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What are you drinking tonight?
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And unlike @cgtmiles 's recent bar visit, they were all bitters and dark beers.
Just how I like them.
I do like the occasional hoppy golden beer, but I like to have the choice. I usually get Mrs CAB to taste test with a half first though
I am a Real ale person as is my wife. CAMRA members also, we think that they need a little support and we get a book of various Real Ale pubs around the country. That's quite handy sometimes especially when in unknown territory. Some very pleasant pubs can be found. Mind you with so many closing the way things are going we will be lucky to find one outside of a town. The only Keg beer that I will drink is draught Guinness but that is special in its own right. Even better in an Irish pub.And unlike @cgtmiles 's recent bar visit, they were all bitters and dark beers.
Just how I like them.
I do like the occasional hoppy golden beer, but I like to have the choice. I usually get Mrs CAB to taste test with a half first though
I like different bears but when I find one that I like I tend to stick with it for while. many years ago along way back now the Mrs was asked by Cara to give a radio talk from a woman’s perspective ant remember the station, yes she is a pint drinker, daughter too. Not so frequent these days though. If I had t chose one Brewery it would be Fullers and London Pride excellent pint and they do serval good beers
Cheers!
Just finished my last can of this, found it in Aldi, was surprisingly nice considering it was nearly as cheap as Carling!
Might finish off with a glass of this we got last year in Scotland:
I've yet to find a tin of beer that tastes as good as the real thing, my local is stuck out in the middle of nowhere half a mile from home down a very muddy single track road with grass in the middle and last night I'd washed the van so John Deere took me there...
At 47 years old I doubt it owes anybody too much.
At 47 years old I doubt it owes anybody too much.
I have tippled many a bear in Shropshire and the Welsh Borders Pubs many years ago late 70's and early 80's. Its great to hear of a quiet pub down a dusky narrow lane.
Can we ask the Powers of this forum for a Cheers sign perhaps in the form of a Pint of Bear.
I have tippled many a bear in Shropshire and the Welsh Borders Pubs many years ago late 70's and early 80's. Its great to hear of a quiet pub down a dusky narrow lane.
Can we ask the Powers of this forum for a Cheers sign perhaps in the form of a Pint of Bear.
Beer is delivered to pubs in giant tins made of the same material. Serving it in a glass is the difference.
I have drunk Directors but have not seen it for many years.
Courage Brewery - Wikipedia
As far as I am aware the vast majority of cans that the public buy are keg beers full of gas, pasturised and dead. Though I guess that far too much is also sold in pressurised pub sized cans which is also keg and dead. True draught beers are living bears and live yeast and usually drawn by pump pulled or by gravity out of a tap. It goes off after a few days or a week which is one of the reasons why keg beers were introduced which were mainly dispensed with CO2, last almost indefinitely and usually taste poor the gas usually hides the taste.
I used to brew my own beers from my teens. The kit beers where generally poor and used Bakers Yeast so it is unsurprising. The best thing I ever did in regards to brewing was to read a Book by Dave Line who had spent decades Brewing Bears like those bought in pups. It was a really useful book which I still have somewhere. By following his recopies I could make quite a number of Beers which did actually taste very like bears one could buy with the exception of Guinness which in reality is a keg bear. I bought raw materials, specialist hops and malt which would change depending on the bear. Brewers pay vast amounts of money or did to produce yeasts which make the alcohol but also impart its own distinctive flavours. When I bought Draught Bitter or Real Ale I would save some beer at the bottom of the glass or ask the publican for a drop. I would just add sugar and produce more yeast in the airing cupboard. i would then produce up to 15 gallons at a time though it was better to stagger it a bit. I could start off the next brew by taking sediment from the bottom of the fermentation vat. I then surprised friends by letting them have some of there favourite brews. I could make very near as dam it close to what I was aiming at. It was hard work though and I have not made any very very many years perhaps the real ale revival helped because there where quite a few specialist pubs. Now though many have closed and more are following sadly. Though there are some pubs which now also brew their own. I know of one pub in Carmarthenshire that not only brews its own beers and very nice too but also brews a few types of spirit, Whiskey and Gin. It far more specialised that what I was doing which was mainly for our own consumption.
White Hart Inn Llanddarog
Worth a visit excellent bears very friendly massive meals, I can never finish them, far too much for me and not that squiggly stuff as demonstrated on gastronomic TV shows.
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A Chimay Blue to finish the night....
(Edited for Rioja update)
It's Sunday...cheers everyone!
Picked these up on our first (and last) visit to a recently opened local Lidl...
...the ale (£1.29) is ok, slightly gassy. The Rioja (£5.99) is drinkable, not Rioja-ish in that it's very "light" with not much body...unlike Mrs P!
It's Sunday...cheers everyone!
Picked these up on our first (and last
) visit to a recently opened local Lidl......the ale (£1.29) is ok, slightly gassy. The Rioja (£5.99) is drinkable, not Rioja-ish in that it's very "light" with not much body...unlike Mrs P!
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Could do with an uplifter but all the pubs are miles away and it cold and dull out side.
