Lots of interesting brews here. Just got in from the pub, had a couple of Bank's, really nice flavoursome beer, considering it's only 3.8 ABV. Had a couple of Top Hat's last night, 4.8ABV, and very tasty they were, too.

Corroded – you a former Adelaidean then? I prefer the Dark Ale, but hard to go wrong when most pubs here have Pale on tap whether a 'good' pub or not, beerwise. Way better than Fosters or kronenbourg choice many leave you with in most UK unless you are careful…

Waiting for a box of Australian (mainly South Australian at that) Microbrews to rock up this week – can't wait!

this in the fridge for a bit later…

Oh, and any Aussie based STWers, I recommend http://www.adelaidebiershop.com.au/home.php
for great service, great choice of interesting beers with lots of good SA micros in particular.

I am enjoying this stuff at the moment, delicious, and made in Scotland!!

Trashy Blonde is quite nice too:

Had a few afternoons recently in the North Bar in Leeds,drinking Schneider Edel-Weisse,can't seem to get it anywhere else in UK as it's brewed for the American market.Yum

Langy, we're emigrating to Adelaide in a month or so. The beer situation is the bit I've been dreading! Posting links like that will get you a drunken kiss! 😉

(Mind you, some of it seems a pit pricey!)

Anyone tried Tactical Nuclear Penguin?

Langy – no, just spend a lot of time in Aus, in Melbourne. As you say, got to love the fact there's such a great beer on tap so widely. Where's your box of beers coming from? All the way from SA?

Zokes – you have nothing to fear at all. There's a thriving microbrewery scene in Australia, more so than here I reckon. I wish you many warm, sunny evenings trying them!

EDIT: pricing – yes, some things, good beer included, are quite expensive. $15-16 for a six pack of Coopers from the local bottleshop. Other stuff is cheaper (eating out in Adelaide is good value) – I reckon it evens out, ruinous exchange rate notwithstanding.

Another fave brewery near Melbourne:

You bunch off sods. i rarely drink now, but I'm salivating at all these pictures. Trouble is – the wife's out shopping, I'm at home with the kids, I've no (decent) beer in the house, and I know it's after midday and theoretically permissable but i'm still in a pair of shorts and a scruffy t-shirt that i threw on at 7am when youngest decided to get up.

So I'm going to have to salivate a while longer…..

A current favourite but they only produce this for a limited time in the spring.

Local to me too. Very hoppy and refreshing.

Golden Champion (a bit fruity), Golden Glory (very fruity) and Tanglefoot (thick, rich and malty) are all great Badger beers though.

Ice-cold Cruzcampo in an iced glass – perfect on a hot day.
😕

Currently refreshing my throat in Brizzle area(l) is the lovely Butcombe Blonde – as refreshing as a refreshing thing and a lovely hoppy taste. Lager drinkers should give it a shot. Plus if anyone out of town is buying you one, you get to see the look on their faces when you ask them for a pint of "ButtCum" 🙂

DD,

We emptied a barrel of that in Spoons in York on my stag do the other week, lager drinkers 'n' all!

Hmmm, Butcombe….Yum!

Tonight's choices include this gem of a beer;

lager drinkers 'n' all!

That's the thing – any that I give a taste say it's lovely. What are you having then?, says I…"hmmm…a grolsch please mate".. 😐

Then again, there's this…oooh, I'm getting thirsty….slurp!

I don't feel very well today… 🙁

Beer is bad for you.

Ladies and beer are very, very bad for you…

Decent lager is lovely. I'm not one of those who religiously sticks to one type of beer and look down my nose at other types. I'm not a great fan of some ales, but others are lovely. I'm not a cider person, but I've drunk some amazing cider.

This is delicious on a hot summer's evening:

Tried this last week, just like drinking a slightly warm, vaguely alcoholic pint of very, very chocolaty chocolate milk.
T'was delicious. 🙂

A Bradfordian Brew! 😀

Your missus still round her sister's?

Currently refreshing my throat in Brizzle area(l) is the lovely Butcombe Blonde

[Mendip native]

Aaarrrghhh…. *Feels the pain of exile

[/Mendip native]

Thank Gawd this is readily available in my local Sainsburys.

Your missus still round her sister's?

Well, thanks to you, she won't be my missus for much longer, thank God. You've given me the perfect excuse to get rid, without it costing me a fortune, and taking ages. 😀

I'd get a DNA test done though if I were you. Knowing her, it could be bloody anyone's…. 😯

Knowing her, it could be bloody anyone's….

Wasn't me

Aye, and was on tap at the Fox and Goose in Hebden.
Veggie curry night as well – digestive system FAIL….

Just drink the stuff instead of taking/posting pics of it ya bunch ay pretentious pooofs!!

Some of my favourites……

Had a bottle of this the other day, very very nice…

chakaping, that's a man's beer! Awesome stuff, but pretty heavy on the numbers…!

Brakspear Triple… hic +3.

On a side note, Dirt Rag's beer column is always a great read.

This is very good local lager.

It went well with the gammon

I'm with deadly darcy. That whitsable bay is lovely too.
Oh and

Sandwich, does that really say "Suffolk Lager"? If so, I must find some to try! Where's it from? (Shop?)

I had one of those Brakspear Triples t'other day.

Very nice it was too, 7.2 and bottle conditioned no less 8)

But I'm really liking this at the moment…

You buggers! Could definitely go for a beer now. Might nip out for one when 24 has finished.

BUGGER!

Nice cold Tennents!

Feeling thirsty now thanks to all those pictures, hope all is well with you bikechain, still not had to use my new gore jacket yet 😀

It is from Suffolk (Coddenham Green) and available in two strengths the session one I had and the slighlty more pokey 5.2 version. The local Suffolk foodhalls have it in stock. Being a local brew I'm not sure how far it has migrated from these parts. Their website has an e-mail contact info@calvors.co.uk and they will let you know the local stockist to you. (The list is not up on the web yet!).

You bunch of beer tarts! 😉 😆

discovered this at the local beer festival this weekend, an addition to the other williams brothers finery. brewed in Alloa too, great stuff.

Back to the Farmers Arms in Muker in a couple of weeks………… 🙂
Life is good indeed.