Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

It'd have to be fucking brilliant for me to pay that regularly - a taster night would be an exception. There's a tonne of cheaper stuff that I already enjoy and if the rest of the budget is for Belgian brews :)

On Saturday Beavertown are taking over the pumps at the Black Heart in Camden

I for one will be trying them all

£40 for them all...

Hipster tax?

Had a bottle of Moorhouse Blonde Witch, really splendid. £1.50 at Morrisons I'll have more

I found Questors Grapevine bar last night:

http://www.questors.org.uk/microsite.aspx?ref=276&page=276

The Grapevine is a friendly club bar that serves the Members and Friends of The Questors Theatre and their guests, as well as visiting companies and audience members. The club is open seven nights a week and Sunday lunchtimes and is managed and staffed entirely by volunteers. We are the proud holders of a Cask Marque award for the quality of our real ales, we appear in the 2014 edition of The Good Beer Guide and were CAMRA National Club of the Year 2012. We are currently holding our Autumn Beer Festival - the full list of beers can be found here. We also provide a range of draught lagers and ciders, as well as wines and spirits - all at very reasonable prices.

They had a beer festival on so I tried a few:
http://www.questors.org.uk/microsite.aspx?ref=276&page=280

Buntingford Twitchell (3.8%) - Hertfordshire - Gold Bitter and Overall Silver Awards
Surrey Hills Ranmore Ale (3.8%) - Surrey - Joint Bronze Bitter **
Fyne Ales Jarl **(3.8%) - Argyll - Gold Golden Ale and Overall Bronze Awards
Great Orme Welsh Black (4.0%) - Conwy - Gold Mild
Purple Moose Glaslyn Ale (4.2%) - Gwynedd - Joint Bronze Best Bitter
Woodforde's Nelson's Revenge (4.5%) - Norfolk - Joint Bronze Best Bitter**
Kelburn Dark Moor** (4.5%) - Glasgow - Gold Winter Old Ale
Mordue Workie Ticket (4.5%) - North Shields - Gold Best Bitter
Castle Rock Screech Owl (5.5%) - Nottingham - Bronze Strong Bitter
Elland 1872 Porter (6.5%) - West Yorkshire - Gold Winter Porter and Overall Gold Awards

We also have a selection of bottled beers from Hanwell's Weird Beard (Black Perle and Mariana Trench)and Ellenberg's (Black Ale and Dark Smoky Wheat Beer) breweries. And, as a late addition, we have Gwynt y Ddraig Farmhouse Pyder - yes, made from a mixture of apples and pears. All at £2.50 a pint/bottle.

My favourite was Screech Owl, followed by the Porter.

http://www.camrgb.org/2012/09/castle-rock-brewery-screech-owl-5-5/

Goes to show you how tastebuds differ!

Just downloaded Untapped app. Photoben username. Currently drinking in the Craft Beer Social. My mate is drinking Holy Hoppin Hell - 9.7%!

Tried that and their other offerings at the Craft Beer fest this year.

Cromarty IPA, Brooklyn Brown Ale & Black Band (?) Porter at the beagle this arvo.

P.s. hippy did you try the pyder?

Was in the beagle on Sat night, I'm a big fan of the beagle pale in there, is it by Summer wine?. Also had something from Magic Rock, possibly the cannonball ipa? Was very good. Was also in Marble on Sunday, such a nice little bar/pub. Pint of Choc stout and a pint of best after 100 wet & windy miles was like heaven.

Cromarty IPA, Brooklyn Brown Ale & Black Band (?) Porter at the beagle this arvo.

P.s. hippy did you try the pyder?

No I was working from the list and forgot all about that and the bottles I had planned to buy.

My most favorite beer at the moment. It's beautiful!

No I was working from the list and forgot all about that and the bottles I had planned to buy.

no worries, pyder is rare but those I've tried have been pretty nice.

Was in the beagle on Sat night, I'm a big fan of the beagle pale in there, is it by Summer wine?. Also had something from Magic Rock, possibly the cannonball ipa? Was very good. Was also in Marble on Sunday, such a nice little bar/pub. Pint of Choc stout and a pint of best after 100 wet & windy miles was like heaven.

yeah, had the Cannonball IPA a while back, v.tasty. Not been Marble ages, but yes an ace place, need to visit them for some Xmas ales for at home.

They have Woodforde's Wherry as guest at my local. Amazing. Probably 10 years since I drank it lots in and around Blakeney for a week.

I was going to ask where your local is but at 3.8% it's a kids beer.

Or at least a "I'm really hammered so should try to sober up" beer.

Wherry is fantastic when kept well

Currently enjoying Crate breweries bottles, Best and Pale Ale, both fantastic

I was going to ask where your local is but at 3.8% it's a kids beer.

Woodstock Arms, went well with their nice fish n chips.

@snotty, my aptly named favorite beer is 3.6%.
Great sessioning beer.
Drank a lot of it last weekend, when down with the family, near the brewery.

I don't get session beers, why not drink a lot of a stronger beer and get more drunk?

^^^I've been there, it was quite nice.

^^ hangovers.

^ it is nicer than my geographic local looks, The Christie Fields

p.s. beer fest at manc velodrome in January:

http://manchesterbeerfestival.org.uk/

But there are always hangovers, if I drink a kids beer it just means having a few more pints than a full strength beer, there's no sense to it.

Currently enjoying Crate breweries bottles, Best and Pale Ale, both fantastic

Crate rocks. Dan used to grab them all the time when he was in Stratford.

I don't get session beers, why not drink a lot of a stronger beer and get more drunk?

I change to session beers when everyone else is unconcious and I'm feeling like I need to keep healthy...