My alltime favourite is a spanish beer Mahou (Red label) but not too many places to buy it here
But alternatively I'm quite partial to a fosters
spot on - the green label is decent but i'd agree, a cold red label mahou is the nuts and therefore i retract my staement about kronenburg. san Miguel's not bad when in spain as well but not as good and amstell is crap.
Admitedly i try not to drink Lager if i can help it but i make you right Amstel is disgusting. I sometimes wonder if people drink things because of fashion. Asahi? Sold in posh bars full of pretenders. Kegged in a toilet.
Like most of what Cropton Brewery has to offer, like a bit of Meantime IPA, London Lager and Kolsch (sp?), like Leffe Brun, Aspinals Premier Cru and Guinness..
I like most 'booze', I just don't drink much of it....
My father in law set up (and was head brewer at) the Cropton Brewery. They even had a beer named after my first son SMS (Sammy's Milk Substitute).
Best beers Two Pints (Cropton), Timothy Taylor, Black Sheep and Ramsbury Gold. Find myself really going for quality Pale Ales these days.
Like most of what Cropton Brewery has to offer, like a bit of Meantime IPA, London Lager and Kolsch (sp?), like Leffe Brun, Aspinals Premier Cru and Guinness..
I like most 'booze', I just don't drink much of it....
My father in law set up (and was head brewer at) the Cropton Brewery. They even had a beer named after my first son SMS (Sammy's Milk Substitute).
Best beers Two Pints (Cropton), Timothy Taylor, Black Sheep and Ramsbury Gold. Find myself really going for quality Pale Ales these days.
If you like a pale ale i can recomend Sierra Nevada pale. You can get it in most Sainsburys. Bottle conditioned complete with Yeast sediment.
Anything from Shepherd Neame especially Nun's Delight. Anything from Wychwood especially Hobgoblin. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - but it's annoying that it only comes in little bottles. Leffe Brun, but a Blonde's alright. In a pub with no real ale or that I didn't trust to keep it properly a Guinness always goes down well.
I enjoy a pint of Shepherd Neame Masterbrew and/or Spitfire which is fortunate as a Kentish resident. Earlier in the year I had a session (rare for me these days) with a few old mates and Timothy Taylor Landlord slipped down very nicely.
I used to like King and Barnes Festive, Brakspears (? spelling), and Eldridge Pope Royal Oak but have seen none of these in years.
A friend of mine (a fellow Charlton fan and season ticket holder incidentally) used to own the Flagship Brewery (sadly no more) at Chatham Dockyard and I enjoyed (rather too much sometimes!) his ales.
Living near the oldest brewers in England and being a real ale lover, I do love Shep and Neames Late Red, also, a micro brewery very near to where I live (Hopdaemon Brewery) produce a lovely IPA called Skrimshander, failing that, anything I can get my hands on will suffice.
Best Dutch beer is Bavaria, goes down a treat which is strange as I'm not a lager drinker but limited choice here in Holland. Best British tipple is SPITFIRE, fantastic Kentish ale.
Tribute, Tanglefoot, Gem (Bath Ales), Abbot in my local is good and Spitfire when I'm visiting the family. Mind you had some interesting (but not cheap) beers in Brittany the last fortnight. Not sure they'd travel well though.
Never really developed a taste for beer, just don't like the yeasty taste of it, although If I had to pick, I'd go for banana bread beer. My tipple of choice if pear Kopparberg.
I agree with Len - Timothy Taylors Landlord is a good pint. Shepherd Neame is decent stuff, but I am not so keen on Youngs Special - probably too strong for an old fool like me
All lager mass produced in Britain is gash."I prefer fosters to carling" - balderdash, it's like the duff brewery on The Simpsons, the same wee-wee in a different barrel.
Bermuda has one micro brewery, which does some good beers the names of which escape me. So not great on beer front, so we rely on bottled beer from o/seas. Given fussy expat population there seems to be a great selection of these. Imported draught beer isn't great here.
Hard to drink heavy ales in summer, so settle for lagers. can't beat an ice cold heineken or corona on a hot day. In fact opening the fridge on a hot & humid day to see a condensation covered corona is a thing of beauty, even before breakfast!!
Have got into Innis & Gunn also, great ale from Scotland.
On ski trip earlier in year got into Breckenridge Brewery's "Avalance Ale" outstanding session ale, about 4.6%. Trying to see if one of the local wholesalers here can get a few cases pre Christmas.
Sam adams boston lager is good, also does one of the best lites around. Sam adams do some great seasonal beers also.
In UK, Youngs Special is also excellent. Especially if I haven't been back for a while. From the West country Exmoor Ale Gold & Badger Brewery do some good stuff. It makes you realise that there are certain things that we brits do better than most.
Can't stand Bud/Coors/Molson/Labbats. Horrible. The lite versions are undrinkable.
God, I love talking about beer.............good thread!
Possibly, all this proves is that everybody has different tastes. To me, beers like John Smiths, Boddingtons and Caffreys are the enemy but people must and do like them or is it because they've replaced real beer in a lot of places due to their 'low maintenance' and people's taste buds have grown to like them? Guiness i put in almost the same category and and the myth that it contains a lot of iron and is good for you is a great marketing trick.
p.s agreed, Timothy Taylor's a nice beer as are most young's and Shepherd Neame although i prefer Whitstable Bay to Spitfire.
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Then again I bought 6 cans for 55p earlier, so shouldnt complain too much.
Becks Vier is a better bet where sold or draft Heineken.
Out here in the states and the world of light beers Coors is my fave, Dos Equis (Mexico) is good and Yeungling is decent too.
I was in a pub in Atlanta last week and they sold one of the (Greenwich) Meantime bottled beers in there for $14 a pop!
My father in law set up (and was head brewer at) the Cropton Brewery. They even had a beer named after my first son SMS (Sammy's Milk Substitute).
Best beers Two Pints (Cropton), Timothy Taylor, Black Sheep and Ramsbury Gold. Find myself really going for quality Pale Ales these days.
If you like a pale ale i can recomend Sierra Nevada pale. You can get it in most Sainsburys. Bottle conditioned complete with Yeast sediment.
Anything from Wychwood especially Hobgoblin.
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - but it's annoying that it only comes in little bottles.
Leffe Brun, but a Blonde's alright.
In a pub with no real ale or that I didn't trust to keep it properly a Guinness always goes down well.
My favourite beers change on a regular basis.
I enjoy a pint of Shepherd Neame Masterbrew and/or Spitfire which is fortunate as a Kentish resident. Earlier in the year I had a session (rare for me these days) with a few old mates and Timothy Taylor Landlord slipped down very nicely.
I used to like King and Barnes Festive, Brakspears (? spelling), and Eldridge Pope Royal Oak but have seen none of these in years.
A friend of mine (a fellow Charlton fan and season ticket holder incidentally) used to own the Flagship Brewery (sadly no more) at Chatham Dockyard and I enjoyed (rather too much sometimes!) his ales.
Going full circle, i think grolsch is rough!
Bermuda has one micro brewery, which does some good beers the names of which escape me. So not great on beer front, so we rely on bottled beer from o/seas. Given fussy expat population there seems to be a great selection of these. Imported draught beer isn't great here.
Hard to drink heavy ales in summer, so settle for lagers. can't beat an ice cold heineken or corona on a hot day. In fact opening the fridge on a hot & humid day to see a condensation covered corona is a thing of beauty, even before breakfast!!
Have got into Innis & Gunn also, great ale from Scotland.
On ski trip earlier in year got into Breckenridge Brewery's "Avalance Ale" outstanding session ale, about 4.6%. Trying to see if one of the local wholesalers here can get a few cases pre Christmas.
Sam adams boston lager is good, also does one of the best lites around. Sam adams do some great seasonal beers also.
In UK, Youngs Special is also excellent. Especially if I haven't been back for a while. From the West country Exmoor Ale Gold & Badger Brewery do some good stuff. It makes you realise that there are certain things that we brits do better than most.
Can't stand Bud/Coors/Molson/Labbats. Horrible. The lite versions are undrinkable.
God, I love talking about beer.............good thread!
p.s agreed, Timothy Taylor's a nice beer as are most young's and Shepherd Neame although i prefer Whitstable Bay to Spitfire.