what’s become your favourite beer?

Alice

I like beer around the 3.4% the kind that was usualy on draft back in 80s you could have 4 or 5 beers over 2 or 3 hours and barley know you had a drink

ginger

White witch

Not quite on subject but Lemon gin is $HIT

hard me to single one out with all the amazing craft beer available now

*for me

Sierra Nevada Californian IPA  (blue tin 4.2%)

Went to my local brewery Hogs Back today to collect 3.5 pints of TEA ; £7.88.

Had the C Bomb by Arbor from a well known subscription service. I thought it was great, and it comes in a one pint can.

That looks an Irish price for the Nukey Brown!

The Cranborne Poacher 5.7% isn't bad tack imo.

Bought a 16 can pack from the Brinkburn Brewery in Byker. Interesting mixture of flavoured and non flavoured beer-some must be an acquired taste like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Porter but can recommend the Byker Brown Ale. Until recently never used to drink cans as a hangover from the 80s when McEwans Export had a funny metallic aftertaste but the canning technology has moved on. That said can't wait for a proper draught pint.

May 2, 2020 -- 5:43PM, Cauthenmeister wrote:

Had the C Bomb by Arbor from a well known subscription service. I thought it was great, and it comes in a one pint can.

I havent had any arbor beer but the beer reviewer I follow on youtube has had a few and the 1 pint cans look amazing haha

May 2, 2020 -- 5:40PM, posy wrote:

Went to my local brewery Hogs Back today to collect 3.5 pints of TEA ; £7.88.

cracking drink also the little swine 2.8% is very nice

May 2, 2020 -- 5:43PM, Cauthenmeister wrote:

Had the C Bomb by Arbor from a well known subscription service. I thought it was great, and it comes in a one pint can.

all arbor is the dogs b*ll*x

Posy is that the brewery from Sandown park ?

I agree with lapsy about Cranborne Poacher but currently down to my last bottle. Also got some Titanic Plum Porter and the ever reliable St Austell Tribute and Proper Job.

i bought 4 500ml bottles from sainsburys for £5.50 mcewans champion 7.3% badger the blabdford fly 5.2% bishops finger 5.4% marstons old empire 5.7%

some of them are pasteurised (they heat up the beer in the bottle to 140c)

One of my fav pubs soon will be deliver or collect cask conditioned bottles of hoskins green and gold, tom kelly stout, hob bitter, IPA, AND 3C's

Thanks Dotchinite, we agree , i don't disagree with a lot of your posts as it happens and you listen to other people.

That Blanford Fly not for me, Bishops Finger ok.

I know a beer thread,but Waitrose blended scotch v good,highland black aldi also cracking scotch pricewise.

Wye Valley is another good brewery in my opinion especially the Butty Bach and the HPA which must be the easiest beer to drink.

Not a big whisky drinker lapsy but i do have either a bottle of Glenmorangie or Oban at xmas. Used to drink the Laphroaig as well which people seem to either love or hate.

London Pride or Landlors IPAo

foxy they certainly used to have the concession at Sandown (in the main stand nearish to the main entrance) where from memory they sold TEA and Hop Garden Gold.Trick to avoid the queue was to get there straight after the winner passed the post although to be fair they were very efficient in serving customers. Not sure why they stopped selling there ; I know the people who replaced them and sold Punter were treated badly by Sandown and were eventually relegated to the back of the Sports bar . They too gave up soon afterwards.

Kingfisher

One of our locals had Doom Bar on draught recently. Wouldn’t ordinarily be my sort of drink but I loved it.

Back in the early 80s we kids used to climb in the back of Theaksons brewery in Cordygate and steal the out of date beer that was often left outside the building it was either ok or viniger to taste lost my virginity to a girl from school after a few bottles of pale ale

How much pale ale did she need?

not much neither did I

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/305988809

drinking a few of these right now, superb pale ale

tyneside blonde, anarchy blonde star or rivet catcher. all local breweries, all around 4%

Nice to see small brewerys and distilleries making a comeback

Birra Morretti for me too, has a good taste and flavour. Quite like Tyskie as well, another nice tasting lager

Another vote for Arbor beer.  Pricey, so a bit of a treat.

Wiper and True always a challenge...nice teste but always seem yeasty...

M & S are doing 3 for a fiver.  Got Beavertown Lupulloid and a Magic Rock,

Had a phase of Golden Glory and another Badger I can't remember years ago.

Northern Monk are great too...haven't tried that hazy one, but Eternal is a fav.

Best ever from a supermarket was from Morrisons....Kirkstall Brewery....Dissolution IPA...unfortunately was only
available for short while..

Wye Valley defo a good beery session beer


Cauthen, you are allowed to tell us the name of the subscription service!...used Beer52 for a couple of years before getting a bit tired with it..

Went to my local brewery Hogs Back today to collect 3.5 pints of TEA ; £7.88.

Posy, I like the Hogs Back cider 'Hazy Hog' Lovely on a hot summer day! Have you done a tour of the brewery? They certainly CAN organise a p*ss up in a brewery

No paulypaul never done the tour although have only heard good reports of it .These days I just imbibe for pleasure and positively avoid drinking to excess and ending up with a hangover so think tour would be wasted on me.

I'm not really a cider drinker but will give it a try on a hot summer's day ;the draught TEA which i'm picking up at the moment is in superb condition and much better than that generally sold in pubs which leads me to think that too many landlords don't  know how best to keep their beer.

Their TEA is a lovely beer..enjoy!!

Corona the one in bottles, not the Chinnnnnna version

Will check out Lidl.  Used to really like their No. 3?..Green Gecko, but then the brew or brewery changed.

Bath Ales's Lansdown is my pick of current supermarket beers if you are into your IPAs.  Bottles seem better than cans.

So many breweries round here . I drink anything.....stouts , bitters or lagers . If I go to the pub I normally do beer roulette . Some are better

than others . Most are pretty good . In doors I drink Tyskie or Lech , pretty decent lagers imo .

Lidl beer festival link https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/c/british-beer-festival/c1444/w1

Bottled beer defo better than cans imho

Without a doubt if the choice is between a bottled and can of the same beer I'd always go for the bottle. It amazes me how different the taste can be between the two.

nap

May 3, 2020 -- 10:00AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:

Another vote for Arbor beer.  Pricey, so a bit of a treat.Wiper and True always a challenge...nice teste but always seem yeasty...M & S are doing 3 for a fiver.  Got Beavertown Lupulloid and a Magic Rock,Had a phase of Golden Glory and another Badger I can't remember years ago. Northern Monk are great too...haven't tried that hazy one, but Eternal is a fav.Best ever from a supermarket was from Morrisons....Kirkstall Brewery....Dissolution IPA...unfortunately was onlyavailable for short while..Wye Valley defo a good beery session beerCauthen, you are allowed to tell us the name of the subscription service!...used Beer52 for a couple of years before getting a bit tired with it..

If you are near Leeds anytime in the future not far from on Elland Road there is the Kirkstall Brewery on the A65 a bit further along they bought the Cardigan Arms and they've renovated it,done a great job.Wilde child is nearby Kirkstall Brewery on the A58 roundabout head for Armley Road.

19 year old son brought home 8 cans Red Stripe

nice memory jogger for me

May 3, 2020 -- 7:07PM, Whisperingdeath wrote:

Bottled beer defo better than cans imho

for craft beer its the opposite!

Very partial to most bottled things by the Kernel Brewery....Not that cheap though .....

Spoilt for choice here in Mid Sussex - Harveys, Dark Star and Bedlam all beer available delivered, and Southdowns Cellars (top independant wine merchants hereabouts) Had a 5L can of Bedlam Barcombe Blond for the weekend. Biased perhaps, Christened in Barcombe church!, but lovely stuff. We are blessed here in Sussex with craft beer, as many of you are. Support your local Brewers.

Shame Dark Star got bought out but original owner kept 1st pub i think.Now owned by Asahi who bought Fullers who bought Dark Star

duke...so many breweries I want to visit..will add that to the list...I brew my own beer, so particularly interested in tours...  .was in the area last year a couple of times and visited Magic Rock in Huddersfield.  Decent pub crawl round Huddersfield.

Tesco cider £2.55 for 4 cans @ 5%

cant go wrong

Drank lager most of my life but last few years i'd rather have a blonde beer, pale ale or IPA.

Dark Star Hophead is a favourite, so too Shipyards, Atlantic, London Mean Time Pale Ale, Camden Pale Ale, Tribute.

Also like Old Speckled Hen, thought it was too dark for me but enjoyed it.

Oh and Theakstons Old Peculiar Pale Ale is a good one.

Leffe blonde another favourite, couple of them large bottles and you know about it. But enough about my brekkie

Difficult not to generalise lovegod, but I find 'Blonde Ales' invariably tasteless and I avoid. Conversely there are some dark looking 'Pale ales' that are all about light flavoursome hops. My favourite draught is Abbeydale Moonshine- summer in a glass- but I've never seen it in bottles.

I'd agree with the Blonde ales comment - can't think of one I like.

I will throw a couple more nice ones into the mix...

Backyard Brewery Gold.  Purity UBU or Mad Goose and their Longhorn IPA.

It's gotta be a Shipyard for me...always available at Uncle Tim's (fcuk am I missing Wetherspoons)

It's an American IPA - out of the bottle just ain't the same is it?

Not a bad standby!  Brewed by Marston's I think.  As was the aforementioned Green Gecko at some point.

Keg, bottle or can - not much difference.

Cask is king.

IMO Lidl and Aldi 'craft' beers (330 cans or bottles) are very poor.

My second fav at home Gibberish, and always buy it draught at Sir Tim's. 4 x 440 ml for a fiver at the co-op.

Saddo - there's a Co-Op at the top of my road...I've never noticed Shipyard there.
I'll go and investigate soon and hopefully make an 'investment'

You won’t not have long to wait for Wetherspoons gibberish they plan to reopen in June .

Can't fcukin' wait buddy

Gibberish, they are in a box, mainly white with the blue  ship on, the branding is easy to miss tbf

I'm off there in the next hour...that's tonight's 'dinner' sorted.

One of the best drinks on tap is white rat

Surely not foxy. Ossett Brewery brewery bought em because they lacked the imagination to make a beer of their own with new world hops. Their pubs are very nice ( I'm  surrounded by them_) and well run but I've never been a fan of their beers, and they are not good at choosing guest beers really. Much better beers imho, Moonshine is much better.

May 4, 2020 -- 8:58AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:

duke...so many breweries I want to visit..will add that to the list...I brew my own beer, so particularly interested in tours...

I really like it saddo where I get it is at a very small bar on an indoor market which has to call last orders at 5 pm,as far as I know I have not been in an ossett pub unless the muse in Wetherby is one as I am pretty sure they sell plenty of the ossett breweries drinks.

Oddly enough, they have just repurchased the pub next door to the brewery. Currently a dirty hole with a fine choice of beers. It will end up a lovely pub with slightly less choice and variety, and hopefully cleaner customers. My brother lives nearby.

I bought a tin of Tiny Rebel pineapple IPA yesterday.
Stunning stuff.
I just didn’t realise it was 6.2%.
Not cheap but a real treat.

May 5, 2020 -- 12:31AM, dukeofpuke wrote:

May  4, 2020 --  7:58AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:duke...so many breweries I want to visit..will add that to the list...I brew my own beer, so particularly interested in tours...

tried to post some details looks like its been cut short

Some of the blonde beers can be a bit tasteless, but the Leffe blonde has a lot of taste to it. £3 a bottle and 6.5 well worth a try out

So to Jack if you need any info i've been to loads

the towns/cities York,Leeds,Huddersfield,Sheffield,Buxton,Leek,Newark,Nottingham,Derby,Burton on Trent,Smisby,Beeston,Loughborough,Leicester,Oakham,Peterborough,Whittlesey,O... Quarter,Black Country,Chester,Portsmouth,Isle of Wight,Weymouth,St.Austell,Falmouth,Truro

Westerham Brewery do some nice beers, Summer Perle is one, they usually sell their stuff in 5 litre containers.

Saddo a while ago we were talking about dewsbury/Huddersfield stations can’t remember which one it was now but one of them had the white rat.

Mrs 'Death surpassed herself in kindness and stupidity last week. She bought me a case of 18 bottles of San Miguel, which, was very nice of her but I don't really drink lager! Nonetheless I put some in the fridge and took them in a cool bag when I met up with my mates and I have to say they were pleasant enough. I wouldn't buy San Miguel again but I am and certainly would drink it if that was the only option. I am trying to stay off the beer in lock down so San Miguel is my current only option!

Hopefully there are some Kentish Men or Men of Kent, whichever it is, on here. Had a long weekend in Broadstairs last year and there was a Kent Brewery whose beers we tried were simply named Number 3 or Number 5 etc.  Just remembered them reading this thread but cannot find the brewery on the net. Anyone know?.

Re Town/Brewery visits/tours - I can thoroughly recommend Lewes/Harveys up Sussex.  Lovely town, bit Bohemian Raffia and Sandals for some but a really nice place with great pubs, shops, museums, a castle and even Sussex's best river running through it. The Bonfire Night celebrations are unparalleled anywhere. The beers, and the Brewery tour, are some of the best anywhere. Direct Trains from London too, which also stop at Plumpton!.

http://www.nelsonbrewery.co.uk/

I have to confess I have have had old spanker a few times

Blackbarn

Broadstairs beauty (racehorse)anything to do with the brewery

i love a bit of Plummy

May 5, 2020 -- 4:12PM, blackbarn wrote:

Hopefully there are some Kentish Men or Men of Kent, whichever it is, on here. Had a long weekend in Broadstairs last year and there was a Kent Brewery whose beers we tried were simply named Number 3 or Number 5 etc.  Just remembered them reading this thread but cannot find the brewery on the net. Anyone know?. Re Town/Brewery visits/tours - I can thoroughly recommend Lewes/Harveys up Sussex.  Lovely town, bit Bohemian Raffia and Sandals for some but a really nice place with great pubs, shops, museums, a castle and even Sussex's best river running through it. The Bonfire Night celebrations are unparalleled anywhere. The beers, and the Brewery tour, are some of the best anywhere. Direct Trains from London too, which also stop at Plumpton!.

it could be the old supply to lidl and others brewed by Shepherd Neame at Faversham now brewed by Marstons/Wychwood under the Hatherwood Brewery name beers include Golden Goose,Ruby Rooster,Green Gecko,Amber Adder,Purple Panther.Gnarly Fox,Total Legend

Carling...at least I'm honest...they shift tons of it...I can't be the only one

I can't get on with Kentish beers, flat as a fart (in bottles at least) imho

we got the hops but we certainly ain't got the best water and that is what makes the difference I think except for Yorkshire Tea, which, is for peasants!

A lot of brewers where the water source is poor use a process called burtonisation where they add minerals to acquire thev right ph for brewing

Duke of Puke - Defo not a Shepherd Neame, and definitely not a Lidl/Aldi or the names you mentioned. The pubs where we had it, Broadstairs and Margate (yes really!) told us that the Brewers were really fussy and would not allow their beer to be transported out of Kent.  The bar tabs simply had the name of the brewery and a simple "Number Five"

I'll look into it,might be able to get some info from the camra geeks

Googling suggests Ramsgate Brewery.

Some references to Gadd's No. 3 and No. 5.

On the subject of Kent a couple of years ago on holiday we went to the first micro pub - probably only get
half a dozen people in the place!


http://www.micropub.co.uk

So to Jack if you need any info i've been to loads

the towns/cities York,Leeds,Huddersfield,Sheffield,Buxton,Leek,Newark,Nottingham,Derby,Burton on Trent,Smisby,Beeston,Loughborough,Leicester,Oakham,Peterborough,Whittlesey,O... Quarter,Black Country,Chester,Portsmouth,Isle of Wight,Weymouth,St.Austell,Falmouth,Truro

duke, I will drop you a message later - if that is OK?

Many thanks Jack Hacksaw.  Definitely Gadds - I remembered the name as soon as I read it.  A nice drop as I recall, can remember which numbers I had but more than one.

May 6, 2020 -- 10:13AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:

So to Jack if you need any info i've been to loads the towns/cities York,Leeds,Huddersfield,Sheffield,Buxton,Leek,Newark,Nottingham,Derby,Burton on Trent,Smisby,Beeston,Loughborough,Leicester,Oakham,Peterborough,Whittlesey,O...  Quarter,Black Country,Chester,Portsmouth,Isle of Wight,Weymouth,St.Austell,Falmouth,Truroduke, I will drop you a message later - if that is OK?

Be glad to help

Quite enjoying Thatchers Cider at the moment.

Used to go out with a woman who cooked everything in apple juice.

She always liked something in cider.