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I found Fuller's ESB this weekend. :)

It's funny because I was just asking you about it; since I haven't been able to find any in many years. I picked up 2 six packs.

It's pretty much as good as I remember it. It's like a tastier version of Bass, and with more alcohol, too.

Cheers.
 
Fullers ESB is a fine session beer if you're in the mood for a little more alcohol than in Fullers London Pride ... and let's face it, sometimes we are ;)

Is the stuff over the Pond in bottles or cans? I've never seen tinned Fullers, only draught and bottled...

I still remember with fondness a trip to the Fullers brewery in the late 80s. I came away with quite a few goodies :D .... they didn't last!

Roger
 
Hi Roger. Yes, it is in bottles. I don't think I've ever seen it in cans. I would love to taste this stuff with a draft widget.
 
Hi, Komondor, glad you found it!!

I bought some the other day, and took it with a load of other beer on a visit to the Champagne region of France. I got a few of the locals to try English beer against their famous local stuff. They were quite impressed! We had no Guinness so we tried Black Velvet using Marstons Oyster Stout. OK, but I prefer not to dilute the beer...

If you can find them try Timothy Taylor Landlord and Morland Hen's Tooth, bottled beers in a league of their own. The latter is a bottle-conditioned ale.

Andy.
 
Fullers! back in my drinking days Fullers was a favorite as was most any Pale Ale. Old Nick was good too , on those cold party nights. :)
 
I was just thinking that it's a pity that international shipping costs are so high and customs are such a hassle. Otherwise we could all ship each other a bottle or two of our favourite brew and do some comparisons. Could make some interesting drinking sessions. :)
 
komondor said:
Hi Roger. Yes, it is in bottles. I don't think I've ever seen it in cans. I would love to taste this stuff with a draft widget.
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I'm glad you can only find it in bottles :D

If you ever get the chance to try Wadworth's 6X, please do. If you don't like it I'll personally refund the price of a pint - offer only open to Komondor before the rest of you try to bankrupt me ;)

I agree with Gajonoz, it would be great to trade beer around the world. Most countries produce something highly drinkable once you get past the Fosters/Budweiser/Heineken/Watneys widdle.

Roger
 
s0laris said:
Agreed

This is where I will be spending my Saturday :p
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Awww, don't think I can go.

Off topic a bit, coming back from Champagne on the A26 motorway, somewhere near St. Omer, a motorway service area was selling Laguioles. Different to mine, and a lot cheaper, but looked OK.

The A26 runs more or less along the line of the first world war trenches: Arras; Cambrai; the Somme. Champagne is roughly where the French and British sectors met, where the Americans would later take over. Whilst there I visited an American cemetery, near Chateau-Thierry at Bois Belleau. The 4th Marine Brigade, part of the 2nd Division, stopped a major German offensive here, then counter-attacked and recaptured the wood. I found a bit about it here

Andy
 
A.W.U.K. said:
Awww, don't think I can go.
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That's a real shame. Real Ale, faggots (can't wait to see what the Americans make of that!) & mushy peas. Fantastic
 
s0laris said:
That's a real shame. Real Ale, faggots (can't wait to see what the Americans make of that!) & mushy peas. Fantastic
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Faggits 'n' paes!!!

They do 'em in the caff in the Black Country Museum. Hmm, what to have for tea? I'll see if there's any brains in the freezer later. Not as good as the real thing, though!

Andy.
 
Do you know the Monty Python routine about how American beer is like making love in a canoe? It's f*cking close to water!

I read somewhere that America has the most advanced breweries in the world-and we make the world's worst beer! It's so bad that we drink up your cast-off beer (Heineken, Fosters, etc.) and think it's ambrosia!
 
The US has some of the best beer-- micro-breweries, brewpubs-- in the world. It's just that we have all the worst macro-shyt, too.
 
On the ferry back from France, I sampled and bought a bottle of Glenmorangie Traditional cask strength ! You can't get it in the shops, hehehe!

Andy.
 
komondor said:
The US has some of the best beer-- micro-breweries, brewpubs-- in the world. It's just that we have all the worst macro-shyt, too.
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You are absolutely right! I am particularly fond of Great Lakes Brewing Company's "Holy Moses White Ale" and "Edmund Fitzgerald Porter."

My own "Hart's Basement Brew" isn't bad either!!!!!!!! Drink too much, and you meet the mascot, a 7' tall green reptilian monster named, you guessed it, "Ralph!"

I still want to know, though, why most American microbreweries put too damned much hops into lager beer and pale ales! :barf:
 
I found some American beer (other than Bud or Coors) in the supermarket yesterday, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It's bottled-conditioned and very nice indeed, not too hoppy at all. Slightly sweet, not unexpected with the alcohol content (5.6%)

Anyone else know this stuff?

Andy.
 
maximus otter said:
Mmmm...

Haggis, bashed neeps, tatties & Jennings' Sneck Lifter!

maximus otter
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Sneck lifter is a fine brew, but try Jennings' Crag Rat if you come across it :)
 
oz23 said:
Sneck lifter is a fine brew, but try Jennings' Crag Rat if you come across it :)
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I had a pint of Crag Rat in the Bank Tavern in Keswick only a few weeks ago, and - regrettably - I was underwhelmed. It wasn't bad, just undistinguished. A good session beer, but not a pint to reward oneself with after a day climbing Cat Bells.

The logo on the pump would make a good T-shirt, though...

maximus otter
 
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