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£5 a can LOL I wonder what Hebden Bridge is like WTF
Bath Ales Barnsey (used to be called Barnstormer) is a very nice dark beer / brown ale.
I'm too a bit sick of the mega-hopped beers and tend to prefer malty ones.
£5 a can LOL I wonder what Hebden Bridge is like WTF
Prices can vary, some people spend 10x that on a glass of wine
@mucker- King Goblin is malty with caramel notes although not that sweet. Also Old Crafty Hen is nice and malty. It mentions toffee on the bottle but I cant taste it, sweetish taste as well.
I’d pay £8 for a bottle or can of something amazing. Seems to be a reverse snobbery about craft ale.
Someone mentioned badger, in MY opinion they don’t make a decent beer, all old world maltiness, no decent porter or stout and nothing hoppy enough. But others like them so that’s cool and that’s what the OP was after, so good shout for him. Otter is local to me and would probably be something the OP would like.
I’d rather try a load of weird ones - normally drink 1/3rd pints - and see if I can find something that stays with me for a long time. I like heavy hops, Jaipur is great and in supermarkets, Cannonball by Magic Rock another great one quite easy to find.
As as others have said, a four pack of horrendous lager is what £5? I’d rather half a pint or a bottle of something others think is prententious expensive rubbish.
Loads of great beer around, and as various people have said, there’s something to suit everyone. I’ve got a bit bored with over-hopped beer, but that trend does appear to be dropping off a bit, to a more balanced flavour in blonde/pale brews. I’ve had several recently by different brewers which have been very drinkable, one in particular was Three Daggers Blonde, actually at the Three Daggers pub in Edington near Westbury, but all their other brews are top notch. I’m spoilt by the fact my regular pub in Corsham constantly changes what it has on the pumps, with three out of four changing each week.
Go to California. It's gone completely stupid there.
Everything is undrinkable hipster IPA.
It starts at 7% and goes up from there.
It starts at around $6-8 for a half-pint (or whatever passes for a half-pint).
All of the IPAs are so wildly over-hopped as to be borderline undrinkable.
I went to one place where they had made it with some kind of crazy grapefruit hops that was just too chewy to drink. I gave up half-way through my half-pint.
Fortunately there's a place over the road from the office I work at that sells Lagunitas and California Pale Ale, by the pitcher, which is a lot more sensible, but anywhere else, it's just nasty.
If Trump wants to make America great again, he needs to do something about the beer.
I drink Tim Taylor's when at home, best of a bad bunch. When I'm in Manchester I wouldn't dream of it. Today I had a pint in The Smithfield, Port St Beerhouse and the City Arms, all vastly superior to Landlord, despite what Madonna says. And that's without mentioning the Marble Arch with it's listed interior and ace beer and food. I'm almost beginning to think that a prerequisite to commenting on serious beer can only come after an extended exploration of the bars of Manchester, followed by an intense scrutiny of its architecture.
black sheep riggwelter
bishops finger
black wych
fullers black cab
poachers choice (might be a bit plumby)
morrisons is the best beer supermarket!
Acorn Brewery Barnsley Bitter or if you prefer a dark beer Gorlovka or old moor porter
i'll be honest it's a mate brewery but they've won numerous awards including National at GBBF recently
I'm getting somewhere now. I went to the Dougie MacLean gig at the weekend in my new local. Behind the bar is a little bottle fridge and in it the Bellhaven Scottish Ale caught my eye and yeeeeesssss, it's flippin' lovely. Turns out on later googling Bellhaven do some other interesting sounding bottled offerings, including a Robert Burns brown ale, an 80/ and a 90/ Wee Heavy, that's a £4.05 to you sbob. I will do as much research as I can in the coming weeks and report back with my findings, happy daze.