I grew up in Edinburgh drinking pints of Heavy, then moved to Geordieland, where I drank pints of Scotch. Moved to London where it was bitter till I started just asking for what it said on the label. Had a summer job at Scottish & Newcastle, where the only ammonia was for flushing the pasteuriser at the end of every week's run on the bottling plant.

I started drinking on a school trip to Köln, and still have a fondness for a füftel of Kölsch. I've never liked bland beers, so I've never taken to Bud. Budweiser is a different matter entirely, and my favourite lager is Staropranem dark, which I seem to have to go to Prague for since Tesco stopped stocking it. Just finished a rather nice bottle of Blue Moon (Belgian style wheat beer from North America - 5.4%).

It's thanks to CAMRA that I started drinking lagers after having been put off by things like Eau de Dundalk (Harp), though fortunately I knew better than be put off ales by such monstrosities as Red Barrel and Tartan.