[Closed] Niche Beer-off

Golden Glory (badger)

Long days

Pure gold (Itchen Valley)

Bishops Finger, Spitfire, Whitstable Bay

All Shepherd Neame - Not niche and generally a bit rubbish these days

TangleFoot, Fursty Ferret - Badger Ales arent too bad. But they need to keep an eye on their quality as they are getting bigger and bigger

Black Sheep Ale - Not a fan didn't really taste of anything. Too bloody right. Northern carp.

Best beer in the country:
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Others from Wye are great too like their Best, Butty Bach and Dorothy Goodbody ranges. There Morgan Motors centenery beer was superb too, but sadly no more. I would bet they recycle the recipe soon though.
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LOLs at stoner.

I'd recommend some beers but I have different tastes to the OP.

recommend some beers

feel free as long as it's not northern junk 😉

Long Days is great - had some from tesco's the other week and went back for more the next day 🙂

Golden sheep may be more your taste if you like a sweeter beer.

Proper Job from St.Austell is a great beer too.

To be honest I'm usually pretty happy with any pale ale's, wheat beers and random bits that your local ale house serves!

love a snozzle.

Proper Job and Tribute are regular favourites round these parts.

I just moved and I've found an offy near me that's like a beer library. 7' by 12' wall full of beer, a good slice of it stcked in single columns only.

Picked up a samichlaus classic (14%) last time I was there, which was interesting.

Brakspear Oxford gold Organic beer is one of the nicest beers around IMO. they do an extra strength one too tht i have yet to try!

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The brakspeare is very nice indeed.
Any of the Bath ales are well worth a try IMO, Gem is lovely as is SPA, golden hare is a nice summer beer and wild hare is a very nice organic. i tried a festivity the other day; strange but nice!

Anything by Brodies, really good beer and from the South ;0)

They even do a mental 22 per center!

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This is all you need to know...

Oh...I thought this thread was about a Swiss Downhiller crashing 😉

My fave is Tim Taylor's Landlord, but I'm not sure if its niche since Madonna started talking twaddle about it.

Pure gold (Itchen Valley)

+ like a [i]million[/i].

And it's made by a fellow STWer.

This man in fact (the bloke in the foreground, not the nasty little thing behind). Don't let him pour it for you though. 🙄

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I doo like a bit of Spitfire. But there again I can't get enough of Shropshire Lad either.

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Loving the watermarking irony

Bitter and twisted. [i]the[/i] best beer in the UK

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all you need to know

thread closed.

I have a question about Tesco and Leffe.

[*]Most weeks, a 75cl bottle of Leffe is £3.75[/*]
[*]Some weeks, they are £2 but not indicated as a special offer[/*]
[*]Other weeks, the blonde is £3.75, the brune is £2 and again not indicated as special offer.[/*]

I cannot fathom why this is, but I stock up whenever it's £2.

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Bitter and twisted. the best beer in the UK

And brewed just along the road from me as well. I lolled when I went into a pub on the south bank of the thames and B+T was recommended as a "local" brew 🙂

alloa has another good micro brewery in the form of the Williams Bros - their Joker Pale ale is great, although I haven't seen it advertised anywhere recently.

Elfinsafety has it right. Itchen Valley Brewery is where it's at 🙂

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St Peters Porter

Cotleigh Brewery
Bath Ales
Otter Ales
Butcombe

All very dear to me.

this will sort you out, made by mad sheepshaggers

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Exmoor Ales .GOLD. 😯

the old purple tin
the old purple tin
sweet testament lord
to the state that i'm in

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Good stuff

Hmm it massively depends on where you are from..

For me Brakspears was untouchable till they moved. After that, well things were never quite the same although its better now than it has been.

Ive tried these 2 lately..

[url= http://www.rebellionbeer.co.uk/ ]Rebellion[/url] (They are also within spitting distance of my lbs) - big up [url= http://www.cyclecare.co.uk/ ]Cyclecare[/url]

And I quite like these boys too..[url= http://www.surreyhills.co.uk/4606.html ]Surrey Hills Brewery[/url]

Deuchars, DoomBar, Jennings, Timothy Taylor all good (Its a long list so if Ive left any off Ive only forgotten the names!)

Skinners - Betty Stoggs
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Sharps - Doombar
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Hop Back Summer Lightning.

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Hop Back Summer Lightning

I'm just 2/3rds of way through a 750ml bottle of Meantime India Pale Ale @ 7.5%. Very bitter/hoppy beer. If you don't like fruity malty beers you may be better with IPA's. Oakham's Bishops Farewell is very nice, Timmy Taylors Landlord a classic, Thornbridge Jaipur and Kipling (Kipling to me tastes almost the same as Jaipur but is somewhat less headbanger).

Just found Summer Lightning in a Supermarket in Cyprus, not really niche!!! Nice beer though!!

I wouldn't recommend Golden Glory if the OP doesn't like fruity flavours.

Had a mixed box of St. Peters recently, really liked them all, loved the organic one.

Wold Top from East Yorkshire make some lovely beers, drink it when I'm back home visiting family, and just started seeing it in the odd pub in Manchester, so they must be starting to branch out a bit.

Also really like Copper Dragon from (I think) Skipton brewery.

Thornbridge Jaipur if you can get it.

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