launching an organic cola sometime soon. predictable really.

[iain c]

I just cant drink more than one or two beers now a days, i just get bagged
up.

hey i was exactly the same,stomach cramps the lot,
then i switched to guinness instead,result?....no ------- sore guts :)
trouble is,is that it is so bloody expensive :(

[Daddys Girl]

i Coke is probably the one uber brand i'd have a hard time stopping... i really love a glass of proper coke every now and then.

Diet Coke used to be my best drinking buddy.... I gave up on it a while ago now, which was tough (I barely touch fizzy drinks now) but I've recently discovered that I have to have a glass of it whenever I have thai green curry.... it's such a beautiful thing.

[penciLneck]

Steev, you ought to try Leffe. Fantastic beer from Belgium.

http://www.suninterbrew.ua/images/leffe.jpg

It's lovely, sort of a lager, but with a proper beery head on it. And it's really alcoholic, and you reach a point, usually half way through your second bottle, where you suddenly realise you're really quite pissed. But in the nice way.

tis bloody good stuff, just had my first bottle. its kinda like special brew lite.

[domstrong]

??
coke is filtered up to 12 times to make the purest spring water. unfortuantly the water dosent belong to coke it belongs to the local farmers of many third world countrys, even if the land is privatly owned coke will drill down to the source and drain it leaving the land un farmable!!
it takes 9 litres of that water to make 1 litre of coke.

anyone still thirsty???

[love_tempo]

That's why we gave it up but I've still gave in a couple of times since. I think that especially the Pakistani's that own shops and restaurants here should boycott selling it because it's their mother country that's being ruined.

[thepigjockey]

Anyone tried any of these?

Quibla Cola (http://www.qibla-cola.com/index2.asp)
Zam Zam Cola (http://www.zemzemcola.com/)
Mecca Cola (http://www.mecca-cola.com/en/index.php)

[fifi]

i was out for dinner last night and i had full fat coke in a glass coke bottle - it rocked, which is strange as i am normally diet all the way

[cut out]

my local offie stocks 500 types of beer from all over the world.

totally deadly.