True Mackem, me.
Double Maxim. Back on my student days I used to drink it straight from the bottle, none of this pouring into a glass for me! Much prefer it to Newcastle Brown Ale, as I always found that "heavy".
Vaux Samson, proper hand pulled draft. Back when Jimmy Clough managed the Saltgrass it was like drinking liquid gold.
Sadly since the original (my brother calls it the proper) Vaux closed, both don't taste quite the same, but are still good drinks.
I do like a good German larger, especially Dortmunder, but in hot weather any larger is refreshing and gorgeous. I've had some cracking pints of 80 shilling up in Scotland over the years, some of the craft/specialist beers around now are too class, including the "new" Vaux. But I'm going Double Max and Samson.
I had 13 pints of Double maxim and two bottles of Newcastle brown ale, back in the day when we beat West Ham 6-0, I was a little tipsy
