Real ale!

We have a whiskey thread so I thought I'd see if we have any fellow real ale drinkers on here and see what ales you guys would reccomend!

I'll start off with a few

Purple Mouse brewery
Red rebel
East gate ale
Wicked weed
Smithwicks pale ale

All good ales

We have a whiskey thread so I thought I'd see if we have any fellow real ale drinkers on here and see what ales you guys would reccomend!

I'll start off with a few

Purple Mouse brewery
Red rebel
East gate ale
Wicked weed
Smithwicks pale ale

All good ales

As i said earlier regarding Whisky & Speyside, there are some great local brews up there to.

Allbright

Allbright

Welsh Brewers piped up river Taff water, strained it through stocking that were left on the Taff embankment, & then barreled & canned it.

Allbright,,,A Great Bitter!

Allbright

Welsh Brewers piped up river Taff water, strained it through stocking that were left on the Taff embankment, & then barreled & canned it.

Allbright,,,A Great Bitter!

I remember going up to the Brecon jazz festival in a car with one of our mates and he had drunk 10 pints of Allbright. Coppers pulled us over on the way up and he passed the breathalizer

hobgoblin

Allbright

Welsh Brewers piped up river Taff water, strained it through stocking that were left on the Taff embankment, & then barreled & canned it.

Allbright,,,A Great Bitter!

I remember going up to the Brecon jazz festival in a car with one of our mates and he had drunk 10 pints of Allbright. Coppers pulled us over on the way up and he passed the breathalizer

If they had checked his blood, he would probably still be in Isolation.

A real ale place has just opened in my village. It is a real small place but manages to serve about 7 real ales including ciders.

The pint for me is called Reverend. I think it comes from Shrewsbury way. Well wherever it is from it knocks the hops of any other pint around here.

Old Rick the best I have tasted from the Uley brewry

Old Rick the best I have tasted from the Uley brewry

Wad worth 6X

Butcombe
Otter
Exmoor
Tribute

Hereford Pale Ale
Timothy taylor or Black Sheep if oop north
Brains Sa in the capital

And a pint of Banks' best. A good breakfast ale

A few more I tried last night

Night owl( very sweet)
Butty Bach
Rev James

Hereford Pale Ale
Timothy taylor or Black Sheep if oop north
Brains Sa in the capital

And a pint of Banks' best. A good breakfast ale

Agree with these - Timothy Taylor Landlord is the tops! Also love Theakstons Old Peculiar.

Hereford Pale Ale
Timothy taylor or Black Sheep if oop north
Brains Sa in the capital

And a pint of Banks' best. A good breakfast ale

Agree with these - Timothy Taylor Landlord is the tops! Also love Theakstons Old Peculiar.

Where does the Old Peculiar come from?

I like Evan Evans ales...
Cwrw

Also Youngs WaggleDance or Fullers Honey Dew Bath Ales Gem

Pub I use in Keynsham has got at the moment, Dartmoor Legend, Bath Ales Gem, Ringwood Fortyniner, I do like a pint of Draught Bass off the barrel now and again and am very partial to an Abbot Reserve as well.

On match days I enjoy a couple of pints of Wye Valley IPA at the Butchers LLandaff.

Hereford Pale Ale
Timothy taylor or Black Sheep if oop north
Brains Sa in the capital

And a pint of Banks' best. A good breakfast ale

Agree with these - Timothy Taylor Landlord is the tops! Also love Theakstons Old Peculiar.

Where does the Old Peculiar come from?

'Pecuiler' comes from being outside the parish. Great beer and very strong!
Theakstons Bitter is the original home of Black Sheep. Theakstons sold the company and one of the sons opened Black Sheep brewery right across the road in Masham, a village in North Yorkshire. Well worth a visit!

Timothy Taylor make a range of bitters of which landlord is my favourite. Town Hall tavern in Leeds stock them all. Cracking!

Hope that wasnt a lecture lads! Love my ale

Hereford Pale Ale
Timothy taylor or Black Sheep if oop north
Brains Sa in the capital

And a pint of Banks' best. A good breakfast ale

Agree with these - Timothy Taylor Landlord is the tops! Also love Theakstons Old Peculiar.

Where does the Old Peculiar come from?

'Pecuiler' comes from being outside the parish. Great beer and very strong!
Theakstons Bitter is the original home of Black Sheep. Theakstons sold the company and one of the sons opened Black Sheep brewery right across the road in Masham, a village in North Yorkshire. Well worth a visit!

Timothy Taylor make a range of bitters of which landlord is my favourite. Town Hall tavern in Leeds stock them all. Cracking!

Hope that wasnt a lecture lads! Love my ale

Cheers chap.

Black Sheep is very popular around here in Derby. Tried a pint of it only this week for the first time funny enough. Very nice it was.

Derby Brewery - Business As Usual bitter? I think thats what it was called.

Also Directors is from that way too? Bit heavy for me that.

Allbright

Welsh Brewers piped up river Taff water, strained it through stocking that were left on the Taff embankment, & then barreled & canned it.

Allbright,,,A Great Bitter!

I remember going up to the Brecon jazz festival in a car with one of our mates and he had drunk 10 pints of Allbright. Coppers pulled us over on the way up and he passed the breathalizer

You may well laugh at the lack of alcohol in Allbright, but it was created by Ken Morrison ( a real gent of a MD; the MD's after him were a bunch of W......s) specifically for the local industry of the time, coal mining and steel making. Both these industries employed many people in an environment of physical work in hot conditions where pints of sweat could be lost. Therefore, he created a weak beer that could be quaffed in bulk without the drinker getting drunk before they were fully refreshed. The old Hancocks Brewery in Crawshay street used to make up to 4m pints per week of beer of which a large portion was Allbright and the beer won many awards. Toby Bitter was exactly the same beer as Allbright, but with just a different label.

For those who are interested I will explain how Allbright was actually brewed initially as a strong beer. The beer was brewed at around 1060 original gravity as this saves space; reduces the chance of spoilage due to higher alcohol content(alcohol is antiseptic) and reduces energy consumption when conditioning the beer ( chilling and removing yeast). The high gravity beer was occasionally sold under various names, Centenary Ale was one which was popular with touring international rugby teams (Welsh Brewers were sponsors). The high gravity beer was diluted with liquor (filtered and treated water) to produce weaker Allbright/Toby (1033) and the normal strength Best Bitter (1037). Most large scale brewers brew their keg beers in the same way, whereas real ales are brewed in smaller batches which costs more. There are many different malts and hops to give different tastes and body ( some like Brains SA are quite thick whereas others appear thin and watery), plus over 4m different yeasts (not all suitable for brewing) which produce varying degrees of alcohol, plus different tastes (beer yeast floats and lager yeast sinks).

My Favorites, but have had many fine pints in my travels but forget their names.

Butty Bach,
London Pride,
Bass, but has to be fresh as it doesn't keep more than 3 or 4 days.

Allbright

Welsh Brewers piped up river Taff water, strained it through stocking that were left on the Taff embankment, & then barreled & canned it.

Allbright,,,A Great Bitter!

I remember going up to the Brecon jazz festival in a car with one of our mates and he had drunk 10 pints of Allbright. Coppers pulled us over on the way up and he passed the breathalizer

You may well laugh at the lack of alcohol in Allbright, but it was created by Ken Morrison ( a real gent of a MD; the MD's after him were a bunch of W......s) specifically for the local industry of the time, coal mining and steel making. Both these industries employed many people in an environment of physical work in hot conditions where pints of sweat could be lost. Therefore, he created a weak beer that could be quaffed in bulk without the drinker getting drunk before they were fully refreshed. The old Hancocks Brewery in Crawshay street used to make up to 4m pints per week of beer of which a large portion was Allbright and the beer won many awards. Toby Bitter was exactly the same beer as Allbright, but with just a different label.

The extension on the extension (was that advert Allbright?)
A great session/breakfast beer like Hancocks Hb

For those who are interested I will explain how Allbright was actually brewed initially as a strong beer. The beer was brewed at around 1060 original gravity as this saves space; reduces the chance of spoilage due to higher alcohol content(alcohol is antiseptic) and reduces energy consumption when conditioning the beer ( chilling and removing yeast). The high gravity beer was occasionally sold under various names, Centenary Ale was one which was popular with touring international rugby teams (Welsh Brewers were sponsors). The high gravity beer was diluted with liquor (filtered and treated water) to produce weaker Allbright/Toby (1033) and the normal strength Best Bitter (1037). Most large scale brewers brew their keg beers in the same way, whereas real ales are brewed in smaller batches which costs more. There are many different malts and hops to give different tastes and body ( some like Brains SA are quite thick whereas others appear thin and watery), plus over 4m different yeasts (not all suitable for brewing) which produce varying degrees of alcohol, plus different tastes (beer yeast floats and lager yeast sinks).

When I was in Saudi a few of my mates made a good business out of the homebrew. Their quality of beer range from knocking you out one week to making you piss all weekend the following week. Some of the techniques they used to "rush" the beer through would makes the like of you squirm.

Allbright

Welsh Brewers piped up river Taff water, strained it through stocking that were left on the Taff embankment, & then barreled & canned it.

Allbright,,,A Great Bitter!

I remember going up to the Brecon jazz festival in a car with one of our mates and he had drunk 10 pints of Allbright. Coppers pulled us over on the way up and he passed the breathalizer

You may well laugh at the lack of alcohol in Allbright, but it was created by Ken Morrison ( a real gent of a MD; the MD's after him were a bunch of W......s) specifically for the local industry of the time, coal mining and steel making. Both these industries employed many people in an environment of physical work in hot conditions where pints of sweat could be lost. Therefore, he created a weak beer that could be quaffed in bulk without the drinker getting drunk before they were fully refreshed. The old Hancocks Brewery in Crawshay street used to make up to 4m pints per week of beer of which a large portion was Allbright and the beer won many awards. Toby Bitter was exactly the same beer as Allbright, but with just a different label.

Very interesting. I once worked in the off trade (retail), & sold many cases of Allbright, during the 80's.

know its not ale but theres some really good cider out now you should ask for them in your local they are called:-
dickens cider
cummins cider

A few more I had last night

Rutherford best
Lemonsgrve? Something like that
Newcastle Brown
Rockhopper
Hobgoblin
Guiness West Indies porter

Anyone visited the Discount Supermarket in Whitchurch Road? I found it a bit expensive, but there is plenty of choice ( I think it was over 500 different beers).