Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

I discovered the Gouden Carolus this weekend it's really nice..

Triple Karmeliet is a firm favourite of mine

Sitting in Henley in the sweet sunshine, enjoying a lovely pint of Lovibonds 69 IPA, very nice drop. Lovibonds brewery tasting rooms, nice to pop over to when I'm back at my girlfriends parents house, worth a trip if you're in the area!

Any Pitfield brewery fans? All theirs I've tried are great, including the mighty Hartman & Scherrer Steam Beer recipe.

I find pitfield to be very hit n miss, had a few utter rank pints from them

today though, being back home in Sweden, i had a pint of Oppigårds Spring Ale

damn nice!

Every pub i've been in over the holidays has had Doom Bar. Is Cornwall trying to invade London by stealth?

No, but you are not far off.

The brand has now been sold to Millers (SAB )

The brewery was brought by a couple of marketing people a couple of years back who were clear that their business plan was to create a national brand and the sell it on. This they have done.

Don't be surprised to see the brewery eventually move from Rock.

lovely stuff

I have found that honey beers are a nice introduction to beer/ale, for ladies that normally don't go for the stuff.
A freezing one on a hot day is marvellous.

lovely stuff

this is better though:

I can dig Waggle Dance, but find Honey Dew a little more palatable over the course of a dozen few bottles.

Humdinger is good if you can't find waggle dance

this is better though:

need to find that. I only bought the waggle dance because it was in the offy opposite my house.

The Nisa(?) next to LMNH sells it. One of my favourite bottled ales. Banana flavour, without being too fruity or sweet.

If we're talking fruity ales then this is well worth a try.
I'm never usually a fan of novelty choconanacoffeebubblegum ales but Golden Glory blew me away.
Refreshing peach an melon taste that still manages to taste like a hoppy light session ale as well.

Big vote for this ^ very nice!

Agreed. This stuff is delicious, although I've also been underwhelmed by the odd bottle or two - maybe they vary a bit?
Morrisons does it and it's included in the 4 for a fiver or whatever the offer is

I didn't believe it was 9.5% but this reckons it is:
http://ciceronito.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/zywiec-porter/

Quite a bit sweeter than I expected and none of the alco burn you get with high alcohol content wino beers. Mal wouldn't touch a second drop so it must be good. Would drink again.

Mmmm, looks good. BringMeMyBottle, please :)

viven brun. not had it before, remarkably similar to meantime chocolate ale, a glass of tripel karmelet too. which was nice.

Mmmm, looks good. BringMeMyBottle, please :)

I'd never seen them before (not over here anyway).
I cycled past the Zywiec brewery (didn't stop, it's on the list of places to visit next time).
I will see if I can find some in Londontown and let you know. Most of the Poles I know only drink lagers and vodka.

They fail.

FTFY: They fall.

I don't know if anyone tried this ale before, I'm just looking on the internet and I quite like the layout on the bottle, anyone knows something?