| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse 19:20 - Aug 22 with 1936 views | redrickstuhaart |
Fight me on this....
Currently sampling a series of craft beer joints in Harrogate prior to trundling over to Preston in the morning.
Bar 1. Nice place. Friendly, relaxed, keen to offer samples of everything. 14 items on the draft list 2 of which are cask ales. Of the first 12 9 are ipa pale ale of some description. NINE! Then there's a radler and 2 pils lagers. The cask stuff? A session ipa and a pale ale... Not a proper ale or anything other than ipa to be had, basically.
Bar 2. Lots of ipa.... Also some wheat beer. Hooray! However, each of the 4 wheat beers has fecking fruit in it. Why? No ale. Nothing Belgian or proper weissebeer styles. Just ipas.... The same endless slop that comes in overly colourful cartoony cans in the supermarket.
So it's lager again. [Post edited 22 Aug 19:21]
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| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 09:53 - Aug 23 with 198 views | Benters |
| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 19:59 - Aug 22 by fabian_illness |
Just give up beer.
Will make you far less angry and frustrated. |
Lol 😂 |  |
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| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 09:59 - Aug 23 with 181 views | Benters |
| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 08:49 - Aug 23 by BondiBlue |
I was into it for a bit but nothing in the last 25 years has tasted as good as adnams broadside on tap when i was 16 in woodbridge.
I'm on p1ss weak australian lager now and loving it. |
You can’t beat Adnams all that beardy hipster craft beer is nonsense. | |
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| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 10:58 - Aug 23 with 144 views | FBI |
I went in a craft beer place in Hitchin a couple of years ago.
Good Lord.
A huge range of obscenely overpriced and faintly unpleasant beer with stupid names, all of which tasted like grandad's home brew kit c. 1976, and served by irritating hipsters with all the customer service skills of Basil Fawlty.
Gimme a Hobgoblin or Spitfire any day. |  |
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| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 11:07 - Aug 23 with 126 views | TIB |
| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 08:49 - Aug 23 by Mullet |
I had some peroni last night. Lovely stuff. |
A lot to be said for a good, cold, crisp lager. |  |
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| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 11:12 - Aug 23 with 122 views | Freddies_Ears |
| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 21:26 - Aug 22 by redrickstuhaart |
Go to Prague. Have a properly fresh well poured Urquell and come back to me... |
Or save a couple of days and a few quid, and try this unexpected source of Pilsner Urquell, served from the tank:
https://theduckandrice.com/menus/
It's in London's Soho, a few mins fm Piccadilly Circus. | | | |
| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 11:46 - Aug 23 with 97 views | azuremerlangus |
Unfortunately trying to find proper live unpasteurised cask ales are difficult these days. Even Adnams have stopped doing their bitter in mini-kegs. I know why because it has a very short shelf life and it needs leaving to settle before using but it is a very different experience from modern beers.
On the subject of dark beers does any brewer make Tolly’s Cobnut brown ale? |  |
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| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 13:35 - Aug 23 with 40 views | NBVJohn |
| Craft beer has disappeared up its own generic arse on 09:25 - Aug 23 by DBaldy |
Ah, the old "Guinness tastes different in Dublin" argument.
I've tried Urquell before, served by a qualified beer sommelier, but wasn't impressed by it. But I tried it, rather than dismiss it out of hand, as I try to keep an open mind about beers that I haven't had before.
A West Coast IPA will look and taste completely different to a New England hazy IPA, and there is plenty of variety in between.
If you like lager then it's quite possible you'd enjoy a West Coaster. Or maybe look into which hops are in the "ales" you like, as there's bound to be a craft option with those same hops which you might enjoy too. |
You lost me at ‘qualified beer sommelier’
FFS.
At 58 years old I still base my beer drinking on sampling the local brew and it’s a strategy that rarely fails me. Drink it, enjoy it or try something else. Don’t overthink a simple pleasure.
I bet Urquell tastes better in Prague in the same way that Adnams Southwold Bitter is like a mouthful of heaven in the Sole Bay Inn.
The whole IPA thing baffles me - a race to see who can create the most garishly presented, over hopped fizzy drink that looks like a urine sample from someone with chronic dehydration. | | | |
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