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Midlands Eagle said:
Thank you. I was trying to remember the name of the beer that I used to drink on Tyneside 30 years ago and couldn't remember the name but you kindly mentioned Lowenbrau and saved me from wracking my brain any further
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funny enough, I'll be having a pint of Lowenbrau late afternoon in Town.
The pub i meet mrs KD in, after her hair dressers, sells it on tap.
very nice too!
 
Dogburger said:
You are forgetting the German pils beers we enjoyed before Tenants came on the scene . Holsten (5.5%) and Lowenbrau (5.2) were a couple of favourites and even Becks (5%) was half decent before they dropped a clanger with the UK market Becks Vier .

Brewers looking to cut costs with home brewed lagers along with government taxes saw the end of our German favourites who refused to give uk brewers license to make their beers due to German purity laws .
I remember when Holsten first hit the pubs on Draught ,must have been late 70's .Bearing in mind we were used to drinking Skol which was a pissy 2.8% . I was having a few Holstens with dad and the local postman one lunchtime .......the rest is a blur but remember mum getting home sometime late afternoon to find the three of us crashed out in the living room with the postmans bike along with a bag of mail in the hallway . "What the f*** is going on here ?" I think was the term used

Thankfully some stronger beers are making a comeback in some independent micro pubs that are free to sell beer from craft breweries .Though they mainly concentrate on Ales and Bitters most carry a barrel or two of decent a Pilsner .
I think thats where the older drinker is now heading , if you are spending 5 ,6, 7 quid a pint you really do deserve better than the mass produced yuk brewed in places like Northampton .
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Holstein Pils- was very nice. All the sugar turned to alcohol according to Donald Pleasance. Still available now but doesn’t taste the same.
Lowenbrau is lager royalty. In terms of mainstream lagers it must be one of the very best, shame it isn’t seen very often, maybe only in free houses.
 
Dogburger said:
You are forgetting the German pils beers we enjoyed before Tenants came on the scene . Holsten (5.5%) and Lowenbrau (5.2) were a couple of favourites and even Becks (5%) was half decent before they dropped a clanger with the UK market Becks Vier .

Brewers looking to cut costs with home brewed lagers along with government taxes saw the end of our German favourites who refused to give uk brewers license to make their beers due to German purity laws .
I remember when Holsten first hit the pubs on Draught ,must have been late 70's .Bearing in mind we were used to drinking Skol which was a pissy 2.8% . I was having a few Holstens with dad and the local postman one lunchtime .......the rest is a blur but remember mum getting home sometime late afternoon to find the three of us crashed out in the living room with the postmans bike along with a bag of mail in the hallway . "What the f*** is going on here ?" I think was the term used

Thankfully some stronger beers are making a comeback in some independent micro pubs that are free to sell beer from craft breweries .Though they mainly concentrate on Ales and Bitters most carry a barrel or two of decent a Pilsner .
I think thats where the older drinker is now heading , if you are spending 5 ,6, 7 quid a pint you really do deserve better than the mass produced yuk brewed in places like Northampton .
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From memory Holsten appeared in about 1978. I recall a friend coming in the pub and announcing he'd found this brilliant beer with the drawback being that it was 50 p a pint which was greeted with incredulity but as he added you didn't need as much of it to make the journey home a challenge.
 
Willo said:
I heard about a gentleman who imbibed 5 pints of 'Fullers ESB' at lunchtime and spent the afternoon and the entire next day in bed.
Many years ago in Wales I was introduced to 'Brains SA', fondly referred to as 'Skull Attack'. Certainly scrambled my brain.
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Reminds me of the 3 I had in the Cricketers Arms, Southbridge Place, alas no longer but I lived round the corner at the time, didn't pass out but got told off for bad language, shocking what strong ale can do to the uninitiated.
 
Remember drinking special brew at a party in the 70,s was standing opposite a full length mirror, knew I'd had enough when lifting can to my mouth, in my reflection nothing moved
 
kevlee said:
Holstein Pils- was very nice. All the sugar turned to alcohol according to Donald Pleasance. Still available now but doesn’t taste the same
Lowenbrau is lager royalty. In terms of mainstream lagers it must be one of the very best, shame it isn’t seen very often, maybe only in free houses.
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I don't know the ins and outs of it but Holsten sold its overseas distribution to Carlsberg in 2004 . This led to Holsten being brewed in the UK and like ALL continental pilsners that this happens to it turns to crap .

I agree about Lowenbrau ,I think I might have ended up with a drink problem if that was still on offer down the local :beer:
 
Dogburger said:
You are forgetting the German pils beers we enjoyed before Tenants came on the scene . Holsten (5.5%) and Lowenbrau (5.2) were a couple of favourites and even Becks (5%) was half decent before they dropped a clanger with the UK market Becks Vier .

Brewers looking to cut costs with home brewed lagers along with government taxes saw the end of our German favourites who refused to give uk brewers license to make their beers due to German purity laws .
I remember when Holsten first hit the pubs on Draught ,must have been late 70's .Bearing in mind we were used to drinking Skol which was a pissy 2.8% . I was having a few Holstens with dad and the local postman one lunchtime .......the rest is a blur but remember mum getting home sometime late afternoon to find the three of us crashed out in the living room with the postmans bike along with a bag of mail in the hallway . "What the f*** is going on here ?" I think was the term used

Thankfully some stronger beers are making a comeback in some independent micro pubs that are free to sell beer from craft breweries .Though they mainly concentrate on Ales and Bitters most carry a barrel or two of decent a Pilsner .
I think thats where the older drinker is now heading , if you are spending 5 ,6, 7 quid a pint you really do deserve better than the mass produced yuk brewed in places like Northampton .
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Cherry Trees sold Holstein Pils on tap early ‘90s.
 
Dogburger said:
We called it Laughing brew ,it was hangover free probably because there were no additives in it

The only thing that happened when you woke up after a night on the Lowenbrau was the desire to get down the pub for more 😉
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Watneys brought out a bitter called Fined when CAMRA began having some influence and the hangovers that provided were unspeakable - you felt as though you needed an exorcist after a night on it.
 
A lot of lagers just taste like flavourless pi55 to me, Carling Heineken, Speroni, Corona, there’s just nothing to them. I worked with a fella once who proudly announced that he drank 90 cans of Carling one Easter weekend that I helped load into his car, my first thought was why? even for a heavy drinker who I know stops tasting it after a time, at least pick something that you can taste the first few cans
 
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