Not so keen on the real ales, guess you have to grow up with them.
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Not so keen on the real ales, guess you have to grow up with them.
Not really, I only properly discovered and enjoyed drinking them when I moved down to Wales, particularly being so near to the English borders of Cheshire and Shropshire, where there's lots of locally produced real ales, and then going to some of the pubs there.
It's an entirely different scene to the one I was used to in Glasgow! :)
Marco.
real w'ales then;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Was for me, never got a taste for them, ended up drinking lager when I lived int Leeds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Not sure that the real ale scene would've been as vibrant in Leeds, as that round here, and as such allowed access to such a variety of high-quality ales, such as found in Wales and throughout Shropshire and Cheshire, particularly in the country pubs we usually frequent.
I'm probably a bit too 'fussy' (some might say discerning) for my own good, because as I don't drink to get pissed, and am certainly not a heavy drinker, the small amount I do take *has* to be GOOD. Quality always comes before quantity! :)
So for me, that rules out 90% of the pish here posing as, and sold as 'lager', even a lot of the foreign stuff, as it's so often a pale imitation of the same beer you get in the country of its origin, so I prefer drinking something that I know is genuine, and also produced locally, often only a few miles from the pub where I'm drinking it, which is why some *good* real ales hit the spot nicely :cool:
Marco.
Aldi has their fancy ales in again. noticed them filling the shelves recently of stuff Ive never heard of.(might be a Scottish thing)
LOL, try telling that to any Yorkshireman! (Marco)
What do the mighty HMHB have to say on the subject? This:
Anything under five percent I don’t want to drink it
Ugly frontage? Don’t even think it.
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I want Dave and Barbara to refer me to the blackboard
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No wife no kids, no way juke box
I get sent the Belstaff catalogues
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And at the Monday night archery
A fellow cellar hopper lent to me
A Willie Rushton biography
In return for my Sally James scrapbook
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^ about sums it up
Ha - perhaps, but I'm talking about in the city of Leeds itself, not so much out in the sticks or in small towns in Yorkshire. Do the pubs there sell lots of different varieties of real ales? I wouldn't know because I've never stayed in Leeds for any amount of time :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ali Tait
Marco.