But I'm…

'm fortunate in that I will drink ANY beer and be happy with it. Doesn't matter if it's 8 bucks a pint or 15 bucks a dozen.

It's so good having no standards.

I submit that it is imperative to have some standards.

We were once given some Kiwi Lager…

Hey! Hands up who WOULDN'T love the chance to sit in some kind of throne drinking out of a skull cup like some kind of prehensile dwarf king or troglodyte or something.......

Well, exactly.

Sometimes, when you get home from a hard day's looting and pillaging, all you want to…

Hands up who WOULDN'T...

It's obvious anyone with good taste wouldn't be seen dead with that! As you (I guess ) would also say "Grow some!" ;)

As an aside, the slabs of meat on that BBQ would have been a dam sight better if cooked…

It's so good having no standards.

Hands up who WOULDN'T love the chance to sit in some kind of throne drinking out of a skull cup like some kind of prehensile dwarf king or troglodyte or something.......

I've seen those skull mugs in the flesh. I'll put my hand up and say that I wouldn't want…

You sad boys :)

Hey! Hands up who WOULDN'T love the chance to sit in some kind of throne drinking out of a skull cup like some kind of prehensile dwarf king or troglodyte or something.......

Damn! for some reason I really want that.

You sad boys :)
If you get a good quality beer,price doesn't have to be an issue because one can savour the flavour, and generally their strength allows one to drink slower and less. Jus' sayin'.

Here's an example...

Damn! for some reason I really want that.

Beer would leak out the eyes.

If it's leaking out of your eyes, you've probably drunk too much too quickly. Ahaha.

Here's an example. Looks like just the thing for a relaxing post-work drink in the sun.

If it's good enough for Lord Byron, it's good enough for me.

Beer would leak out the eyes.

Monteith's New Zealand Lager is brewed in New Zealand for the UK market. A quality premium beer, it delivers on the unique, clean crisp taste of New Zealand and crafted with the UK consumers' palate in mind.

So its product placement.

I mean, it would be a bit morbid to skull a drink. Unless you were a pirate.

Oh, I dunno. Possibly one ancient tradition worth reviving.

If it's good enough for Lord Byron, it's good enough for me.

I don't really have the budget to be swigging Emersons or Epic right and left.

No, nor do I (it's usually Mac's Hoprocker or Sassy Red from the supermarket), however you'd think the govenment could splash out a little when entertaining foreign dignitaries.

I find Macs Gold a bit tasteless

The beer tasting at Beervana was done by mixing the different flavours into Mac's Gold. I assume because it's a flavorless beer.

Ditto most of the (original) Monteiths range, including but not limited to Original, Golden, and Pilsener.

And not to get myself…

I find Macs Gold a bit tasteless

I agree. I'm almost positive that Macs Gold has declined in quality and flavour since Macs was bought by and it's now horrible: tasteless, overly-sweet and the complete opposite of refreshing.

Ditto most of the (original) Monteiths range, including but not limited…

The Radler dispute has made me switch to Mac's (usually Hop Rocker) as my keep-in-the-fridge-for-drinking-with-sports-and-chips beer.

Yeah – I know I should probably avoid Monteiths, but I do generally prefer them to Macs. I find Macs Gold a bit tasteless, but their Celtic Red and Hop Rocker are most nice.…

Monteiths, despite being evil with that bollocks about Radler, are pretty good day-to-day beers.

The Radler dispute has made me switch to Mac's (usually Hop Rocker) as my keep-in-the-fridge-for-drinking-with-sports-and-chips beer.

probably something cool like marketing or something with computers

Actually I'm going with "high-flying senior copy editor", since apart from meetings and lunch, Steinlager Man's workday consists of circling part of a document and then knocking off for evening golf and a beer.

When I say: "We use scull, as in rowing, possibly due to the connections to sport and drinking culture." I more correctly mean "we" as in "right now me and my friends". The phrase Naly D used was: Rowing the place I first learned to scull.…

Mike More on becoming US Ambassador said;

'I'm not…

probably something cool like marketing or something with computers

Wait, what?

We have to be careful to distinguish between "original meaning", and "usual meaning" at a given time , though.
[e.g. what is recorded in surviving Old Norse or Old English texts = evidence for the **usual…

the origin of 'cup' is a rounded cavity (as you v. well know.)

-hmmm. Yes.

We use scull, as in rowing, possibly due to the connections to sport and drinking culture.

WTF? There's no etymological connection between scull (drinking) and scull (rowing). The rowing term comes from the Middle English word sculle and ain't got nothing to do with the drinking word.

But it is…

Collops (thick -venison in my whanau's case- roundels) are GREAT on a barbeque – especially if they've been marinated aforehand.

B. Jones – "Feast" is an excellent book.

Alaistair J – will be drinking right along with you (your…

http://www.gruitale.com/art_fall_of_gruit.htm

This Liquorland wouldn't do it. No worries on to the one closer to SuperL closer to home.

Who was thinking of the children, and our environmental impact?

If the PM's going to entertain royalty, at least he should do it properly, and getting the guest to cook the fillet steak isn't properly. Nor…

That's not any BBQ I've ever been too. Why cook slabs of meat instead of cutting to single serve size for the convienence of your guests.

First time I encountered that was my first night in the USA, hosted by friends of my parents in Riverside California.

They cooked a…

'Real Kiwi Blokes' get told to "get f*&#@" in our house.

Sorry about the edit. I'm a bit sensitive. Yeah well ditto, mostly, but there was those builders working on the house for a bit who insisted on having Heineken, or Hagan, or some other green glassed faux Dutch sounding, but…

Try drinking Mac's Great White. 'What arrr' ya?' Belgian Witbier is not what the 'Real Kiwi Bloke' drinks, apparently.

'Real Kiwi Blokes' get told to "get fucked" in our house.

That's not any BBQ I've ever been too. Why cook slabs of meat instead of cutting to single serve size for the convenience of your guests.

For some reason I was annoyed by the caption which said something about "steaks on the barbie". That's not "steaks on the barbie", that's…

Do the Kirin multinational brewing business (who make Steinlager) accept that all their other products are inferior, and do they rank them in order? Waikato Draught, the 1513rd best beer in the world

When they redesigned the bottles they should have bit the bullet and changed it to:
Brewed in Auckland.
Owned by Singaporeans.
Get over it.

And there's a beer called Skol?

No, that's wrong, there's another big set of beer ads with that trope in it: the drink driving ones.

And the Tui Blond ads where hype, hype, hype is followed by the bottle with a voiceover "its just a beer launch" – portay beer as beer, not beer as thought.…

And I was mocked for refusing to drink Steinlager.

Try drinking Mac's Great White. 'What arrr' ya?' Belgian Witbier is not what the 'Real Kiwi Bloke' drinks, apparently. But then again I could always order a Hoegarden.

Over Christmas I was told not to bother trying to find a nice beer and just buy Monteiths, it'll be the same. So let me clear that up now. No it's not.

And I was mocked for refusing to drink Steinlager.