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Jennings. Surely the best brewery in the UK
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Posted 7 months ago #
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I,m slowly get weaned on most of these drinks
http://www.hawksheadbrewery.co.uk/prod_list.asp?catid=26Posted 7 months ago # -
They're no Hop back, Stonehenge, Dark Star, Plain Ales, Downtown or Mikkeller though, are they?
(Last one is a bit of a trick, as he doesn't have a brixks and mortar brewery. The tequila or red wine barrel aged black is astonishing, though! Seek out the Monks Elixir Cranberry at all costs!)
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Jennings are a bit bland really, I think there are better breweries around.
Badgers are worse, not a fan.
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Tent up then off to sun inn pooley bridge for a pint of sneck lifter
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Cranberry? In beer? NO!
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Bland? BLAND????? That's subtlety you philistine!!!!!
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Sam Smiths FTW
You've got less chance of people agreeing on a brewery than a bike brand.
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Sam Smiths for the cheapest pint in york.
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Liquid, try it before you dismiss it. Simply astonishing.
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Harviston FTW
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Best brewery for standard beer here in west yorkshire os Timothy Taylors I reckon. But there are loads of interesting breweries knocking about. Sammy Smiths is ok, but a lot of their pubs let the ale turn to vinegar before serving the stuff. Agree that Jennings is bland, except for Snecklifter, of course. Beer is good, thats the moral of the story.
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TJ, Harviestoun is good ale, but since they were bought out by Caledonian they taste the same. Still decent though. Now Brewdog are an ace Scottish brewery. Got a new pub in Edinburgh I believe.
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Agree with Brewdog, fantastic beers, bit strong for sessioning though.
Wye Valley make some fantastic beers, everyone a gem, especially Dorothy Goodbody's Wholesome Stout... Until recently my favourite stout. That was however before I tasted Hardknott's Dark Matter, so dark that light doesn't pass through...
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I live in the same town as the Jennings brewery...I went for a weekend away in Yorkshire and was gutted the local pub was a Jennings one!
The Coniston brewery ales are much better in my opinion.Posted 7 months ago # -
Not fond of brewdog. Bitter and twisted is my fave beer
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Batemans...no contest!
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If your lucky enough to live in Yorkshire or Lancashire then Pictish is where it's at.
If your also lucky enough to live in Bradford (things you never thought you would say!) then Saltaire Brewery is worth a trip on the last Friday of the month
Jennings - just average at best
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So many to choose from!
Badger do some wonderful Summer beers in Golden Champion and Golden Glory. However some of the Theakstones brews are hard to beat.
Obviously I'm not going to be as "niche for niche sake" as some...
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Bitter and twisted is akin to a hop soup with a dash of vodka added. Not pleasant ime. Each to their own though.
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Wasn't that impressed with the Brewdog stuff I tried either, decent enough but nothing special.
I'd sooner have a Hobson's Town Crier.
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I used to work for Jennings so I may be biased but I really love a Cumberland Ale or Cocker Hoop. Superb
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Badger really is not very good at all and I come from Dorset. IMO The Black Sheep Brewery in Masham is the best. If you had desert island beers then their Black sheep would be the one.
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there is just such a choice right now, so many beers to choose, so little time.
as a session bitter Salopian's Shropshire Gold takes some beating
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Shropshire Gold is a very good beer!
If you can find it though, the best session ale is Hobson's Twisted Spire, only 3.6% but loads of flavour.
Too much choice at the moment. Jennings wouldn't be in desert island beers though. Not bad, but nowt special...
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Saltaire Brewery is of course not in Saltaire. It's in Shipley. But aside from that, their Cascade Pale Ale is very nice.
Leeds Brewery Pale Ale is also very nice.
Copper Dragon (Skipton) do a nice "Golden Pippin" which is nothing to do with apples.
And the other Masham brewery's Old Peculier is amazing at the brewery tap itself
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Sneck Lifter..... love it, wish it was easier to get down here. Oh to live in the Lakes..... one day maybe.
Sharps Doom Bar also gets my vote.
Maybe I like both of these cos I first had them on holiday in great pubs
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I was in a pub an hour a go, that had shropshire gold and doom bar, I had four pints of shropshire gold, and I really like doom bar.
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Coniston Bluebird FTW.
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Out of my way out of my way....
Right.
There can be no such thing as 'the best brewery in the UK', as they're all making lovely healthy nutritious beer, what is good for you and that. So, we need many many breweries making lots and lots of lovely beer.
One brewery simply cannot produce enough beer to go round, so we need loads of them to quench our thirst for this wonderful energy drink.
What a preposterous statement to suggest one brewery is better than any other. Ridiculous, and indeed, blasphemous.
Two which are worthy of an Onerable Menshun, in my onion, are these:
All breweries need our support. Drink British.
I really like doom bar.
It is possible I may well have had a few pints of that lovely beer tonight...
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Copper Dragon"Golden Pippin" is a little cracker
But for me Moorhouses "Pride of Pendle" hmmmmmmmmm
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I like the Witches Brew too
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Witches Brew though superb makes your back legs give way, but from the bottom up !!
Posted 7 months ago # -
there is no 'best brewery' this country is blessed with many great ones.
marble, meantime and thornbridge are my current favorites (amongst others) this changes week by week.
Posted 7 months ago # -
make room.. Far Yarkshire's Finest... Timothy Taylor a brace of Landlord followed up by half a dozen Golden Best will make our lass more attractive than 8 gallon of Nivea ever could
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