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When I was managing the off-licence, we had a whole crate of Founders beer which went past its sell-by date. Thus it had to be written off and the staff were able to drink it.

Fantastic stuff!

I'll drink whatever's put in front of me.

If I have a preference, I'll go for Stella, Brewdog Punk, or Doom Bar, Stella being the preferred one.

Newcastle Brown Ale!

If that's on the menu there simply isn't any other beer.

Yes, I realize its sourced from the purest river water in the UK. Perhaps that is what gives it such a nice taste?

Fraoch
Double Maxim. Better than Dog, by far
Not sure it really counts, but when I did reenactment fairs, there was a beer tent that did bog myrtle beer on tap, never seen it in stores though..
Most of the Badger range
Waggle dance



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Lager is NOT beer, so the bog myrtle is more beer that some answers...

Hobgoblin always goes down well for me. Landship by the Dorset brewery is a nice one too. Pilton pop, hedge monkey, second the badger ales. The iron maiden ale is very tasty too. Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

 xKillGorex wrote:
Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

Had it draught at Lamorna Wink, lovely.... bought it bottled, not so keen.

Alexander Keith's Indian Pale Ale and Holsten Festbock, tho I haven't drank since 2013 due to medical reasons. I wish dealcoholized indian pale ale was a thing.

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:
Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

Had it draught at Lamorna Wink, lovely.... bought it bottled, not so keen.

Hmm that’s often the case sadly but hey it could be worse i mean there’s beer in a tin,,, tins I tell ya lol.

 xKillGorex wrote:

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:
Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

Had it draught at Lamorna Wink, lovely.... bought it bottled, not so keen.

Hmm that’s often the case sadly but hey it could be worse i mean there’s beer in a tin,,, tins I tell ya lol.

It's not even Cornish tin

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:
Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

Had it draught at Lamorna Wink, lovely.... bought it bottled, not so keen.

Hmm that’s often the case sadly but hey it could be worse i mean there’s beer in a tin,,, tins I tell ya lol.

It's not even Cornish tin

Ah could serve it in a bucket and it would taste better then most of the European stuff.

Real ales have all become a bit bland and the same to me. I used to like them, but now, it’s a bit of the same old same old. Hops hops and more hops. I’ll still enjoy a pint now and then, but they lack the depth and variety I like in a beer now. There’s a reason why ales don’t feature in any of the lists of the worlds greatest beers.

My favourite beer now is probably duchesse de bourgogne or rodenbach grand cru. I’m also partial to a good lambic or a Trappist beer. Rochefort 10 Is very nice, but at 12% it’s not exactly a session ale.

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:
Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

Had it draught at Lamorna Wink, lovely.... bought it bottled, not so keen.

It's interesting how different the cask version of a beer can be to the bottled version. I prefer bottled London Pride over cask, and drink ESB from the tap.

 xKillGorex wrote:

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:

 Dr Coconut wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:
Oh there’s Betty stoggs aswell .

Had it draught at Lamorna Wink, lovely.... bought it bottled, not so keen.

Hmm that’s often the case sadly but hey it could be worse i mean there’s beer in a tin,,, tins I tell ya lol.

It's not even Cornish tin

Ah could serve it in a bucket and it would taste better then most of the European stuff.

Many a party, it was from a bucket, the slops bucket, when the pub was drunk dry. There was always the final option after that though... Lager.

Give me a nice dark ale any day. Preferably somthing like a Doombar or Tribute.

Burrr lager. Stella, Fosters, carling. They might as well just bottle the sweat from a pigs balls .

Polar beers

Thargrim wrote:I'd drink almost any beer you put in front of me. To even begin trying to pick favorites would take too much time and mental energy.

Spoken like a man who has never drank Moosehead. The closest approximation I can give to the taste is to picture filling a month old used coffee filter with an ashtray and pouring turpentine through it.

Gangland wrote:Haufbrau Dunkel rocks my world.

I like porters and stouts the most but can’t really pin point a single favorite, I like too many. Possibly Old Rasputin since people say I look like him.

If you mean Hofbrau, then I'm on board. I had what amounted to a 2 liter bottle with a handle on it that they called one beer at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich, Germany. Munchen/Munich, you get the point. Hofbrau Heve Weizen for those keeping track. Well, they finally sell it bottled in the US, so I will take it in a heartbeat. Past that, pretty much ANY Belgian White will do, with Blue Moon being my typical go to. My wife Joy picked me up a sixer of a different brand, and it is more than adequate.

Of the widely available commercial beers, the ones I like are; Estrella, Heineken, Asahi, Brahma, Staropramen, Sol, Peroni. And these days almost exclusively out of glass bottles. I've never been a can drinker, but even draught usually tastes metallic to me now

Not really into the whole craft beer scene at all. Most of them taste way too much like hops and nothing else. I will enjoy a fancy malty beer if at an event or something but won't go out of my way to find them.

 xKillGorex wrote:
Burrr lager. Stella, Fosters, carling. They might as well just bottle the sweat from a pigs balls .

The ones you mentioned are piss but that doesn't mean they're all bad. Because they aren't

Cynista wrote:
Of the widely available commercial beers, the ones I like are; Estrella, Heineken, Asahi, Brahma, Staropramen, Sol, Peroni. And these days almost exclusively out of glass bottles. I've never been a can drinker, but even draught usually tastes metallic to me now

Not really into the whole craft beer scene at all. Most of them taste way too much like hops and nothing else. I will enjoy a fancy malty beer if at an event or something but won't go out of my way to find them.

 xKillGorex wrote:
Burrr lager. Stella, Fosters, carling. They might as well just bottle the sweat from a pigs balls .

The ones you mentioned are piss but that doesn't mean they're all bad. Because they aren't

There could very well be a tasty lager out there. Have yet to come across it myself, would sooner stick to ales and ciders myself.

Lager is not beer. Wrong yeast. Tastes of pee, anyway

Just Tony wrote:
If you mean Hofbrau, then I'm on board. I had what amounted to a 2 liter bottle with a handle on it that they called one beer at the Hofbrauhaus in Munich, Germany. Munchen/Munich, you get the point. Hofbrau Heve Weizen for those keeping track. Well, they finally sell it bottled in the US, so I will take it in a heartbeat. Past that, pretty much ANY Belgian White will do, with Blue Moon being my typical go to. My wife Joy picked me up a sixer of a different brand, and it is more than adequate.

The Hofbrauhaus is a lot of fun.

And I brew my own version of Blue Moon. It's great!

xKillGorex wrote:
There could very well be a tasty lager out there. Have yet to come across it myself, would sooner stick to ales and ciders myself.

Veltins is a nice lager. It actually has flavour!

Dr Coconut wrote:Lager is not beer. Wrong yeast. Tastes of pee, anyway

Yes it is. It's not Ale though. Lager has a bottom-fermenting yeast, ale fermented at the top. They generally ferment at different temperatures too. But they are both beer yeasts.

Herbington wrote:

Dr Coconut wrote:Lager is not beer. Wrong yeast. Tastes of pee, anyway

Yes it is. It's not Ale though. Lager has a bottom-fermenting yeast, ale fermented at the top. They generally ferment at different temperatures too. But they are both beer yeasts.

Thank you. . . Even though I absolutely HATE IPA's, and think they taste like pee, I don't run round trying to stupidly say that it isn't beer just because I hate it. I just recognize that my taste buds do not jive with intentionally bitter beers and so, I simply read the label, and if I see IPA, i steer well clear.

The western world has gone a bit IPA mad in the past few years.

An interesting development is beers flavoured with fruit. It's not a new thing in Belgium of course, but several beweries in the UK are doing it now.

 Just Tony wrote:
Past that, pretty much ANY Belgian White will do, with Blue Moon being my typical go to. My wife Joy picked me up a sixer of a different brand, and it is more than adequate.

Allagash White is my go-to for domestic Belgian wheat beers.

What Ensis said, especially about IPA's. Heineken is still not beer though. Regional pride prohibits me from acknowledging it.
And radler is allright if you want lemonade.

Herbington wrote:

Dr Coconut wrote:Lager is not beer. Wrong yeast. Tastes of pee, anyway

Yes it is. It's not Ale though. Lager has a bottom-fermenting yeast, ale fermented at the top. They generally ferment at different temperatures too. But they are both beer yeasts.

Different yeast, different key ingredients, different method.... might as well put cider and wine in the same category too.

On that basis you could say Ale isn’t beer, as Lambic’s use different yeast, key ingredient and methods. The oldest brewery in the world produces larger and wheat beer, which uses different yeast, ingredients and methods again. “It’s not ale” is a poor way of deciding what is and is not beer and claiming ale = good larger = bad shows, to me, a distinct lack of knowledge of beer and is hugely limiting the experience and good beer you can have.

I can only laugh at people being snobs about beer. What a contradiction. Beer is an umbrella term for fermented alcoholic grain water with various flavourings. It's been brewed and consumed for literally thousands of years, mostly by poverty stricken plebs who couldn't find clean drinking water.

It's not fine wine or parmesan cheese ffs

 Dr Coconut wrote:

Herbington wrote:

Dr Coconut wrote:Lager is not beer. Wrong yeast. Tastes of pee, anyway

Yes it is. It's not Ale though. Lager has a bottom-fermenting yeast, ale fermented at the top. They generally ferment at different temperatures too. But they are both beer yeasts.

Different yeast, different key ingredients, different method.... might as well put cider and wine in the same category too.

Look up the reinheitsgebot.

Lager: Barley, Hops, Yeast, Water
Ale: Barley, Hops, Yeast, Water

Both beers. Cider and wine have very different recipes.

You can say what you like about lager. I dislike most types, but they are undeniably beer.

Nothing wrong with a lager in certain situations, same as nothing wrong with an ale. For example on a hot sunny day with a bbq I'd much rather have a bottle of stella than a warm pint of hobgoblin, but painting on an autumn evening I'd probably take the ale.

Everything has its place, I get folks have preferences but don't make like you're better than others because you prefer something different.