What is your favourite pint of beer ?

CloudNine

Telejester said:

CloudNine said:

@kalimna agreed on the Guinness. A good pint of the black stuff is a good pint wherever it is pulled. Maybe less likely to get a terrible one in Ireland, but it's the same stuff. They don't keep any special barrels back with magical Liffey water.

Guinness notoriously doesnt travel well. A pint of guiness on the uk mainland tastes like something drained out of a ford escort oil filter. The guinness in kerry couldnt have been more opposite.

It may not travel round the world very well, and will sufffer if it's been sitting for months, but plenty of places in the UK will have some barrels just as fresh as some places in Ireland. The reason it often seems better in Ireland, is because people take pride in the way it is poured. If that happens in the UK, then you will get the same great pint.

I have a lot of Guinness drinking experience in UK and Ireland, and trust me there are many places in the UK where you will get a great pint. A nightclub in Essex at 3am might not be a likely candidate.

joneve

Doom Bar? Abbot Ale?? 

You poor lads need to get out more

Loads of decent beers mentioned in this thread. I love ale. 

On the subject of Guinness - one of the best pints of it I've had (never been to Ireland unfortunately) oddly, was in the Red Lion, Pas De Le Cas in Andorra. 

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I also agree with the Guinness is better in Ireland thing being a myth. It did used to be, until they brewed it all in Ireland and then exported it all. Guinness well kept and well poured is the same anywhere. Besides that, its a very average stout. Beamish is IMO nicer, and Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout is a lot better.

Belhaven Stout is v nice too.

But I'll have a Sam Smith's Stout, in a booth at the Princess Louise, High Holborn, at about 6pm on a work night please. That is one of the finest pints.

Or, a large bottle of Leo, on a beach in Hua Hin. That takes some beating too.

Nitefly

Telejester said:

I would love to order a pint of old fart, cant believe there is a beer with that name

@Telejester there is a Yorkshire beer (from Dalesman Brewery?) called "Old Legover" - I bought a bottle in a shop in Hawes, and the little old lady behind the counter gave me a very old-fashioned look...

Deadman

I've had Black Sheep at the Black Sheep Brewery and Old Peculier straight from the vat at Theakstons Brewery which I loved but a pint of Hobgoblin in The Angel, Witney (right next door to Wychwoods Brewery) takes some beating.

fields5069

I'm glad someone mentioned Belhaven. The local corner shop got a job lot in just after Christmas, and indeed the craft stout was lovely. It was quite like Tiny Rebel's Dirty Stop Out, which is a smoked oat stout, just a bit stronger.

Strat_a_tat_tat

All this thread tells me is...

... there are a lot of people here that are yet to experience their first pint of Fuller's ESB.  ;-)

joneve

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

All this thread tells me is...

... there are a lot of people here that are yet to experience their first pint of Fuller's ESB.  ;-)

Which is quite alarming. 

I'm craving a pint now...hopefully I'll have time to get a pint tomorrow afternoon at the Mad Bishop and Bear in Padds station before catching my train home. 

crunchman

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

All this thread tells me is...

... there are a lot of people here that are yet to experience their first pint of Fuller's ESB.  ;-)

Wisdom awarded.

London Pride (also Fullers) is very good as well, and not quite so lethal in terms of alcohol content if you just want to have one with a meal and be legal to drive home.

Strat_a_tat_tat

crunchman said:

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

All this thread tells me is...

... there are a lot of people here that are yet to experience their first pint of Fuller's ESB.  ;-)

Wisdom awarded.

London Pride (also Fullers) is very good as well, and not quite so lethal in terms of alcohol content if you just want to have one with a meal and be legal to drive home.

Driving home??? Surely that's what wives are for.

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fields5069 said:

I'm glad someone mentioned Belhaven. The local corner shop got a job lot in just after Christmas, and indeed the craft stout was lovely. It was quite like Tiny Rebel's Dirty Stop Out, which is a smoked oat stout, just a bit stronger.

Don't really see it here do you? My local offie stocks some of their beer, but I had never had the stout before until I was working in Moscow.

Not far from the Bolshoi, there is a great boozer called Haggis. They do great food and beer and had a few Belhaven ales on tap.

crunchman

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

crunchman said:

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

All this thread tells me is...

... there are a lot of people here that are yet to experience their first pint of Fuller's ESB.  ;-)

Wisdom awarded.

London Pride (also Fullers) is very good as well, and not quite so lethal in terms of alcohol content if you just want to have one with a meal and be legal to drive home.

Driving home??? Surely that's what wives are for.

Wives seem to be for drinking red wine.

GavRichList

Kona Big Wave. Delicious. 

Strat_a_tat_tat

crunchman said:

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

crunchman said:

Strat_a_tat_tat said:

All this thread tells me is...

... there are a lot of people here that are yet to experience their first pint of Fuller's ESB.  ;-)

Wisdom awarded.

London Pride (also Fullers) is very good as well, and not quite so lethal in terms of alcohol content if you just want to have one with a meal and be legal to drive home.

Driving home??? Surely that's what wives are for.

Wives seem to be for drinking red wine.

Time for a new wife???

SimonC

Wards Best Bitter, when it was still brewed at the Sheaf Brewery.
Proper beer.

rlw

BloodEagle said:

Possibly the wrong thread to post in then

I believe that my opinion on the various beers available throughout the land is as valid as some pissed fart who has just seven pints of ESB.

I used to love proper John Smiths, back at the end of the 60s and early 70s, on proper pumps in a proper pub.  Countless days have been spent at Masham, and in Tadcaster, drinking the stuff as nature intended.

I used to lunch on cheese sandwiches and London Pride at a pub in Croydon in the 70s too. 

I even went through a phase of light and bitter - always a bigger pint then so marginally better value.

Now, I just don't enjoy beer while, oddly enough, not minding a small but butch cider.  Oddly enough as I was put off cider by drinking far too much scrumpy in one evening while nonchalantly getting through a lot of opiated Kabul as well.

exocet

Timothy Taylors Landlord

As for Guinness, I prefer the Nigerian variant, something like 6%, much more taste.

As for IPA, this is my favourite


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SimonC said:

Wards Best Bitter, when it was still brewed at the Sheaf Brewery.
Proper beer.

Oh it wasn't mate, c'mon. It was watery week stuff, like Stones as well. next you;'ll be going all soft about Trophy Bitter!

mudslide73

TT Landlord, Batham's, Old Hooky, Hop Back Summer Lightning, Pure Ubu, Marston's Pedigree (as close to BOT as pos) , Newc Exhibition, London Pride.

Urquell, Budvar, Staropramen, Lowenbrau, Warsteiner, Crystal Weiss, Nastro Azzuro Peroni, Superbock, Sagrez, Mahou Cinco Estrallas, Estrella Damm,

Loads.

John_A

Very much mood dependant - A Castle Rock Harvest Pale, a Straffe Henrik Triple or a nice cold Stella all hit the spot in different ways