I Am A Tennent's Drinker

awec

Where I grew up Tennents was the main lager in most of the bars and club. It's awful stuff. Terrible after taste and makes me feel terrible !t the next day.

Harp on the other hand, fantastic stuff!

somesoldiers

When the Monaghan footballer Eugene "Nudie" Hughes was a rep for Tennents in the 90's a pint of it was know as a pint of "Nudie" round those parts

conorh91

spodoinkle wrote: »

15 years ago me and some mates went to Rossnowlagh with 24 cans of tennants each.

We drank said cans, ate a can of beans each and passed out.

The next day we all threw up said cans of tennants and said cans of beans.

I havent been able to look at tennants since.

I'm not sure what role you believe the beans played in all this… that's enough alcohol to sink a small ship!:eek:

razorblunt

I live in Edinburgh, the only folk still drinking it are the crowd hanging on the post Uni pursestrings and want a cheap pint.

ectoraige

I sometimes think The Backwards Man is actually a character from a Robert Rankin novel.

mickydoomsux

keithclancy wrote: »

Tennants is grand.

I drink many different types of beer, there's that beer category that are all pretty much the same

Tennants
Bud
Heineken
Carlsberg
Warsteiner
Becks
etc etc


Chill the ass out of any of them and you'd struggle to tell the difference.

People are funny, I once met this guy in a bar in Amsterdam saying this Magners he was drinking was the closest thing he could find to Bulmers but it was nowhere near as good :rolleyes:

This. I've taken to drinking the cheapest thing available in the offie because i don't bother going out anymore.

There is **** all difference between Karpackie, Tuborg, Prazky, Bavaria etc. and the "better" brands. I'd rather pay about a €1 a can for them than twice that for the same thing with a marketing budget.

The only reason microbrews and artisinal hipster **** tastes different is because they put different additional stuff in it to make it taste different.

Not necessarily better. Different.

I'm going to get 6 cans of Bavaria for €7.50 this evening and have more fun drinking them playing dumb videogames than you will on your €60+ night out :P

Fratton Fred

I saw the thread title and started singing this for some reason

razorblunt

mickydoomsux wrote: »

This. I've taken to drinking the cheapest thing available in the offie because i don't bother going out anymore.

There is **** all difference between Karpackie, Tuborg, Prazky, Bavaria etc. and the "better" brands. I'd rather pay about a €1 a can for them than twice that for the same thing with a marketing budget.

The only reason microbrews and artisinal hipster **** tastes different is because they put different additional stuff in it to make it taste different.

Not necessarily better. Different.

I'm going to get 6 cans of Bavaria for €7.50 this evening and have more fun drinking them playing dumb videogames than you will on your €60+ night out :P

I sleep in a big bed, with my wife.

mickydoomsux

razorblunt wrote: »

I sleep in a big bed, with my wife.

I'm sorry for your troubles

keithclancy

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I'm going to get 6 cans of Bavaria for €7.50 this evening and have more fun drinking them playing dumb videogames than you will on your €60+ night out :P

Its strange as well that in each country and even area that different brands are seen as better or worse.

E.G.

You go to anywhere in Brabant and they saying Heineken is pi$$ and everyone drinks Bavaria.

Everyone in Amsterdam says Heineken is piss and drinks Amstel

However everyone everywhere in the Netherlands will have no problem drinking a Heineken if it's the last thing in the fridge :pac:

DeeTee100

Nothing at all wrong with Tennent's, had many's a fine night on the stuff. I remember the time the off licence near us was clearing out short-dated 24 packs for €13, deal of the year if you ask me.

I was surprised when I went over to Glasgow for a weekend last year, Tennent's was the go-to pint in almost all the pubs, I could get used to that!

topper75

Quite fond of it. I drink it on tap when on the occasional trip north. Down south you have to settle for cans.

When I was younger some fool told me that up north if there was a Tennants sign outside a pub it was a loyalist pub and if there was a Guinness sign it was a nationalist pub. I stupidly took it at face value. In my defence, I grew up in a time when all anyone down my way knew of the north was trouble and division, because that is prism through which the southern state broadcaster presented it.

Gasping for a jar now having read the thread. Off on hols tomorrow for a week so might incorporate a break for the border.

DEFTLEFTHAND

topper75 wrote: »

Quite fond of it. I drink it on tap when on the occasional trip north. Down south you have to settle for cans.

When I was younger some fool told me that up north if there was a Tennants sign outside a pub it was a loyalist pub and if there was a Guinness sign it was a nationalist pub. I stupidly took it at face value. In my defence, I grew up in a time when all anyone down my way knew of the north was trouble and division, because that is prism through which the southern state broadcaster presented it.

Gasping for a jar now having read the thread. Off on hols tomorrow for a week so might incorporate a break for the border.

The Guinness family are southern Irish Unionists, they probably wouldn't have been happy with that association.

TireeTerror

I would drink it if there was no other choice, but its not a nice pint at all. Tastes cheap and I always moan if I asked for a pint and one of my friends came back from the bar with that. Im Scottish too!

mickydoomsux

TireeTerror wrote: »

Tastes cheap...

And what exactly does "cheap" taste like?

Would it taste better if it simply cost twice as much?

Most beer tastes nigh on identical until you get into the craft "add-a-bunch-of-extra-****" brews.

TomBtheGoat

I'll take my hat off to anyone who can drink Tennent's, because it really is the vilest of piss.

SEPT 23 1989

mickydoomsux wrote: »

And what exactly does "cheap" taste like?

aluminium

keithclancy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

aluminium

That's weird ... Draught beer must taste strange to you as well since it comes in a massive aluminium can.

conorh91

I just bought four bottles of that horrible Yellow Tail Aussie wine… it was on sale in Tesco.. I'm like a Protestant in a thrift shop when it comes to wine bargains. I don't even like that stuff. (Marginally) more drinkable than Tennents though.

TireeTerror

mickydoomsux wrote: »

And what exactly does "cheap" taste like?

Would it taste better if it simply cost twice as much?

Most beer tastes nigh on identical until you get into the craft "add-a-bunch-of-extra-****" brews.

I've most likely had more of Tennents that you ever seen in your life. However I do not like it and wouldn't buy it. It tastes cheap because it tastes utterly vile and insipid and I feel like I have chemicals in my mouth when drinking it.

The economic cost has nothing to do with it. Its utterly boggin and thats all there is to it.

Reiver

The Backwards Man wrote: »

And I'm Wile Sound!

Have you ever met a drinker of the Scottish lager of the Gods that wasn't? Everyone should take Tennent's into their hearts, even if I am biased.

Why don't you drink Tennent's?

I remember offending a few of the blue-noses by drinking it. I thought it was just my cocky stride and musky odour but apparently because I didn't drink Dutch Gold/Karpackie/Bavaria/Galahad/Excelsior/Dunnes Stores Brand Lager/Tuborg, I just wasn't one of them.

Ayrtonf7

Since I went onto beer I've always went for whatever is cheapest. Bottles have always been my preference though. Just cant beat the taste compared with a can.

Tennet's ... I used to love it ... Spent many a day and a night packing it away. Got 8 cans there a while ago from O'Briens and my god I could barely finish the first, naturally they got a bit easier as the night went on though. Probably wouldn't buy it again.

Have to agree with what people are saying. Beer is beer. There is very subtle differences between them and to be honest these differences are so insignificant that I can never justify spending double the € on one. After turning to craft beer for the odd night. I hate the hipster image attached to them though.

mickydoomsux

Ayrtonf7 wrote: »

After turning to craft beer for the odd night. I hate the hipster image attached to them though.

Uh oh. Now you've done it.

/hears the sound of approaching Penny Farthings and fixie bikes

A lot of opinions in this thread not backed up by much. At the end of the day, drink what you like and you owe nobody justification, but if you make broad statements, explain them.

I was reared on Guinness, Heineken, Bud, etc. but the old fella brought back a few bottles of Duvel from Belgium circa 1990, and I was hooked.

There IS a lot of hipsterism around craft beers, and I have to say that while there are some fine Irish craft brewers, much of the output is generic, because there are a lot of chancers in the trade, and some of the well intentioned new brewers just don't have the experience yet.

Try some Belgian beers, some British ales, some IPAs, some bottled stouts - there are so many tastes to be tried. If you want cheap lager, try Perlenbacher from LIDL. It's ~€7 for 6 glass bottles. It's no award winner, but is eminently more drinkable than most of the tuborg/dutch gold/karpackie/carlings in the bargain basement area of the off license.

Few weeks back I cycled to the garage down the road in a t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms to grab a few bottles of Kirin Ichiban and some snacks on a lazy Sunday. Guy serving me asked was it nice and I replied "it's not bad at all". He looked at me and replied "You don't look like at Tennents drinker" and tbh I'm not sure if it was a compliment or an insult.

cloud493

I wasn't aware tennents was considered a drink of piss. I suppose the fact its a euro a can should be a tip off.

mickydoomsux

cloud493 wrote: »

I wasn't aware tennents was considered a drink of piss. I suppose the fact its a euro a can should be a tip off.

If it was 2 euro a can it would be lovely.

spodoinkle

conorh91 wrote: »

I'm not sure what role you believe the beans played in all this… that's enough alcohol to sink a small ship!:eek:

When I think of Tennents all I can think of is all the beans outside the tent the next day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dd972

I've heard an urban myth that loyalist chavs in the North drink Tennants ( the Scottish connection ) and nationalist chavs go for Harp.

Not G.R

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Most beer tastes nigh on identical until you get into the craft "add-a-bunch-of-extra-****" brews.

You have it arse-ways

Depending on the style, beer should only have 4 ingredients; malted barley, water, hops and yeast.

It's the multinationals putting all sorts of crap into beer. Budweiser, for example, is partiality brewed with rice.