Its 24degC outside, I'm drinking a Harp and doing BBQ. Life is good
Commiserations on it being Harp.
Can you really still get that stuff? I haven't seen that on a pump or even in a can in the UK for years. Given the swill that a worrying number of Britons will drink under the label "lager" it might be surprising that we've given it the cold shoulder, but that we have.
Poms used to drink the most godawful crud------Watney's "Red", anyone?
The absolutely worst that I ever drank was called "Alsopp's" lager, which came in a sickly yellow can, predicting the contents.
The Chandris line ships used to stock up on whatever they got cheapest, from Alsopp's as the worst, through decreasing levels of awfulness, via "Fix"(arrrgghh!), Courage lager (Blecchh!), up to reasonable to good (Oranjeboom, Beck's, VB, etc.).
Coming off the ship in the UK, we were confronted mainly by a desolate waste on the beer front, with a few tolerable, like the aforementioned "Harp", Carling black label, Newcastle Brown, "Ewer's Lager" from Scotland, & a few others.
That was, of course, in the bad old days, pre the "Real Ale" movement!