What's your local beer?

Same ones as carlos. No problem getting a good pint around here.

I’m on the outskirts of Brussels so quite a few… here are some very local ones though.

This one is brewed in Brussels itself – the “Senne” in the name of the brewery is the river that runs through Brussels (you can only see parts of the river now, most of it is covered up).

A new brewery based in Waterloo, featuring the lion from the lion’s mound at Waterloo.

The beer for the tourists…which is actually pretty good, as you’d expect here.

Lots of brewers in Bristol, but this is my favourite:

Slaters in stafford makes a few nice beers too. And I can vouch for Jekkyl that the Titanic brewery make nice stuff, the ‘local’ farm shop sells a few Stafforshire brews.

Also, from Aldi

85p!! And quite nice on a Saturday night for watching a film with

Bath Ales are quite close and make the delicious Wild Hare amongst others, but the Wild Beer Company makes some lovely ones (and some bloody awful ones as well!)

http://www.wildbeerco.com/

The nearest
http://www.pilgrim.co.uk

jekkyl – Member

great question: I hail from Stoke (live here not from here) and we do have an excellent local brewery. Titanic. http://www.titanicbrewery.co.uk/c/our-beers/the-titanic-fleet/

Their plum porter is excellent, one of my favourite ales.

Not beer but this is my most local booze:
http://www.cromwellcider.co.uk/index.html
The ABV is always a complete lie; 2-3 pints will get you a poking with the drunk stick, half a dozen will get you beaten to death with it.

Loads of them but i’m mostly drinking these right now: http://cervesamontseny.cat/en/beers/

Ooohh a glass with a handle made my Northern toes curl.. not right, will never be right, smash them.

We have Phipps NBC in Northampton. I have been known to sip a Phipps IPA once in a while.

Pretty awesome to see how many great beers we produce here 😀

These are based in the next village from me.

Do some great beer including a green hop one in September.

1 mile from Craddocks
1.2 miles from Bathams and Green Duck
2 miles from Sadlers
Few more miles to Kinver, Enville, Sarah Hughes, Pardoes, Fixed Wheel, Black Country Ales, Holdens, Banks’, Pig iron and probably many more I can’t think of

Walking distance:

Abbey ales
Electric bear
(Plus 2 gin distilleries)

A short ride away:

Bath ales
Handmade cider co
Box steam brewery

Pied Bull
Kash
Brewery Tap
Forest House
Brewhouse & Kitchen
Deva (Bear & Billet, Cellar Bar and Cross Keys).
Weetwood (The Mill)
Yet none of them do a decent bloody mild.

In my adopted country it’s whitewater brewery, Hilden, mourne or longmeadow cider

In God’s country it’s Brains

My favourite Beer Pub, ever.

The Flower Pots, Cheriton, Hampshire.

Upham Ales are just down the road, Wallops Wood too, both produce great beers. In saying that I’ve not been to the Hampshire Bowman in a while, think I might go there tomorrow night.

Acorn Brewey in Barnsley. The owner has a real ale pub in town which sells plenty of their own ales. Gorlovka is a good beer.

Microbrewery in my garage, next closest is Hogs Back brewery at about 2km away 🙂

Lots of smaller breweries opening there own bars around the north east now which is great to see.

Bummer is I’m coeliac so a bit limited, but Hadrian & Border brewery have opened a great pub in Gateshead near the high level bridge and they have a cracking pint Grainger Ale which is GF. Thankfully that gets picked up by a load of pubs now, so one has started hitting the town again with his dancing shoes on.

I have (I do, I really do…) to buy quite a bit in online or make detours whilst at work to breweries to pick up decent GF beer.

Went to Oundle recently to the Nene Valley Brewery, some fantastic beers and all GF.
Westerham Brewery in Kent are really good as well, Wold Top near Scarborough and Hambletons near Ripon.

About 200m as the drunken crow flies from Binghams

Purveyors of the GBBF Supreme Champion Beer of Britain 2016 – vanilla stout

Hawkshead Brewery, although it’s not very local. They do one called lakeland gold which is quite nice. Actually, Coniston Brewery is closer, but I dunno if that counts; think they only do one beer.

I only really drink Guiness, or blue wickeds; not sure real ale has caught on here as well as it has in other parts of the county/country.

There’re no breweries in Barrow that I know of; all Barrovians drink lager. Ulverston’s Hartleys brewery closed just before real ale became fashionable IIRC.

Just round the corner it’s Cairngorm Brewery (I can see it from my window). A nice range of beers but they’ve saturated the locale making alternatives difficult to find.

Other nearby favourites are Spey Valley Brewery and Windswept.

Wye Valley Brewery, can’t go wrong with a Butty Back or HPA.

Well, you can, more than four is a recipe for disaster, both that night and the next day, but after the third I usually forget this fact!

Quite a few within 10 miles.

West Berkshire (and hence Renegade)
Butts
Hermitage
Indigenous
Innformal
Two Cocks

Out of ones I really like, Siren and Red Cat are probably closest.

Not far, and their pub is just around the corner.

The biggest local.

Buuuut, we’ve got the Irwell Valley Brewery in Ramsbottom, which, to my taste, is pretty much perfect.
They even do a lovely drop for the infirm and visitors from all points south:

I’ve genuinely just noticed, but it looks, rather appropriately, like that might be the work of Binners.
🙂

Saltaire Brewery is about half a mile away as the crow flies. Nice beers, widely available. I’m quite partial to their Triple Chocoholic chocolate stout

And

And finally

I think the most local is from the 6 degrees north brewery.

http://sixdnorth.co.uk

Sadly Chippenham no longer has a brewery, used to be Slade’s Brewery, but there are loads of breweries around, several have been mentioned, like Bath Ales, Wiper and True and Stroud Ales, but there’s Wadworth’s in Devizes, Moles in Melksham, Flying Monk in Hullavington, Box Steam Brewery, Abbey Ales, Castle Combe Brewery, there’s a new one in Bradford-on-Avon, Milk Brewery in Frome, all the breweries around Bristol…
Difficult to keep track, there are almost certainly others I’ve forgotten.
And I’ve managed to drink a pretty wide selection of the product from all those listed.
It’s a filthy job, but some poor sod has to to it, in the interests of protecting the populace from inferior products.

Sulwath brewery in Castle Douglas for me, only 10 miles away and the nearest after that is up at Ayr 60 miles away

Phesantry IPA

Roaring Meg

Jaipur

😉

For research purposes, why don’t you guys send me four bottles of your favourite ale from around the country and I will taste them and let you know which tastes the best.
It may take some months bur I will do it for free. 😀

Love this thread
I can tell where you all live from the breweries , and what you like to drink from the beer styles
Having been a ‘professional’ brewer since I was 17, I have made over 10,000,000 pints of beer in my lifetime so thats alot of ( hopefully ) happy drinkers.
Its not easy . Designing new brews, coming up with catchy or clever names and original ideas can be hard. Brewing consistant quality beer, and keeping the taste and colour the same with a constantly changing supply of raw materials takes skill and effort.
The time it takes to simply design a new bottle label, that meets all supplier and legal requirements can take months, can be right first time, but mostly it isnt.
Cheers

Nutbrook Brewery Responsibly

Brewed in a garage up the road. Everyone should drink Responsibly.

Nene Valley
Oakham Ales
And quite a few micro breweries, helped by the fact we have the largest beer festival outside of London each August.

Not a big real ale drinker. More partial to a wheat beer, so do like Oakham White Dwarf when I can get it.

McMullens

Loving how this thread has morphed from beer appreciation into a massive cock waving session 😉 😛

The closest is probably:

Unless (yet) another one has opened up since I last checked! Within the immediate surrounding area (upto 15 minutes drive) there are a few more:

And there are many, many, many more!!!