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After a boozy night out with the missus and a few mates in town last night I wondered what everyones choice of beer would be. The missus, as much as i love her will only drink yank piss that is Budweiser, much to my disgust! I have become much more adventorous of late and love trying new beers, last night was on a lager called Tuborg which seemed quite pleasant. Am also a releative new comer to Cobra after sampling it in a curry house a few weeks back. When it comes to ale i'm quite impartial to a drop of 6X. So what is the beer/lager of choice for fellow TEF's?

Whatever's cheapest

Peroni

Normally a cider man though

Peroni is my beer of choice. I do love cider though.

Also a fan of Sol, Corona, Desperado.

stella is my fav,but i'm also partial to carling premier from a can.
also like my cider.some right corking stuff available

Rattler for one arriba

Newcastle Brown...closely followed by Wadworths 6X...in fact all ale and i dont drink Lager.
Love red wine also....Fleurie is my favourite.

a fine cider is that sir.

A well kept 6x for me I think.

 Depends what mood I'm in really. I'll have a lager or two but no more these days. Quite like the odd Guinness too. And obviously the odd real ale, as long as beards, aaron jumpers and sandals are not compulsory atire to buy it.

Its only in the last few years I've been able to stomach cider again after a decade and a half hiatus.

Cider man myself, but i do like a bit of the ol' Cobra as well as Tiger. Tuborg is a lovely larger.
Favourite cider has to be either Stowford or Thatchers Gold.

Usually ale or Guinness when I go out, usually red wine when at home.
Although i'm currently drinking Stella

i drank 6 litres of thatchers gold last night.wasn't the best move in hindsight

Rattler is availible in spoons now but only in bottles!  tastes better on draught!

Haha good work. It's starting to become a more popular choice to have on tap in most pubs/bars nowadays, which is nice!

I've never tried Rattler. It's a gooden then i take it? What type of cider is it? Dry/sweet?

Waddy 6X or Doom Bar for me!  Although I am also partial to draught Becks!

Sex in a glass

cloudy cider goodness.they sell it in asda.nice from the tap too

Sold

Nice thread. I like my ale, fullers and badger are probably my favourite breweries which is a bit shit because you dont seem to find many of their beers in swindon. Also enjoy cider, had a bottle of green goblin recently which was very nice. Would also recommend westons perry, wetherspoons do it.

Tried that new Bud'66.

Not a fan of normal bud, but that 66 is lush!

The bottled Fullers is lush.........especially that Champion Ale.

If the Ciderites are allowed to hijack this thread, then Thatcher's Old Rascal is where it's at. And it's in the Wetherspoon's festival at the end of the month. Good times.

and £2.89 for 2 litres in asda

Fosters.

Corona (with lemon) Yes i am a girl

Are you joking? It's flat budweiser. Bloody disgusting stuff.

I thought this was supposed to be about beer!

Brains SA
Brains SA Gold
Brains Dark Mild

Are all great but my favourate is Felinfoels Double Dragon, which sadly no fucker sells.

Used to love a pint of Spitfire. Ain't had one in yeeeears.

Harveys

This is my kinda thread!
For lagers.........Borsodi's a cracking shout if you can get hold of it. I enjoy a Tyskie, Sagres and a Modela Negra now and again.
I love a few ales too, Newcastle Brown's me fave, but some Badger ales are ok (tanglefoot etc) doombar's a fair shout. Bath ales and moles brewery produce some good efforts (gem and barnstormer are good)

Porters and Stout, particularly Youngs Double Chocolate Stout which I'm unlikely to see on draught again with the sale of the Ram brewery although widely available in bottles.

Lager - Staropramen is great, most lagers now are just boring

Al - Newcy Brown, or Theakston's Old Peculier are my favs but i like most, especially dark ones

don't do cider

love guinness

Fuller's beer is my favourite aswell. They do London Pride in the Rolleston and also the Check Inn in Wroughton is a Fuller's pub.

Any good Hefeweizen or wheat beer for warmer weather - Pauliner is good. Otherwise it is another vote for Bath Ales' Gem or Butcombe's IPA. 

As for cider - Weston's Old Rosie. It had got a picture of a steamroller on it. That is nature's warning.

6x, tribute or doombar. i'll usually go for the ale option over lager
i only drink stowford of the ciders, and only then when i'm really in the mood for it

Peroni, Corona & Hoegarden

Doombar for me if a pub has it, otherwise Guinness.

Carling or Fosters. I'm a man of simple(cheap) tastes

At a risk of repeating other posters, Fullers, Badger and (my local brewery) Hog's Back are the beers I go for most often.  I used to drink lager in summer, but went off it years ago...tend to drink IPA mostly in summer now.  A great alternative that has the added benefit that it actually tastes of something.

After years of drinking Stella, I really went off the lager a couple of years ago when I found I couldn't cope with the gasiness. Now a real ale man, love to try new & different ones all the time. One of my favourites is Hobgoblin, but happy to try any proper beer going !

Get hold of some Deuchars IPA, Ardiles...it is the best.  Should be easily available in London and close by.  Black Isle Brewery 'Red Kite' is good bitter...but I guess not available much south of the border!!

The Deuchars is one of my favourite IPAs!  We visit the in laws in Argyll 3 or 4 times a year, and my father in law knows I like my ales and always gets a decent selection of local/Scottish beers in for when I'm up.  Never tried 'Red Kite', but will look out for it.  Most recently, I think it's Fyne Ales and Arran Brewery beers I've been drinking.

There are some great beers up there if you go looking for them, but I find that it's almost impossible to find them on draught.  Most of the pubs I go to are dominated by Tennants lager and 60 Shilling, 70 Shilling etc.  Doesn't seem to be quite the same beer culture up in Scotland as down south.

You're right, Ardiles.  Pubs are not the institution that they are down south.  there has been a huge surge of micro-breweries which have expanded over the last few years into bigger concerns, so gradually the availability of draughts is getting better.  I really don't know the SW coast area very well, but further into the Highlands things are going quite well.  (Deuchars grew out of my family heritage, so I have an interest!! There is no direct connection now, but I feel a family loyalty...and its such a great beer!!!)

Special Brew
Tennants Super
Rough Scrumpy or almost any real ale.

Yes I know they are the drink of the alocoholic but I actually do enjoy them.

Not that I have touched them since I started my diet 3 weeks ago, not a drop has passed my lips for 20 days, but will have a couple at the weekend as we have a gig at a Haven that serves good beer on tap, not the usual shit in a glass like John Smiths and Carling.

Doombar
Betty Stoggs
Ales of Scilly - Scuppered, Firebrand, Natural Beauty & Whipped and Laid
St Austell Brewery - Tribute

Sorry slightly south western bias here  :D

When one the 'darkside' 6x, Hook Norton & Timothy Taylor Landlord were my favourites  :beers:

For all you Cider drinkers I would highly recommend taking a trip to Dick Willows Farm & Cider shop which is located on the A4 between Box and Bath.

I went there a couple of weeks ago to purchase some 'dirty' Cider and not only do they sell some cracking Ciders (Red Slug is certainly a recommended selection) with great advice from the shopkeeper who allows you to taste before you buy but they also sell all the usual cheese, chutneys, jams, sausages etc.

Get on that Red Slug.

Beer Laos

Chang

Singha

When talking about beer, I think this thread was intended to be about the kind that has alcohol in it.

Beer Laos rocks.

Singha, I like.

Chang is rank.

Chang is there more for it's percentage. I'd also add Cypriot Keo to the list.

Don't know if it's been mentioned but All Bar One are selling Rothaus soon. Unfortunately only their wheat beer and not their Tannenzäpfle lager (my favourite drink in the world), but it will be definitely worth trying if you ever find yourself in an All Bar One establishment in the near future.

Angkor beer is a fine tipple also.

Deffo. Beer Laos definately top of the table though  :D

That stuff's quite nice. Was only 85p a pint the last time I was there.

My usual tipple is Strongbow, but if I'm feeling a little different then I do like a pint of Doombar, IPA or Guinness.

Gone up alot now though because of the bloody Euro!

Can't believe Butcomebe hasn't had a mention, especially with the number of people bigging up 6X. Butcombe is bar far superior. Also partial to a DoomBar as a few others have mentioned and when down in Dorset a good pint of Piddle slips down nicely.

Butcombe is ok, if its kept well its a fantastic pint, but, its all we seem to get round here and a bad pint is worse than a bad pint of Arkells.

Too easy to get a really shit pint rather than a good one.

Where are you JJ? Can only get it in a couple of pubs around Bath. Thankfully it's the only guest beer where I live and they keep it well.

Enjoying Harveys Sussex Best lately although don't think you can get it in Swindon also 6X from the Calley at Hodson long standing favourite.

Could have a few other suggestions after the up and coming Swindon Beerex.

South Somerset mate, in Chard, seems almost every other pub down here serves it.

Oh and if you havent tried it.....Butcombe Blonde Bitter, its almost a lager, very very nice, and it travels well!

I'm quite partial to the Butcombe Brunel. Closer to a 6X than the standard Butcombe.

Have tried the Blonde and, yes, it's good ;)

Oh, and Chard, is that anywhere near Cricket St. Thomas?

yeah about 2 miles from my house :)

Just to add some more as I'm stuck waiting for a train and I'm not going tonight so I'm a bit bored now... 
Otley 08 - an 8% monster but well worth trying.
Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout - sounds like a gimmer drink but it's actually lovely.
Pot Holer, Cheddar Ales
Downton's Chocolate Orange Stout. There is also a lighter Delight but this is for anyone how likes Young's Chocolate Stout and, well Terry's chocolate too.   
 
 

Butcombe is my local brewery and there are several Butcombe owned pubs in the area that served well kept tipples. Prefer Gold over the regular bitter personally, and the Brunel IPA is lovely, but rarely available on draft.

Also rather partial to St Austell Tribute and Doom Bar. There are tons of local brews as you venture down into deeper Somerset and beyond that are worth a shout.

And if you head to the USA, check out some of the microbrews instead of the regular pisswater in a pump. Shouts out for Bells Two Hearted and Breckenridge 471 Small Batch IPA.....

I bought a case of 3Bs online recently to give me a taste of home.  In cans it's breathtakingly bad and frankly shocked any of my buddies who tried it.  Deuchar's IPA is indeed lovely if you're looking for a Scottish beer as is Belhaven Best.  My own favourite from this part of the world is Black Isle Brewery's blonde ale.  Slightly further afield, Lapin Kulta from Finland is a cracker... 

Doombar is everywhere in London these days. It used to be a real treat, but now I'm taking it for granted. Have Sharps done a deal with someone bigger? My local has Deuchars, which I like a lot.
On imports, I like Sierra Nevada (which you're increasingly seeing in bottles in London) and Little Creatures from Australia (https://www.littlecreatures.com.au/)

Have any London types been to the Draft House? www.drafthouse.co.uk They have Dogfish Head among others. Top place.

Was delivering at Chard Junction today....lorry yard(Wheatons)....the birthplace of man powered flight :D

It is indeed, John Stringfellow in 1848 in the lace mill, almost every road name has something to do with him here.

Chard junction...on the way to Pattemores by any chance or the dairy?

I'm slowly working my way through a mixed crate from Ramsbury Brewery, I'd have to say the Gold one is nice.

http://www.ramsburybrewery.com/

"A lovely day out in the country....."

Showing your age Nev, that advert must be 30 years old! at Cricket St Thomas...near Chard!

Yep, didn't Noel Edmonds take it over at some point ?

Crinkly Bottom?

No its VPL

I quite like Oranjeboom! Got me fucked right up once

Any lager but Carling
6X, Horizon, Tribute, Proper Job, Waggledance, 3B's
Stowford, Thatchers, Strongbow, Rattler, Exhibition (in the Corry Tap, sold by the half pint), Old Bristolian (in the Apple bar, sold by the half pint)

Becks Vier
Heineken
Kronenbourg

This is a thread about beer, not skippy piss. If you're not going to take it seriously, please don't bother contributing further and kindly fuck off......

Much love.

seems like i missed the point.....

budding and gem in the ale variety

If people like a good ale try Chiswick from fullers

I have...and yes you are right it is good...............and in case you dont know Chiswick is ware Fullers main brewery is based........and has been for time eternal.

I'll let you off two out of the three, but Heineken? Have a word....... :D

Yes i know i went for a trip around their a few weeks ago the Griffin Brewery good day out :beers:

This makes me want to get into drinking stuff.

I had a couple of bottles of this is a rather swanky bar the other night. It was most agreeable*.

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*I was shit faced.

chiswick is a bit light on the palate for me. 6 pints of ESB before Xmas lunch was the the traditional family start to the day.
I love old fashioned IPAs - thank fuck for India otherwise we would not have exceedingly strong and tasty ales.
You cannot get pissed on keg/lite/smooth lager - your liver processes it faster that you can drink it - there is no point to it
Lager is good - especially proper Pilsner
Cider is great and so is perry
Please don't drink shit - pay a little more for quality British products
real ale festival at Steam 4th-6th November

I don't really get much choice of beer here.  The local stuff is 3.4% and costs 50p for a big bottle and over the years I have grown accustomed to it.  Give me a real pint of 5% beer and I think i'd fall over after a few.

Anyone ever tried any Braydon Ales ? Its brewed by the landlord at the 5 Bells in Bassett so he knows a thing or two about beer. Some really good ones, especially Potwalloper

I can't believe keg bitter is still brewed, if I'm honest.  I got given a can of John Smith's a few weeks ago (it was the only thing going) and, when you're used to decent cask ales, the difference is as night and day.  Beer quality has gone up enormously in the last few decades...CAMRA and others can take a lot of credit there for pushing the cask ale revolution.  I was too young to be drinking in the 1970s and 1980s, but I'm told they were dark days.  Watney's Red Barrel?

I have tried Braydon Ales on a number of occassions in the 5 bells good pub always has guest beers

"Watney's Red Barrel?"

Now you're talking......Watney's Party Sevens...huge 7 pint can of absolute p--s...why was it seven and not eight (i.e. a gallon)....Cost about 15/-

Thank God for CAMRA

Bring back any memories?

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Was Watney's really as bad as all that. Its the one beer my dad tells me horror stories about.

Just believe......

Oh i do really.

He has a yarn which involves the Swindon Berex selling out of all beer apart from Red Barrell and people still refused to drink the stuff.

 :D   Says it all!!!!

Yeah... a party seven made a great "bouncing bomb", if you lobbed it out of a train window, at opposition fans if you were on a football special passing through a station....especially if you sang the dambusters march.

Party 7, could never open the bloody things

Just been up the shop and got a 12 box of Cobra, I can open them alright

Trouble is I've left em in the freezer too long

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Ler Vin Broy!

Red Barrell - fucking awful stuff - the stuff of nightmares. Brew XI gave it a run for its money in its pure shittiness and the gormless Midlanders loved the stuff.

thatchers green goblin on offer in morrisons for a £1 a bottle.
not tried it before today, but it's very nice indeed

Was drinking Inferno (Oakham Ales) in the pub before the game today.

Never had it before, but it wasn't too bad at all.

Oakham have some nice beers -JHB is obviously by far their best though.