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This may be a bit too obvious as a thread, but here goes anyway.
I have four nominations:
A pint of Buckley's Best in the Beaufort Arms in Kittle (Gower peninsula).
A pint of Marston's Burton Bitter in the Scotman's Pack in Hathersage (although committed the mortal sin of going back to attempt to recreate said perfect pint and it wasn't as good second time around).
A pint of hand-drawn Tetley's in some pub in Pudsey that had hand-made flouro card stars with black board marker on in the window that were advertising the food - you know the kind of place.
A pint of Young's Triple A in the Morpeth Arms in Pimlico.
These places have all probably changed by now, but at the time, I think these are the best pints I've had - what are yours?
A pint of Young's Triple A in the Morpeth Arms in Pimlico.
*Shakes head in despair*
Summer Lightning, on a summer's evening way back when, at the Swan in Enford.
Pretty much anything at Cask. The right pub in Pimlico. 😉
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Somewhere in Yorkshire.
Deuchars is hard to beat, very reliable.
Adnams Broadside at the Blue Bell Inn, Gringley-On-The-Hill is hard to beat.
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A [s]cool[/s] cold bottle of Cinco Estrellas [url= http://www.lacasonadeladehesa.es/ ]here[/url] after a long ride. Put it together with a bit of scran thrown together by Señor Berrendero. (Just seen the buggers are using MY photos!!!! Grr! 😀 ).
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any pint of abbotts ale i ever had from the dolphin in Derby. it was in my student days so it must have been good to be able to remember it. best served with a regal king size.
That'll be at the Wino's Arms in some allotments somewhere will it? 🙂
When we were students we once created the world's most lethal snakebite and black with Special Brew and White Lightning. The result was only just palatable, with horrendous consequences - firstly on the bowel, then on the the head. Let's not go off-topic, though - I'm really quite keen to hear of some really good pint out 'there'.
The Pimlico one might have something to do with context - being bought beer by my old man after going to the first day of the Oval tests each summer - it really was sunnier in those days............
Don, the Cinco is my fave tipple after riding in Spain. Lovely stuff.
Another I have thought of - Stonehenge Ales Heelstone, from the brewery tap. *Waves at Stig!*
The Pimlico one might have something to do with context - being bought beer by my old man after going to the first day of the Oval tests each summer - it really was sunnier in those days............
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If you come back to this part of the world, though, Cask is where it's at. In a big way. 🙂
Amazingly, the 'good-times' synapses in my brain are firing now and I have another one.
A pint of Woodford's Wherry in a pub in Wells-Next-the-Sea, that I cannot remember the name of - or that very same pint when they had it on at my local (I say local, with two kids, a full-time job and a MTB habit it more like the mythical Moon under Water for me now!)
Special Brew and White Lightning
I used to do that! Value for money, let's say.
A pint of Black Rat at ‘The Black Horse’, Clapton in Gordano.
A pint of Stella Artois at ‘The Hansom Cab', Kensington.
A pint Grolsh at ‘De Hems’, Soho.
Any one of the innumerable exhibition ciders at 'The Coronation Tap', Bristol.
NOT the on offer Carlsberg I picked up on the way back from an evening ride at Sherwood Pines, no Siree. (Awaits to be lambasted)
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"Need's must when the devil vomits in your kettle" as Blackadder once said.
We've all done it. It just provides a neat contrast to any decent pint anywhere.
Pure Gold. From STW's finest brewer 🙂
The one on the right.
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(This was part way into another STWer's stag do last weekend 😀 )
Sadlers Mud City Stout at the Windsor Castle near stourbrudge. Brewed 20 yards from the bar. Gorgeous stuff.
Banana Bread beer (from a bottle, but it still counts) at the Buckingham Arms, near Scotland Yard. Possibly on pub quiz night.
Nicko, more people coming to my manor and drinking at the wrong pub! WTF is going on?
😉
A pint of holdens down the wagon and horses, halesowen
It used to be Youngers No3 at Whitelocks in Leeds , but they stopped brewing it and my world fell apart. Oh how I miss its polished home brew maltyness in a dimpled pint pot 😥
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obviously the pic has the wrong pint pot.
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Again, a bit of context for the Marston's Burton Bitter.
A few years ago my mate had his stag weekend in Hathersage. Spotting an opportunity for a sneaky ride, I got there v early doors on the Friday and churned out a good few miles before getting back to the bunkhouses. A 'warm-up' on the Friday evening got well out of hand, so by the time I woke up on Saturday morning I was a bit 'offside'.
His joint best man (I don't approve of that, BTW), took us for a walk along Stanage Edge - great under normal circumstances, but not in the cold and wind with a filthy hangover.
On getting back to Hathersage, we went into one pub and I chewed my way through a couple of pints of Taylor's Landlord - normally a good'un, but I find it dries my mouth out a bit, especially when I was completely arseholed the night before.
However, one sip of Burton Bitter at the Scotman's Pack and I was back in the room. I saw three of those beauties off in the time it took everyone else to have one, then I was on fire for the rest of the day and night.
It was like some magic elixir.......
Jamesy, swap the holdens for Bathams or Thornbridge Jaipur and I think you've got a winner. Great pub The Waggon is.
Adnams Broadside at the Blue Bell Inn, Gringley-On-The-Hill
that used to be my local
Best Pint? My current one....
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Lunge , the laipur is quality stuff , love it but its dangerous stuff 🙂
Im lucky the wagon is my local i can easily crawl home 🙂
Great pub and really friendly people and now they do food( massive portions ) its even better
I am trying this later on ...
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chewkw, proper Japanese Asahi, or the brewed in the UK tosh?
No beer comes near....... A Guinness in the Crown in Belfast
London Pride, The Royal Standard, Croydon. You wont find better.
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No its not a pint, and it is Lager but great memories from a great place
MartynS, the same glass after a big race meet in Greece (Sailing). It didn't touch the sides. I still have the glass. Happy memories.
MartynS,
Yes - nice one - before the kids came along, the missus and I used to go to Skiathos on holiday a bit - after a day on the beach and a lamb exohico in the evening, good old 'Dr Mythos' clocked in for a nightcap.
I'm not usually one for the lager, but a nice cold Windhoek lager in Plettenberg Bay South Africa after a ride through the Harkeville Forest during the day would also be a highlight. Or a day spent on the golf course, or a say spent bodyboarding, or trekking around a fabulous nature reserve - I think I might be getting lost in context again, but what the hell.
Honourable mention to Ye Olde Elm Tree in Durham - a class pint of Castle Eden in my student days - a welcome change from necking snakebite out of shoes etc.
Surely can only be Tim Taylor's Landlord. Nothing else comes close
something, but probably McEwen's 80/- at the Shakespeare in Durham. (Must be in the back room mind. And if anyone refers to it as the fives room they are an utter ****). It might not technically be the best pint but I can't wait to be back there each year. Been Deuchars recently, not quite as good but Paddy doesn't do a bad job.
Best tasting I remember would be Castle Eden, before Whitbread took it over, served in the Dun Cow in the same city.
Durham silly drink used to be Special Brew and 1080 snakebites. Down in one. Although equally stupid was the night we dropped into the union bar and found they had a promotion to get a free t-shirt with 5 bottles of Diamond White - and we had about half an hour to spare before being due on a double date - with predictable consequences (got the t-shirt, didn't get anything else from the date; in hindsight turning up wearing the DW t-shirts over our clothes probably was a key error)
A bit off-topic, but probably my favourite pub anecdote - as told to me by my Dad.
One evening after a day at work at the Post Office (phones) in Leicester in the early seventies, the team took a new lad out for a few pints in Leicester. After a few pints and pubs it was the new lad's turn to get a round in, but he hadn't got enough cash with him. No ATMs or credit cards in those days me ode lad.
The guy goes up to the bar and asks the landlord "do you cash cheques?"
The landlord replies "Hmmm, you see that's an interesting question, as it happens, I have an arrangement with the bank on this".
The bloke replies (hopefully) "what's that, then?"
The landlord replies "they don't serve beer, and I don't cash f*cking cheques".
Priceless.
A pint of HSD at the Ship Inn, Padstow.
Just remembered another nice beer anecdote - I was visiting a firm in Dublin that was trying to get our business. After being showed round and concluding the meeting the talk turned to the dinner and trip into Dublin that was planned. The owner told my colleague and I 'I've had a word among the lads in the factory about who serves the best pint of Guinness in Dublin, and we've narrowed it down to five or six places. So you'll have to make up your own mind on that'
Great night out.......
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I have a similar tale of actually being reduced to drinking beer for a change of clothes. It's quite a long story, but suffice it to say Friday night was Society Ball (with all-night bar). By Sunday having not been home, and still wearing a dinner jacket and trousers, me and my mate were starting to 'pen' a bit.
Lo and behold, the pub we were due to meet up in had a 'drink four pints of Guiness for a free T-shirt' offer. Sometimes, god works in funny ways..............
CaptainFlashheart - Memberchewkw, proper Japanese Asahi, or the brewed in the UK tosh?
eerrmm ... d'oh! Brewed in UK ... I've been conned. 😮
Well, I will go to Chinatown to get proper ones tomorrow.
Forest XB at the Allenheads Inn, back when two of the bar staff were mannequins. I''m not sure if they make it with psyclobin mushrooms, but this certainly seemed to have some in it.
Okay ... the UK Brewed Asahi tasted errmmm ... average to poor.
Stella will beat it hand down.
Thatchers Cheddar Valley at Ye Olde Cider Bar, Newton Abbot
Thatchers Traditional at The Old Barrel, Exmouth
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Capt'n the majority of Asahi is [s]ruined[/s] brewed in the EU.
For a great pint you need:
- 1 x hot summer evening
- 1 x room at the Turf Cutters Arms in East Boldre
- 2 hour blast round the New Forest on buff, sandy trails
- Nice pint of Ringwood Forty Niner
Heaven in a glass.
Honourable mention to Ye Olde Elm Tree in Durham
that used to be my local too! I lived on Allergate.
Some of my favourites are:-
Atlas Latitude
sharp's Doom Bar
Franziskaner Wheat Beer
Any beer from the brewery at Traquair
Egham Show Bitter. I think it is produced in a brewery in Windsor
Some nice beers on tap in the pub in the village of Melmerby in the Eden valley.
Pint of vodka is where it's at.
*hic*
Adnams Broadside at the Blue Bell Inn, Gringley-On-The-Hill
that used to be my local
How long ago? Martin and Lisa years, 2001-2005ish?
You should publish a guidebook!Nicko, more people coming to my manor and drinking at the wrong pub!
The Shakespeare in Durham was the first pub I went to where everything went utterly silent as I walked in with my then gf. An intriguing experience...
Leeds Pale......session beer awesomeness
Anything in the Kirkstyle Inn,
Anything in the Bitter End Cockermouth
Perfectly Poured Jennings Sneck Lifter or Fish King
Now I'm missing home....
When at MrsBouys Farm in Harrogate this:
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When at Home (Hampshire) any of these: (The Flower Pots, Cheriton)
[url= http://www.flowerpots.f2s.com/beers.html ]Flower Pots Micro Brewery Ales list...[/url]
When in That London here :
[url= http://www.masonandtaylor.co.uk/gallery-2 ]Mason and Taylor (top of Brick Lane)[/url]
Or here:
[url= http://thecraftbeerco.com/ ]Craft (Clerkenwell)[/url]
A few of these in the Stanton Arms, Stanton on Hine Heath, goes down well, still only £2.50 a pint too.
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Best pint of beer I've ever had was a pint of Tim Taylor Landlord in the Crown Posada in Newcastle, I was about to have a second and the crowd I was with decided to go for a curry 🙁
The Salopian is very nice, if you like that then Bishop's Farewell from Oakham Ales would tickle your fancy too.
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Almost anything from The Cask Pub & Kitchen in Brighton (raises virtual glass at CFH)
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Pint of Fullers Bengal Lancer in the Thomas A Beckett, Worthing after a spring Tuesday night ride 8)
Nice pint of Black Sheep at New Inn Appletreewick
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A pint of Tennants Extra in the Brook Tavern, Selly Oak circa 1990.
A pint of Lamp Light at the Beamish Mary Inn, No Place, County Durham.
First pint of Old Peculier at the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel in Great Langdale after a hot day cragging at Gimmer. It's all about context.
Best pint.
A Guinness when I discovered a pub in the basement during a sightseeing trip to Harrods with my wife.
Mmmmmm, I made my first trip to Cask in Brighton last night (formerly the spotted dog, formerly the hop poles, formerly the spotted dog again before that)
Lovely.
How long ago? Martin and Lisa years, 2001-2005ish?
at various times between 2000 and 2008. My parents lived there and I lived with them for a year and at other times here and there. Didn't go in that much.
As a lager drinker what would be a good bitter to try?
So a lagerish bitter please not a pint of Olde Badgers Bollocks!
Biased , but a pint of Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild at the Red Lion , Godalming 1999ish , when Ian ran it properly .
Was just amazing , but when I returned the next day it was all gone.
My own Treacle Stout in The Jolly Farmers Bramley ,maybe 2001 - 2002 . Sublime .
A pint of Theakstons XB back before they were S&N owned in the Bay in Masham. Eee it were grand.
As a lager drinker what would be a good bitter to try?
Give Hop Back Summer Lightning a shot. Also worth a go are some of the lovely things from Wye Valley, such as their excellent HPA.
Location - The Flower pots, Cheriton, Hampshire.
Beer - Anything they brew on the premises, never had a duff one 8)
A pint of flat cap, by the Bolton brewer bank top brewery
It's the champagne of the north
Delicious
Loweswater gold anywhere is amazing, but at the tower bank arms in sawrey, on the way home from a ride around claife, or grizedale, is very special indeed.
While the London Pride I have in the glass next to me is excellent, it hardly compares to the liquid nectar that was snakebite+black served at Jesters in '90.
Rev James in a nice little pub near Brechfa after a horrible cold, wet ride a couple of years ago.
More up to date. Salopian Breweries Lemon Dream, The Sabrina (River Severn cruise boat in Shrewsbury) last night at a good mates retirement do. And he'd paid for the barrel!
Cheers
Either;
Summer- a pint of Dr Hexter's Healer outside The Bell at Aldworth.
Winter- a pint of Good Old Boy inside The Bell at Aldworth.
Mogrim, Jesters?
Gosh. 🙂
Are we really 3 pages in with no mention of a pint of Coniston Bluebird somewhere in the Lake District? King's Arms in Hawkshead after a ride around Claife and Grizedale perhaps.
Although as a Lancastrian it pains me to admit it, as mentioned above a pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord somewhere in Yorkshire is usually pretty hard to beat.
(lol at the southerners thinking they have proper beer 😛 )
