Your First, Last and Best Beer

[Tramps_mate]

…..early drink as a schoolboy was Newcastle Brown, in the Clock on London Rd before going to Flintlocks Club. Bottles were huge and it didn’t take many.

Fortunately when I started playing open-age footy the old fellas who ran and watched the teams I played for warned me off lager, told me to stick with ‘dark ale’. I’d have a bottle of Manns brown with half bitter or mild, then moved onto ‘Fifty’ (half mild/half draught Guiness) but have drunk Guinness for most of my life.

I couldn’t drink a pint of lager if it was offered free all night, dreadful stuff.

A proper decent lager or pilsner is absolutely glorious!!

I've done a 360 over the years. When younger it was purely (crap) lagers.. As I got to 30's it was trendy IPA's and ales..

Now in my 40's I've gone back to lagers and pilsners. There's nothing quite as refreshing as a nice lager when its hot!

Completely bored with IPA's and ales now. Just boring heavy drinks. I do still like an occasional stout or porter, Guiness too!

 

[COYBL25]

First memorable: (excluding the sip of my da's homegrown, after hours of nagging as I say on his lap aged 3) Old Peculiar - pub somewhere near Inglesham. Velvet, warm, smooth, flavoursome.

Latest: Oakham Citra in the Old Kings Head in Broughton in Furnace (on my hols) clean fresh, zesty, but not as good as when it came out ... maybe being overproduced for the market now.

Best: Oakham Bishop's Farewell ... drank in a pub in my mate's town of Charlebury near Oxford. Pale, crisp, bitter.

You`re in the wrong pub !

Head over to the Masons Arms on the square, just around the corner from the Kings.

A pub doesn`t win that many awards over the years for nothing ( their ale is very cheap too, as it`s a free house )

Ps - any sign of the Black Cock Inn facing the Kings re opening ? ( stayed in there many times over the years )

 

[Nymzee]

You`re in the wrong pub !

Head over to the Masons Arms on the square, just around the corner from the Kings.

A pub doesn`t win that many awards over the years for nothing ( their ale is very cheap too, as it`s a free house )

Ps - any sign of the Black Cock Inn facing the Kings re opening ? ( stayed in there many times over the years _

Always got to be careful when you walk in the Masons as they do not like outsiders

 

[COYBL25]

First: Bass Ale. [I know, what was I thinking] at about 16 years old and never touched it again as I puked all 3 pints of it out all over the pub floor that night]

Best: Saint Pauli Girl Lager I was first attracted by its brand logo and subsequently really got to like the taste of it and even more so how just 3 or 4 large bottles of it made me feel

Last: Red Horse Beer On my recent trip to Asia, not crazy bout the taste of it but good for a quick buzz and an if that's your thing

Well kept cask Bass was a sublime pint, sadly most places didn`t serve it right and more often than not it was nasty.

Very much like Tetley`s Cask.

 

[COYBL25]

Always got to be careful when you walk in the Masons as they do not like outsiders

I`ve never ever had a problem in there, had some good sessions in there too.

The little bakery in Broughton does some cracking food too - great for breakfast stuff.

 

[Nymzee]

I`ve never ever had a problem in there, had some good sessions in there too.

The little bakery in Broughton does some cracking food too - great for breakfast stuff.

Oh yeh it's more if you go in on like a beer crawl or something they're not too happy.

Shame Prince of Wales is dead, that was always the best in the area. Sold cornish pasties behind the bar.

 

[Joey66]

Apart from allegedly being given sips of bottled Guinness as a baby by my Aunty...see, he likes it,
First; at a party in our house, I was 14 or 15
Last; I haven't had it yet...hopefully
Penultimate: Kilkenny around 5pm my time

Whiston hospital used to pour half a bottle of Guinness stout in a glass for anemic patients on the massive wards they used to have .... as it was full of iron .....myth or what the patients never complained

 

[Joey66]

Oh yeh it's more if you go in on like a beer crawl or something they're not too happy.

Shame Prince of Wales is dead, that was always the best in the area. Sold cornish pasties behind the bar.

In the 1970s the bars were full of in a bag stuck to a card a pickled onion soft cheese & crackers this is a bit more modern but not far off this below - they sold hundreds per week - a tasty snack with you pint ..... also on a friday night the prawn shrimp man came around severing cones of sea food open & he had vinegar on his tray ...H&S would not alow him now -oh & the salvation army brass band would walk in to a pub with their begging bowl playing

 

[SerenityNigh]

First : a spotty 15 year old nervously walks into a bar and squeakily asks for a snakebite, once drunk, never ordered again.

Last : Theakston's Old Peculiar
*awaits visit to the toilet

Best : Old Hooky Mild, from their tap house in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. The abv is low, but the taste is magnificent. Unfortunately, in bottles, a pale imitation.

First: probably a Zima (not beer) or Coors. The first I remember was in a dive across from the university dorm when the drinking law in Louisiana was still very confusing and most bars didn't care how old you were if you could walk in the door. That was either Red Wolf or Red Dog, some terrible abomination of beer from one of the big US breweries before they were bought out by InBev and InBev started buying and marketing actually good beer across the US. It was not a good start.

Last: a good friend, Reve Coffee Stout by Parish (a Louisiana brewer). It didn't pair well with what I was eating but it is a very nice beer.

Best: I waffle on these but my two favorites are Fraziskaner and La Fin du Monde. Both 10/10, no notes.

 

[COYBL25]

Oh yeh it's more if you go in on like a beer crawl or something they're not too happy.

Shame Prince of Wales is dead, that was always the best in the area. Sold cornish pasties behind the bar.

Re opening at Christmas.

Hopefully they don’t ruin it, as it was a beer Mecca.

 

[Nymzee]

Re opening at Christmas.

Hopefully they don’t ruin it, as it was a beer Mecca.

Heard this about 9 different times now. Last time I went past there were still toilets stacked in the windows

Guy who bought it is a good fella though - restored lots of places in that area.

 

[SerenityNigh]

1st deffo lager..whatever was on tap
Best ..was s pub on sheill road ,lager again on tap.
Last 0.0 Heineken on Saturday...must admit it tasted ok
Worst for hangovers..Holsten Pils

Local grocer has a huge selection of 0.0 brews that I've never seen before and these are very intriguing to me. A little shocked that you can brew a Belgian style as a non-alcoholic beer, but I am very much drawn to this temptress below and will surely try it out soon.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

I had my first beer the same night I saw my first X film ( A Clockwork orange) beer, brown bitter, my last beer a Hobgoblin gold beer which I was surprised to find I liked.

 

[summerisle]

Local grocer has a huge selection of 0.0 brews that I've never seen before and these are very intriguing to me. A little shocked that you can brew a Belgian style as a non-alcoholic beer, but I am very much drawn to this temptress below and will surely try it out soon.

Sounds like a film coming to ITV2 in the near future.

 

[COYBL25]

Heard this about 9 different times now. Last time I went past there were still toilets stacked in the windows

Guy who bought it is a good fella though - restored lots of places in that area.

Think they’ve got the Black Cock inn in Broughton too.