SCR beer and ale

Limburger

Mmmmmm any Ale from Wychwood, Westemalle, Innis and Gunn.... in fact any non-fizzy Burrbery toting, be-capped, Argos 'jewellery' festooned, piss water, shandy drink filth lager is good in my book.

There's nothing nice about lager. The fact you have to freeze the hell out of it to be able to drink it says it all. Even the names are bad. Dirt Carling, Nelson Mandela, Stella or-I'll-twat-ya', Wife Beater, CockFosters.

I unfortunately cannot get the British ales here in NL but I live in one of only 5 cities to have a specialist beer pub. You can get 50 or 60 of the finest European beers and 6% is weak, 11% is strong and they serve Belzebuth - the only French beer which is 13%. Yum.

The food is brilliant and cheap too.

g00se

Ahhh - Badger Tanglefoot. One of my favs.

Also Adnams bitters are nice and if you can, try Woodfordes Wherry from Norfolk - lovely.

AyrshireBacon

g00se wrote:

Ahhh - Badger Tanglefoot. One of my favs.

Also Adnams bitters are nice and if you can, try Woodfordes Wherry from Norfolk - lovely.

Woodfordes Wherry is good, but Woodfordes Nog is even better.

MonkeyMonster

Had a lovely nice pride last night in the counting house - fullers food is getting rather good - meat platter...

risi

Butcombe. I can see the brewery from my house. And the beers are jolly good too.

(Not only that, but you pronounce it "buttcum". When I've been in the USA I sometimes tell people that's where I live if they ask.)

Also partial to a Badger - had a Badger Stinger the other day; made with nettles in it. Nice.
+1 on Doombar too - my local sells it & its always a toss up between the 'bar and the Butcombe.

AyrshireBacon

If anyone has a chance to visit Norwich (yokel land) then http://www.fatcatpub.co.uk/index.htm is worth a visit.

From the website : 26 real ales, 6 draught Belgian beers; 50 bottled beers, 4 lagers, 3 ciders and a German weissbeer.

iain_j

Old Speckled Hen. A curious one. The first few sips always tasted off to me, but then after a few more mouthfuls it was delicious.

That was until a Saturday afternoon drinking several cans of the stuff. More than several in fact. Can't bring myself to look at it since. Ugh.

prawny

Ooh Erdinger - ayrshire bacon just reminded me, that stuff is flippin lovely.

Hoegarrden too, but then we're straying into funny beer territory.

artaxerxes

I've tried and liked most of the ones mentioned, but I'm more of a whisky man. Johnny Walker Black or Jamesons are my regular tipples.

biondino

I'm glad there are so many Badger fans - all their beers are superb, but the best, not yet mentioned I don't think, is Blandford Fly, which has ginger in it. I accept this is cheating a bit, but it's heavenly.

Fullers is easily the best of the big breweries, and their HSB is the best of the best. London Pride, though, is one of their few disappointments.

MonkeyMonster

No need to go as far as norwich

http://www.suffolkcamra.co.uk/pubs/pub/458

is a very good one too!

Fireblade96

Ooh beer. One of my favourite topics.

Last night I managed to put away a few pints of http://www.bathales.com/ales/gem.html, then when the Gem ran out we moved seamlessly onto the Hereford Pale Ale.

All in a proper old-style pub with loads of bicycles chained up to the railings outside.

I like Friday nights :-)

DonDaddyD

Since the making of this thread I've tried:

Youngs
Bombadier
Titanic
Banana bread
Long eared rabbit
Abbot
Wandle (something)
Red King IPA (or something)
Ruddles
Winter Ale
And something my girlfriend bought me (not the real name)

And loved them all.

Zephr

there are a lot of people going for some pretty popular ales- London pride. broadside etc, which isnt a bad thing, though when you are out in a random country pub, there is nothing better than supping on one of their random on tap ales.

a couple spring to mind- The Little John in Hathersage always has at least 4 real ales on tap- last time I was there they were Tornado, whirlwind and others of that theme- delicious, every one of them, just down the road from there is the Travellers Rest which ALWAYS has Farmers Blonde.

In London, down Greenwich way is The Union, which is the main outlet for the Meantime Brewery, who do an excellent stout, and a very good bitter, along with some odder, but equally nice, offerings, ie. fruit beers/ chocolate beers etc.

Any of the Samuel Smith pubs in London are good for a cheap ale, the bitter, and again, the stout is pretty damn good,

and a final shout out to anyone in Exeter, get yourselves to the Beer Engine- excellent pub, excellent name, excellent beer.

jimmypippa

Zephr wrote:

there are a lot of people going for some pretty popular ales- London pride. broadside etc, which isnt a bad thing, though when you are out in a random country pub, there is nothing better than supping on one of their random on tap ales.

a couple spring to mind- The Little John in Hathersage always has at least 4 real ales on tap- last time I was there they were Tornado, whirlwind and others of that theme- delicious, every one of them, just down the road from there is the Travellers Rest which ALWAYS has Farmers Blonde.

In London, down Greenwich way is The Union, which is the main outlet for the Meantime Brewery, who do an excellent stout, and a very good bitter, along with some odder, but equally nice, offerings, ie. fruit beers/ chocolate beers etc.

Any of the Samuel Smith pubs in London are good for a cheap ale, the bitter, and again, the stout is pretty damn good,

and a final shout out to anyone in Exeter, get yourselves to the Beer Engine- excellent pub, excellent name, excellent beer.

A peak district microbrewery that is pretty good.. Whim Ales Ltd

http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/380

deptfordmarmoset

Zephr wrote:

there are a lot of people going for some pretty popular ales- London pride. broadside etc, which isnt a bad thing, though when you are out in a random country pub, there is nothing better than supping on one of their random on tap ales.

a couple spring to mind- The Little John in Hathersage always has at least 4 real ales on tap- last time I was there they were Tornado, whirlwind and others of that theme- delicious, every one of them, just down the road from there is the Travellers Rest which ALWAYS has Farmers Blonde.

In London, down Greenwich way is The Union, which is the main outlet for the Meantime Brewery, who do an excellent stout, and a very good bitter, along with some odder, but equally nice, offerings, ie. fruit beers/ chocolate beers etc.

Any of the Samuel Smith pubs in London are good for a cheap ale, the bitter, and again, the stout is pretty damn good,

and a final shout out to anyone in Exeter, get yourselves to the Beer Engine- excellent pub, excellent name, excellent beer.

I used to do gigs in there 3 or 4 years ago. It was an unusual gig - they wanted you to stop at 10:30 (?) but they'd give us a selection of bottled ales to take home. They were excellent

FeynmanC

I'm not a big drinker, never have been, which is why i got decidedly squiffy when organising a beer fest at Uni. I had the responsibility of checking each barrel had settled OK on the morning of the event and had to try a snifter of each of 18 (maybe more, it's a little hazy) different real ales.

I couldn't work out why I felt so funny, until I realised i'd probably had a pint or more of a cocktail of beers, before 8.30am!

Murphy's Oyster Stout was my favourite that day, as was a nice lie down in the afternoon :oops:

prawny

Just had a bottle of wells waggle dance, very nice I'm off to the fridge now for a bottle of St Peters Organic, I'd forgotten this but it's one of my faves.



Just started watching a sunday in hell too, s'pretty good.

iain_j

Beer tonight has made way for mulled wine, following a day of christmas decorating the office and munching mince pies

RossMu

artaxerxes wrote:

I've tried and liked most of the ones mentioned, but I'm more of a whisky man. Johnny Walker Black or Jamesons are my regular tipples.

I know im a fairly new poster, plus this probably isn't the place for it, but I would ask all fellow posters to avoid all Diageo products.

Being from Kilmarnock, knowing how willing they are to make just under 1000 workers unempleyed, pretty much killing the entire town in the process, just a couple of years after accepting over £1M of public sector money to keep the place open, makes me sick to my stomach.

Dont believe anything you see in the advert, they dont give a flying p*nct%Re about their heritage, only about their profits.

PS - theres better available for the same price..