Name your favourite shop bought beers.

[Chippy_Tea]

The snug thread gave me the idea to post this.

Name your top 3 shop bought beers (more if you wish)

My favourites at the moment are below, there are hundreds i have yet to try so this may change over time.

Beers you have tried and would buy again multi choice poll added 15/9, due to poll answer limits i could only add the more readily available beers from the thread to the list.

 

[Gerryjo]

At the moment mi e are

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

What a conundrum! At the moment my top 3 might be these 9 - but it would be so easy to add a few others!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

At the moment mi e are

What a conundrum! At the moment my top 3 might be these 9 - but it would be so easy to add a few others!

I can see i have a long way to go, the only one i have tried in the thread so far is the Punk IPA.

 

[NormanHurst]

I have been trying a fair few Tesco and Sainsburys beers over Lockdown. Larger online click and collect orders changing buying habits - and brewing myself make me curious about styles I'd ignored for a while. Some v good. Lots of meh beers, though too.

Top 3 candidates? Maybe....
Dartmoor Jail Ale - have my eye on @Cheshire Cat 's clone recipe
Robinsons Old Tom
Duvel Citra
Thornbridge Jaipur

Could add lots more from locsl craft beer shop but keeping in mainstream

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

What a conundrum! At the moment my top 3 might be these 9 - but it would be so easy to add a few others!

I’ve missed so many off this list, including Sharps Sea Fury (drinking that tomorrow at a friends house). I shouldn’t have let myself get drawn in, I feel like a parent that has declared a favourite child

 

[DavidHatton]

As I buy most of my shop bought beers from Tesco,In no particular order I will start there.

 

[pms67]

It’s Punk IPA
Fullers ESB
Vocation Love and Hate

 

[Chippy_Tea]

As I buy most of my shop bought beers from Tesco,In no particular order I will start there.

Same here Dave and i also like -

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I can see i have a long way to go, the only one i have tried in the thread so far is the Punk IPA.

Busy weekend

 

[AdeDunn]

Old Peculiar
Fullers ESB
Fullers London Pride
Hobgoblin Gold
Sadler's Mud City Stout

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Hobgoblin Gold

Another i have had more than once.

 

[DavidHatton]

Same here Dave and i also like -

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Not tried the milk stout yet will give it a try next week.

 

[AdeDunn]

Another i have had more than once.


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It's just so easy to drink! Must get around to re-brewing the clone I did that time, was spot on as it's super easy to clone. No obscure yeasts or anything in there.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Not tried the milk stout yet will give it a try next week.

Bear in mind my taste buds are not what they used to be, if you like the sound of this go for it -


JonnoWillsteed from England
4.15/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

L- Effectively black, appears clear, pours with 7mm mid-tan fine-bubble head (10mins later it's holding well).
S- Coffee + that distinctive scent of a fireplace hearth the morning after a good log fire.
T- It has more to it than I was expecting from a beer based upon an ABV of 4.4%. The taste follows the Smell^, coffee, log ashes, some dark chocolate, then a hoppy dry note rises to prominence through that, finishing with the return of coffee and smokey ashes again. Lactose beer can come across as overtly sweet, this is very much not like that, in fact I'd suggest this is hoppier and more bitter than an average stout - and to me better for it.
F- It's deep and pungent, but the notable hopping brings balance. It certainly doens't come over as a lowly 4.4%. Blind tasted I might guess it as 5.2-5.4%.
O- I like it it's a stout with clear character; it's not a bland factory mega-brew stout. I am not/never have been a fan of Guinness etc, but if this kind of stout was sold in my younger years I wouldn't have carried the, not past, decades long prejudice against the style :) Really nice, and not what I was expecting. I'd happily buy this again.
Bought from Tesco, London W11 £1.90/500ml BB: 28/04/2021.
p.s. Only now do I notice a 'World Beer Award 2019 - UK - Winner' logo.

 

[MickDundee]

I assume by “shop bought”, we are talking about available from the supermarket?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I assume by “shop bought”, we are talking about available from the supermarket?

We have a small shop in our small town that sells many different beers (i assume other towns/Cities also do) so no this is not limited to supermarkets.

 

[An Ankoù]

The snug thread gave me the idea to post this.

Name your top 3 shop bought beers (more if you wish)

My favourites at the moment are below, there are hundreds i have yet to try so this may change over time.




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Don't know the last one, but can't imagine it would be anything other than excellent. I'm impressed, Chippy, I'd got the idea you were strictly wine.

 

[Hanglow]

Too many good ones....
Fyne Jarl
Orval
Tempest long white cloud.

That'll do for the pale ales at least ...

 

[An Ankoù]

But I haven't had an Old Peculier for yonks and my interpretation was miles off the mark.