*The Real Ale Thread
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i've been away for a while and suddenly the boards change completely...
wtf's a suburban75 ?!?
well onto ale:
have bath ales been mentioned? the barnstormer a good one to get you going and the spa & gem are both refreshing. they also do a christmas time one called festivity which has a nice smoky taste.
as for me... i've just moved to belgium and am slowly working my way through the fine beer on offer. those monks certainly know a thing or two about brewing very strong beer. i've also got micheal jackson's book on fine belgian beers, which i use as my bible
i'm even beginning to taste the spices and fruits used in the brews.
my favourites so far are the leffe range (well i'm in leuven), particularly the radiseuse (sp?) which at 8.2% is a fine beer for drinking in bed
i'm also becoming quite partial to the duval (the devil beer
) which also at over 8% rides of the line between a light ale and a pilsner.
if you like beer, belgium is certainly the place
wtf's a suburban75 ?!?
well onto ale:
have bath ales been mentioned? the barnstormer a good one to get you going and the spa & gem are both refreshing. they also do a christmas time one called festivity which has a nice smoky taste.
as for me... i've just moved to belgium and am slowly working my way through the fine beer on offer. those monks certainly know a thing or two about brewing very strong beer. i've also got micheal jackson's book on fine belgian beers, which i use as my bible
i'm even beginning to taste the spices and fruits used in the brews.my favourites so far are the leffe range (well i'm in leuven), particularly the radiseuse (sp?) which at 8.2% is a fine beer for drinking in bed
i'm also becoming quite partial to the duval (the devil beer
) which also at over 8% rides of the line between a light ale and a pilsner.if you like beer, belgium is certainly the place
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I used to drink loads od Old Peculiar - lovely stuff.
A pub in Leeds called the Duck and Drake, by the market, was great (don't know if it is still there) - bare floorboards, open fires, basic wooden seats, lots of old men - no frills at all. A constantly changing selection of real ale available, with great names like Whitby Wobble (did what it said on the tin), Santa's Toss at christmas, that sort of thing.
There was one they always had, can't remember the name, but was a gorgeous ruby-red, light and very drinkable one. Unfortunately it was 9%, so four pints and you were trashed. Good memories of wobbling out of the place on winter afternoons
A pub in Leeds called the Duck and Drake, by the market, was great (don't know if it is still there) - bare floorboards, open fires, basic wooden seats, lots of old men - no frills at all. A constantly changing selection of real ale available, with great names like Whitby Wobble (did what it said on the tin), Santa's Toss at christmas, that sort of thing.
There was one they always had, can't remember the name, but was a gorgeous ruby-red, light and very drinkable one. Unfortunately it was 9%, so four pints and you were trashed. Good memories of wobbling out of the place on winter afternoons
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
The Bon Accord near Charing X has to be Glasgows finest real ale pub. At anytime they can have up to a dozen beers on.
Not much of an ale drinker myself but my dad must have tried about 500-600 different types of ale. He used to make his own as well and i can still remember smelling the hops from a couple of streets away.
Not much of an ale drinker myself but my dad must have tried about 500-600 different types of ale. He used to make his own as well and i can still remember smelling the hops from a couple of streets away.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I really like Abbots, especially with a good pub meal...otherwise I like Acclaim which is a bottle Youngs beer. But on the real beer front I'll try anything...I tried a seaweed beer with Stig, William and Blind Lemon once..I didn't like it but I think Blind Lemon thought it was OK
Hello all.
I went to a fantastic real ale pub - The Market Porter near Borough Market - on Saturday afternoon. Tried Busheys Export Bitter from IoM - not enamoured with that, but the John Monks Ale afterwards was fruity and rich. They have tonnes of great beers there, and a turnaround of just a few days between new ones. Nearly everyone there was partaking on real beer.
I didn't get any snails in the market though.
In my hometown there is one of the best offeys in the country - a real connoiseurs one. I had two different seaweed ales - very nice. I just wish there was a decent offey like that here in Loondoon Town.
Anyone here like Youngs Waggledance?
I went to a fantastic real ale pub - The Market Porter near Borough Market - on Saturday afternoon. Tried Busheys Export Bitter from IoM - not enamoured with that, but the John Monks Ale afterwards was fruity and rich. They have tonnes of great beers there, and a turnaround of just a few days between new ones. Nearly everyone there was partaking on real beer.
I didn't get any snails in the market though.
In my hometown there is one of the best offeys in the country - a real connoiseurs one. I had two different seaweed ales - very nice. I just wish there was a decent offey like that here in Loondoon Town.
Anyone here like Youngs Waggledance?
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Hello all.
Me!
Thanks Griff and Mrs M.
There's a great Youngs pub the Pied Bull by Streatham Common. It looks poky from the outside but its massive and untouched with three rooms inside. It even has a Joanna for the Cockney knees up I'm sure they have every night.
That's where I had Waggledance for the first time - lovely stuff. I think Youngs is a brewer south London can be proud of. I hope it doesn't get bought by the butchers.
There's a great Youngs pub the Pied Bull by Streatham Common. It looks poky from the outside but its massive and untouched with three rooms inside. It even has a Joanna for the Cockney knees up I'm sure they have every night.
That's where I had Waggledance for the first time - lovely stuff. I think Youngs is a brewer south London can be proud of. I hope it doesn't get bought by the butchers.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I don't think there's any danger of that. Youngs is pretty healthy and firmly family-run, I think. I do seek out Youngs pubs when in unfamiliar bits of London, you can be sure of a decent pint.
Regarding sea-weed beer, the one I had tasted very aniseedy, or was it liquorice? I thought it would taste like the sea, but it was more like a cough-sweet.
Regarding sea-weed beer, the one I had tasted very aniseedy, or was it liquorice? I thought it would taste like the sea, but it was more like a cough-sweet.
Sad man that I am keeps the labels of great beers wot I have drunk. One day I'll scan them and stick them online. The seaweed ones I had were from a west Wales brewer I think, but there was no aniseed flavour thankfully.
If you are near a Safeways - I can recommend a lovely stout called something's Engine Oil - about £1.79 for a small bottle (330ml). Served chilled it was delicious.
Safeways seem to have the edge on Sainsbury's when it comes to their bottled selection. I even make a detour up to C Palace especially!
If you are near a Safeways - I can recommend a lovely stout called something's Engine Oil - about £1.79 for a small bottle (330ml). Served chilled it was delicious.
Safeways seem to have the edge on Sainsbury's when it comes to their bottled selection. I even make a detour up to C Palace especially!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
My beer usually comes from Tesco's...they do Waggledance, Acclaim (another Youngs) and I think they do Engine Oil too.....
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Waggledance is great stuff, but it is responsible for one of the worst hangovers I have ever experienced in my life.
Kids: Don't ever drink 8 pints of Waggledance. It's not big, it's not clever, and you will feel ill for days.
Kids: Don't ever drink 8 pints of Waggledance. It's not big, it's not clever, and you will feel ill for days.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
Anyone here get a slighly odder feeling than the usual pleasantly drunk feeling with some ales.
For me while I enjoy Ruddles County and Old Speckled Hen I get more like I've had a few tokes off a spliff - especially Old Speckled Hen, really screws with my head, but its kind of pleasant, came home after a few pints of it and couldn't work out how to open my front door for a while then thought someone had broken in as the bathroom light was already on - but it wasn't I later remembered using the loo as soon as I came in. I do know this is attributed to being drunk but it was definitely more of a spliff type feeling. Quite a laugh really.
For me while I enjoy Ruddles County and Old Speckled Hen I get more like I've had a few tokes off a spliff - especially Old Speckled Hen, really screws with my head, but its kind of pleasant, came home after a few pints of it and couldn't work out how to open my front door for a while then thought someone had broken in as the bathroom light was already on - but it wasn't I later remembered using the loo as soon as I came in. I do know this is attributed to being drunk
but it was definitely more of a spliff type feeling. Quite a laugh really.I'll second that.
acting on this recommendation, I ventured out of my cave to fetch supplies of the said beverage. it is indeed so thought provoking that I feel a Phd over the meaning of life and the universe (and yes the answer is 42, my bus to Maudsley hospital
). Tesco shelves are due to be systematically raided. my transformation into the Walworth Beast is beckoning....[goes off and opens up yet another bottle]
I reckon we will need a forum for beastliness (as the act of getting blootered on it is known) if this ever gets out. DMT? I've shat it
edited to say; 42 is girlies house number.
edited to say; 42 is girlies house number.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yup, I like that too (I'm pretty promiscuous on the beer front). White beers always taste of the summer to me............but sod the wanky slice of lemon..................
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Slice of lemon? Let's not have talk like that on a real ale thread
Tonight I had three highly agreeable pints of Best Bitter from Harvey's of Lewes in the Royal Oak near Borough tube .. Stig had Armada (stronger) ... both were superbly kept and very tasty indeed ... 
I also love Brains Skull Attack, Felinfoel Double Dragon, George Gales' HSB, Bold Forester from Ringwoods, Weymouth Brewery's JD, Exmoor Black Dog, Plymouth Brewery do some nice ones ... as do Sharps in Cornwall ... and Palmers in Bridport .. and Hall and Woodhouse in Blandford Forum (mmmm Tanglefoot .. Golden Champion ... mmm), Smiles of Bristol, Bath Ales, Archers of Sw*nd*n (only good product to come out of that arse end of hell town Hook Norton of erm Hook Norton in Oxfordshire, bottled Speckled is excellent ...as is 6X from Wadsworths of Devizes, Shepherd Neame's Red Autumn Ale, Three Cliffs from Gravesend, King and Barnes, Youngs I can take or leave but you can generally rely on a well kept pint (mixed Special and Ordinary is best), Pride is better .... Ridleys of Essex, Crouch Vale of Essex, Adnams (best drunk in their own pubs nearest Suffolk), Hobsons Choice of the City of Cambridge Brewery, Nethergate of Clare in Suffolk, Woodesforde's Wherry from Norwich, Wells DRAUGHT Bombardier (or Festival Ale) from a Wells-run pub or beer tent near Bedford or Cambridge, Everards of Leicester, Woods of Shropshire (Woods Wonderful),Kimberley of Nottingham, a pub near Derby station does superb in-pub brewed stuff so I'm told, Kelham Island of Sheffield, Timothy Taylor's Landlord is nectar of the heavens, Holts of Salford, Cains of Liverpool, Blackpool Brewery bitter, Jennings of Cockermouth 'Snecklifter' (it means lift the doorlatch late and drunk!!)
Stonewall from City of York Brewery, Big Lamp from Newcastle ... and shit loads more that I've momentarily forgotten for now ... more ale and brewery lists later ...
All pints mentioned carry the W of W guarentee of having been drunk by me at some not too distant past stage ...
To try some of the above and others, pop down to the 2003 Great British Beer Festival organised by CAMRA at Olympia some time between 5 and 9 August!
MMMMMMMM BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!
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cos I can only post links not actual images right now despite using the IMG commands ... and to add Hogsback Summer Lightening as justly mentioned by many ... >
Oh the Market Porter near London Bridge (mentioned earlier) is the business for various samples of new things ... always well kept ...
I also love Brains Skull Attack, Felinfoel Double Dragon, George Gales' HSB, Bold Forester from Ringwoods, Weymouth Brewery's JD, Exmoor Black Dog, Plymouth Brewery do some nice ones ... as do Sharps in Cornwall ... and Palmers in Bridport .. and Hall and Woodhouse in Blandford Forum (mmmm Tanglefoot .. Golden Champion ... mmm), Smiles of Bristol, Bath Ales, Archers of Sw*nd*n (only good product to come out of that arse end of hell town
Hook Norton of erm Hook Norton in Oxfordshire, bottled Speckled is excellent ...as is 6X from Wadsworths of Devizes, Shepherd Neame's Red Autumn Ale, Three Cliffs from Gravesend, King and Barnes, Youngs I can take or leave but you can generally rely on a well kept pint (mixed Special and Ordinary is best), Pride is better .... Ridleys of Essex, Crouch Vale of Essex, Adnams (best drunk in their own pubs nearest Suffolk), Hobsons Choice of the City of Cambridge Brewery, Nethergate of Clare in Suffolk, Woodesforde's Wherry from Norwich, Wells DRAUGHT Bombardier (or Festival Ale) from a Wells-run pub or beer tent near Bedford or Cambridge, Everards of Leicester, Woods of Shropshire (Woods Wonderful),Kimberley of Nottingham, a pub near Derby station does superb in-pub brewed stuff so I'm told, Kelham Island of Sheffield, Timothy Taylor's Landlord is nectar of the heavens, Holts of Salford, Cains of Liverpool, Blackpool Brewery bitter, Jennings of Cockermouth 'Snecklifter' (it means lift the doorlatch late and drunk!!)Stonewall from City of York Brewery, Big Lamp from Newcastle ... and shit loads more that I've momentarily forgotten for now ... more ale and brewery lists later ...
All pints mentioned carry the W of W guarentee of having been drunk by me at some not too distant past stage ...
To try some of the above and others, pop down to the 2003 Great British Beer Festival organised by CAMRA at Olympia some time between 5 and 9 August!
MMMMMMMM BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!
<Edited
cos I can only post links not actual images right now despite using the IMG commands ... and to add Hogsback Summer Lightening as justly mentioned by many ... >Oh the Market Porter near London Bridge (mentioned earlier) is the business for various samples of new things ... always well kept ...
yeah, spent a time in darmstadt (south of frankfurt). don't know the names of the beer, we just used to ask for "einen wiessbier bitte"
had a leffe tripel and a leffe radieuse last night. the tripel's full of flavours, the equivalent of a fine wine (which at 8.2v it nearly is). the radiseuse is still my favourite, a very full beer with a comforting aftertaste (8.4v).
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Direct translation of Darmstadt..........Bowel Town............
Stig
Condimentalist
William, you forgot Black Sheep 
oh btw it's Shepherd Neame Late Red, not Autumn.
I only found out last year about green beer and red beer, green being fresh hops (not dried), and red beer being fully ripened end of season fresh hops, I think.
I quite like Shepherd Neame, maybe because it's my local, specially Bishop's Finger, Spitfire, Late Red and Whitstable Bay Organic.
oh btw it's Shepherd Neame Late Red, not Autumn.
I only found out last year about green beer and red beer, green being fresh hops (not dried), and red beer being fully ripened end of season fresh hops, I think.
I quite like Shepherd Neame, maybe because it's my local, specially Bishop's Finger, Spitfire, Late Red and Whitstable Bay Organic.
Originally posted by J77
yeah, spent a time in darmstadt (south of frankfurt). don't know the names of the beer, we just used to ask for "einen wiessbier bitte"
had a leffe tripel and a leffe radieuse last night. the tripel's full of flavours, the equivalent of a fine wine (which at 8.2v it nearly is). the radiseuse is still my favourite, a very full beer with a comforting aftertaste (8.4v).
Hmm Leffe radieuse. Never come across that. Where did you buy it? I'm a bit of a Westmalle Trippel fan. Man those monks can brew.
Originally posted by J77
I'm based in Leuven at the moment, which is pretty handy for Leffe
Monks rock
My girlfriend was not convinced until I gave her the Affligem Blonde and the Chimey white. I've not tried the Grimbergen. Must do a tour of the breweries in Belgium soon. I Suspect I won't make it too far though...
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