British beers

[Anonymous No.15082648]

How do they compare to the rest of world? Any standouts?

[Anonymous No.15082677]

No one buys beer for taste except faggot millennial hipsters.

[Anonymous No.15082686]

>>15082648
Do you mean craft beer or just standard British ale?

[Anonymous No.15082692]

>>15082677
>Anyone that likes what I don’t is gay
Why even comment?

[Anonymous No.15082701]

>>15082686
I’m counting anything brewed in the British isles. Macro or micro I don’t care. Sorta just looking for some suggestions to try during lockdown

[Anonymous No.15082703]

I'm fond of Black Sheep ales myself

Also St Peter's, Wainwright's, Timothy Taylor.

I don't want some poofter double IPA with hints of grapefruit or whatever, I want 7-10 pints with the lads and a game of darts

[Anonymous No.15082753]

>>15082701
I'm partial to Killian's Irish Red, Boddington's, and Sam Smith's oatmeal stout.

[Anonymous No.15082773]

A significant country for beer.... a huge brewing history and birthplace of many now globally popular styles (notably IPAs, pale ales, porters, stouts, barley wine and brown ales).

Nowadays there are two big camps in British brewing: traditional breweries that generally produce cask ale (bitters, golden ale, ruby ale, mild, english-style IPA) that are not widely available abroad. There are very few places outside of the UK that serve cask ale. Some of the notable breweries here would be Samuel Smiths, Timothy Taylors, Fuller's, and St Austells... but its generally the case that a pub will have local ale on tap.

The ones you are likely to find abroad would be Fuller's, and maybe Wychwood/Hobgoblin (not great) and Newcastle Brown Ale (utter piss nowadays, since being bought out by Heineken). Also some nitro ales like John Smiths & Boddingtons which are pretty much flavourless nowadays.

There's also a lot of very good British craft beer (Kernel, Verdant and Cloudwater being some of the best) but honestly follows a similar pattern to craft breweries in basically any Western country with a craft scene nowadays.

To the foreign drinker I suspect that traditional English beer will seem subdued - compared to the famous Belgian beers, or modern craft beers. It's best experienced locally, in a nice pub in rural England. Personally i'd find it hard to judge it free from my nostalgia and fond memories of pints down the pub.

[Anonymous No.15082776]

>>15082701
As far as regular ale goes it's not too bad. Better than America, worse than Germany. Personally I like St Peters and Bath Ales.

Lots of decent craft brews in the supermarket worth trying - Siren, Brewdog etc.

[Anonymous No.15082883]

>>15082773
Having a pint right now and reading this was real comfy. Thanks for the great response anon.

[Anonymous No.15082894]

Guys, why isn't there a famous british beer? Seriously. I can't think of a single one.

[Anonymous No.15082936]

This was one of my favourite beers for a long time. Kinda hard to find where I am these days

[Anonymous No.15082952]

Cask ale is fantastic when its at its peak. You can't recreate it in a bottle.
Tim Martin is a high functioning spastic that drank himself stupid

[Anonymous No.15082962]

>>15082773
Now I want to go to the UK and drink in a pub.

[Anonymous No.15082973]

>>15082894
Are we counting Ireland? Because Guinness is pretty famous.

[Anonymous No.15082986]

>>15082962

Aye it's class, looking forward to getting back

[Anonymous No.15083014]

>>15082894
Bass Pale Ale is one.

[Anonymous No.15083032]

>Go to british pub
>Buy a pint of "Session cask ale"
>Its fantastic!
>3.5% £5
>it'll cost me £60 ($80) to get drunk if I don't drown first

Why don't they make stronger cask ales and charge a reasonable price for it?

I want to drink 8 tasty pints and get a good beer buzz. Is that too much to ask?

inb4 people from "the norf" point out that you can get a pint of carling for £1.50.
If I wanted to go to a third world country and drink pig piss I'd have gone to africa. at least its warm and the locals don't have single digit IQ's

[Anonymous No.15083040]

James knows. He knows stuff.

[Anonymous No.15083045]

>>15082894
Off the top of my head, Old Peculiar, Shepherd Neame, Tetley. Perhaps not as mainstream as the huge mass market beers, but as well known as leading German beers.

[Anonymous No.15083060]

>>15083032
where were you?

most cask ale is about 4% and would normally cost closer to £3.50 outside of London and the Home Counties.

Failing that go to Wetherspoons were you can get reasonably good cask ale for ~£2.30 anywhere in the country

[Anonymous No.15083066]

>>15083032
I don’t get the session beer stuff either. 4-5% is more than low enough for it to take a whole “session” to get buzzed. If you need to go lower to last longer then either build up your tolerance or start sipping.

[Anonymous No.15083080]

>>15083066
what do you mean by 'buzzed'? 8 pints i.e. a session of 5% will make most people pretty drunk... if you want to go all day 3.5% makes sense.

[Anonymous No.15083095]

>>15082648
Some great, widely available beers off the top of my head:

Sam Smith's Nut Brown and Oatmeal Stout
Barnsley Bitter
Fuller's London Pride
Timothy Taylor's Landlord
Thornbridge Jaipur
Abbeydale Heretic

Compared to other country's like strong Belgian or super hoppy American beers, some UK ones might seem subdued and simple, especially bitters and ale. But theres a purity to them that is often very nice.

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[Anonymous No.15083150]

[Anonymous No.15083152]

>>15082894
Newcastle Brown
Boddington's
Stones
London Pride
Bass Bitter
John Smith's
McEwan's
Guinness

Not saying they're all good, but come on.

[Anonymous No.15083158]

[Anonymous No.15083166]

[Anonymous No.15083172]

>>15083132
Fucking love this stuff. Gone off hoppy pale ales etc lately and sometimes it's good to just have something simple and perfectly balanced.

[Anonymous No.15083173]

[Anonymous No.15083180]

>>15083172
yeah it's a proper classic
Had a pint a few miles from the brewery just before lockdown and it was sublime

[Anonymous No.15083187]

I know this gets bad reputation but I love this stuff. If you can find it on cask it's so different to the tinned shit.

[Anonymous No.15083196]

[Anonymous No.15083202]

one of my favourites

[Anonymous No.15083214]

King of beers. Lose my shit if it's out at the local spoons.

Korev is a great lager as well.

[Anonymous No.15083220]

>>15083214
the best selling ale in the UK... it's fine imo, not great but certainly not bad.

[Anonymous No.15083223]

>>15083187
weird, never heard of it. Is it regional to an area of the UK?

[Anonymous No.15083225]

>>15083060
>go to Wetherspoons

[Anonymous No.15083244]

>>15083225
t. ponce

[Anonymous No.15083245]

>>15083060
>Go to Wetherspoons!

[Anonymous No.15083247]

>>15083223
It's brewed in Sheffield but owned by Molson Coors now so I figured it was pretty widely known and available. I mean it's nothing spectacular but worth a try if you ever see it in a pub.

[Anonymous No.15083255]

>>15083060
>go to spoons

[Anonymous No.15083266]

>>15083225
>>15083245
>>15083255
>spoons snobs
Biggest fags around

[Anonymous No.15083269]

>>15083220
It is? I had no idea. Where I am in the Norf, it's rarely drunk.

[Anonymous No.15083271]

>>15083247
nah, though now you mention it I have heard a family friend from Sheffield talk about it

And I've been to a fair few sheffield pubs, but only to visit and mostly Thornbridge pubs. Will keep an eye out when I'm next there

[Anonymous No.15083278]

>>15083269

[Anonymous No.15083284]

>most disgusting thing I've ever put in my mouth....and I've been round the block a few times

Shit-tier, skunked beer with banana "essence" added to it.
fuck you england

[Anonymous No.15083286]

>>15082648
Looking through a local site:
Thatchers and Bulmers.
Guinness, Kilkenny
Crabbies
Belhaven

Literally no English Ale? cool.

[Anonymous No.15083290]

>>15083284
why did you buy an obvious meme? I'm the beer autist spamming images ITT and have never tried this, you've only got yourself to blame anon

[Anonymous No.15083291]

>>15083266
t.chantard

look in the mirror lately?

[Anonymous No.15083306]

>>15083225
>>15083245
>>15083255

Knob jockey

[Anonymous No.15083310]

>all the pubs are closed...and they're all going to go out of business
dwee-zoo dwee doo’n du-bop wa dwee-oo dwee doo’n doowa skittle dee dee ‘n beejee. Ba bee ba da doo’n dee da’n doo da, zoo za zoo zee zee zoo zee zee zee za. Skittle n’diddle n’fiddle dee dee’n’dee. Baaaa bwee doo’n doo-wa ooby dooby doo-wa be-doo wa wa shooby dooby doo: mee mee ma may moo moop.

[Anonymous No.15083318]

>>15083306
plebian

[Anonymous No.15083320]

>>15083080
But my stomach capacity is only 4 schooners, then I've got to piss one out to drink another. 8 pints takes a very long time.

[Anonymous No.15083322]

>>15083310
Why is this a good thing to you?

[Anonymous No.15083327]

>>15083318
you get better beer in spoons than most other chain pubs (i.e. most pubs)

you're just a sheltered, class-insecure child fella, it's okay.

[Anonymous No.15083335]

>>15083320
that's why it's called a session...they do have toilets in pubs you know?

[Anonymous No.15083339]

>>15083278
Interesting. I'm in Leeds, and most seem to drink Landlord or Wainwright wherever I go.

[Anonymous No.15083340]

>>15082648

[Anonymous No.15083345]

>>15083327
>you get better beer in spoons than most other chain pubs (i.e. most pubs)

yes, but look at the clientele. They're NPC trash. Bugmen

[Anonymous No.15083348]

>>15083291
The fuck is a chantard?
What are you even trying to say?

[Anonymous No.15083358]

>>15083335
If you have to drink 12 pints to get a decent buzz it flushes out all your enzymes in your digestive tract. Thats not good. Also its a fuckng con

[Anonymous No.15083363]

>>15083339
I miss going to Leeds for the boozers. Whitelock's is comfy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.15083368]

>>15083348
newfag
kill yourself
cancer

[Anonymous No.15083374]

>>15083335
But that amount of time undoes 4 pints and I'm not going to get buzzed. You really have to push yourself to get drunk on beer.

[Anonymous No.15083378]

>>15082677
Dubs of truth

[Anonymous No.15083381]

>>15083374
no *you* do, millions of people manage it quite regularly

[Anonymous No.15083387]

>>15083381
on weak cask ale?

[Anonymous No.15083431]

Don't mind some ales but I'm not a massive fan of beer in general (yes I know that makes me a faggot blah blah), what are some good British ciders? Any that can be found in the average supermarket?

[Anonymous No.15083447]

>>15083431
Weston's
Aspall
Thatcher's Vintage

[Anonymous No.15083450]

>>15083431
Thatchers is fine. Depends what you mean by good.

[Anonymous No.15083469]

>>15083447
>Thatcher's Vintage
I've tried and enjoyed Thatchers Haze. Is there a considerable difference in quality between the two?

[Anonymous No.15083480]

>>15082648
I love a good London Porter. Chocolatey and smooth—a nice and non-acidic dark beer.

[Anonymous No.15083491]

>>15083480
anything by Samuel Smith's you really can't go wrong, also

their Winter Welcome is fuckin' great for this time of year

[Anonymous No.15083493]

>>15083447
>Thatcher's Vintage
tastes like the apple cider ice lollies that we used to get as a kid and it FUCKS YOU UP

[Anonymous No.15083497]

some history for you all

in 1900 a typical licensed pub in London would serve the following:
1. Ginger beer
2. Porter, called in London “Beer” and elsewhere in the country “Stout”.
3. Ale, otherwise known as “Four-ale”, “Cold Fourpenny”, “Mild”, “Mild Ale”, &c. In Bristol it is known as “Burton"
4. Bitter, called in bulk “Pale Ale”.
5. Stout.
6. Burton, strictly called “Old Ale” (stronger ale)

beers 1-3 cost 1 penny per half pint, whilst 4-6 cost 2 pence per half pint.

it was quite common for people to mix these in various ways
>gingerbeer and porter: 'portergaff'
>gingerbeer and mild: 'shandy' or 'shandygaff'
>gingerbeer and bitter: 'shandybitter'
>porter and ale: 'four-half' - usually sold in your own jug at 3.5pence a pot
>porter and stout: 'cooper'
>mild and burton: 'old six'
>stout and bitter: 'mother-in-law'

[Anonymous No.15083507]

>>15083469
Haven't tried haze. Vintage is 7.4% rather than 4.5 though.

[Anonymous No.15083508]

>>15083491
love this beer, hope I come across some soon

[Anonymous No.15083529]

Yummy

[Anonymous No.15083543]

>>15083529
Unfortunate

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[Anonymous No.15083575]

>>15083225
This anon is right.

t. worked at 'Spoos as a student

[Anonymous No.15083593]

>>15083363
Whitelock's was great. Had to get in early to stake out a good spot.

The New conservatory was nice too. They're all dead now. I hope they reopen.

[Anonymous No.15083599]

>>15082648
bloke on the right looks like he had a cartoon bomb explode in his face

[Anonymous No.15083618]

>>15083345
That’s why you drink the alcohol. They’re less bad if they’re blurry

[Anonymous No.15083623]

>>15083431
Can't go wrong with Rattler.
Symond's is nice too, if I recall. I haven't had cider since I was a teenager, though. It's far too sweet for me now.

[Anonymous No.15083628]

>>15083345
t. Supreme Gentleman
(with Devilish S. O. H.)

[Anonymous No.15083633]

>>15083623
looks hideous

>>15083431
Henneys is one of the better widely available ones imo. Honestly I prefer French cider.. though you can't easily find it in the UK.

[Anonymous No.15083662]

>>15083599

checked & kekked

[Anonymous No.15083707]

>>15083491
>>15083202

Always find it interesting how Sam Smith's have a positive reputation when their pubs have quite the opposite. Though before lockdown a pint of Taddy Lager was about £2.13 in my local, pint of mild is like £1.50 which is ridiculous

They're just a bit grotty and there's the whole thing with the mental owner banning all mobile phones and swearing, and randomly turning up at pubs and sacking people.

[Anonymous No.15083731]

>>15083707
yeah there is quite a divide between their cask/keg beer and their bottled stuff. Only a few of them overlap.

Their pubs have a good reputation in London actually - because they run some of the oldest and most quaint pubs in the city, and they're much cheaper than the competition. pic rel.

[Anonymous No.15083809]

>>15082692
He is fucking right
Anyone who drinks beer drinks a specific brand of beer because it doesnt make him piss shit out of his asshole and he can tolerate the taste
That are the only parameters for beer
hipster faggots ruined everything because of sheer numbers of them
in 2000s older kids on the block stopped beating up the younger ones to toughen them up because they were too soft to hit and easily bruised because of video games and tv

[Anonymous No.15083837]

>>15083707
>banning all mobile phones and swearing

That I could get behind. What crossed the line was this:

>In July 2017, Samuel Smith's Brewery banned motorcyclists from one of their pubs. Initially no explanation was offered for the ban. It was later reported that the ban was instituted to keep "undesirables" from patronising the establishment. Local, long-term customers who were refused entry because they owned motorcycles, were offended by notion of being compared to criminal motorcycle gangs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smith_Old_Brewery#2017

When your "English pub" would bar James May from entry, clearly you're doing something wrong.

[Anonymous No.15083847]

Miss the pub lads

[Anonymous No.15083858]

>>15083809
literal retard
>dude you have opinions about food and drink (on /ck/), are you gay bro?

[Anonymous No.15083875]

>>15082648
why do I hate british people so fucking much? this only started when I was in my 30s. when I was a kid I thought british stuff was cool but everything about them is intensely irritating now.

[Anonymous No.15083879]

>>15083847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W99n083E0IA

[Anonymous No.15083903]

>>15083875
because you're a seething freak

[Anonymous No.15084019]

>>15083858
TEA, you can review for your pretentious gay aids 'pallet'
FRUIT JUICE, you can review for your pretentious gay aids 'pallet'
CHEMICALLY ENHANCED PERFORMANCE DRINKS, you can review for your pretentious gay aids 'pallet'
COFFEE, you can review for your pretentious gay aids 'pallet'
Alcohol is not a drink, you either consume it or not
there were attempts with vine, to make it a taste thing to launder money, but alcohol is alcohol, its a drug and will always remain a drug
if you arent into alcohol, you dont know shit about alcohol and should avoid it
And yes, you can function better if you are into alcohol in a society, because we live in one, but no, you cannot tread reach the understanding or enlightenment of alcohol if you arent into it
youre out

[Anonymous No.15084042]

>>15083599
lmao that was my exact first thought

[Anonymous No.15084145]

>>15082753
Samuel Smith's is the best we can get in the States of British beer

I'm a fan of the oatmeal stout myself

[Anonymous No.15084658]

When will i be able to hang out with my mates around the ITbox chugging a pint of Fursty Ferret and getting smashed again lads?

[Anonymous No.15084756]

>>15084019
Alcohol is a solvent that extracts flavors which water and fat alone can not.

[Anonymous No.15084881]

>>15082648
>Any standouts?
Yep. Samuel Smith is one of the greatest things to ever come out of that looney bin

[Anonymous No.15084903]

>>15083903
and now that the nigels have flapped their lips incoherently, any humans want to weigh in?

[Anonymous No.15085407]

>>15083497
Based history anon

[Anonymous No.15085415]

>>15082677
Based

[Anonymous No.15085422]

>>15082648
Class act

[Anonymous No.15085458]

I want some fucking cask ale! The closest place I can get it near me in the U.S. is like a 2 hour drive. It sounds so comfy.

[Anonymous No.15085461]

>>15083623
>>15083633
Rattler is great, I just wish it was easier to find outside of the west country. Strongbow Dark Fruit is the best of their offerings with the cloudy version coming second, but pic related tastes pretty close to Ribena if you can find it.

[Anonymous No.15087078]

>>15082677
based and truthpilled

[Anonymous No.15087102]

>>15085458
There's nothing quite like it anon :3

[Anonymous No.15087164]

imagine not buying deya cans for £3 something a can and not enjoying the best beer from the uk

[Anonymous No.15087169]

>>15087164
>wowwweee neipa neipa neipaaaa
no thanks bugman, that stuff could be Australian or American beer and nobody would know

[Anonymous No.15087176]

>>15087169
dont be afraid of the sensation of taste hobgoblinanon

[Anonymous No.15087180]

>>15087176
kek
I used to live next to 5 mins from kernel, partizan and cloudwater taprooms, I've drank gallons of UK craft, but i've drifted back towards more SOVLful classic styles

we both agree hobgoblin is bad

[Anonymous No.15087184]

>>15087180
I love a nice cask too, pomona island used to do an amazing cask pale I could get in my local for like £3 a pint

[Anonymous No.15087211]

>>15083431
Without a doubt, Westsons is superior.

[Anonymous No.15087223]

>can't find any ruby ales worth a shit in burgerland
fuck I'd travel again just to have some

[Anonymous No.15087236]

I never understood why the fuck people drink bitter. It tastes like absolute shit. Only old people stuck in their ways drink this foul tasting liquid.

[Anonymous No.15087237]

>>15087236
t. poof

[Anonymous No.15087243]

>>15082648
Yeah we have some god ones...

Stella
Tyskie
Special brew
Warka
Becks

The full plethora.

[Anonymous No.15087263]

>>15082648
what the fuck are those things? look at their heads.

>>15082677
zoom zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.15087269]

>>15082648
You can even get Peroni in posher places.

[Anonymous No.15087294]

>>15087237
You aren't your granddad and never will be.

[Anonymous No.15087299]

>>15087243
>not buying the 50% cheaper Aldi version
aren't we posh

[Anonymous No.15087323]

>>15083032
>buy a 'session' beer
>complain that it's not very strong
I mean that's what they are, you've nobody but yourself to blame, there's plenty of other options.

[Anonymous No.15087339]

>>15087223
What exactly are the qualities of a ruby ale, besides colour?

[Anonymous No.15087349]

>>15087299
Nice choice.
Co-Op do a passable cider for £2.50 for 4.

[Anonymous No.15087376]

>>15087349
Cheaper to get the 2 litre bottle, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.15087378]

>>15087376
Yeah but it always feels a bit 'rough' out the bottle ime.

[Anonymous No.15087384]

>>15087378
Fair enough

[Anonymous No.15087389]

>>15082677
>different flavours threaten me

[Anonymous No.15087392]

>>15082753
Used the like Killians but had it recently and it was shit. Did something change?

[Anonymous No.15087888]

>>15087164
I had Mind's Eye by them, it was indistinguishable from every other hoppy pale with a gimmicky can design.

[Anonymous No.15087925]

>>15087888
4 pubs have gone out of business in my local area since covid.
HA!

[Anonymous No.15087987]

>>15087925
Why is this good?

[Anonymous No.15088016]

>>15083225
>>15083245
>>15083255

Spoons is a fucking British institution now you cunts. They've made the shit rough pubs that were cheap and fun into a chain.

[Anonymous No.15088032]

>>15082648
what exactly is a bitter?

[Anonymous No.15088043]

>>15084903
Where you from mate? I think brits either come off as generally pretty smug or very brash and it can piss people off. Got to bare in mind the UK has a lot of different groups of people living in it. Welsh people are different to Cornish who are different to Londoners.

Just avoid the south-east whatever you do. It's hell. Would rather live in Birmingham than there.

[Anonymous No.15088067]

>>15088032
Basically English style pale ale.. which was more bitter than other popular beer at the time known as 'mild'
>From the moment that bitter beers started to become popular in Britain, around the beginning of the 1840s, “bitter beer” and “pale ale” were used by brewers and commentators as synonyms. There never was any difference between the two. Why did “pale ale” come to be appended as a name mostly to the bottled version of bitter? Because generally in the 19th century brewers called the drink in the brewery “pale ale”, and that’s the name they put on their bottle labels, but in the pub drinkers called this new drink “bitter”, to differentiate it from the older, sweeter, but still (then) pale mild ales ('mild').

[Anonymous No.15088198]

>>15087102
I'm probably going to make some. I've been working on a bitter recipe and when it feels right I'm going to get a beer engine and the whole setup for cask ale.