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We used to call it Harpic, back in the day.

I was quite amused by Tom winding the Diageo bloke up. Though Diageo bloke said Guinness uses roasted malt. It doesn't, does it?

"microgirl":1knd5d1r wrote:

"Alan Gold Label":1knd5d1r wrote: Oh is this along the lines of Guinness Red? Sell something with the Guinnes name but that's even weaker and more bland than that "awfuly heavy, like a meal" pint?[/quote:1knd5d1r]

No. Well, ok, I haven't tasted it, so maybe. But from what yer man was saying on the radio (ok, so he's going to give that sort of spiel, I know) it's just trying a different drink. And of course they're going to put it under their own name. But it's going to be bottles only[/quote:1knd5d1r]It's all about target market, and this is for young people who drink beer from the bottle -- the Heineken and Corona crowd. I say fair play to Diageo for going after them with a schwarzbier instead of another yellow fizz. Hope it works.

Yeah, somebody send Tom a few bottles of Koestritzer. Didn't think it it was shouting-at-the-radio bad, but yeah, talk about the beer and forget bloody Guinness Light (lite?).

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I'd be really interested to see how this stacks up against Zeitgeist and St Bernards Black (my 2 "house" schwartzbiers

Seeing how blinkered Tom appeared to be, you can send the Koestrizer on to me instead (I could only find it on tap...)

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:3rp6cmrf wrote: We used to call it Harpic, back in the day.

I was quite amused by Tom winding the Diageo bloke up. Though Diageo bloke said Guinness uses roasted malt. It doesn't, does it?

&amp;quot;microgirl&amp;quot;:3rp6cmrf wrote:

&amp;quot;Alan Gold Label&amp;quot;:3rp6cmrf wrote: Oh is this along the lines of Guinness Red? Sell something with the Guinnes name but that's even weaker and more bland than that "awfuly heavy, like a meal" pint?[/quote:3rp6cmrf]

No. Well, ok, I haven't tasted it, so maybe. But from what yer man was saying on the radio (ok, so he's going to give that sort of spiel, I know) it's just trying a different drink. And of course they're going to put it under their own name. But it's going to be bottles only[/quote:3rp6cmrf]It's all about target market, and this is for young people who drink beer from the bottle -- the Heineken and Corona crowd. I say fair play to Diageo for going after them with a schwarzbier instead of another yellow fizz. Hope it works.[/quote:3rp6cmrf]

You're obviously not psychic but is there any chance of these being in any way nice? Surely they want a black lager to keep with the name?

Yeah, I know it probably wasn't quite shouting-at-the-radio bad, but it was certainly making-a-couple-of-firm-retorts-with-occasional-obscenities bad <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> I wasn't raging, but I was definitely filled with the need to go "Oh ffs, stop talking such shite, you haven't a clue about beer" a few times. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->