What do you Drink and why?

Water - my brain needs it

I tried everything when I was younger and often to excess. Woke up with blinding headaches and sometimes missed days at work.
Ultimately the truth began to sink in, it's all poison and I gave it up.
I do go to the pub sometimes and usually drink blackcurrant and soda. It's very refreshing and you can drive home afterwards.

with a heavier wallet.

Fortunately, for me, alcohol has always made me quicker-witted, funnier, more athletic on the dance floor and better looking.

It's all true Jack.

Wine, beer goes straight to my waistline these days

I like the taste and the feeling it gives. It makes being in company bearable, although it is lovely to sit in the corner of an almost empty pub, more so in the afternoon as the world goes by outside.

A few pints of IPA coming up very soon

I must be one of those people who just doesn't like alcoholic drinks much. Used to drink a fair bit in my younger days, out with the lads etc.,
but came to the conclusion I didn't really enjoy beer, lager always froze my intestines (why the need to freeze everything is beyond me)...
Went through just about every spirit drink, whisky, bacardi, gin etc etc... tried loads of wines, kept well away from dry whites, use soave as paintstripper, loved the red wines, bordeaux and burgundies, but they don't like me... almost instant headaches, and I think I've found something that hits the spot. Champagne!
Travelled Europe a lot during my working days, Leffe Belgian beer (blond) is a lovely drink, a bit strong at 6.6% and is the only beer in my house now.

It would be Leffe Brune for me John

Marston's Pedigree when I can get it, drank lager when I was younger but very rarely touch it now apart from the odd bottle of Lowenbrau. I like a bottle of Duvel blue in the house occasionally, don't drink as much now because of medication.

Guinness when I'm in a pub but I mostly brew my own

The best beer and my reason for brewing is a black lager I had in a pub called U Fleku in Prague.

Zorro
The answer to your OP depends mainly on two things when and where you were born. For a bit of a fossil like me the choice of what to drink was determined by the local breweries. In my case these were Ansells, M&B and to a lesser extent Banks' there were others but I can't remember their names. Then there was really only a choice of two drinks: bitter or mild (can't remember anyone drinking lager and don't think it was even served in most pubs). Guinness may have been sold but again can't remember people drinking it.

Didn't like Ansells' beer so that was out. My favourite was M&B's Brew XI which I drank from 1960s to early this century but quality varied enormously from pub to pub. The local brewery at Cape Hill closed in 2002 and never had a pint of it since. If in a Banks/Hansons pub I preferred the mild but don't think it's as good these days.

These days it's all rather turgid stuff like John Smiths and Carling which I can't stand. As BB said Marston's Pedigree is Ok, as is Holden's bitter and some of the real ales - which tend to be guest ales so not a staple.

So really it's three things, when you were born, where you were born and the pubs you frequented.

Bank's MILD HEAD STAYED TO BOTTOM OF GLASS
Quality

Red wine.

A couple of glasses is perfect, feel relaxed and no hangover.

Used to drink beer/lager but that stuff just gives you a sore head the next day and bags you up at the time, plus it doesn't taste great once half way down bottle or pint.

If in boozer will have vodka soda water. If on holiday at the pool will have a Koppaberg mixed berry cider in a pint tumbler, full of ice. Refreshing.

Malt because its better than any medicine. I hate it when people put all sorts of stuff in their Malt and contaminate it's natural taste and aroma which has blossomed over twenty five years.

james'


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Anything brewed by St Austell Brewery or Timothy Taylors.

Whisky ffs.

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just the smell of whisky makes me honk

Charlie, back in the day there were lots of Marstons pubs in Lichfield and we all drank Pedigree. I remember that when we went over your way it was Banks' and that was pretty good.

Going pack to my younger days, I started drinking at about 17, local beers mainly Hancock's... which I rarely drank, and Trumans. The Trumans dark was a potent brew, 3 pints and I was out lol. Trumans was brewed in Burton iirc, and they closed that brewery and moved to London. The beer just wasn't the same, quite different, and it disappeared from around here. I drank Worthington dark for a number of years, but then that changed as well. The Worthy dark kept in oak barrels was great stuff, and the landlords used to refil the barrels with the slops from the beer tap trays. Lots of customers didn't like this practice, myself included, and you could often tell when the barrel was getting empty (ish) the way the beer got lighter in colour due to the amount of bitter and lager going back in the barrel!. I doubt very much if that is still going on anywhere these days?
Brew X1... drank some of that in Brum back in the 70's. Awful stuff lol.

Brought up in the West Midlands meant that it was Banks's, Ansells or M & B.

Fortunately, the majority of the pubs we went in were Banks's because the others beers were rank.

Bathams was considered nectar by some.

Most of us worshipped Banks's.

The soft among us drank lager.  Drinking lager and lime or lager dash was considered tantamount to 'coming out'.

On special occasions we might share a four pack of Special Brew walking on the way to the first pub.

Just a steadier, you know.

Trumans was brewed in Burton iirc, and they closed that brewery and moved to London. The beer just wasn't the same, quite different

Truman's brewery was alongside the main railway line, they shut it I think in the late 60's and the site was snapped up by Ind Coope. The building is still there but I think it's now a bonded warehouse. The secret was the water as it is extracted from boreholes founded by the monks, Marston's have been using the same borehole for 200 years. They once tried to brew Double Diamond in London but it was a disaster because the water was totally different. A couple of local blokes set up last year and started trying to brew Double Diamond again (Prince Philip's favourite beer) using the original recipe, Carlsberg Tetley though wouldn't give them permission to use the name so I don't know what it's called.

Jack
Forgot about Bathams which was a top pint - used to drink it in the Lamp Tavern in Dudley.

Marston's Owd Roger was a favourite along with Brakspear's Old or Special. These days I like Adnam's Broadside.

Woods or Pusser's rum is off limits for me now but I can remember the taste.

Fullers ESB
Marstons Strong IPA
Adnams Broadside
Theakston OP
Abbot Ale
Badger Poachers Choice

and for lower %

Bass
Speckled Hen

and a few others I forget.

i bet your a right laugh in the pub Baron

Jack Daniels ,Jim Beam and a few others ,on the Rocks only

Very Little beer or Lager these Days 1 or 2 before moving on

Strangely I don't like Whiskey Either ,Other than JD ,and a wee Jamesons on Occasions ..

TheBarons the sort you'd barge in to & knock on the floor, then
laugh in his face when he can't fight back from drinking his Speckled Hen

In Manchester we are lucky we have both hydes and Holts both very good however my favourite is Wye valley brewery thankfully Hereford is reopening so the trips will soon be back on.

'What do you drink and why?'

Beer. As Australian Hero Henry Laswon said 'Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer'.