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I’ve just opened a bottle of Bombardier “English Premium Bitter” I’m not impresses I’ve had better bottled beer. What’s good and what’s not? What are your top five bottled Beers/Ales?

My top five bottled Beers/Ales

Black Sheep
Gunniness
Hawkshead Gold
Duchy Original Organic Ale
Taylor’s Pale Ale

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Doug I know absolutely nothing about bottled beer........I'm only ever allowed to wash up the glass........aaaaaaaah!

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You Madam. Need to be educated as to what your missing..........

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Oh yeah, and sometimes I'm allowed to take out the empties.........what a sad and sheltered life I lead.

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Get to your local offy and buy two or three bottles of ale/beer and try them tomorrow evening. I would suggest you start with the blondes? Pale ales like Taylor’s or maybe the summer ales that are increasingly popular today.

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I'm not fond of beer.......ssssh.......I will whisper this........sometimes when I take out the empties there is just a drop in the bottom ........and I have been know to test it.......but it doesn't taste nice.

I am sometimes allowed to have a whisky and sofa..........or a gin and chronic.......but I have to have been very very good!

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Thwaites East Lancs Brown Ale knocks Newky into a cocked hat anyday, Poured into a half pint glass its superb. A dark rum chaser tops it off lovely.

Old Peculiar is always a favourite

Fullers ESB is a nice session beer. As is HobGoblin.

I prefer the stronger ales, Quality, not quantity so stuff like Gold label does satisfy me(with a Wood's 100 rum chaser :) )however I do like stuff around the 6-8% mark. It holds a much better 'condition' than the weaker stuff.

Going back a few years though I used to love Big Ben and Old Dan from Thwaites, topping up a half of Mild.(A good pint of Thwaites Mild is superb, Mitchells Mild used to be awesome, shame they stopped brewing.)

Ian

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I'm a Newky Brown and also Newky Amber fan myself but if you get chance try

Woodfordes Headcraker 7.0%:)
Ballards WMD 9.4%:)
Druham White Magic 7.0%:):)

But these are nmy favorite real ales, oh how I miss a good real pint.
Youngs Dirty Dick:):):)
Moorhouses Black Cat:):);):D
Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail:):)
Greene King St Edmonds.:):D

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My favourite by far, Low 'C'! I used to drink it by the crate load and not an inch on my waist, I have been drinking Carling lager for a while now and can see the start of a little paunch so I'm dead set on reverting back to Low 'C' if only I knew what it had changed its name to :confused: ?

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i think its now called resolution tinks, i had a couple the other day.(still got the inches on the waist though ) ha ha ha, must admit its not too bad a drink.

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:thumbsup: Cheers mez thats the one, I was hoping someone would know :drunk:

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I'll drink bitter but my fav lager is Becks,in a bottle or in a glass,when it comes to brewing beer the Germans take some beating!

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you cant beat ale freshly pulled from a cask!if the ale is sat in the cellar and allowed to mature right you are obviously getting a stronger drink than what it is supposed to be,you dont get that in bottles otherwise there would be bottles popping all over the place.Have you noticed that when you open a bottle its head goes very quick.tinkers once a year you can get resolution out of a cask at the same strength as the bottle and maybe stronger this is only brewed in january but its bloody good stuff.

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I can vouch for the ales seved at the Drunken Duck Inn between Ambleside & Coniston, in the Lake District.

The ale named Tag Lag, after one of their sheepdogs, is mighty damn fine out of a bottle; but as Staggers' says, they taste far better out of a cask.
The rest of the Barngates Brewery's portfolio are equally tasty. Tag Lag is the only one that I have had the pleasure of from a bottle though.

Here's the link to the Drunken Duck Inn & Barngates Brewery website: http://www.drunkenduckinn.co.uk/brewery.htm