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| Thread ID: 112522 | 2010-09-10 00:01:00 | English Beer | KarameaDave (15222) | PC World Chat |
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| 1135925 | 2010-09-13 03:02:00 | Anyone tried this one yet? www.stuff.co.nz |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1135926 | 2010-09-13 03:56:00 | Well, Today I've sampled Green King IPA Old Speckled Hen, Old Sharpie (Humpty Dumpty) and Abbots. Quite liked the Abbots and the Old Speckled Hen. :drool Lovely night out with old friends from Karamea. Music night at the Burston Crown...brilliant music and good company. Norfolk is very much as I imagined rural England to be. Stay tuned for further updates :D LOL, when in the UK, I used to drink Abbots!...took me a few years to get used too, put a lemonade top on to begin with! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1135927 | 2010-09-13 04:02:00 | It is a myth that the Brits drink warm beer. I grant you that is not as cold as the ghastly frozen stuff you get here (especially the beer that comes out of those taps that have ice all over them). However, good beer in Britain comes from the 'room temperature' of a cellar that is as cold as a witch's proverbial. The difference between British and Irish real ales and the junk served up by NZ breweries like Lion and Dominion (not microbreweries like The Twisted Hop and Emersons) is that the Brit and Irish ales are served at a temperature where you can actually taste them and tell whether they are good or not. If you drink NZ brewery junk, you HAVE to drink it frozen so you can't taste what they are serving you. If you could taste it, you wouldn't ever drink it again. That is why Kiwis think it is important to drink frozen beer. +1 |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1135928 | 2010-09-13 04:54:00 | LOL, when in the UK, I used to drink Abbots!...took me a few years to get used too, put a lemonade top on to begin with! Did you know that the first shandies were beer and ginger beer? |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1135929 | 2010-09-13 04:57:00 | Anyone tried this one yet? www.stuff.co.nz Looking forward to it. Glad to see they are up and running again as I thought they were finished when Lion Nathan bought out Macs. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1135930 | 2010-09-13 08:46:00 | What a load of nonsense. I think you should stick to topics that you know something about. What is so great about NZ beer anyway, they hardly feature in world wide best beer awards, in fact UK beers get many more gold awards than us. B has this penchant for being all knowing at times,but we ain't going to change him Saf. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1135931 | 2010-09-13 08:51:00 | Whilst I agree in general Gary, especially in relation to NZ lagers, it depends upon how they are made. We went into a Czech restaurant in Inverness of all places, and I drank Pilsener (forget the brand now) from the tap rather than a bottle. It was absolutely delicious and made NZ lagers look sick. Generally though I drank ales on my trips to Britain. Not all real ales are good though, are they? I drank something horridible in Scotland - Belhaven. Whereas Fullers was a pint to forget (no flavour) Belhaven tasted actively ghastly. Don't know if it was a bad batch, or whether that is what the Scots like... Yes some are definitely better than others, Shepard Neame the Kent brewery where I'm from you certainly wouldn't want a night out on their best yet they made a Spitfire ale as a short run to celebrate the battle of Britain and it was superb |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1135932 | 2010-09-13 19:05:00 | Tried St Austells Tribute...Not bad, with a slight fruity aftertaste. Wychwood Bountiful is also nice. Having a night in Doncaster then heading north. Looking forward to trying Black Sheep and Theakstons. Visited St Georges distillery, the only one in England. Makes 2 single malts Chapter 6 which is unpeated. Chapter 9 which is. Both not too bad but a bit expensive at 40 pounds for a 700mL bottle so didn't buy any. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1135933 | 2010-09-13 22:12:00 | Going North - Visit Tadcaster home of Samuel Smith"s Brewery and John Smith's Brewery - I prefer Sam's product. Then North of Harrogate, (Where I used to live, before moving to NZ), thru Ripon, get onto the Burton-on Yore Road to Masham, home to Theakstons and Black Sheep Breweries - both do Brewery tours, if you vist them diligently you with need several days to carry our a thorough study and recover. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1135934 | 2010-09-14 00:19:00 | Yes some are definitely better than others, Shepard Neame the Kent brewery where I'm from you certainly wouldn't want a night out on their best yet they made a Spitfire ale as a short run to celebrate the battle of Britain and it was superb Imagine all the ******* tally ho jokes! I would rather drink a German Ju87 beer. |
prefect (6291) | ||
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