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Anyone drink this? 6 bottles of Bavaria for £2 in Morrisons.

It's a complete revelation to me as I've been unable to drink lager for 3 years due to having gout. This stuff tastes the same, is keeping me cool this summer and no hangovers!!!


Edited to add: I have no idea how a sad smiley popped up!!
 

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I had to drink Becks Blue for 3 months whilst on meds, it really didn't taste much different, although I'm not a lager drinker but kind of took the fun out of being silly and talking cr@p after having a few proper ales.
 

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Yup, tried the Bavaria, doesn't taste bad at all if properly chilled. And cheaper than pop. Only downer is that you realise just how much tax you pay on alcohol. :(
 

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When I was reading the process for producing Becks Blue, all the non-alcoholic beer is produced in exactly the same way and then the alcohol is removed afterwards :eek: That's why it tastes as near dam it as the "real" stuff!
 

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Some rather good ones these days. Erdinger do a nice 0% Wheat Beer - as do Bavaria. I ould keep thinking of 'Benidorm' drinking Bavaria though.
 

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Tried a few of these when I was told I couldn't drink anymore in 2000. Tasteless and over priced. Gave up quickly and stuck to soft drinks and then stopped going to the pub altogether as I couldn't handle watching my mates get addled every weekend and not being able to join in
 

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Drinking a bottle of Bavaria as I type - and in response to Homer - it's one heck of a lot better than kalibar stuff of 10-15yrs ago. But like ANY lager - it has to be cold.
 
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Clausthaler and Bitburger are both excellent.

Would suggest people try a blind tasting as there's a lot of prejudice from the old Kaliber days.

We have this at my golf club - must ask why we charge so much for it as it's equivalents are dead cheap in the soopies. I'm thinking that this is a ploy by the supermarkets to help them counter the alcohol minimum unit-pricing lobby. I don;t think it's a great coincidence that Cobra, Beck's Blue, Bitburger, Bavaria 0.0% or <0.05% etc have only very recently it seems appeared on the soopie shelves. I'm all for it :) More power to them. Add a little slice of lime - excellent!
 

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I once sent my Mrs out to buy me some beer, she came back with Becks Blue....

After i released her from the under stairs cupboard, she was not asked to purchase beer again.
 

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...and which is unfortunately why we are a nation full of piss-heads who are unable or unwilling to work because they've got hangovers - because having a drink means getting pissed - which it doesn't in the rest of Europe.
 

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I was tea total for a while, and found this stuff really good. The Cobra 0% is even better though, hard to come by but well worth it. Kopperberg 0% cider is also great. Never found a decent 0% wine though.

Great if you fancy the taste of a drink without all the other **** that goes with it!
 

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...and which is unfortunately why we are a nation full of piss-heads who are unable or unwilling to work because they've got hangovers - because having a drink means getting pissed - which it doesn't in the rest of Europe.

I can assure you that Europeans like to get just as bladdered as us brits.
 
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