What is your personal 'King of beers'?

[DiamondEcho]

You know the ad line 'Budweiser - the King of beers'. Well, I expect many people outside the US and a certain demographic would disagree with that. What do you consider that King? If you were given a life-sentence of sobriety, what would you request as your final brew?

Mine would be Budweiser.




...But not so fast Budweiser Budvar Original, from the Czech Republic. Delicious, and so refreshing on a hot day!

[jfgw]

If it really was my last brew, I would probably go for Baltic Trader brewed by Green Jack (10.5%) and take my time over it. Would I be allowed a whole gyle or just one firkin?

Another excellent beer is Death or Glory (Tring) at 7.2%.

Julian F. G. W.

[AleisterCrowley]

If you were given a life-sentence of sobriety,

A life sentence of being limited to one beer is more cheerful to contemplate

[DiamondEcho]

A life sentence of being limited to one beer is more cheerful to contemplate

I like your 'glass half full' analogy; time for me to visit the fridge

[todthedog]

If allowed a beer for life my vote is for King and Barnes boy's bitter, but before they were taken over!

[AleisterCrowley]

Difficult to pick one beer above all others. Some of my personal favourites of old seem to have changed -or perhaps i have- and a bad pint of something can put one off.
Also I tend to go for the darker stuff as the days draw in but heavy stouts and porters dont work in sunny beer gardens

OK , if guaranteed fresh good nick pints possibly one of these
Otter -Bright
Holden's- Golden Glow
Purple Moose- Ysgawen
Wye Valley -HPA
Exmoor -Gold
Salopian -Darwins Origin/Hop Twister

[JMN2]

Very late 00's or 2010 Mikkeller brewed their very first single hop series bottled beers and from that East Kent Goldings stood out and I still sometimes think about that one bottle. Balanced, crispy, hoppy, refreshing, I'd like to have that again.

[AleisterCrowley]

I've had a lot of 'rare' stuff where I've thought 'I could happily stick with that'...sadly most are either a one-off or are difficult to find.
It's all very well finding a wonderful beer in the Euston Tap, but go back a week later and it's not on, and is only available alternate months in a small bar in Shoreditch. In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard*



* (c) D Adams

[simoan]

Any of The Kernel IPA's would do me. They always taste pretty damn fine to me. If forced to choose a hop combination I'd go for a really tropical one like Cascade, Citra and Mosaic. That'd push my buttons for a very long time. Si

[AleisterCrowley]

I was thinking of Kernel stuff when I mentioned the Euston Tap, oddly enough

[Imbiber]

Oakham Green Devil, or maybe some of my own brews.....

[JMN2]

Oakham Green Devil, or maybe some of my own brews.....

Aaah...a homebrewer. Here's a nice one for you just off the top of my head:

90% pale ale
8% Munich
2% Crystal 150

60 minutes Magnum 30 ibu
15 minutes Cascade 10 ibu
flame off Citra and Mosaic

US-05

[dionaeamuscipula]

You know the ad line 'Budweiser - the King of beers'. Well, I expect many people outside the US and a certain demographic would disagree with that. What do you consider that King? If you were given a life-sentence of sobriety, what would you request as your final brew?

Mine would be Budweiser.

Since it would be a cold day in hell if I was to agree to a life sentence of sobriety, it would have to be Young's Winter Warmer, brewed in Wandsworth and not Bedfordshire.

DM

[AleisterCrowley]

You'll be lucky..
http://www.theramquarter.com/vision/a-new-quarter/
Vibrant...iconic...prestigious...overpriced jerry-built boxes for laundering foreign money.
There is allegedly a microbrewery though.

[Hallucigenia]

Funnily enough I've been reading a couple of comments recently about how much Young's beers have improved lately. Don't know the beers well enough myself to comment, but it makes a welcome change from the usual "not what it used to be" moaning.

[Imbiber]

Oakham Green Devil, or maybe some of my own brews.....

Aaah...a homebrewer. Here's a nice one for you just off the top of my head:

90% pale ale
8% Munich
2% Crystal 150

60 minutes Magnum 30 ibu
15 minutes Cascade 10 ibu
flame off Citra and Mosaic

US-05

Looks good, I may just give it a go next time I fire up the Braumeister

[JMN2]

Oakham Green Devil, or maybe some of my own brews.....

Aaah...a homebrewer. Here's a nice one for you just off the top of my head:

90% pale ale
8% Munich
2% Crystal 150

60 minutes Magnum 30 ibu
15 minutes Cascade 10 ibu
flame off Citra and Mosaic

US-05

Looks good, I may just give it a go next time I fire up the Braumeister

I had the 20L one, got regularly 90+% mash efficiency and around 23 litres into the FV, sparging on top of a bucket.

[Imbiber]

Mine is a 20L, 48 brews to date. So much easier than the old 3 vessel system.

[JMN2]

Mine is a 20L, 48 brews to date. So much easier than the old 3 vessel system.

It's a lovely piece of kit but has its OG limitations, I once double-mashed a high-gravity IPA. I found an OG of 1042-1052 was a sweet spot for me the way I used it. I liked to brew a bitter with English hops then end of boil have some exotic hops just to lift it off.

[dionaeamuscipula]

Funnily enough I've been reading a couple of comments recently about how much Young's beers have improved lately. Don't know the beers well enough myself to comment, but it makes a welcome change from the usual "not what it used to be" moaning.

I no longer live in the catchment area, so couldn't say. On the rare occasions when I am in that London these days, and am drinking, I tend to stick to Fullers beers. The main supplier in this part of Godzone is S A Brain. They have just received planning permission to move their brewery just out of town and replace it with a new development. To be fair it is currently right in the centre of town at the moment, on a prime site. It'll be interesting to see what if any effect it has. They are doing some brand extensions currently such as a Rye version of Rev James, which I've not had, and some "craft" beers which are I think just riding a wave. They are I think more interested in being a pub company than a brewery these days, and they run a successful chain of coffee shops too.

DM