Favourite Beer

What’s your all round favourite beer (Real Ale, Pale Ale, Craft, Lager or whatever you want to call it)?

Choose just one.

Beavertown Gamma Ray for me.

(Also quite partial to a Seafarers too).

Thornbridge Jaipur

Jennings Cumberland

(to be fair, it’s not my favourite, favourite. But its a beer I get locally at least one week a month that I love. But then I love Wye Valley HPA too.)

My proper favourite beer, might well be IBEX IPA, brewed and served in a village near Morzine. Check it out at he Marmotte d’Or if you’re riding through Montriond while out there this year.

Augustiner

Favourite beer,only one?
That’s like asking what’s your favourite album!!!
Go on then,Purple Moose Glaslyn bitter;
http://www.purplemoose.co.uk/cy/beer/favourites/5-glaslyn-ale

Unreasonable request- however this week’s favourite beer is Dortmunder Union Pils on draft although it destroys me inside 5 pints

At the moment, Arbor Ales Beech Blonde.

Agreed. Quite unreasonable!

Beavertown Gamma Ray
Fullers Seafarers
Brooklyn Lager (Keg)
Ringwood Fortyniner (Cask)
Upham Punter
Doom Bar (Cask – Cornish)
Fullers London Pride
Beavertown 8Ball Rye IPA
Brewdog Punk IPA
Fullers Frontier

After extensive testing, thank me later! these are all really nice:

Tiny Rebel – Stay Puft
Tiny Rebel – FUBAR
Titanic – Plum Porter
Williams Bros – Fraoch
Summer Wine – Oregon
Oakham – Warped
Oakham – Citra
Salopian – Oracle
Berrow – Topsy Turvy
Whim – Flower Power
Isle of Arran – Blonde
Isle of Arran – Sunset
Fernandes – American Pale Ale
Cross Bay – Sunset Blonde
Buxton Brewery – Axe Edge
Beartown – Kodiak Bear
Adnams – Ghost Ship
St Peters – Organic Ale

German

Augustiner Edelstoff
Jever
Fruh Kolsch
Bitburger

Choose just one.

Today…
Currently….
Hobart Brewing Company – Smoked Apple Bokk
It will change by ths evening

Rochefort 6

Guinness.

Currently Stone and Wood Pacific Ale but subject to change on a regular basis. Back home be a strong shout out for Coniston Bluebird.

Brains SA Gold
Badger Fursty Ferret
Charnwood American APA American Pale Ale (Loughborough brewery)
Erdinger
Blue Monkey Infinity

Sierra Nevada hop hunter

Lagaunitas

How ever both pricey when I find them in the UK so it’s tempest brewing long white cloud

At this point I think I’m going to head out and try and find a new favourite

Gamma Ray is tip top.
Locally we have Vocation doing amazing things. Their Life and Death is a close run thing to Gamma Ray for my favourite beer, along with the wonderful Magic Rock Cannonball.

We’ll be on Hebden Brew Co Trouser Town from 11am today I think 🙂

Fynn Jarl
Farmageddon Mosaic
Gamma Ray
Galway Bay foam and fury (their milk stout is nice too)

Go to reliable favourite is Newcastle Brown, in a proper schooner if possible.
Although at the moment Hobgoblin Gold is winning favour and both are available for £1.25 in Aldi so I tend to just get both!

Bradfield Brewery’s Farmer’s Blonde, I could happily drown in that stuff.
Oakham Brewery’s Citra or JHB.

PSA Camra beer festival in Oakham Museum and around town till Sunday. I helped unload the beer, cider and bales. Please drink it or I’ll have to carry it all out again on Monday.

Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell Blood Orange IPA – 7.2% (ish) drinks like a 5. Delicious. Just ordered two cans of the new bloody notorious 9.something% blood orange DIPA (2 per customer but at £4 that’s enough).

Brooklyn sorachi ace close second!

Tropical summer vibe:

Elvis Juice
Tiny Rebel Clwb Tropicana
Magic Rock Grapefruit High Wire

Where does one go in order to procure a beavertown beverage?

Salopian ‘Oracle’

It’s a draught ale.

I was raised on Bathams and Enville, but this beats even those, for me. Remarkable yet hard to come by. Probably just as well!

The below-linked review describes it well enough, tho I just neck it and measure the decibels of satisfied ‘aaaah’ – enough to tell me it wins.

http://www.beerreviews.co.uk/beer/salopian-oracle-4/

Brains and Tanglefoot… do find them canned or bottled from time to time in Fife.

General quaffing beer is Innis & Gunn as it is nice and cheap at Aldi!

Where does one go in order to procure a beavertown beverage?

Most London offies, London B Oddbins has a good selection, utobeer, bottledog, online alesbymail.

From last weekend at Cask, had one then it ran out, but that one was bloody lovely!

When I’m in the UK – Alton Pride (3.8% session ale)
When I’m in the US – New Belgium Brewery, Fat Tire Ale (who’s counting)
When I’m in Belgium – Brugze Zot

Only one? Orval.

Honourable mentions: Rochefort 10, Goose Island Bourbon County, Deuchars IPA, Yates bitter, Coniston Bluebird in the Black Bull, Coniston, Moor Hoppiness

🙁

Loweswater gold.

Westvleteren 12.

Or Hop Back Summer Lightning.

Real Ale on tap : Bathams Bitter or Slaters Haka

Ale in a bottle : Goose Island IPA (Mainly for it’s sheer harsh hoppiness) or brewdog IPA

Lager in a bottle : Staropramen

Beavertown Bloody ‘Ell Blood Orange IPA – 7.2% (ish) drinks like a 5.

Yes! Bloody delicious, too!

I too have a few 🙂

Siren: White Tips, Calypso, Half Mast, Even More Jesus XVIII, Caribbean Chocolate Cake

And Union: Friday, Sunday,Unflt,Summer actually all their beer is bloody good!

Magic Rock: Dark Arts

Fourpure: IPA, Session IPA

Beavertown: Bloody ‘ell

There’s so many good beers out there now it’s hard to choose 10 let alone 1.

Toss up between these two at the moment…

If only I could choose just one! If I had to I’ll say Sodra IPA. Drank it on holiday in Sweden and fell in love. Very hoppy, very drinkable. Unable to find it in Blighty. Reviews online don’t seem that impressed with it but both myself and my fiancé loved it.

Back home I’ll go for Birds And The Bees by Williams Brothers. Not easy to find out of Scotland though, seems my most reliable source is Beers Of Europe in Kings Lynn (or when my parents pop back to The Motherland).

Also, I’m a sucker for a fruity Belgian so depends on what mood I’m in. But if you’re making me choose I’ll go with The Birds And The Bees. With Dill crisps from Ocado (the ones ikea used to do back in the day).

Russian River’s Pliny the elder or Rochefort 10 or the Duchesse de Bourgogne.

I spent the last couple of years living in Houston. Not my kind of town, but the beer available there is out of this world. Traditionally, I’ve been a real ale drinker but I’m missing the new world styles.

If you should find yourself in Texas, look out for:

Karbach’s Sympathy for the Lager
(512) IPA – for me the malt, the hops, the warmth of the alcohol is almost perfect

Before Houston I was in Canada where my favourites were Tree Brewing’s Thirsty Beaver amber and Cut Throat pale.

Currently in Southampton where I’ve been responsibly enjoying Dancing Man’s offerings.