Great beers

[MrSki]

In the days of pubs used to always look forward to the first barrel of Summer Lightning from Hopback. It heralded the proper start of spring.

A would love a pint of that now.

 

[A380]

I’m not a huge fan of lots of hops. This is made half a mile from my house and I can drink it all day.



This will also make my day when it’s on draft, ironically not so keen on it in bottles.



Though pedestrian if it’s German I do like the southern tastes of:


Charles Wells used to make this one, not anymore, but you can still get it on draft occasionally.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

yeah there's definitely a category of 'only on draught' beers. London Pride is like that for me. It's ok in a bottle, but not great. From a freshly opened barrel, it is creamy and delicious. But it goes off very quickly.

ETA: Timothy Taylor Landlord is the same.

 

[Orang Utan]

Kirkstall Brewery’s Dissolution IPA:
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Great taste, great name (a reference to Kirkstall Abbey)

 

[A380]

yeah there's definitely a category of 'only on draught' beers. London Pride is like that for me. It's ok in a bottle, but not great. From a freshly opened barrel, it is creamy and delicious. But it goes off very quickly.

ETA: Timothy Taylor Landlord is the same.

Landlord is my go to pint in that there London. Never had it in a bottle but can well believe it wouldn’t be that good.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Have you had the Loch Lomond, I think it's Loch Lomand, from Lidl? I quite enjoyed that.

Drinking this now. Very nice. It's pleasingly cloudy and full-bodied. Good tip.

 

[quiet guy]

Abbeydale Brewery's Moonshine and Absolution.

 

[existentialist]

My 1st love was Young's Bitter, but since they closed their brewery in Wandsworth, & moved to Bedfordshire, it doesn't taste the same. I know that lots of old farts say that about the beers of their youth, but in the case of Young's, switching from the water in their artesian well, to piped water at the Wells Brewery HAS changed the finished product.
I'm currently enjoying Konigshof Pils from Krefeld; Guinness Extra from Dublin; Sainsbury's Dry Cider (cheap & thirst-quenching!), & Williams Bros' Grozet gooseberry ale.

On separate days, of course!

I had to work my way towards the Bitter. Pretty soon after commencing my pub drinking career, Special was my pint of choice (quite often a Ram and Special).

I grew to like the Bitter more when I realised I could drink 7 pints in a night and still show up for work in the morning.

 

[Sue]

The Beavertown tap room is a decent place to have a drink , they have a garden (actually the old car park) so should be open again now , it's in Tottenham.

Hackney/Tottenham mashup drink? (Or we could get back into the swing with a CB trip first... )

 

[Wolveryeti]

Bitters:: Tim Taylor Landlord, Woodeforde's Wherry
Lagers: Namyslow (Polish Brewer) - about 6% comes in pint cans - really nice.
Stouts: There was a really nice one I had a few years back called Titanic that was brewed with plums.
Wheat beers: Erdinger/Franziskaner/Blue Moon

 

[butcher]

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Used to be brewed in Hampshire now made in some factory brewery but still good

I grew up in Horndean and would smell them mashing up most days. However, Fullers bolloxed it up. They use bloody London water, when it used to come straight out the chalk, I think the hop profile has changed too.

I used to love an HSB/Prize Old split.

 

[butcher]

This is an amazing barrel aged sour red, complex and stunning.https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/216/374771/

 

[A. Spies]

Vocation is one of my favourites. A lovely range of beer. Tesco sell some.

Vocation Brewery

We Brew Bold Beers From our hilltop in Yorkshire we'd rather set benchmarks than trends, only making beer that we're proud to put our name on. It's what drives us. It's what made us. It's our Vocation.

www.vocationbrewery.com

I live 5 mins walk from Vocation I always used to think their bar in Picadilly and the one in hebden looked a bit hipsterish and scary and be not that into more hoppy beers they're now one of my favourite bewers and their selection of other breweries at bars is also good.

Other favoutire beers are sam smiths especially their oatmeal stout & larger.

Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout 12x 550ml

With a dark opaque body,Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout is lovely and silky smooth. Sweet on the palate, this oatmeal stout has a delicious roasted finish.

www.drinksupermarket.com

 

[littlebabyjesus]

View attachment 264073This is an amazing barrel aged sour red, complex and stunning.https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/216/374771/

No longer brewed.

Not to everyone's (many people's) tastes, but I love sour gueuze beers. Cantillon, Timmerman's, Boon. Not with fruity business, just plain.

I am very wary of recommending, though. Some people (most people) just think it's off.

 

[quiet guy]

Bitters:: Tim Taylor Landlord, Woodeforde's Wherry
Lagers: Namyslow (Polish Brewer) - about 6% comes in pint cans - really nice.
Stouts: There was a really nice one I had a few years back called Titanic that was brewed with plums.
Wheat beers: Erdinger/Franziskaner/Blue Moon

The stout you may be thinking of is the Plum Porter from the Titanic Brewery. Had a couple of bottles on Saturday, very tasty.

 

[butcher]

No longer brewed.

Not to everyone's (many people's) tastes, but I love sour gueuze beers. Cantillon, Timmerman's, Boon. Not with fruity business, just plain.

I am very wary of recommending, though. Some people (most people) just think it's off.

I had a couple this year so some stock still available.

My other fave sour red is

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/little-earth-project-stupid-sexy-suffolk-blend-iii/856263/

 

[marty21]

In the days of pubs used to always look forward to the first barrel of Summer Lightning from Hopback. It heralded the proper start of spring.

A would love a pint of that now.

Always drink that when I visit my favourite Bath pub , The Bell Inn.

 

[marty21]

No longer brewed.

Not to everyone's (many people's) tastes, but I love sour gueuze beers. Cantillon, Timmerman's, Boon. Not with fruity business, just plain.

I am very wary of recommending, though. Some people (most people) just think it's off.

I love a sour beer!

 

[existentialist]

No longer brewed.

Not to everyone's (many people's) tastes, but I love sour gueuze beers. Cantillon, Timmerman's, Boon. Not with fruity business, just plain.

I am very wary of recommending, though. Some people (most people) just think it's off.

I'm assuming these are some kind of lambic beers?

I must admit, I did find them something of an acquired taste, and it's not always what I want to drink, but a really nice "sour" beer is a very refreshing thing in particular circumstances.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm assuming these are some kind of lambic beers?

I must admit, I did find them something of an acquired taste, and it's not always what I want to drink, but a really nice "sour" beer is a very refreshing thing in particular circumstances.

Yep. Brewed using natural yeast in the air, if done properly.

 

[campanula]

O, my new summer favourite - Hammerton brewery Panama Creature. Has displaced Hopback Summer Lightening as my perfect 'day at the park' ale

eta, just noticed there are other Summer Lightning devotees.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I love a sour beer!

Berliner Kindl Weisse. So sour that it's sold with a shot of either woodruff or raspberry syrup in Berlin!

 

[hash tag]

The only way to drink beer at home

 

[moonsi til]

I was in Bristol today & was in a pub that only had bottled cider for a fiver!! So I had an Arbor ale which was insanely lush. Fiver a pint £3.99 for the can I brought home with me.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I’m not a connoisseur but Red Stripe in bottles recently really hit my taste buttons despite one bottle left loafing near my seedlings delivering a mini slug into my mouth. I managed to gag and identify it wasn’t a loose booger and spit it out

my appreciation for red stripe bottles is however undaunted

the cans are absolute dogshit though

 

[Chemical needs]

I was in Bristol today & was in a pub that only had bottled cider for a fiver!! So I had an Arbor ale which was insanely lush. Fiver a pint £3.99 for the can I brought home with me.

Yeah really enjoying arbor beers recently.

 

[mx wcfc]

Yeah really enjoying arbor beers recently.

Likewise - decent brewery. I don't see their ales on the bar here much, but if I do it's "ooh an Arbor beer - I'll give that a try".

 

[hash tag]

Saw this outside a pub recently. Not sure how great the beers are though , Yorkshire ale £13.40

 

[marty21]

Saw this outside a pub recently. Not sure how great the beers are though , Yorkshire ale £13.40
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£13.40 ! Do you get a meal with that ?

 

[JimW]

Stroud was really well served with Uley Brewery up the road and the town one reborn, both had some really fine beer, Uley UB-40 and Stroud's Budding. Our local used to regularly get Otter beers which are a Devon brewer I think and they had a fine session beer too.