- No, no.
No, that's not for me.
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- So today, I'm gonna be trying other dad's favorite beers.
- I don't think boys or anybody in fact,
enjoys the taste of beer.
At the beginning, anyway, certainly.
I think it's just a right of passage, isn't it?
Everybody's dad takes them down
to the pub or whatever
and gives them their first beer.
- I tend to go for craft beers more than anything else
but I'm not a particular snob about it.
Realistically, I'll drink anything.
- I just drink the stuff if it tastes nice
and if it doesn't,
my life is unaffected.
- Okay.
I'm ready to try some new beers.
- The reason why you need to try Desperados.
Tequila with beer is a surprisingly nice match.
Gale or lagers or craft beers,
I don't know the difference.
They all taste like beer to me
but Desperados has a different taste to it.
And yeah, if you're feeling a bit frisky,
drop a lime in that.
And then, boom.
Got yourself a drink, man.
- Looking at the bottle itself,
the presentation of this is interesting.
- Just reminds me of Wild West, isn't it?
"The Wild Wild West".
I can hear (imitates song)
in the background as I look at this.
- Flavored with tequila.
If I'm honest, my expectations are pretty low right now
about this one.
- I, I'm gonna tuck in.
(bottle pops)
- Oy, there we go.
- Smells like beer.
Can't smell any tequila.
- You can tell I'm working a pop guy.
- So let's see what it tastes like.
And you'll be able to tell by the look
on my face whether I like it or not.
I'm actually surprised.
That's quite nice.
- That is a lovely drop of drink.
Right there Desparados.
- No, no.
No, that's not for me.
- On the basis of that swig,
two swigs,
three swigs,
I could probably drink that.
I could probably go out and buy that.
- Considering it's got tequila in it,
it's 5.9%
but it doesn't taste like that, actually.
It almost tastes like Shandy, if anything,
which I like.
- It's really sweet.
Really, really, really sweet to drink.
Like it's-making-my-teeth-stick-together kind of sweet.
But no, then what happens then you see,
is after a minute, after a few seconds,
you just get that bit of tequila taste
in your mouth.
I'm having flashbacks.
- This is probably,
the type of lager that you could accidentally get drunk on.
- It's almost too dangerous to drink.
If I would suggest.
You could down quite a few of these
without realizing it.
And before you know it, you're living somewhere else.
- It's just very, very different.
It's not something that I would choose to drink.
- It's not that better
than any beer that I've ever tasted.
You know, outside my own favorites.
In fact, including my own favorite.
This is my new favorite.
That's what I'm saying.
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Guinness to me is like eggs.
In that, I was never a particular great fan of eggs
but I do love the way eggs look.
So I do...
You know, you see a fried, sunny side up.
That lovely white with the yellow in the middle.
It just looks lovely.
I never really liked them
but it just look...
And I feel that way about Guinness.
I love the way it looks.
The blackness of it
with the creamy top
and the smoothness of it.
And so, I sort of just developed a taste for it, really.
A liking for it.
More about its appearance and even it's flavor, weirdly.
- It's packaging is interesting.
I liked the fact that it's got the gold top.
It makes it look very posh.
- I really hope I like it
because I've grown up,
you know, I'm in my 30s now.
And I've grown up all my life
with my uncles saying,
"No, European stouts is not the one.
Don't drink European stout.
Drink Nigerian Guinness."
So, I'm actually getting to taste it
in my older age now
to see if maybe my taste buds have matured.
- Now, I don't know if this is gonna work
but I've seen if you invert the can totally upside down
in the can,
that's the way to get the best pour.
(hissing sound)
- All right (indistinct) upside down
and see what happens.
I think I better lift it. Oh.
It's not gone everywhere yet.
- Okay.
- I'll tell you what.
Do you know how you see some stuff on the internet
and you think it's a load of rubbish?
Look at that.
- Okay, so this is definitely not a beer
'cause it's dark.
So I'm assuming stouts are dark.
- I like the cloudy bit.
I think that's good.
I don't know whether it's supposed to be cloudy.
- It doesn't smell an awful lot.
Yeah, that's a bit dry.
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- Whoa.
- It's is not as bad as I thought it would be.
- Whoa.
- That's really lovely.
Do you know what I like about that?
You know you like the drink.
- Whew, all right.
Let me just give that one more take.
- To be fair to it,
I'm gonna have a third swig.
- Oh, dis different, man.
- I think there's an argument
to say this is a substantial meal.
- Maybe if I pour some more it might actually change.
I'm hoping it changes.
- Would I go out
and buy it or go down the pub and drink it?
Probably not.
- A pint of Guinness probably isn't something
that I wanna have with,
with my dinner,
with a main meal.
'Cause I think I'd just be full.
Do you know what I really think that would go well with?
The old big bag of twiglets.
Camden Pale Ale.
It just does that I want it to do.
It tastes fantastic.
It's really easy to get a hold of.
And it just works for me.
When it's freezing cold
and poured into a glass
and it just does exactly the right thing.
It's perfect for me.
- Camden Pale Ale.
Never heard of it before.
- I love the packaging.
Really cool mark actually, the supermarket.
I love that it's minimalist
but it's an interesting canner, I think,
for a beer.
Let's have a taste.
(hissing sound)
- Okay. (hissing sound)
(hissing sound) - Oop.
(beer sloshes)
- Even aile glass for it.
- Color is a rather golden.
Nice head of foam at the top.
- I can't help
but feel that the color is slightly off putting.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions on that one.
- Smells fruity.
- Lemons
and dare I say a bit of vanilla in that.
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- And tastes fruity.
- I need to take a second swig on this one.
- I don't know what I'm tasting.
I'm going to be honest.
I don't know what I'm tasting.
It just tastes like beer.
- Another swig required here, I think.
- I quite like that.
Different, quite like that.
Again, easy to drink.
- It's not terrible.
I've had worse.
- Do you know what? I can imagine having this
with fish and chips.
I can imagine a nice fish and chip, you know,
with this
to wash it down.
Yeah.
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- Carling Black Label.
I was a sucker for advertising
and I remember the old adverts of the 80s, 1980s,
with Carling Black Label, as it was called then.
And they had these fantastic adverts.
So when I try Carling,
it always brings back those memories, flooding back
of those fantastic adverts that they used to do.
- Carling Original Lager.
Now that sounds real like, whoa.
You know?
Whoa.
- Good old Carling.
I'll tell you what.
This takes me back
to days as a student
when that's all we could afford.
- It's quite dull, isn't it really?
It's typical Carling.
They don't go for snazzy packaging.
Do they really?
Minimalist, I would suggest
but hey,
at the end of the day it's about the drink, I guess.
Carling, you've got the name.
You've got the name, isn't it?
Maybe the don't need the packaging.
Who knows.
- Works for me.
Let's give it a pour, shall we?
Let's have a look.
(hissing sound)
This is something new for me.
I can honestly say I don't think I've ever drunk Carling
out of a glass.
- Smells very hoppy.
(jazz music)
- Yeah, that's the stuff.
That reminds me
of being in the social club.
- Don't know. I'm not a massive fan, actually.
To be honest.
I'm tryna work out what the aftertaste is.
I cannot attribute it to anything
human.
- That is actually nice.
I don't mind this one.
It's quiet,
it's quite savory.
- It doesn't taste of an awful lot.
It's completely inoffensive.
It's very difficult to think how you're not gonna like it.
There's not a lot not to like.
And I think actually that's the thing
that people who don't like it do say.
It's inoffensive.
It doesn't really taste of an awful lot.
- Won't be replacing others
on my list of favorites though.
Sorry Carling.
- I really...
Sorry, I just need to take one more.
Just one.
This is a kebab beer.
That's a good thing
'cause we like kebabs here in Britain.
This is a kebab beer definitely.
Unfortunately, I still like my Desperados.
I think I'm the type of guy that just likes what I like.
- I don't think I'll be having Desperados again
any time soon.
I think it's not something I'm gonna rush
to go out and buy. Guinness though.
That'd be a nice thing
to have in every now and then if you just fancy a Guinness.
- Simply having to be introduced to Desperados
and yeah, it was nice to actually taste a beer.
And really taste it rather than, you know,
just walking into a pub being thirsty
and just throw it down your neck.
- If I'm gonna be honest, I have a habit of getting stuck
in a rut when it comes to having the same things.
It's like ordering a pizza and having a pepperoni.
You need to experiment with the other ones
but you can almost guarantee that when you do go
for something and you really like,
"Oh, I like that."
but they stop selling it.
Which I found out with my local pizza place.
- Listen, any one of you dads wanna have a Carling
or wanna have a Guinness or Camden Pale Ale,
(Michael claps) let's do it.
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