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  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    Nice of them, though it might be hard to tell the difference.....

    http://www.aol.com/article/2015/05/29/anheuser-busch-halts-beer-production-cans-water-instead/21188897/?cps=gravity_4816_-1917443928192272752
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,911
    PragueAddick said:

    Oh you were here for the Prague beer fest! I thought it was going on in London and couldn't imagine how they got the stuff over there at those prices! Doh ! :-)

    I can highly recommend the Czech & Slovak Bar & Restaurant at 74 West End Lane, West Hampstead. It was established as a meeting place for expatriates after World War II, and retains an engaging 70s ambience with huge paintings of Czech leaders in gilt frames. More like a social club than a bar. Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser Budvar on tap: good and strong.

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    This is VERY good.
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    Viewfinder said:


    better red than dead said:

    Went on a pub crawl up Royal Hill after the Bournemouth game and had my first pint of Meantime. It will be my last. I thought the flavour may make up for the fizzy keg but couldn't taste anything through the bubbles. The pubs either side had much better tasting stuff but were doing nowhere near the trade the Greenwich Union was doing. Is it a question of style over substance? Finished up at the Ashburnham Arms which sells Shepherd Neames. It was then time to go home.

    You are absolutely right: all the Meantime beers are filtered, pasteurised, and then fizzed with carbon dioxide. The marketing schtick of 'craft' brewers is nonsense: they are reverting to Watney's - Grotney's - Red Barrel in the Sixties.

    You did well: the Young's in the Richard the First, next door, is always in good nick - and the Shepherd Neame Master Brew in the Ashburnham has perked up with the new guvnor.

    Cheers!



    Meantime beer is not pasteurised.

    You don't know what you're talking about.


  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    i ll be happy if it comes up to me chest
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY said:

    Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(

    Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145

    Riviera said:

    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY said:

    Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(

    Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
    Riviera said:

    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY said:

    Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(

    Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
    Riviera said:

    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY said:

    Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(

    Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
    what?. You are offering a "lager"???
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    It's a cask conditioned real ale. That's what we serve.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Riviera said:

    It's a cask conditioned real ale. That's what we serve.

    :-)

    Curious to know what such a beer made with Czech hops will be like. Guess I'm not going to find out, but will be interested to hear how it goes down.

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    We've had a few times and it is very good and popular. We've had beers made with US,German, French, Polish hops and have a Japanese one due on soon. Beer is global.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Riviera said:

    We've had a few times and it is very good and popular. We've had beers made with US,German, French, Polish hops and have a Japanese one due on soon. Beer is global.

    Of course when the big boys used to brew Hofmeister in Northampton, or Tennants Pilsner in Glasgow, the CAMRA boys would go into a lather about how globalisation of beer was terrible, and produced piss like that stuff.

    If it tastes nice, OK,bottoms up, but "Bohemian" is stretching things a bit. Looks like real ale brewers are not above a bit of marketing bollocks. And therein lies a danger signal for the future.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    edited June 2015
    mainly for @Stig

    last night's beer. (Amber lager, NOT an ale, from a microbrewery). See the line on the glass? The beer should settle upwards to that line if it's been correctly poured. The glass is designed to take a half litre of beer plus the two fingers of foam. I think it's a more visually attractive way of serving beer than the British way
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    I'd be spitting fury at being under served !
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    AFKABartram said:

    I'd be spitting fury at being under served !

    Thought you'd be used to comming up short. ......
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    AFKABartram said:

    I'd be spitting fury at being under served !

    Well most of the fights in Prague pubs do involve Brits...:-)

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Need some recommendations.

    Am a lager drinker, don't really like real ales but had a chilled bottle of Doom Bar other day and it was palatable.
    Any others I should try , preferably that you can chill (as more of a home drinker at moment with two under four years old) as a halfway house between lager and the ales?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Stig said:

    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.

    We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Yum!
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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Stig said:

    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.

    Cheers Stig. Will check them out.
  • Pelham123
    Pelham123 Posts: 379
    Anyone around the Crayford area the Penny Farthing is on the second day of a three day mini beer festival. Went last night and worked my way through some of the 9 ales on offer. Favourite on the night was Reverend James. Going back tomorrow to finish working my way through the card. The lovely couple that run it will give you a warm welcome.


  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    edited June 2015
    PragueAddick said:

    mainly for @Stig

    I think it's a more visually attractive way of serving beer than the British way

    Personally I disagree. If I got served that I would have the right ump. Who wants to drink half a pint of foam?
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    edited June 2015
    Off_it said:

    I'm not talking about the measure. Just don't want to drink half a glass of foam.

    Then I've got a feeling you are really not going to enjoy the "mleko" (milk) beer style. Third foto down in this article

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    I'm not talking about the measure. Just don't want to drink half a glass of foam.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,788
    Riviera said:

    Stig said:

    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.

    We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
    @Riviera were is this Long Pond, please?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,788
    Peckham Brewery's Hefeweizen - had it on Thursday. It's the first British wheat beer I've had that tastes like the ones from Germany.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    AddicksAddict said:

    Riviera said:

    Stig said:

    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.

    We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
    @Riviera were is this Long Pond, please?
    Westmount road.
    Just along from where eltham park rail station used to be.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    AddicksAddict said:

    Riviera said:

    Stig said:

    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.

    We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
    @Riviera were is this Long Pond, please?
    Well worth a visit despite the Landlord
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited June 2015
    AddicksAddict said:

    Riviera said:

    Stig said:

    There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.

    We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
    @Riviera were is this Long Pond, please?
    110 Westmount Road
    London
    SE9 1UT

    0208 331-6767
    Twitter @thelongpond Facebook - The Long Pond

    Open 1130-2.30pm Tues-Fri

    Evening Mon-Wed 5-10pm
    Thurs-Fri 5-11pm
    Sat 11-3pm & 6.30-11pm
    Sunday 12-2.30pm

    Closed Sunday night and Monday lunchtime.

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