Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:43 am  

Roofs wrote:

Ah I see. Beverley is actually meant to be great for pubs (inc The Warton Arms on the way to Beverley if you're coming from Hull) but never been round the town itself for a beer, will have to put that right at some point...

still cutting down on your beer intake mate ?

or you back to being a complete p***head !!!

[Wanderer]

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:04 am  

Bombadier in reasonable form in the Bay Horse (Bentley) in recent days.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:27 am  

Jaipur in the Old Angel on Sunday after the game.
Heaven!

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:10 pm  

Exmoor Beast, a dark,dangerous ale ( and gorgeous! ) at 6.6% at the Bluecoat, Rotherham.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:18 am  

I was in the White Swan in Doncaster last night at about 7:30.
They were serving Black Sheep and A Glentworth blond ale at 4.2% at £1.95 a pint.
Had two of the Glentworth ... gorgeous, tasted like Jaipur.
How spooky is that?
Since my last pint in town on Sunday was the real Jaipur.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:14 am  

Going round Hull's Old Town tommorow night, some great real ale pubs around there so fingers crossed will have plenty to report back on on Sunday.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Fri Feb 24, 2012 11:17 am  

sanjunien wrote:

still cutting down on your beer intake mate ?

or you back to being a complete p***head !!!

To be honest mate I still go out once a week but that's it now. 3-4 years ago it was Friday, Saturday & Sunday many weeks (probably 25 pints in just over 48 hours which I'm not proud of), but obviously I only go out a third of that now (drinking 6-8 pints I'd say) so I'm happy with that.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:52 am  

Had a good trip down to the Br*dford beer festival, which bizarrely was held in Saltaire last night.

The highlight being a cracking pint of Hill Island Black Thai. I'm not usually a fan of ginger beers but this was a great brown ale with just the right amount of ginger, lemongrass and thai spice coming through.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:27 pm  

Had an excellent night round Hull's Old Town last night, taking in the following:

Oscars: Brains S.A. 4.2%
Black Sheep 3.8%

Walters: Great Newsom Brewary Sleck Dust 3.8%

Lion & Key (formally Durty Nelly's): Rudgate Brewary Jorvick Blonde 3.8%

Ye Olde Black Boy: Copper Dragon Golden Pippin 3.9%

Lamp: Erdinger Weissbier

Not a bad one amongst them. Was looking forward to finally trying Brains, nice beer. Also found the blonde ale in Lion & Key a pleasant change, whilst the Erdinger was the first time I'd had it in maybe a year or two, excellent.

Re: O/T Another Round - More tales of Real Ale : Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:19 pm  

Imperial Blonde from Mexborough's Imperial Brewery, nice hoppy light-coloured ale at the Cask Corner on Saturday night.