Old Speckled Hen

Had my first ever pint of this ale tonight (away bowling green guest beer) 5.2% was very nice tbh ...anyone a fan?

ive heard of it but I dont like beer.tho the first time I ever got drink was with Barley wine whatever that is

bitofatwat wrote:Had my first ever pint of this ale tonight (away bowling green guest beer) 5.2% was very nice tbh ...anyone a fan?

i`ve had that before in a real ale pub in york...cant remember if i liked it, was usually drunk after being in there haha

I dont like it, but I can only really suffer those gold/amber style beers

i remember not liking a lot of them but the more you drink them the better it tastes...once your drunk you dont notice so much anyway

Kit wrote:I dont like it, but I can only really suffer those gold/amber style beers

Pale Ale?

bitofatwat wrote:

Kit wrote:I dont like it, but I can only really suffer those gold/amber style beers

Pale Ale?

I do like Pale Ale Boat , but do find its a bit of a broad brush term for quite a few different types of beer , some awful and others really good.

The Beer I have liked the most recently was

they`re into weird flavoured beers over here and they`re awful
but if thats all thats on offer i wont say no

Kit wrote:

bitofatwat wrote:

Kit wrote:I dont like it, but I can only really suffer those gold/amber style beers

Pale Ale?

I do like Pale Ale Boat , but do find its a bit of a broad brush term for quite a few different types of beer , some awful and others really good.

The Beer I have liked the most recently was

yep know what you mean kit ....never seen that one round here but we have a good booze shop nearby so i'll keep my eyesopen for it. Lighter beers seem better out of the fridge than traditional beer too so its ideal for the summer. I like that Marsdens one drop on a warm summer evening.

i`m off to buy my beers in for the weekend later...already got the cider for the girls (vons has a different friend coming over now)

Speckled Hen is good stuff, Gold Label barley wine (or any barley wine) is the liver killer of choice for discerning and moneyed up alcos - triple the strength of normal beer and half as strong again as special brew

Abdul Kowalski wrote:Speckled Hen is good stuff, Gold Label barley wine (or any barley wine) is the liver killer of choice for discerning and moneyed up alcos - triple the strength of normal beer and half as strong again as special brew

Whitbeards made the strongest beer I think in the world at one time, im sure it was GL Barley Wine.I used work there btw.

that's the one, whitbread gold label, i used to drink it with guinness at lunchtimes, you'd buy a guinness and gold label and as the gold label comes in third pint bottles you drink a third of your pint of guinness and then lob the barley wine in which would make your guinness a lot stronger - proper pisshead drink and not much got done in the afternoons after a few of them

some german firm brought out eku28 or something which was supposed to be the new strongest beer after that and now spazzy firms are all trying to outdo each other selling 50, 50, 70% etc beer but technically, once you get into double figures it is barley wine and not beer and once you get near 20% it's wine or fortified wine and liquers/spirits above that

did you work in the whitbread brewery in chiswick street? - probably closed now but i had a xmas do there once, with a free bar - i ended up standing next to a postbox in moorgate thinking i was at a bus stop, i was rescued by someone who left after me and got me to the station, puddles of vomit everywhere that night

I fucking love Speckled Hen....and Bishops Finger.

Mad Tony wrote:I fucking love Speckled Hen....and Bishops Finger.

ive been getting 8 440ml cans for 6.99 88p a can 3 cans and i;m pissed

A session beer, worthy.

Still currently very much in love with Badger's Poacher's Choice. Fuller's ESB with a Sunday roast. Start from there

Abdul Kowalski wrote:that's the one, whitbread gold label, i used to drink it with guinness at lunchtimes, you'd buy a guinness and gold label and as the gold label comes in third pint bottles you drink a third of your pint of guinness and then lob the barley wine in which would make your guinness a lot stronger - proper pisshead drink and not much got done in the afternoons after a few of them

some german firm brought out eku28 or something which was supposed to be the new strongest beer after that and now spazzy firms are all trying to outdo each other selling 50, 50, 70% etc beer but technically, once you get into double figures it is barley wine and not beer and once you get near 20% it's wine or fortified wine and liquers/spirits above that

did you work in the whitbread brewery in chiswick street? - probably closed now but i had a xmas do there once, with a free bar - i ended up standing next to a postbox in moorgate thinking i was at a bus stop, i was rescued by someone who left after me and got me to the station, puddles of vomit everywhere that night

nah it was sunny sheffield Ab, It was my first job when I left school, I was a cook.Its closed down now, but the buildings facade is still there.

my son is a big fan of Charlie Chuck.hes weird.

i am off to the boozer now, i shall have a couple of bishops fingers in honour of this thread to give the cider a different taste

Picked up a bottle of Badgers Golden Champion this afternoon.....drinking it now......fucking marvelous.

Mad Tony wrote:Picked up a bottle of Badgers Golden Champion this afternoon.....drinking it now......fucking marvelous.

trying a bottle of Moorhouse blond witch

http://www.moorhouses.co.uk/beer_range/beerrange.html

7/10 so far, not as nice as the marsdens one drop which i gave 8.75/10

Fuck me, my Gold Champion knocked me out...fell asleep for 2 hours after finishing it.

Mad Tony wrote:Fuck me, my Gold Champion knocked me out...fell asleep for 2 hours after finishing it.