1st beer -
Not sure TBH, just before Christmas in 1969, I was 15 and working on a building site in Garswood. We finished at lunch time for the Christmas break and everybody descended on the pub near the Railway Station (Think it might actually...
First :- Tewkesbury working man's club, 16 years old , lager and lime, bar steward Evan " Akers" turned a blind eye, then when I was 18 acted shocked , lovely fella !.
Last:- Guinness at Setrights pub, Cratloe on a dual carriageway, been driving...
First in a pub: pint of Heineken in The Greenhills, aged about 17. (as an aside was persuaded to move onto vodka by the person I was with and got horribly drunk - also the first time that happened)
Last: pint of Stella yesterday when out for a...
First, probably Watneys or Greene King of some kind - used to drink light and bitter in those days.
Best, a freezing Castlemaine XXXX after picking grapes in the sun all day.
Last, Bergbock Hell (summer bock beer) brewed at Andechs monastery.
Typo there and I wasn’t even drinking! Weihenstephaner is good too but Franziskaner is always my favorite. I’m sure I’ve had Schneider but it’s less common here.
Franziskaner? Really good weißbier, that. I got back into it when I went to Munich a couple of years ago. Might now be my favourite style of beer. Happily, a few of the supermarkets carry a few different brands - Weihenstephaner, Paulaner and...
First: a pint of ‘best’ mild. That’s what it said on the pump so that’s what a 13yo me asked for.
Best: Three Tuns ale, from the pub brewery in Bishops Castle, Shropshire. A bitter smooth as milk.
Last: a pint of Leffe in France last week
Totally agree. Guinness in Dublin, with Irish live music around tastes better than in a spoons in England. Now the drink itself maybe a bit better there anyhow, but the experience lifts it.
Same as drinking a stein of Hofbrau at the Hofbrauhaus...