V-Flyer

anyone any ideas on why airlines continue to serve premium beer - over 5% alcohol, on flights when so many problems occur related to people getting wasted on board and airrage??

and people like me, just want a regular strength beer?

Possibly because the majority of people (and I am guessing based on me here) consider 5% to be a "normal" beer and 3.5% to be a low strength beer? (As I cradle a 5.2% Old Speckled Hen).

maybe just me - but all the pubs i go to , most people just drink on tap 3.8% - 4.1% beer - as opposed to the 5.2% bottles that the youth of today tend to go for - like bottles of stella and import beers.

Although spose it doesnt sound a lot - i can certainly taste the difference in alcohol.

I'm with Decker on this one. Anything below 4% is cooking lager!

Also, those who are determined to get shedded on the plane, will still have too much - whether it is Class A or cooking. [:(!]

Perhaps you're a closet American? . I drank OSH in the pub earlier and Pride/ESB etc tend to be stronger. Mind you in my youth I used to drink Thwaites that was probably 3.5%. If I were to wildly speculate - in my youth you'd regularly drink 8-10 pints whereas now 6 would be a heavy night. So I wonder whether the alcohol intake is the same but people prefer to take in less fluid?

Originally posted by Decker
If I were to wildly speculate - in my youth you'd regularly drink 8-10 pints whereas now 6 would be a heavy night.

Interesting from the man that was still up at 5am after the last VH FVC party

Cheers

Michael

Ah well I had a good pace car

cooking beer!!!

mmm .... hey theres nothing wrong with a 4% beer - hey it means you can drink longer!! which sounds fun to me

They should serve cider

Originally posted by Decker
Possibly because the majority of people (and I am guessing based on me here) consider 5% to be a "normal" beer and 3.5% to be a low strength beer? (As I cradle a 5.2% Old Speckled Hen).

Scanning my local supermarket:
Beer varieties 5% and above: 50+ (too numerous to count exactly)
Beer varieties 3-4%: 3
By any definition that make 5%+ strength the norm.

Personally I would be content with 3% alcohol; what matters is the taste/overall enjoyment. But whether I like it or not all the good beers are in the 5% strength category.

If anyone is interested I would like to widen this discussion with two questions:

1) Which beer do you think should be served on VA flights?

2) Whats the best beer you have encountered in your travels (UK or abroad)?

My nominations are:-
1) Green King IPA
2)Otter Creek Copper ale (Rutland, Vermont) widely available in Vermont and New Hampshire
2)Sam Adams Boston Lager(draft)a close second
(Yes I am a USA-o-phile)

spose when i said beer - i should have said 'lager'

most lagers like carling, heineken, carlsberg, castlemaine, miller and so on are around 4%

Originally posted by pkatmk
[If anyone is interested I would like to widen this discussion with two questions:

1) Which beer do you think should be served on VA flights?

2) Whats the best beer you have encountered in your travels (UK or abroad)?

1) is a challenge because you have to decide which beer travels best in cans...unless you're widening the criteria to mean which beer should be served if the conditions are right (in which case see answer to (2)?

2) Adnams or Fullers from the UK and from the US Fat Tyre or the Mad Dog brewery (possibly got that name wrong..was associated with Hunter S Thompson)

1) Which beer do you think should be served on VA flights?

Id vote for Budweiser, Fosters or Peroni Nastro Azzuri.

Perhaps VS should do a 'beers of the world' service, where every month they pick a country and offer their brand of beer aboard.

Kev.

Originally posted by armadillo
spose when i said beer - i should have said 'lager'

most lagers like carling, heineken, carlsberg, castlemaine, miller and so on are around 4%

Heineken is 5%.

Oh golly. A good American (under 25 (college age), male or female) takes there beer with a shot. 'Tap and Vod'

From the looks of my bottle, Corona does not display the alc. content on the bottle.

BTW - I want Jack in Y/W

Corona's 4.84% Ben

Originally posted by preiffer
Corona's 4.84% Ben

Well thanks Paul but the webpage is entitled 'Beer Alcohol and Calories'. And I am at the taste of Chicago. Pretty good event, great food.

Ah, I'd ignored the second part - the first column was the only important one... [y]

Everclear at 95 percent - It's not just a band