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!

Seconded:

and:

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.

It is indeed a great time to be alive as a beer lover. Personal favourites: Adnams Broadside, Proper Job, and I did like the Twickenham beers I had a couple of weeks back on a visit back to London.

Current favourite is:

Barngates’ Tag Lag, then

Dent Aviator
Doom Bar
Coniston Bluebird
Jennings Cumberland

Great British pint as pulled in the Great British pub, not this craft nonsense.

The point missed here is that there is a great array of beer for everyone at the moment, craft, micro-brewery or otherwise. You can have something interesting with a meal, or find something you can easily settle into for the night. There Malty, Hoppy, dark, light, weak, strong and everything intbetween and it’s brilliant.

Beer makes us all better people and it makes the world a better place. [FACT]

Apparently, “beer is proof that god loves us and wants to be happy”. Benjamin Franklin said that. Now I’m not sure about the god bit or that flying a kite with a metal object attached in a thunder storm is good idea, however his sentiments there are correct. Just not any of that US beer mind.

Alton’s Pride is the best beer in the universe bar none. A bold statement I know but if you like a well hopped mid malted bitter with a modest 3.8% but a flavour than suggests more, then this is it.
Bonus being at 3.8% you can have a quite a few and get up the next morning!

always

BUT NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER 😈

unless you want to be s*itting through the eye of a needle next day

would be wrong not to mention Flowers. Haven’t had it for ages,

It’s now owned by AB InBev so is probably rubbish. I used to love Flowers bitter and IPA growing up, then it got bought and virtually disappeared overnight.

Otter Bright or Doombar for me every time. Did try the Spring Otter at the weekend and that was very palatable as well.

From out of my area

Timothy Taylor’s Landlord
Black Sheep Ale
Brains SA
Doom Bar

Local to me. As in 15 minutes walk to the in house brewery

Anything from the Spinning Dog Brewery or Wye Valley Brewery.

The Wye Valley Brewery started as a brew pub at The Barrels, now moved out to Stoke Lacy. The Spinning Dog is in The Victory. They are 100m apart

😆

I used to love Gales HSB – till Fuller’s efcked them over.
+1 for Flowers which I used to love too.

Recently had a bottled beer from Glastonbury Ales which was lovely, need to try one from the barrel though to properly tell.

I do like Landlord but some excellent breweries local to me.

Current favorites.

Not had a Larkins for a while, used to be my local brewer when I lived in the area, some great pubs in the area too. Had a few The Bottle Dog beer garden.

The point missed here is that there is a great array of beer for everyone at the moment

It might have been missed if that was the point I was making, but I wasn’t. I was simply making the point that it would be nice to restrict the thread to proper old fashioned british beer as there is already a lot of discussion about craft beer on here.

I used to love Gales HSB – till Fuller’s efcked them over.

Is this really the case? Fullers have a good brewery operation so I find it surprising and sad as I spent alot of time in Gales pubs.

I did a few deals with beer companies in the past and they were pretty convinced that a modern brewery would produce a much more consistent, and thus better pint, than the old ones. One company I dealt with, whose product is mentioned a few times on here certainly didn’t brew the majority of its beer at its historic brewery as generally assumed – although that may have changed.

Loweswater gold, not quite a bitter, but defo the best real ale

Wye Valley, most any brew
Black Sheep
Doom Bar
Landlord, not had for a long time now
6X
Badger, most brews, golden champion & glory are nice summer numbers

Ringwood Forty Niner

The Wye Valley Brewery started as a brew pub at The Barrels

Well I never, etc.

Great to see lots of Tiny Rebel love on here. Hadouken is definitely next to try, CaptainFlashheart 😛

Is this really the case? Fullers have a good brewery operation so I find it surprising and sad as I spent alot of time in Gales pubs.

Used to drink HSB a lot as it was in my local, then was in a Gales pub (after a long while away) had a couple of pints rand wondered why it was just meh not great – then googled that they’d moved the brewing operation…
the same happened with King&Barnes when Badger took them over – move the brewery and the beer doesn’t taste the same.

Blue monkey brewery’s ape ale or bg sips, very tasty

I’m amazed people like Doom Bar. I thought it was basically rebadged John Smiths, seems to be as ubiquitous and have a very similar taste.

The best pint of beer I’ve ever had was Landlord, in the Crown Posada in Newcastle. I wouldn’t normally seek it out though as it can be very ordinary.

A well kept, hand pulled, pint of Bathams has always been top of my list.

Live to far away to enjoy it anymore.

Luckily I can enjoy the output of the Stroud brewery now. Direct from the brewery bar. Stop in if you are passing on a Friday or Saturday afternoon.

All their brews are great, my favourite is Teasel when its on draught.

my lad brought me back 4 pints of island nipper bitter from a long weekend on the wight, have to say it’s very nice.

Doom Bar – yummmmmmmmmmmm

Great to see lots of Tiny Rebel love on here. Hadouken is definitely next to try, CaptainFlashheart

Mama, they took some “specials” to Cask some time ago. Really good beer, basically. Very impressed with the flavours and combinations they came up with.

Of course, their “look” helps as well. It’s just brilliant!

Too right – just opened a temp Urban Tap House in Newport so plenty of chance to try them all over the next month. Fingers crossed it’ll become a permanent fixture 😛

Not bitter but tastes like a summer ale, Adnams Jack Brand Dry Hopped Lager. Absolutely stunning.slurp

Favourite British beers are pretty much any of the Williams brother’s brewery. 7 giraffes, Good Times and Birds and Bees are all fabulous.

http://www.williamsbrosbrew.com

IMHO I think both Doom and The Reverend have tapered of in the last couple of years.

Current faves are –
Tomos Watkins
Purity
Skinners
Otter

Taylors Landlord.
Copper Dragon Golden Pippin

Great to see lots of Tiny Rebel love on here.

Had a pint of “One Inch Punch” a couple of weeks ago, it was OK. Not something I’d rush out to try again, nothing special. Their image is a bit meh/trying too hard, too.

Thinking about it, a pint of JW Lees here is pretty hard to beat