Your all time favourite beer

[Ceejay]

I can't believe there hasn't been a thread for this (unless I just couldn't find it)

Name your all time favourite (or "go-to") beer and reasons.

Mine: T.E.A - Hogsback Brewery, Tongham

Firstly, it's a local beer from where my folks live and secondly I just think it's be most perfectly balanced beer I have ever tried. The colour is a perfect, deep amber. It delivers a really crisp, refreshing hop punch, whilst retaining subtle malt and fruit flavours. Like an IPA but more refined. Perfect, IMO!

 

[Mark1964]

The best pint i ever had was in a club in Welton and was bass mild and bass bitter mixed smooth and tasty.

 

[Wendy1971]

I love that beer brewed by monks Leffe Blond

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

I'd have to say Bombardier Bitter.

 

[the shadow]

Bombardie to 6 pints and im stotting :thumb: :drunk:

 

[stevander74]

broughton ales old jock.
strong dark malty ale
ideal for sitting supping whilst relaxing :thumb:

 

[hairybiker]

Well my all time favourite was Youngers No3 (But the last time I had a pint was early 90's :shock: )

Newer brews probably either Skullsplitter or Wildcat (dependant on the season) :grin:

 

[corby_brewer]

I'd have to say Bombardier Bitter.

Ill have to agree with John on this.
But McEwans Champion runs a very close second.
And the first and second batch of my Honey beer is the best HB beer, ive tried.

EDIT - GOD I MISS BREWING AND DRINKING.

 

[Moley]

AG#4 (Slightly Peculier), AG#6 (First Gold) and AG#7 (East Kent Goldings).

I've gone off commercial beer.

 

[Muddydisco]

Rasputins imperial rubber ducky is mine :thumb:

 

[Grumpy Jack]

Generally, I find a lot of non HB to be a bit tasteless these days, but there are a lot of new breweries out there who are producing some cracking beers. My all-time favourite, drink it over anything else if i fnd it in a pub, predictably so that noone needs to ask really has to be...

Adnams Broadside

I've been visiting Southwold where it's brewed since young and I seemed to be he only kid who loved the smell of the brewery when the wind was in the wrong (right) direction. It's a good dark ruby ale which has a nice foamy head, a stronger taste that's not quite as hoppy as the normal Adnams Bitter and it doesn't suit everyone for a session ale but I think it's an absolute belter!

 

[Baz Chaz]

Well brewing my own AG has really put the proverbial cat amongst the old pigeons

There were a few ales I quite enjoyed but little to beat a pint of Guiness in summer in a bar on the Connamara Coast in Ireland

but since I've started AG brewing I've found I'm more than happy with my own brews :thumb: and won't be bothering rushing off to the pub :whistle:

 

[snail59]

So far Tommyknockers Imperial Nut Brown Ale. Followed by St Peters Honey Porter.

 

[jamesb]

I love that beer brewed by monks Leffe Blond

mmm. Lot of monks in newport, south wales.

I may be wrong on which three of the uk inbev beer factories make it, but it certainly ain't brewed by monks.

 

[leedsbrew]

I love that beer brewed by monks Leffe Blond

mmm. Lot of monks in newport, south wales.

I may be wrong on which three of the uk inbev beer factories make it, but it certainly ain't brewed by monks.

100% monk free, but isn't it brewed at the Stella actatwat brewery in Leuven?

 

[Moley]

There were a few ales I quite enjoyed but little to beat a pint of Guiness in summer in a bar on the Connamara Coast in Ireland

Except maybe a pint (or several) of Murphy's ? :drink:

It doesn't travel though, the rubbish we get in the UK doesn't come anywhere even close to what's served in Ireland.

Do they have Summers over there? :wha:

but since I've started AG brewing I've found I'm more than happy with my own brews :thumb: and won't be bothering rushing off to the pub :whistle:

I prefer the prices too :

 

[dennisking]

Can`t get my favorite commercial beer any more, Abbot Ale as it was in the 70s and early 80s. As mentioned in a recent thread on this beer its nowhere near the beer it was in both taste and strength. :cry: A true loss to the beer world

 

[highwayman]

It's a close call for me between Exmoor Gold and Timothy Taylor's Landlord :hmm:
Ok..Decision made TT Landlord

 

[Aleman]

Adnams Broadside

She Went to School with Lyndsay Adnam . . . You know that posh one up the road from the new distribution centre :whistle: :whistle: . . . In fact they built the distribution centre in the grounds of the School :shock:

Personally I prefer the Adnams Southwold as probably the finest session beer in the world (TM)

My all time favourite beer :hmm: The 1990 Thomas Hardy Ale, although the '85 came close :lol:

 

[Wez]

If I could only drink one more commercial beer, i'd have it in the Windmill at Batemans Brewery and it would be a pint of their XB.