Folkies, you are drinking in the wrong pubs if you think that real beer is tepid hoss-piss. Anyway, as any fule kno, Stella's out of the same great big vat in Luton or Burton as Foster's, Bud, Carling, and all the others. That's why they have to be cooled to near absolute zero and advertised every 15 mins on TV.

OK so they were bottled, but on Sunday I enjoyed a pint of Black Sheep and a pint of Thwaites' which were as different from each other as chalk from cheese but equally splendid. Applies to their draught beer too.