The Beer Thread

I'm fortunate to live not a million miles away from the UK's brewing Capital of Burton-Upon-Trent, and so my favourite beer is:

Anything made by the town's half dozen or so microbreweries. Which include the Middle Earth Brewing Company, the White Shield Brewery (who revived a very popular beer of yeasteryear) the Tower Brewery and so on and so on.

Its obsession with small breweries gaining access to Burton's special water has gotten so bad they've even now got a micro-pub.

But if I had to pick an absolute favourite it would be Burton Bridge Bitter, brewed by the Burton Bridge Brewery, and when settled...

Burton-Bridge-Inn-Drinks.jpg


Is a beautiful amber colour (as all Burton-water beers are) that is see through when settled. Absolutely perfect when eaten with either salty or sweet snacks.
 
  • Like
Reactions: VorpalAnvil-
CWCissey said:
Worthington's?
Click to expand...

Yep. Worthington's themselves is dead, but revived in the museum. Was hilarious as they only started it to demo how beer is made, accidentally created an explosive demand for the stuff.
 
Ponderous Pillock said:
Yep. Worthington's themselves is dead, but revived in the museum. Was hilarious as they only started it to demo how beer is made, accidentally created an explosive demand for the stuff.
Click to expand...

I actually had a bottle of that last night. You can buy it at Tesco now.
 
They've been coming out with some good craft brews in cans in the last few years because canning technology has changed; aluminum cans are lined with a polymer coating that protects the beer from the metal, so as long as you pour it into a glass from a can you skip the whole metallic taste issue entirely.

I'm partial to almost anything put out by 21st Amendment brewery with a soft spot for Back in Black.

IMG_0180.PNG

Picked up a six pack of canned Dead Guy Ale the other week and couldn't taste a noticeable difference between can and bottle.
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: Yaoi Zowie
I've been looking for a new day beer and have been coming up dry. I only really drink when I'm doing manual labor and the season is approaching for yard work.

anything new anyone's tried in the US West coast/northwest? the less hops the better.
porter is fine too.
 
resonancer said:
I've been looking for a new day beer and have been coming up dry. I only really drink when I'm doing manual labor and the season is approaching for yard work.

anything new anyone's tried in the US West coast/northwest? the less hops the better.
porter is fine too.
Click to expand...

What's your definition of "new"? I'm pretty well acquainted with PNW beers but it seems like every new beer that comes out is MAXIMUM SUPER HOPS these days (which is just lazy brewing imo) so I tend to stick with what I know and like because I'm not gonna shell out $ for another IPA clone that's so hoppy it's indiscernible from every other IPA on the market.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: DuckSucker and cuddle striker
probably within the last year or so. I'm only a beer drinker in the summer really. yeah they're just making hops tea these days, I understand it's local produce but it's disgusting.
 
I can understand why most places don't stock bottle PBR. Bottles get up to real beer prices so it sorta defeats the purpose of getting cheap shit beer.
 
There's a place that specialises in brew dog nearby (and ''''artisan''''' pizza, which is just a pizza base with leaves on) that specialises in brew dog and it is seriously good shit, if you've got money to burn. Since i'm poor though, I just buy Asahi in bulk and get drunk to the point that I can convince myself that my living room is a pub.
 
Erdinger Weissbier is where it's at, but Maisel's will do as well.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back