h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The most important thing, when we talk about beer, is to know about what we are talking!
Not every beer is beer! And even less beer is good beer!

I am from Germany, from a region in Bavaria, where the best beer ist brewn!
I like most the beer form the tiny breweries at the copuntryside..
The names would no one know..

But this beer is just beer.. good beer, not more, no Kölsch, no Weizen.. just simlpe beer...

If you are there, in Franconia, then make a trip and taste a much diffenrent beer as possible!
But avoid Tucher and Patrizier!

*smile*
cea

Hi_
Well, I must insist that nothing beats a pint of Guinness in Dublin. Really, it's the water. I could not believe the beauty of wandering Temple Bar and finding pint after pint to be utterly superior to anything I have tasted anywhere. But only in Ireland. The Dublin brewery at St. James Gate is like unto the Pearly Gates. No kidding.
thank you.

I really can't rank my favorite beers, so in no particular order...

Guiness
Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout
John Courage
Budweiser (the Czech stuff)
Bamberger Rauchbier
Diebels Alt
Iron City
LeBatt's Blue
Penn Dark
Rolling Rock
Sam Adam's (lager)
Grolsch

I'm sure I forgot a couple.

English Ale, obviously, for its immense range of tastes and strength.
My top ten favourites are:
1: Waggle Dance
2: Wadworths 6x
3: London Pride
4: Brakespear
5: Pedigree
6: Bishops Finger
7: Old Peculiar
8: Theakstons
9: Spitfire
10:Any Hall and Woodhouse beers
There are many others which I would be glad to share. On second thoughts, get your own pint!

You should also try these:

1. Timothy Taylor's Landlord
2. Linfitt Leadboiler
3. Pendle Witches
4. Double Dagger
5. Phoenix Old Oak
6. Everard's Tiger
7. Black Sheep
8. Yankee Rooster (I think it's called that)
9. Another pint of Spitfire
9. I think I'll just have another Landlord, I can't remember any others.
10. Oh, is it my round? OK, I'll try a Black Sheep. Have we hadge that? And a packet of nuts. The onesh in the pink pack.
9.A nishe malt whishky would go down well now.
12. Zzzzzzzz!

AAAAhhhh..... Oh for a good pint of Tiger, there again some of my favorites are:
1. Fullers ESB
2. Anything by Harveys of Lewes
3. Youngs Special
4. Youngs Ordinary
5. Everards Tiger (very nice straight after work!)
6. Gales HSB
7. Bass (if on draught and kept by an expert cellerman! Few and far between methinks!)
8. Waggledance
9. Spitfire
10. Bishops Finger

Cheers
Musotech

I cant beleive nobody has mentioned youngs oat meal stout or Old speckled hen tut tut, you call yourself beer lovers

Pity the pubs aren't open yet as I could do with a decent pint of Ruddles County.Charles Wells Bombadier and York Breweries Terrier are another couple of good real ales to quench your thirst.

German,s really know about beer!! there is to me, an English woman, nothing better after a hard day,s work, than a full glass of smooth, frothy and taste-bud stimulating konig pilsner or warsteiner beer!!

Yummy!!!

Jane

As much as I enjoy a good pint (or litre!) or German beer, having lived in Belgium for almost all of my drinking life I can't help but prefer some of their brews...the internationally reknowned Stella Artois (whose domestic version is highly preferable to it's export counterpart) is one of my less favourites and I'd advise anyone who was truely interested in beer to visit brussels to try some of the hundreds and hundreds of types there are...my personal commercial favourites are Maes and Jupiler, but each villiage brews its own, and all should be experimented with liberally!

I can't remember the breweries because I had rather too much of them to remember the details, but several pints of Zebedee, Jack the Lad and Rainbow Chaser went down very well on Friday night.

I will try all the suggested uh oh .



Jane

Hi CK,
Can't say as I'm familiar with the brews you've recently posted,but will keep an eye open for them in The Cricketers and Indigo Alley here in still sunny,but chilly,Scarborough.Good point about getting a "profile" done,by the way.Just plain,old fashioned laziness on my part.Will try to get round to it in near future,but only have limited access to a computer here at Scarborough Library.

compo

Ah - the luxuries of having your own PC. You get to load your own software, then take it off when it doesn't work and conflicts with something vital, you get to take it to bits and put it back together again when it goes wrong, you get to use it whenever you want - and your better half doesn't, but best of all you can spill beer on the keyboard! Not that I would, of course, keyboards are cheap but spilling beer is heresy!

Coffee on the other hand - that's happened more than once!

Captain Kebab.
Finally got round to doing a profile about myself with a bit of a prompting from yourself and another ACE bod who contacted me.Your comments would be appreciated if anything needs to be added/altered etc.Must dash as the pubs will be open soon and the Charles Wells Bombadier is in fine form in The Spa at the moment.
compo.

Mmmmm - Bombardier. Nice pint.

I've left a message on your space, compo.

I would have mentioned Theakston's Old Peculiar and Young's Oatmeal Stout, had I caught this conversation while it was still going.

Murphy's, good for a commercial stout.

Guinness is often the only nice thing you can get in some pubs. However, it needs to be looked after. The pipes have to be clean, the gas pressure just right for precisely the correct frothyness.

Sorry, but I had Guinness in several pubs in Dublin and it didn't taste any better. Call me philistine.

If I have to drink lager I like Stella and Kronie. Grolsch is good in a bottle. I actually like Foster's if I'm just looking for a refreshing pint on a hot day, rather than something particularly alcoholic.

With a curry, it's got to be Kingfisher, with Chinese a Tsing Tao. O.P. must be drunk on its own as a meal in itself.

Hooray - the first person I've ever met who agrees with me about the Guinness in Dublin - I didn't think it was any better either. Guinness themselves, on their website, claim that there's no difference between the Guinness in Ireland and Guinness in England and that they've had blind tastings with journalists and they couldn't tell the difference.

Well nor could I, but *everybody* else who's tried it tells me that there's a huge difference. And gets quite shirty when I argue the point. Sorry, but I can't see it, and I'm not unfamiliar with a pint or two.

I used to like a pint or ten of Jennings "Snecklifter", a delightfully full flavoured brew that got you proper drunk, proper fast. Unfortunately, I havn't seen any in years, so now I'm a lager lout - anything will do, but Bud is best!

I had a Guinness in Dublin and thought it was a little better - a little less "metallic" perhaps - but not earthshaking. It's still one of the most reliable keg beers, if you really have no choice.

Favourites:

Timothy Taylor's porter (swines have stopped producing it though)
Sam Smith's Taddy porter (again, difficult to get hold of)
Bavarian black lager (can't remember the brewery, just the bottle!)
Any and all Black Sheep brewery ales.
Chimay
.....oh there're just too many.