Talking Bottled Beer.

Doug · 23-04-2005, 21:09

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

Margaret Pilkington · 23-04-2005, 21:16

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

Doug · 23-04-2005, 21:20

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

Margaret Pilkington · 23-04-2005, 21:24

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

Doug · 23-04-2005, 21:31

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.

Margaret Pilkington · 23-04-2005, 21:35

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!

entwisi · 23-04-2005, 21:37

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

Doug · 23-04-2005, 21:52

Amen to that entwisi. Hobgoblin, Humbug and the witches are all favourites. Gold Label is one from my past that was over done and I could never face another one.

Bazf · 23-04-2005, 22:56

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

Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail

Greene King St Edmonds.

Tinkerbelle · 24-04-2005, 00:18

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

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mez · 24-04-2005, 08:50

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.

Tinkerbelle · 24-04-2005, 12:38

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Originally Posted by mez

i think its now called resolution tinks.

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

wayneyboy1942 · 24-04-2005, 13:03

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!

staggeringman · 24-04-2005, 15:50

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.

Sparkologist · 24-04-2005, 16:27

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