[Closed] Proper STW question - Beer recommendation from supermarket?

Brewdog, Brooklyn Lager, Coopers Pale Ale, Innis and Gunn, Sierra Nevada, are all great and readily available..

Sierra nevada Pale Ale and Torpedo IPA are both available in my local tesco and are great imports from across the pond.

I like Sierra Nevada, Goose Island and some of the Brewdog stuff is nice. I'll look at the Coopers and Innis and Gunn.

Fursty Ferret,Golden Glory,Hopping Hare all from Badger Brewery. 😀

If you're lucky enough to have a Waitrose nearby, they usually do a great selection of local brews, as well as all sorts of niceness like Westmalle, Hop Back, Bath Ales, BBF, and more!

divenwob - Member

Fursty Ferret,Golden Glory,Hopping Hare all from Badger Brewery.

Sainsburys near me has some Badger ales in their 3 for £5 at the moment, picked up a few just now

Old Crafty Hen, rocket fuel

Cap - there's a small Waitrose in Manchester City Centre, I'll pop in and see what they've got. Booth's should have some good stuff too I reckon.

Asda have 4 bottles for a fiver currently.

If you can get it* then try Tring Brewery, Sidepocket for a Toad - yum.

* my local Asda include it in their offer.

Purity Ubu or Gold occasionally pop up in Tesco near me. They're pretty good.

I also like Harvistoun bitter and twisted.

Not in to Badger beers myself.

Booths has by far the best range of bottled ales. It then boils down to what style you prefer...

e.g. Stouts & porters - Fullers London Porter, Meantime London Stout, Fullers Black Cab Stout, Acorn Brewery Old Moor Porter
American IPAs and similar - Sierra Nevada as mentioned above, Goose Island, Oakham Ales Citra & Scarlet Macaw, Fullers Wild River
English IPAs - St Peter's IPA, Fullers Bengal Lancer, Thornbridge Jaipur
English Bitters - York Brewery Centurion's Ghost, Yorkshire Terrier; Theakston's Old Peculier; Black Sheep Holy [s]Gr[/s]ale, Riggwelter; Jennings Bitter, Cumberland Ale.
The list is quite extensive

Lagers & continental beers? sorry, can't help you there

Brill, plenty to keep me going there. Two things STW never let you down on - beer and coffee.

If you like the lighter beers such as IPA's try Doom Bar,lovely stuff.

[url= https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/specialbuys/thursday-26th-june/product-detail/ps/p/greene-king-head-brewers-selection-1/ ]THIS[/url] is great value.

Aldi ftw.

LIDL will sell you four bottles of Pedigree for a fiver.

Karmelite Tripel if you end up in Waitrose

john_drummer - Member
Booths has by far the best range of bottled ales. It then boils down to what style you prefer...

e.g. Stouts & porters - Fullers London Porter, Meantime London Stout, Fullers Black Cab Stout, Acorn Brewery Old Moor Porter
American IPAs and similar - Sierra Nevada as mentioned above, Goose Island, Oakham Ales Citra & Scarlet Macaw, Fullers Wild River
English IPAs - St Peter's IPA, Fullers Bengal Lancer, Thornbridge Jaipur
English Bitters - York Brewery Centurion's Ghost, Yorkshire Terrier; Theakston's Old Peculier; Black Sheep Holy Grale, Riggwelter; Jennings Bitter, Cumberland Ale.
The list is quite extensive

Lagers & continental beers? sorry, can't help you there

+ 1. Also look out for Rudgate Brewery Ruby Mild and BattleAxe Bitter.
*becomes quite thirsty 🙂 *

Waitrose sell a number of Thornbridge beers - the Jaipur is very nice

Blue Moon and Oxford Gold (can get them in Tesco).

Duvel - strong Belgian beer. Tasty and easy to drink.
Franzikaner wheat beer. Nice taste, refreshing

Robinson's Trooper (Iron Maiden beer)
Brakspear Oxford Gold
Thwaite's Wainwright

Hubby's list.

Bath Ales or St Peters would be my picks. Or the Duchys Originals stuff from waitrose is nice.

Depends where you are but you can get Black Isle ales in Sainsbury's in Scotland, also the Sainsbury's 'Taste the Difference' ales are good value normally (actually just branded ales with a different label, Black Sheep, Landlord, etc.).

My 2p.....

Pick a style and then gradually try as many as you can. Everything you can get your hands on. Eventually you'll work out what you like and what you don't.

I read some of the above and thought "i'd never recommend that", but then remembered that everyone has different tastes and I probably liked some of them at some point too!

The best thing about it is that over your beer journey, you'll only encounter a handful that you really don't like 🙂

A great place to start is pick any old beer that you like, then try all the other styles that brewery does.

Supermarkets (particularly ones like co op which have great wine and beer buyers) are actually pretty good because their buyers put a bit of thought into what goes on the shelf. A proper beer shop is even better once you've tried a few since they can't point you in the direction of more of the same.

I bloody love beer!

Leffe Brune and Bacchus for me

My local tesco has started stocking Wiiliams . Their Joker IPA is pretty good (hoppy). Just picked up 7 Giraffes & Ceasar Augustus to try.

I also quite like the Blue Moon weiss.

I still pick up the obligatory Budvar and a proper german Hefeweiss every now and again (usually when they are on offer....)