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"bigears":vnxu6dmb wrote: is this the start of a 'guilty pleasures' thread?[/quote:vnxu6dmb]
No, that was on Wednesday when Adeptus came out as a closet Stella drinker <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

Why, have you something to confess, Bigears? Sit down, my son. How long is it since your last can of Fosters..?

I drink Stella, but not in the closet. I have a few in the fridge.
I also drink the occasional Fosters; my friend usually stocks that and Miller, and I never refuse a hosts offerings.
I've spent most of my adult life drinking lagers like Heineken etc., so while it's great to discover new beers, I'm not quite ready to become a complete snob, and forget my 'roots'.

&amp;quot;noby&amp;quot;:8vkthqw1 wrote: I've spent most of my adult life drinking lagers like Heineken etc., so while it's great to discover new beers, I'm not quite ready to become a complete snob, and forget my 'roots'.[/quote:8vkthqw1]
I don't think that avoiding mass produced, heavily-marketed lager makes one a snob. In my opinion they're just bad value, mainly because you're paying for the TV ads. For a "lawnmower beer" (with or without a lawnmower <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> ) I'd sooner go for something from Lidl or Aldi which may be indistinguishable tastewise, but is a hell of a lot cheaper.

My guilt about Cobra is more about the fact I totally buy into the special-beer-for-curry guff when it probably is no more suited to my Saturday vindaloo than anything else.

Perhaps snob was a bad choice of a word, as it opens up a whole discussion, and I'm sure there are people here who are proud to call themselves a snob (I nearly typed [i:3ownl6yk]slob [/i:3ownl6yk]there).
I meant it in the context that if I'm at my friend's house, and he offers me a beer, I'm not going to look down my nose at his 'inferior' product. It doesn't mean I would go out and buy it.

As for Stella, I buy 15 330ml bottles for a tenner. It may not be as cheap as Lidl's tray of stubbies, but is tastier.

&amp;quot;noby&amp;quot;:1z6eqzq9 wrote: I meant it in the context that if I'm at my friend's house, and ho offers me a beer, I'm not going to look down my nose at his 'inferior' product.[/quote:1z6eqzq9]
Jaysis, no. There is no bad free beer [size=59:1z6eqzq9](**resists comment about possibly changing this opinion next Thursday**)[/size:1z6eqzq9]. Conversely, a friend of mine tends to keep Coopers Sparkling as his house beer and I feel guilty about drinking it on him because it's decent, pricey, and I'm not really a fan of it. But it'd be rude not to.

Well, that's the pay off. When people come to my house, they don't refuse the beer I offer, even though it wouldn't be their norm.

There was a discussion about this on an American site that I post on, and a lot of people said they point blank refuse, and would just ask for a glass of water. Now I don't expect anyone to drink anything they don't [i:3g9wookw]actually [/i:3g9wookw]like, but when it's just a case of being offered something you deem to be inferior, to me that's borderline rudeness.
Maybe that's just an Irish thing, or the way I was brought up.