I was brought up on Youngs Ordinary but Summer Lightening is my fave now, doesn't taste as strong as it is. Spent the Norwich weekend doing the Woodforde's Wherry list to accumulate some prizes but alas it finished end of September. However they do resurrect it from time to time.......
Not allowed to drink beer but there are a couple of gluten free beers available although they are an aquired taste and not like the real thing. Also an asian shop in Croydon has imported bottled Guiness from India which does not contain gluten. I wonder how they can make it without using malt and barley: it certainly has a unique flavour! In the old days though it was Young's Special and Courage Director's. Happy Days.
London Pride is my favourite 'all evening beer'.
Glad to see a few like Adnams (especially Broadside) lovely drop of juice.
Drink bottles of Bishops Finger in the Liberal club.
CommentAuthorCurb_ItCommentTime2 hours ago quote# 59 As mention, one for soundas... we're staying in Farningham/Horton Kirby this week and have to say the Chequers is a bloody lovely pub. wow. The Pied bull there is nice but for just a drinkers pub the chequers is the nuts.
I could move there for that!
Always go into 1 of those 2 on a wednesday night - thinks it's the bull tonight - both pubs serve excellent and well kept beers
[cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]Asahi.........A Japanense lager sold up Shootershill GC
Beers.........try anything, was drinking Gales last week in The Bull.
Asahi is lovely....it creeps up on you tho after 4 or 5.
Got back from the States last night - just spent a couple of weeks drinking American stuff.
Most of what's available draught is fizzy ice cold undrinkable stuff that looks and tastes like piss.
But I discovered Springwater brewery in Atlanta, and in a couple of places it wasn't fizzed up and available from a proper traditional pump, as opposed to the normal minature pastiche pump handles on gas pressure dispensers.
Otherwise it was bottled ales: Springwater 420 (bit sweet but you get used to it).
Tap Room Amber, .......very palatable from New York, I think.
Sam Adams (various), brewed in Boston ...... quite English in flavour.
Sierra Nevada, and Dominion (maybe brewed in Ohio)
And Oktoberfest, a seasonal malty hoppy English style, fairly dark for a bitter.
There were some others that were decent, but naturally when you're drinking the stuff, the memory blurs a bit )
Of course, there was a myriad of familiar stuff imported from Europe - but I always like to try the local beers when I'm in another country.
Remember being in New York 3 or 4 years ago, and right under the Empire State building, was a very decent English style pub (rather than a bar). It sold various beers on traditional pumps, Heartland Brewery I think it was - very good indeed.
Goacher's Gold Star, Whitstable IPA, HopDaemon Incubus. In fact pretty much any ale from Goacher's, puts Shepherd Neame into an average purgatory.
Not a massive fan of lagers, but quite like most proper German lagers and Tasmanian lagers like Boags. Montieths from NZ was also delicious, esspecially their red. Shame I never see them in the UK.
Funny how these threads pop back up now and again.
Recently discovered than the Tapas bar near where I live sells Bitburger Pils on draught. I'm more of a real ale man but Bitburger is a lager of exceptional quality and taste and is fortunately still only available on import. One of the best German beers ever.
I have had to start shopping in LIDL because at least you can get drinkable and cheap german lager there. A lot of supermarkets have Murphy's Red but I can not bring myself to buy it, has any proper beer drinker tried it and liked it?
I love red beers but it sounds ominously bad by what your saying. What's it taste like? Does it have the modern Irish plague of loads of sugar left in it after the brewing process?
dont do any of the real ales, though when we played chesterfield in the league cup a few years ago i tried a stout that was flavoured with black pepper which was lovely.
king of the lagers that i drink has to be holsten export.
a real aler i drink with, keeps trying to get me on these light wheat beers, but i see the state he gets into on them and avoid.
Haven't tried it, but the fact its for sale in the spanish interior (not many brits) means it must be rubbish. Its along side the ubiquitous Guiness and John Smiths smooth. I am so desperate I would buy an ordinary JSs but a smooth!! My father in law would disown me. On the coast (of Spain) you can get bottles of real ale in small brit shops but it is, in my experience, often out of date or kept in direct sunlight. Still normally beats local beer, which is good for a hot summers day, but you (I) can't have a session with it.
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Blimey shag, that's not even the best beer in Portugal, and we are not talking a great deal of competition here...
More to do with happy holiday memories than taste I suspect.
Any road up
Greene King IPA
Hopback Summer Lightning
Wadworths 6X
Harveys Best
Spitfire
It beats Cristal and Sagres , dunno any others ....
Hobgoblin
Harveys best
Wadworth 6x
Directors.
Anything brewed by Badger.
Used to like Flowers too. Don't seem to see it anymore.
Budweiser :-s
Best beer I have ever had has to be Leffe Blond on Draught, bleedin strong as well.
As a rule though do love a nice pint of Guinness.
Glad to see a few like Adnams (especially Broadside) lovely drop of juice.
Drink bottles of Bishops Finger in the Liberal club.
As mention, one for soundas... we're staying in Farningham/Horton Kirby this week and have to say the Chequers is a bloody lovely pub. wow. The Pied bull there is nice but for just a drinkers pub the chequers is the nuts.
I could move there for that!
Always go into 1 of those 2 on a wednesday night - thinks it's the bull tonight - both pubs serve excellent and well kept beers
Estrella
Ella
Ella
Bishops Finger, Kasteel Cru, Kwak, Erdinger, Staropramen, Hoegaarden, Leffe, Pilsner Urquell all hit the spot as well
Erdinger Weissbrau...on draught.....hard to come by.
Is it better with one or two s's
Or a "ß".
Beers.........try anything, was drinking Gales last week in The Bull.
Asahi is lovely....it creeps up on you tho after 4 or 5.
Black sheep was the "Beer of the week" up the road last week, if he has any left friday I'll give it ago.
Most of what's available draught is fizzy ice cold undrinkable stuff that looks and tastes like piss.
But I discovered Springwater brewery in Atlanta, and in a couple of places it wasn't fizzed up and available from a proper traditional pump, as opposed to the normal minature pastiche pump handles on gas pressure dispensers.
Otherwise it was bottled ales: Springwater 420 (bit sweet but you get used to it).
Tap Room Amber, .......very palatable from New York, I think.
Sam Adams (various), brewed in Boston ...... quite English in flavour.
Sierra Nevada, and Dominion (maybe brewed in Ohio)
And Oktoberfest, a seasonal malty hoppy English style, fairly dark for a bitter.
There were some others that were decent, but naturally when you're drinking the stuff, the memory blurs a bit
Of course, there was a myriad of familiar stuff imported from Europe - but I always like to try the local beers when I'm in another country.
Remember being in New York 3 or 4 years ago, and right under the Empire State building, was a very decent English style pub (rather than a bar). It sold various beers on traditional pumps, Heartland Brewery I think it was - very good indeed.
Not a massive fan of lagers, but quite like most proper German lagers and Tasmanian lagers like Boags. Montieths from NZ was also delicious, esspecially their red. Shame I never see them in the UK.
Recently discovered than the Tapas bar near where I live sells Bitburger Pils on draught. I'm more of a real ale man but Bitburger is a lager of exceptional quality and taste and is fortunately still only available on import. One of the best German beers ever.
I have had to start shopping in LIDL because at least you can get drinkable and cheap german lager there. A lot of supermarkets have Murphy's Red but I can not bring myself to buy it, has any proper beer drinker tried it and liked it?
king of the lagers that i drink has to be holsten export.
a real aler i drink with, keeps trying to get me on these light wheat beers, but i see the state he gets into on them and avoid.
That is when we are not drinking cider
Who (or what) is the Ale a tribute to? Alan Beer perhaps?