Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

^the thinking person's Special Brew.

Outstanding Stout is exactly that.

Also, there's a place in Todmorden does some great beer and stout in bottles only. It's also an art place too.

Re the Lambics gotta be Timmermans - girlfriend drinks the fruit beers and that's her fave. Think they brew using use fruit rather than adding it after or something?

Timmermans! love their peach one, though you quickly have too much

I've had wheat beer with fresh strawberry in once, surprisingly good.

Dead animal beer bottles at £500 each 'perverse'

A beer served in bottles made from stuffed animals has been criticised as "perverse" and "pushing the boundaries of acceptability".

The End of History, made by BrewDog of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, is 55% and £500 a bottle.

The bottles have been made using seven dead stoats, four squirrels and a hare, said to be roadkill.

Not sure if this is win or fail but I wouldn't mind a swig.

"right, we need some sort of totally pointlessly "shocking" gimmick to get us in the paper... ummmmmm"

brewdog will pull any old stunt for a headline

had a belated "suicide tuesday" experience on wednesday and tried to dull the gnawing horror with ale. it didn't work. it went:

1 tanglefoot watching tour highlights
1 snecklifter while cooking
1 ballard's wassail after eating

then back to the shop for

1 something else by the same brewery as what makes snecklifter
1 haymaker to top the whole lot off

passed out with my head by the blaring radio having locked girlfriend out.

not a happy occasion.

awesome work. i always get what i term 'fire burps' after drinking ale so avoid it these days

Finest Ale I've had in a long time is Dr. Hexter's Healer by West Berkshire Brewing Co. Good Old Boy by same brewery is very good too... Also a regular drinker of Sierra Nevada Brewery's Torpedoe IPA (special offer in my local off-licence, four for €10) and Brooklyn Brewery Brown Ale... Can't get a good Ale in Irish pubs at all aside from Smithwick's which I'm fond of...

The nicest and most refreshing lager I've had in a terribly long time though is Kasteel Cru, brewed in Alsace using Champagne yeast, very crisp, dry and deliciously refreshing!

Jans - Stoke Newington

Quite partial to this at the moment, really hoppy and light tasting, quite similar to Swift One.

Anybody drink mead? I know its a honeyed-wine of sorts, but I rather fancy trying an authentic drink from the ancient days. The history of mead is quite interesting actually.

http://www.meadmadecomplicated.org/history/history.html
http://www.lindisfarne-mead.co.uk/History.aspx
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead[/ame] (Wiki)

[URL="http://www.lindisfarne-mead.co.uk/History.aspx"][/URL] Lindisfarne is one of the few UK makers of the stuff, that is still ongoing. I shall get some in, give it a merry bash, and report back afterwards. ;)

The nicest and most refreshing lager I've had in a terribly long time though is Kasteel Cru, brewed in Alsace using Champagne yeast, very crisp, dry and deliciously refreshing!

Had a bottle in LMNH's recently tasted like beer at first but then the hints of wine began to appear towards the end. Nice beer, maybe not for a whole night or a big session but nice to try something different.

worth a tipple

also +1 for IPA

worth a tipple

also +1 for IPA

you've got to love suffolk, i spent most of my summers in southwold as a little kid, keep meaning to go back to visit the brewery

their carbon neutral is light and tasty!

Adnams bitter is the drink of the gods, lovely stuff.

I am almost ashamed of myself, except that I'm not. ;) On the way home from being out, I stopped at my local corner shop to pick up a few things.

On the beer shelf I'd noticed a couple Polish beers that I hadn't seen before. Though they were in cans (and I try to avoid canned beers) I bought a couple to try.

One is called DEBOWE MOCNE, and the other is called WARKA. The first was 7%abv beer, and the latter, less strong.

So far I've tried the DEBOWE MOCNE and its not bad. Certainly it goes down like a strong beer, but it isn't sweet like the park-bencher's favourites. I had it super cold. Nicer that way.

Certainly it goes down like a strong beer, but it isn't sweet like the park-bencher's favourites.

Why is it that loads of the super strengths smell like bananas and taste sweet?

Maybe all the sugar DIDN'T turn to alcohol, so the rest remained as pure sugar? It's just a guess, not like I really knew the answer.

http://www.lfgss.com/thread16140.html

Glad to see Suffolk beers making yet more appearances in this thread..

If you're after a classic bitter have a go at one of these:

I am almost ashamed of myself, except that I'm not. ;)
On the way home from being out, I stopped at my local corner shop to pick up a few things.

On the beer shelf I'd noticed a couple Polish beers that I hadn't seen before. Though they were in cans (and I try to avoid canned beers) I bought a couple to try.

One is called DEBOWE MOCNE, and the other is called WARKA. Both are 7% and 7.1%abv respectively.

So far I've tried the DEBOWE MOCNE and its not bad. Certainly it goes down like a strong beer, but it isn't sweet like the park-bencher's favourites. I had it super cold. Nicer that way.

Ah, you've not had the Polish tramp juice before? I'm surprised :)
Mocne=strong btw (I think).

Nah, they're ok.. just. Warka is better. I assume it was the Warka Strong?
It's brewed by Zywiec a place near where Mal's from that I'm yet to visit.

They have adnams on tap at the norths drinks, didn't look to see if they had any of the others, i was too excited about seeing adnams on tap in London, its been ages since i could get my hands on any

Glad to see Suffolk beers making yet more appearances in this thread..

If you're after a classic bitter have a go at one of these:
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Ill keep my eyes open for that.
Any idea if anywhere south of the river has this?

This place seems to have everything, and if not, I'm sure they could get it.

http://www.mrlawrencewinemerchant.co.uk/id18.html