There are so many fantastic ales available that it's difficult to pick a favourite. I do have a particular soft spot for Ringwood 49er though.
also i would like to add, any of the Bridestones ales. moreso when served in the New Delight at jack bridge.
Current fave among the Wednesday nighters.........
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Bathams XXX winter brew.
Another vote for canned Bengali Tiger - hoping to try the draft (sic) version in the summer during our USA road trip 😛 Lagunitas IPA is lovely too (dontcha just love 'spoons).
Slowly working my way through my local brewery's selection - [url] http://www.tinyrebel.co.uk/ [/url] Fubar and Full Nelson favourites so far.
Whilst we're on Adnams....
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Where to start... Although strictly none of these are "bitter"...
Thornbridge Jaipur
moorhouses blond witch
Saltaire triple chocoholic (ok, it's a stout, not a bitter)
Oakham inferno
Oakham citra
I like me hops
Tiny Rebel are all of the aces, Mama! They're a cracking bunch, making some superb beers.
And here's the thing.....
Isn't it wonderful that we have so many great breweries in the UK producing so much brilliant beer?
I live very near to the Bathams brewery and close to Enville
Oddly I too have lived by the Delph and down the lane from Enville. As a kid used to play in the derelict barn that barn Enville Brewery.
Dislike both.
As I said - no accounting for taste... 😉
Personally I like a Betty Stoggs more than Doom Bar or Proper Job
Same here. Skinners make a fine ale. St Piran's and Ginger Tosser (fnar) also both checked out highly with my tastebuds.
Going back to Wye Valley - HPA (Hereford Pale Ale) is a reliable, worthy pale ale around these parts. Always a good backup when nothing else good on.
Midlanders might also look out for Green Pear (Malvern Hills Brewery) - a really nice green hop seasonal ale. I was fortunate to have helped brew this a few years back and the smell of all those fresh hops drying in the sun is impressive, sublime even. Which reminds me, MHB Black Pear when it is good is a stonking traditional bitter.
Ludlow goldBathams bitter
Holdens golden glow
^^ fantastic. My dad grew up on 'Holden's Golden' - he still proclaims its greatness, and he likes a lot of bitters including Bathams.
Don't make me choose!
Just noticed that the "Our beers" photo on http://www.tinyrebel.co.uk/ is my old local! Was a great tap takeover, with some brilliant stuff!
Cwtch is a joy. Hadouken was rather good, too.
I've had loads of new bottled/canned beers over the last 36 weeks, thanks to [url= https://beerbods.co.uk/archive/ ]Beerbods[/url], and it's hard to pick out a favourite. I like the most recent, because it's brewed just over the Moray Firth from where we go on holiday.
I had a pint of Landlord bought for me in the Blue Bell in York, by one of the brewers. That was pretty special too.
As is Old Raby, in No22 in Darlington.
I'll go for 2 of my local beers
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Love the description of Ball Park Pale Ale as "recreational".
Landlord. No contest.
Also, for some the guys above "not lager" does not mean that it's bitter!
Otley 01.
Ps this thread is rubbish without more pump clips/labels.
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Not many of those are a proper bitter, nice as they are.
Also, for some the guys above "not lager" does not mean that it's bitter!
+1, this thread should celebrate the greatness of the Great British pint as pulled in the Great British pub, not this craft nonsense.
Coniston Bluebird.
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the thing with bitter nowadays, is that it dont offer much when sat amongst the hoppy fruity delights of pales and blondes.
landlord can compete, as can reverend james.
Landlord
Black Sheep
Cairngorm Trade Winds or Gold
Brains SA
London Pride
reverend james.
Ah yes! The Reverend.
I remember one hazy morning in Afan, climbing up the start of the old Penhydd. I was green with hangover, fumes wafting from every pore as an old local rode past me (I was REALLY suffering!) and he said, "Alright, butt?"
I replied that I was suffering, a few too many pints of Reverend James the night before.
"Ah!", he replied, barely breaking a sweat as I rolled along, "That Reverend, eh? What a [expletive deleted]!"
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the thing with bitter nowadays, is that it dont offer much when sat amongst the hoppy fruity delights of pales and blondes
They do for me because I am a session drinker, the odd one of these others is alright, but doesn't work for proper night at the pub.
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Dow be saft, yow cor close thread until yow've ackchuly bin ter the 'Bull and Bladder' up Brierley Bonk, on a lunchtime, an' ad sum a'thet Bathams Best Bitter fram the pump, and then another wi' scratchins, pork pie or a spot o'lunch fram the buffay room. Av a thaird and then a think.
Come back then an say yer piece, ayit.
They do for me because I am a session drinker, the odd one of these others is alright, but doesn't work for proper night at the pub.
mefty, you need to come on one of my trips. i will show you how i manage....... 😆
Woodfords WherryAdmans Ghost Ship
Hopback Summer Lightning
Exmoor Gold
All good, as are so many others listed. I do prefer malty bitters, rather than the hoppier citrus beers, although they're good through the warmer weather.
There's a brewery in That London which produces some outstanding brews, it's the Five Point Brewery in Hackney.
Went to a gig at Oslo, Hackney, which is right under the Hackney West tube station. Terrific range of beers, mostly London breweries, I can wholeheartedly endorse the very fine qualities of Five Points Pale, Hook Island Red, and Railway Porter.
Hook Island Red is particularly yummy.
http://fivepointsbrewing.co.uk
It's all a matter if taste isn't it? But no matter where I've been drinking I'm always pleased to get back to the Vale in Bollington for a pint of Bollington Brewery's Dinner Ale. Nice depth of flavour without anything silly going on in there.
They also have Three Peaks on at the moment which has incredible flavour for something which is a mere 3.1%
Mm Butty Bach...
Mmmmmmm HPA
Ok if we're mentioning our favourite beers
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Bloomin thirsty now!
This link very well explains both Bathams Best Bitter and the Bull and Bladder (if not the legendary lunch pies and other homemade fodder). I do concur. And some. You just have to go and try it. It's also right by the canal (albeit up at least nine locks), so theoretically accessible by bike from everywhere in the West Midlands, or Wales, or....
[url] http://petebrown.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/in-search-of-black-country-legend.html [/url]
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Also a big fan of West berks ales (can't beat a pint of old Tyler in the beer garden up at the bell at Aldworth)
Amazing time to be a beer drinker.
Local, Bristol, area has over twenty breweries. Honestly, most of the stuff that they produce is damn good. And that's just locally. ...
Nominating a few favourites
Kelham Island pale rider
Orkney island stout
Barbus Barbus
Adnams Clump Sagin
Rolls off gibbering...
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Harvey's best
Timothy Taylor's Landlord
6X - ]an old classic
Longman Best
Purity Ubu is my all time favorite.
Hell yes! Love this. You know they sell cycling jerseys? 8)
Another current fave of mine is Fang by the Black Flag guys down in sunny Kernow. Yum!
Tiny Rebel are all of the aces, Mama! They're a cracking bunch, making some superb beers.
I cycled across Belgium with Brad last year!
I like their One Inch Punch.
Rogue Hazelenut
McEwans Champion
Adnams Broadside of course!
Closely followed by Butty Bach, Felinfoel Double Dragon, Wadworths 6X, and believe it or not, Greene King IPA Reserve (had a pint on Friday night and it rivalled the Adnams shock horror!) NOT what Sussex drinkers with their beloved Harveys Best want to hear (remember the battle of the Lewes Arms?) but the truth is that Harveys is OK in Sussex but just does not travel.
Sorry guys.
Another vote for Timothy Taylor Landlord. Grew up in Worcestershire so would be wrong not to mention Flowers. Haven't had it for ages, but at 50p a pint in my teens it went down very well!
Current favourite is Lowestoft Gold.from the Lakes, gorgeous pint
Holt's/Sam Smith's/Theakston's
Crouch vale-way to amarillo
Nethergate - Umbel magna (not to be confused with umbel ale)
Crouch vale - brewers gold
Hopback - summer lightning
Adnams - Ghost ship and Broadside
Any of the bitters and others brewed at the Church Inn at Uppermill. Once a month I manage the get there (live mile away now) for lunch, home made steak and kidney puddin, chips, mushy peas n gravy. This all goes down with a couple of pints of Church Inn Dark Mild, awesome. Yes mild!
Ton you'd love the place!
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Ton you'd love the place!
mt, we had a sweary northerners xmas do there a few years ago.
it is a cracking boozer.
as is the royal oak heights, which is nearby.
