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It is a nice beer that, I have to say. Even if it is from Edinbugger.

(Don't tell TJ I said so though...)

My fave at the moment is Banana Bread Beer. They chuck in nana's as they brew it. Has an after taste of those foam banana sweet you had as a kid. One after a ride is a nice treat!

Well, I have just cracked open a bottle, yes a [b]bottle[/b] no less, of London Pride. London beer for a London gal. 😀

20% off in TSY's favourite supermarket - Waitrose. 8)

I did buy two, is that being greedy?

Halfway down a Hobgoblin , mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Just waiting for a mate to pick me up for the Friday night pub trip; there's a couple of pints of Adnams Broadside waiting with my name on... 😀

I've just had the most astonishing beer - Innis & Gunn - it hardly touched the sides, poss. the best beer I've ever had!

I was in Sainsburys today and I remembered this, so I bought some (special offer, 2 of the 750ml bottles for £6). I thought it was disgusting! Far too sweet, not much in the way of hops. There were some interesting flavours in there, but overall the syrupy taste overwhelmed them. Just goes to show everyone is different, I guess.

1wg - badger hopping hare is (unsurprisingly) ded hoppy and v nice and was on offer last time I was in

Its awful. Take an awful oaked chardonnay and then try innis and gunn and you can barely tell the difference. Its little more than flavored alcho pop for the masses IMO

I've been going back on an American beer kick. Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada, Flying Dog... top stuff

well, Spitfire was only £1 a bottle so my visit to Sainsbury's wasn't entirely wasted.

Had a couple of really nice beers at a little festival on Saturday, at the Barge Inn, Honeystreet. Now owned and run by the local community along with the crop circle crowd, as it's near Alton Barnes, where a lot of formations show up. They do their own beer, Alien Abduction, which is green, and Croppie, which isn't. Really excellent brews, both of them, just a shame the thirty mile or so round trip makes it an expensive evening's drink.

Quite mainstream, but I had a couple of bottles of Ruddles County last night, always hits the spot.

That or Bishops Finger.

I thought it was disgusting!

It's possibly worth noting that there's different ones (at least three).

Thornbridge Jaipur, there is nothing finer.

This place is just down the road for me - http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/

All sorts in there...

Rachel

Banana Beer = Alcopop.

Its little more than flavored alcho pop for the masses IMO

Gimmick beer, like the banana bread one 🙄

lunge - Member
Thornbridge Jaipur, there is nothing finer.

Well, I beg to differ with that, as Summer Lightning is the finest there is, but Jaipur's indeed lovely. And available at Waitrose too, which is nice.

Anyone who likes their beer and is in London should check out one of my locals, however - http://www.caskpubandkitchen.com/ Simply the best range of beers (tap and bottle) that I have ever seen. Anywhere. Ever.

Its little more than flavored alcho pop for the masses IMO

Well, HEAVEN FORFEND that a person should like something that a lot of other people do... 🙄

I liked the Innis and Gunn, drank load of it when i was up it scotchland. Didn't know you could get it here. will be getting some in to break my lenten 'fast'

Didn't see the appeal of I&G myself.

Nothing wrong with a decent gimmick beer though, like Badger's Golden Champion/Glory.

You should all join the MyBreweryTap 52 Week Beer Club.

It's great - a box of beer sent to your door every few months - some crap, some good, some excellent, but you don't get to choose what you get so you end up tasting beers you wouldn't normally get (and all independent local micro/breweries).

Do I get a commission for that?

Nothing wrong with a decent gimmick beer though,

'tis the season....

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This place is just down the road for me - http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/

Thanks for reminding me of this place, been meaning to order some of the many Belgian beers I sampled last summer!

Doesn't have what was probably my favourite though - Duchesse de Bourgogne

When I first tried Innis & Gunn I too thought I had tasted perfection. Drank it on and off for a couple of years but now it does seem to be overly sweet. I wonder if it has changed or if I have?

my local (work local) are currently doing a very refreshing ale called Spring Sprinter - very nice for the current balmy climate
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don't like Innis & Gunn - far too sweet for anything over a half
real men drink porter

Well, I'm about to have a Kirin.

Summer Lightening I thought was very average. There I've said it.

When I die, I want to be buired with a case of Sneck Lifter.

http://www.jenningsbrewery.co.uk/beers/beer.aspx?bid=9

Drink this . . . .

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you will not be disappointed!

Ran out of normal beer / money early this month so cracked open a King and Barnes Christmas Ale from 1995! Its bottle conditioned too, so it started off at 6.5%, god knows what it is now! It was really nice and smooth too.
Was eyeing up my Thomas Hardy's Ale (1996) and other bottle of Christmas Ale (1994), but managed to restrain myself!
Both lovely beers, sadly they are no longer brewed and the Breweries closed approx 10 years ago. Shame shame shame!

just stocked up on Black Sheep and Thwaites Wainwright (current favourite)
both 4 for a Fiver in Tescos

Bigyinn, I have several such vintage bottles in the cellar, just trying to work out when to have them.

I felt guilty drinking it, as they are historical artefacts. Future generations may never get to savor a K&B BC 1995 Christmas Ale and its my fault.
Oh well.

BEER PSA!

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Currently £1 a bottle in Sainsburys! 8)

Chapeau Flashy! </me trundles off to stock up>

wtf is that green beer ?

scruff - Member
wtf is that green beer ?

Stonehenge Ales Sign of Spring. Lovely stuff, and am hoping to have a couple in the Malet over the weekend if Noel's got any on!

Brewed by that loveable loon, Stig at the old Bunces Brewery.

Tsk! You lot is, like WELL GAY

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Got this from Booths at the weekend, and supped it Tuesday night, nicest bottled beer I've had in a while....

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Sounds like something you'd have after a curry.

The morning after, that is.

Bah! Too late to the Malet, all the Sign of Spring had gone!

Never mind, though, cracking lunch and a few pints of good stuff (Including Stonehenge Heelstone!) on Sunday.

Good ale at the Star at Tytherley on Saturday evening as well. Some lovely stuff from Romsey brewery, forget the name though!

So, weekend beer highlights?

Down in the Test Valley for the w/e then CFH. Jealous! Beautiful part of the world.

Where were you, pies? It's fine country, isn't it? 🙂

This sunny weather I've been slurping many a bottle of this:
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And this:
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