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| Thread ID: 112522 | 2010-09-10 00:01:00 | English Beer | KarameaDave (15222) | PC World Chat |
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| 1135875 | 2010-09-10 00:01:00 | 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 |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1135876 | 2010-09-10 00:19:00 | 4 different beers before 11am? Good effort. | roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 1135877 | 2010-09-10 00:22:00 | Well it is 12.30 pm ish here though. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1135878 | 2010-09-10 00:46:00 | So whats the Percentage? | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1135879 | 2010-09-10 04:19:00 | Have you tried 'Old Peculiar' . I got quite a taste for it. If you go to Wales avoid 'Brains' like the plague. It's awful. If you go to Ireland though, the 'Guinness' is beeyootiful. :drool | Richard (739) | ||
| 1135880 | 2010-09-10 04:27:00 | I prefer Murphys to Guinness, although I never had any problems getting someone else to finish my Guinness. Seems like you are having a great time. Some of those less populated places are more like the old England, may they never change. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1135881 | 2010-09-10 05:51:00 | Avoid anything from the Shepard and Neame brewery in Kent (my local) it tastes crap mostly. Do try Black sheep, Old peculiar. Try looking up a group called the campaign for real ale they are everywhere and can give you the low down on just about any beer. Good beer guide link from them here (www.camra.org.uk) :drool:drool |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1135882 | 2010-09-10 05:52:00 | So whats the Percentage? Doesn't go by percentage for real beer it goes by the specific gravity |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1135883 | 2010-09-10 06:07:00 | (snip)Do try Black sheep, Old peculiar. :drool:drool x57! Theakstons who make Old Peculiar is a Yorkshire Brewery - my first pint of OP was off the pump at a wee pub at the Ribblesdale Viaduct, accompanying a Cumberland Sausage and onion gravy in a plate sized Yorkshire pud :drool:drool:drool Two brothers who ran Theakstons fell out, so one brother decamped and set up the Black Sheep brewery - Black Sheep, getit? I think Rigwelter is the name of their lovely dark ale. Not quite as good as OP, but damned good. In Cumbria (where SWMBO comes from) Jennings makes a reasonable drop. When you come back to NZ, try Twisted Hop in Poplar Lane, ChCh, if it has survived the earthquake (I have had emails from all males in my family wanting to find out if Twisted Hop have made it through OK, but I can't find out - I have serious doubts, given where they are). TH is the most English style of beer I have drunk in NZ. Better than Galbraiths. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1135884 | 2010-09-10 06:16:00 | As I was walking through Earls Court, Into a pub I was lured, Where a nosy Pom said, "Where you from?" As I downed the amber fluid. I said, "Get it straight, I'm a Kiwi mate, And I'm looking to get plastered, But the beer is crook and the birds all look, Like you, you Pommie bastard." |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
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