Beers, standard or craft, what are your favourites?

Beers, standard or craft, what are your favourites?

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Roofless Toothless

5,610 posts

131 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Bottled London Pride or Bass take a lot of beating, and when kept and presented well are excellent draft ales.

My local Sainsbury store has started stocking regional varieties of Birra Moretti. I like this stuff in the summer months as it is (the only beer in the world designed to be drunk with your hat on!) but the regional ones are very nice, the Tuscan one especially.

James P

2,950 posts

236 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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User33678888 said:
SlowMoped said:
Beavertown - Gammaray (Favourite IPA)
Beavertown - Bloody Notorious (a blood orange IPA)
Northern Monk - Eternal (a good IPA)
If I could find these easily I'd buy them. I'm in north London but struggle to find the Beavertowns. Sometimes see the Neck Oil for £2.50+
Any clues?
I've starting buying Beavertown, Sirencraft and Magicrock online and getting them delivered. Kernel and Brew by Numbers I'll make a trip to Bermondsey on a Saturday morning and stock up. As someone mentioned, the Northern Monk IPAs are pretty good too as are the Vibrant single hop pale ales on cask/ key keg.

Lupuloid is 6.something of a great IPA and is one of the Beavertown core beers.

Edited by James P on Thursday 20th July 14:42

Presuming Ed

1,387 posts

207 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Exmoor Gold, there is no substitute

Worst - Finding yourself in a Shepherd Neame and all they've got is Spitfire

C0ffin D0dger

3,440 posts

144 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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PotatoSalad said:
I'd love to try that, is it available in any of the supermarkets or online only?
Never seen Rochefort 10 in any UK supermarket so either mail order or a decent specialist beer shop would be your best bet. I did buy a case of it a few years back from here: https://www.belgianbeerfactory.com/en/ but it seems like they've stopped shipping to the UK for whatever reason frown

generationx

6,644 posts

104 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Living and working in Germany gives me an almost limitless choice and, as there are some fairly tight purity laws here, I'll drink pretty much any Pils/lager-style put in front of me. You can take the man out of Essex but...

One of the ultimates is proper Lowenbräu from Munich

joshleb

1,544 posts

143 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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I'm a bit of a lout, so my faces currently are:

Staropramen
Sharps Pilsner
Kozel
Camden Hells

One of these are normally available when I go to a pub somewhere near home, Balham, South London.

Yex 450

4,583 posts

219 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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R1gtr said:
Oh and this from Tesco is quite refreshing if ice cold
We have this in the fridges at work for the 3pm bar opening on Friday afternoons..........rather nice it is too smile

Also have a craft beer pub about 5o yards from the office that changes it's suppliers regularly so am getting to try quite a few............just don't seem to be able to remember what they are the morning after silly

sc0tt

18,032 posts

200 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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The best beer I have ever drunk.





Brings back very fond memories from my 2 trips to australia.

SlowMoped

184 posts

145 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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James P said:
User33678888 said:
SlowMoped said:
Beavertown - Gammaray (Favourite IPA)
Beavertown - Bloody Notorious (a blood orange IPA)
Northern Monk - Eternal (a good IPA)
If I could find these easily I'd buy them. I'm in north London but struggle to find the Beavertowns. Sometimes see the Neck Oil for £2.50+
Any clues?
I've starting buying Beavertown, Sirencraft and Magicrock online and getting them delivered. Kernel and Brew by Numbers I'll make a trip to Bermondsey on a Saturday morning and stock up. As someone mentioned, the Northern Monk IPAs are pretty good too as are the Vibrant single hop pale ales on cask/ key keg.

Lupuloid is 6.something of a great IPA and is one of the Beavertown core beers.

Edited by James P on Thursday 20th July 14:42
I'm in Leeds (W.Yorks) and I am able to buy most of the well known UK crafts in local craft shops, perhaps see if you can find some local beer shops and ask if they have them or can order them in for you.

The Beavertown brewery is not that far from you I think. I've been to their tap-room in Haggerston (near the train station), it is called Dukes Brew & Que so I think you can probably get cans or a growler fill from there.

The Northern Monk brewery and tap room is very close to me so I go there often, but you should be able to get Northern Monk tins in Marks & Spencer. I went in M&S on Fenchurch Street last month and they had it on the shelf in there, definitely worth trying a few if you spot them.

As above, Magicrock stuff is great (Huddersfield), as is Cloudwater (Manchester).


Edited by SlowMoped on Thursday 20th July 15:40

R1gtr

3,423 posts

153 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Yex 450 said:
R1gtr said:
Oh and this from Tesco is quite refreshing if ice cold
We have this in the fridges at work for the 3pm bar opening on Friday afternoons..........rather nice it is too smile

Also have a craft beer pub about 5o yards from the office that changes it's suppliers regularly so am getting to try quite a few............just don't seem to be able to remember what they are the morning after silly
Any jobs going? Sounds like my kind of workplace smile

Sticks.

8,706 posts

250 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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I've been trying Tesco's range of IPAs.

Sharp's Atlantic is probably top though Ringwood Circadian is very similar, but more citrus. Marston's Shipyard is like a stronger, more bitter version of Atlantic.

At 90p a 500ml bottle, Banks's Amber Bitter is good value - light, bitter and drinkable.

There's a pub in town selling Powder Monkey, which I like - keg though. http://www.nelsonbrewery.co.uk/flagship-ales/

oxford drinker

1,870 posts

228 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Vocation, Verdant and Wild Weather all get my recommendation!

J4CKO

41,282 posts

199 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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I do tend to prefer lighter coloured beers, I can drink anything and enjoy it, a lot of about context, even cooking lager, for example is best with a curry where a stronger or more highly flavoured brew may clash.

So there is cooking lager, Carling, Fosters Heineken etc, then stronger cooking lager, Stella, Becks, Peroni, Budweiser, Moretti, it all tastes the same to me, a lot of it is branding and snobbery, Stella has an image problem but I would say it tastes broadly the same as any of the others.

Punk IPA is a favourite, that is a lovely beer, most of BrewDogs stuff I have had has been nice, Elvis Juice was nice but more alcoholic Grapefruit juice than beer.

Holts MPA if I must have a bitter is pretty good, but I am mainly a lager drinker, dont really get the bitter thing, but dont feel the need to slag it off though I find a lot of it pretty insipid, some of the horrors I have endured at Beer festivals I cant comprehend, not sure why they make beers that taste of treacle infused brackish pond, but some seem to like them, all have different tastes.

Quite like White beers, someone mentioned, Blue Moon, done US style with a slice of Orange, not really like Beer, but a lovely drink, and surprisingly strong.




juice

8,508 posts

281 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Quite like Bath Ale's Gem

And when it's warm outside, I'm partial to a Peroni.

ForZiE23

194 posts

94 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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I do like a peroni but i am starting to enjoy a few craft / Ruby ales.
Following this thread for inspiration and new beers to try.

toon10

6,140 posts

156 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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C0ffin D0dger said:
There's so much choice these days and my tastes changes with the season's, dark beers in the Winter, light hoppy IPAs and APAs in the summer. Now getting into sours and DIPAs. I also make my own beer which I drink most of the time. Partial to the odd Artois as nothing really beats a lager on a hot day. Enjoy cider too (proper stuff mind you!).

One of my absolute favs is Rochefort 10, not for the faint hearted though at around 11% ABV:



Chimay also really nice.

Had a drop of this last Christmas, pretty special: https://harviestoun.com/our-beers/ola-dubh-18
There are loads of really good beers I go back to. The Rochefort is definitely up there. Great stuff. I have 4 bottles of Samichlaus which is lovely but at 14%, one is enough before switching to something weaker. http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/samichlaus-bier

My absolute favourite is Bourbon County from Goose Island. http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/goose-island-bourbo... It's even stronger at 15% but a lovely stout. I used it instead of Champagne when I bought my last property to celebrate!

My normal weekend beers are things like Duvel, Leffe, La Trappe or Straffe Hendrick although you can pick up a nice bottle of Robinsons Old Tom from Asda these days.

Truckosaurus

11,183 posts

283 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Never you mind said:
Can I just point out one small thing. Southerners don't know how to pull a pint!
I had been drinking real ale for 20 years (whilst living in both The North, midlands and The South) before realising there was a difference to how northern and southern beer was served.

Finger on the Pulse as always....

RizzoTheRat

25,084 posts

191 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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J4CKO said:
Punk IPA is a favourite, that is a lovely beer, most of BrewDogs stuff I have had has been nice, Elvis Juice was nice but more alcoholic Grapefruit juice than beer.
My wife loves most of Brewdog's stuff, but I'm not in to hoppy beers and haven't found a single one of theirs that I'd drink. Have you tried their Tactical Thermonuclear Penguin? 32% and tastes bloody horrible. They've since produced Sink The Bismark at 40% but I've not tried that one.

Nezquick

1,453 posts

125 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Hop House 13 lager is excellent.
Birra Moretti is also a favourite.

As for proper ales, I like pretty much any blonde ale below about 5%. They're all good for session beers.

ScotsDave

107 posts

201 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Brewdog Punk IPA in the house, Deuchars IPA or Belhaven Best in the pub and Dorada in Tenerife.