You can't drink real ale chilled. It has to be at cellar temperature.Chemical fizzy beer can be ice-cold. Tsingdao and San Miguel and Fosters can be ice-cold.

Blighty's real ales are excellent, but its lagers (= yellow beers) are inferior. European lagers and pilseners are excellent, except when they're BREWED UNDER LICENCE in another country. There's one sold in small bottles brewed under licence in London with a German name. It's crap, I daren't mention the name as I don't want a libel case against me.

What many beer drinkers don't know is that Europe also has home-produced real ales that are excellent. In Germany, such ales are termed 'Alt', which means old.

Bright beer is the brewer's term for a beer whose pasteurisation has been cut short before putting it into a container. Such containers are kegs. Real ale containers are casks. Unlike kegs, they are barrel-shaped with a belly in the middle. Kegs, in contrast, are cylindrical in shape.

Way back in time, I sampled a couple of Aussie lagers in Blighty, crap, but BREWED UNDER LICENCE in Blighty. However, maybe in OZ, they'll go down the hatch much better!

I used to like Schlitz and Budweiser in cans in Blighty, better than Brit lager, but cheaper than Euro lager.

Btw, there's a lager BREWED UNDER LICENCE from a Scandinavian country in a gold can that's high in alcohol, but sweet and sickly. We used to call it 'legopener special brew'. Enough said!

Now, you being a Geordie - I have a question for you. Newcie Brown, which is sold in bottles. It's a legopener in Geordieland, but is it a real ale?