The free beer

[DARE]

Granted I was expecting better but I'd been dying for a beer after carrying my stuff so it didn't taste too bad... at the time.

[howlinpete]

Yeah I had the beers on the way in, so they were nice in that respect, a pretty good effort in getting pretty much the worst beer you could think of! Thought the breakfast was brilliantly done though, about 5 minutes queuing and good portions, kept me going till mid afternoon every day

[Jaybles]

The Skol was hilarious. A massive running joke all festival.

I drank one can, well tried. It seemed to go flat in seconds and tasted like crap.

We just spent the rest of the weekend trying to find uses for it.

It was good at hammering tent pegs into the ground, it put fires out brilliantly, it was good at weighing down rugs around the campsite and was good for brushing your teeth in the morning..

[johnmcga]

Worst. Beer. Ever. I drank most of a can walking along after the wristband exchange, then couldn't give it away. Nobody would take the other two cans off me.

I didn't know you could even buy Skol any more. Did they find an old warehouse full of the stuff and decided this was the perfect opportunity to get shot of it?

[jonnyisRFC]

I couldn't believe it when i found out it was 2.8%, it tasted like that cheap tesco shandy stuff haha, if i'd wanted to i could've picked up about 50 cans of the stuff that people had just chucked on the floor.

[Cieran]

I got the pepsi instead, there was no way I was drinking that lager

[rivalschools.price]

I'm sure im on record on one of the threads telling everyone to stop moaning cos the lager is free,but in reality it really was a case of why did they bother.

How did they manage to find lager so bad? why do Skol even make lager at 2.8%? people were just laughing at it and trying in vain to give it away.

The funniest part was one bloke saying that he was driving but he was still going to drink the three cans and be under the limit,haha.

[rivalschools.price]

I got the pepsi instead, there was no way I was drinking that lager

[ivan]

_{I couldn't believe it when i found out it was 2.8%, it tasted like that cheap tesco shandy stuff haha, if i'd wanted to i could've picked up about 50 cans of the stuff that people had just chucked on the floor.}

[efcfanwirral]

like many others, i just laughed when i saw it. I also didnt realise they still made it! Needless to say I didnt drink it!!

[kevinboyle82]

Used a can to put out a campfire on Saturday, the rest was left. Even the students that were camped next to us turned their noses up at the free beer. Fucking hilarous.

[TobTent]

The girl who was handing out the cans summed it up pretty well -

"Get your Skol here! It's better than....piss?....maybe?..."

Still, was handy for putting out campfires!

[LondonTom]

I read on here it was Skol and to avoid before hand so opted for the pepsi (Which was great to mix rum/vodka and bring in each day!, I noticed some people got cans!!! We got bottles, so was impressed!)

Was brilliant seeing it being avoided and just left lying around though:P

Edited August 28, 2012 by LondonTom

[Avens]

I'd also read it was Skol so when they tried to give it to me, I said, "could I have the Pepsi instead, please?" I was met with a blank look and told they had some Relentless instead? I fucking hate Relentless so said no...

...but where was the Pepsi? This was only about 11am on the Thursday at Reading...

[rivalschools.price]

It must be the biggest insult to beermakers when people who intend to drink themselves stupid for three days say 'no thanks,id rather have some pepsi' .ha ha.

[beards]

The lad who gave me the cans had a bit of a whinge at me when I laugh at how shit the beer was, saying at least it was free! I ended up drinking it anyway, it's better than a kick in the bollocks I suppose. We were saying that when the people manning the bridge asked you to lift your arm up to show your wristband, they were actually looking to see if you were holding a can of Skol, you can't have sneaked in if you were drinking from a can of that cos no one in their right mind would've bought it!