Favourite beer?

[William of Walworth]

Hook Norton Old Hooky
Timothy Taylors Landlord
Brains SA (Skull Attack!)
Any from the Otter Brewery, Honiton
Ringwoods 49er
Cains Triple Hop
Batemans XXXXB

Lots of others, to be added later.

 

[Nlogax]

Brains SA (Skull Attack!)

Ahh...yesssss. Where can I find that around these here Londonish parts?

I forsee an imminent trip to Cardiff.

 

[May Kasahara]

i liked belgian fruit beer (raspberry and strawberry) so my eyebrows have popped up with interest at that banana beer...sounds interesting!

I'm not sure if you would get on with it as much, as it's a lot more ale-like than other fruit beers, not so light and lagery, if that makes sense. It is delicious though, so give it a go and make your own mind up.

I love beer. Meantime Brewery's delicious raspberry beer, Deuchars, honey ales (had an amazing organic one from my local so-underground-it-hurts offie the other night), La Chouffe, Affligem, too many to mention!

 

[Phenol]

tim taylor's best bitter is finer than the landlord, but impossible to find outside of the immediate vicinity of the brewery.

for me, it's a toss up between thwaites and moorhouses - both super ales, and at a decent ABV (3.5 or so), so you can drink it all night without falling over...

don't listen to anyone who recommends that banana bread beer, unless you want to drink something that tastes like those nasty foam banana sweets disolved in brown ale. disgusting stuff.

Judging by this reply, I would assume you are in Lancashire like myself!

 

[Phenol]

Has to be Deuchars for me when i go see the old timers (Edinburgh) and a good pint of Thwaites Best Bitter when at home!
If I'm in a lager mood you can't beat Warsteiner in my opinion!

 

[Mr Retro]

A summer ale I had once in The Market Porter called "Copper Hopper" was one of the finest I've ever had. Brewed by Hydes in Manchester (thanks Donna Ferentes).

Haven't seen it anywhere in the south since then, which was about this time 2 years ago. A great day remembered by:

1. Fine Ale
2. Ireland beating Wales by a last minute drop-goal
3. Me <cough> accidentally <cough> <cough> spilling a pint of guinness into the lap of a guy who was braying about the inefficiency of the coal mines and the brilliance of Thatcher.

Thats what good ales can do for you. Make you remember an afternoon in the pub over 2 years after it happened. Can nitro keg shit do that? Nope!

 

[May Kasahara]

I've been drinking a lot of Erdinger recently....mmmm, foamy.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Two for one wine is my favorate beer.

 

[Gavin Bl]

Brains Dark (sorry, Daaaark)
Harveys Sussex Bitter
London Porter
San Miguel (big bottles)
Guinness
Mann's Brown Ale
Estrella Damm

 

[joustmaster]

I've been drinking a lot of Erdinger recently....mmmm, foamy.

have you had the dark one?

 

[killer b]

Judging by this reply, I would assume you are in Lancashire like myself!

indeed i am... preston, to be precise. you?

i'm very much into drinking whatever the local brew is - in london - youngs, fullers or adnams; in lancashire - thwaites, robinsons or moorhouses; manchester - holts, hydes or marble... in bristol - cider.

beer does travel, whatever anyone says - but they usually keep the best stuff close to the brewery...

 

[Phenol]

indeed i am... preston, to be precise. you?

i'm very much into drinking whatever the local brew is - in london - youngs, fullers or adnams; in lancashire - thwaites, robinsons or moorhouses; manchester - holts, hydes or marble... in bristol - cider.

beer does travel, whatever anyone says - but they usually keep the best stuff close to the brewery...

clitheroe ........ we even get a nice pint of Deuchars over here every now and then!

 

[Sweaty Betty]

There was no beer snobberry when i was quaffing, plain and simple carling darling

 

[pembrokestephen]

Aye, dear, but worth it. I don't drink much beer, usually red wine, but sometimes, a lush white beer is just the job. Banana bread beer? Where dya get that then? And does it actually taste of bananas?

Wells brew it, and IIRC Morrisons are selling it at the moment.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Anything wet

 

[Reg in slippers]

hook norton ales can be sublime; seasonally

double stout
first light
haymaker
twelve days

with hook norton bitter and hooky dark offering year round quaffing

old hooky is a little aggressive for my palate


all beer is good though

 

[dirtysanta]

Stella

Budvar

 

[killer b]

clitheroe ........ we even get a nice pint of Deuchars over here every now and then!

clitheroe, eh? you've the best wine merchant in the north of england on your doorstep then, i dunno why you bother with ale...

i was over there last summer for the folk festival - what's that pub called at the bottom of the hill near the castle? a fine place for ale, iirc.

 

[Phenol]

clitheroe, eh? you've the best wine merchant in the north of england on your doorstep then, i dunno why you bother with ale...

i was over there last summer for the folk festival - what's that pub called at the bottom of the hill near the castle? a fine place for ale, iirc.

that would be the New Inn, purveyor (sp?) of many a fine brew! Folks off this year apparently - council can't be arse to put any effort into it!!!!!!Cunts!

 

[killer b]

bollocks - it was a pleasant day too - spent the afternoon sat outside the new inn watching the britannia coconut dancers doing their thing... it all got a bit sinister at tea time though - the streets suddenly emptied, and the banjo players in the pub started playing the theme from deliverance...

 

[William of Walworth]

Stella

Foul tasting chemical shite manufactured 'under licence' on a production line in Stoke on Trent. 'Belgian' my arse!!

Budvar

Authentic proper Budowice Budvar from the Czech Republic, mmm!!!

How can you like BOTH things??

Bizarre!

(Not an anti-lager post as such, just against the corporate imitations sold as 'lager' in much of the UK)

 

[Reg in slippers]

*hands william a blue wkd and chinks it*

cheers!

 

[May Kasahara]

have you had the dark one?

Oooh, no, didn't even know there was one - all the nice pubs round here just sell the delicious creamy light Erdinger, like a pint of ice cream with booze in....mmmmmmmmmm........

 

[Phenol]

bollocks - it was a pleasant day too - spent the afternoon sat outside the new inn watching the britannia coconut dancers doing their thing... it all got a bit sinister at tea time though - the streets suddenly emptied, and the banjo players in the pub started playing the theme from deliverance...

that happens every tea time........that's when we hunt!

 

[Markyd]

Guinness!

Nowt else will do for me.

Although I did have a long flirtation with Sam Smiths Dark.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

I coud definitely murder a few harvey's sussex ales or old speckled hen at the moment.

 

[christonabike]

Batemans

Gotta stay local

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Stella

philistine

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

My favourate beer at the moment is banana bread beer, lovely stuff.

I tried this last year, thought it was fecking 'orrible. It tasted like artificial banana flavouring.

I quite like Erdinger too. Once, I had this beer that came in a ceramic bottle, called Friar... something. The beer was red and it tasted quite fruity, almost like wine. That was interesting.

 

[The Boy]

Duechars IPA is fine.

Wychwood make a few decent beers: Hobgoblin, Wychcraft, Goliath.

Caledonian 80-/

Oh, and there was that beer that my da' brought me back from France - 12% abv. Lovely so it was