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I’ve just opened a bottle of Bombardier “English Premium Bitter” I’m not impresses I’ve had better bottled beer. What’s good and what’s not? What are your top five bottled Beers/Ales?

My top five bottled Beers/Ales

Black Sheep
Gunniness
Hawkshead Gold
Duchy Original Organic Ale
Taylor’s Pale Ale
 
Get to your local offy and buy two or three bottles of ale/beer and try them tomorrow evening. I would suggest you start with the blondes? Pale ales like Taylor’s or maybe the summer ales that are increasingly popular today.
 
I'm not fond of beer.......ssssh.......I will whisper this........sometimes when I take out the empties there is just a drop in the bottom ........and I have been know to test it.......but it doesn't taste nice.

I am sometimes allowed to have a whisky and sofa..........or a gin and chronic.......but I have to have been very very good!
 
Thwaites East Lancs Brown Ale knocks Newky into a cocked hat anyday, Poured into a half pint glass its superb. A dark rum chaser tops it off lovely.

Old Peculiar is always a favourite

Fullers ESB is a nice session beer. As is HobGoblin.

I prefer the stronger ales, Quality, not quantity so stuff like Gold label does satisfy me(with a Wood's 100 rum chaser :) )however I do like stuff around the 6-8% mark. It holds a much better 'condition' than the weaker stuff.

Going back a few years though I used to love Big Ben and Old Dan from Thwaites, topping up a half of Mild.(A good pint of Thwaites Mild is superb, Mitchells Mild used to be awesome, shame they stopped brewing.)

Ian
 
Amen to that entwisi. Hobgoblin, Humbug and the witches are all favourites. Gold Label is one from my past that was over done and I could never face another one.
 
I'm a Newky Brown and also Newky Amber fan myself but if you get chance try

Woodfordes Headcraker 7.0%:)
Ballards WMD 9.4%:)
Druham White Magic 7.0%:):)

But these are nmy favorite real ales, oh how I miss a good real pint.
Youngs Dirty Dick:):):)
Moorhouses Black Cat:):);):D
Black Sheep Monty Pythons Holy Grail:):)
Greene King St Edmonds.:):D
 
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My favourite by far, Low 'C'! I used to drink it by the crate load and not an inch on my waist, I have been drinking Carling lager for a while now and can see the start of a little paunch so I'm dead set on reverting back to Low 'C' if only I knew what it had changed its name to :confused: ?
 
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i think its now called resolution tinks, i had a couple the other day.(still got the inches on the waist though ) ha ha ha, must admit its not too bad a drink.
 
you cant beat ale freshly pulled from a cask!if the ale is sat in the cellar and allowed to mature right you are obviously getting a stronger drink than what it is supposed to be,you dont get that in bottles otherwise there would be bottles popping all over the place.Have you noticed that when you open a bottle its head goes very quick.tinkers once a year you can get resolution out of a cask at the same strength as the bottle and maybe stronger this is only brewed in january but its bloody good stuff.
 
I can vouch for the ales seved at the Drunken Duck Inn between Ambleside & Coniston, in the Lake District.

The ale named Tag Lag, after one of their sheepdogs, is mighty damn fine out of a bottle; but as Staggers' says, they taste far better out of a cask.
The rest of the Barngates Brewery's portfolio are equally tasty. Tag Lag is the only one that I have had the pleasure of from a bottle though.

Here's the link to the Drunken Duck Inn & Barngates Brewery website: http://www.drunkenduckinn.co.uk/brewery.htm
 
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tinkers once a year you can get resolution out of a cask at the same strength as the bottle and maybe stronger this is only brewed in january but its bloody good stuff.
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Where would one find this fine ale Staggers :D ?
 
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january at the stag fingers crossed.
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:thumbsup: I'll keep my fingers crossed too Staggers I'd love a try, I've only had it out of the bottle, keep me posted please :biggrin8:
 
don't like this thread i'm dead jealous,can't drink no more,the best bottle ever made for me was the pint crystal - a great lions bottle,don't imagine there'll ever be one as good.
 
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