Your all time favourite beer

[timbowden]

Depends on the time of year!!!
Between oct and Jan - Adnams Old
Any other time (and also to include the above times!) - Adnams Best

Why? 'cos i was weaned on it!!

tim

 

[Muddy Funker]

I had a couple of bottles of the Tesco finest IPA and was blown away.

Dangerous stuff but the aroma is out of this world, all I can smell is lychee :thumb:

Anyone have an AG clone?

 

[Wez]

Sticking with Batemans XB from the brewery.

 

[spudbasher]

When I started drinking in the early 70s I just drank what the other lads did, usually Skol or other pseudo Viking swill as I knew no better, then on one fateful trip on an away game with Deeside Dragons ice hockey team I ended up in the dive bar of Blackpool Fair ice rink.

I saw they had Thwaites bitter on.

At the time Thwaites were running a tv ad. showing their beer being delivered to pubs ,still by traditional dray horses.

This fired my curiosity ,so I ordered my first pint of bitter.

I can honestly say it was something of an epiphany moment for me.

I usually struggled to drink lager anyway,it was too cold ,I didnt like the taste and it went straight through me , so this was a revelation , I was ****** before the game started, got into a fight and threw up on the coach on the way home.

But , strangely the next night I was drawn to a pump in the corner of the bar in my local which I had never noticed before, it exerted a strange pull on me , I found myself almost uncontrollably asking for a pint of bitter , luckily for me it was the excellent Burtonwood TopHat, which became my regular tipple much to the amusement of my cooler friends.

So thanks Thwaites dray horses for igniting my curiosity, and the Hawarden Castle pub (now deceased), for stocking and keeping a cracking pint of TopHat.
They also had Forshaws bitter ,nice but the TopHat had the edge.

So I guess its that first Thwaites pint for pointing me in the right direction,

Cheers,Spud. :drink:

 

[nickmcmechan]

Excluding the Guinness in The Lobster Pot, Goleen, West Cork, Ireland

mines has to be the pint of guiness in the East Pier pub in Howth, few miles outside Dublin, followed with a close second The Lord Mayors in Swords, just outside Dublin...Dublin Airport also does a decent pint of Guiness too...

 

[Swazi]

My favourite beers are normally the ones I happen to be drinking at the time. When I go to the shop, I look for Punk IPA and regularly get Wells Bombardier. When I manage to get to Belgium, I absolutely love Pannepot, St Bernardus 12 and Rodenbach Grand Cru.
It would be easy to go on and on but these are what spring to mind.

 

[happyhoppytaff]

when i go cycle touring i drink local brews. (cycle tour=200mile pub crawl) i drank a lot of 'jail ale' when i was on and around dartmoor last year.

i had a big thing for 'old empire ale' a while back.

SA gold is really nice and hoppy.

but, i am really impressed with my kit brews. i had a pint of 'rev james' in the pub yesterday and it was remarkably close to my current best bitter, (a geordie ale kit, 20l water, 500g mollasses sugar. 500g white sugar.) my friend said how similar it was as i was thinking the same thing.

had a great pint of guest ale in my local real ale pub a few weeks back. cant remember what it was called or the brewery. id drink another pint of that right now if i could

 

[barrylewis]

many,many years ago there was/is Vaux bitter,of course well kept Boddingtons bitter,before it turned into pub ale!I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Desperado's,French,but what a great summers day lager.obviously Timothy Taylors land lord bitter,then right from the back of the memory banks,Chesters mild

 

[chrisp]

Now that is a question

Favourite beer of all time has got to be Ind Coope Burton Ale, my dad ran a pub in the 70's and the local fire brigade started the 1st local CAMRA club in his pub, after drinking Skol and keg bitter this beer was a total revelation. I can still taste it now

Whilst all my mates were drinking various lagers, normally with Lime, I was the subject of ridicule trying to sample as many bitters as I could. Remember getting absolutely p*ssed at the Great British Beer festival of 1976, when only about 15, with the guys from the pub on Old Peculier
Now my session favourite is Harveys Best and Timothy Taylors Landlord, if I can get it :

 

[topgear]

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout: 7.5% ABV
Accompanied with a nice pork pie :thumb:

 

[Runwell-Steve]

My favourite Beer has to be Green Jack - Canary.

I was on hols in the Norfolk Broads and had just sailed down to the Locks Inn at Geldestone on a gloriously hot day. On arrival at the pub we were met with a fine array of ales, the Canary attracted me, being a Norwich City fan, so I had a pint of that.

I think it was the first time I had properly tasted hops in a beer, and probably the pint that really got me interested in what makes decent beer.

I have since found out that the beer is full of Stryrian Goldings so that would explain the flavour explosion

 

[critch]

cant decide on either marble lagonda ,dobber or pint, or southport golden sands :hmm:

 

[Titch]

Brains bitter is nice

bottles on offer at lidls i see
might go get some

OR

Boddingtons GOLD, yes it did exist but not every where

but as always has to be treated right by a cellarman/person

i used to hate seeing lads not know what they were doing with kegs or casks

 

[lancsSteve]

Mne has to be Tim Taylor's Landlord - when it's good it's OH SO GOOD... ANd seems to be one of those beers that only good landlords will keep on so not a bad indicator of a good pub.

Or Orval... LOVE Orval, :drink:

 

[prolix]

Bass was my favourite back in the day now it would be Doom bar.

 

[bones]

Now that is a question

Favourite beer of all time has got to be Ind Coope Burton Ale, my dad ran a pub in the 70's and the local fire brigade started the 1st local CAMRA club in his pub, after drinking Skol and keg bitter this beer was a total revelation. I can still taste it now

Whilst all my mates were drinking various lagers, normally with Lime, I was the subject of ridicule trying to sample as many bitters as I could. Remember getting absolutely p*ssed at the Great British Beer festival of 1976, when only about 15, with the guys from the pub on Old Peculier
Now my session favourite is Harveys Best and Timothy Taylors Landlord, if I can get it :

I think i may of drank a pint of that Burton Ale in ya Dads Pub... Blooming good it was... :thumb:
Was it the old pub in vale road what is now Sainsbury?