Time for a change.

I’ve finally decided that I’m sick of making that age old sacrifice of drinking the shit, watered-down, excuse for a beer those in England call “lager” and the rest of the world attempt to actually pass off as “beer”.
I have no need to make such sacrifices. Why perpetuate the cycle when I can just step out of the circle?

So, I’ve come to the decision to make a conscious effort from this point onwards to not drink cat-piss on the sole grounds that there is no real beer available. In those situations I will resort to a short of an acceptable alternative (vodka, whiskey, cognac, brandy, rum, etc.). Please note: there is no resroting to ‘alco-pops’.
If this means a night in a certain place becomes more expensive then so be it – it simply isn’t worth the guilt of realizing you drank cat piss.

Of course, this does not mean I will never drink “lager” again – far from it. I intend to stick firmly to my “if it moves, try it” policy of trying everything once before ruling it out completely, and this applies equally to foreign interpretations of beer (the phrase you are seeking is “lost in translation”).
I will quite happily go out of my way to try “beer” in all its forms, but if my current experience with lager is anything to go by, I won’t be trying them more than once.

So what sort of things will I _not_ be drinking? Well, for starters, let’s just mention Stella Artois, Becks, Heineken, Carlsberg, Carling, Fosters, Budweiser, Miller, nor the lagers I’ve had here in the land of the pharaohs Stella, Sakara, Luxor, or Meister.
Equally, my days of San Miguel (bottled) are through. Draught is a different matter.

“So, Dave, what lagers will you stretch to!?”

So far, the answer is short and sweet: Corona and Budvar.
Admittedly there are one or two American offshoots I need to revisit (namely Samuel Adams), but basically those are the only two I know for sure that I can stretch to (and even then, only in the right conditions: dry heat on a later summer afternoon, the Corona with a lime, thank you very much…).

And that’s that. There’s probably more I should write about right not, but I’ll have to get to that later.

For now, remember that TD encourages responsible drinking: once you fall down, you’ve had enough.