I Don't Much Like British Beer

Here's a good list of beers you can find in Tesco currently -  and you can also compare other supermarkets.... 

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/shelves/Beer_in_Tesco.html?_fty=Beers_And_Lagers

In the pubs, well that's a bit different and you'll have to look around for something you'd like

Thank you for that, phatbeetle, very kind of you. On page one of that list is the beer that I was happy to discover being sold at the Sainbury's in Hastings: Beck's Premier Light. At 65 calories, this is the lightest of the lot, but it actually got a decent enough review. Hell, I'll try it, and I'll continue to search for Amstel Light.

In the pubs I always had a pint of Carlsberg or Stella, usually. I went through a big bitter phase for awhile, Harvey's I think it was, but that didn't last too long. 

Thanks again, mates!

What a great bunch you all are!

Hey, we're all about helping someone get their beer on! 

So, it's more about the calorie content than the actual taste for you? 

So, it's more about the calorie content than the actual taste for you? 

Not really, no. It's just that at this stage of my life I've come to like the taste of the watery soda-pop beers. I know that will disgust most people, and as I think about it, it doesn't make any sense, it's just the way it's turned out.

Partly, yes, it's about calories. I've got my weight down to about where it needs to be and I want it to stay there. So there's that.

I'll still be drinking at pubs, having my pints of lager. The last time I was in Hastings we drank at a pub called First In Last Out. I can't remember what lager I had, but it was what everyone else was having, and I liked it alright.

Peroni seems very popular at the moment. It's an Italian lager. I was at a wedding recently and just after the ceremony there were drinks available free and the beer was Peroni. For me it was just bland.
I'm trying not to say anything that sounds bad because you drink what you like!

Peroni seems very popular at the moment. It's an Italian lager. I was at a wedding recently and just after the ceremony there were drinks available free and the beer was Peroni. For me it was just bland.
I'm trying not to say anything that sounds bad because you drink what you like!

Looks expensive. More expensive than Beck's Premier Light.

Hey, rather than start a whole new thread, I'll ask this question here in this one: does anyone know if you can get rye whiskey in England?

Looks expensive. More expensive than Beck's Premier Light.

Hey, rather than start a whole new thread, I'll ask this question here in this one: does anyone know if you can get rye whiskey in England?

But Peroni more widely available including in most pubs.

Rye whisky, I had to search to see brands and I recognise some I've seen in supermarket and also in Wetherspoons pubs - namely Knob Creek

But Peroni more widely available including in most pubs.

Rye whisky, I had to search to see brands and I recognise some I've seen in supermarket and also in Wetherspoons pubs - namely Knob Creek

That looks like great stuff!

does anyone know if you can get rye whiskey in England?

At the moment the UK doesn't have the selection of rye whiskeys we have in the US. They have to import all the grain to make it, see, at a pretty high cost, so I think the craft movement in the US might stay in the US until importing gets cheaper. (DH loves his rye whiskey and brings thermoses in his luggage when we visit to share with his dad).

At the moment the UK doesn't have the selection of rye whiskeys we have in the US. They have to import all the grain to make it, see, at a pretty high cost, so I think the craft movement in the US might stay in the US until importing gets cheaper. (DH loves his rye whiskey and brings thermoses in his luggage when we visit to share with his dad).

Not something I'd expect them to make here. We have excellent whiskies (I'd say the best in the world though I do enjoy a bourbon) from local ingredients, don't see why there would be the need to go importing rye.

Not something I'd expect them to make here. We have excellent whiskies (I'd say the best in the world though I do enjoy a bourbon) from local ingredients, don't see why there would be the need to go importing rye.

Agreed.

Not something I'd expect them to make here. We have excellent whiskies (I'd say the best in the world though I do enjoy a bourbon) from local ingredients, don't see why there would be the need to go importing rye.

Then how would you make a proper Manhattan?!



As far as the light beer, a shandy made with Stella sort of resembles a budget light beer to me(maybe just because I don't like either of them though). Oh, and if you are ever in PA, try Keystone Light, you might like it.

Then how would you make a proper Manhattan?!

I wouldn't!

Just had to check what it is but what I read said that whilst rye is the traditional one you can use bourbon.
Personally it sounds like a waste of good whisky to me!

As far as the light beer, a shandy made with Stella sort of resembles a budget light beer to me(maybe just because I don't like either of them though).

That's a good idea for the OP to try if UK lagers taste too strong...shandies!  I wonder how it would be if you asked for a lager shandy made with soda water instead of lemonade?  Seems to me it would be very similar to the lite beers that he likes...

How about Rolling Rock?  I've bought it in the co-op here, so I assume it's pretty widely available, and it was also pretty cheap.

I bought a 4-pack out of nostalgia (a statistical survey of our fishbowl full of bottle caps showed that ~68% of the beer we consumed in the academic year 1997-98 was Rolling Rock).  If anything, it was even blander than I remember. 

I'm not sure if that's just a change in my palette over time, or if it's honestly changed now that it's a) been purchased by Anheueser-Busch, or b) being brewed in the U.K.