your favourite beer?

[Robbie8666]

depends what they got on from the guest ales but Sharps Doom Bar or Otter or Skinners is good in Cornwall or Castle Rock brewery when visiting my folks in Nottingham,
 
Beer festival is on 28th Jume so will let you know in July which i prefered lol 

[Dead Eye]

My preference is Budweiser, but I'll typically drink most common beers (can't comment on more exotic or rare varieties) apart from Fosters... that stuff is vile

[HarryHornby]

I love anything hoppy, do enjoy a bit of Timoth Taylor's Landlord and anything from the Dark Star Brewery, very nice ales :-)  Rather partial to a pint of Spitfire too.
I won't drink Doombar ever since Sharps were bought out by Molson Coors.

[bigralphie]

Single malt kind of a guy


My cooking lager is US bud


but my favorites are Czech, Pilsner Urquell and Konrad

[keithfzs1000]

Lagavulin, talisker, laphroaig, caol ila, Bruichladdich,  mmmm yes I like the islay malts the peatier smokier the better

[Tefer]

Love trying craft beers.


Schiehallion, Arran Blonde, Buddy's Bourbon beer, Innis & Gunn Original.


Amigo tequila beer (Cheaper than Desperado's) will be nice in the summer on a Hot day [size=78%] (if we get one in Scotland)[/size]

[fazersharp]

Tefer - sounds like we are the same I am drinking that Amigo at the mo and looking forward to it in the summer after a nice ride, I like inns and gunn too.
I was in asda eairler and lined up my faves for you all

[Hedgetrimmer]

I find that Doom Bar stuff tastes a bit sickly sweet after 3 or 4 - popular around here though. Dark Star is what they used to put on at the Magna Carta rallies, very good!
Went to a little bar in Enschede in Holland one time where they sold something like 180 different bottled beers - wish that was my local! They had the correctly logo'd glasses for many of them too. They also had some old Brit bike in a glass case on the wall, very early, 1920s/30s or something like.

[Tefer]

Tefer - sounds like we are the same I am drinking that Amigo at the mo and looking forward to it in the summer after a nice ride, I like inns and gunn too.
I was in asda eairler and lined up my faves for you all

Thanks Fazersharp i'll try some of these

[Oldgit]

 St Mungo brewed in Glasgow.

[yoyo]

I'm with bigralphie,  single malt (Ardbeg) for a nice drink and any lager for a build up!   

[AMW]

Pelforth Brune not easy to get in England I normally bring some back from France to keep me going between trips (I spend a lot of time in France as that is where half the family live.) 

Andrew
 

[River Valley]

Pretty-much all of the Belgian Trappist beers, which are easy for me as I'm in the Mosel Valley, close to the Belgian and Luxembourg borders, where I stock up. Also like heiferweissen (wheat beer) and Alt (pale ale) here in Germany. Spoilt for choice really!
Usually have a single malt chaser with them - particularly Talisker.

[fireblake]

A Large Mythos, served in a beach bar on any Greek Island.

Served in a frozen glass


Mickey

[zippywight]

Tefer - sounds like we are the same I am drinking that Amigo at the mo and looking forward to it in the summer after a nice ride, I like inns and gunn too.
I was in asda eairler and lined up my faves for you all

Looks like in you're picture fazersharp,  all your favourites are temporary out of stock

[Hedgetrimmer]

Pretty-much all of the Belgian Trappist beers, which are easy for me as I'm in the Mosel Valley, close to the Belgian and Luxembourg borders, where I stock up. Also like heiferweissen (wheat beer) and Alt (pale ale) here in Germany. Spoilt for choice really!
Usually have a single malt chaser with them - particularly Talisker.

I always thought Alt Bier was the German dark beer, if my (somewhat limited) memory serves correctly. I remember having it in a tall glass in a bar in Gutersloh with strawberries in the bottom, and a long handled spoon to scoop them out with - luvvvvverly! Curiously filling though (looks puzzled).
The favourite beer out there for us lot (RAF) was Warsteiner - "wobbly" as it got nicknamed. Not like the crap we get in bottles here, proper non-chemically-abused stuff    What I can remember of the Wobbly Brewery Trip is.............er, nothing 
 
And on a detachment to Kaufbeuren, we did our best to drink the local breweries dry - mostly Weiz(ss?)enbier - this was pale in colour, strong, with sediment that you had to let settle to the bottom after pouring.
And whilst there, a Dutch F16 pilot (said he was anyway, and I was too pissed to argue    ) introduced us to a very wicked way of drinking Vodka. Take one tall, slim glass. FILL with vodka. Place a slice of lemon on top. Put a teaspoonful of sugar, and a teaspoonful of instant coffee on the lemon slice. Fold the lemon slice and eat, then down the vodka in one!!! 
The idea was that the sugar took the bitterness out of the lemon, the lemon meant you wouldn't taste the vodka, and the coffee enabled you to keep going all night! HEALTH WARNING - I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU TRY THIS AT HOME!!! 
 
One other nasty little poison comes to mind (apart from weissenkorn etc) from my time out there: Kummerling. Served in tiny miniatures bottles - you hold the neck of the bottle between your teeth and throw your head back - and the Kummerling burns like foc all the way down!
 
Funnily enough, I didn't achieve a great deal in Germany 

[noggythenog]

I dont drink!!

 

I am very partial to Norfolk Wherry, or Albion beer - yum! The local pub also sells a beer called Doom Bar - it's cornish, quite tasty, and you can't go wrong at the price!

My preferred alcoholic beverage is Breton Cider. Not your piss poor, slightly boozy apple juice that tastes like goats piss, or the overly sweet Stella Artois cidre (poncy stuff for Belgian poofters!), I'm talking a glass of cold, Val de Rance Heritage Celte cider, made not 10 minutes from home in Brittany, from apples around my home.

Or if I'm really, really lucky, it's the cider my friend Maurice Boixière gets from a farmer down the road. The famer only makes something like 100 bottles a year, but my god, is it tasty! Christ knows what the alcohol content is, but after a sip or two, you really don't care. 

Who are you kidding Christo




We know what you really drink.

[fazersharp]

Looks like in you're picture fazersharp,  all your favourites are temporary out of stock

Errr ----------- that would be me drinking them all

[fireblake]

Last night i had a couple of pints of Old Speckled Hen. Very nice.




Mickey

[bigfootpete]

It used to Kirin, but that has been surpassed by Tsing Tao, very tasty beer :-)

[stevierst]

No alcohol for 5 days. bloody antibiotics!

I'll make up for it in 10 days time when I'm in my cruise with free drinks :P

[VNA - BMW Wank]

Not a big beer drinker these days.
But I do like the occasional pint of good real ale.  Nice to see Arran beer being mentioned, yeah good stuff, and it's nice to have a pint o it after climbing some of the Arran hills.

Lager, I do like a bottle Furstenberg, one of the very few lagers I can find in the supermarket actually worth drinking.

Like others, more into my Whisky.

For regular consumption you can't beat Black Grouse or Black Bottle.  Note that Black Bottle has been completely reworked and a much better dram than it was just a few months ago. Plus both are often discounted by the supermarkets.  Don't underestimate good blends.

And if you like blends, for a few quid more you can have a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label, a extremely complex dram, often misunderstood but many will argue that there is no better whisky - period.  Strange that my favourite 3 blends are all called black.  Though Tesco was selling Ballantines a while back at a good price, lovely dram, but I don't see anybody other than some of the Whisky specialists selling it now.

Single Malts?  Ones that I've been really impressed with - Stonachie, anything from the Springbank distillery, Talisker 10yo, Glendronach (it's back on form) and yes Bruichladdich (worryingly it's changed hands again), oh and Kilchoman (distillery founded 2005) really impressed me.  My bottle of precious 3 year old Kilchoman (and generally I never hang onto bottles) might get opened on September the 19th this year, or failing that it might end up on e-bay in a few years time.

I do often like bottles that have Cask Strength or more importantly non-chillfiltered stamped on em. 

Did somebody mention Laphroaig?  Some folks love it, it's got a fanatical following, but for me I'd get more pleasure out of licking a used ash tray which has similar taste, finish and levels of sophistication    But hey each to their own.

[fazersharp]

Looks like all of those who dont like beer much go for whisky ---- so why dont we have a "your favourite whisky" thread ( i wont be there as I dont like the stuff)

[fireblake]

A great beer i had on holiday in Polperro, Cornwall  last year was Keltek Magik. A really nice brew.


Mickey

[noggythenog]

My fave beer...at the mo...well lager......good old strong as fok Tyskie.




It isnt too carbonated so goes down quicker