Ales or lager

[Gaylord du Bois]

 

[foetus]

I like a smooth UK real ale, a nice German wheat beer or a strong Belgian number personally. Any Carling/Fosters fans on here?

I drank Carling and Fosters when I was in England. Really lived up to the Aussie stereotype. I do enjoy a wheat beer though.

 

[Barcon]

Can't drink the standard Canadian beer since I went to Germany and Prague. Lot's of Pilsners and a few wheat beers. Lager has no taste to me any more.
I had one in Bamburg (I think) that was a smoked beer. Liquid ham is how it was described on the menu.

Just found it on the tinterweb.

Schlenkerla Smokebeer

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

Can't drink the standard Canadian beer since I went to Germany and Prague. Lot's of Pilsners and a few wheat beers. Lager has no taste to me any more.
I had one in Bamburg (I think) that was a smoked beer. Liquid ham is how it was described on the menu.

Just found it on the tinterweb.

Schlenkerla Smokebeer

Rauchbier is great, as is Bamberg. One of my very favourite places

I thought I'd struggle in the US due to getting hooked on Czech lager but there's actually a lot of good craft lager being brewed here, in amongst all the crazy overhopped IPAs and APAs.

 

[Barcon]

Rauchbier is great, as is Bamberg. One of my very favourite places

I thought I'd struggle in the US due to getting hooked on Czech lager but there's actually a lot of good craft lager being brewed here, in amongst all the crazy overhopped IPAs and APAs.

Actually mate, it's all your fault ; ) You sent me there. I still have dreams about Barfuber and Lokal.
I'll be back soon enough.

 

[blueincy]

 

[big phil]

Moved away from drinking lager, we really don't keep a decent lager in this country do we? It's dreadful stuff on draught here when compared to abroad. Literally like a different drink.

And we are regularly paying over £4 a pint for it in town!

I like a nice hoppy IPA these days but it has to be strong, minimum 5%

My favourite is Jaipur by Thornbridge. Multi award winning beer, all kinds of hoppyness going on

Jaipur is a great beer, but at 5.9% a bit much for me. Greene king St Edmunds is a great session beer, but Sunbeam is my favourite (only decent beer ever to come out of Banks brewery). Would sooner drink water than any of these so called smooth beers, fucking disgusting shit. Used to drink lager until about 10 years ago, only drink it in Spain now, usually Estrella or Mahou.

 

[Helmet Cole]

Dark for me, especially at this time of year. I've long been touting the virtue of JW Lees Manchester Star Ale (500ml bottles 7.3%). Beautiful dark ale that pisses on the likes of old peculiar in every way. I even started a thread on it once, but found most of the mancs on here seem too badly scarred by experiences with the other piss that that particular brewer tries to pass off as ale to give it a go.

 

[MCFCTrick]

Dark for me, especially at this time of year. I've long been touting the virtue of JW Lees Manchester Star Ale (500ml bottles 7.3%). Beautiful dark ale that pisses on the likes of old peculiar in every way. I even started a thread on it once, but found most of the mancs on here seem too badly scarred by experiences with the other piss that that particular brewer tries to pass off as ale to give it a go.

All my mates, especially the older ones, used to talk of Lee's beers as though it was boiled cat piss .... and as a teen experiencing their Tulip Lager alone (Free Trade Hall bar) was enough for me to take their word for it ... But, when we moved from the Heath, 'oop north' to the Costa del Roch, and had their bitter in a well kept pub, found it to be great stuff ... it really is about how it's looked after ....

 

[Cheesy]

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