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.
I want my hand held pumps, I want the sci-fi meet
I want Dave and Barbara to refer me to the blackboard
‘Cos I’m a CAMRA man, CAMRA man, CAMRA man
Weekends, vintage car show
Doctor Who aficionado
No wife no kids, no way juke box
I get sent the Belstaff catalogues
‘Cos I’m a CAMRA man, CAMRA man, CAMRA man
And at the Monday night archery
A fellow cellar hopper lent to me
A Willie Rushton biography
In return for my Sally James scrapbook
Guess the guest and win a night with…
Guess the guest and win a night with…
Guess the guest and win a night with…
Guess the guest and win a night out with the CAMRA man
A CAMRA man, CAMRA man, CAMRA man
Oh I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am
I’m a dirty great big Five Nations fan
I’ve got Cheap Trick Live at the Budokan
I’ve got a friend I can trust
I’ve got a shotgun round the back
I’ve got a Bonneville in bits but I’m gonna sort it out
Because I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am
I am a CAMRA man, a CAMRA man, a CAMRA man, a CAMRA man
And you can really taste the hops!
^ 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.
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
Yes, but the big difference is, even if you don't like the taste of real ale, it's (most often) a hand-crafted, carefully produced quality product, unlike something like Carling or Tennent's lager! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Marco.
A lot of it is aptly put in those Wychwood brewery ads "What's up lager boy? Scared you might taste something?" They start drinking concoction of wet chemicals (Ta Alan) at 16 and become used to it... I had a good mate (now lost to the the big C unfortunately. Probably all those chemicals!) who drank nowt but Carling and we all used to rip the piss out of him for it. One day he said he'd try a half of real ale... He didn't really like it but said it wasn't as bad as he remembered.. We kept giving him tries of our different real ales and after a month or so he once again bought a half... To cut a long story short he was soon converted to real ale and after a few months he bought a Carling to see what he'd liked about it... "that tastes like piss! Bloody awful! how the feck did I like that shite!" etc came from his mouth... he didn't finish the pint of Carling! :cool:
I enjoy a good lager as much as I dislike a crap one. Therefore, British so called 'lagers' don't find favour with me. The British just don't brew a decent mainstream lager.
As for 'real ale', well it's OK I guess, if you've got a few paint brushes to wash out! ;)
And that's the fact of the matter (or a decent any lager, IMO), whether you still enjoy drinking it or not. I'd say the same thing to folks who claimed to prefer the taste of supermarket ready-meals, compared with that of freshly made, home-cooked food! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Marco.
Dont mind some if well used and looked after. I usually take a continental one tho. Tuberg on draft used to be very good, but again it needs pouring regular like most gaseous beer, guinness included, although not gassed as such. Dublin they literally never stop pouring for more than 30 sec in big bars
Leffe :ner::ner: yum yum
Amen to that. In addition, our local (which keeps its real ales in kegs on a rack behind the bar - none of this pump-pulled stuff!) also has a mobile phone ban. If anyone's phone rings, they have to put £1 in a jar on the bar, which is given to charity when it's full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Sounds like one of my locals. Me and the mrs drove past it many times thought it was a derelict building. Like going back in time in there. The pub became popular during the foot and mouth thing several years ago, as the potolers couldn't get to the mendip caves. There is a cave entrance in the car park , so well handy. They have branched out a bit more on food these days, the odd shep pie/chillie, but the main staple, is a cheese roll, or cheese and onion roll. local ( just up the road cheddar gorge) cheddar cheese, over half an inch thick slab, the onion even thicker. Nice with some local cider ( proper cider).Quote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
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We used to have a pub like that here. All gravity fed barrels, no hand pumps and nothing under pressure. Sadly it has changed somewhat these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by jollyfix
Lol - I like it! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
Is that before or after the offender is given a good boot up the arse? ;)
Marco.
Shame most what i would call proper pubs are disappearing. There is also this local, for food n Booze http://thesheppey.co.uk/menu/xmas-menu-15/ some good music too. Nice odd pub, loads to look at inside every corner full of odds n ends, but not a proper pub. Nice to sit on the chairs by the river bank and have a few though, even in winter time.
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I like the look of the second and third pics Dave, and could picture myself sitting there with a nice pint, but not the last one, with rows of seats, which makes that room look like a glorified school dining hall, and distinctly uninviting! ;)
Those plastic seats are simply horrendous....
Marco.
My thoughts too regarding the hall area, thats why we hang about the main pub area far better and cozy too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
There are scatter cushions. In a pub.
I like dives myself. Tile floor, paint peeling off the walls, still the same cheap tables and chairs the place had when it opened in 1922 or whatever. Lock-ins until 3am every night. Used to be spoilt for choice round these parts but they have all closed down or been tarted up and spoiled.
Super looking pub that! If only we had a decent local(it burnt down 7 yrs ago) :(
Proper Old Pubs.... In the Good Old Days... :sofa:
I can remember one that really had a broken 3 legged bar stool with a broom handle tied with string as a splint...
nobody drank there though..
Yup, cosy is important, and it's something that 'open plan' room ism't. Unfortunately, 'airy and spacious' seems to be the de rigueur look these days, and if not done properly, simply results in cold and uninviting.Quote:
Originally Posted by jollyfix
I like 'snugs' in pubs, nice cosy, quiet little corners/areas you can sit in, enjoying your beer (with someone decent to talk to, perhaps even your wife, lol), away from where all the 'rowdies' [who just love the sound of their own voice] and cackling women congregate...
It's rather like booths in restaurants, which you used to see more of at one time, and which I also like, as they 'cocoon' you to some extent from the presence of the unwashed masses you unfortunately have to share the same space with! ;)
Marco.
Just a heads up for anyone close to Worcestershire, we are going to the THE GREEN HOP BEER FESTIVAL at the Talbot at Knightwick today.
It is a Fri/Sat/Sun event https://www.the-talbot.co.uk/events/ with live music, can't wait.
Should be great, Alan. Enjoy! :cool:
Marco.
Recent pic of myself. Don't get nightmares now :D
S.
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"Shane of the Dead"Quote:
Originally Posted by southall-1998
Last Christmas....
[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4644/...ef4541e0_b.jpgBahhumbug_zps048aa460 by alan moon, on Flickr[/IMG]
You look like a bloke I used to work with...honest.
Ouch Alan :D
S.
I had you down as more of a Samoan / oriental rugby player...! Where is your family from?Quote:
Originally Posted by southall-1998
I'm guessing you mean the good lookin lad...Shane....??Quote:
Originally Posted by Yomanze
Taken this morning...I'm still ugly..but atleast I am smiling..(or is it a grimace)...
[IMG]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4729/...891725b6_b.jpgMAD-MOON by alan moon, on Flickr[/IMG]
I'm mixed race, Neil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yomanze
My father is Irish and mother Trinidadian (Indian).
In the past people have sometimes mistaken me as Mexican Or Italian.
S.
What are the "Please update you account to enable third-party hosting" things all about?
Where?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lerxst