whats your favourite beer

[SeanMacGabhann]

Crystal clear!

my favourite lady back on the forum. .

[East Dulwich Angst]

The best I've tasted has to be Stella Artois, on tap in Belguim. So nice compared to the stuff they give us here!! Also got a taste for Duval, but can only have 1 or 2 as it's got quite a strong (8.5%)

[spadetownboy]

nothing wrong with a top on a pint sometimes its the only way to make the pisswater you get over here palatable

[mockney piers]

Indeed, and if you have a hangover it magically transforms the pint into being 'not really drinking'

[Nero]

Is a 'top' a splash of lemonade or cordial? I've never really understood, and feel a bit embarrassed to say so. Nero

[SeanMacGabhann]

a "top" is a dash of lemonade - about an inch worth on a pint glass I would say

a "dash" is a measure of cordial

I used to partake of both. Then I passed the legal age of drinking ;-)

[spadetownboy]

does that make you some sort of big man then that you dont have a top whereas i do.

[Keef]

CrystalClear only mentioned tops as a dig at me...

What he doesn't mention is that 1. I regularly outdrink him, even if I am a "pussy boy" (not saying that's a good thing, or that it makes me hard, but if he will question my manhood), and 2. he himself has partaken of several tops in the last couple of weeks because he can't handle a hangover! ;-)

Never knew that dash meant cordial.

[david_carnell]

spadetownboy Wrote:

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> i,ve just returned from a long weekend in munich

> and feck me what a wonderful place, spent 3 days

> eating meat and drinking from steins, tried as

> many local brews as possible but i have drank

> probably the best beer i have ever tasted called

> hacker pschorr. now being an irishman i consider

> my self a bit of an expert on various types of

> beer and have consumed manys a different brew in

> order to make my mind up but i have to say without

> doubt that hacker pschorr now occupies no 1 spot

> in the spadetownboy league of beers. whats your

> all time no 1 beer ever.

Ah, but that is merely the name of the brewery. Which of their beers were you drinking?

My girlfriend used to run an amazing pub in Surrey that sold a huge range of imported European and worldwide beers as well as micr-brewing it's own ales. Fantastic stuff. Due to which I am now somewhat of a beer geek and turn my nose up at most lagers. The stuff that the large brewery's knock-out is, IMHO, piss. German purity laws improve matters for their beers but some of the best stuff makes Fosters taste like Australian sheep dip.

My list would have one or two from each category of beer:

Ale - Harveys (from the Sussex brewery) is excellent and having gone to uni in Leeds I'm rather partial to a pint of Black Sheep. The EDT doesn't keep it very well though so i's not always a good pint there. Coopers of Australia do a great sparkling ale in a bottle (which you can amazingly get in Sainsburys) and Progress from the Pilgrim brewery in Surrey is par excellence!

Stout - Quintine 'Hercule' stout from Belgium and Kilkenny Black.

Lager - Chouffe (made by gnomes!) on draft and Triple Karmeliet from bottles

Weiss - Reigle Weiss...let me know if you ever find it in this country. I've only seen it in one place.

[Annasfield]

Lager made by gnomes?!? :-S

[SeanMacGabhann]

There is a pub on the Peckham/New Cross border where beer is SOLD by gnomes

[david_carnell]

Check out their website for more info and the "Happy Gnome Song". I think you can get it in bottles fairly easily in expert off-licenses but beware....at 9%+ they are pretty strong stuff

[Annasfield]

I'd hoped they'd be more like smurfs :))

[mockney piers]

Is it sold in thimbles?

Actually the microbrewery beers in the Florence are pretty good. The K?ln style lager was crisp and flavoursome. My mate tried the bonobo which was a fruity dark bitter if I recall, and he was partial to a drop of it.

[Jah Lush]

david_carnell Wrote:

> Weiss - Reigle Weiss...let me know if you ever

> find it in this country. I've only seen it in one

> place.

I can't be certain David but I'm pretty sure I had a pint of that or something sounding very similar in the Dog in Dulwich Village on Saturday afternoon and bloody splendid it was too. It was on draught by the way.

[david_carnell]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Is it sold in thimbles?

They like their beers strong in Belgium.

....And Surrey for that matter. In fact drinking 9% beer is only way you can get over living in Surrey.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Jah - I'd swear the Plough has the same (being related and all) and I'm sure someone posted the full range of drinks available in the Plough somewhere on here but I can't find it alas

[david_carnell]

If they did I would be stunned...and be running very quickly in that direction!

[Brendan]

I'm sure they have something on tap that is Weiss something or other.

[david_carnell]

Weiss merely means "white" as in wheat beer and can be used by lots of different breweries. Hoegaarden (spit) is a weiss beer of sorts and I believe Kronenber (spit, spit) even do a white beer now. Would still be interested to know what beers the Dog and the Plough are doing though. Don't often venture down there or across there often enough.

[mockney piers]

I hope not Schneiderweiss. We all got drunk on that in the phoenix when it was on special and without exception had the worst hangovers of all time the next day.

[david_carnell]

This is the beer list from where I used to drink

[georgina]

If anyone ever gets a chance to try Ballards Beer (ALE) Dooo!

I practically grew up on it, its great I can hearty recommend it

Nyewood Gold - 5.0% and damnd fine

or

Ballards Best

Ballards

George

[SeanMacGabhann]

Ok lets see. . Franziskaner weiss bier and scineider weisse beers are the ones at the plough

[Asset]

Franziskaner is also at the Dog and I think the other weiss mentioned.