For me though, bottles aren't the same. To enjoy real ale properly, it has to be drunk on draught. Do none of the pubs near you serve Deuchars IPA? That's a rather nice drop :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Marco.
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For me though, bottles aren't the same. To enjoy real ale properly, it has to be drunk on draught. Do none of the pubs near you serve Deuchars IPA? That's a rather nice drop :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Marco.
Excellent! And I fully endorse its sentiments :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
I really don't know how people can even drink the pish that passes as lager, especially Carling, which I would turn down if it was free even!
When I'm in a good real ale pub with 10 types to choose from and some plonker comes to the bar and asks for "4 pints of Carling" I truly wince... It's like going to a good restaurant and asking if they have any McDonald's style chicken nuggets!
Oh and Marco, Leeds is a real ale heaven! Try "The Duck & Drake" if you're ever near Leeds bus station (about 3 mins walk from it).
yes, plenty real ale these days I believe. I mean, you can live on it of course, but it tastes like shit;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
I completely agree. Carling? FFS, the choice of football hooligans!Quote:
Originally Posted by Arkless Electronics
Cool, noted and I stand corrected. My perception of big cities is that, by and large, pubs serve commercially produced cack to completely undiscerning pissheads, and that's almost certainly not exclusive to Leeds. Wrexham (even though only a large town) is rife with it, which is why I almost never drink there!Quote:
Oh and Marco, Leeds is a real ale heaven! Try "The Duck & Drake" if you're ever near Leeds bus station (about 3 mins walk from it).
Marco.
Deuchars IPA doesn't taste like shit...Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Marco.
I'm totally with you there Jez, I did hear of the ex-landlord of the Dragon inn in Worcester showing the door to 3 oiks that came in and asked for larger :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Arkless Electronics
It is a proper real ale pub of course.
The perfect pub for me, and those we most often use, is a quiet, quaint, privately owned country pub (often a husband and wife team), situated in beautiful surroundings, where (in the wintertime) I can sit at a table beside a roaring log fire, with no shitty muzak blaring away, drinking some quality real ale and eating some quality home-cooked pub grub.
Or in the summer, doing the same thing (minus the fire) outside in a well-kept beer garden, admiring the view. *That*, for me, is where it's at! :cool:
Marco.
It was a crocodile dundee pun, but just as carling tastes like shit to you it may taste fine to others, and vis a vis pale ale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Its an odd attitude to take
It also assumes that one has tasted shit!Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Of course I have. Ive drank real ale for a start;) worked on a farm.. been in presence of the ill, infirm and babies too. near fossilised shit has a unique smell and taste. strange how it lingersQuote:
Originally Posted by Joe