What is the best pint?

[2426255]

First pint after being wet, cold, tired & miserable - doesn't matter the activity, but if you've been somewhere remote where you can't drink then that's hard to beat.

[Suspect Device]

 

The first one after you've driven across the desert.

 

[doulikefish]

1 minute ago, Suspect Device said:

 

The first one after you've driven across the desert.

 

That was me when I did 56 days on a land rig in Saudi and I got to a hotel in Bahrain 

[pozbaird]

2 minutes ago, doulikefish said:

That was me when I did 56 days on a land rig in Saudi and I got to a hotel in Bahrain 

You want sympathy? 56 days with the Saudi Land Rig Super League at £250,000 a week before your agent got you a transfer to Bahrain? Fcuking Saudis. Oilwashing.

Sorry pal, I’ll save my sympathy for the wee guys plying their trade in the Scottish domestic oil diddyship league.

Big time charlie.

[pozbaird]

7 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

Might have been the Merchant City…. Or Spoons’ the Carrickstone, set into the old part of the Cumbernauld town centre 1960s brutalist concrete gloriousness… I get around.

[2426255]

25 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:

 

The first one after you've driven across the desert.

 

That's it. It's important to have earned it.

[Bert Raccoon]

Airport pints so I can take a picture with my passport and share it with my 114 Instagram followers 

[Fullerene]

The one you found in the fridge when you thought you had none left.

[Alert Mongoose]

The first one you were able to buy from a dodgy pub at 16ish.  Similar to the delirium and confusion of your first ever w**k.

[RawB93]

My first pint was in the Counting House in Dundee. I still have the glass.

I could honestly count on one hand the amount of times I've sipped a pint and thought "that's class".

As far as I have experienced, there is no refreshing alcoholic drink. If I've been on a mission and seeking liquid refuge, I'll be getting a tin of Bru.

[Molotov]

“Tilty-Elbow”  

[greendot]

1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said:

The first one you were able to buy from a dodgy pub at 16ish.  Similar to the delirium and confusion of your first ever w**k.

Dare I ask what confused you?

[Sergeant Wilson]

First one on any travels, particularly to new towns and/or on your own.

[Newbornbairn]

A freezing cold lager on a hot day.

 

Best beer I ever had was in Madrid - scorching heat as we did the tourist bit wandering around the city. Stopped at a cafe and the waitress brought out a pint of Estrella with frost 1/4 inch thick on the outside of the glass, your fingers crunched into it. Hit the spot perfectly.

 

[Brother Blades]

I’m firmly in the camp of a pint by yourself in a “proper” pub, preferably in an unfamiliar town / city. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 minute ago, Newbornbairn said:

A freezing cold lager on a hot day.

 

Best beer I ever had was in Madrid - scorching heat as we did the tourist bit wandering around the city. Stopped at a cafe and the waitress brought out a pint of Estrella with frost 1/4 inch thick on the outside of the glass, your fingers crunched into it. Hit the spot perfectly.

 

On one of the Greek Islands I was out a walk on a long clear stretch with a bar at the end. The barman watched me and timed it perfectly to put it down just as I stepped up. He also had the presence of mind to pour another, as I was midway through the first.

[Newbornbairn]

11 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

On one of the Greek Islands I was out a walk on a long clear stretch with a bar at the end. The barman watched me and timed it perfectly to put it down just as I stepped up. He also had the presence of mind to pour another, as I was midway through the first.

Very similar thing happened to a coach party on Arran.  The bus parked on the road in Kildonan and the passengers got out and walked up the path to the hotel serving lunch and drinks at the bar.  Unfortunately, it was 10 minutes before closing and the "chef" wanted away so he locked the door and put up the closed sign - just as the first tourist reached for the handle. 

[Barry Ferguson's Hat]

That first Carling after Brexit.

[eindhovendee]

Just now, Barry Ferguson's Hat said:

That first Carling after Brexit.

Hiya Nigel, hiya pal.

[alta-pete]

Don’t play golf anymore but that first pint after a four hour slog in the height of summer has never been beaten.