Oh you were here for the Prague beer fest! I thought it was going on in London and couldn't imagine how they got the stuff over there at those prices! Doh ! :-)
I can highly recommend the Czech & Slovak Bar & Restaurant at 74 West End Lane, West Hampstead. It was established as a meeting place for expatriates after World War II, and retains an engaging 70s ambience with huge paintings of Czech leaders in gilt frames. More like a social club than a bar. Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser Budvar on tap: good and strong.
Went on a pub crawl up Royal Hill after the Bournemouth game and had my first pint of Meantime. It will be my last. I thought the flavour may make up for the fizzy keg but couldn't taste anything through the bubbles. The pubs either side had much better tasting stuff but were doing nowhere near the trade the Greenwich Union was doing. Is it a question of style over substance? Finished up at the Ashburnham Arms which sells Shepherd Neames. It was then time to go home.
You are absolutely right: all the Meantime beers are filtered, pasteurised, and then fizzed with carbon dioxide. The marketing schtick of 'craft' brewers is nonsense: they are reverting to Watney's - Grotney's - Red Barrel in the Sixties.
You did well: the Young's in the Richard the First, next door, is always in good nick - and the Shepherd Neame Master Brew in the Ashburnham has perked up with the new guvnor.
Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(
Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(
Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(
Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
Still haven't tried Whitstable Brewery's beers yet! :-(
Still serving them at The Long Pond. Currently have their award winning Native bitter on, will have the Oyster Stout and the Czech hopped Bohemian on over the weekend.
We've had a few times and it is very good and popular. We've had beers made with US,German, French, Polish hops and have a Japanese one due on soon. Beer is global.
We've had a few times and it is very good and popular. We've had beers made with US,German, French, Polish hops and have a Japanese one due on soon. Beer is global.
Of course when the big boys used to brew Hofmeister in Northampton, or Tennants Pilsner in Glasgow, the CAMRA boys would go into a lather about how globalisation of beer was terrible, and produced piss like that stuff.
If it tastes nice, OK,bottoms up, but "Bohemian" is stretching things a bit. Looks like real ale brewers are not above a bit of marketing bollocks. And therein lies a danger signal for the future.
last night's beer. (Amber lager, NOT an ale, from a microbrewery). See the line on the glass? The beer should settle upwards to that line if it's been correctly poured. The glass is designed to take a half litre of beer plus the two fingers of foam. I think it's a more visually attractive way of serving beer than the British way
Am a lager drinker, don't really like real ales but had a chilled bottle of Doom Bar other day and it was palatable. Any others I should try , preferably that you can chill (as more of a home drinker at moment with two under four years old) as a halfway house between lager and the ales?
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
Anyone around the Crayford area the Penny Farthing is on the second day of a three day mini beer festival. Went last night and worked my way through some of the 9 ales on offer. Favourite on the night was Reverend James. Going back tomorrow to finish working my way through the card. The lovely couple that run it will give you a warm welcome.
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
There are a lot of summer ales available at the moment that can be chilled. You could try Fuller's Honey Dew, Crouch Vale Brewers Gold or Badgers Lemony Cricket. They are all available in bottles.
We are currently on our second cask of Old Dairy Summer Top at the Long Pond. First one went in a couple of hours on Friday night. It's delicious.
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You don't know what you're talking about.
what?. You are offering a "lager"???
Curious to know what such a beer made with Czech hops will be like. Guess I'm not going to find out, but will be interested to hear how it goes down.
If it tastes nice, OK,bottoms up, but "Bohemian" is stretching things a bit. Looks like real ale brewers are not above a bit of marketing bollocks. And therein lies a danger signal for the future.
last night's beer. (Amber lager, NOT an ale, from a microbrewery). See the line on the glass? The beer should settle upwards to that line if it's been correctly poured. The glass is designed to take a half litre of beer plus the two fingers of foam. I think it's a more visually attractive way of serving beer than the British way
Am a lager drinker, don't really like real ales but had a chilled bottle of Doom Bar other day and it was palatable.
Any others I should try , preferably that you can chill (as more of a home drinker at moment with two under four years old) as a halfway house between lager and the ales?
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