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  • 1:29 hello mr meerkat

  • If you want real ale then go to the Real Ale festival at Warwick University - 100's of ales to try! And on top of that a variety of ciders and perry along with some fruit wines. You'll soon learn which your favourites are!

  • Meerkat

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  • Is bitter colloquial for ales? Or am I missing something. I always thought generally you can divide beers between lagers and ales.

  • Bitter = pale ale/IPA (most popular light hoppy-ish ales)

    There are vast numbers of sub-categories of ales, bitter refers to one kind, in England. Ironically, actually, since most other ales are far more bitter in taste :)

  • a tweed pipe?

  • i'd drick a pint of cream

  • @Uforix12 Thats because your weird. :)

  • You should check out the Royal Oak in Bath, it has 9 taps of ale!

  • simples ^_^

  • his shirt is going to be as filthy as hell when he finishes the series...

  • @SirBigBrain I just thought his shirt was a growth that naturally stayed there, lieka snake skin or a tortoise shell...

  • how can a liquid be crisp? crisp means crunchy

  • @neomp5 It means crisp as a flavour. Like how cheese can be "sharp" without actually cutting you.

  • @Liffguard

    sharp seems to translate into a flavour, a sharp, cutting flavour, a taste with some bite to it. i don't see how crisp could translate into a taste, it specifically refers to a texture

  • @neomp5 Your just completely wrong.

  • @CrickoGoddo

    oh, good to know my completely wrong.

  • I was brought up with the myth that English beer wascharacterless watery rubbish and was very pleasantly surprisedwhen i spent some time in the Cotswolds and found the local real ale bitters to be delicious and interesting. Bitter is bloody good beer!

  • @CalumGilhooly Nice to know we've converted you. Cheers!

  • @Papped1710 Certainly have, especially as the mass produced beer we are encouraged to buy north of the border is absolute swill. Just reread my earlier post and I'm horrified at all the errors. One of the reasons I like David Mitchell so much is because I am nearly as pedantic as he is. lol.

  • Well there you go, why Aussies in reality actually drink Victoria Bitter (VB) and not Fosters Lager.

  • @jemborg eww vb shouldn't be drunk by anyone lol. i'm an aussie and i don't drink either

  • @rayechayelle1 Fair enough. Haha. I was just going on statistics.

    I don't drink booze at all actually, but if I did it would most likely be a Coopers Somethingorother. The last aussie owned brewery.

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  • I hate Zack and A.J.! I also hate beer...

  • Saying well done to anyone who lives close to a pub with 5 bitters on tap is basically saying well done to everyone in Yorkshire.

  • @TheGodOfTheDucks yeah, but its yorkshire :/....

  • He's thought way too much about the creamy thing. He's clearly scraping the bottom of the keg for content.

  • @rachelmdw He thinks way to much about everything.

  •  ...

  • ...I would drink a pint of cream

  • @purplepiethief To wash down your can of tuna?

  • @GoblinXXX Meow?

  • can anyone recommend a good bitter? i've had countless lagers and i enjoy them as well as guiness but i don't think I've ever had a bitter

  • @komodomoe

    It would be useful to know where you live, as real bitter is served best in the region where it's produced. If you want good national brands, try London Pride, Bombardier (personal fave), Doom Bar or Deuchar's IPA (actually scottish, but hey). You can also get most of these in bottles, which is a good stepping stone if you're used to lager, but if you can find one of them in good nick on draught in the pub, you're on to a winner!

  • @TreacleMary

    Well I'm stateside and I've tried a couple from local breweries (I don't know if you've heard of boulder brewing company or Tommyknocker, but they're quite good.)

    I've decided that there are really only 3 types of beer I like consistently and those are Amber Ales such as Breckenridge's Avalanche, Stouts (especially Guiness fresh from the tap), and to a lesser extent pale Lagers such as Stella Artois

  • Love the Meerkat/Weasel poking in and out of David Mitchell's monologue. Love David Mitchel. Love YouTube. Must be the summer of Love II !

  • @MainelyLove That counts as advertising, doesn't it? They're the same meercats u c in those ads which I dont watch, or listen to, at any rate, so I've no idea what they're advertising 4. But I get a glimplse of em on my muted (for the duration of the ad break) tv set. Advertising on the internet ... i never thought the day would come. Pshaw!

  • @Selinor578 Thnks for responding - I m new to UTube and already those "pre view" ads are driving me up the wall. But I was just in the mood to say something and at the time I didn't think my comment was all that deep or insightful...I just like animals so I tend to focus on them, and I have seen Meerkat Manor a few times. Plus I like David Mitchell's intelligence and sense of humor.. Here I go again!

  • I make a point to not like or comment on these videos even though I have seen almost all of them. However this snippet of David Mitchell's mind was exceptionally nice to hear,

    Thank you.

  • fucking meerkat

  • I don't know why anybody would avoid a bitter versus a lager.

    Lager's basically are the most available beer, because most of them aren't beers at all, and are made from anything from rice to potatoes which doesn't only make the awful, but makes them cheap.

  • Got something against raspberry milkshakes, David? o.O

  • @Gavla2 OOOOOoooooh Tinny! Ahhhhhhhhh!

  • I don't understand how people can like bitter. I hate bitter so much it's horrible. I love an ice cold, fizzy, bubbly larger. There's nothing like having a cold pint of Carlsberg export on a Friday after work :)

  • I reckon the meerkat's a cider drinker...

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  • The scary thing is, my nickname is AJ (for Arron John) and i have a 4 year old son called Zach.

  • loving the meerkat!

  • Not to self. Don't read comments until the video is over. It only spoils the jokes.

  • If only bitter didn't taste like arse.

  • Still prefer Coca-Cola.

  • Black Cat dark ale has to be my personal favourite, the only problem is it's incredibly hard to find as it's only made in one microbrewery in Battle (the town, not the act of conflict).

  • who drinks a pint of cream?

    me, well maybe not a hole pint at once. but I do like cream.

  • @Gavla2 creeeaaamy, you're right it is a good word, like aadrvark or baaaath. The woodiest word I have found however is walrus, is that not the woodiest word you have ever heard?

  • @SirRobin126 Errogenous zooooooone.

  • @ShanksDChopper Intercoooouuurse

  • I prefer Hennesy or maybe some Ciroq

  • Or otter?

  • Meercat.

  • He's displaying his southern ignorance in the extended rant about creaminess. It's not an invention of the foul Smoothflow age. In the North of England beer has always been served differently, and that thick body with a full head is the norm. A southern beer like London Pride will be served that way, in the same way that Tetley's in the south is flat and watery.

  • @101merrick101 Yes beer tastes definitely vary from region to region. Beers from Kent are lighter for example than a richer one like Newcastle Brown Ale. Its all good tho, I love beer!

  • He's displaying his southern ignorance in the extended rant about creaminess. It's not an invention of the foul Smoothflow age. In the North of England beer has always been served differently, and that thick body with a full head is the norm. A southern beer like London Pride will be served that way, in the same way that Tetley's in the south is flat and watery.

  • I feel sad now because I like to drink cream.. :(

  • @PoisonTester don't be sad, i like to drink cream too

  • AJ and Zak and all of their friends disliked this. The denizens of Hell liked this.

  • "... who drinks a pint of cream??" I completely lost it like a madman when he said that

  • I think David Mitchell is really funny, only thing he is he uses the "you can tell the quality of the wine by the price on the side of the wine list" ALL the time.

  • did anyone else have to google victoria coren, or am i just wildly out of touch?

  • i hear he's banging victoria coren, well done my man!

  • this is shit

  • @innit27 then don't watch it. geez.

  • @armagheddonsgw2 well if i didnt watch it i wouldnt know it was shite then would i dipstick, i like david mitchell, but this is pish.

  • Excellent rant and i just could not stop being distraced by the random meerkat :D

  • England and cream, creamy old England...

  • David sometimes isn't funny....sometimes it is simply just bitter moaning. (hur hur hur)

  • cheers to you too David

  • I agree with the "creamy" opinion. Nothing about that sounds refreshing.

  • If I'm 16 and generally just drink whiskey when drinking alcohol, is that a bad sign..?

  • @HardcoreRunescaping no my friend it is not :)

  • @dexterccf2 Good, makes me feel better about it, was worried at first haha (':

  • i didn't know you could smoke tweed...

  • i'm a lager sort of guy myself

  • @Gavla2 yes... it's definitely more woody than tinny.

  • @Gavla2

    *squeals and cries and leaves the room*

  • Bernard: Old wine is good wine.

    Manny: Yes. But expensive wine is good wine also.

    Bernard: Yes. But the older the wine is, the gooder it is.

    Manny: Ah but by the same token, the more expensive the wine, then the gooder it is also.

  • If you live in the UK, there's so much good-tasting beer to choose from.

  • I drink cream.

  • a tweed pipe, haha. i need to get one of those

  • @TheCoolKitchen then dont fucking watch it? it's real simple.

  • This is pish.

  • Reminds me of a Fry and Laurie sketch. "Creamy old England!"

  • And there I was thinking David would prefer blue WKD, several tequilas and a few cheeky lines in the gent's before retiring home and 'smashing' a 19 year old beauty therapist called Chantelle, He's changed.

  • @cloud9backpacker yeah, I know Chantelle. She's changed too. She's 20. :D

  • David could probably write an episode of this based on the top rated comment. "clip starts at 0.10". It would be about impatience

  • @danielspital

    I can just imagine it: "0.10? 0.10?! You're telling me you can't wait 10 seconds?!! What can you possibly have done with your life in those 10 seconds that would have made your life more meaningful?!! Are you going to stop global warming, were you planning on writing a novel about West-African politics? Are there REALLY people who sit around till 0.08 thinking "Oh sod off, this is taking too long" " XD

  • @somethingonmyhip haha quality

  • @somethingonmyhip think outside the box lol not everybody is here watching 1 video, i have just watched several and had to endure the bullshit ad SEVERAL times, after a while it gets tiresome, even the TV isn't this bad. If companies think its good publicity to ram a product down ppls throats then so be it, let them find out the hard way people will actually go out of there way to not buy just to feel like they got there own back!

  • @TheLydianRocks

    Euhm..I think you are a bit confused. I was merely giving an exemple of what David would sound like within the idea of danielspital.

  • David looks very thin in this.

  • Eh; I like a good, smooth head on my drinks. It's better than having a glass of gas, and tastes more satisfying. Stouts and real ale, yo.

  • who saw the meerkat behind him

  • This is a "rant?" Sounds more like the sort of petrifying discourse you get off the bus early to avoid overhearing.

  • i drink stella or some bitter or stout

  • What's gay about cider ? It's so much nicer, stronger, and the way forward.... BOW TIME !

  • Dear Bulldog bollocks whatever it is, how funny I find it that David Mitchell speaks of advertising executives losing their immortal souls and you choose to reiterate such a point by bookending this interesting little piece with your utter tosh of a product. I didn't stop to listen what 'Bulldog' actually is, but my expectation is that the experince of it is not too dissimilar from having said bulldog's testicles wedged firmly between my tongue and the roof of my mouth.

  • @Panthur Maybe you should express that in video form, while sitting on a stool in front of an animated backdrop perhaps, and get it sponsored and subsequently bookended by another company.

  • his views on pubs are spot on

  • and now im thirsty for a beer  but dont have any.. great

  • have you got a WKD side you fucking LADS

    GOAL!!!!!!!

  • THANKS DAVID FOR SHARING YOUR VIEWS ON BEER

    JESUS SHUT THE FUCK UP.

  • @iAndyi - why would you come on to a video called "David Mitchell rants about ..." and then get pissed off because he is ranting?? Dont tell him to shut up, just switch it off you eejit

  • My beer of choice is Guiness. After a couple of pints its my wall decoration of choice too.

  • DON'T PUSH ME DAVID! DON'T PUSH ME!

    (If you watch Would I Lie to You,you would understand this joke)

  • you know in lessons when your sitting down....i ALWAYS get a boner when i am sitting down in lessons!!! its sooooooo annoying..bye!

  • did anyone else notice the meercat at 0:55 ? and 1:38

  • did anyone else notice the meercat at 0:55 ?

  • I have to disagree with the statement that beer, or bitter or lager, or anything like it is 'thirst quenching' except for the 1st second it hits your toungue. then u swallow then your feeling alot like that desert ur not sitting in. goes for coffee too. ITS A DIARETIC! wines, spirits and soft drinks all the way. cocktails especially

  • @xXZionprincessXx after a crate of stella i always feel dehydrated

  • OMFG MEERKAT

  • cunts.

  • I wonder if A.J. and Zak where at the meeting that thought of commissioning David Mitchell to help sell 'man soap' .

    (Because as we all know soap isn't just soap, it has to be different for men and women, and cars and dogs, it absolutely is NOT the same basic ingredient for just about any kind of soap and it is absolutely NOT just about trying to corner another demographic and make men in particular suddenly feel they have to go out and buy special toiletries that are suddenly gender specific).

  • You like wine and bitter!? O_o

    The only bitter that I would call 'Creamy' is Worthingtons, but that bitter is a last resort cause it tastes like larger! XD

  • I didn't pay attention to one word he said after the meekat popped up

  • Well said David!

  • Britain definitely has gotten less creamy over the years...

  • Fuck beer, why the hell would anyone want to drink anything bitter? Fucking psychopaths.

  • @TacticusPrime because men drink things that are bitter and pussies drink sweet things like unicorn pussy juice, like you

  • @wosselwozzel Oh yes, your addiction to repulsive beverages really defines you as a man. I suppose you would prefer unicorn cock juice?

  • @TacticusPrime if you dont like it just drink prune juice, i and millions of others like it

  • @wosselwozzel ... how does your craving for prune juice have anything to do with how disgusting bitter beverages are? whatever.

  • @TacticusPrime get a pint of mild down your kneck and get rat arsed son

  • @TacticusPrime

    You don't drink beer because of the taste. No one drinks beer because of the taste.

  • MEERKAT!!!

    Oh, and I'm with Mitchell, Bitter is so much better in so many ways

  • Stop saying "creamy".

  • AJ... Alan Johnson?

  • Ha meerkats are funny

  • "Who drinks a pint of cream?" Hahaha

  • Why the piss is there a meerkat in the bottom-left corner from 1:40 to 2:04?

  • @LiamCrowley1990 it's in some part of the background in most of the time

  • bitter all the way. . .

  • legalize weed, for the love of Pete... half a unit a day of the legal drug alcohol and your heart would thank you (apparently) any more (they say) and you'll end up a cancerous stroke victim, either light one up and wonder about life or fermat's last theorem whatever or just have a jolly good laugh, or you can get 'pissed' and nut some fucker in a pub or the street as you puff on your 'fags' outside, i like Fosters for that head2head contact feeling, should have a beer named "punchme"

  • I drink cider and keep getting insinuations that i should grow up....

  • @Rahrhino you should grow up.

  • @Rahrhino so do i lol i get called a girl for drinking strongbow

  • @Rahrhino haha me too lol. Cider = No hangover... epic :)

  • @Rahrhino You should!

  • @Rahrhino grow up

  • @Rahrhino I really don't think it matters what you drink....

  • @Rahrhino Cider is my favourite, I'm 15. hahaha :)

  • @matprithellodave Yet I'm 14 and prefer bitter...

  • I feel like David is running out of things to talk about now!

  • Eh, for me it´s either whiskey or fruit juice. Don´t give a toss about beer or wine and all that.

  • It'd be funny if David made a rant about soap targeted to men.

  • "no you're right it's bitter"

  • MEERKAT!

  • clip starts at 0:10

  • @alexhamster1134 98 thumbs up? awesome!

  • i would drink a pint of cream

  • "...probably called zach"

  • lager is better in my opinion

  • What a fanny!!

  • pint of cream??

  • Zak & AJ: they are nothing without Tamsin and Jemima in PR.

  • I don't drink.. honestly I just think the meerkat is awesome.

  • Why is there a meercathanging around anyway?

  • It's all about real ale from a lovely micro-brewery

  • If any of you said that their beer of choice was Miller or Budweiser, or even anything with the word "lite" in it's name, kill yourselves.

  • Why is it that when he says "Who wants a bitter advertised as creamy?" that I instinctively look at the meerkat which has just appeared?

  • @Craamron Haha, I totally missed the meerkat the first time, it pops up throughout the video :)

  • Americans, Bitter is a type of Pale Ale brewed in England.

    Wiki or google it, if you are at a computer (which you are).

  • I love the meerkat and quality bitter XD

  • On the beer front if you have the time and the cash then its gotta be Guinness

  • I like creamy bitter :/

    and anyway its all about high quality cider :)

  • I wish people would just grow a pair and drink straight spirits out of the bottle until their kidneys hurt, like real men. It doesn't do any massive short term damage, so you wont need to worry about it for a decade or two. And by then you'll have drank yourself into a coma, so it's all good.

    Seriously though, Miller is the way to go for beer. Stella for lager. And if you do have testicles, Whyte & Mackay.

  • I like beer on tap.