geordie_racer
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what's your favourite aleno lagers, ciders please. ale.
two categories... a session beer and a "to be savoured" beer (eg i cant drink 8 pints of speckeld hen, so it would go int he latter category).
personally
1 black sheep ale or jarrow bitter as the session beer
2 mordue workie tcket. at 4.5 it's too much for a session ale but really nice
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Papa 3
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Ginger 
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awaywardlad
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Bass - headless and straight from the barrel which covers both categories.
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geordie_racer
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| awaywardlad wrote: | Bass - headless and straight from the barrel which covers both categories.
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very good pint, and the first ever registered trademark (red triangle and bass signature)
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jennywales
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I used to drink Bass from the wood in the Theatre Royal Bar in Brighton....lovely - but that was years ago! The bar was probably the only bar/pub open to the general public which was actually inside a theatre - which made for some interesting evenings!
Nowadays I rarely have a "session" (too old, bladder too weak!) but if I did I would probably pick Adnam's Bitter (4.5%). For a quiet drink I'd probably choose Speckled Hen or Norfolk Nog - I was much taken with Norfolk beers when I went up to Newmarket last year for the Guineas.
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Flipando
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Timothy Taylor's - Golden Best
Boring but pedigree's a good pint as well. Don't really keep favourites though, I just try whatever's on down the pubs.
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The_Pilgarlic
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Fullers London Pride, Shepherd Neame Spitfire or Wells Bombardier.
If I go in to a pub and the serve any of those three I'm usually happy!
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millsy
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Either Timothy Taylor's Landlord or London Pride
Feel like a pint now!
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YAIYAM
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I have 2 real ale pubs within about 2 minutes walk from me and they do tend to change there ales pretty regular so i will always have the ones i have never tried before first then if i am not keen on them the 2 i always go back to are Wells bombardier & something called Inspiration.
I wouldn't generally drink any lager or Ale alcohol pint under 4.0% becuase as a Guiness & Thai beer(lager) drinker which are all 5% they all generally taste like gnats pi$$ so I steer clear of them.
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Andy
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Session ales - Fuller's Chiswick Bitter or Harvey's Best Bitter.
Stronger ales - Hop Back Summer Lightening or Badger Ales Tanglefoot
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ngreggors
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My current favourites are:
Session - Doom Bar
Savour - Greene King IPA Export
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penleguin
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De Koninck - not the best known Belgium beer but at 5% can be quaffed in large quantities without falling over.
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johne5knuckle
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| ngreggors wrote: | My current favourites are:
Session - Doom Bar |
I used to drink that when I lived in Devon (it is brewed across from Padstow in Cornwall, I think). I was always ill after drinking it and moaned about it being a rough beer to my missus. She then pointed out my illness was 100 per cent due to over-indulgence as I liked it so much!
All-time session ale - Adnams Bitter
Savour - Theakston's XB
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gromero
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Session - London Pride, I can drink that like lemonade
Savour - Young's London Special. Although I did get through 6 bottles of that one NYE plus some Duvel plus some Leffe.
I did not feel good the next day!
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Papa 3
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| gromero wrote: | Session - London Pride, I can drink that like lemonade
Savour - Young's London Special. Although I did get through 6 bottles of that one NYE plus some Duvel plus some Leffe.
I did not feel good the next day! |
That is why you don't want to live until you are 50. 
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gromero
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haha
Although that makes me look like a complete p1ss head, I'm quite a sensible drinker 99% of the time, for example I haven't had a drink for 3 weeks.
But I do admit I am a complete victim of the modern trend of binge drinking.
Birthdays, Christmas, NYE, Halloween etc etc = drink until sunrise.
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dogsaver
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my father aways said there was no bad beers ,except when you did not have any money in your pocket to be able to buy a pint
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Papa 3
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| gromero wrote: | haha
Although that makes me look like a complete p1ss head, I'm quite a sensible drinker 99% of the time, for example I haven't had a drink for 3 weeks.
But I do admit I am a complete victim of the modern trend of binge drinking.
Birthdays, Christmas, NYE, Halloween etc etc = drink until sunrise. |
I would often, some time ago, get pissycackyfallydowny. If it wasn't too much on a Sunday dinner hour, to end up coming home and trying to paint out a few scratches on the fridge, and then knock the can over, it was getting rat bottomed at the works Christmas do and spending the time flat out in front of the Pub urinal with my workmates leaving me there and just stepping over me. The one thing that stopped me drinking was money. I was out of work a long time and when we went out to play snooker my mate only drank bottles of Guinness which was downed quicker than my pint of Mild, so I had to drink quicker thinking he wanted another one. It has been quite a while since I was drunk, but I reckon two pints of lager would soon get me there.
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Jimbob
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Session beers- Woodfordes Wherry(by far the best bitter in East Anglia! None of this Adnams rubbish for me  ), Black Dog Mild, actually, I'll usually take any mild over any bitter. Banks Original is also a very good mild.
Beers to savour- Marstons Old Empire(a fine, proper, India Pale Ale, Greene King have tried their best to destroy real IPA's but IPA is on the fighback), Theakston Old Peculiar, Grain Porter, Fullers ESB, and the greatest beer of all time, Obolon Porter from the Ukraine.
I like my dark beers if you hadn't have guessed 
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lochsong
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Old Fart
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lochsong
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| Jimbob wrote: | | Theakston Old Peculiar, |
yum yum
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geordie_racer
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| lochsong wrote: | | Jimbob wrote: | | Theakston Old Peculiar, |
yum yum |
ever tried drinking more than a couple though?
on draught in very rare corcs nd deffo NOT a session beer
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The_Pilgarlic
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| johne5knuckle wrote: | | ngreggors wrote: | My current favourites are:
Session - Doom Bar |
I used to drink that when I lived in Devon (it is brewed across from Padstow in Cornwall, I think). I was always ill after drinking it and moaned about it being a rough beer to my missus. She then pointed out my illness was 100 per cent due to over-indulgence as I liked it so much!
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Spot on. The brewery is an unassuming farm brewery just in land from Rock where you catch the ferry across to Padstow. Sharps Doom Bar is a decent ale.
Another reasonable Cornish beer is St Austell Tribute - although I'd pick Doom Bar over it.
Moving a tad further North, I managed to sample a few pints of Everard's (mainly Tiger) up in Leicestershire this summer and also thought that was a nice pint.
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geordie_racer
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| The_Pilgarlic wrote: | | johne5knuckle wrote: | | ngreggors wrote: | My current favourites are:
Session - Doom Bar |
I used to drink that when I lived in Devon (it is brewed across from Padstow in Cornwall, I think). I was always ill after drinking it and moaned about it being a rough beer to my missus. She then pointed out my illness was 100 per cent due to over-indulgence as I liked it so much!
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Spot on. The brewery is an unassuming farm brewery just in land from Rock where you catch the ferry across to Padstow. Sharps Doom Bar is a decent ale.
Another reasonable Cornish beer is St Austell Tribute - although I'd pick Doom Bar over it.
Moving a tad further North, I managed to sample a few pints of Everard's (mainly Tiger) up in Leicestershire this summer and also thought that was a nice pint. |
we had tribute on in my local a couple of weeks ago as a guest ale
very good.
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Andy
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I had a few too many ales last night and i'm feeling abit  today!! Fortunately I stuck to the 4.0% Badger Ale all night so it could have been worse!!
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dogsaver
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| Andy wrote: | | I had a few too many ales last night and i'm feeling abit today!! Fortunately I stuck to the 4.0% Badger Ale all night so it could have been worse!! |
not going to ask where bager ale is made 
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lochsong
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| dogsaver wrote: | | Andy wrote: | | I had a few too many ales last night and i'm feeling abit today!! Fortunately I stuck to the 4.0% Badger Ale all night so it could have been worse!! |
not going to ask where bager ale is made |
My mates and I were having a few and wondering where Ramsbottom ale got it's name from.
We decided that when it was invented the brewer got so bladdered trying it out that a rams bottom was the first thing he saw when he woke up in the middle of a field the next day. 
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johne5knuckle
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| lochsong wrote: | | dogsaver wrote: | | Andy wrote: | | I had a few too many ales last night and i'm feeling abit today!! Fortunately I stuck to the 4.0% Badger Ale all night so it could have been worse!! |
not going to ask where bager ale is made |
My mates and I were having a few and wondering where Ramsbottom ale got it's name from.
We decided that when it was invented the brewer got so bladdered trying it out that a rams bottom was the first thing he saw when he woke up in the middle of a field the next day. |
Or, of course...
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lochsong
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| johne5knuckle wrote: | | lochsong wrote: | | dogsaver wrote: | | Andy wrote: | | I had a few too many ales last night and i'm feeling abit today!! Fortunately I stuck to the 4.0% Badger Ale all night so it could have been worse!! |
not going to ask where bager ale is made |
My mates and I were having a few and wondering where Ramsbottom ale got it's name from.
We decided that when it was invented the brewer got so bladdered trying it out that a rams bottom was the first thing he saw when he woke up in the middle of a field the next day. |
Or, of course... |
...he was giving it one?
You surprise me sometimes John.
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