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Inferno , another Spanish beer .

Jade Beer, Singaporean another I’ve tasted on my travels

Kestral ( I always call Scotland foreign )

BIGRON wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:14 am Kestral ( I always call Scotland foreign )

Labatts - Canada

Mahou, decent Spanish drop.

Nastro Azzuro - Italian

Orangiboom, long gone thankfully. Not sure I have spelt it correctly....

Peroni ( see Nastro Azzuro )

Omygawd wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 8:16 pm Orangiboom, long gone thankfully. Not sure I have spelt it correctly....

Orangeboom is still around they sell cans in the Spar supermarkets in Suffolk

We used to say “orangey at night, boom boom head in the morning” when I was overseas and that was all that was available

Qui Nohn or Nhon - Vietnamese - I cant remember the spelling. Came in 660ml bottles. A Lager.

Raffles Lager , named after the famous hotel in Singapore , ( I had the Singapore sling when I visited it many moons ago) .

Saigon Export - Vietnamese again - yes, I have visited Vietnam a lot when I was working and remember the beers that were "forced" upon me.

Tooheys , drunk a few of them when I visited Aus

BIGRON wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:47 pm Tooheys , drunk a few of them when I visited Aus

A nice thirst quencher

Sorry I have no "U", so I'll go to "V"

Victoria Bitter or Lager brewed in good old Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Whitbread bitter (yuk).

Note...I stuffed this up having proposed foreign beers, sorry...

However - Warsteiner

XXXX and we all know what this aussie brew stands for P I S S in my opinion

Yarra Valley, Aus

Omygawd wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:51 am Yarra Valley, Aus

Well one learns something new every day as I thought only wines come from Yarra Valley. Thanks for that. And now to "Z"

Zambezi Lager - Zimbabwe. My wife has some Zimbabwean friends from work and I remember being given a 6-pack of this "drink" by the husband for my 60th birthday. No further comment.

Who is going to chose the next subject?

What about now defunct East London Pubs that a good O’s fan should know

The Alma

I'll have to dip out of this one, the only one I know (and it might still be there) was because we students used to drink in there when I was at Poplar Technical College was the Manor Arms in East India Dock Road. Being a Barkingside boy I did my formative drinking around there and further out.

OK, will ponder another subject.

B for Birkbeck

As that game has not got going, here is another one.

Past or present footballers who played for the Northern Ireland or Eire international teams. Chosen as there are a few players well known to us whose connection to "Ireland" was/is tenuous to say the least so apart from maybe a couple of letters we may be able to fill the alphabet. We'll use surnames in alphabetical order. So I'll start with:

Gerry Armstrong (NI)

George Best

Tony Cascarino - fine Irish surname