Thread: Anyone for ale?

Originally Posted by TheGeek

I feel ya sheebay

I usually drink lager coz it's cheap, I have a soft spot for budvar lol, but I do like an ale, but mostly a whiskey drinker, the site you linked to do they have those beers in any Glasgow booze houses?

Geek

Well not yet, although you can buy the Punk IPA in a 4 pack for under a fiver in the sainsbury's by buchanan galleries.
They're based in Fraserburgh up north, so I think they're actually opening their own pub in Aberdeen first, and they've started plans for one in Glasgow. I can't wait. Aye exactly that's why I end up drinking lager on nights out, students can't really afford to binge on craft ale...

Hey that new belgium brewery looks cool, I like how they have recipes to go with the beer too. Is it US based?

I'm a lager man myself. Some years ago i spent 3 weeks in England with my wife. I tried to get used to ale and stout, and some were pretty tasty and good. However i was too used to fine lager so that is what is meant for me. Old monkey doesn't learn new tricks.
Best beers i ever had, be it lager or ale, are from local small breweries. I'm always trying to find those when traveling.
I'm having a week off work at the start of october. We've been planning to visit Edinburgh then (there are few other European cities we still think about), and if so we will probably get a change to taste BrewDog.

Lager was introduced to this country as a womans drink, don't you know. I don't mind it, but I don't buy it in any more. I like ale, generally the same stuff is available in the pubs round here. Old speckeled hen, courage best, london pride etc etc - all reasonably decent.

In the states I was drinking a wheat ale from the mudshark brewery. I think that might be my favorite beer.

@gregs656 Ah cool I didn't know that, and yeah I agree Old Speckled Hen, London Pride etc are the way forward for cheap(er) regulars.

Yer it was introuduced and marketed to women to be drunk in halfs. Pretty interesting stuff when you think of how it's percieved today.

In a restaurant or pub, my default if they have it on tap is Bass Ale, but I love McKewan's Scotch Ale when I can find it.

If you're ever in the Southeast, try Highland Brewery's Gaelic Ale. It has become by far my favorite of all beers.

i love to order harp and tell the girl behind the bar it's "cause i'm an angel".. i get a big smile everytime..

now if only i cared for the taste of harp.

Originally Posted by gregs656

I like ale, generally the same stuff is available in the pubs round here. Old speckeled hen, courage best, london pride etc etc - all reasonably decent.

Word has it (on this side of the Pond) that high hops ale was developed to survive the long voyage from England to India so that British expatriots and soldiers could have a taste of home.

True that?
Namaste,
Morty -_-

Originally Posted by Morty

Word has it (on this side of the Pond) that high hops ale was developed to survive the long voyage from England to India so that British expatriots and soldiers could have a taste of home.

True that?
Namaste,
Morty -_-

I have heard the same thing Morty. I believe it is true.


Mick

I cannot agree with the general consensus any more. As a college student I wasted too much time drinking watery beer with no flavor. Then one day I had something new an "arrogant bastard" from stone brewery. Needless to say my eyes were opened I was hooked. It was like eating hotdogs your entire life and thinking that's what beef was till one day you have a nice 24oz T-bone. I don't no why the beer industry has gone in the direction of tinted, carbonated, water that has overtaken so much of the market but it is good to see that some decent craft&micro brews are beginning to fill the need for proper beer that many of us have developed.