Rocket fuel Knights cider 8.4% Frosty jacks 7.5% Omega ( always have bad guts after drinking that ) 7.5%
Once visited Camerons brewery in Hartlepool for the guided tour. Anyway a bunch of policemen from Scarbrough were the other mob who were turning up for this tour. They never turned up so we were given the option of the tour or just sit and sample the goods. Obviously the latter won. My boss at the time who had organised this says "well I suggest we try a half of everything find one we like and then have a few pints". 40 odd years old, wtf is a half at that age. Fk that. It was a pint of everything. Anyway eventually opted for the Crown Ale. Fkn hell that stuff is put your own windows out. Still it was a bloody good free night out.
Digressing slightly but I think at the time in the town centre there were 15 S&N pubs. Either a Friday or a Saturday we used to do the 15. Starting at the Park Inn working through to the Upper Deck and ending up at the Imps or the Central. Exhibition, IPA and possibly McKewans scotch with the obligatory Brown Ale. I believe the beer scooter used to get me home on them nights although I had cell 3 reserved for quite a few months around that time
Probably too many to mention over the years but nowadays its usually Shipyard, Landlord or Stones. I do like to try the craft/real ale beers BUT I can thoroughly recommend NOT GETTING the Friut Salad IPA I tried a few weeks ago.
My preference is sour beer if there is one. I like most of the varieties gose, lambic, wild ale. Vault City do some great ones and easy to get, most tescos stock at least a couple of flavours. I love a weissbier. Hoegaarden is canny and Blue Moon is nice too. You're lucky if a pub has any of the above though so I'll normally end up with one of the more widely available higher abv lagers or IPAs...Madri, Stella, Staropramen, Punk IPA etc all decent enough.
My local has this on regularly mate. Spectacular. But then when it is available he gets a Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby, which knocks spots off everything. You have to be quick though, the barrel will be gone on night 1 as literally every one wants their taste of it.
Discovered Tangle Foot years ago in a pub in Old Tew in Oxfordshire ( known for real ales, used to sell snuff , flagstones and toilet a few cottages away ! ) About eight of us, sampling different ales, trying each others and everyone eventually homing in on Tangle Foot for the night. In the debrief next day, it was renamed ''Tangle Tongue'' and as no one had had much idea of what they were saying or hearing, the term ''he's speaking in scribble'' was born
Budvar is excellent. Thankfully, they export to the UK, whereas the Staropramen we get here is brewed in Burton-on-Trent, so is sub-standard. Big shout out for other Czech beers - Gambrinus, Pilsner Urquell, Bernard and Krusovice.
