i enjoy the occasional stella but its usually in the same way that i occasionally like a blast of ket, its messy stuff and i end up a bit of an emotional wreck.
Extra cold guinness is the way to go in rubbish pubs as it takes away the stale taste, its the same barrel just chilled through more pipes. Just make sure you dont get the first pint of the day you get a load of black devils dandruff in there. One thing that was awful, I dont know if it ever came out here was 'Breo', a wheat beer stlyeguinness, horrible stuff.
As for lime in beers, its the only way to go on hoegarden type stuff, takes that flowery edge off when actually attempting a full one of those flower pot like glasses.
Had one of my greatest warm ale experiences the other day in the marble beer house in ancoats here in manc. I was having a bottle of their Ginger 6% ale which had been nestling against a lamp on the top shelf and the heat in it really brought out the zingy ginger taste to make it one of the greatest pints ive ever had. If you see marble beers anywhere snap them up, i think they have started selling them in boutique offies and selfridges (check the lagonda, ginger or chocolate, all fantastic in their own way)
and as for rioja i just dont tunderstand it, i've drank alledgedy good expensive bottles at my girls parents and was seriously underwhelmed.