[Closed] Which bottled beer

I was pleasantly surprised with Sainsbury's own 'Kentish Ale'. Hoppier and lighter than a Spitfire, and cheaper, if only by a few pence.
The Kentish Ale is brewed for Sainsbury's by Shepherd and Neame.

I'm sure this is not the super secret revelation that you were after but its the best one I have tried in the last few weeks. Still tastes good after 9 of them (messy weekend at an outdoor music event in the lovely Alton last weekend).

Harviestoun Bitter and Twisted.

Tesco have 4 for 5 quid

I'll be stopping by to get 2xbrakspear best bitter and 2x wainwrights ale for the weekend.

HopBack Summer Lightning.

Last night's tipple, however, was one of these;
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One word - WOW!

Brew Dog IPA & Dead Pony Club are my current faves

Harviestoun Bitter and Twisted.

This is one of the nicest blonde beers available.

+1 for the Bitter and Twisted

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Well worth a look chaps! (not to mention a wee taste)

Nice one tried last week - Seven Giraffes, Williams Bros, Alloa.
Available in Tesco.

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Not what I look for in a beer!

I generally try a couple of the Morrisons discounted ones when they're on, but I keep going back to Brewdog Punk IPA.

Fraoch and Arran Blonde are nice bottles though.

To echo tiggs - anything from Williams Brothers.

Yep, I've tried that Caesar Augustus stuff too. Lovely stuff. Perfect tasty thirst quencher.

Home bargains are doing speckled hen for one pound a bottle. Just used that tesco offer

I'll give another nod for that Caesar Augustus as well. Lovely stuff. Not usually a fan of Scottish beer, for some reason, but Williams stuff is ace.

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Might struggle to get it outside the North West but if you can its a cracking beer!

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Had some of this at Easter when camping near Devizes and then found it in Tesco's in Devon. It is blood loverly: -

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Fyne Ales are impressing me at the moment with these:

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Veltins - a pale beer (German Pilsner)

Fresh, slightly bitter with a citrus-y taste. Proper delicious.

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Becks

Veltins - a pale beer (German Pilsner)

Fresh, slightly bitter with a citrus-y taste. Proper delicious#

Butcombe pubs sell this it may be strong but its lager and therefore tastes like piss water

Edric 64 - have you actually tasted it?

Just got back from a 3 week cycle tour in Denmark.
Was expecting Carlsberg and Tuborg. But WOW was I wrong. Some of the best ales (ipa and dark) that I have ever tasted

Yes in my local Butcombe pub they have it on draught

I drink beer or cider so im never going to be a lager convert

Innes and Gunn

Dartmoor jail ale in my local Tesco four for £5. Mmmmm luvly - that'll do nicely ta! 😀

Edric 64 - semantics as to whether it's a pale beer, lager or both. There are lagers and ales on this thread. Definitely a quality drink but differences in taste are never going to be objectively resolved.

More of a cider man myself.

Have you a suggestion for the OP?

+1 for innes and gunn specially the whisky beer if you can get it . Deuchars ipa is good too

punk ipa +1
summer lightening +1

round my way:

bath ales wild hare
box steam tunnel vision

william bros beers are on sale at aldis in the fife stores anyway at £1.39 a bottle they have 2 or 3 to pick from never had a bad one yet .

Fursty ferett and TangleFoot, WaggleDance and newcastle Brown. cant go wrong with any of them.

cider: henneys

tanglefoot yes ..... newky brown no

Anything by InnIs & Gunn.

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Being sponsored by Spitfire Ale I have to say I like it...

"I drink beer or cider so im never going to be a lager convert"

On Mendip, like you I tend to do local ciders or ales as they are really good.

I never sup that pish we dare to call lager in the UK. British served lager is to continental beer, what British keg bitter is to Real Ale: horrible tasting filth in a glass.

Lager beers, including Weissbeers, from Bavaria are gorgeous. I have Gutmann Weissbeer in my paw just now in-fact. Veltins is a reasonably good continental helles-style lager. Try it!

Summer Lightning, Fursty Ferret, 49er. Three of my favourites (although I have many others!)

Spice - that is why you are so full of wind - horrible stuff

I & G Rum Cask.

Fursty Ferret and Tanglefoot for me!

Orrrr, some of the lighter ales from Whychwood Breweries!

Black Isle, Red Kite, Heather Honey Ale.

The Nook, Blond or anything else for that matter.

The peroni in my hand is...........not bad.

Another shout for Butcombe but not before a spin out of Burrington

Newcastle Brown has not been the same since they moved it to Tadcaster. FiL gave me four bottles at Christmas, still got 2 of them.

some of my favourites:

Thornbridge Jaipur
Theakston's Old Peculier
Theakston's Lightfoot
Wychwood Hobgoblin
Wychwood Wychcraft
Thwaites Tavern Porter
Fullers London Porter
Saltaire Raspberry Blonde
Saltaire Triple Chocoholic Stout
Saltaire Cascade Pale Ale (well they are my local brewery!)
Fullers Black Cab London Stout
Blackout (NYMoors brewery?) Porter
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Thwaites Wainwright
Moorhouses Pendle Witches Brew
Old Speckled Hen (but I have the recipe so I brew my own version! Same for Old Peculier & Hobgoblin)

when in France: Pelforth Brune
when in Ireland - well there's not really much choice TBH (where I go): Guinness or, er, can't remember the name, but it's a bit like John Smiths and no, it's not Caffreys

+1 for Williams Bros
Prefer Schiehallion to B&T myself, but its my local brewer, so buy either 🙂
The Orkney stuff is nice.

Sierra Nevada and Goose Island IPA are both lovely

+1 for Wainwright

Didn't see anyone mention my favourite beer of the moment though...
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Fosters Gold 😛

ossett yorkshire blonde, £1.80 asda, if you like landlord you'll love this

can't remember the name, but it's a bit like John Smiths and no, it's not Caffreys

You'd be meaning Smithwicks
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It's a bit pish compared to what we have here in terms of ales, but it's not as bad as Caffreys (I don't think anyway). I always have a few when I go back. It's bizarre really, for a country that spends so much of its time on the piss, you'd think they'd have a better selection of beers. It's a bit better than it used to be, but I can remember pubs outside town with only Guinness, Smithwicks and Harp, maybe Carlsberg/Heineken on draft, and bottles of Bulmers (AKA Magners) for the summer. Shite selection.

aye, that's the one 🙂

I'm often up in Co Leitrim, where it literally is Smithwicks, Guinness, cider or lager. Might pop into Tesco when I'm there next (week after next) & see what bottles they have

Been enjoying purity ales this weekend namely Ubu and mad goose. Very very nice 🙂

That Mikkeller had me drooling, have had two other versions of it but not the calvados. I think 'To, From, Via' is my favourite of his to date

Currently very much enjoying bottles from Brewdog, Brewfist, Mikkeller and Flying Dog. Got some Two Ol to dig into at some point but trying to cut back on the beer a bit as part of a fitness drive

On the real ale side Ilkleys 'Siberia' Rhubard Saison is currently working for me, and some 6.7% Smoked Porter with Chipotle I homebrewed 🙂

Just got back from a 3 week cycle tour in Denmark.
Was expecting Carlsberg and Tuborg. But WOW was I wrong. Some of the best ales (ipa and dark) that I have ever tasted

Yessss... Mikkeller's Bar is about 10 minutes cycle ride from me. And a little bit longer to get back home 🙂

Got one of these in the fridge chilling

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Waitrose have 20% off Sierra Nevada beers, Torpedo and SNPA included 🙂

Torpedo has a kick, another vote for Thornbridge Jaipur or Kipling, if you like the US type IPAs then try and track down racer 5 or rogue brutal ipa, sublime. Not cheap though rogue is nearly £10 a pint bottle. Utobeer in borough mkt have a fine selection at the mo.

Mikkeler, Racer 5, Thornbridge, Rogue, Flying Dog?

All available at my local! 🙂

I think 'To, From, Via' is my favourite of his to date

You must have missed the Monk's Elixir with Cranberries. Words fail me.

BTW, who was it wearing a t-shirt from 18 Bikes outside Cask the other day, eh? Must have been someone from here!

So much beer, so little money and time to drink it. 🙁

Currently loving triple IPAs, Imperial Porters and Barley Wine style beers. Very strong but so flavoursome that one or two is all I ever have.

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a light spicy-banana nose, with perhaps some hints of spongecake or light fruitcake. A banana sponge cake, perhaps? It was juicy and distinctive in the mouth, with the characteristic banana hints, with a mildly spicy but not at all dry finish.

20x500ml bottles for 15.50 Euros [woman not included]. Winner!

Just opened a bottle of Infinity IPA from Coniston Brewery...proper lovely beer. It's just gone into my top 5 and you can get 3 bottles for £6 direct from Coniston which isn't too bad in my book.

Just having some Marston's Pedigree - had forgotten how good it is!

A touch on the pale side for you I think, but a perfectly balanced post ride refreshment and new to me, Piston Broke by Box Steam Brewery.

Had a couple of new ones at the weekend, Brewfist Spaceman & Bureaucracy IPA which was very good (Italians can make beer), a smoked ale from De Molen which was not to my taste, in fact it was hideous. A summer wine brewery diablo, which was very good too but we ended the evening with a big bottle of Punk IPA, nothing came close, such a great session beer.

There's always Deuchars IPA. Or Ossian from the Inveralmond Brewery, Yellowhammer from the Black Isle Brewery... I'm a big fan also of Cantillon Gueuze, which is a spontaneously fermented beer with a very unique, quite acidic taste.

Brew Doggers and IPA fans might like something from Yorkshire that's definitely not Yorkshire...

http://www.magicrockbrewing.com/

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The owners ride and are mates of mine so this is a shameless plug.

@ scutter - that looks interesting, any discounts for STW-ers 😉

Just go out and buy some you like the sound of. If its good you know to have it again, if its bad, dont have it again. Personal tastes are so different when it comes to ale that it would be impossible to recommend any, as what i like you might not like.

Just venture forth and experiment!

I am (or rather was) a big fan of the Bitter End brewery's Lakeland IPA, however I just heard that they close down at the end of last year, gutted!

I normally drink Deuchars IPA on draught but had some bottled Williams Scottish Joker IPA at a pal's two weeks ago and would recommend it. I prefer bottled to canned beer any day.

My current fave is

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I am (or rather was) a big fan of the Bitter End brewery's Lakeland IPA, however I just heard that they close down at the end of last year, gutted!

That's a damn shame! Enjoyed drinking a bit too much of that last time I was up in Cumbria.

It's bizarre really, for a country that spends so much of its time on the piss, you'd think they'd have a better selection of beers

DD and John Drummer check out the selection from Hilden Brewery when in Ireland. Some lovely selections

http://www.taproomhilden.com/Taproom/Brewery.html

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Bathams Best, a wonderful pint but a bit difficult to get outside of the Black Country.

I think I have the recipe for that ^

Bathams +10000

Mmmm Beer.

Special mention to Adnams Sole Star - remarkably good for a 2.7% which makes it very lunchtime friendly

Otherwise I've mostly been enjoying:
Adnams Lighthouse and Ghost Ship
Woodfordes Wherry and Nelsons Revenge
Marstons Double Drop and Single Malt
Sharpes Doom Bar
Badger Blandford Fly
Thwaites Wainwright