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I can see their point, but, at 99p, I could get used to IPA, it's not a bad pint.

However, Wetherspoons for me is a 20 minute walk, as compared to a 2 minute walk to go to local pub.

Cheap beer = good. I don't think there'll be too much problems running on from this.

Aha! Just the excuse I need to start acting drunk and disorderly, and having fights.

Is that a lager? *flashback to £1 a pint nights in student union* God I can feel the hiccups already.

One NEEDS an excuse?

Yer bunch a chavs!

If it includes their real ales... I will be a happy Kov.

I think it's only IPA, but it's cold and buggared if I'm walking to town for you.

oh go on

Tescos sell cheap hamburgers. MORAL PANICZ!!111!!!

Scummers can now get fat cheaply

No, it's cold.

IPA barely qualifies as a real ale these days, but this is intriguing news.

Supermarket burgers shrink to nothingness with cooked, though. Unless you buy the considerably pricier giant ones.

Wetherspoons had an ale festival a few months back running for a few weeks, where a different ale each week was 99p.

It was great, as I got to sample some lovely ales that I'd never thought to try before. Even though the price has gone back up, I'm still experimenting with different ales. makes a lovely change from my usual lager.

IPA is watery rubbish though.

Oh, can't they all just fuck off? PEOPLE DO NOT DRINK BECAUSE IT IS CHEAP FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

And it's NOT cheap, anyway. I bought a round of four drinks in Canterbury last week for the first time in almost a year, and it cost me half what I spend on food in an average week. I welcome lower prices, because I'm not a fucking idiot and am capable of drinking without hospitalising myself. If they want to stop stupid people from injuring themselves, putting the price of booze up won't help, because stupid people will continues to drink more than they can afford anyway. Instead of treating them, they should simply hurl the drunken cretins in a ditch.

I do like a good pint of Greene Kings IPA, although there are soem nice other ones too

I do like some IPAs, but Greene King is rank.

GK IPA is so watery and flavourless these days, it has less depth of flavour than your average lager.

The best 'standard' ale in most pubs is Abbott. Abbott is a great session ale.

I am spoilt for choice when it comes to beers, as I live in Cambridge, so tend to get a bit hypercritical about things like GK IPA. It's fine to chuck a pint down your throat if you've been out for a long walk or something, just to wet your whistle, but it's not something you sit and enjoy.

Any offers on nice Sauvignon Blanc, or Smirnoff Ice?

*flounces*

we have some great local breweries in Shropshire now, it is really great.

I have just had a bottle of staffard brewery, Dane(something) IPA, was rather good. I still have a rather large selection of RA that were christmas present.

My local serves a great Black Sheep and London Pride, but if you are ever in shropshire, go to Bridgnorth and try their local brewey.. amazing beer

Ping!
No evidence that more expensive booze makes you drink less. Also - booze may be relatively cheaper now than it was 20 years ago, but everything else is more relatively cheaper, so, booze technically isn't that cheap, relative to everything else now.

If they're serious about a boozed up Britain, then they should introduce a law stopping the glamourisation of getting drunk in magazines and on TV, although by 'glamourisation' I sort of mean Phil Mitchel looking sweaty and red and having a jolly old knees up with ferret faced Albert Squarers before getting into a fight, and 'celeb' magazines showing photos of celebrities being 'muntered' on alcopops and the like. It's a completely stupid system, Brit film and tv and magazines are screaming that it's okay to get so drunk you fall down in the gutter and vomit everywhere, and getting into screaming matches, when it's not. But why do they say this?

It's fun to get drunk, but in the high street clubs today drinking is there to take the place of conversation and genuine socialising. Pack 'em in, turn the music up to a level where people can't hear and funnell everyone toward the bar. Convesation is impossible, dancing is near impossible on the crowded floor and the music does not extend beyond the mass-mush that is pushed forth in the above magazines and TV. What memory loss does not obliterate, the ubiquitous blaring of the latest X Factor single reassures that some sort of social shared experience has taken place.

And oddly this is seen as enjoyable. And I guess it sort of is, but only by being completely shit-faced. Which is wherein lies the problem. Going out to get shitfaced, 'cos otherwise there's no chance of a good time.

ALERT. I am not adverse to getting drunk myself, but getting plastered is a different thing. It's okay happening on the odd occassion as a young 'un but what I see in Cardiff on Saturday nights is just grisly. I think there needs to be less lazy scriptwriters showing constant party cultures, and less complete vacuity and more responsibility in TV characters. 'cept in stuff like Black Books, where it's charming.

But then thinking deeper this opinion of mine is probably more out of me just disliking the sight of vom and litter and slurring wreckage in the street. If they were to do this to themselves out of sight and not strain the NHS I wouldn't give a shit. But unfortunately this is a society that doesn't care about public exposure of debilitating, retarded drinking. Going out and drinking is fun, getting quite drunk is fun - sometimes getting very drunk is fun. But drinking every weekend to get hammered is just depressing.

Actually, I think I'm just a snob.

As for 99p for IPA, and for other cheap ale drinks - well it doesn't stop the casualites from downing aftershocks and brawling outside Revolution, and I like ale, and am poor, so I say its good.

Also, this:



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw6J9bYQ4 ... re=related

In 'Magnetic North', Jonathan Meades argues that although the British like to look toward the south and drool over the med and think of a sun-drenched hedonism, believing our society to be increasingly Southern European. It's a lie. We're Northern, like the alcoholic baltic states of liver failure and vodka, rain and freezing winds and grey buildings. That's why we drink, because we're a baltic state removed. It's a jolly good show.

So in summary, waffle and yay for 99p IPA, which tastes okay.