Is the Barnes Wallis near Howden Station still running? I remember that used to serve a good pint a few years ago.
Drink Lager (mostly). My dislike of lager is on the mass produced, tasteless brands (Carlsberg, Carling, Fosters, Bud, Coors, Heineken, Stella, etc). Same with ale, stuff like John Smiths/Tetleys "smooth" is totally bland and undrinkable. There is some real crap out there and you need to seek out the good stuff. Our local has the following lagers: Bitburger, Kozel, Duvel Single and Köstritzer Schwarzbier. All good and I will sometimes drink them in preference to bitter depending on how the mood takes me.
Last time I was in (same night as I went to Larkins - see above), the beer was good but the place was near empty - about 6 drinkers on a Friday night! Seems like they'd been raided, maybe twice, and the whole crew had moved to the Queens!!
and the irony is that mass produced lager is cheaper to make and keep than bitter so you are being ripped off. I prefer ale (not just bitter) because (1) its not served ice cold, (2) its not got carbon dioxide forced into it to make is gassy. (3) its not a sweet as lager and (4) at least in this country there is more variety and more different tastes to try.
I seem to remember Marsden Pedigree being a good drink. Then it got really popular and they could't replicate the same taste when they mass produced it (IMO).
Leffe Blonde or brun, hobgoblin but i do like a pint of ice cold Stella or kronenburg. Did any one see that Jamie Oliver battle of Britain where they took a load of independent British beers and put them up against Belgian beers. Making me thirsty all this beer talk might be a friday flyer for me
Nothing better than hand pulled Boddingtons, Tetleys or John Smiths. imo. In saying that, Admiral do have some very good guest beers as well.
Agree pretty much with everything Oregon says. Personally love any decent micro-brewed ale but fave style is light hoppy citrusy. You can't beat a good Real Ale festival. As Michael Jackson (the revered whisky taster, not the singer) once said - The problem with the British public is they respond to advertising rather than taste.
Anyone had 'Brooklyn Lager' ?? Not actually a lager and it's the recipe that was used during 1920's prohibition in America and it tastes amazing... A great middleway between a posh lager and a beer. Quite rare to see it on tap and it's £2 (ish) a bottle (330ml) in Tesco so quite an expensive habit Also 'Blue Moon' is one I've got a taste for recently.. Lovely stuff But my favorite will always be an 'Adnams Explorer' sitting in a pub in Southwold on the Suffolk Coast... Can't beat it!
I had some of that in Covent Garden of all places. Not bad, far better than any commercial beer. However, for a really good American beer I've developed a taste for Chicago Goose Island beers. Only ever seen them in my local Off-License though.
Great Newsome do a lager style ale,but iv'e not tried it yet. Newsomes ales are always great though !
Goose Island is a good American beer from the new wave of micro breweries that started up following a change in the law in the mid-80s (previously it was illegal to both brew beer and own the outlets where it was sold. My own favourite is Arrogant Bastard/ from Stone Brewing. Just love the spiel: "Perhaps you think multi-million dollar ad campaigns make things taste better. Perhaps you’re mouthing your words as you read this...".
I prefer the "Ghost Ship" or "Broadside" to Explorer. But I agree with the sentiment, Southwold is a great place to chill out with several pints of Adnams.
When I am in Hull, I enjoy a pint of Worthington Cream flow, odd really as it is really ****e! But it seems to fit in with my matchday, two or three in National before a quick rum in Brickies.. It's odd because I like speckled hen and National has it on tap! Down here, bitter is rubbish. There are some local brewers who do lovely ales, but the pubs are always out of the way and in some cases dire. Lager wise Duvel is by far my favourite, Pelforth blonde and brune really take so beating.
I went to the Lion and Key in the Old Town before the Watford game - excellent selection of ales, wish I'd discovered it sooner. It may just become my mandatory pre/post match pub. The main reason I never really drink on match-days is the pubs around the ground, (in fact most grounds) are crap. And stadium beer is even worse. The one exception I've found so far is the Stratford Haven in Nottingham. Very very good beer and only 10 mins from Forest's ground.
The Wlliam Hawkes pub across the way from the Manchester Arms in the Old Town is good for bitter as well.
I hardly drink lager and was obviously playing the goat with my delightful little jape. I drink Guiness when out and about and red wine at home. I was, however,bought a box set of traditional bottles of ale for Christmas. Thus far I've quaffed a bottle of Marsden's English Pale Ale which was quite nice to be honest.
I've got a mate who lives in a posh gaff in Christmas Common in Oxfordshire, he's always telling me how good the real ale is in his local(which is full of a weird mix of hippies and bikers and always has a roaring fire, even in the middle of summer), but it's warm, flat, tasteless ****e. I don't know what they do to beer in the south, but it's bloody awful, most of the pubs around me when I liven in London were Fuller's and the beer was cack.
Don't know if it's still open but it was the first pub in the country to have bouncers.... Boom boom (boom)
