Best Ale ever tasted (not lager)

[Anny Road]

Sick of these debates about cold fizzy chemical tasting lagers. How about MANS beer.

Some of my favourites.

 

Thomas Hardys Ale

Orkney Skull Splitter

Skinners Cornish Knocker

and I am currently sipping several bottles of Innis & Gunn Oak aged beer. Absolutely magic stuff.

 

I have to confess to enjoying lager when in Holland/Belgium but the stuff we get here is shite and nobody knows how to serve it.

 

Anybody else like proper beer?

[drewy]

80 shilling, knocked the living shit out of me for 2 weeks in St Andrews. Loved it although I did shit myself once in those 2 weeks.

[RedKnight]

Speckled Jim. Brrrrr.

[L19red]

coniston bluebird at the britannia inn after a long day walking around langdale is the best 6 pints ive ever drunk.

[Anny Road]

coniston bluebird at the britannia inn after a long day walking around langdale is the best 6 pints ive ever drunk.

 

Perfect. Rambling, thick socks, damp smelling hostel 6 pints of coniston bluebird. beard, sandals, book by fire.

 

Im There.

[Anny Road]

 

Pacifico Clara.

 

Anyone seen it on sale in Liverpool anywhere?

 

Is that an automatic lager disqualification.

[drewy]

 

Pacifico Clara.

 

Anyone seen it on sale in Liverpool anywhere?

 

Have you tried Bargain Booze Chris?

[RedKnight]

Not a drinker but I like Samuel Adams Boston Lager. They used to sell that mother fucker in Tesco but now I can't get it anywhere.

[drewy]

Are you shitting me? If they've got it in bargain booze i may ejaculate. I've been searching the internet and the best price I can get is £40 for 20 bottles with a £7.50 postage fee.

 

Mate, there's a bird called Clara who works in the Bargain booze in Broadway, you could always try her first. Don't know if her second name is Pacifico though.

[George Costanza]

I get a lot of my booze from the internet. Most of my beer (lager) wine and champagne I get imported. Much prefer the more obscure foreign stuff than main brand piss.

[Mark P]

Best ale?...the next one?

[drewy]

I get a lot of my booze from the internet. Most of my beer (lager) wine and champagne I get imported. Much prefer the more obscure foreign stuff than main brand piss.

 

How cheap is it doing that? If you have some tips I'd be interested as I've been a bit wary.

[Anny Road]

Not a drinker but I like Samuel Adams Boston Lager. They used to sell that mother fucker in Tesco but now I can't get it anywhere.

Some people huh

 

My thread has been hyjacked by lager drinkers. NO LAGER.

 

ALE BEER ALE BEER ALE BEER ALEBEER ALE BEER ALE BEER ALE

Get it.

[George Costanza]

How cheap is it doing that? If you have some tips I'd be interested as I've been a bit wary.

 

It isn't cheap. Just you get better beer and greater variety.

 

You can order all sorts of Belgian trappist beers over the tinterweb. Can be hit and miss but the hits are fucking lovely. Strong stuff too. 8 or 9%.

 

try http://www.specialitybeermerchants.com for some of the belgian stuff. The chimay triple blond is very nice.

 

At home the only mainstream beer I tend to drink is Kroneburg Blanc, Budvar, Warsteiner and Staropramen.

[Hermes]

Sick of these debates about cold fizzy chemical tasting lagers. How about MANS beer.

Some of my favourites.

 

Thomas Hardys Ale

Orkney Skull Splitter

Skinners Cornish Knocker

and I am currently sipping several bottles of Innis & Gunn Oak aged beer. Absolutely magic stuff.

 

I have to confess to enjoying lager when in Holland/Belgium but the stuff we get here is shite and nobody knows how to serve it.

 

Anybody else like proper beer?

 

:yes: The Liverpool Real Ale Festival is absolute Utopia, providing you can get a ticket.

[BENIRL]

Smithwicks

[Hermes]

Yeah I've heard it's a hell of a Knight. Do they sell Bishop's Finger? Must say I'm a bit of a Rookie when it comes to real ale.

 

Bishop's Finger tastes like a nun's piss.

 

Don't know why. :whistle:

[Hermes]

Dude, you drink nun's piss? That's hardcore Pawn territory.

 

And why would a nun's piss taste any worse than a normal woman's?

 

I don't drink wine, but I hear that Blue Nun also tastes like Bishop's Finger.:blah

[cochyn]

British Ale's good (Timmy T's Landlord, Hambleton Ales, Courage Directors, Guiness Export Stout etc). Belgian Ale rocks, and my tip to you all is Boerinekken. 8.6%, brown and bootiful!

[7dalglish]

The Pacific Northwest is a beer lovers paradise, so many locally brewed, small batch stuff available. Here's my favourites :-

 

Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond Pale Ale

Mt.Hood Brewing Company Ice Axe India Pale Ale

Widmer Bros Drop Top Amber Ale

Alaskan Brewing Co. Alaskan Amber

 

And from my time in California :-

Gordon Biersch Merzen

Seirra Nevada Pale Ale

Anchor Steam

[Ian]

It isn't cheap. Just you get better beer and greater variety.

 

You can order all sorts of Belgian trappist beers over the tinterweb. Can be hit and miss but the hits are fucking lovely. Strong stuff too. 8 or 9%.

 

try http://www.specialitybeermerchants.com for some of the belgian stuff. The chimay triple blond is very nice.

 

At home the only mainstream beer I tend to drink is Kroneburg Blanc, Budvar, Warsteiner and Staropramen.

 

I was drinking that in Prague in september 2005. Lovely stuff and fairly cheap too. I saw it in a supermarket here 3 bottles for €5 but i'm sure that offer is finished now.

[Victor Ganges]

 

Quality!!

[Sut]

Cains's Red Eric

[mcflynn]

Bass

[The-Sir]

It isn't cheap. Just you get better beer and greater variety.

 

You can order all sorts of Belgian trappist beers over the tinterweb. Can be hit and miss but the hits are fucking lovely. Strong stuff too. 8 or 9%.

 

try http://www.specialitybeermerchants.com for some of the belgian stuff. The chimay triple blond is very nice.

 

At home the only mainstream beer I tend to drink is Kroneburg Blanc, Budvar, Warsteiner and Staropramen.

 

Ace. I'll be using that a lot when I get myself a job. (Fuckin' student bum)