favourite beer?

Marshall
Posts: 93 Joined: 06-08-07 Location: SE London
Submitted by Marshall on 30 August, 2007 - 09:28.

Am dying for a pint already and it's only 10:30. Got at least two hours before I can nip across the road for a swifty and another six and a half hours before the working day ends.

Dreaming of a slightly chilled, foaming pint ...

Ideally it would be a Thwaite's bitter, brewed in Blackburn, but impossible to get down here.

Or a pint of Shepheard Neame's Best

Anyone else's favourite beer?

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welshboy "...a stain upon the heroic history of anarchism."
Posts: 369 Joined: 11-05-06 Location: Weegie Land
30 August, 2007 - 09:37

Any Belgian Trappist beer and Fraoch and Grozet from the Heather Ale co.
mmmmmmmmm
You've started me thinking about beer at half ten in the morning yu git! angry

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
30 August, 2007 - 09:39

For winter -- Old Peculier
For hotter weather -- XB or Timothy Taylor's Landlord
For very hot weather -- Summer Lightening

Jack "a counter-revolutionary force"
Posts: 10166 Joined: 22-09-03 Location: Brighton
30 August, 2007 - 09:45

St Louis Kriek

rkn
Posts: 7651 Joined: 17-07-06 Location: London
30 August, 2007 - 11:15

Devrim "Enternasyonalist Komünist Sol"
Posts: 3047 Joined: 15-07-06
30 August, 2007 - 11:23

Czech Budvar.
Actually the best beer I have ever drunk was one produced on the premises in a restaurant in a small town near Prague called Detenice. It is a bit obscure though.
Devrim

Steven. ""Best hair at Unison conference""
Posts: 1707 Joined: 27-06-06 Location: London
30 August, 2007 - 11:45

rkn
Posts: 7651 Joined: 17-07-06 Location: London
30 August, 2007 - 12:02
the button wrote:
For winter -- Old Peculier
For hotter weather -- XB or Timothy Taylor's Landlord
For very hot weather -- Summer Lightening

Thats like a list of the beers i hate most.

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
30 August, 2007 - 12:09

Shut it, Master Brew boy.

Boulcolonialboy "the meanest"
Posts: 1662 Joined: 02-10-04 Location: Belfast
30 August, 2007 - 12:48

Almost any that have been left in my fridge (preferably by other people) long enough to be fucking freezing cold. If desperate enough I will even drink Harp that has been left in my fridge but never Tennents (but thats cos I'm alergic to that). Normally Smithwicks or Bass Ale, off the Guiness these days, Czech Budvar is good to.

I like that thingumies Bitter and Twisted but the local Wetherspoons appears to have replaced it with some shite that they couldn't even give away for free the last time I was in.

Anyone ever try McKewans? Argh sommathat stuff is just vile (if I remember right they did an ale, lager, bitter...), so vile that you wouldn't even drink it to piss off stupid anti-fascists and lefties (and some anarchists) in the days when they sponsored Rangers. They no longer exist so thank fuck there is no chance of anyone ever leaving any in my fridge!

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
30 August, 2007 - 12:51

Bitter & Twisted is nice -- it's good out of a bottle, too.

Boulcolonialboy "the meanest"
Posts: 1662 Joined: 02-10-04 Location: Belfast
30 August, 2007 - 12:58

Don't know anywhere I can get it in a bottle in Belfast.

Myself and a few comrades drank the barrel dry once in Wetherspoons then had a whisky each. Then one of my comrades boked on my head sad angry

Later that night was the first time I was ever not allowed into a taxi! (Three times embarrassed ) This had nothing to do with the boke, apparently it was only "pre-boke spray" and was thankfully pretty easy to clean up.

rkn
Posts: 7651 Joined: 17-07-06 Location: London
30 August, 2007 - 13:00

I was in Richmond the other day and found this shop.... http://www.realale.com - sadly it was closed sad

Marshall
Posts: 93 Joined: 06-08-07 Location: SE London
30 August, 2007 - 14:01

Rkn - oh yeah - Masterbrew is a fine choice, as is Shepherd Neame's Spitfire. Their organic one is also worth a slurp and they used to do one called Early Bird, but I only had it once and couldn't find it again, not even when I went to the shops near their brewery in Faversham, where my (now ex-) girlfirends parents lived. sad

Steven. ""Best hair at Unison conference""
Posts: 1707 Joined: 27-06-06 Location: London
30 August, 2007 - 14:03

I can answer for all our Australian posters:

Marshall
Posts: 93 Joined: 06-08-07 Location: SE London
30 August, 2007 - 14:12

fair dinkum, mate

RevolutionReversal "non-anarcho...anarcha with a member"
Posts: 181 Joined: 07-04-06 Location: Northern Ontario, Anishnaabe Territory claimed by the Canadian State, Sudbury, Canada
30 August, 2007 - 14:19

Waterloo Dark

magnifico "rehabilitating"
Posts: 1331 Joined: 29-11-05 Location: Rasalhague
30 August, 2007 - 14:25

samuel smiths stout for me

australians drink this in adelaide:-

and this in melbourne:-

^^ not really a bitter.

I don't think they drink fosters or xxxx anywhere

Lazy Riser "Orvillite Allegory"
Posts: 4964 Joined: 06-05-05
30 August, 2007 - 14:35

Corona with a lime slice. Yeah! Everywhere I go. Makes my day.

LR

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
30 August, 2007 - 14:37

I wish a had a picture of Jack drinking his drink of choice. sad

Jack "a counter-revolutionary force"
Posts: 10166 Joined: 22-09-03 Location: Brighton
30 August, 2007 - 14:44

If only such an image existed. sad

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
30 August, 2007 - 14:53

Indeed. cry

Steven. ""Best hair at Unison conference""
Posts: 1707 Joined: 27-06-06 Location: London
30 August, 2007 - 15:01

We've got one of pingtiao like that.

the button "jesus christ, john, have you actually even read any marx?"
Posts: 5636 Joined: 07-07-04 Location: Lewisham, London
30 August, 2007 - 15:02

What does it say on the Rizla in his drink?

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
Posts: 17750 Joined: 23-02-04 Location: Belfast
30 August, 2007 - 15:18
the button wrote:
What does it say on the Rizla in his drink?

nothing it just has a yellow star on it....

an ironic star of course.

JoeBlack2 "Posting a lot less in 2007"
Posts: 1537 Joined: 28-02-05
30 August, 2007 - 17:07

Guinness is what I drink in Ireland and Masterbrew is my favorite in Kent but at the moment


http://www.unibroue.com/products/maudite.cfm

does it for me

MJ "tastes like gym socks, orchards and godhead"
Posts: 1892 Joined: 05-01-06 Location: Massachusetts
30 August, 2007 - 17:17

Welcome to the new world!

j.rogue "Not as good as cops."
Posts: 1446 Joined: 08-04-07 Location: Not Texas
30 August, 2007 - 17:21

I love me some

lucy_parsons "Cunt saboteur"
Posts: 309 Joined: 13-05-05 Location: Manchester
30 August, 2007 - 17:34

Liefman's Kriek is the daddy, but Wieckse Witte is pretty good too. And you can't beat a nice pint of fosters with lime. I'm so classy.

JoeBlack2 "Posting a lot less in 2007"
Posts: 1537 Joined: 28-02-05
30 August, 2007 - 17:39

Although for reasons of economy my current bulk drinking is

http://www.thebeerstore.ca/beers/branddetails.asp?id=7846

Its around 45p a bottle, the other is more like a pound.

MJ "tastes like gym socks, orchards and godhead"
Posts: 1892 Joined: 05-01-06 Location: Massachusetts
30 August, 2007 - 17:51

East Coast:
Smuttynose Farmhouse Ale
Smuttynose IPA
Geary's Hampshire Special Ale
Unibroue Fin Du Monde
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

West Coast:
Stone Double Bastard Ale
Lagunitas Censored Rich Copper Ale
Rogue Shakespeare Stout
Old Chub Scottish Style Ale

Foreign:
De Proef Flemish Primitive Wild Ale

Affordable:
Schlitz
Pabst
Naragansett
Haffenreffer Private Stock

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