*The Real Ale Thread
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baldrick
hmmmmm
deuchars IPA
had some of this last week - absolutely lovely stuff...
champion beer of 2002, so you know it's good!
http://www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk/deuchars/
had some of this last week - absolutely lovely stuff...
champion beer of 2002, so you know it's good!
http://www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk/deuchars/
That Deuchars is very nice ... both myself and especially Stig like it a lot 
Today we drank Hook Norton Brewery's Old Hooky (4.6%) in the Brixton Wetherspoons (the Beehive)
Tomorrow afternoon we'll be in the real Beehive (our Walworth local) and back on the Wadsworth 6X and Morland's Old Speckled Hen
Soon (May I think) we'll be meeting Mrs Magpie, Rocket No. 9 and IntoStella (spit we'll hold her down and "persuade" her to try some ale 
) in that excellent alery known as the Hermit's Cave in Camberwell Church Street 
Today we drank Hook Norton Brewery's Old Hooky (4.6%) in the Brixton Wetherspoons (the Beehive)
Tomorrow afternoon we'll be in the real Beehive (our Walworth local) and back on the Wadsworth 6X and Morland's Old Speckled Hen
Soon (May I think) we'll be meeting Mrs Magpie, Rocket No. 9 and IntoStella (spit
we'll hold her down and "persuade" her to try some ale ) in that excellent alery known as the Hermit's Cave in Camberwell Church Street 
Wetherspoons Real Ale 'Festival'
Large variety of ales now at your local Wetherspoons.
I had Gales Festival Mild, 4.8%, last night - dark, fruity and delicious. £1.49 a pop.
Large variety of ales now at your local Wetherspoons.
I had Gales Festival Mild, 4.8%, last night - dark, fruity and delicious. £1.49 a pop.
Bump.
Can't let this thread die!
Actually, dislike the ethos of wetherspoons though I do, and despite the fact that the director Tim Martin is an utter Thatcherite twat, it's rather hard to criticise the reality of wetherspoons, 'cos the beer is good and the food's cheap and edible. A lot of their pubs don't have much atmosphere though.
Had a lovely pint of Spitfire (Shepherd Neame) in my local one just the other day.
<random anecdote> Shepherd Neame is based in Kent somewhere, and they got ito trouble over an advertising slogan that said Shepherd Neame - Downed all over Kent, just like the Luftwaffe!
Can't let this thread die!
Actually, dislike the ethos of wetherspoons though I do, and despite the fact that the director Tim Martin is an utter Thatcherite twat, it's rather hard to criticise the reality of wetherspoons, 'cos the beer is good and the food's cheap and edible. A lot of their pubs don't have much atmosphere though.
Had a lovely pint of Spitfire (Shepherd Neame) in my local one just the other day.
<random anecdote> Shepherd Neame is based in Kent somewhere, and they got ito trouble over an advertising slogan that said Shepherd Neame - Downed all over Kent, just like the Luftwaffe!
Lots of good beer to be consumed at the Strawberry Fair.
proud american
United States of Hysteria
Let me list local MA/VT/NH ales I love:
Favorite - Ipswich Ale
Harpoon Ale
Shoal's Pale Ale
Long Trail Ale
Otter Creek Hickory Switch Amber Ale
Well, off for a pint.
Favorite - Ipswich Ale
Harpoon Ale
Shoal's Pale Ale
Long Trail Ale
Otter Creek Hickory Switch Amber Ale
Well, off for a pint.
I completely agree with this: it's highly irritating that Wetherspoons is so good. I want to dislike it, try hard to dislike it, but fail.
The one by Brixton tube is fantastic. Marvelous microbrewed cheap beer (some of it made near where I was born, so it's not only cheap and delicious but a trip down memory lane) an almost continuous chess game going on with a good, non-competative atmosphere, and friendly people behind the bar.
And it's without doubt the most racially and culturally mixed pub in central Brixton. I've met people in there from all over the world. People of all cultural shapes and sizes from old guys off the allotments to retired African freedom fighters to resting working girls to minor British aristocrats.
One thing I can't understand is why some Brixtonians are so snobby about it. Could it be the (blissful) lack of broadcast pop music?
"The Beehive?" they say. "You drink in the Beehive?" then look at me as if I've comitted some major sin against style or good manners or 'hipness' or 'innitness'. Most odd.
To complain about Wetherspoons for its business practices is daft - its a capitalist company - unlike O'Neills of course which is run as an anarcho-communist co-operative.
I don't see much bad they do to be honest. They convert old buildings into pubs, usually give them locally-relevant names, put interesting local history photos and profiles on their walls, and offer great beer and reasonable food at cheap prices.
And they now open for ales at 10am!
Compare this to the much more worthy of yourhate - J20, Bass, McEwans, O Neills, Slug and Parrot etc etc who usually take a traditional old pub, strip it down, 'modernise' it (Blairspeak obviously), get rid of all ales, replace with the same branded lagers you get everywhere, put in bleached pine, a post-modern table football for the crop-topped try-hards with record bags around their shoulders, some bruscetta and parmesan wood-burned stonebaked cheese on toast and play a lot of Coldplay, The Jam or some dancey dancey stuff and you're laughing.
Besides about Mullet Martin, roadkill - of course he's a Thatcherite, he's a businessman. What did you expect, a Hoxhaite?
I don't see much bad they do to be honest. They convert old buildings into pubs, usually give them locally-relevant names, put interesting local history photos and profiles on their walls, and offer great beer and reasonable food at cheap prices.
And they now open for ales at 10am!
Compare this to the much more worthy of yourhate - J20, Bass, McEwans, O Neills, Slug and Parrot etc etc who usually take a traditional old pub, strip it down, 'modernise' it (Blairspeak obviously), get rid of all ales, replace with the same branded lagers you get everywhere, put in bleached pine, a post-modern table football for the crop-topped try-hards with record bags around their shoulders, some bruscetta and parmesan wood-burned stonebaked cheese on toast and play a lot of Coldplay, The Jam or some dancey dancey stuff and you're laughing.
Besides about Mullet Martin, roadkill - of course he's a Thatcherite, he's a businessman. What did you expect, a Hoxhaite?
Originally posted by ernestolynch
Compare this to the much more worthy of yourhate - J20, Bass, McEwans, O Neills, Slug and Parrot etc etc who usually take a traditional old pub, strip it down, 'modernise' it (Blairspeak obviously), get rid of all ales, replace with the same branded lagers you get everywhere, put in bleached pine, a post-modern table football for the crop-topped try-hards with record bags around their shoulders, some bruscetta and parmesan wood-burned stonebaked cheese on toast and play a lot of Coldplay, The Jam or some dancey dancey stuff and you're laughing.
LOL! Spot on, but it hurts. I have a shameful past of frequenting such dire places with my antipodean ilk. Old Speckled Hen 'n Old Peculiar fixed that, thank Christ.
Oh Lordy! Do you go a bit (ie a lot) mental after drinking Summer Lightning, like Anna Key does?
Other beers just don't seem to have the same effect. Not unless consumed in much larger quantities anyway! It's a lot more potent than it appears but it also seems to have a bizarre secret ingredient. PCP, possibly.
Despite the handle (maybe it's time to change it), I am very partial to a pint or six of Old Knickerbuster down the Beehive in Brixton. Not least because all guest ales are 1.65 a pint. I'm afraid I haven't been making tasting notes, though....
Utter lies.Originally posted by IntoStella
Oh Lordy! Do you go a bit (ie a lot) mental after drinking Summer Lightning, like Anna Key does?
I just get a bit.... frisky and friendly. Summer Lightning is an odd drink. For some reason in the Beehive they won't put it through the pumps. You have to lean over the bar and whisper "Got any Summer Lightening out back?" as if asking for contraband. The barman disappears and returns a minute later with the beautiful corn-coloured nectar.
Maybe Intostella's bizarre secret ingredient rots the pipes. It certainly seems much stronger than the claimed 5%. I can knock back pint after pint of poxy Stella but just a few SM's and I'm anybody's.
Oh and if you add a few cubes of ice it takes off the sweetness and a great gout of hops almost blows yer head off. What a drink. Marvelous, deadly, delicious stuff.
FREUDIAN SLIP OF THE WEEK
Don't you mean SL'S?? Your Freudian slip is showing, darling! ROFLMAO!
SM's??
Don't you mean SL'S?? Your Freudian slip is showing, darling! ROFLMAO! 
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
I put in an earlier post that my Dad was a bit of a real ale spotter. I guessed he had tried over 500 different British real ales. When i saw him the other week on his birthday i asked him what his official figure was now.
"932" came the reply. He will actually sometimes go miles out of his way just to try a new/different ale.
Does anyone else have this hobby or know of anyone else who does this.
Is 932(over about 20-25 years)different real ales a lot?
"932" came the reply. He will actually sometimes go miles out of his way just to try a new/different ale.
Does anyone else have this hobby or know of anyone else who does this.
Is 932(over about 20-25 years)different real ales a lot?
Donna Ferentes
jubliado
Really? I'll have to check it out. I've never noticed this before. Mind you I've only been in there about three times.
A good local Wetherspoons for Brixtonians is the Crown and Sceptre, where I drink frequently. You get all the virtues of a Wetherspoons - good and varied beer at two-thirds the normal price - but because the council insisted, Wetherspoons weren't able to deck out the pub in their usual blue-and-gold livery. So you don't have the sanitised feel you normally get in one of their boozers - instead, you get a really good locals' pub. I recommend it.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
My mates pub has just got a couple of barrels of Hobgoblin - I'd only had this in bottles before, but the proper stuff is even better
Best is good but Landlord's even better
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Landlord !!!!
Excellent beer in every way ....
but Landlord's even better mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Landlord !!!!
Excellent beer in every way ....
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