Beers you love, or hate.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I think you just threw some random words and letters together there Knut. 😁

Aren’t all my posts like that?! 😀

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Aren’t all my posts like that?! 😀

To be fair, only the odd ones.

And read that how you like 😆

Tastes have changed. Used to like dark bitters but more into lighter IPA types and Blond Ales nowadays. Like to go to Leeds, York or Sheffield Kelham Island for a trawl round the ale houses. Just a few of the ones I like but it's not an exclusive list. Find new ones all the time and it's good that the pubs are now back open so we can go and explore again.


York Brewery- Guzzler

Osset Brewery- Yorkshire Blond

Brewdog- Dead Pony Club

Wainwrights- Golden Ale

Batemans- Combined Harvest

Kelham Island Brewery- Easy Rider or Riders of the Storm.

Bradfiled Brewery- Farmers Blond.

Not usually a lager drinker but sometimes have a Starapramen or a Budvar.

Quoted from ginnywings

Tastes have changed. Used to like dark bitters but more into lighter IPA types and Blond Ales nowadays. Like to go to Leeds, York or Sheffield Kelham Island for a trawl round the ale houses. Just a few of the ones I like but it's not an exclusive list. Find new ones all the time and it's good that the pubs are now back open so we can go and explore again.


York Brewery- Guzzler

Osset Brewery- Yorkshire Blond

Brewdog- Dead Pony Club

Wainwrights- Golden Ale

Batemans- Combined Harvest

Kelham Island Brewery- Easy Rider or Riders of the Storm.

Bradfiled Brewery- Farmers Blond.

Not usually a lager drinker but sometimes have a Starapramen or a Budvar.

Apart from Batemans Combined Harvest, which I like, I've never heard of the rest so it's something to try. I'd also forgotten about Batsman’s XXXB and Guinness Porter both of which are pretty good, the porter is probably an acquired taste though.

I like the sound of Shepherd Neame 1698 (6.5% vol) so I'll have some of that too.

Hopefully, it's going to be a long hot summer so I'll have something to occupy my mind, wife permitting.

Verdant are knocking it out the park at the minute...DEYA doing well too.

My favouritest beer in the world, ever is Tripel Karmeliet. Belgian tripel blonde which Tesco is now selling although only in 750ml bottles which is a hefty drink. Give it a go - it's fantastic stuff.

Other Belgian tripels which are nice are Gouden Carolus, Delirium Tremens and La Chouffe. Lots of others as well, of course. Duvel is passable if the above aren't available. The regular strength blondes such as Leffe are fine, if not spectacular and I don't mind the odd bruin from time to time either.

Most lagers brewed overseas are pretty good - Stella, Kronenbourg, San Miguel, Heineken, etc. It's only the bastardised versions brewed under licence in the UK which are rubbish. Not quite sure what corners are cut to make them so poor in comparison to their continental brethren.

Budvar my favourite lager, I think. Not a great fan of the German lagers, however. Just don't like the style that much.

I do, however, like the German weizen beers. Erdinger always nice and some of the Schneiderweisse beers are also very good. Their Aventinus doppelbock is great, but not for the faint-hearted as it has a lot of poke.

I like a pint of Willy's Original though it is absolutely yonks since I've had one - 18 months or more now I reckon. Tragic, when I used to go there for a pint or two at lunch a couple of times a week.

Exmoor Gold a lovely beer though you don't see it round here very often, that's for sure. I generally prefer the paler cask beers.

Don't mind some of the 'craft' beers though many just have too many hops chucked in them. West Coast IPAs generally not too bad in this regard.

Quoted from Maringer

My favouritest beer in the world, ever is Tripel Karmeliet. Belgian tripel blonde which Tesco is now selling although only in 750ml bottles which is a hefty drink. Give it a go - it's fantastic stuff.

Other Belgian tripels which are nice are Gouden Carolus, Delirium Tremens and La Chouffe. Lots of others as well, of course. Duvel is passable if the above aren't available. The regular strength blondes such as Leffe are fine, if not spectacular and I don't mind the odd bruin from time to time either.

Most lagers brewed overseas are pretty good - Stella, Kronenbourg, San Miguel, Heineken, etc. It's only the bastardised versions brewed under licence in the UK which are rubbish. Not quite sure what corners are cut to make them so poor in comparison to their continental brethren.

Budvar my favourite lager, I think. Not a great fan of the German lagers, however. Just don't like the style that much.

I do, however, like the German weizen beers. Erdinger always nice and some of the Schneiderweisse beers are also very good. Their Aventinus doppelbock is great, but not for the faint-hearted as it has a lot of poke.

I like a pint of Willy's Original though it is absolutely yonks since I've had one - 18 months or more now I reckon. Tragic, when I used to go there for a pint or two at lunch a couple of times a week.

Exmoor Gold a lovely beer though you don't see it round here very often, that's for sure. I generally prefer the paler cask beers.

Don't mind some of the 'craft' beers though many just have too many hops chucked in them. West Coast IPAs generally not too bad in this regard.

Noticed Tripel Karmeliet is now in Morrisons too(750ml)
Also they have Westmalle Tripel & Chimay both superb Belgium choices.
Noticed also Fruh Kolsch from cologne & the legendary HB (Hofbräu Original ) from Munich.
Exmoor Gold is excellent btw.

I used to go to Morrisons now and then to pick up some of the wheat beers they sold that Tesco didn't (I used to quite like the Erdinger Dunkel, but I've gone off it recently). As I'm based in Cleethorpes, Morrisons is a bit of a hike, so I'm pleased to say that Tesco sell a lot more good stuff now as well. I've also ordered from Beer Merchants, Beers of Europe and (back when they were shipping to the UK last year!) Beers of Belgium.

Oddly enough, it's only 20-odd years ago that I used to order deliveries of Erdinger from Majestic Wines because none of the supermarkets sold wheat beers back then! The difference in choice in supermarkets now compared to then is absolutely remarkable. Probably greater than a ten-fold increase in the range.

My favourite beer is Wye Valley Brewery's Butty Bach.

First had it on a trip to Hereford but at the time you couldn't get it round here.

Thankfully Asda stock it now.