The Pub.............grab a pint and..........

[Anonymous]

Vic, the brewery that brews the beer for my local, Thwaites, also brew Coors under licence. It's that popular that a £2-50 bottle is now being sold for £1-00 - Rocky Mountain run off - I like it!
Ian called me last night, he and Doreen are now just outside london and having a great time, be introducing them to the delights of 'Lancaster Bomber' in a couple of weeks.
Cheers,
Kim
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[John Busby]

Hi Capt Carrales
Maybe you just found the solution to the oil crisis[:D]
moonshine powered cars I give no garentee***hat it will be able
to be driven in a straight line[:D]
regards John

[John Busby]

Hi Kim
Oh well won't be able to get the beer but if I ever get
back to the UK.
At least I will be able to get a train and find out if the Nags Head
and my child hood home is still there.
regards John

[vsmith]

Since this is obvioulsy the drinkers thread now!

Wish I could try a pint of Lancaster Bomber, dont suppose they brew enough for export.

Here in the US we get some odd ones occasionally, but there mostly specialty beers from some of the larger brewers who can afford to export. One I always look for is from Young's "Old Nick" which is a barleywine ale, nothing on the US market is even anywhere similar.

The two most common English brews that are now available on tap at many places here are Guinness, which I discovered when I was 21 and used to be a pain to find, and Newcastles (beats Bud, usally with a stick).

Some other bottled commercial brands that are popular here: Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout, Old Peculiar, Paddington's Pub Ale has found a following here, and my personal favorite Murphy's Stout, there are quite a few others also avalable. I'm sure it varies region to region too.

American micro breweries have really helped fill in the taste buds since the early 80's when your beer choices used to be Bud, Coors, or Miller (all **** beers to me). Far too many good ones to name...Arroyo, Redtail, Firestone, Craftsman, yadda yadda yadda. Some have become big brewers on there own like Samual Adams, Petes Wicked Ale, Sierra Nevada, and one I have to recommend, the beer that saved me from Bud and if you can find it, try it, Anchor Steam from San Francisco, they were perhaps the FIRST micro-brand as we know them today, still one of the best.

[Anonymous]

Vic, I have had a bottle of Anchor Steam, I can't remember where I had it but I remember seeing their advertising stuff in a pub and it was that led me to it. I suspect it would have been in Manchester, we go for day long drinking trips there, via the train of course! It's not as bad as it sounds as we have a well trod route with a good walk between pubs, they are all cask houses and on the day we probably have a choice of 50+ beers, one of them is also a micro brewery. Another of our local Manchester brewers has a link up with a New York brewery, I'll find out which, and they even traded head brewers a few years back and they brewed a special cask beer each. Back to the day long drinking trip, we also have at least one good meal so we are well set up and going home is great for me as Blackpool North station is a terminus so I can't miss my stop!
Cheers,
Kim
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[Anonymous]

Gentlemen;

I am now in a position to comment on British warm beerand i can tell you that fronm my point of view it is awful.

However I had some Carlings that i quite liked but I like to drink Beer very cold and thats not how you get it around here.

After being in Bremen Germany for a month which is the home of Becks Beer, what a great drop and the way that they sell it is very good. 24 for 9 euro and they come inwhat looks like a small milk crate. and when you finish you take it back and they give you 3.40 Euro back on the crate and the bottles.

On to slitghtly different matter, what is the relationship between Boris becker and Becks beer, you might be surprised

Regrds Ian

[Anonymous]

At least you where drinking Becks mate, purity laws etc. Ref Carling Ian you may be interested to know that the Isle of Man had very similar purity laws to Germany and one of the local brewers, Ockells, asked the Tindwall (local government) to repeal the purity laws so they could brew Carling!! The bloody sods did as well.

VIC, Brooklyn Brewery and the beer was Brooklyn Best.
Cheers,
Kim
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Cheers,
Kim
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[highrailjon]

QUOTE: I can never understand why Americans drink so much coffee

I think because all our tea wound up in the Boston Harbor.[:D] Sam Adams Boston Ale, Please.