what is the best beer you have ever tasted?

[Leon103]

I agree with you whole-heartedly. While I occasionally come across a commercial beer that is as good as my AG brews, it's much more likely to be worse. I guess they cut corners in search of pennies.

Or you cut corners and buy cheap commercial beer.

 

[dad_of_jon]

impossible to say....

yesterday my wheat beer
today a triple karmeliet.
tomorrow a kasteel rouge
even lager has its place on the right day

 

[Sadfield]

impossible to say....

yesterday my wheat beer
today a triple karmeliet.
tomorrow a kasteel rouge
even lager has its place on the right day

This, 99% of the time. Then there are beers or situations that transcend expectations. A combination of the two is something special.

 

[britton]

Jaipur

 

[prog99]

Lomond Gold from Traditional Scottish Ales, this was about 6 years ago but since the brewery changed hands it's no where near as good.

I’ve had it in all guises and don’t remember it ever being good to be honest.

 

[Norfolk79]

I agree with you whole-heartedly. While I occasionally come across a commercial beer that is as good as my AG brews, it's much more likely to be worse. I guess they cut corners in search of pennies.

Agreed. Best one I've tasted was probably my tweaked Greg Hughes American Pale Ale (Using Apollo as a bittering hop). Shame the keg didn't last very long as it was popular with friends. Got nicknamed Moonlander IPA

 

[Cwrw666]

Or you cut corners and buy cheap commercial beer.

I buy what the pub sells. Don't be a ...

 

[AntComo]

Impossible to say without context...

I used to love grabbing a Sierra Nevada at the Wetherspoons next to work every evening as I'd just changed careers and started working part-time and that beer was my reward for taking my life back from the 9-5. Same bottle I'd get from the shops but it was special.

Or after a year living in Sicily I'd spent all my downtime having to either pay through the nose for (admittedly good) Italian craft beer or drink the standard (but not without its place) Nastro Azzuro and Moretti lager. The lagers cost €1.50 a bottle as opposed to €6 a pint for the good stuff so you can't really justify the extra expense too often. Anyway one day we went to see a friend's band play at a bar and when browsing the 'craft ale' fridge a familiar label caught my eye - London bloody Pride.

Couldn't believe I found a bottle of that in Sicily of all places, so that was probably my favourite pint of pride despite living off the stuff for ten years in London properly poured into a pint glass.

Actually my biggest surprise in Italy was finding Lagunitas on tap in Siena. One of my go-to favourite bottled beers, to find it on tap (and to swipe a branded beermat) was wonderful.

Oh, interesting fact about Italy. Tenants Super (yes, the same one you see stashed next to the White Lightning in the off-license) is to Italian bars what Peroni is to us in the UK. It's in every bar, well-known as an imported lager that gets loads of publicity and seems to have an air of being a 'premium' British beer. Different strokes I guess...

 

[Leon103]

I buy what the pub sells. Don't be a ...

?????

 

[Brew_DD2]

The Italians love a "Special Brew". So much so that Loch Lomond Brewery do a lager specially for the Italian market called Helles Angel. A hefty 8%. Delicious too.

 

[AntComo]

The Italians love a "Special Brew". So much so that Loch Lomond Brewery do a lager specially for the Italian market called Helles Angel. A hefty 8%. Delicious too.

I think that's it - there's a national beer called Ceres that's advertised everywhere too, about 9%abv. Whilst I don't know anyone who drinks it culturally it makes sense. You go out and have one, two beers tops and you drink slowly. I have to explain to people the reasoning behind a 'session' ale

 

[MickDundee]

I am seriously surprised no one prefers there home brew, when I first tasted my 1st all grain which was totally different to what I was aiming for my 1st thought was why don't they make this commercially.

I’m not surprised that people would choose a commercial beer. What I am surprised about it some of the beers that have been chosen.

I’m going to go for 71 Brewing’s Left coast IPA out of a fresh keg in their taproom. I’ve had the cans and I’ve had it in other pubs in Dundee and it’s just a bog-standard American IPA (in fact I bought some cans when I was there and was incredibly disappointed when I got home), but in their tap room it’s phenomenal! It might even have only been that batch because I haven’t been to their taproom since. Otherwise one of the Rochefort beers.

 

[GotOneBrewin]

Stones Bitter, best enjoyed at ambient temperature on a muggy evening and straight from the can.

 

[Norse John]

I'm new to the game, in the most simple can-kit ways, but I've had my most satisfying beer and wine from what little I've experimented with in my limited experience from my own home brews.

I get the simple ingredients, I know where the water has come from, I know what HASN'T been put in. Better and a lot cheaper than any mainstream rubbish by a mile, with the added bonus of learning and developing along the way and less expense

My favourite so far was Young's Harvest stout with 0.5kg of EDME and 0.5 kilo of dextrose. Spicy, dark, smooth aftertaste. Loved it.

 

[Norse John]

Double post.

 

[prog99]

The Italians love a "Special Brew". So much so that Loch Lomond Brewery do a lager specially for the Italian market called Helles Angel. A hefty 8%. Delicious too.

They are also a big market for single malts that are just old enough to be called so. I thought I'd seen some bargains in the supermarket until I looked a bit closer.

 

[Rodcx500z]

I used to love stones bitter back end of 70s, anyone got a clone recipe

 

[Rodcx500z]

Just googled this

Stones Best Bitter - 23 litres


Stones Best Bitter

Brewlength - 23 litres
Efficiency - 78%
Estimated OG - 1042
Estimated FG - 1009
ABV - 4.3%

Grist

Pale Malt 3870g
Crystal Malt 170g
Torrified Wheat 170g

Hops

Goldings Hops 30 Bittering units, added at start of the boil.
Goldings Hops 16g, added at the last 15 minutes of the boil.
Goldings Hops 6g, added at the end of the boil, soak for 30 mins.

Use Englist Ale Yeast

 

[GotOneBrewin]

I used to love stones bitter back end of 70s, anyone got a clone recipe

You're a wrong'un. I used to sample said beer from a shed-kiosk at Coventry speedway when I were a lad, where warm cans were available for those too tight or underage to go to the proper bar.

 

[celsius]

One of the best pints I ever had was at Newquay. We had been for a walk along the beach, myself, wife and then only daughter. The wife was pregnant with our second. We stopped at a pub and I had a pint of Tribute from the St Austell brewery just down the road. At that moment, with those I love it was probably the best pint I ever drank...and Ive had a few!