One thing I really miss living in Ireland is English bitter or real ales.
We called in a off licence and I picked up these beauties to try:
I couldn't wait to sample them.
They were: Timothy Taylor's Landlord. This is brewed in Keighley in Yorkshire. It's a Pale Ale 4.1 percent. The Fursty Ferret, Badger Dorset Breweries 4. 4 percent. Timothy Taylor's Boltmaker 4. 2 percent and The Legendary Tangle Foot traditional golden ale 5 percent and nade by Badger Breweries.
We opened them and drank them by the wine glass. It's a trick I learned years ago at a beer festival when the beer was very strong like Frog and Parrot or if you didn't wish to buy a pint of pond/ditch water.
Do you like Real Ales? I never understood why they never took here in Ireland. I wish I could drink them every week.
Can't wait for when go to England this Summer. Wetherspoon"s here I come!
They all have great names don't they.
ReplyDeleteWe can buy quite a few real ales in our local supermarket and the pubs here usually do a variety of guest beers, which P likes to try.
Don't they just JayCee. The Fursty Ferret is a great name and not a bad beer. It tastes very hopish. Sounds like the IOM is very similar to Blighty and you get good beer.
ReplyDeleteWetherspoons is GREAT!!!! It was our go-to of choice when we were out and about!
ReplyDeleteIt is Debby. I have been in Wetherspoon's in Dorset and Kent. The Doom Bar real ale was amazing and only two Pounds a pint. Yep it's excellent.
ReplyDeleteDo Love Brewing deliver out to you? Honestly their kit beers are as good as any I buy, Their Dockers IPA is particularly good, my friends never believe I've made it and works out about 50p a pint!
ReplyDeleteI don't think they deliver to the Republic of Ireland Kev. 50P a Pint is brilliant. You should write some posts abour your home brewing.
DeleteI will do, I've done so much the last few years. Been great for drinking with friends and brewed loads for my wife's 40th!
DeleteThanks I look forward to reading it Kev. Sounds like you could start your own microbrewery. Now that's an idea.
DeleteI recall the Frog and Parrot pub in Sheffield. As we were the local Excise office for the premises, we often visited. Roger was the owner and quite a character. His strongest ale "Roger and Out" was named after him!
ReplyDeleteSounds amazing Wundadebz. I miss Real Ale festivals.
DeleteA memory that's just come back - if you drank one of his bottles of "Roger and Out" you were given a certificate. It was a mighty strong beer serves (as you said) in small glasses.
DeleteSounds like the Frog and Parrot. That was about 9 or ten percent? When I went to Bratislava they had 14 percent beer. We just drunk the sensible 6 percent Czech beer. It was a Euro a pint.
DeleteThere is one reason and that is hops did not grow in Ireland so real ale does not have a great start in Ireland. Ireland has Guinness which is fabulous of course. I am glad you approve of Wetherspoons. I love Tim Martin and his attitude to buying in bulk and selling to his customers at reasonable prices. He writes a good pamphlet in his pubs pointing out all the lies told about him and backs it all up with official documents and apologies he eventually received from various media outlets and MPs which get little or no publicity after the event. I alway go into a Wetherspoons and support him and love the food too. Thanks Dave.
ReplyDeleteI think Guinness was first brewed in London Rachel. Arthur Guinness noticed the Smithfield market Porters drinking a brown beer and he brought the recipe over to Dublin. Guinness is called Porter even today. I think Wetherspoon's is brilliant and I believe there is one in Cork city. I like drinking Sharpe's Doom Bar bitter which is a Cornish real ale and served in Wetherspoon's. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWe used to deliver barley to the Park Royal Guinness Brewery and my mum wrote handwritten instructions for our drivers to reach the brewery. Great memories Dave.
ReplyDeleteYes they brewed it in London didn't they Rachel? I should have wrote Covent Garden rather than Smithfield. You have some great memories.
ReplyDeleteWe seem to have more real ales in England than ever before with micropubs and microbreweries popping up all over the place.
ReplyDeleteI believe so YP. I wouldn't mind living in Dorset near some of those places.
ReplyDeleteYorkshire is a much better county but unfortunately Lankies, like Russians, are not allowed in.
DeleteDon't buy Russian Vodka or any Yorkshire Puddings.
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