Comments on: Limey Lager Love

By: Ally

Ally — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:02:20 +0000

This statistic has sadly been confirmed by the years I’ve spent drinking in London pubs. I’ll make a few huge generalizations here, but almost everyone drinks lager, if they drink beer at all. Ale is considered traditional, yes, but it’s also an “old man’s drink” which means a lot of younger drinkers aren’t trying it. I was at one CAMRA festival where they had a “young person’s tasting” and that was for anyone under the age of 35. Ale festivals are well attended by a younger men, but at the pub most are drinking lager, and women are having white wine.

The Real Lager satire might be a poke at some CAMRA memebers’ attitudes, perceived by some to be moralistic and narrow-minded. (I will probably be attacked for even saying this– it seems a very contentious subject on the internet).

I am from the West Coast in the US where the microbrewery revolution is flourishing. There, it’s cool to drink good beer and a lot of young men and women are bringing new ideas and attitudes to brewing and food matching, etc. This is sadly not the case in the UK.

By: tedo

tedo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:37:26 +0000

Its definetely a well done spoof. Across the top they had scrolling lager adds. Here’s what one states:
The ultimate bottled beer. Drink Bud, and drink in the American Dream. Named after George Everett “Bud” Day, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War, Bud is a real “in your face” lager that really shouts U-S-A! with every sip.

Agreed though that those that didn’t know better would assume this is the real deal.

By: The Beer Nut

The Beer Nut — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:12:27 +0000

I think you can safely say that Guinness is a British brand. Pretty much as soon as the company discovered that the country surrounding its head office wasn’t the UK any more, it moved its corporate presence to London, where it still is.

By: The Professor

The Professor — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:02:06 +0000

Sad indeed. Things and tastes do change, and not always for the better. As the world gets smaller, things seem to be getting homogenized all over, at the expense of local tradition and local culture.
So sad.