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The 10 Commandments For Drinking Like a Man

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Guys, I hate to say it…but a lot of you are letting me down. More importantly, you’re letting yourselves and your gender down. Every time I go out to a bar and I see a guy with a purple or pink shot in

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  • Oliver Reid says
    If your beer needs fruit in it to make it taste good, order a different beer
  • Sam East says
    fruit flavoured beer?!?!?! HAHAHA!! cracks me up!
  • Bryn says
    I've been told that the reason behind putting a slice of lemon or lime in a Carona stems from olden days back in Mexico when bottle caps were steel and when stored for long periods of time, would tend to rust. Wiping a lemon around the top of the bottle once opened was an easy and unoffensive way to sterilise it. Then the marketers got hold of the idea and used it to sell Carona to the world.

    As for fruit flavoured beer... If you've never had a Belgium styled Cassis or Frambious - re-read the fifth commandment above then get out there and give one a try... they're different, but that's what makes them appealing, a good palette cleanser after too many pints of bitter.
  • Chris Campbell says
    When your next at a bar.. try something different. 1 new beer each visit. And I dont mean a Lion Red for a Speights (cos arent they the same??)
    Try a Czech Pilsner or better still fly to Prague and enjoy a pint in the outer metro bars for around 40 cents NZ!!...
    Or come home and do the EU... over a month, a beer from different European countries.
  • Eli Weir says
    Galbraith's in Mt Eden has an awesome line-up of both beer and Scotch (as well as their own brews) ... and the various Belgium-style base (like De Post, the Occidental, etc) all have some good offerings. Try some tried and true labels like Leffe, Chimay, McEwens, etc.

    Note that Ale is typically fermented at temperatures between 15 and 24 °C (60 and 75 °F). At these temperatures, yeast produces significant amounts of esters and other secondary flavour and aroma products, and the result is often a beer with slightly "fruity" compounds resembling apple, pear, pineapple, banana, plum, or prune, among others. Your typical ale has a sweeter, fuller body than a lager ... if you have only ever consumed a lager or light beer (the type of chilled-to-the-point-of-no-flavour drink that Sam and Oliver would appreciate, no doubt in a plastic cup), then you haven't lived yet.
  • Evan Smith says
    I actually prefer whiskey to beer! And it definitely feels more masculine! Haha.
  • Colin Fraser says
    As a Scot I can report that all the (many) distillery masters I've spoken to recommend a drop of water with a single malt.

    You say a bloke shouldn't drink anything but clear 'martinis'. You obviously haven't tried pink gin.

    As to fruity beers - try Bellhaven's fruit beer - real Scottish beer. An what about the many Belgian (probably the best brewers in the world;-) fruit beers?
  • Keri Little says
    I'm adding olive juice to the things that are ok to add to a martini, at least for girls. Nothing better than a dirty martini.
  • Topher T says
    There are so many hundreds of tasty and interesting beers around, from abroad and right in our own backyard. If one of your locals is putting on a wee Oktoberfest celebration get along and try them for yourself, you could find a new favourite. I haven't ever stuck to drinking one kind of beer and don't ever plan to.

    If beer were a woman I'd take her to bed, from her bubbly toes to her soft tasty head.
  • Karl Hardisty says
    Chris Campbell is spot on. We were in Europe a couple of years back for a reasonable period of time, and one of the highlights was trying all the different beers. In the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, etc it was ~NZ$1.50 a bottle (500ml at that too). I wrote (briefly - was otherwise occupied mostly) about it here: http://mothership.co.nz/blog/2007/08/mmmm-beer/

    New Zealand has progressed hugely with regard to wine, as the wine lists in any reasonable restaurant will attest to. There is a great range priced accordingly, with something for everyone. Beer however in the majority of establishments is an afterthought; a smaller number of offerings, and they tend to be towards the lower end of the range price and quality wise, and are just variations on similar themes from different brands.

    There are a few places that trade on their wide range of beers (thanks Eli, Galbraith's added to the list), but it would be nice to see many more restaurants, bars etc offer a better range as a matter of course, as happens with wine.
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