Beer

[Penk Wolf]

All Bar One is okay. Nice selection of red wines.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Obviously I am a lager boy most of the time (and the Budvar in the Western cannot be beaten) but I do occasionally dip into the real ale world.

My faves:-

Golden Glow
Bathams (these are taken as read)

Double Dragon
Bishops Finger
Adnams Broadside
Doombar
Betty Skoggs
Anything by the Tring Brewery - marvellous micro-brewery
Jennings Snecklifter
Dogth Vader
Coniston Bluebird (think that was the name)
80/-

 

[Boozad]

Dogbolter was ace as well.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Lincolnshire is the County for small breweries, as I previously mentioned. There are lots of them around.

Dogbolter...I do not think I know that.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

Lager has no redeeming features.

 

[Doctor Doog]

I had a nice pint of Greene King St Edmonds last night.

The mention of Felinfoel Double Dragon took me back to my student days. Feeling Foul we used to call it, as that was the effect the next morning of having too many.

 

[machin05]

1st picture - who the $#@! was on the lager???!

I think it was cider. It was definitely a lady!

 

[The Bear]

This was awesome back in the day:

And this:

 

[machin05]

A couple of supermarket favs are:

St Peters Golden Ale

Badger Fursty Ferret

and Badger Tangle Foot

In fact, anything from Badger is a pretty sure bet.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

In the days when you could get away with working trains and drinking pints, I used to work a Bournemouth train as far as Coventry and had a lovely pint of Flowers Bitter in the staff club there.

But I the best was when working trains to Euston, a few minutes walk away was a big empty roomy kind of pub and it served the most gorgeous pint of Courage Director's. Terrific stuff.

I thought Bank's Mild was good in and around Wolverhampton. But that was back in the golden years... of Richards & Dougan.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I usually drink lager when I'm out, as I don't tend to go out purely for the Ale, and I do enjoy it.

The European Lagers are definitely much better than our generally poor attempts at Lager brewing, Budvar is an excellent brew and I've lost many a night down the Station in Codsall to that!

The commercial lager of choice is probably Kronenbourg, even though it’s never a decent pint from the brewery up in Edinburgh, but the memories of drinking it in France, where it is a very special lager.

My days of real ale, had a bit of resurgence a few years ago, (after I started out on drinking ales, but switched to lager) and I still like the odd bottle here and there.

My favourite ales are

Bathams Bitter - It’s the best bitter ever, I enjoy my trips down to the Bell at Trysul
Enville Ale - I used to love my trips down to the Cat during my early years drinking
Sarah Hughes
Ruby Red Mild - excellent for blotting out any memories
Sedgley Surprise - been a few years since I drank it, but I always really liked it
Holden’s
Special Bitter - a lovely tipple
Golden Glow
Marston’s
Old Empire - a cracking brew
Strong Pale Ale - a great head twister

A note to Banks bitter, which when kept right is a fine brew in itself, just a pity that so many fail to do so

 

[Penk Wolf]

I usually drink lager when I'm out, as I don't tend to go out purely for the Ale, and I do enjoy it.

I tend to drink bottles of lager on a night out. I struggle to drink ale for 9 or 10 hours.

 

[Langers]

Some excellent ales:

Hobsons - Town Crier
Dark Star - Hophead
Kelham Island - Pale Rider
Ossett - Silver King
Robinsons - Unicorn
Crouch Vale - Brewers Gold

All absolutely delicious. Be careful with Pale Rider - its potent but moreish. It's very easy to get utterly twatted on the stuff as it doesn't taste as strong as it is.

 

[ROVERT47]

When i'm out i'll drink Glow if it's available, Enville Ale in the Newhampton is good, i'll always look for any guest ales that are on offer particularly when i'm on holiday and give them

a go.

Funnily enough i never drink beer in the house, i always enjoy a nice Australian Cabernet Sauvignon or Shiraz.

 

[Newbridge Wolf]

I tend to drink bottles of lager on a night out. I struggle to drink ale for 9 or 10 hours.

Yep, pretty much the same as me, although I'll drink pints rather than bottles - I find the ales can lie a bit too heavy and the hops make me a bit sluggish

Langdale - you have a fantastic selection of Ales that you keep on realing off, where do you get these from, are they guests in the pubs or can you get them bottled? Unless i make a concerted effort I struggle to find anything decent on tap.

 

[machin05]

Bridgnorth is great for a night on the ales.

 

[Stan Hullis]

Anything from the black sheep brewery for me.

Golden sheep or riggwelter

 

[Langers]

Langdale - you have a fantastic selection of Ales that you keep on realing off, where do you get these from, are they guests in the pubs or can you get them bottled? Unless i make a concerted effort I struggle to find anything decent on tap.

I normally discover them at beer festivals, but my brother is quite involved with CAMRA so often sends me recommendations (some of which are fucking horrible!).

He lives near the Dark Star brewery too - Hophead and APA are amongst the nicest beers I've ever tasted.

You can get most of those bottled but they're all much better on tap.

 

[machin05]

I tend to drink bottles of lager on a night out. I struggle to drink ale for 9 or 10 hours.

I'm like that with lager. I can have a few pints, but it's too gassy and sweet to manage more than a couple without feeling bloated and grim.

I guess it's just what your body is used to.

 

[Penk Wolf]

That is why I drink bottles, I don't find them as gassy.