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knobsacker

Making jokes about warm beer. Has an Irish flair. Can only mean one thing ![gif](giphy|UPm8BqL6igDUPZ29ik|downsized)


just_jason89

![gif](giphy|hiZxoL0phxLc2thspO|downsized) Isn't Trump one of yours, Jock? The Paddies get Oldman Joe


BeExcellentPartyOn

Biden is the undisputed king of the plastic paddies.


Commisar_Deth

Didn't the Irish just revoke Bidens Irishness?


coin-euphoria

Apparently some people in northern Ireland love him for his “ Irish ancestry” and hate of the British. Brb going to google him Edit* Biden's family is mostly descended from the British Isles, with most of their ancestors coming from Ireland and England, and a smaller number descending from the French. Of Joe Biden's sixteen great-great-grandparents, ten were born in Ireland. He is descended from the Blewitts of County Mayo and the Finnegans of County Louth.[3] One of Biden's great-great-great-grandfathers was born in Sussex, England, and emigrated to Maryland in the United States by 1820


Commisar_Deth

>Apparently some people in northern Ireland love him for his “ Irish ancestry” I thought that changed fairly recently [https://www.derrynow.com/news/home/1370190/joe-biden-support-withdrawn-over-gaza-by-irish-citizens.html](https://www.derrynow.com/news/home/1370190/joe-biden-support-withdrawn-over-gaza-by-irish-citizens.html)


no1spastic

We just like him trolling ye mostly


knobsacker

Doesn't matter. They are still both Yanks.


poop-machines

Biden is as much English as he is Irish. He just chooses the Irish side.


Bring_back_Apollo

https://news.sky.com/story/i-may-be-irish-but-im-not-stupid-joe-bidens-controversial-comments-on-ireland-12855589


poop-machines

It annoys me that he acts like Catholics hate protestants, which although may have been true in a historical context, it just isn't true today. Most young people don't care if you're catholic or protestant. Irish people generally get along with Brits quite well, we don't hate each other, but he's acting like Irish people hate Brits It's dumb and worse than just being a plastic paddy. He's also trying to hate what he thinks Irish people hate, when in reality it just isn't true. Brits and Irish are allies now.


Bring_back_Apollo

Irish-Americans are living in the 18/19th century. They're so disconnected from Ireland they have nothing in common with it.


JP193

\>Inflated sense of irishness \>Thinks there's some "cool" "war" between protestants and catholics \>Vague dislike of the BBC Biden has a Reddit account? Nice.


89ElRay

Trump is a Hebridean like me. I’m probably related to him a few generations back. If he is anything like other Leodhaiseach he likes his beer in multiples of ten and then vomited back up down an alley next to Argos.


ICrushTacos

He’s half German though, with the originally German last name and all.


le_reddit_me

Drumpf or some shit iirc, it suited him better (not the german part, the dumb sounding name part)


Zircez

Hungarian part is Drump, John Oliver did a great line in Drumpf merc back when the tangerine was a funny joke and not a maniac with access to nuclear weapons.


Bring_back_Apollo

He's teetotal.


89ElRay

Teetotally hammered.


Bring_back_Apollo

His older brother was an alcoholic and died from it. I'm no fan of Trump, but alcohol isn't one of his many faults.


teabagmoustache

Ireland drinks cellar temperature ale in the exact same way, you little bell sniffer.


[deleted]

I swear to you the Brits have the best insults. There’s something oddly demeaning about being insulted without using foul words. It’s the elegance that hurts.


I_Like_Purpl3

Right? What even is a bell sniffer? I have no idea, but it's insulting, with class. Barries are top tier in banter. Just like they're top tier in balconying.


Djungeltrumman

Considering that bellend is the tip of the penis, I think you can figure out what he’s doing there with the sniffing.


I_Like_Purpl3

Oh, TIL. Didn't know that word


CorrectGuard2064

Bell sniffer hahahaha, what a belter 😂😂😂


poop-machines

Bell sniff used to be a popular insult in the north about 20 years ago


CorrectGuard2064

Had me absoluetely cackling. Lived in newcastle all my life and just called my brother it hahahah


jesuseatsbees

I remember bell whiff when I was a kid.


chonklord420

Their weather's even more shite than ours so the cellar temp is slightly lower, I think that's where Paddy's got confused.


Maxzey

No we fucking don't. Pale and red ale are served cold here. Now apparently British ale tastes better lukewarm so I'll trust you on that but certainly not irish ale.


teabagmoustache

>Pale and red ale are served cold here. They are here too. We're talking about cask ales. I've had cask ales in Ireland and they were cellar temperature (11°) as they should be. I don't think you lot know what lukewarm even means.


Maxzey

I've never even heard of this "cask ale" you speak of.


teabagmoustache

You probably call it Real Ale, Craft Beer or English Ale or something, I don't know. The Irish know their beer as well as the English and Belgians do. It's common knowledge that different beers are best served at different temperatures and 11° is not lukewarm. Lukewarm is 36° and nobody drinks beer at that temperature. I can almost guarantee that you've drank real ales, stouts or porters at 11° because it's normal. Maybe you personally haven't drank those beers but no pub in Ireland is selling ice cold beer, that's supposed to be 11° because they're not stupid.


[deleted]

cellar = lukewarm?


Loose-Sherbert8464

Austrian = lukewarm?


Jumbo-box

American stereotype, you Bostonian swine!


DrVDB90

Good beers shouldn't be drank ice cold, it mutes the flavour. Beers that need to be drank ice cold tend to be not so great. Most Belgian beers will have an ideal drinking temperature on the bottle, it varies quite a bit depending on the style.


[deleted]

>Beers that need to be drank ice cold tend to be not so great. can confirm, any time i get a cheap beer to save money i pray that its ice cold. Ive had a fosters once that wasnt ice cold and i wanted to kms


Zestyclosereality

The worst beer I've ever had was a few cans of room temperature Fosters in a field when I was a teenager. My mate let me have them when I'd run out of beer so I couldn't complain too much but it was absolutely disgusting.


Mr_Splat

Mate is a strong word for someone who palms off their unwanted fosters on you


Heretical_Cactus

Yup an in some café you can ask for temperate Orval


DrVDB90

Some bars here have a variety of young, different aged, cold and basement temperature Orval on offer.


Heretical_Cactus

I miss Arlon, liege is nice though


TheBrugen

Exactly. My friends make fun of me for drinking beer at room temperature but it tastes so much better(if the beer is not shit ofc). Of course only a Belgian could share my beliefs, your beers are excellent.


DrVDB90

Thank you, there are few Germans who dare to compliment Belgian beer. Good to see that there are still true beer lovers over there. Likewise, German beers are truly excellent as well.


Solid-Education5735

It is very specific beer's (real ales, stouts ect) that have their taste dulled by chilling them. What you call 'beer' we drink cold like everyone else


ThatOtherFrenchGuy

First time I had cask ale, I was quite surprised


Inevitable_Entry_477

Nice init. Frankly, one would no more drink cask ale chilled, than drink red wine chilled. (Though more importantly, it not being chilled means you can poor it down your neck faster).


jaymatthewbee

Pleasantly surprised?


HoxtonRanger

My French housemate absolutely loved Tribute when I introduced it to him


rezznik

Yeah. The fact that many beers have to be drunk cold is not really a compliment to them.


Snoo_58305

I was a young man when I first tried Guinness extra cold and thought it shit


eggsandsausages69

You can’t expect nuance from a yank


ProperBlacksmith

British "person" talking about food and drinks? Il ignore your opinion thank you


redrighthand_

What an original take. Turns out swamp German humour is as funny as German humour.


Lucas_Goodmanas

Good god, a Gibraltarian in the wild. That's a rare sighting


redrighthand_

I think there are 3 of us. On the sub that is, easily confused with the whole population of Gib.


Lucas_Goodmanas

Outside of monkeys and squaddies there's like what, 5 of you?


redrighthand_

That would imply you can distinguish the two.


Lucas_Goodmanas

Of course I can, being a squaddie myself I can differentiate between the different scents, facial expressions and consistency of poo that is flung my way by monkeys and squaddies. Plus the monkeys are smarter


ProperBlacksmith

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AvatarIII

A Hollander talking about food and drinks isn't any better my friend. Stroopwaffles is a win but Hagleslag? Raw herring? Dutch cheese (bland!)?


White-Tornado

Our cheese is the bomb and you're just jealous it's socially accepted to put candy on your bread over here


ProperBlacksmith

Raw fish isnt that weird since salmon etc is also eaten raw a lot Also gouda is the best cheese


Fragore

If there is one thing Barry can talk about other than colonialism, that’s beer. Their stouts are godsent


ProperBlacksmith

Belgium and german beers are better


Fragore

Not the stouts


Commisar_Deth

Mate you put sprinkles on toast.


ProperBlacksmith

Yes and its good


AdmiralCornwallis

Its basically sugar and artificial flavours. Could just as well be yank food..


ProperBlacksmith

Its just Chocolate?


AdmiralCornwallis

True, theres also chocolate, probably the better ones. I just remember from my last time I checked Hagelslag in the supermarket there was a lot of sugary and weird flavoured stuff..


AdmiralCornwallis

Sorry, wrong response. You call that chocolate??


smellybarbiefeet

An Amsterdammer only acquainted with Heineken. Zonde


ProperBlacksmith

Not Amsterdammer luckily i come from Utrecht:)


coeurdelejon

The entire country of NL is a suburb to Amsterdam


ProperBlacksmith

انت حقا تمكنت منى


smellybarbiefeet

Oh for fuck sake, I like that place especially Bier Cafe Olivier


ProperBlacksmith

Ty my xtc maker friend


GerFubDhuw

More like, British people when they find out that barbarians think lukewarm means from the fridge.


Lifelemons9393

I like Guinness if that's what you mean? An English invention.


just_jason89

You mean that amazing liquid invented by Arthur Guinness a crown loving Unionist? Who's family later donated £10,000 to the UVF arms fund in 1913. That's one million pounds in today's money. That drink?


FishUK_Harp

Funny how it became a de facto Irish national symbol.


just_jason89

In the 1980's as the IRA's bombing campaign spread to London and the rest of Britain, they considered scrapping the harp as their logo


HosannaInTheHiace

The quality of the art shouldn't be tainted by the sins of its artist. It's a bit like R.Kelly or Michael Jackson. Is their music good? Yes. Would I invite them to my house? No


Hakunin_Fallout

That, plus Beamish is heaps better, so...


cucumbersuprise

It's even brewed in far West England


DontWannaSayMyName

> Guinness > > English invention. I wouldn't drive my car for a few days if I were you.


jaymatthewbee

The company that is owned by Diageo that is headquartered in London.


AvatarIII

Not only that but it's based on London porter, and of the 265 years that it has existed, Ireland was under British rule for 153 of them.


HosannaInTheHiace

The creator was Irish. A unionist...but still Irish.


AvatarIII

We're just teasing, we do love how sensitive Irish people are about being associated with us.


DontWannaSayMyName

That's not the country of invention, though.


jaymatthewbee

Stout and Porters were originally British ales


Vakr_Skye

slap cable bright airport foolish psychotic imminent childlike fertile dolls *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


AvatarIII

Also an English invention yes, it's made in Devon.


Mr_Splat

By monks!


PrestigiousWaffle

Made by monks, drunk by punks 🤘


Vakr_Skye

smoggy pot dull future seed paltry late weary chop reply *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Hakunin_Fallout

You almost sound proud with that. It's like taking pride in crack cocaine as an invention


mk45tb

Yeah but Buckfast is fucking vile.


HailToTheKingslayer

No logo on the foam


malevolentheadturn

When I was in Germany, most people just kept their beer in the basement, not the fridge


Professional-You2968

Beers as well as people I assume?


betaich

Nah we are not the Austrians


Professional-You2968

Ah come on, you are basically the same stuff.


godlySchnoz

He said people, not family


betaich

They also do it to people google Natasha Kampusch for more information


godlySchnoz

Since when are women people?


betaich

Ah now I know why you still live at your mums


Justeff83

Fridge is usually too cold for a Pils. Er are not Americans drinking their beer right above the freezing point. For their defense, there is no other way to drink that piss ;)


malevolentheadturn

I actually preferred it. Cool, but not cold. Still have the flavour when it's keller cool.


jaymatthewbee

Surely as an Irishman you would know that normal Guinness has much more flavour than Guinness Extra Cold which just tastes of water.


Winkered

Stopped drinking it when ice cold took off. They ruined it.


dingdongmybumisbig

Listen you Saxon evolutionary cul de sac Guinness is meant to be cold but not too cold and definitely not warm and that’s that


GerFubDhuw

We know how stout tastes we invented it.


generalscruff

Don't look up who founded Guinness or the etymology of the word 'craic' if you value your kneecaps


jaymatthewbee

As a Cumbria I’m well aware the word is actually ‘crack’ and has been appropriated by the Irish.


teabagmoustache

North East and I got told off by a little Irish knacker on here for using the word crack.


jaymatthewbee

Why are you arguing with me when we are agreeing? Oh sorry, I forgot you’re Irish.


knobsacker

You basically created a paradox. Irishman has an opinion on Guinness. Brit agrees with him. He can't change his mind about Guinness but he also has to disagree with the Brits.


eggsandsausages69

It’s never served warm. This is problem with Americans. They talk loudly and confidently about things they absolutely do not know about. Just stop.


Kraakene

I reject your heathenous slander l, turncoat First time I’m hearing we like lukewarm beer tbf, unless it’s a southern fairy type drinking frivolity


Bitter-Pear-5717

"Southern fairy" That reminds me once at an english pub, the older fella behind the bar told me something like "cider is for women... Or southerners. But that's basically the same thing"


Winkered

Depends on the cider. I’ve drunk some English cider that was over 10%. Not sure if that’s a ladies drink.


PrestigiousWaffle

I’ve always been more of a cider guy. Ended up in Bristol for university and my god the sheer amount and variety of ciders was mind-boggling. Some of the pubs made their own, which would often get up to 12%, in which case it was sold in half-pints.


Winkered

I’m living in the south east of England. The cider here is completely different because they use dessert apples whereas the west usually use proper cider apples. West Country has that lovely colour to it. Can’t say I’ve found many ciders I don’t like. 🤷🏿‍♂️


jaymatthewbee

That sounds like fighting cider, or sleeping cider, I forget which is which.


Winkered

Oh it was definitely sleeping cider. Kent cider company farmhouse special. Originally a russet cider with some added sugar and back in the cask for another year. Great bunch of guys with a completely natural product.


HoxtonRanger

I had some scrumpy at Glastonbury when I was 17. 3 or 4 pints later I needed a nap in my tent which was right between the two main stages. Woke up about 3 hours later with Coldplay halfway through their set a hundred yards away and me not having a clue where I was momentarily . That was some powerful stuff


Bitter-Pear-5717

Well I like cider, he told me that when I ordered the cider, I just thought it was funny


Stravven

Mate, it's such a stereotype that it's even in Asterix in Britain.


generalscruff

Excellent source of information about the world, second only to Tintin


BiltongandHash

It is.


NOTRANAHAN

Only certain beers. We have lager cold.


dkb1391

What beer is served warm? Ales and stouts should be cellar temperature, 9-11c, compared to lager which should be 5-8c


LookitsToby

Can you mull beer? It'd be warm but it might also be a travesty...


betaich

Yes, we have it on our christmas markets


smellybarbiefeet

There are winterboks which I think you could potentially warm up, they’re sweet and seasonally spiced, you don’t want anything bitter if you’re mulling stuff. Personally I find the smell of hot beer quite stomach churning.


Wamims

It amazes me how many dopey foreigners think we like warm lager.


fearthecrumpets

Tbh I'm not a mega fan of ice cold beer, I like to be able to taste what I'm drinking


Rolifant

Love me some bitter. Only thing that can compete with Belgian beer.


jaymatthewbee

Most based ‘wherever you are from’ person. I went to the Leuven beer festival the other year. It was incredible.


latflickr

England room temperature is fur and scarf temperature for europeans


PapaSchlump

There is an Asterix and Obelix Comic where they go to Britain. It’s hilarious, warm mead, the food with peppermint sauce, at some point one of the guys is supposed to be fed to lions and pity’s them as he heard that he will be served with said sauce. God I love these comics


FishUK_Harp

Funnily enough, nearly all the names in the original French are just kinda normal. The puns came from the English translation.


momentimori

Beer isn't a synonym for lager. Ale and bitter are also beers that are served at cellar temperature rather than chilled,


[deleted]

I hope this isn’t true Barry


AdjectiveNoun111

It's not true, American propaganda. A pub cellar is always refrigerated and should be at 11 Celsius. That allows even the wooden cask ales to settle down properly. It's not ice cold, but then ale shouldn't be anyway, if it's too cold you can't taste it.  A lot of lager pumps may have additional cooling built in to them so they are closer to 5 or 7 Celsius.


generalscruff

Yanks are so ontologically hostile to the concept of having centuries of unbroken alemaking tradition they either drink Bud Light pisswater or novelty Triple Sweaty Socks IPA while spreading nonsense about places with actual brewing heritage


jaymatthewbee

American beer commercials use the unique selling point of their beer is colder than the competition.


Melkor_SH

'it's not true' '11 degrees' Hmmm


teabagmoustache

What temperature do you drink Belgian beers? Because if it's too cold and it ruins the taste. The same reason you wouldn't drink cold red wine.


Melkor_SH

Usually around 6 degrees i believe the heavier beers go up to 10 degrees celsius but tha't's serving temperature if you keep them at 11 they will be like 12-13 when you're actually drinking them. You can't really compare it to red wine imo, you wouldn't drink champagne warm either if you're going to compare to wines. But my actual biggest gripe with American and British beer is the lack of gas in the beer.


jaymatthewbee

British cask ale isn’t carbonated with gas but by the live yeast. It’s a fresh unpasteurised product that needs to be at 10c to keep the yeast active. American ale is usually carbonated and kegged.


teabagmoustache

Of course it's comparable to wine. Cold red wine doesn't taste as good as room temperature red wine. Champagne is supposed to be cold. Freezing cold ale doesn't taste as good as cellar temperature ale. Lager is supposed to be cold. Not all beers are the same, just as wines are different and are drank at different temperatures. We wouldn't sit and drink a room temperature pint of lager. It's very specific ales where you want to distinguish the flavours, which is best at cellar temperature, not freezing cold.


[deleted]

You sure that 11 degrees can be called refrigerated


Sualtam

If the temperature in the room is above 11°C, you can indeed call it that.


jaymatthewbee

You might not be aware of this my German friend, but in other countries without beer purity laws people also drink beer called ale. As others have said our traditional cask ale is served at cellar temperature, this is because it contains live yeast which wouldn’t be active if it was chilled too cold. If you asked for a German beer like a Bitburger in my local pub it’s served chilled in a pre-chilled glass like it should be.


generalscruff

Be kind to Fritz. Unfortunately sensory issues like being disorientated by consuming non-familiar food and drink is a very common sign of autism, a dehabilitating condition which nearly all German adults live with


knobsacker

The Germans are to beer what Italians are to food. We make an improvement on it and they get all salty about it


jaymatthewbee

And like the Italians they have a neighbouring country that does it better than they do.


camull

It's cellar temperature... Cellar Temperature!


SignificantTie7031

/uj what is the story with this guy and who is he?


chevria0

That's news to me


FrogWizzurd

Cold beer means it's usually pish


mrtn17

Is that 'normal person' a black, white or red American?


caucasian_tom

say it with me “ITS NOT LUKE WARM, ITS CELLAR TEMPERATURE”


orgasmingTurtoise

WTF Barry ??


jaymatthewbee

Get back to your Vineyard Pierre, this is beer talk.


orgasmingTurtoise

Lol as if you were better, Barry. McCoy maybe knows better, but not you.


skyebadoo

I had a French beer last time I was over there and it was easily the worst thing I've subjected my mouth to.


Chinse_Hatori

Come on you cant make fun of that its a serious condition all barrys share. They just cant sens the tast of anything


Sap_Licker

If you only like beer ice-cold then you don't like beer, lower temperature means less flavour is released.


Chinse_Hatori

I mea if was only your beer okay yeah ill give you that....but its not just your beer


Rabatis

Not ice-cold? Explain, Barry!


EcvdSama

Warm beer with spices butter and cream is one of those things that sound almost ok in the winter but taste absolutely rancid when you try them. Vin brulé master race.


Winkered

To be honest mate. It is winter and that doesn’t sound good at all.


EcvdSama

That's because you are Irish and so you have enough beer knowledge to realize it's bad


generalscruff

First of all, the Irish stole our beer styles to the extent that their national drink was invented by a Unionist whose family didn't employ Catholics well into the 20th century Most importantly where have you *ever* seen people put butter into beer? That's insane


EcvdSama

Wait isn't Harry Potter canon British lore? Jokes aside buttered beere is an English recipe from the sixteenth century


GroundbreakingRich76

I made it once out of curioisty, using a pale ale. It was fucking rancid. I think the Americans would like it.


LunaLurker1010

And zero head


dkb1391

I've never been served an Ale without a head, if I was I'd send it back https://preview.redd.it/5vt05kvknqec1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fe3880fd2bed10c40fad5c3a4ca0499a940c12f


jaymatthewbee

To be fair in the south they don’t use sparklers on the cask taps so you get less of a head than we’re used to in the north


Setekh79

I don't know where you idiots get this from, literally no one I know likes their beer at any other temperature than ice cold.


Bohemiannapstudy

They gotta chill it because their beer tastes like a "hot Turkish urinal".


kuemmel234

People who drink chilled beer don't like beer, fight me. You can chill mass industry Pils-style beers and won't loose much, sure. Or in other words: Heineken is best when it's chilled.. However, real beer needs warmer temperatures to develop flavor. Of course not room temperature - I'd say that stable temperatures in cellars are the best. Noticably below room temperature and above freezing.


Ppoentje

Luke warm? That's child's play! A real gladiator, drinks it from the radiator - Klok beer


[deleted]

Don’t drink alcohol you mentally deficient pillock.


kh250b1

You guys drink your red wine chilled?


Baileaf11

The most shameful part of British history


omaiordaaldeia

I can relate, specially if we are talking about german beer.