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Mines an Elsie Mo. You can only get it one place locally.

In reply to pingod:

Timmy Taylor's Golden Best, or, seeing as its hard to find, Landlord

In reply to John Wood: A good pint of Landlord...i'm lucky as my local has it and it's so good!

In reply to pingod: They have Landlord at my local occasionally, but I'm becoming quite partial to a pint of Hawkshead Bitter.

In reply to John Wood:

I prefer the Dark Mild. Lovely nutty taste and you can have several without feeling shit in the morning. With all that in mind, I'd like to recommend the Brown Cow in Bingley.

In reply to pingod:

I quite like Adnams in preference to Landlord (which has to be kept very well). To be really unpolitically correct I'd say that Pedigree is typically a safe bet for an 'ordinary (real ale) pint'.

In reply to pingod:

Draught -- Mordue Brewery's 'Workie Ticket'
Bottled -- Jennings 'Sneck Lifter'

In reply to Bingers: Lord Marples from the Thornbridge Brewery

In reply to pingod:

Linfit Special at the Sair, quality!

In reply to tanssop:

the Sair is terrifying! okay, it's got character but you never quite know who/what is going to walk through the door next...

There's a pub round here that does the full Timothy Taylors range and their Golden Best is very good indeed.

In reply to CJD:
So many views, so much non committal!! (spelling?)
Do they all drink alco pops?

Timmy T's is nice, but like black sheep more.
Spitfire for the more sunny, sunday afternoons that you know are turning into an evening.

Had a nice pint from the Houston Brewery (Scotish i believe) in the week.

Strangly struggled in the lakes for a proper good pint at the w'end.
The climing conditions were good though, more than makes up!

Cheers

In reply to pingod:

Theakstons' Old Peculier. Sadly very very rarely available in Londonshire...

In reply to Masood: You've beaten to it voting for OP; their XB was also very good but I've not seen that for some time now. Anyway, if you're a Londoner, shouldn't you be drinking warm flat stuff from funny pint mugs with handles on?

In reply to Billy the fish:

Turn left to pub a mile NE and it has XB or Theakstons best.
Turn right and right again and have either Tetleys and Sam Smiths
Turn right 100yards and John Smiths
Turn right and a mile and have either Tetleys or the guest beer, usually Black Sheep, Theakstons, Adnams, Pedigree or a couple of others.

plenty of choice here.

In reply to pingod:

P.G. Steam, from the R.C.H. Brewery, just down the road from me. It's drawn straight from the barrels behind the bar at my (fantastic) local. A (couple of) pint(s) of that, sinking into an chair by the open fire with my labrador asleep next to me is just bliss!

In reply to James Jackson:

If you like mild, this has been the best I have had in years. When there the bitter is abandoned;

http://www.stourbridge-camra.co.uk/pub_view.php?PubID=21

In reply to pingod:
if you like IPA's then The Meantime Brewery's IPA is a must.

In reply to Rich Brown:

thanks for reminding me....i haven't had a decent draught Leffe for a while....must see if i can get it here in the UK.

In reply to Morgan Woods:
draught Leffe at the metropolitan in liverpool
aspalls cyder in the fly in the loaf and at the ship and mitre

In reply to pingod: there was an ace Skye Brewery ale on in the Prince of Wales last night - Howie 61. Apparently a combination of Pretender and Cullian Beast.

Stuart

In reply to CJD:

Which Pub???? I've got a drinks meet to relocate!

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:


Wouldn't disagree about the landlord needing to be kept well. This is why i moved to Yorkshire

In reply to pingod: ah, the bar of the Vat & Fiddle. I'll take pretty much any of Castle Rock's output though. Harvest Pale is a lovely, if undemanding pint, too.

In reply to pingod:

Quite partial to Spitfire, Bombardier and Doonbar!

In reply to pingod:
Scaefell gold.

In reply to pingod:

Light session beers:
Theakstons, Best - can be a bit variable outside the imediate vicinity of Masham but always worth a go.
Dent, Best - can be a bit impossible to find

Stronger heavier ale/stout:
York brewery, Centurion ghost ale - Gorgeous and chocolatey but it messes with your head.
Bushys, Oyster stout - The perfect pint but brewed in tiny batches.

There's hundreds of other great pints out there, those are just the few that imidiately spring to mind.

jk

In reply to pingod:

Woodford Wherry is a rather pleasant concoction.

In reply to pingod:

Red Cuillin
Old Peculiar
Dark Side of the Moose

In reply to sutty:


If you're in the midlands, there's always the Beacon Hotel in Sedgley, great for a pint of Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild although that's not a beer to take lightly.

Re OP

I'm a big fan of Ye Olde Trip as a good all round beer.

A

In reply to pingod:

The Chequer Inn Steyning

Dark Star is fairly yumm

In reply to Kevster: lots of views and few people deciding, becasue its a difficult question! Our local does usually about 4 real ales at a time. I dont know what my favorite is, although i do like a black sheep. You can get riggwelter on tap, but i dont think they've had it at our local.

In reply to pingod:

Guinness (but not extra cold thank you very much)

or a tasty IPA.

In reply to ceri:

Last week in the lakes - Old Peculier in the Dog & Gun in Keswick. Marvellous pint. The keswick brewery stuff also very good.

Last night in Crawley on business had Hopping Hare - very very good and beautifuly presented in a fluted pint glass!

In reply to pingod:
I'm going to lower the tone now and say: as a student living in the city you cant go wrong with a fosters or carling.

In reply to AWR27:

depressingly made by Greene King after they shut the Kimberley Brewery and moved production to one of their other refinery sites

In reply to toad:

Ah Kimbo. Never got a taste for the stuff. Same with Home and Shippo's -
Nottingham never was blessed with decent breweries.
I remember a CAMRA press release saying how upset they were about the lack of local response to their "Save Home Brewery" campaign. The fact that the locals were in the streets shouting "Shut the place, their beer's piss" passed them by.
Agree about the Vat + Fiddle / Elsie Mo. Might have to stop for one on the way home tonight!

In reply to pingod:
Who's been Spingo'd at the Blue Anchor, Helston?

In reply to toad:

I didn't know that! I suppose it could be worse than Greene King (a lot worse)

At least when I go home it's Bathams and Sarah Hughes!

A

In reply to pingod:

Vasse Felix Cab Sav.

Nectar.

In reply to pingod: alright i've waited long enough (conforming to stereotype here)

woodfords wherry
adnams bombardier
wye valley butty bach

in that order. but the adnams can always creep up a place if i'm in the mode for a 'session'

In reply to Hat Dude:

I was bitten by a traveller in there once. He thought I looked sleepy and needed waking up. So he grabbed my arm and sank his teeth in. He Was very friendly about it

In reply to Morgan Woods:

try any bierodrome!

In reply to PK:

Agree with both. Bitter & Twisted too and Deuchars (WHEN WELL KEPT)

In reply to d_evo20:


How THE F*CK did you manage to matriculate?

Or is this what now passes for student 'humour'?

Gawd 'elp us......

In reply to pingod: Can't beat a pint o' London Pride. Lovely stuff

In reply to PSR:

On the XXXB as we speak. Nice

In reply to pingod:

Coniston Bluebird goes down really well

Also, Marstons do a great pint called Double Drop...


<hijack>currently away on a residential training course, sat in a bar which doesn't open until 6pm. hurry up, god dammit!</hijack>

In reply to gobsmacker:

also forgot to mention Old Hooky from Hook Norton Brewery.

In reply to PSR:


Just about the biggest pile of grim shite you can buy. hate the stuff. each to their own though!

I can think of many much better ales; double drop, black sheep, deuchars ipa, Innis and gun, old peculiar, bishop's finer (bottle only), ESB, Abbot ale, Tangle foot, 6X etc etc etc...

In reply to Wilbur:

Pride is usually minging but I've had some passable pints of the stuff in London, unsuprisingly. Most of the beers you've listed taste like soap in a lot of southern pubs and if you're in that London a pint of summat from fuller's is often your safest option.

I do reckon you need proper northern water to make a top beer though.

In reply to Wilbur: London pride and ESB come from the same mash so if you've found one tastes nice and the other is minging it's most likely due to how the beer has been kept.

In reply to Wilbur: I like most of those! drink them at home in bottles, can never remember what we drink in the pub, wonder why...

In reply to pingod:

Landlord for me usually

In reply to pingod:

Aye, Landlord. Its got ot be a good pint mind. I had a pint at t'Millstone outside Hathersage 2 month back. Bloody gorgeous.

(Sorry for the vernacular; talking about real ale makes me go all northern.)