#9

Weirdly not, it’s the biggest selling beer in the States but is new here. It tastes like nothing.

#10

It’s a bit Kasabian

#11

i was gonna get some to try it but it were quite high priced

#12

Shouldn’t this be in the rolling beer thread?

#13

Yeah, it’s a hard one to pitch. In the US, it’s not a budget brand but it’s not quite premium, I’m not sure what kind of market share it will get here, seems to be priced at the Fosters kind of price point?

#14

I thought this news deserved a wider audience than the penoids of the beer thread.

#15

Obviously I’m not going anywhere near that thread but I had the mikkeller citra double ipa last week and it was fucking amazing, mate

#16

absolute piss water

#17

We need a NEW beer thread for people who think that beer is just y’know OK or a means of getting from sober -> pissed.

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#18

I’ve got a strava and an untappd account, am I still allowed in the normal beer/cycling threads?

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#20

There was a Carling Premier on draught around 1999 iirc. It was basically just Carling pressurised with nitrogen gas instead of CO2, so it was lager with a Guinness-style head on it. Slight improvement I’d say. Maybe this is just Carling with a widget in the can.

#21

That sounds fucking horrible

#22

It didn’t last very long - people were weirded out by the Guinness head, and the fact it was literally just less fizzy Carling

#23

Weirdly it’s not even on their current drinks page:

https://www.carling.com/our-drinks

#24

There’s a snooker hall in sheffield that sold it last time I went there 2 years ago

#25

Maybe pubs make it by accident by putting Carling through the wrong gas and then saying it’s ‘premier’ when it comes out funny

#26

Compete with Coors ?

#27

Yeah, I guess. How popular is Coors Light though? Haven’t looked it up but I imagine it sells less than Carling, Carlsberg, Stella, Fosters, Bud, Grolsch, 1664 etc.

#28

No idea but more popular than youd imagine I bet. Can find it on draught quite a bit