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Same ones as carlos. No problem getting a good pint around here.
I'm on the outskirts of Brussels so quite a few... here are some very local ones though.
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This one is brewed in Brussels itself - the "Senne" in the name of the brewery is the [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenne ]river that runs through Brussels[/url] (you can only see parts of the river now, most of it is covered up).
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A new brewery based in Waterloo, featuring the lion from the lion's mound at Waterloo.
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The beer for the tourists...which is actually pretty good, as you'd expect here.
Lots of brewers in Bristol, but this is my favourite:
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Slaters in stafford makes a few nice beers too. And I can vouch for Jekkyl that the Titanic brewery make nice stuff, the 'local' farm shop sells a few Stafforshire brews.
Also, from Aldi
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85p!! And quite nice on a Saturday night for watching a film with
Bath Ales are quite close and make the delicious Wild Hare amongst others, but the Wild Beer Company makes some lovely ones (and some bloody awful ones as well!)
jekkyl - Membergreat question: I hail from Stoke (live here not from here) and we do have an excellent local brewery. Titanic. http://www.titanicbrewery.co.uk/c/our-beers/the-titanic-fleet/
Their plum porter is excellent, one of my favourite ales.
Not beer but this is my most local booze:
http://www.cromwellcider.co.uk/index.html
The ABV is always a complete lie; 2-3 pints will get you a poking with the drunk stick, half a dozen will get you beaten to death with it.
Loads of them but i'm mostly drinking these right now: http://cervesamontseny.cat/en/beers/
Ooohh a glass with a handle made my Northern toes curl.. not right, will never be right, smash them.
We have [url= http://www.phipps-nbc.co.uk/11.html ]Phipps NBC[/url] in Northampton. I have been known to sip a Phipps IPA once in a while.
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Pretty awesome to see how many great beers we produce here 😀
These are based in the next village from me.
Do some great beer including a green hop one in September.
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1 mile from Craddocks
1.2 miles from Bathams and Green Duck
2 miles from Sadlers
Few more miles to Kinver, Enville, Sarah Hughes, Pardoes, Fixed Wheel, Black Country Ales, Holdens, Banks', Pig iron and probably many more I can't think of
Walking distance:
Abbey ales
Electric bear
(Plus 2 gin distilleries)
A short ride away:
Bath ales
Handmade cider co
Box steam brewery
Pied Bull
Kash
Brewery Tap
Forest House
Brewhouse & Kitchen
Deva (Bear & Billet, Cellar Bar and Cross Keys).
Weetwood (The Mill)
Yet none of them do a decent bloody mild.
In my adopted country it's whitewater brewery, Hilden, mourne or longmeadow cider
In God's country it's Brains
My favourite Beer Pub, ever.
The Flower Pots, Cheriton, Hampshire.
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Upham Ales are just down the road, Wallops Wood too, both produce great beers. In saying that I've not been to the Hampshire Bowman in a while, think I might go there tomorrow night.
Acorn Brewey in Barnsley. The owner has a real ale pub in town which sells plenty of their own ales. Gorlovka is a good beer.
Microbrewery in my garage, next closest is Hogs Back brewery at about 2km away 🙂
Lots of smaller breweries opening there own bars around the north east now which is great to see.
Bummer is I'm coeliac so a bit limited, but Hadrian & Border brewery have opened a great pub in Gateshead near the high level bridge and they have a cracking pint Grainger Ale which is GF. Thankfully that gets picked up by a load of pubs now, so one has started hitting the town again with his dancing shoes on.
I have (I do, I really do...) to buy quite a bit in online or make detours whilst at work to breweries to pick up decent GF beer.
Went to Oundle recently to the Nene Valley Brewery, some fantastic beers and all GF.
Westerham Brewery in Kent are really good as well, Wold Top near Scarborough and Hambletons near Ripon.
About 200m as the drunken crow flies from Binghams
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Purveyors of the GBBF Supreme Champion Beer of Britain 2016 - vanilla stout
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Hawkshead Brewery, although it's not very local. They do one called lakeland gold which is quite nice. Actually, Coniston Brewery is closer, but I dunno if that counts; think they only do one beer.
I only really drink Guiness, or blue wickeds; not sure real ale has caught on here as well as it has in other parts of the county/country.
There're no breweries in Barrow that I know of; all Barrovians drink lager. Ulverston's Hartleys brewery closed just before real ale became fashionable IIRC.
Just round the corner it's Cairngorm Brewery (I can see it from my window). A nice range of beers but they've saturated the locale making alternatives difficult to find.
Other nearby favourites are Spey Valley Brewery and Windswept.
Wye Valley Brewery, can't go wrong with a Butty Back or HPA.
Well, you can, more than four is a recipe for disaster, both that night and the next day, but after the third I usually forget this fact!
Quite a few within 10 miles.
West Berkshire (and hence Renegade)
Butts
Hermitage
Indigenous
Innformal
Two Cocks
Out of ones I really like, Siren and Red Cat are probably closest.
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Not far, and their pub is just around the corner.
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The biggest local.
Buuuut, we've got the Irwell Valley Brewery in Ramsbottom, which, to my taste, is pretty much perfect.
They even do a lovely drop for the infirm and visitors from all points south:
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I've genuinely just noticed, but it looks, rather appropriately, like that might be the work of Binners.
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Saltaire Brewery is about half a mile away as the crow flies. Nice beers, widely available. I'm quite partial to their Triple Chocoholic chocolate stout
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Sadly Chippenham no longer has a brewery, used to be Slade's Brewery, but there are loads of breweries around, several have been mentioned, like Bath Ales, Wiper and True and Stroud Ales, but there's Wadworth's in Devizes, Moles in Melksham, Flying Monk in Hullavington, Box Steam Brewery, Abbey Ales, Castle Combe Brewery, there's a new one in Bradford-on-Avon, Milk Brewery in Frome, all the breweries around Bristol...
Difficult to keep track, there are almost certainly others I've forgotten.
And I've managed to drink a pretty wide selection of the product from all those listed.
It's a filthy job, but some poor sod has to to it, in the interests of protecting the populace from inferior products.
Sulwath brewery in Castle Douglas for me, only 10 miles away and the nearest after that is up at Ayr 60 miles away
Phesantry IPA
Roaring Meg
Jaipur
😉
For research purposes, why don't you guys send me four bottles of your favourite ale from around the country and I will taste them and let you know which tastes the best.
It may take some months bur I will do it for free. 😀
Love this thread
I can tell where you all live from the breweries , and what you like to drink from the beer styles
Having been a 'professional' brewer since I was 17, I have made over 10,000,000 pints of beer in my lifetime so thats alot of ( hopefully ) happy drinkers.
Its not easy . Designing new brews, coming up with catchy or clever names and original ideas can be hard. Brewing consistant quality beer, and keeping the taste and colour the same with a constantly changing supply of raw materials takes skill and effort.
The time it takes to simply design a new bottle label, that meets all supplier and legal requirements can take months, can be right first time, but mostly it isnt.
Cheers
[url= http://www.nutbrookbrewery.com/responsibly.html ]Nutbrook Brewery Responsibly[/url]
Brewed in a garage up the road. Everyone should drink Responsibly.
Nene Valley
Oakham Ales
And quite a few micro breweries, helped by the fact we have the largest beer festival outside of London each August.
Not a big real ale drinker. More partial to a wheat beer, so do like Oakham White Dwarf when I can get it.
McMullens
Loving how this thread has morphed from beer appreciation into a massive cock waving session 😉 😛
The closest is probably:
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Unless (yet) another one has opened up since I last checked! Within the immediate surrounding area (upto 15 minutes drive) there are a few more:
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And there are many, many, many more!!!
Back in the promised land it's http://www.blackislebrewery.com but down south here it's http://www.freewheelinbrewery.co.uk a few hundred metres from the flat or I guess Tempest a bit further down the road.
Caledonian back in Edinburgh, mmm 80 shilling, and I'm old enough to have lived next to the old Mcewans brewery on fountainbridge in Edinburgh which is now gone. Used to be the characteristic smell of Edinburgh on a cold windy day.
Uley Brewery. 'Pigs ear' was the last pint I had, 20 years ago now.
Ossett Brewery.
So many great breweries and beers mentioned on this thread, made me thirsty!
RM.
[quote=davidtaylforth ] Actually, Coniston Brewery is closer, but I dunno if that counts; think they only do one beer.
Which one of these eight beers is the only one they brew ?
http://www.conistonbrewery.com/coniston-ales.htm
Got 5 really good ones within a 20 mile walk of the house, Winston brewing, shambles,t bone, captain blighs and hobart brewing company. Hard to pick but it's between Winston and Hbc for my pick of the best at the moment
[url= http://www.peakales.co.uk ]Peak Ales[/url] do a good range and are about 1000m from my door, but luckily there a a bar within 500m that will pull the stuff for me at a very reasonable price.
Outside of that given I'm in Derbyshire but close to Sheffield I really am spoilt. Life is tough.
Which one of these eight beers is the only one they brew ?
The Thurstein Pilsner is fantastic through a superchiller 😉
As to Ulverston David - there are 3 at the moment I think! There was one in Barrow, but can't remember it's name... and not sure if it is still there. Foxfield Brewery isn't far away though either.
Then you have a few over in Millom too - Hardknott is over that way.
Infact - a convenient list is [url= http://www.furness.camra.org.uk/viewnode.php?id=12611 ]here![/url]
The Thurstein Pilsner is fantastic through a superchillerAs to Ulverston David - there are 3 at the moment I think! There was one in Barrow, but can't remember it's name... and not sure if it is still there. Foxfield Brewery isn't far away though either.
Then you have a few over in Millom too - Hardknott is over that way.
Infact - a convenient list is here!
Turns out I'm completely ignorant. Assumed Hardknott brewery was up the coast for some reason, but I've had some of their ales and they were really good from what I remember.
And of course, Greenodd brewery; used to drink in the Ship alot years ago. Although the brewery wasn't a thing then.
Update.
Teasel is on now !!
mikewsmith - Member
Got 5 really good ones within a 20 mile walk of the house, Winston brewing, shambles,t bone, captain blighs and hobart brewing company. Hard to pick but it's between Winston and Hbc for my pick of the best at the moment
20 miles would get you to Cascade, Last Rites, Moo Brew, Double Head & maybe that one in the Margate train.
There days its Flack's Double Drop - Flackmanor in Romsey
When in Surrey ...
Hogs Back Brewery, TEA or Hop Garden Gold
Shere Drop and Ranmore Ales from Surrey Hills
Spoilt for choice. Milltown, Empire, Golcar, Magic Rock, Riverhead, plenty of microbrewery pub and taps Sair (RIP Ron!!) Rat n Ratchet, loads of great CAMRA pubs showcasing the great stuff out the nearby good stuff like Ossett. #prayforhuddersfield
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This 2 are a stones throw away, a bit further but owned and ran by 2 friends of mine is:
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Can I just say that there's some impressive 'modern' labels which make a refreshing change to the more traditional type.
Wylam Brewery and Mordue are two excellent local brewers in the North East. Federation Brewery Ace lager was probably the worst. Long gone thank goodness.
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'local' takes on a slightly different meaning when you live out in the sticks, but Bateman's, who brew fantastic beer, and Fulstow Brewery, who brew an epic IPA, are my local brewers of choice.
less than a mile, Wadworth brewery.
Been told there is a few smaller ones about as well.
Yay, fruitful trip to the Co-Op!
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Niiiiiiiice !
Living in east Kent I'm totally spoilt for choice. There are microbreweries and micropubs everywhere. My favourite three brewers at the moment are Gadds, Goodies and the Hopdaemon.
toby1 - Member
Milton brewery based on the brewer living next door? He does brew a fine pint though
I enjoyed a few pints of Sparta today
Thornbridge - live six miles from the brewery
Bathams Bitter ay it! 😀
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or Holdens Golden Glow
close run thing.
Hogs Back
Rip Snorter and OTT being my favourite
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I've only ever had Shere Drop though. Really must get to the brewery, or pubs that do more than just that one (bit like Hogs Back, a lot just do Tea... which is alright).
I've only ever had Shere Drop though. Really must get to the brewery, or pubs that do more than just that one (bit like Hogs Back, a lot just do Tea... which is alright).
You should also try the [url= http://www.tillybeer.co.uk/our-beers/ ]Tillingbourne Brewery[/url]
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They also run the stephan langton inn in Friday street. Been there on a few occasions and stopped off for a pint, as there are a few trails from the top of Leith hill heading in that direction.
[url= http://www.blackedgebrewery.co.uk/ ]Black Edge Brewery[/url]
About 5min away with a rather nice on site bar...
Wiper and True (Bristol), especially the IPA's. A bit pricey but worth every penny!
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These guys are closest to home - small range but they're ok http://www.otterbrewery.com
Would like to love near Thornbridge or Brewdog!
Used to be Green King IPA, now it's Sarah Hughes, Holden'so, Bathams (Lamp Tavern ftw) or Ma Pardoes.
Generally drink Cider of Gin these days.
Copper Dragon Golden Pippin is my most local decent ale. Ilkley Mary Jane or the Saltaire Brewary grog also get the thumbs up.
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I'm 10 miles from Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell. Started out as a bit of a hobby brewery from what I know about it but it's now a fairly sizeable heavyweight in the game. Still turns out great range of beer.
The Microbrewery and not so micro brewery are rife in the Shire where I reside. Wiltshire hosts the well known Wadworth brewery in Devizes.
I also socialise with the head Brewer at Ramsbury Brewery. Tibor (no, his mints are not a minty bit stronger) has also just won a first prized gold award for Ramsbury Vodka. well worth a brewery tour and a tasting.
Grew up on Brakspears Ordinary when the original brewery was still in the town - now on the Wimbledon Brewery. It's not bad, but I'm struggling to find a pint as good as Brakspears..
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Sold a Fender Strat to the Master Brewer of my nearest brewery a few years back...He smelt iffy/hoppy, his beer is ace tho! 😀
Bit of a bold statement in the badge but camra seemed to rate it.
richmtb - Member
Tennents Wellhead brewery is about 400 metres from my office.Their beer is a crime against humanity.
Thankfully Drygate is next door and makes some nice beer.
So I'd a pint of drygate pilsner at the weekend, by god that's awful stuff. if that's your standard take a look at your self! 😆 tennents is a far nicer than the pint of washing detergent drygate served up as lager! brutal, left half the pint.