just wondering whats your favourite beer,

Mmmmm......Fosters.....:banana:

But sadly only got Carlsberg in fridge... (remnants from party).

May have to resort to the evil 'berg in this hot weather!

Newcastle Brown is my fav. Can't beat a bit of the dog. :)

A nice pint of Pale Rider, Ale rather then beer tho.

Joel

Dont touch bitter or beer but lager wise, Fosters for me too. I tend to like the Aussie beers for some reason!!! :D

Never got into Budweiser as not keen on the taste and Stella gives me a headache after one pint (must be a light-weight!)

Its all about Red Stripe. Cant be beaten

What a cracking question for a hot summer's day!:thumbsup:

Bitters - when on top form (which it rarely is) I like Timothy Taylor Landlord, Theakston Old Peculiar, John Smith's Magnet and the old, original version of Ward's. The Kelham Island range is good also.

Bottle beers - Worthington White Shield with the sediment in the bottle (which some thicko bar staff tip straight into the glass), TT Landlord (IPA) and once upon a time, Newquay Steam Beer (remember that?). Also, at Christmas, Robinson's Old Tom which you can get in the Bull's Head, Castleton - a true winter brew at around 9% ABV!

Lagers - Stella, Kronenbourg (sp?) but if I want to last all night then Extra Cold Carling seems fine.

I'm partial to Strongbow cider too.

Never got into Budweiser as not keen on the taste and Stella gives me a headache after one pint (must be a light-weight!) [/B][/QUOTE]


Have to agree with you there, Stella might be expensive but it sure is the root of all evil, it is rank and all the people i know says it makes people lairy when they drink it!!

Right now?

In this heat?

Anything as long as it is COLD!!!!

Mmm, so many to choose from. I like beers that you can taste, with lots of hops. When I lived down south this included things like Brakspear's or Hop Back Summer Lightning. Whether cask beer is any good or not depends critically on the skill of the people running the pub - often they're sadly disappointing. Compared to some places we're lucky in Sheffield in that department. Good ones include:

Last time I was in the Rutland I had an absolutely cracking few pints of Timothy Taylor Landlord.

The Pictish Gold (?) in the Kelham Island.

Whatever they've got at the right-hand end of the bar in the Cask & Cutler (changes all the time but always in a similar style).

I also like various Belgian beers - they've got a fair choice at the Devonshire Cat for instance, and some of the staff know how to handle them too. (Bit on the pricey side, mind.)

Ah, White Shield - I'd forgotten that but yes that's also lovely.

Labbats is the one 4 me

Lager - Budvar (like Budweiser, but with flavour) or Peroni.
Beer - Winter Warmer (I think it's called that) they sold it in the Bath Hotel over Christmas.

Mmmmm Red Stripe or Becks.

If I'm just going for bog-standard lager I'll always plump for Carling.

Does anyone else think that Murphy's Stout is far better than Guinness?

Originally posted by Bully_Beef
Mmmmm Red Stripe or Becks.

If I'm just going for bog-standard lager I'll always plump for Carling.

Does anyone else think that Murphy's Stout is far better than Guinness?

no murphys tastes really sweet , nothing can beat a nice pint of Guinness i had to go through hell last night none of the black stuff in the manchester apollo just carling and cafferys ,2.80 a can:o

Too many to mention, but in this sort of heat:

Spendrups Old Gold
Erdinger Weiss
Pale Rider (cold & fresh!)

Generally however:

Erdinger Pikantus
Aventinus

toss up between red stripe newkie brown, or... the lovely corona.. indeed.

There is no such thing as bad beer,it's just that some is better than others.

I agree with one of the previous posters who liked the "old" Wards and these days there are so many small breweries doing a good job that it's difficult to choose. So let's just say that on a day like today if it's wet and cold it has to be good :D

Originally posted by owdlad

I agree with one of the previous posters who liked the "old" Wards

You mean unfiltered Porter water, the stuff that smelled like a sewer ? :gag:

Draught Bass for me, cool but not chilled.

I like the bottled ales, especially honey beer brewed with a dolop of honey it just makes it that bit sweeter :)

Originally posted by Greybeard
You mean unfiltered Porter water, the stuff that smelled like a sewer ? :gag:

Draught Bass for me, cool but not chilled.

That's the stuff Greybeard, I had forgotten the stench :D it was allegedly because the spring water it was taken from drained out of the General Cemetery, that's why it had body :hihi:

Cant beat Corona or Coors light - both lovely - dead refreshing and at a place like wetherspoons dirt cheap as well.

Pale Rider gets my vote......quality!
Partial to Rock Spalt n all.
Magnets a nice drink too tho.
Sod it.....i'm off to the pub........

Nobody seems to like the one and only "STELLA":clap: :clap: :clap:

Talking about Stella has anybody or is anybody collecting the "Stellascreens" ring pulls I have one code number but still hoping for more:clap: :clap: :clap:
Regards
:)
Tony

Mmm... beeeer....

What do I like? Let's see:

Abbeydale Moonshine
Abbeydale Absolution
Timmy Taylors
Kelham Pale Rider
Wellington Stannington Stout
Edale Kinder Stout (and Kinder Stouter ... mmmm)
Youngs Waggledance
Old Peculiar

and just about any other beer, ale, porter, stout or mild that passes my lips. Not a lager fan, though.

Wet, chilled, in a glass, containing alcohol.

Favourite draught Taylor's Landlord (when on form) - although I've probably supped more Tetley's than anything else. Like my beer to have a tight creamy head - too many pubs these days don't bother with a sparkler so the head goes after a couple of sups.

Like a Guinness or several, but has to be poured slowly like in the Dog.

In this warm weather I'll go for lager - no really bothered which.

Bottled I like Badgers Champion. Like Ousetunes I've got very fond memories of Newquay Steam Beer - that was the business. Apparantly went bust in the mid 90's.

Kronenbourg 1664 - (I like 5% beers, but this is the best)

Don't like the Aussie ones, they all taste too sweet for me....

As for ales - Abbot at 5% and Old Hooky at four point something :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Longcol
Like my beer to have a tight creamy head - too many pubs these days don't bother with a sparkler so the head goes after a couple of sups.


Same here. Makes me very grumpy when the head goes:(

Robbinsons mild...now that ive had to move back to stockport from sheffield :( (if you go in any pub in stockport all they sell is robinsons, but its well worth trying if your unfortunate enough to end up in stockport).

And boddingtons, not the best in a pub but its great tinned.

Now ive moved out of sheffield ive noticed even more how much better sheffield is to manchester and stockport.

I have a friend who'll only drink Stella when he's in a pub. If they don't have it, he'll settle for Kronenburg or similar.

My favourite is Leffe blonde. off your tits in three glasses and it tastes fantastic. For sustained drinking I like Guinness, self limiting as you can't physically get too much of it inside you...

my fave just has to be boddingtons, or worthingtons or even caffreys, im definatly at a beer girl.

Fullers Pride
Taylors Landlord
Black Sheep
Pale Rider

could go on, but its getting late and it's making me thirsty!

Summer Lighting.

Deuchers

Absolution

Moonshine

when I was drinking mine was lets see.
theakstons old peculiar.
hens tooth.
spitfire.
hobgoblin.
fiddlers elbow.
black abbot.
marstons pedigree.
t. taylor landlord.
ram tam.
abbydale abbsolution.
ginger tom.
G.W.R. it was green ale.
black jack.
oatmeal stout.
wards best bitter. (hand pulled ).
eye of the dragon.
dragons den.
ole leg over.
riggwelter.
balck sheep bitter.
I.P.A.

Roosters Yankee /Knaresborough brewery
& Pale rider/top Sheffield Brew

1. New Castle Brown Ale
2. Imperial Brown Goose (Made fresh at the Goose Island brew pub)
3. Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale Ale
4. Old Peculiar
5. Anchor Steam Beer

Always good to wake up a sleeping thread.

Had a couple of bottles of "Worthington White Shield" tonight, to say I was disappointed would be an understatment :(

I know White Shield has been brewed by different breweries in recent years, it at least has been a decent bottle conditioned ale, the bottles I had tonight were as far from a decent ale.

I will have to nip out for a couple of bottles of Pale Rider to get rid of the taste ;) We may not be able to get Hendersons here in Lincolnshire, but at least I know an offie that stocks Kelham Island beers.

Coors Light

I prefer Light Beer in the US though it tastes lots better than in the UK.

The fridge is always stocked with bottles of Coors Light and yes I don't like to keep Guiness in, well it's colour reminds me of a sore subject ;0)

just discovered frulli- strawberry beer !very yummy and surely one of your five a day:hihi:

Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter. King among bitters.

My staple these days (and for the past few years) is large quantities of Stella. I'm actually regressing. Staropramen if it's available. I also like Red Stripe, and prefer to drink it at room temperature for some reason. Oh, and the other day, I got some 5.6% Polish Tyskie lager from Eylen Supermarket on London Rd to have at Peace in the Park. My Polish brethren sure know how to get hammered. Żywiec too is a nice beer.
When it comes to real ales, I'll try any new one that comes my way. Was liking Spitfire at the Lezzie - hope they still have it on. Went through a phase of being addicted to that Fursty Ferret in bottles - mmm.

Right now I fancy Hoegaarden with a slice of lime in it.

Wow, Im more of a lager man myself but as someone previously put, once I step foot in Wetherspoons I am like a kid in a candy shop!

Corona, Fosters (Ice), Carling, Holsten Pils.

Dislikes: Beck

(forgive me farther it has been 8 days since me last sniff of Alcohol) :help: :help:

dam you Tonsills dam you to H.......... :gag:

Anyway Mythos gets my vote :D

7 days to go 7 days to go e-i-aint-o 7 days to go

Hmmmmmmm Beer! :thumbsup:

I like Stella but it makes me a bit loopy - Oh!! and I can't stand Hoegarden or Leffe - its the worst taste ever.

If i'm in the pub then its got to be Stones Bitter - how on a Sheffield based website can Stones not get mentioned once! - especially nice with a bag of salted nuts.

But if its hot or warm, its got to be something like bottled Corona or Sol or if its a pint, Carling Cold or Kronenbourg will always go down well.

Kronenburg
Export
Peroni

Anyone tried that Kronenburg Cur 6% stuff?

Singha......mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Budvar, Kronenburg, Stella, Grolsh.

Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter. King among bitters.

My staple these days (and for the past few years) is large quantities of Stella. I'm actually regressing. Staropramen if it's available. I also like Red Stripe, and prefer to drink it at room temperature for some reason. Oh, and the other day, I got some 5.6% Polish Tyskie lager from Eylen Supermarket on London Rd to have at Peace in the Park. My Polish brethren sure know how to get hammered. Żywiec too is a nice beer.
When it comes to real ales, I'll try any new one that comes my way. Was liking Spitfire at the Lezzie - hope they still have it on. Went through a phase of being addicted to that Fursty Ferret in bottles - mmm.

Right now I fancy Hoegaarden with a slice of lime in it.

Defstef,
Your choice of Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter is the wise choice of a true connoisseur. In my opinion the company make the finest beer in England, bar none. Have you tried their Nut Brown Ale? It is absolutely delicious but hard to obtain in some parts. As a Sheffielder now living in Lancashire, I sometimes order crates of the stuff through a local off-licence. I strongly recommend it!

I like Bud or Budvar, I'll drink either. Corona with some lime in it is a winner too.

Almost anything from Bradfield Brewery, but the best has to be their Blonde bitter......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Cask and Cutler has had nearly 6000 different beers in its time and as I drink there 2-4 times a week I have sampled a good many.

My usual tipple is anything pale, golden and around 4% ABV - anything from the Glentworth or Durham breweries always hits the mark although I think Abbeydale Moonshine, when on top form, is fantastic.

Some of the stouts and porters are also fantastic, especially for a last half at the end of the night.

Being from over the border I always miss Holts Bitter and J W Lees.

Bottled - Youngs Double Chocolate Stout makes me drool just thinking about it.

Lager - Erdinger or Budvar (spits on fake US p*ss water made from soddin' rice FFS!!)

I love a nice pint of Carling Premier or Grolsch (sp?), I also quite like the bottles of Tiger & Cobra beer.

I also like my pints of Calling extra cold..........mmmmmmmm anyone fancy the pub, I am gaggin for a drink nah!

I like pints of carling extra cold or guiness extra gold too but they're not the best for my diet so I've been trying to switch to bottles of becks which have fewer weightwatchers points in...

Have been frequenting The Sheaf View Heeley Bottom just lately and love the cherry beer they have on tap there - also like the Fruli strawberry beer - bit pricey though! £1.80 per half!:o

i adore absolution...tis like moonshine but premium strength...yummy!
have started drinkin merrydown cider and ice on a hot summers day...dangerous but brilliant! I remember my dad talking about his days as a yewt drinking it, think it gives me some kind of genetic nostalgia...better than the white lightnin memories :gag: which was our 13 year old tipple...yuk!
its all about white zinfandel....rose all the way!!!!!! :love:

Lager - Erdinger or Budvar (spits on fake US p*ss water made from soddin' rice FFS!!)[/QUOTE]

i thought erdinger was a wheat beer...doers that class as larger still? think frulli is the same....both gorgeous!

leffe blonde

I drink almost any well kept ale but a particular favourite at the minute is an IPA called Jaipur from the recently established Thornbridge brewery at Great Longstone.

This is a thirst quenching, deceptively strong summer ale which is perfect for this weather.

I like

Carling, (not extra cold as it goes flat quicker than normal Carling, FACT) pint of, of course. Half a lager goes nowhere.

Bottles of Bud, yuuuuuuuuummy :love:

And i guess if im pushed, Stella(bottled). I used to drink a lot of this at one point, but then i went off it.
I can sup pints of Stella, but i become a wife beater, i dont think the husbands appreciated a drunk female attacking their wives hahahaha

1664 in the Nelson:headbang:

abbot ale, any of the specials at the sheaf is always good, frulli raspberry and form the larger 1664, asahi, cobra and kingfisher

Draught

1- Stella
2- Staropramen
3- Becks Vier
4- Fosters
5- Sam Smiths (funny name) Pilsner

Bottles

1- Koppenburg cider
2- Brahma
3- Stella
4- Becks
5- Peronni Nastro Azuro

ill drink most kinds of lager but i do enjoy san miguel, it tastes especially good on a hot summers day and reminds me of my holidays :)

i thought erdinger was a wheat beer...does that class as lager still?
The difference between lager and ale is explained here (http://www.realbeer.com/library/beerbreak/archives/beerbreak20001130.php) - basically, lagers are brewed more slowly, at a lower temperature, with the yeast sitting at the bottom, the opposite being the case for ales. A good lager will typically have a 'cleaner' taste; a good ale will typically have a more complex, earthy, fruity flavour, though there are of course a huge range of different tastes for both types.

A wheat beer, I think, is one that's based on wheat rather than the usual barley, and so I guess could be either lager or ale. I'd guess that Erdinger is a lager.

The point taxman was making is that the American version of Budweiser uses all sorts of non-standard ingredients and is considered to be completely tasteless and generally rather nasty by a lot of beer enthusiasts. (Not the) Michael Jackson explains here (http://www.beerhunter.com/documents/19133-001717.html) why he thinks the original Czech version, Budweiser Budvar, is better.

Anything cold, wet and alcoholic will do for me, but the all time favourite has to be black sheep bitter :thumbsup:

Super bock!!!

Anything cold, wet and alcoholic will do for me, but the all time favourite has to be black sheep bitter :thumbsup:

Mmm yeah, Black Sheep, lovely stuff... None of the Pubs in Stannington sell it though :rant:

What about the Robin Hood? They used to have it on occasionally, but to sample Black Sheep at it's best go to the brewery at Masham. Gorgeous stuff!

What about the Robin Hood? They used to have it on occasionally, but to sample Black Sheep at it's best go to the brewery at Masham. Gorgeous stuff!

No, they don't have it in the Robin Hood, they do have Farmer's blonde beer from the Brewery up Bradfield though, mmm... Lovely stuff.

I like flat warm bitter beer, am I odd? I love ESB, with all the gas knocked out of it, flat with no head on it.We used to brew our own, grew our own hops and even once malted our own barley, used to make some fantastic ales from old books.
EDIT from hops and barley, not old books!, had trouble getting the fermentation going!

:shocked:

You like warm beer?! Are you quite mad?! Warm beer is nasty...

I prefer lager freezing cold, but like my bitter at room temperature.

Try Australia for cold beer.....they even keep the glasses in the freezer!
(not a good idea for those with sensitive teeth).

:shocked:

You like warm beer?! Are you quite mad?! Warm beer is nasty...
sorry, i just cant stand freezing cold lagers or beers , ok shall i say room temperature rather than warm, hoppy beers taste better when they are slightly warmer

Haven't got a favourite one, but the 8 for my "Desert Island Beers" are as follows ........ (with a bit of historic artistic licence)

Mild: Wards Mild (I know it's not brewed any more but I used to love it in the Royal Standard some 15 years ago ....... lovely ....)

Session bitter: Hook Norton Best

Best bitter: Bateman XXXB

Old ale: Robinson's Old Tom

Porter: Clark's Ram Tam

Stout: Proper Guinness (I'm Irish, it just has to be......)

Cider: Saxon Press Greensleeves (yum yum yum yum),

and two more from any category, but just cos I love em ......, Theakston Old Peculier, and Roger's Conqueror (hasn't been brewed for years, but this I still think was the best brew to come out of the Frog and Parrot, much better than Reckless, and that was lovely ..... aah, the memories .....)

No single favourite, but what I drink depends on the pub Im in. In the Sheaf, its Erdinger. Dev Cat, Erdinger again. Frog and Parrot, Hoegaarden or Magners. Red Deer, Bombadier or Budvar. Washington, Moonshine, Bath Hotel, Magners or Bitburger. Anywhere else, it depends what theyve got on, and what sort of mood Im in.

Amstel, Bud (on tap) or Guinness :D

Staropramen on draught in my local :love:
And at home in bottles :love:

I had a bottle of Old Speckled Hen bought me for my Birthday a while back, tried it the other week, lovely stuff... They had it on tap in the Robin Hood last week, £2.40 a Pint though, WTF?! :shocked:

Living in Germany there's no such thing as a bad beer, all of it is around 5% and so many to choose from! :D

When I go back to England though I look forward to a nice cool pint of this (http://miquel.f2o.org/fotoblog/archives/imatges/guiness.jpg) mmmmmmmmmmm!!

Leffe blond. Slurp!

absolution! or pale rider, followed by moonshine...marstons pedigree also gets a look in too, quality!

Can't beat a cold pint of Carlsberg.

My order is as follows..

carlsberg
xxxx
carling
foster
cronenberg (my spelling sucks.)

The daddy of all beers - John Smiths!!
Also quite partial to Fosters :cool:

Living in Germany there's no such thing as a bad beer, all of it is around 5% and so many to choose from! :D

When I go back to England though I look forward to a nice cool pint of this (http://miquel.f2o.org/fotoblog/archives/imatges/guiness.jpg) mmmmmmmmmmm!!

Don't disagee about the the quality, but, why when we went through so many court cases as 'what is a pint' ie is the head counted?

Been to Germany? Try getting a full glass there.

How much foam do you want?

Defstef,
Your choice of Sam Smith's Old Brewery Bitter is the wise choice of a true connoisseur. In my opinion the company make the finest beer in England, bar none. Have you tried their Nut Brown Ale? It is absolutely delicious but hard to obtain in some parts. As a Sheffielder now living in Lancashire, I sometimes order crates of the stuff through a local off-licence. I strongly recommend it!

Hi timo,
my apologies for the late reply, sir. Ever since I made that post, it has been my mission to become as innebriated as possible. Currently, I am as ****** as a fart. Having grown up a mere 3 miles from Tadcaster, Sam Smiths was always ridiculously cheap. When I left Bramham in 1999, Sam Smiths (Old Brewery Bitter) was a mere £1.13 a pint in The Red Lion. Crazy days. I've had their nut brown ale, and their pale ale and a few others. Their range of lager is supplied by the Ayingerbräu brewery in Austria, I believe (it could be Bavaria, but I can't be bothered to verify this at this time). In the summer, they had a Germanic um-pah-pah band playing in the yard, which backs onto the beck in which I used to build dams. A rural upbringing, you see?

Cheers, Defstef! Long may you continue to enjoy Sam Smith's sublime fares.

The daddy of all beers - John Smiths!!
Also quite partial to Fosters :cool:

this is a joke, isnt it?

nice 1:)

Ayingerbräu brewery in Austria, I believe (it could be Bavaria, but I can't be bothered to verify this at this time).
Yes, FWIW, Ayinger is one of the breweries in the Munich area. Speaking of which, one of my favourite beers from round there, apart from the famous ones like Schneider Weisse or Augustiner Hell, is Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel, a dark, malty beer a bit like the very best Belgian Trappist beers (e.g. Westvleteren 12), but not so heavy/strong. If you ever happen to be in Munich, you can get all these Bavarian beers for about 50p-£1 a bottle, in shops (not in the beer halls, which are more expensive).

Speaking of that, I wonder if there are any shops in Sheffield that have a big range of this kind of beer? I've had a look around but haven't found one yet.

The daddy of all beers - John Smiths!!
Also quite partial to Fosters :cool:

SWFC00,
Perhaps you might appreciate that titan of American beers, Budweiser. Mind you, best not to. Safer to stick to half a bottled Shandy in my experience [not a 'made' one, God forbid...].

a pint of heineken draught is never a bad shout, although im rather partial to a pint of the black stuff now and then.

But as im in the height of world cup fever, carling has got to me - their adverts are too good to resist!!!!