Whats your favorite beer at the moment?

oneofakind32

I'd have to say fuller's London pride myself! I had a bit of an ale revelation a couple of months back!

the beer revolu

That's a far more sensible question than "best beer ever?".

Had a Floreffe Prima Melior last night. Dark and strong and tasty!!
It's my favourite beer of the day!!:D

Orval is nearly always my favourite beer.

This week its's svyturys baltas. Tasty beer.

thelynchfella

enjoying Hoegaarden alot lately!

brianthebard

Bombardier's satanic mills, lovely stuff the best elements of stout and ale.

Prenderb

Just tried Blue Moon last night, it's great - lovely flavour and a smooth finish. For everyday I can't beat the reliable Spaten...not that I drink it everyday - you know what I mean.

bennyob

thelynchfella wrote: »

enjoying Hoegaarden alot lately!

Had a few of these a while back on the advice of a friend. I didn't take to them at all. For some reason, they tasted very flowery.

Brian CivilEng

I must say I am quite enjoying HopHead at the moment. In its cask, keg or bottle forms it's a great drink.

JonathanAnon

I dont get out much any more these days, but I'd have to say my favourite beer is easily the Perlenbacher bottles (6x500ml) that they sell in Lidl. Lovely taste, strong, and cheap. What more can you ask for?

Jev/N

Back on the Fransikaner at the moment, helped by the 6 for 5 deal in Redmonds

MattKane

I'm going through an American phase. Boston Lager and Sam Adams for something a little different.

electrogrimey

I'm loving Delirium Tremens at the moment. Went through a big Chimay Red/White phase before then, but right now I think Barbar takes the biscuit. Wasn't expecting much from it but it's a really great beer, really subtle honey and blackberry tones. Really good.

revileandy

Deuchars IPA - the king of all ales!

wobzilla

I've been in a strong English Ale mood for the last few weeks. Mostly been drinking Fuller's Golden Pride and Adnams Innovation. Before that I couldn't get enough of Clotworthy Dobbin. It's a gorgeous red ale with a really smokey finish to it, almost like a porter.

Pixelcraft

Loving Goose Island IPA lately.

PoleStar

Leffe Blond, cant beat it.

Although wouldnt say no to an aul Chimay red

BeerNut

wobzilla wrote: »

almost like a porter.

That'd be because it is a porter

Whitewater Brewery wrote:

Clotworthy Dobbin 5.0% ABV

A rich ruby porter style beer with lashings of hoppiness and plenty of fruit & toffee on the palate.

mayordenis

As it's the only beer in my hand at the moment then I must go with Goose Island IPA

drunkmonkey

PoleStar wrote: »

Leffe Blond, cant beat it.

Although wouldnt say no to an aul Chimay red

'1
the leffe is very nice, was drinking it twice this weekend, very easy drink... back to the sticks now so back to my pint of plain white gypsy..

wobzilla

BeerNut wrote: »

That'd be because it is a porter

Ahhhh. Beer advocate had it listed as an Irish Red. Just goes to show you should follow your own opinion and taste buds

wheeliebin

Have a bottle of Franfurter in my hand, Feel a little naughty drinkin on a school night but zero hang overs from it. Stumbled upon it in aldi last weekend, thought id give it a try. Very easy to down too many

wheeliebin

Just something i have noticed in the last couple of months. Guinness is marketing itself as a beer in a lot of advertising. Surely not

Sarky

revileandy wrote: »

Deuchars IPA - the king of all ales!

I'd almost move to Britain purely for the ales. I'd love to see more on tap over here.

wobzilla

wheeliebin wrote: »

Just something i have noticed in the last couple of months. Guinness is marketing itself as a beer in a lot of advertising. Surely not

Guinness is a beer. Stout, Ale, Lager etc. are all beer. Anything that is brewed from malted grain is a beer. Beer is then divided into 2 major groups - Ale and Lager depending if the yeast floats on top or sinks to the bottom during fermentation. If it floats to the top it's an ale (includes stout, porter, pale ale, Strong ale etc.), If it sinks to the bottom, It's a lager (pilsener, bock, dunkel etc.). Oh and Cider is not a feckin beer btw. I hate when people say it is. Cider is not brewed from grain. End of rant

wheeliebin

You learn something new everyday. Thanks for that wobzilla

wheeliebin

Nice bottle of malt vinegar. Brewed from malted grain. Open up a bottle of maltesers and have a wee party. Only teasing

wobzilla

wheeliebin wrote: »

You learn something new everyday. Thanks for that wobzilla

No problem
Extra bit of info for you.
If you ferment cereal grain you get beer, Then you distill it you get whiskey / vodka.
Ferment grapes you get wine, distill and you get brandy.
Ferment apples, pear, berries etc. you get cider, distill and you get schnapps.
distill sugar cane and you get rum (mollases gives you dark rum)

Gin (my favourite spirit) is made completely differently though. They get pure alcohol and infuse it with flavours (mainly juniper).

Oh, and port and sherry are made by adding brandy to wine

wobzilla

wheeliebin wrote: »

Nice bottle of malt vinegar. Brewed from malted grain. Open up a bottle of maltesers and have a wee party. Only teasing

Malt vineger is actually made from fermented grain that is allowed to be oxydised. When ethanol gets oxydised it makes ethanoic acid (the main ingredient in vinegar). Just like wine can be made into wine vinegar and cider into cider vineger

Keedowah

Pabst Blue Ribbon when I was in Boston for Christmas - would like to get a case of it here if anyone knows if/where it can be found... ?

IronMan

Like a lot of the posters, I love English Ale. Hope to visit the great British beer festival this year, all being well.

Such a pity we cannot get good quality, Irish made ale on tap in the majority of pubs, instead of the ice cold, tasteless fizzy stuff we are subjected to. Galway Hooker can be fantastic, but I have got some seriously funky pints of the stuff, don't know if is because of low volume being served etc.

As for beer of the moment, it has to be Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. A kick ass beer, and the label is fantastic too!

Rowley Birkin QC

Maredsous Blond, despairing at the fact it's going to be tough to get when I move home though.

the beer revolu

wobzilla wrote: »

Guinness is a beer. Stout, Ale, Lager etc. are all beer. Anything that is brewed from malted grain is a beer. Beer is then divided into 2 major groups - Ale and Lager depending if the yeast floats on top or sinks to the bottom during fermentation. If it floats to the top it's an ale (includes stout, porter, pale ale, Strong ale etc.), If it sinks to the bottom, It's a lager (pilsener, bock, dunkel etc.). Oh and Cider is not a feckin beer btw. I hate when people say it is. Cider is not brewed from grain. End of rant

There are specific types of yeast used for top and bottom fermented beers.
While I often use the very simple idea of two basic categories of beer, many would disagree. Some people get very upset if you say that Kolsch, for instance, is an ale (despite it being fermented with a top fermenting yeast).

There's a pretty good explanation of top and bottom fermenting yeasts here

JonathanAnon

PoleStar wrote: »

Leffe Blond, cant beat it.

yeah, love that as well. Very similar to the perlenbacher I mentioned earlier. It's nicer but much more expensive.

BigDuffman

Perlenbacher is a great beer god bless Lidl.

Peroni is an amazing beer..if you can come across the export strength even better.

Mainstream I'm a Guinness man in a pub.

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O'Hara's Stout

wobzilla

the beer revolu wrote: »

There are specific types of yeast used for top and bottom fermented beers.
While I often use the very simple idea of two basic categories of beer, many would disagree. Some people get very upset if you say that Kolsch, for instance, is an ale (despite it being fermented with a top fermenting yeast).

There's a pretty good explanation of top and bottom fermenting yeasts here

Still better than having people say stout isn't beer or bulmers is beer though.

parttime

Zywiec (from the bottle, NOT the can!) is definetly the best ive had. Those polish sure know how to brew beer,expensive though.

oblivious

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Maredsous Blond, despairing at the fact it's going to be tough to get when I move home though.

can be delivered to your door by an Irish company;)

http://www.realbeers.ie//shop/product_detail.aspx?pdid=216

Frisbee

brianthebard

Have you tried the vintage coopers?

gebbel

parttime wrote: »

Zywiec (from the bottle, NOT the can!) is definetly the best ive had. Those polish sure know how to brew beer,expensive though.

Agreed. Love the stuff. Tesco have it for €1.69/500ml bottle at the moment. Good price.

loopyloulilly

yum for the hoegaarden and the glass!:D

absolutegroove

Crown Lager.

Very nice smooth tasting lager.

truecrippler

I'm off the drink for January :eek: but doing well at the moment.

I love Leffe though, amazing stuff. Living in Cardiff now and its so hard to get a nice pub that has beers seen in places such as the Porterhouse, Bull & Castle etc... really saddens me .

BeerNut

I've found that the local CAMRA awards are a good way of identfying UK pubs with a decent selection of non-UK beers. Cardiff CAMRA's is here, and another site mentions that Y Mochyn Du serves Hoegaarden, meaning there's a possibility it has stablemate Leffe too.

rottenhat

Porterhouse Hophead for me - maybe not up there with the best of the US, but I'm glad to see someone here is trying.

MoominPapa

Hophead is second place to Tradewinds for me

Judgement Day

God I hate being a total technophobe, I just can't manage the image function so apologies for now you see it now you don't. As I was saying, I stick with Guinness from the onset of winter (cold weather rather than season) and stay with it until the end of the Heineken Cup when I switch over to Heino. Boring but that's me! I also collect breweriana for my sins and recently came across this Guinness product, long forgotten, at the back of a wardrobe. Can't claim to have ever tried it and these bottles are well past their sell-by date but I have them on eBay at the moment for anybody that likes to live dangerously. Anybody ever try it?

BeerNut

Judgement Day wrote: »

Anybody ever try it?

Yeah, there have been a fair few threads on it if you do a search. It wasn't great -- a bit soapy. But well ahead of its time.

oblivious

Judgement Day wrote: »

Anybody ever try it?

On draft when it was out years ago, a good example on how Digeo/Guinness mess up on special releases

an shot at a Belgian wit, but had a weird after taste

IrishWhiskeyCha

Yesterday popped into Tesco to get a deal on a couple Blackbush for €22.36 a bottle ... bargain.

I also ended up buying some Erdinger & Weihenstephaner weissbier

Last night had a Weihenstephaner weisbier against the Erdinger

Must say that the Weihenstephaner was a winner for me and possibly my favourite beer of the moment