Favourite Beers

[billyturnip]

I brew my own but when I go to the pub I drink the locally produced beers such as Black Sheep, Theakstons, Hambleton Ales.
I'm also quite partial to German Weizen and just about every Belgian beer I've ever tasted, Karmeliet Triple being a particular favourite.

Roger.

 

[theBaron]

I brew my own but when I go to the pub I drink the locally produced beers such as Black Sheep, Theakstons, Hambleton Ales.
I'm also quite partial to German Weizen and just about every Belgian beer I've ever tasted, Karmeliet Triple being a particular favourite.

Roger.

Interesting, Roger, I'm a homebrewer, too, though it's been a while since I've brewed anything. Is it a popular hobby in the UK? I didn't know that anyone outside the US pursued the hobby.

Most of the states here in the East Coast have laws governing home brewing, that go back to Colonial times, but it really enjoyed a renaissance in the late 80s--just at the right time, when I had graduated from college--and has been popular ever since.

Do you have any favorite style when brewing? Personally, I like brewing stouts, the type seems very forgiving. Brewing a German lager using mass decoction, however, is too exacting for my stovetop setup. But the stone-cap bottles make bottling simpler.

The Black Sheep--if I remember correctly, the Two Fat Ladies featured that brewery in one of their shows. "To the Black Sheep, and all who follow her!"

Prost!
Brad

 

[billyturnip]

Hello Brad, homebrewing as a hobby is growing in popularity in the UK. During the 70's and 80's homebrewed beer did not have a good reputation. Most people at that time brewed from kits with high amounts of table sugar and the results were usually only fit to clean the drains.
Now it's quite easy to get started brewing all grain and there are some good on-line retailers for equipment and ingredients.
I like to brew German and Belgian style ales and wheat beers, I don't try and brew lagers for the same reason as yourself.

Yes, the Two fat ladies visited the Black Sheep Brewery. The brewery has a good website if you do a search. The brewery is only six miles away and they've also got a good restaurant.

Roger

 

[Jim Patrick]

My favorite beer is.....Jim Beam! Sorry....I enjoy a glass of whiskey every now and then.

Jim Patrick

 

[Uruk-Hai]

My favorite beer is.....Jim Beam! Sorry....I enjoy a glass of whiskey every now and then.

Jim Patrick

Hmm, Jim, I would like to recall that you made some vague promises never to drink again, last time I saw you.

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

 

[billyturnip]

I wouldn't take any notice of comments like that Janne.... we've all said that one

Roger

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I wouldn't take any notice of comments like that Janne.... we've all said that one

Roger

Sure we have, Im the first one to admit it, but Roger, you cant imagen how beliveable it was in this case.

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

 

[billyturnip]

Oh dear, sounds like a bad case indeed

 

[Jim Patrick]

It was bad! Probably wouldn't have been so bad if those jack hammers were not outside tearing up the street at the conclussion to WE Boston 2005!

Jim Patrick

 

[Uruk-Hai]

It was bad! Probably wouldn't have been so bad if those jack hammers were not outside tearing up the street at the conclussion to WE Boston 2005!

Jim Patrick

Still it was nice to meet you in person.

We all been there. I was with Warren Judge and Mike Blank the day before when they went around Boston to look for cymbals when I had a bad case of headache, although not because of alcohol rather than I sometimes suffer from migraine. After a while I realized how cruel I was to myself and went for a snack instead being a nonmusical guy.

Cheers
Janne Nilsson

 

[Jim Patrick]

It was fun indeed........

Jim Patrick

 

[Centaur]

Kwak, Hoegaarden, haven't found a Belgian beer I didn't like....
Trumphator, Salvator, German doppelbocks.. Paulaner, Spaten, proper Lowenbrau... hey we just missed Octoberfest....
Old Peculiar, hobgoblin and poachers

Melanie hic

Hic Melanie- you drink thinner
I prefere like you, Munich beers, without Loewenbraeu from my hometown!
Celebrate to drink some times, numbered on one hand in the year.
Drunk and sculpt isnt good to see twice.
I dont miss octoberfest I was visit ( live around the corner) as child too many times.
Have good time

 

[theBaron]

And here's where I like best to enjoy a good beer, my Biergarten:

I need to take a new picture; the shrubs have grown in much better, since I snapped this. I add tables, depending on how many folks come over. Very lovely around midsummer, when the fireflies are out in the evenings.

And though it doesn't pass the Reinheitsgebot, this was a very good stout indeed:

Brooklyn Brewing Company's chocolate stout. They use corn sugar, though, and I get a headache from one glass.

Prost!
Brad

 

[billyturnip]

Nice pics Brad. When I get home next week (I'm at sea at the moment) I'll post a couple of pics of my biergarten and beer.

Roger.

 

[Mike Stevens]

Free Beer is my favorite!

 

[pmfs]

Augustiner

undoubtedly Augustiner from München.

Also like Paulaner and Portuguese SAGRES, Irish Kilkenny, Pilsner or Pils from Bohemia, Czech Republic.
I've drunk many others, but for me these are the best

 

[theBaron]

Augustiner is excellent, too, I like their Maximator, but unfortunately, not too many distributors around here carry it, and it's usually more expensive for a case than Spaten, Hofbräu or Paulaner are.

I have a six of Hofbräu Oktoberfest left over, I have to finish that tonight

 

[billyturnip]

I have a six of Hofbräu Oktoberfest left over, I have to finish that tonight

On a ship with no beer you are making me very envious Brad
It's bad enough seeing all the figures here but now we are talking about beer aswell it's just torture.

Roger

 

[housecarl]

On a ship with no beer you are making me very envious Brad
It's bad enough seeing all the figures here but now we are talking about beer aswell it's just torture.

Roger

A dry ship? That's a novelty.
Carl.

 

[billyturnip]

Substitute "a novelty" with "a crime"

Nevermind I'll be home early next week

Roger.