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My wife tuts and casts her disdainful harpy eye over me when I walk in the house with a clinky bag full of beer bottles.
To keep her moderately appeased I now approach my at home drinking in a machiavellian manner by buying a few small bottles of rocket fuel aka: Belgian beers.
I only have access to the usual suspects (Duvel, Chimay Rouge and occasionally Blanche, Leffe, Tripel Karmeliet). This stuff is the shit. Drinking a strong, flavoursome beer slowly from a wine glass (thus furthering the deceit) is good for my dipsomania and less damaging to my marriage.
This is not without it's dangers though. Bedford has a great beer festival (probably the only reason to pay a visit) with a dedicated belgian beer bar. Considering myself slightly elevated above the Tyro, I got stuck in with lager swilling abandon. In short order I was larrup'd and upon getting home, in the doghouse.
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Love Badger beer,
Poacher's Choice, and Blandford Fly are my current favourites.
Adamns Broadside is wonderful, as is Titanic Deckchair but they only make that for the big beer festivals. Abbot Ale is quite nice, and well kept London Pride has a fruitiness that makes it the only choice sometimes. -
tonight I'm enjoying a cold Bishops Finger.
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Everards- Tiger
Everards- Sundance
Bath- Gem
Bath- Spar
Landlord
Ringwood
DOOM BAR!!!!!
6X (beware the most evil hangover ever though)
Hooky -
ESB is good too, not one for a school night though.
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yes, ales!
if anyone is ever in edinburgh, head to cloisters bar on Brougham St, two standard ales and 7 guest ales, changing every week (in addition to a good selection of whisky). very very nice watering hole.
my favourites:
Trade Winds - Cairngorm brewery
Gem - Bath Ales
Cyclops - Milton brewery
Sparta - Milton brewery
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I think ale explains cycle touring.
It's the only way you can go on a reeeeally long rural pub crawl, for days, weeks at a time and still make good distance.
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most definitely. one of the best parts of my ride to bath was the discovery of Bath Ales.
when we were in avebury we met a guy in the red lion (pub in the centre of avebury, good place) who does almost excactly that. he just rides in a different direction every weekend, finds a decent pub as it gets dark, camps for the night, and heads home!
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Off the top of my head. Two ales I have enjoyed this weekend.
+1 for Deuchars - by far the best of the more commonly-found ales IMO...
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@ bobs dids
must agree with you there fella
was having a debate with a mate last night about the pros and cons of british and belgian beers
although i do love a pint of good british beer when in the lake district and sitting by the canal after a hard game of polo but i must admit the belgian beers are a step above british beers triple karmeliet is one of the nicest beers ever even at 9% it still tastes lovely
had three bottles of belgian beer last night all had a fullness of flavour you just don't find in the british stuff
slag me of if you will over the distain shown to british beers but i would have belgian anyday
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DOOM BAR!!!!!
+1
Doom Bar's my second favorite Cornish beer.
Tinners is number 1!
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@ bobs dids
must agree with you there fella
was having a debate with a mate last night about the pros and cons of british and belgian beers
although i do love a pint of good british beer when in the lake district and sitting by the canal after a hard game of polo but i must admit the belgian beers are a step above british beers triple karmeliet is one of the nicest beers ever even at 9% it still tastes lovely
had three bottles of belgian beer last night all had a fullness of flavour you just don't find in the british stuff
slag me of if you will over the distain shown to british beers but i would have belgian anyday
sorrywell, it's fine, but they're just different things. it's like comparing lager and ale.
sometimes you really want a lager. you wouldn't want to down a pint of chimay on a hot summers afternoon, and that's what ale is for. -
@ bobs dids
must agree with you there fella
was having a debate with a mate last night about the pros and cons of british and belgian beers
although i do love a pint of good british beer when in the lake district and sitting by the canal after a hard game of polo but i must admit the belgian beers are a step above british beers triple karmeliet is one of the nicest beers ever even at 9% it still tastes lovely
had three bottles of belgian beer last night all had a fullness of flavour you just don't find in the british stuff
slag me of if you will over the distain shown to british beers but i would have belgian anyday
sorryGood man! I've had a couple of british beers that rival the Belgians for flavour (Old Tom and Brakspear Triple, both strong). I'm sure there's a good few out there.
They do require discipline though!
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but a nice cold cider ?
As long is it's not the Bulmers / Magners crap cider exactly the same as strongbow just 1.5 times the price.
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Brakspear Triple is nice, very fruity, very strong. i have a bottle in the cellar, i believe.
Get you with your cellar!
You made a good point about 'lighter' beers though. If anything (being a blouse)when I'm having a good drink, I'd like a weaker beer than usually available. Some real ale pubs will do a decent cask ale in the low three's, but they seem rare. Low % beers just don't seem marketable.
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Sounds nice diki.
Meantime brewery (Greenwich) does a really nice stout. They also do a chocolate beer, I tried a sip but it was not to my liking.
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If I can't get a decent ale or stout I go for this too. The lagers sold in the uk are shit (odd exception in some expensive bars), special brew tastes no worse than any of the stella / Krony e.t.c lot so may as well get on one that requires less drinking.