Unwritten rules of riding fixed

Yes! Sam Smiths. Can't beat it. And the Captain Kidd is my local. asm I can associate, they raised the price of the alpine lager from £1.97 to £1.99 at the start of the year. Bloody outrageous :D

Though currently my favourite beer is either Greenwich Meatime Coffe Beer or Innis & Gunn.

Eew.. tried that GMT coffee beer (as I like coffee and beer) but they don't go. The coffee taste was burnt coffee not nice coffee and yeah well.. bin.
I have a bottle of Innis & Gunn in the cupboard. It's in a box.. can't really remember what it is. Also some bottle I bought because of the cool black cat on it. :)

What is CAMRA and how can it possibly give someone the authority to dismiss samuel smiths as "utter shit"

In a box... you got the "limited edition" version. Very nice. It's brewed in whisky barrels, quite sweet but awesome flavour.

Coffee beer is great. Though when they first made it it had somethinglike two shots of espresso in each bottle, and managed to complety fuck everyone up who drank it. Like the beardy version of vodka and red bull.

asm What is CAMRA and how can it possibly give someone the authority to dismiss samuel smiths as "utter shit"

CAMpaign for Real Ale - google it.

photoben In a box... you got the "limited edition" version. Very nice. It's brewed in whisky barrels, quite sweet but awesome flavour.

That's the one. Whisky barrels eh? New there was a reason I bought it. Always looking for something different.
I have a huge Waitrose near me that sells loads of imported beer and local ales and ciders. Top notch!

Coffee beer is great. Though when they first made it it had somethinglike two shots of espresso in each bottle, and managed to complety fuck everyone up who drank it. Like the beardy version of vodka and red bull.

It really was horrible. Maybe I'll try it again some time to see if they've worked out the coffee ratio..

CAMRA is campaign for real ale.

hey jv, what would you suggest then? i want at least 500ml for less than 2quid.

fixed riding rule #113
drink over handlebars whilst riding, especially in westminster

this is the one and only one i adhere to

hippy what's your WPM on the keyboard dammit

edmundane CAMRA is campaign for real ale.
hey jv, what would you suggest then? i want at least 500ml for less than 2quid.
fixed riding rule #113
drink over handlebars whilst riding, especially in westminster
this is the one and only one i adhere to

Buy from an offie (better yet supermarket or bulk!). Drink at home like all the classy people do.

edmundane hippy what's your WPM on the keyboard dammit

Faster than yours :P

Ahh, waitrose, so good to me with the selection of beer. Sierra nevada pale ale also highly recommended

guys that's no real ale!

It's all beer right? What's the problem?

Fixie unwritten rule #14 - Drink Sam Smiths.

Love the stuff. What's even better is taking my dumb friends to Sam Smiths pubs. "What do you want?" "Pint of Fosters" "They don't do Fosters" "Carling then" "They don't do Carling" "What do they do then?" "Sam Smiths stuff" "Eh?" "It's a Sam Smiths pub" "err... I'll have a lager then"

I once asked a friend to get me a wheat beer at a Sam Smiths place and he came back with something else, I asked what it was and he said "I got a weak beer like you asked for". Wheat beer goddammit, not weak beer!

photoben It's all beer right? What's the problem?

beer snobbery. it's the one thing worse than bike snobbery.

Shutting yer c*ck in a car door.

That's worse than beer snobbery or bike snobbery.

you should not drive nacked.

Weak beer! Classic. Their wheat beer is better than hoegaarden.

mdja [quote]photoben It's all beer right? What's the problem?

beer snobbery. it's the one thing worse than bike snobbery.[/quote]
Too right. Good beer is great, but sometimes leaning on your bike on some street corner drinking a can of Fosters is great.

Sam Smiths pubs are a no-no. It has to be guinness for me, the G, nothing else will do. will only be in a sam smith's pub if it is a best mates important birthday and can't really not. like someone's 30th in the Captain Kidd recently. problem is i have to drink wine then, and in the same quantities were it the G.

You drink one draught? Sounds pretty limiting.

sam smiths pubs are pubs for beer drinkers.
uk brewed euro lager and shitty gassed bitter are available just about anywhere. smiths do hand drawn ale at cheap prices. and their lagers are way better than the fosters/carling crap served in most pubs.

i dont consider myself a beer snob, just a connoisseur, the beer equivalent of miles in sideways.

real ale: hobgoblin or fiddlers elbow

euro/lager: budvar or chimay

misc: desperados tequila beer or innis & gunn (6.6% not the limited 7.7%)

samuel smith: rather drink gash juice.

jv samuel smith: rather drink gash juice.

do you really think its that bad??

I'm a bit of a beer snob too and I was impressed with the lagers they have (haven't tried the ales yet). Last time I was in one, they had a german lager from a micro brewery near where my mate live sin Munich. it was outstanding!

Maybe I need to do more Sam Smiths research!

Innis & Gunn - lovely with steak ( http://www.innisandgunn.com/index.htm )

Sam Smith - I only drink in them by accident (?), although the Capt. Kidd is quite a nice place on the river (better than the brewery tap by tower bridge), but the bitter, whilst I can drink it, doesn't sit well in the stomach afterwards; the wheat beer is nice though, alpine lager acceptable, but don't like their stout

current favourite is deuchars IPA or bishops finger, although i've no objection to slumming it with a red stripe if needs must

my curry recommendation is the empress on leman street, E1 8EY( http://www.theempress.co.uk/index.php?page=home )

i'm a beer snob and would still rather drink in a smiths pub instead of the usual choices of john smiths and fosters, piss beer for those who don't like the taste of alcohol.