Beer

[HAzelGroveWolf]

Unicorn?

Yes, but please PM any individual comment as I'm on the case and do no want to spoil any trust.

 

[Wombat del combate]

That's a pretty accurate representation of the contents of Paddy's bowels after his visit to the Kismot.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

I am currently enjoying a glass of Moorhouse's blond witch. A quite magnificent brew.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

I note Tesco Ireland are starting to cop on.

They've expanded their range of real ales by a million %.

And it's ongoing, they're doing a long running promotion of any selected beers - 5 for €10.
Some of them are priced at 2.99 a bottle so 5 for a tenner is pretty good.

They've just added one of Langers favourites - Tribute from Cornwall somewhere.
I had that on holiday and brought home a glass with logo on it to prove it too.

That awful twat Marco Pierre White (That's Peter Mark White you pretentious cock) has put a beer out called 'Governor', not bad at all!

Has the real ale range been available in the UK in Tesco for a while or is it new over there too?

 

[Langers]

Tribute is my favourite Cornish ale, but that's not exactly a glowing accolade as Cornish beer is essentially crap.

I think the Tesco range just depends on the individual store - sadly, the small Tesco Express near my house is shite for ales but the big Tesco in Dudley is much better.

 

[machin05]

I was bought a load of Devon/Cornish ales for my 30th last year. Mainly from micro-breweries, but I have to say that most of them were lovely.

 

[Langers]

Devonian beers aren't so bad, but even so - they're also too much on the malty side for my palette.

Then you have the likes of Doom Bar which is one of the blandest pints you'll ever have.

 

[machin05]

I think there's an upsurge in golden, pale and hoppy beers coming from that region. Bays Brewery Devon Dumpling is really light, tasty & moorish.

I agree with you on Doom Bar, it's very trendy which is always a bad sign.

 

[Langers]

Yes - I like Bays. When we go to Cornwall (as we have for the past 3 years) we stop at a pub called the Double Locks near Exeter for lunch. There's normally a good range of Devonian ales on and they had a few Bays brews on this year.

Is Bays from Devon or Cornwall? Not quite sure what side of the border it's on!

 

[machin05]

It's in Devon. Paignton, Torbay to be exact. Part of the English Riviera and home town of my good lady.

 

[Jolemai]

The local pub is serving Ruddles County at the moment

(Which is great considering the uni bar is over-priced and sh*te.)

 

[So Long Architect]

Abbot Ale - now there's a beer I can't stand. An unpleasant mixture of blandness and bitterness.

 

[Langers]

I don't mind Abbot, but it's actually quite hard to find a decent pint of it. A place near me does it well.

It's not a favourite by any means though.

 

[So Long Architect]

Went to an awful hotel-cum-pub in Wareham on Sunday and the only thing they had on tap was Whitbread Best, which I didn't know even still existed, then they had a few supermarket-bought bottles in a fridge behind "the bar".

I opted for the Abbot as the best of a very bad bunch. I think the fact that it was lager-cold didn't help.

And people wonder why pubs are closing.

 

[Langers]

Yuck - lager cold ale is revolting.

 

[Doctor Doog]

I agree about Abbott, whereas the IPA is a really nice drink, and the mild isn't bad either. When I was a lad Greene King had a reputation that it didn't travel. I'm sure beer keeps better these days, but I don't know whether that still applies to GK as I don't tend to drink beer from my local brewery when I'm away.

 

[ROVERT47]

I'll be in the leccy Club about 6:30 shifting a drop of glow, hmm, hmmmm!

 

[Langers]

Abbott Ale in the Black Country simply won't taste as nice as Abbott Ale in Suffolk - as you say, it doesn't travel all that well and Greene King is notoriously over-produced as it has a wide distribution these days - the brewery expanded not so long ago. CAMRA certainly don't like them very much.

The best pint of Abbott I had was sat by the banks of the river Deben about 10 years ago. They ran out of Adnams Regatta (which is magnificent) so I settled for Abbott. It was very nice.

 

[Jabbawolf]

The local pub is serving Ruddles County at the moment

(Which is great considering the uni bar is over-priced and sh*te.)

The regularity and pungency of post-Ruddles farts still lives vividly in my memory some 25 years after it being the main beer of choice in the student union.

 

[HAzelGroveWolf]

Ruddles hasn't been Ruddles for over 20 years. Beer ported to other breweries is invariably shit.