Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

just over 6000 unique beers

And you're still young, so you're well on your way. :)

Aye many times. It's a blast! They're all great places. Big Penny is a sight to behold - it's vast. Signature is pretty cool for live sport/music. Exhale great for a late one. Tonnes on offer in terms of beer. Wildcard used to be my favourite, but I'm pretty keen on Pretty Decent. Plenty of food options across the places - good pizza and BBQ.

Many times, I started going up there when there were only two breweries. I usually walk round the north reservoir and cut off at the top which brings you out near Hackney and Wild Card. Then walk down from there.

I'm not a fan of Signature, although most seem to be, but there are plenty to go at.

I’ve only done 4 of them This would be a good forum alldayer, maybe without the bike though…

The naming of these two Lidl beers seems a bit iffy.

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Should be good

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I'm appreciating Co-op's two bombers of Staropramen for a fiver offer at the moment.

Smoked beer is rank

Is it the Czech or Carling stuff?

Annoyingly UK brewed. It'll do in this weather.

Depends, smoked porters and stouts I'm in. German style beers that tasted like someone's dropped a slab of smokey bacon and cheese in, not so much.

TBF it was a German one that went down the drain that time

Nice video about porter

https://youtu.be/ZKDwwVR5fd4?feature=shared

Bloody great if you like this sort of thing.

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Do any supermarkets sell minikegs?
got friends of my wife coming round the weekend and I will likely need beer to get through it, don't want to break out the good stuff to almost strangers, so thought a keg or 2 of something pleasant would be a good alternative (London Pride, Broadside, something like that?)
Likely too late for an online order so need to go collect it from a shop (Also am in south Essex, so no good microbreweries near by)

I think the supermarkets tried mini keg beer and no-one would buy it

Have you got a Majestic nearby?

I’ve had Ghost Ship (v drinkable imo) in mini kegs from Morrisons.

I vaguely remember seeing them previously, but not in my local Tesco, probably why.

No Majestic "near" but I could probably get to one without too much trouble.

Morrisons is the only Supermarket that is a faff to get to near me (its on Canvey, and no one wants to go to Canvey)

Do any supermarkets sell minikegs?

The ones in France do :)

Why not be a normal and just buy cartons of piss lager? Or do you have a bar at home?

Feeling fancy

I fear buying shit lager will mean I am left with shit lager in the fridge.

Will likely go and stock up on bottles of Golden Pride and be done with it.
If they don't like it, there is a Lidl over the road

If you want decent supermarket lager - look no further than Aldi’s Steinhauser. One of the vanishingly thin range of German-brewed beers you can get at supermarkets.

I fear buying shit lager will mean I am left with shit lager in the fridge.

Join the shandy chat in whatever thread that was...

I'd nip to Lidl and see if they've got any minikegs on. Pretty sure they were doing 5-litre kegs of their German lager (Perlensteiner?), which IIRC is pretty good. If you're near an Aldi, you can't go wrong with their Rheinbacher.

Do you not have an offie that does nice(r) beer?