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Purely for research purposes, I've been forced into a selection of real ales this evening with a view to making a shopping list for this years yuletide provisions. so far i've had a:

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followed by

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next up

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now on a

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still got two to go

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very much a west country feel but i'm a firm believer that beer doesn't travel that well.

over to you, what you on ?


 
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A Buxton brewery moor top x2 so far


 
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Woo Hoo for the Jail Ale and Woo Coo Hoo for Butcombe. 😀

Just back from the pub where I shlurped a few Bath Ales Gem - the king of Bristol beers.

(if you can get hold of any, try some Bristol Beer Factory stuff - I'm sure it won a major middle class award on R4 a week ago).


 
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Posted : 03/12/2011 9:24 pm
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Cider roulette. Whichever one of a random selection of 'leftover' ciders comes to hand when I open the fridge.

Could be -

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or if I'm less lucky -

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slainte ❓ rob


 
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Black Sheep ale. It's alright.. I'm going off ale though.


 
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Some lovely ales in that selection (I'm Cornish but live in Bristol). Tribute and Gem are favourites. I'm really not a fan of bottled Gem though - much better out of a barrel. I'm yet to try their 9 pint takeaway barrels, though I am sorely tempted for Christmas.

Has anyone tried the Bath Ales Festivity yet?


 
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Nice work trailmonkey 😀

This evening I'll mostly be drinking a fresh take-home from the local microbrewery (travelled a mere 3 miles): Andwell Porter ([url= http://www.andwells.com/ ]www.andwells.com[/url]).
It's disappearing rather pleasingly and a bit too quickly.


 
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But not too much as I'm riding DH in the morning.


 
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Has anyone tried the Bath Ales Festivity yet?

Yep. 🙂

Luvly.


 
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another Ferret here

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if you can get hold of any, try some Bristol Beer Factory stuff - I'm sure it won a major middle class award on R4 a week ago)

bit limited to what i can get in the supermarkets but i'll look out for it.

tesco definitely has a local feel to their beers

mmmmmmmm that golden hare sure is the pick of the bunch so far.

bit worried that it's only 9.40 and i've only got 2 left. i think i've got 2 cans of guiness original in the back of the cupboard. after that i'm on the toilet duck.


 
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That'll be no riding then tomorrow...


 
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@deadlydarcy - marvellous

Our local in Bristol has recently been taken over by three Ale lovers. At any one time they have six different barrels on, with another six resting. They only order one barrel at a time, so the variety is brilliant. You can test them all too.


 
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That'll be no riding then tomorrow...

how dare you

got a 2000 worder to get through anyway 😥


 
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@wallop, which pub is that then fella?


 
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got a 2000 worder to get through anyway

Swot! 😐

🙂


 
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might go out for a bit of clearance if you got a few hours...


 
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Swot!

yup. a big girly swot with pink handles 8)

might go out for a bit of clearance if you got a few hours...

tim is looking for some riding company. give him a text ?


 
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@deadlydarcy - Star & Dove, Totterdown


 
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Started on Kopperberg,

Then moved onto Sailor Jerry and Coke

Now finishing the night on Baileys.....


 
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Just round the corner from me wallop. I've been there a few times. Seems to keep changing hands. Nice pub though. I was in the Banco this evening for a bite to eat (with a few bottles of Gem followed by a pint of Togaman...apparently brewed by BBF for the Lounges).

tm, gimme your beer money you big girly swotty pimple. 🙂


 
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I live half way between Banco & S&D - we must be very close!


 
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tm, gimme your beer money you big girly swotty pimple

oi, i'm a student how could i possibly be drunk enough to crown a statue with a road cone if i give you all my ale money ?

i'm almost on the toilet duck here - that butcombe was nice but i couldn't bring myself to order a pint of it in the pub. it sounds all kinds of wrong with a brummie accent 😳


 
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Well, I'm over towards Bris...just off Sandy Park. But no decent pubes over there. 😐


 
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Tm, 😆 it is possibly the best named beer. I used to live near Sheepscombe (near Stroud) some years back.


 
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Weird, I have a friend who also lives off Sandy Park, and was also in the Banco tonight.


 
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I used to live near Sheepscombe

in fairness when you're this deep into devon, ordering one of those wouldn't be too out of the ordinary.


 
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Steady...


 
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mmmmmmmmmmm, i'm starting to become beguiled by the butcombe. best so far. not sure that it's a session beer mind.

*edit* just seen the tags 😆


 
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DD - hoping that "no decent pubes" was a typo 😯

Drinking a warm and spicy glass of mulled wine - festive and medicinal (and a lot more enjoyable than lemsips!)


 
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Spoiling ourselves tonight 😳

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Posted : 03/12/2011 10:14 pm
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time to grab that apricot liquer again soon monkey


 
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apricot liquer

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apricot liqueur? 😯

Err...nice. 😆

Whatever do you Devon girls get up to?!?


 
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Trailmonkey,I know what you mean about ale not travelling well but Iv'e had a couple of bottles of Doombar tonight & it's travelled alright 300 miles up to here,west lancs (morrisons stock it).We also get the stuff on draught in Liverpool.


 
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[url= http://www.blackislebrewery.com/collections/frontpage/products/porter ]hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm[/url]


 
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apricot liqueur?

Err...nice.

Whatever do you Devon girls get up to?!?

only real men can drink apricot liqueur.

i've got a pink bike too.

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Tribute and Doombar, memories of our hols in somerset.
Southern Comfort tonight though


 
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Didnt you gob it out down the sink though last time you tired it!! 😆


 
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yup. it was proper manky.

i only bought it cos you made me buy it in geneva airport.

i'm giving you the rest of it as a christmas present 💡


 
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burp- we have a clear winner.

jail ale gets it by a nose from bath ales golden hare.

no suprise that jail ale is the strongest abv and has also traveled the least distance


 
Posted : 03/12/2011 11:16 pm
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😆


 
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Once again special brew! :mrgreen:


 
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The bottle of it I had last week was bloody delishiss.


 
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Some champagne last night. Was celebrating some decent news for once, and you can't have half-measures.


 
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very much a west country feel but i'm a firm believer that beer doesn't travel that well.

Oh, I don't know, once they're sterilised and bottled (like that lot) there's not a lot of harm a trip in a lorry can do.

All perfectly good beers, but not "real ale" when out of a bottle.


 
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bottles ? what kind of amateur do you take me for ? those pictures up there are purely for descriptive purposes. i'd actually got a keg of each in. i'd even grown a beard and put leather patches on the elbows of my jumper.

bottles ? pah 🙄


 
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Trailmonkey earlier...

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😆


 
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Posted : 04/12/2011 11:29 am
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Thats what happens when youse pull out the apricot liquer...


 
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i wish it was apricot liqueur. it's actually a 47% apricot parrafin

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suitable for the existence that del alludes to ^^

though that looks like a pic from his own portfolio.


 
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Trailmonkey, I can recommend this place if you aren't too far away or are passing.
http://www.springbrewing.co/
Very [i]Very[/i] good beer


 
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bit far from me wrecker.

i'm sure it's lovely stuff though 8)


 
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I went to a beer tasting evening at the theatre of wine in Tuffnell Park on Thursday. Brilliant business idea, get the punters in, get them drunk and enthusiatic, send them out the door with bags of ale, (and whiskey, why not. and some sherry) substantially lighter of pocket.

Yesterday, I kicked off with these:
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When I feel like it's pm enough (maybe shortly) I'll be reaching into the cupboard for one of these:
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and/or one of these:
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Posted : 04/12/2011 12:40 pm
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though that looks like a pic from his own portfolio.

pfft! how rude!
surely you can tell that's Dave!? look at the brothel creepers for a start, never mind his substantial girth.


 
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I am currently mostly loving this:

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But Bath, Tribute, doom bar are all also lovely!


 
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pfft! how rude!
surely you can tell that's Dave!? look at the brothel creepers for a start, never mind his substantial girth.

Now you come to mention it, with those sidey's there is quite a resemblance to Burchy1...


 
Posted : 04/12/2011 6:16 pm