O/T Bradfield beer.

Should try the Bermondsey Mile, Moor Brewery (from Bristol) has just taken up residence, so think its something like 11 brewers now in the space of a mile. Tangle guaranteed!

 

On the subject of beer, does anyone else think the Old No. 7 is going down hill? The last couple of times I've been in the Barnsley Bitter has tasted just like medicine to me; Old Mill Bitter in the Dove is much more consistent and a better pint these days.

 

anyone who likes a good beer should visit MAISON DU BIERE in elsecar heritage centre ..online beer and a great pub /shop. Nigel has 12 draft ales on pump and at least 350 different ales from around the globe to take away or drink in catch him on facebook or there web site

 

Yes, Cocoa Wonderland. Superb. though Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout is also very good. For some reason our local supermarket had a delivery of very fine Yorkshire beers just before Christmas! (OK I know Thornbridge isn't quite Yorkshire, but it's close enough!)

I've not dared try Halcyon yet. I sometimes find the double IPA's a bit much. Very dangerous are the New England and Vermont-style IPA's which are all the rage here at the minute. Pack a punch at 5.5% up to around 7%, but slip down like juice!

 

This thread corrupted me. I bought a bottle of Halcyon on the way home from work...

Brew York are on fire at the moment. Great microbrewery and cool tap room about 15 minutes walk from me. Their milk stout, Tonkoko, is award winning but they had a special bourbon barrel aged version at Christmas. 7% of awesomeness. They also had one called Fairytale of Brew York which was just as good as the name.

 

I've not heard of Brew York. Thanks for the heads up, I'll try and make an effort to get there next time I'm over.

 

My dad used to go in the hotel when he was a young man. Apparently it was the only place you could buy Boddingtons back then.

I can remember going in there in the 80s when Vic and Cheryl had it and he always used to try and get me to try a pint . It bloody stank and I couldn't get past that.

My tastes have changed a lot since then though.

 

Reminds me of when I stayed with some friends at Portslade. They knew a bloke who had retired early from the railway to indulge his love of real ales, by opening his own pub.

We went in 3 nights running and drank his beers. Lots of guest ales from all over the shop, and every night we went through the lot.

It was pretty much all headless piss, the worst being Caines from Liverpool. It may as well have been out of the English channel.

It's little wonder all the regulars were drinking lager, and any mention of sparklers had him straight on the defensive with "its how they like it down here".

What a waste of good ale.

 

Yes, the sparkler is a sore point in these parts. I carry a few around with me and donate them to pubs serving slape ale(I stand to be corrected on the spelling, but that's what my uncle used to call it). Any road, in Sam smiths pubs they used to have a notice saying that the ale is served in a traditional way with a creamy head, but if your taste was different, then to ask for a top up. Creamy head for me, oh and the bradfield blond is still spot on tonight down here in Avon Dassett.

 

Must say though, I think beer down there has improved in time.

First time I had a pint in London was mid 80s, going to plough lane and It was shocking.

A few years later, I was having a drink with some Charlton fans in our social club and they were loving the magnet they used to sell.

Fast forward to 2008 and we had a drink in a pub near Wembley and the beer was very good.

 

My local craft bar has just changed ownership, and the other week I bought a couple of tried and trusted ales to take home. I opened the first one and it was quite yeasty and sulphuric. Assumed it was just a bad batch as happens with micro brews from time to time. But when I opened the second one, from a completely different brewery and it was also rank, I came to the conclusion that they're no longer looking after the beer properly.

 

On a similar theme, if you're ever in Sheffield I'd highly recommend a visit to Beer Central on the Moor. Run by a Barnsley supporter who is unbelievably knowledgeable when it comes to all things ale and a really nice fella.

 

fantastic, keep bringing it back.... meanwhile *January Brews"... not good

 

You might want to have a word with Nicholsons then, or it wasn't a good batch... like drinking acid, even the missus couldn't finish it, and that's borderline criminal in her world! ;-)

 

Can't recall the name, first time I've been in, the one just below the theatre that shows lion king on the corner of strand facing Waterloo bridge, frequent the mud lark and the one near hays galleria more, but spoils for choice in London

Currently in Tallinn and loving the little beer revolution going on here, amazing food, medieval splendour and experimental beer... And chuffing freezin too... Loving the place