Some beer questions...
Discussion
I've never heard of Bass. But then I don't particularly like Altbier, so maybe I won't like ale either...
But you can't say you don't like it until you try it, don't you?*
What are good makes of ale?
* that doesn't go for octopussy and other complete animals on your dish though
>> Edited by klassiekerrally on Friday 10th February 17:57
But you can't say you don't like it until you try it, don't you?*
What are good makes of ale?
* that doesn't go for octopussy and other complete animals on your dish though
>> Edited by klassiekerrally on Friday 10th February 17:57
I don't know what Altbier is, or what it taste like with Cola but I don't think Ale would be good mixed.
The best thing about proper british Ale is there are literally hundreds of different types and they are all slightly different. I have a few favourites but evryone like something a bit different. You'll have to come over here to try them properly.
The best thing about proper british Ale is there are literally hundreds of different types and they are all slightly different. I have a few favourites but evryone like something a bit different. You'll have to come over here to try them properly.
DieselJohn said:
I don't know what Altbier is, or what it taste like with Cola but I don't think Ale would be good mixed.
The best thing about proper british Ale is there are literally hundreds of different types and they are all slightly different. I have a few favourites but evryone like something a bit different. You'll have to come over here to try them properly.
I'd love to, but I'm a bit on a very tight budget...
But one day I have to take my Morris to it's homeland
klassiekerrally said:
I don't know what Altbier is, or what it taste like with Cola but I don't think Ale would be good mixed.
The best thing about proper british Ale is there are literally hundreds of different types and they are all slightly different. I have a few favourites but evryone like something a bit different. You'll have to come over here to try them properly.
I'd love to, but I'm a bit on a very tight budget...
But one day I have to take my Morris to it's homeland
excellent plan. When you come over post on here and someone will take you for some good beer. 
I read somewhere in a brewing guide that ale is the old fermented malted barley brew but that when hops were used as a preservative the term 'beer' was coined. Sounds a bit iffy to me and the terms are probably synonymous. Usually 'ale' refers to a traditional style of hand pumped brew made in the British Isles for centuries, but 'beer' is a generic term for all grain brews inclusing lagers. 
Guinness and the like are called 'porter' or 'stout'.
Guinness and the like are called 'porter' or 'stout'.
I guess literal translation would be old-beer? Does that give any beer experts any help? Age isn't normally a feature at my local real ale house.
There are some pretty smashing wheat beers here from Germany though, the more commercial ones anyhow. They always seem to give me that chewing Ghandi's flipflop type mouth the next morning though
There are some pretty smashing wheat beers here from Germany though, the more commercial ones anyhow. They always seem to give me that chewing Ghandi's flipflop type mouth the next morning though
bluespanner said:
what are the technical difference between Ale, Bitter, Lager and Stout?
There's certainly a technical difference between bitter and lager: lager goes through a cold phase which gets rid of some precipitates.
In my book:
Bitter: Brown
Lager: Yellow
Stout: Black
Ale: general term for bitter
And as you get older you mmigrate from lager to bitter, much as you migrate from white wine to red and left wing to right wing.
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