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In Kolne, I drank (and brought back a crate of) Früh. It's bloody nice.

Adnam's Broadside. Fuck me. Just because ruby rhymes with doobie, you shouldn't combine the two without making sure you are very comfortable first. I'm sat here in an office chair at a desk trying to play football manager listening to hi-nrg tekkno I can't be arsed to turn off. Fantastic bloody beer this.

my favourite lager is coors light hahah

I like labels that look like Manowar album covers.

I have become rather partial to Fuller's Seafarers of late, they serve it in my local. I do need to start trying some new ales though, I only graduated to bitter from lager early last year and as such I am rather inexperienced in this new world of drinking that has opened up to me.

Fucking Hell say the Germans. Piss off, says Austria.

Belgians pronounce it "Kvek". Well, the Belgians I overheard in Bruges did, anyway.

Belgians are silly billies.

Delerium Tremens is probably my absolute favourite Belgian beer. I've gone off Brugse Zot, even the unfiltered stuff they have on tap at De Haave Mann (though I did buy a silly hat last when I was there in February). Thankfully no sign of going off Leffe Blond or Bruin, them being so available here.

I like many, many other Belgian beers. Unfortunately, I can't remember them now. Put the bottle in front of me and I'll be probably be able to recognise it and whether or not I like it though (that isn't a challenge).

Duvel? Chimey? Duval on draft at our local

They're both good (well, red and blue Chimays), yes. Fly on the Loaf in Liverpool has quite a few Belgian beers including those and Delerium Tremens. And some nice German ones. I miss it.

I really should have kept a list of all the ones I've tried, it's got to be well over 100 by now.

Bit of a dilemma, here. I've just poured a beautiful black and tan, and don't want to drink it because it looks so awesome.

Could be a fluke. Best drink it then pour another to check.

Or pour another, compare first, then drink.

Oh, no, making them look beautiful is deceptively piss-easy, but every one is special in its own way.

Beauty is transient. Man up.

Nae bother - I did. I'm actually onto drink number six, and promise not to boozepost later.

Beauty is in the belly of the consumer.

I am shortly meeting a chum for beers. I will ask for a black and tan and report back.

Make sure Craster & Grim... are there to carry you out.

I have a train to catch before 9pm, so will be in a reasonably fit state, sadly.

Bollocks is it, the trick is to go back to Uni, you get older but the chicks stay the same age.

It's wonderful.

Duval on draft...

Any good, Mr. Kissyfur?

I'm in your forums bumpin your old threads.

Hrm Beer. My favourite subject.
I try not to drink any bad ones, so I can't comment on that. That being said, stouts, porters and ESB's are my faves.

My favourite beers that you lot can get over there:
Hook Norton Double
Hook Norton Old Hooky
Hook Norton 12 days (see a theme?)
Otley 01
Adnam's broadside
Zerodegrees pretty much everything, though fancy the mango in summer
Brains Dark/Black
Fullers London Porter
fullers ESB
Fullers London Pride (standby)
Timmy Taylor's Landlord
Any of the vintage Thomas Hardy's
Anything Mikkeler

There's that one place in Cardiff, big selection lots of american beers too. Same kind of place in Borough market as well, though mighty inflated prices.

Good lord, tell me where Kim! I'm in thrall to American beers! They are the lushness!

(Deschutes Brewery and Goose Island ales for me. And no one does IPA like an American at the mo'!)

Actually i'm not too happy with the brewery these days, but the Brewdog IPA is ok.
I'm not sure they are still selling the variety of American beers but:
Discount Supermarket 97-99 Whitchurch Road, Cardiff CF14 3JP, United Kingdom 029 2061 9049‎

Place in borough market has a better selection, but a bit of a hike i'd suppose.

My friends over there order from:
http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk as they have american tipples.

Oh my God!

Blue Moon! I drank that in Virginia City, Nevada and I fell in love! I spent an entire night on that stuff and it was delicious.

And Samuel Adams! Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and their Porter!

Shame there's no Deschutes, but I think I love you.

I'm currently drinking American Budweiser. It's still shit.

I went to an ale house in Richmond, Virginia. They had a six page beer menu, so I just asked the waiter for five of his favourite American beers. And they were all good.

Ew blue moon. Please drink better american beer. kthnxbai always been shit, always will be shit.



see my local fave pub:
http://www.tapandmallet.com/draft

And heres the pic i took of it:

Looks popular

I'm still sticking by my previous choices of favourite beers, although I'm saddened they've changed the old speckled hen (In the pubs, at least, I have yet to have encountered it in bottles)

I'm VIP. Pic taken before pub even opened for the day. Whereupon I crawled out from under the table where I slept the night before.

Just kidding...maybe.

I strongly approve of Tripel Karmeliet being on beerlens. It's what I usually end up drinking at the bar I know in Manchester (, England) that does Belgian and German beers. It's one of my very favourite Belgians (along with Delerium Tremens) and I've tasted more than a hundred in Bruges over two trips.

The barman has told me of two other bars in town that stock wider ranges. I'm looking forward to finding them.

I really need to bung an order in at Beer Merchants soon; I keep being distracted by British real ales in actual pubs, unfortunately.

Duck pump!

Slag Pils
I must stock up on these.

I've only fallen asleep (for the night, like) in a pub twice. Both, unsurprisingly, were at my village local. The first time the landlady woke me up in time for the school bus (ahem), and the second time I wasn't woken up and was rather late for work.

I've woken up on a pub shitter several hours after closing.

Never done it myself. I prefer sleeping on floors in the comfort of my own/others home/s.

Good work, sir.

These are rubbish stories. The one about you waking up in Chepstow is better.

Yes, although I contend they were hardly 'stories'.

Let us decide.

Go on, then.

Ok then, Doc, tell us this 'story'.

That's a story.

Fucking funny one too.

That's goose island.



Tripel Karmeliet is one of my favourite beers. Met one of the guys from the brewery last year and he promised me a tour if I can make it out that way. My local sometimes serves it to me in the huge gigantor goblet. I love it.