TOPIC:

1. A_friend_in_mead
2. Irish Party Ale
3. TheBeerNut
4. MrsBeerNut
5. Sbillings

Are you bringing the beer A_friend_in_mead? I take it we reimburse you. Do you take butter vouchers?

Yes I will bring beer. And do my best to anonymise it with brown paper bags.

There has been a complete lack of the trash talk so far. What predictions do you have about what lagers will be good/bad and such?

Lagers are
1. Premium, ad on television
2. Good, German/chezch costing 2 euroish
3. Cheap, Western european costing under 1.20ish
4. German Cheap. Something from lidl or aldi
5. Irish

I think the Premium will come out very badly, likewise cheap. Good will do better than German Cheap, I think. I've no idea where Irish will fall in this.

It obviously depends on which beer from each group is picked. There is probably a cheap german supermarket beer as good as the worst 'good' lager. I think you probably want some shocks like that. That said I am not going to try be sneaky, [i:zzgx7i5s]honest[/i:zzgx7i5s].

"a_friend_in_mead":3v74g7d9 wrote: Lagers are
1. Premium, ad on television
2. Good, German/chezch costing 2 euroish
3. Cheap, Western european costing under 1.20ish
4. German Cheap. Something from lidl or aldi
5. Irish[/quote:3v74g7d9]

I hope you will be going with some classics of each type of beer. They should exemplify the genre.

The Premium beer should not just be advertised on TV, it should be impossible to miss in every advertising medium. If it is not one of the first three beer brands an average 8 year old would name, it's not the right choice.

The Good, German/Chezch beer should have some pedigree, an older brewery, a claim on centuries of tradition and a dubious claim on superiority due to ingredient choice or a brewing technique which may or may not still be employed.

The cheap beer should also be well know. While not advertised on TV, it should be a common sight, gracing park benches and bus shelters in the form of empty cans or ones currently being emptied.

The Cheap German one should have a German sounding name which, while technically perfectly fine German, would never be used by a German brewery to market beer in Germany.

The Irish one should be one of the two lagers by Irish owned breweries available in bottles.

Sounds like a good selection. If I can match those criteria how would you guess the beers will be ranked?