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What are your thoughts on beer?
By | Posted: March 18, 2009
Currently women make up just 13% of UK beer sales, compared to 25% in North America and 36% in the Republic of Ireland. Our ‘Love Beer’ research showed that a third of UK women do enjoy drinking beer, but feel uncomfortable and embarrassed to order it outside of music or sporting events.
What do you think about beer? Do you drink it and would you order it on a night out? Let us know your thoughts!
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Alex Hillel · March 16, 2009 at 11:05 am
I absolutely love beer and have been drinking it my whole life, I’m now, oh dear, 56. As I’ve always said in moderation it’s wonderful and its not as fattening as wine.
Phoebe · March 18, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I think beer is fantastic, i love nothing better than a cold beer in the summer.
Stephanie Franks · March 18, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I like the lighter bottled beers like Sol and Corona, but I’m not into pints…
Kristy McCready · March 19, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I’ve never really been a drinker of beer,apart from when I’m abroad when it’s hot and a cold beer seems fitting. Generally I worry about the calories more than anything else, but I guess image is also part of it if I’m being honest
Sharon Kumar · March 19, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Its been so long since I’ve tasted beer that I can’t remember what it tastes like. I drank it when I was a student because it was cheap. I stopped drinking it because it isn’t feminine & not the image that I want to portray. I like to drink rose / medium champagnes. So sweet but not too sweet. I have no idea about the calories in beer but low calories would make me think about trying it. It would be lovely if you could get beer, that tastes light & easy to drink, in a flute. I want to feel elegant when I have a drink.
Kerry Hopkins · March 20, 2009 at 12:21 pm
The main thing for me is the glassware. You can get different glasses for different brands. But all too often in London, bars sell a pint in an old fashioned pint glass. I hate this. It puts me off buying a pint. But if I know they have sleeker slimmer or taller and slimmer or curvier glasswear, I buy one more proudly. Usually I really prefer a large dash of lemonade on the top too.
Leeds Grub · March 28, 2009 at 10:39 am
What a load of tripe! If you want to drink a beer get a beer, if a man makes a comment ignore him, you should drink something because you like it, not because the glass matches your frock. If you really don’t like drinking from pint pots, get a half. Try some real ales, some of them can be really sweet, and have interesting flavours like caramel. There are also some really excellent fruit beers, like Sam Smiths organic cherry. Fruli is also nice but a bit filling. Pin bar in Leeds sells real ale, in a trendy bar setting. The beer is delicious, and their Midnight Bell even has hints of chocolate in it!
Vicky Comley · April 3, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I love beer but prefer drinking out of a bottle rather than a can. I wish more brands were available in bottles. I like Peroni and Asahi as they’re drier and less fizzy than canned beer. It would be great if some of the bottled beers were available as 3% or 4% rather than 5%.
Helen Shipley · April 3, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I love beer – mostly lager but also the odd glass or two, of stout or Guiness. I don’t drink alcohol a lot these days but I am just as likely to have beer as anything else, and often in preference to anything else. I am always thirsty and I always drink my drinks quickly – providing I like what I’m drinking of course – and if you think that sounds odd, try to think of the last time you were given a glass of wine or something, that you didn’t like but drank for the sake of politeness. So, if I want a long drink, I usually opt for beer. If it’s warm and sunny, I also often choose a nice cold beer, as it is more refreshing. I don’t like bitter though, mostly. I have had a local brew I quite like though – Harvey’s Winter Ale and I have just remembered that I sometimes enjoy a pint of Newcastle Brown and while I think of it – what about ‘Mild’? Is that served anymore? It used to be a common drink – especially in combination: a pint (or when poor) a half, of ‘Brown and Mild’. What is ‘Mild’? I really cannot remember, if I ever knew. I am not particularly influenced by advertising but maybe it is a generational thing. I didn’t drink, or think of drinking, beer when I first started drinking (at an age I should probably be ashamed to admit but I’m not cos after the first year or so, I rarely got drunk – what was the point in making myself ill, losing part of the next day and wasting lots of money – getting a bit squiffy was quite enough for me and far more enjoyable, safer and much cheaper) Anyway, I gradually tried beer, which in the mid 60’s was mainly brown ale etc., but lager was just coming into fashion and I started with lager and lime and soon progressed:). I am 56 now and I still love beer – as you will have gathered, if you get to the end of this. AT the risk of stating the obvious – I am no good at brevity.
Sarah Beardsley · April 3, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I think beer is fantastic, I love real ales as find most of them don’t make you gasey like lagers and they taste wonderful. Theres so many to try!
Heather Brian · April 5, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I love flavoured beer and wonder whether it is worth investigating why when we are in Europe, particularly Brussells and Bruge, we women drink beer rather than wine ? When I was there recently the squares are full of women drinking beer from early in the morning till late at night, question is why ?
Julie Buxton · May 18, 2009 at 10:06 am
I had always been a Lager drinker up until about 5 years ago and for some reason wine became my favourite tipple, whereas this was something i had only drank over a nice meal in the past.
I am not sure why i started drinking it whilst out in the pub or even in the house without the nice meal! I do think though that we now live in a stress related envirement and it is often commented by women that they need a couple of glasses of wine in the evening to wind down, this is something i had started to do in addition drinking at home has become more popular and so girlie nights in consist largely of wine and champagne bought from the Supermarket.
However, i recently changed back to drinking Lager in the pub and have found much to my suprise that it is far more enjoyable than wine in this setting. It seems that i have more fun and feel more socially accepted amongst males. Another bonus is of course that i spend a third of what i used to on a night out, which given the current climate is very appealing. I am not a girl who drinks pints, i do not feel comfortable with a pint glass and wish that there were a more feminine version of a pint glass that i could use. Drinking half pints tends to mean more trips to the bar or buying two halves at once, this does not bother me that much and is just my personal preference, i do have female friends who drink out of pint glasses and i have seen no indication that anyone is pre-judging them on this.
So i say hey ladies ditch wine on nights out and try lager..you will feel much better the morning after without that nasty wine hangover and your purse will feel better too!
Carol · May 18, 2009 at 10:38 am
I like bottled beers like Sol with a more female friendly image and Carling with 99 calories feels like it’s female orientated too with females often being calorie conscious. There aren’t a lot of beers around I’d say that attract females.
Kristy McCready · June 7, 2009 at 10:49 am
I attended the big beer day yesterday which was fab and I just wanted to post on the site that Steak and Chips goes perfectly with a bottle of Worthington’s White Shield – not good for the figure but it tastes absolutely wonderful..! Not sure how many women drink this but the food matching is definitely an area to explore to get females to drink more Ales.
Kristy McCready · June 18, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Hi Tracey – Kristy from BitterSweet, thanks for your comment and glad that you’re finding new ways to enjoy a beer, I love matching beer with my food too!
Interesting that you worry about the effect on your figure – we’ve found that there are loads of myths that exist about beer, the key one being that it’s the most fattening alcoholic drink. Over half of women we surveyed believe that a bottle of beer has a higher calorie content than a double gin and tonic, a can of cola or even a large glass of wine – when in fact all of these contain more calories than per 100ml than beer! You can read more about it here!