Your First, Last and Best Beer

[kev]

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 have been called the Railway)
Not knowing what to drink, my work-'mates' Thought it would be fun to have me try everything.
"Have a bitter". "Try a mild". Have a shot of vodka". "Got you a Guinness" "Try this Lager" "have a Whiskey" etc.
Still have no recollection of how I got back to St.Helens (presumably by train) I do vividly remember climbing the stairs of a double decker bus in St.Helens and promptly projectile vomiting the contents of my stomach everywhere.
The rest of that Christmas was a right off.

Last beer - Guinness (also my next beer tonight)

Best beer - Guinness has been my regular 'go to' since the eighties, but a good Lager on a hot day is quite refreshing.
I never drink spirits, and never drink at home other than Coffee or Tea.

 

[SerenityNigh]

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 Schneider Weisse all very good too if you can get them.

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.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Best - Wilde Child Clique Fiesta Biscoff Imperial Stout

clique, you say?

 

[Norlye]

Not in the pub. But yes, I think there are some within a few miles.

The Rollright Stones. Great little walk to work up a thirst for a pint of Hooky.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

First pint was a Trophy Bitter, last pint was a pint of peroni, favourite would be the little stubby bottles of lager in Lidl or a Guinness.

If you like lager from Lidl try these from Aldi I love the stuff

 

[Blue 1]

First would have been a can of Tennants. he ones with the ladies printed on them. (showing my age)
Last Beer was a Bierra Moretti - Acceptable 'cheapish' Italian lager.
Best is St Austells HSD - A small batch Devon brewery that brews this fine beer that gets you drunk from the feet up. Initials stand for High Strength Draught. Well worth a try if you see it on your travels.

St Austell Brewery is in Cornwall, not Devon. They're a big, commercial brewery, not a small batch craft brewery. Their beers are in all the pubs and supermarkets over the South West.

Hicks is their best brew IMO. I like most of their beers tbh. Proper Black IPA is an interesting one.

 

[chrismpw]

It was supposed to be re opening this year, any signs of building work going on ?

Right ... I've done some research ... its been bought by CGP books - purveyors of revision guides, collectors if money from old rope, possibly seeking a tax write-off. The building looks smart and bedecked in hanging baskets, but still not open and no pub sign on view. An out of date menu is in the window and the windows papered off.

Then, exhausted, I retired to the Manor for a beer.

It looks promising though, I do believe your Black Cock will rise again.

 

[coollino]

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.

I live 10 bike ride from Oakham ales main pub. You're right about Citra, although they do an unfiltered version now which is more how it used to be. Have you tried Green Devil?

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

@SerenityNigh I'll update you once I've gone swimming...

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@SerenityNigh

Nab some Chouffe and give them out to your "manly" friends after removing the label. Then drop the bomb that it's an NA after they're done necking it. $11.50 here for a 4-pack at Total Wine. The Athletic is way too IPA-bitter for me for being a supposed 'Golden'. The Chouffe is, well, the typical Belgian goodness. It might be harder for me to tell it's NA now that I've been alcohol-free for over a year but I had 30+ years prior to then so I don't think I'm far off...lot of good, smooth initial spice helps mask the NA factor IMO.

 

[chrismpw]

I live 10 bike ride from Oakham ales main pub. You're right about Citra, although they do an unfiltered version now which is more how it used to be. Have you tried Green Devil?

Not come across it. Will admit if I see Oakham I will leap - seems I automatically like their brews. I went to a beer festival in Swindon a few years back .... there were probably 50 barrels lined up, one of which was their Bishop's Farewell ... that's all I had all night!

 

[SerenityNigh]

@SerenityNigh

Nab some Chouffe and give them out to your "manly" friends after removing the label. Then drop the bomb that it's an NA after they're done necking it. $11.50 here for a 4-pack at Total Wine. The Athletic is way too IPA-bitter for me for being a supposed 'Golden'. The Chouffe is, well, the typical Belgian goodness. It might be harder for me to tell it's NA now that I've been alcohol-free for over a year but I had 30+ years prior to then so I don't think I'm far off...lot of good, smooth initial spice helps mask the NA factor IMO.

Will grab some of that and some Delirio at some point, seen both of these at the local Whole Foods. There might have been another option as well, was a bit overwhelming for so many new NA choices.

 

[leslad]

4 pints of carslberg for 6 quid in my local (shared rather than all drunk by my 17 year old self)

Jarl in the Roscoe head (Great stuff)

Brimstage Scarecrow my first pint of many at the Ship and Mitre Beer Festival in Portugal Sunlight on the Wirral some years ago.

 

[coollino]

Will grab some of that and some Delirio at some point, seen both of these at the local Whole Foods. There might have been another option as well, was a bit overwhelming for so many new NA choices.

Out of all beers, Belgian breweries doing non alcoholic beers sounds mad. Id try one out of curiosity, maybe. I guess I could make a non alcoholic quad from soy sauce, coffee and coca cola

 

[leslad]

First pint was a Trophy Bitter, last pint was a pint of peroni, favourite would be the little stubby bottles of lager in Lidl or a Guinness.

Trophy bitter reference (the pint that thinks it's a quart)

 

[Rita_Poon]

Out of all beers, Belgian breweries doing non alcoholic beers sounds mad. Id try one out of curiosity, maybe. I guess I could make a non alcoholic quad from soy sauce, coffee and coca cola