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What's your all round favourite beer (Real Ale, Pale Ale, Craft, Lager or whatever you want to call it)?
Choose just one.
Beavertown Gamma Ray for me.
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(Also quite partial to a Seafarers too).
Thornbridge Jaipur
Jennings Cumberland
(to be fair, it's not my favourite, favourite. But its a beer I get locally at least one week a month that I love. But then I love Wye Valley HPA too.)
My proper favourite beer, might well be IBEX IPA, brewed and served in a village near Morzine. Check it out at he Marmotte d'Or if you're riding through Montriond while out there this year.
Augustiner
Favourite beer,only one?
That's like asking what's your favourite album!!!
Go on then,Purple Moose Glaslyn bitter;
http://www.purplemoose.co.uk/cy/beer/favourites/5-glaslyn-ale
Unreasonable request- however this week's favourite beer is Dortmunder Union Pils on draft although it destroys me inside 5 pints
At the moment, Arbor Ales Beech Blonde.
Agreed. Quite unreasonable!
Beavertown Gamma Ray
Fullers Seafarers
Brooklyn Lager (Keg)
Ringwood Fortyniner (Cask)
Upham Punter
Doom Bar (Cask - Cornish)
Fullers London Pride
Beavertown 8Ball Rye IPA
Brewdog Punk IPA
Fullers Frontier
After extensive testing, thank me later! these are all really nice:
Tiny Rebel - Stay Puft
Tiny Rebel - FUBAR
Titanic - Plum Porter
Williams Bros - Fraoch
Summer Wine - Oregon
Oakham - Warped
Oakham - Citra
Salopian - Oracle
Berrow - Topsy Turvy
Whim - Flower Power
Isle of Arran - Blonde
Isle of Arran - Sunset
Fernandes - American Pale Ale
Cross Bay - Sunset Blonde
Buxton Brewery - Axe Edge
Beartown - Kodiak Bear
Adnams - Ghost Ship
St Peters - Organic Ale
German
Augustiner Edelstoff
Jever
Fruh Kolsch
Bitburger
Choose just one.
Today...
Currently....
Hobart Brewing Company - Smoked Apple Bokk
It will change by ths evening
Rochefort 6
Guinness.
Currently Stone and Wood Pacific Ale but subject to change on a regular basis. Back home be a strong shout out for Coniston Bluebird.
Brains SA Gold
Badger Fursty Ferret
Charnwood American APA American Pale Ale (Loughborough brewery)
Erdinger
Blue Monkey Infinity
Sierra Nevada hop hunter
Lagaunitas
How ever both pricey when I find them in the UK so it's tempest brewing long white cloud
At this point I think I'm going to head out and try and find a new favourite
Gamma Ray is tip top.
Locally we have Vocation doing amazing things. Their Life and Death is a close run thing to Gamma Ray for my favourite beer, along with the wonderful Magic Rock Cannonball.
We'll be on Hebden Brew Co Trouser Town from 11am today I think 🙂
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Fynn Jarl
Farmageddon Mosaic
Gamma Ray
Galway Bay foam and fury (their milk stout is nice too)
Go to reliable favourite is Newcastle Brown, in a proper schooner if possible.
Although at the moment Hobgoblin Gold is winning favour and both are available for £1.25 in Aldi so I tend to just get both!
Bradfield Brewery's Farmer's Blonde, I could happily drown in that stuff.
Oakham Brewery's Citra or JHB.
PSA Camra beer festival in Oakham Museum and around town till Sunday. I helped unload the beer, cider and bales. Please drink it or I'll have to carry it all out again on Monday.
Beavertown Bloody 'Ell Blood Orange IPA - 7.2% (ish) drinks like a 5. Delicious. Just ordered two cans of the new bloody notorious 9.something% blood orange DIPA (2 per customer but at £4 that's enough).
Brooklyn sorachi ace close second!
Tropical summer vibe:
Elvis Juice
Tiny Rebel Clwb Tropicana
Magic Rock Grapefruit High Wire
Where does one go in order to procure a beavertown beverage?
Salopian 'Oracle'
It's a draught ale.
I was raised on Bathams and Enville, but this beats even those, for me. Remarkable yet hard to come by. Probably just as well!
The below-linked review describes it well enough, tho I just neck it and measure the decibels of satisfied 'aaaah' - enough to tell me it wins.
[url] http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/beer/salopian-oracle-4/ [/url]
Brains and Tanglefoot... do find them canned or bottled from time to time in Fife.
General quaffing beer is Innis & Gunn as it is nice and cheap at Aldi!
Most London offies, London B Oddbins has a good selection, utobeer, bottledog, online alesbymail.Where does one go in order to procure a beavertown beverage?
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From last weekend at Cask, had one then it ran out, but that one was bloody lovely!
When I'm in the UK - Alton Pride (3.8% session ale)
When I'm in the US - New Belgium Brewery, Fat Tire Ale (who's counting)
When I'm in Belgium - Brugze Zot
Only one? Orval.
Honourable mentions: Rochefort 10, Goose Island Bourbon County, Deuchars IPA, Yates bitter, Coniston Bluebird in the Black Bull, Coniston, Moor Hoppiness
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Loweswater gold.
Westvleteren 12.
Or Hop Back Summer Lightning.
Real Ale on tap : Bathams Bitter or Slaters Haka
Ale in a bottle : Goose Island IPA (Mainly for it's sheer harsh hoppiness) or brewdog IPA
Lager in a bottle : Staropramen
Beavertown Bloody 'Ell Blood Orange IPA - 7.2% (ish) drinks like a 5.
Yes! Bloody delicious, too!
I too have a few 🙂
Siren: White Tips, Calypso, Half Mast, Even More Jesus XVIII, Caribbean Chocolate Cake
And Union: Friday, Sunday,Unflt,Summer actually all their beer is bloody good!
Magic Rock: Dark Arts
Fourpure: IPA, Session IPA
Beavertown: Bloody 'ell
There's so many good beers out there now it's hard to choose 10 let alone 1.
Toss up between these two at the moment...
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If only I could choose just one! If I had to I'll say Sodra IPA. Drank it on holiday in Sweden and fell in love. Very hoppy, very drinkable. Unable to find it in Blighty. Reviews online don't seem that impressed with it but both myself and my fiancé loved it.
Back home I'll go for Birds And The Bees by Williams Brothers. Not easy to find out of Scotland though, seems my most reliable source is Beers Of Europe in Kings Lynn (or when my parents pop back to The Motherland).
Also, I'm a sucker for a fruity Belgian so depends on what mood I'm in. But if you're making me choose I'll go with The Birds And The Bees. With Dill crisps from Ocado (the ones ikea used to do back in the day).
Russian River's Pliny the elder or Rochefort 10 or the Duchesse de Bourgogne.
I spent the last couple of years living in Houston. Not my kind of town, but the beer available there is out of this world. Traditionally, I've been a real ale drinker but I'm missing the new world styles.
If you should find yourself in Texas, look out for:
Karbach's Sympathy for the Lager
(512) IPA - for me the malt, the hops, the warmth of the alcohol is almost perfect
Before Houston I was in Canada where my favourites were Tree Brewing's Thirsty Beaver amber and Cut Throat pale.
Currently in Southampton where I've been responsibly enjoying Dancing Man's offerings.
Favourite beer,only one?
That's like asking what's your favourite album!!!
Go on then,Purple Moose Glaslyn bitter;
http://www.purplemoose.co.uk/cy/beer/favourites/5-glaslyn-ale
I'm with you on this one! I'ts been my favourite for a few years now, lovely stuff!
Clobber. You can buy Beavertown direct, or if you're based in the North a lot of Booths stores carry it as part of their quite excellent craft beer range.
Only one? Don't make me choose!
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My favourite beer for a long time has been Hobgoblin although I have found myself being swayed slightly lately by Guinness West Indies porter.
Years ago I used to love a pint of Youngers No3 ,I sulked for a week at least when I found out they weren't going to make it anymore.
I am enjoying Sneck Lifter from the Jennings Brewery....I have a stock pile in the cupboard 🙂
Sadlers Mud City Stout is bloody lovely, brewed within 2 miles of my house and easily available locally.
The Fiex Wheel brewery's No Brakes IPA is also bloody good but much harder to find.
1664, please. 😀
(And non-1664 "regular" Kronenbourg when in France)
@ brant - Good call on Vocation. Heart and Soul is a decent session beer.
Some great choices here!
Beavertown in cans is good, keg is so much better!
Brewhouse and Kitchen have Gamma Ray on their normal range at the moment. They have quite a few pubs scattered about.
http://www.brewhouseandkitchen.com
Russian River's Pliny the elder
Good luck finding that over here! Unless you're over there, of course.
Thornbridge Jaipur
Used to be that
Recently replaced by...
[url= https://untappd.com/b/bierol-mountain-pale-ale/683566 ]Bierol Mountain Pale Ale[/url]
or
[url= https://untappd.com/b/bierol-the-padawan/985948 ]Bierol the PADAWAN[/url]
Murphys along with Guiness the only drinks I don't get a seriously bad hangover from.
Wadworths 6X
There are so many that I really enjoy, like Fuller's ESP, Bath Ales Gem, Otter Ale, Butcombe Bitter...
I tried a Purple Moose at our local beer festival a few years back, can't for the life of me remember which one, but it may have been Dark Side of the Moose, but it was bloody lovely, and I kept going back for more!
Sadly not available here in North Wiltshire, although I keep on at my local landlord to get some, and with the loosening of restrictions on landlords getting bigger ranges of beers, it might happen.
One that I really do enjoy is Badger Blandford Flyer, which has a ginger hint to it, and I find almost impossible to just sip, good thing I can't afford to buy in large quantities.
I've got a Sierra Nevada Torpedo and a Lagunitas IPA in the fridge. which to have first...
Lagaunitas
Torpedoes too hoppy IMO - will ruin the lagaunitas taste 🙂
My go to beer is Innis & Gunn. Normally just the original but do like the Rum one now and again.
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Too many for one choice,like music...
But ,if it was my last ever pint , Jennings Cockerhoop ,draught ,from the Swan in Cockermouth .
Dartmoor Brewery - Legend.
All these hipster beers full of carrot cake, bitter lemons or organic guinea pig droppings and do one.
been going off beer a bit lately, liking rum to drink more these days. there was one exception a while back tho, some titanic plum porter that lidl were selling. bluddy luvvly!! kept going back in to stockpile but never seen it since :-/
Dancing Duck Ay Up
Sam Smiths Organic Wheat Beer
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
trail_rat - exactly my thoughts. they were good. lagunitas better. 150p a bottle in M&S if you buy 6.
Lagunitas 4 for £6 at Morrison's too
Enjoy lots. If the sun's out then Skinners Lushington is pretty tasty
Can we include cider here? I'm just guzzling some Sainsburys TTD Suffolk Cyder [sic] which is nice.
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Ringwood 49er from the Three Tuns in Bransgore when I'm back home down south. Bloody lovely.
Am particularly enjoying beers from Vocation Brewery at the moment. Couple of Life & Deaths this evening.
Can anyone compare Beavertown Gamma Ray to their Neck Oil? Had a pint of Neck Oil in the local Micro Brewery Pub recently and it was the best I think I've had from there so interested in Gamma Ray as not come across that.
I cant believe that no one has mentioned Black Sheep Bitter. all the flavour of an IPA but with a bit more depth / range. at 4.4% ? its more manageable that a lot of IPAs that a bit strong.
It is interesting how IPA has almost taken over the world. In Hackney there are craft pubs stuffed full of women drinking pints of strong beer which is great but not what we used to see. Long may it continue.
if I have to choose beer/lager, I guess it would be Doom Bar, Trooper, Waggledance. Badgers do some nice ones as well.
At the moment, 3 Cordilleras 6.47 IPA. It's a special edition though and is starting to peter out on the shelves so may be going back to their Mestiza American Pale Ale soon.
I always come back to a bit of Purity. Pure UBU Pure Gold or Mad Goose all good.
Freedom brewery from round 'ere does nice lager.
1664, please.(And non-1664 "regular" Kronenbourg when in France)
Dear me. 1664 is OK, and quite refreshing when served chilled, on tap on a hot day. "Kro" (the bog standard stuff) is quite simply appalling. I'd rather drink Heineken, and that's saying quite a bit.
I'm currently having a bit of a relationship with one of the Leffe Royales. Don't know if you can get them in the UK (and probably getting less and less likely by the day 😆 ) but it's the Cascade IPA Leffe Royale. It's a decent brew (and not a Leffe fan at all).
Disclaimer - I'm in France and the choice of beers is generally shite.
there are far too many amazing beers to choose from to pick one, the magic rock cloudwater collab 'Three's company' has been a top one for me over the last couple of weeks. Millstone brewery's True Grit is always good too. Got a can of Northern Monk's DIPA and Magic Rock's Cannonball in the fridge for this evening.
now I'm fickle....
Friday night included the Holgate Temptress - stout well that was on the list
Then the Moo Brew Velvet Sledgehammer
Then the local pubs Brown Ale
Then their smoked porter
then Siera Nevada's black beer
Then there was the 6 pack of Pirate life on Saturday mixed it up couldn't decide which was my top beer
It's a tough life
Damn the hipster are out today,
Such a tricky question, having drunk beer in well over 50 countries it's a tough one,
Best pint in the last year without doubt antillia brewing in st Lucia
Although I do love German bier, it would have been far easier to ask top 10 or top 20
It's all Personal taste
Fraziskaner, black sheep, Guinness West Indies porter , can't go wrong with osset brewary either
Depends on my mood and how many I plan to drink, I like an American PA but after a few that's enough
Damn the hipster are out today,
I assume you mean that there are people out there making some interesting stuff that might not be to everyones taste?
Keep making it!!
Montys Sunshine, Mischeief or Ding Dong.
Any Heavy Industry Brewery canned beer
The super hipster Kernel brewery brews are very good as well.