Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

Just had a bottle of this. It's pretty good and a bargain at 3 quid for 2 bottles.

can we have a beer tasting ride?

Yes please.

Enjoying a mocha beer, brewed by batemans for M&S, it's very tasty. I also have a winter IPA and porter for later, and a left over tin of red stripe if needed.

a couple of cold bottles of newcy brown, very satisfying

Was almost tempted by a Blackberry Mild this evening. A small taster put me right off, yuk.

a couple of cold bottles of newcy brown, very satisfying

filth!

Went to the launch of the Hops and Glory (Was George Orwell) on Eseex road. Thanks to JCGarcia for the excellent cellar including and some well kept Dark Star beer, Redemption Trinity and some wonderful Keg Beer (Brodies sour peach anyone?) and Chimmay. Amazing range of bottles in including variety of Trappist bottles and the new London beer Partizan beer .
Well worth a visit. Good seeing many forum folk there too.

Oh and you can take bikes into the pub

"Red-Nosed Rodent", from the Rat Brewery (linked to Ossett Brewery).
Quite dark, sweet + spicy. A most enjoyable lunchtime.

Merry Hic-mas everyone.

Had a De Molen Mout & Mocca as a treat yesterday, pretty damn good.

Oakham Ales Dreamcatcher is delicious. Also 6.9%.

+1 to JCgarcia and Hops & Glory I had this yesterday and it was delicious and a bit dangerous at 10.2%:

Shame pubs in London don't know how to pour a pint. A trip up to Manchester over Christmas reminded me what it's like to have ale poured properly with a decent head. Improves the taste no end.

+1 but it ain't just London where you don't get a proper head. It's the little plastic sparkler they screw onto the pump that creates it. Next time your up north find a friendly local landlord and ask if they've a spare and take it with you to the pub down south. It's quite amusing watching bar staff struggling to pull a pint when they've fitted it!
Does anyone know where the north/south beer devide begins? I know in Cambridge they serve flat/headless beer and derby its served with a proper head. But there's a lot of milage between that I'm not sure about.

Our local vicar tried that once in London. The landlady told him in no uncertain terms where he could stick his sparkler.

Seams like she's not a very good business woman. A northern pint with 10mm of head is about 40ml short of 568ml. You'd get an extra 5 pints per firkin which in London money is about £20.

+1 but it ain't just London where you don't get a proper head. It's the little plastic sparkler they screw onto the pump that creates it. Next time your up north find a friendly local landlord and ask if they've a spare and take it with you to the pub down south. It's quite amusing watching bar staff struggling to pull a pint when they've fitted it!
Does anyone know where the north/south beer devide begins? I know in Cambridge they serve flat/headless beer and derby its served with a proper head. But there's a lot of milage between that I'm not sure about.

It's not just that. The bar staff don't give the first pull enough force to generate a bit of fizz. Northern barmaids have massive biceps.

You'd have thought one of the oh-so trendy craft beer pubs would have nailed it by now.

One of the few places you do get a good pint in London is in Sam Smiths pubs. Also had a lovely pint of Ruddles in Wetherspoons when I was waiting for my Chinese takeaway the other day.

I've turned into my dad haven't I?

Tasty.

Can't be bothered to search this thread but Beer Citizen is a very good beer reviewing app. Unusually it's not a US only one, it seems to truly support global beers!

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Dark Star have their Winter Ales available at the moment (well, dur...)

However this stuff is gorgeous!

Very smooth, very alcoholic, very fruity (raisins is the overwhelming taste) and very expensive at £6 a pint.

^ where? £6 a pint for that stuff can be considered cheap :P

Went to the launch of the Hops and Glory (Was George Orwell) on Eseex road. Thanks to JCGarcia for the excellent cellar including and some well kept Dark Star beer, Redemption Trinity and some wonderful Keg Beer (Brodies sour peach anyone?) and Chimmay. Amazing range of bottles in including variety of Trappist bottles and the new London beer Partizan beer .
Well worth a visit. Good seeing many forum folk there too.

Oh and you can take bikes into the pub

I lived near that pub a few years back. always empty. closed down i seem to remember. nice to see that it is still around.

^^^the Kings Arms on roupell st, Waterloo had Dark Star I.S. on before Xmas.
Had two very enjoyable pints of it.

^ where? £6 a pint for that stuff can be considered cheap :P

It was at the Brighton Craft Beer Co. They have two pubs in London so they may well have it there too.