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where is dan bell on dave?

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 31 July 2003 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

it's in hoxton - can't remember where but it's an output collective ticket-only do... think they still have some left - can get deets if you like gareth...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

I haven't been to the pub in like, a week and a half!!!!

I knew there was something missing from my life

― chris (chris), Thursday, 31 July 2003 10:51 (twenty years ago) link

The only correct answer is "Whatever I am drinking", I've found.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

the best answer to what? you've gone nuts...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

you all need to come to ontario and try creemore springs. then it will be "whatever i am drinking" – and thus, the correct answer.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

Dyson, close but wrong, get thee some Clancy's, similar but better then Creemore. Only place I've found this beer in Ontario is at Duke of Argyle. go figure, its 'Nova Scotia' themed.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

Warsteiner (Pilsner or the Wheat one), Harp & Guinness are probably my favorites, but I ususally get some type of Michelob or Sam Adams because import beer in Kentucky is freakin' expensive. I can't even find Warsteiner around where I live, but it is good beer.

Meisterbrau, Wisconsin Club and Falls City are my favorites of the shit beer category. Wisconsin Club used to be the best, you could get change back on a fiver, it came in bottles and then one could use the boxes to make furniture. Quite a mulipurpose brew for the cheap.

― earlnash, Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

i really like keith's ipa when i'm in canada and upper canada dark aint bad either...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 31 July 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

I have to say that this thread features the most ridiculous statement I've ever read on Ile.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 31 July 2003 14:20 (twenty years ago) link

I get cases of Krombacher thru work, it owns.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:18 (twenty years ago) link

I prefer Hoegaarden blanche in the summer, Guinness the rest of the time.
I learned after going through six or seven different beers at DC's Brickskellar (500+ beer list) that ending with this particular Polish brew (v high alcohol content, odd cough syrup aftertaste) will pretty much wreck the next day..

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 1 August 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

In the blanche league, I recently discovered the true nectar of the summer.. the amazingly refreshing Erdinger (from Bavaria I think). I used to hate blanches but after one pint of Erdinger on a warm Berlin night, everything was revealed..

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:50 (twenty years ago) link

chris is your mind boggling at the mention of harp a little further up?

so lets get this right earlnash "harp" as in dutty dutty english 70s lager hell???

(i've just finished man walks into a pub so have learnt all about how carling is canadian and lagering and all sorts...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

nope Steve, I'm sure that some people enjoy Harp. There's summat far more ridiculous than that.

― chris (chris), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

"blanche"?!

Proper terminology:

German style wheat beer (e.g. erdinger) = weisse
Belgian style wheat bear (e.g. hoegaarden) = witbier

― fletrejet, Friday, 1 August 2003 13:06 (twenty years ago) link

what statement is that chris...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

He's left us all on tenterhooks as the pig gets out of work at 3 on a friday.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

i like budweiser and hoegaarden but not budwar ?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 1 August 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

Hello, it's with regards to the quality of beer in America, haven't got time to find it unfortunately, but I tried some of the new american premium small brewery beers when Safeway were selling them not long ago on a promo, and largely they were really really disappointing.

― chris (chris), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks for clearing that up, piggy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:24 (twenty years ago) link

you should go to wisconsin and visit the lakefront brewery and the new glarus brewery.

chris, not N.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like that RJ, will you take me?

― chris (chris), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:28 (twenty years ago) link

I'd love to, will you pay for me?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:29 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, sorry, the student loans company just caught up with me and I had to send them a big cheque :o(

― chris (chris), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:32 (twenty years ago) link

Still fond of the North Coast Brewery stuff, especially Old No. 38 Stout.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:32 (twenty years ago) link

when we're older, chris.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

From monday I shall be spending two weeks within walking distance of a Black Sheep house.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 2 August 2003 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

>Hello, it's with regards to the quality of beer in America, haven't
> got time to find it unfortunately, but I tried some of the new
> american premium small brewery beers when Safeway were selling them
> not long ago on a promo, and largely they were really really
> disappointing.

I think I probably made this "most ridiculous" statement and I still stand by it. Of course there are terrible american microbreweries but there are also some very very good ones that I mentioned upthread.

Chris Barrus: North Coast is great! Their 2003 Old Stock Ale is probably my 2nd favorite beer right now.

― fletrejet, Saturday, 2 August 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

Chimay. Ha.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 2 August 2003 19:37 (twenty years ago) link

it's not bloody aingerbraü. Chimay is good but Duvel is better for barminess. Millar, we need to FAP Brussels.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 2 August 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

there are many good american beers, i think i would quite like a shiner right now come to think of it

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 2 August 2003 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'm feeling homwesick for St Austell Ales. Specifically Wreckers.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 3 August 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

i'll admit that the belgian and u.k. stuff at it's best is in a league of it's own.too many to choose from, really. I love all things sam smith. thomas hardy ale is friggin' unmatchable in the over-the-top category. the list goes on and on. rodenbach grand cru is a fave of mine. saison dupont just might be my favorite euro beer. and then there is the german stuff too. but the states-kinda like with wine-have come a long,long way. near me in philly there are breweries that could match some of the better stuff overseas. and that's just near me. Victory brewing, Yards, Stoudts, Weyerbacher(who make amazing belgian style brews.) then there is dogfishhead in delaware who make some of the best stuff in the world. they are famous for their 18% worldwide stout but their other stuff is amazing as well. and that really is just the tip of the iceberg. course, i drink the local water-yuengling-just as much as anyone around here.
right now i am drinking a yummy Rogue Soba ale that they made especially for Iron Chef Morimoto(who has a restaurant here in town) I don't think i even know what soba is, but it's tasty! ( Rogue is from Oregon )

― scott seward, Sunday, 3 August 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link

I'd give you a shiner if I could, gar.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 3 August 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

I'm drinking Mickey's Big Mouths tonight.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 3 August 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

i miss those old lids that mickey's used to have. i guess they figured they were to hard to open or something. you had to pull them out using a forceful and tricky wrist movement. mickey's fighin' bee mascot was the only corporate logo that i ever contemplated getting a tattoo of.

― scott seward, Sunday, 3 August 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link

never buy a beer with a mongoose on the label

god, i miss yuengling

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 3 August 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.olhus.net/Prod_uk/Image054.jpg

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

A round of applause to Millar for introducing me into the wonderful order of the Chimay initiates! I actually brought someone into the fold myself a few weeks back. It's pretty much the only beer I've been willing to drink twice.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 01:34 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I have a new answer to this - Adnams Regatta! Much better than the normal Adnams (and I suspect it may be a seasonal ale), Regatta is rich, dark, hoppy and - most importantly - nummy! It is also reminiscent of the late, lamented Wadworths Farmers Glory.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

I know little about beer but common american beers are watery compared to the canadian ones. I'm not talking dark beers, I really like light ones. Here in Ontario the best I've had are Sleeman's Cream ale, and Creemore springs as recommended by Dyson a little ways upthread. Light, but a lot of taste.

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:15 (twenty years ago) link

I was very confused when I ordered that cream ale in Ottawa only to find that it wasn't ale at all!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

my pic seems to have disappeared.

anyway, it was badger golden glory

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:22 (twenty years ago) link

If in Brighton the answer is every beer by the Dark Star Brewing co (brewery tap = The Evening Star http://www.eveningstarbrighton.co.uk/)

If at home: Timothy Taylor 'landlord' strong pale ale: http://www.timothytaylor.co.uk/llordfr.htm

mmmm, pale ale.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

ten months pass...

The best beer is the third one into my tummy.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 23 October 2004 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link

If all beers were to be destroyed except for one to carry on the name of beer in perpetuity, that beer should be... GUINNESS.

― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 23 October 2004 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

my god...

guinness is not a beer but a stout. it's not even close to being a beer. it's more like....like a ....hamster or something than it is a beer. it's not a beer, ok?

stout

anyway, the finest beer (not stout) known to man is indeed the brew known to all who ever gripped it's uniquely shaped (sexually exciting) receptacle as Erdinger.

― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess you won't count lambics, then.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link

what, the pentameters?

― d.arraghmac, Saturday, 23 October 2004 04:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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