Beer?

[srw]

Friday night pre-ride sharpener: it was a Pizza Express, so it was a couple of large bottles of Peroni to wash down the carbonara pizza.

Saturday morning post-ride relaxant: it was the Mumbles' finest Italian restaurant, so spurning the FYP on offer I luxuriated in a bottle of Newky Brown. TC and User482 were unimpressed (honestly, it's poor stuff, but it's still more drinkable than FYP on top of breakfast). I very kindly pointed out to them that bottles labelled "London Pride" were also on offer - but whatever it was it wasn't Pride. Pride is reddish-brown and lightly pétillante. This was orange and fizzy - Irn-Bru perhaps. It also tasted of pish. So I had a couple of pints of Guinness. I'm sure the draft stuff used to be stronger than 3.5%.

I now expect the pair of piss-heads to regale us with tales of the varieties of highly-hopped and highly complex real ales they had over lunch.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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At the Kings Arms in Bethnal Green enjoying a Cantillon Zwanze Wild Brussels Stout.

I usually have Brussels Stouts with Christmas dinner.

 

[GM]

I usually have Brussels Stouts with Christmas dinner.

Confession time.... I know I've no taste but I thought it was vile, if it was yellow and fizzy then it would have got the thumbs up. The boy thought it was excellent though and was worth the wait.

 

[User169]

Confession time.... I know I've no taste but I thought it was vile, if it was yellow and fizzy then it would have got the thumbs up. The boy thought it was excellent though and was worth the wait.

 

[GM]

I know, I know... The boy and wifey take the mick out me for not having a good taste in beers. In fact the boy liked it so much him and wifey have gone back for seconds!

 

[User169]

Wild Beer Co. cans. All very nice, but very much on the hoppy side.

 

[User169]

Beer from that Wales!!

 

[User169]

This is right up my strasse!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Lowland Glen Amber by Harviestoun and flogged by that M&S. Nice stuff, our little mouse friend doesn't get a look in though.

 

[rich p]

This is right up my strasse!

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Another candidate for the Upschitt Kriek range.

 

[John the Monkey]

I usually have Brussels Stouts with Christmas dinner.

 

[John the Monkey]

....our little mouse friend doesn't get a look in though.

I wonder if that explains why he always looks so cross?

 

[nickyboy]

. Pride is reddish-brown and lightly pétillante. .

I don't come to the beer thread to have my vocab extended so fark off with your fancy French words. What's wrong with "fizzy" or, at a push "carbonated"?

(actually I had to google this word so either I'm a bit thick or it's proper pretentious)

 

[theclaud]

I don't come to the beer thread to have my vocab extended so fark off with your fancy French words. What's wrong with "fizzy" or, at a push "carbonated"?

(actually I had to google this word so either I'm a bit thick or it's proper pretentious)

I'm with @srw on this one. There's more than one kind of fizzy.

 

[nickyboy]

I'm with @srw on this one. There's more than one kind of fizzy.

You can do one as well