What are some of the nicest beers you've ever tried?

Question

BQ: What's the most you've ever paid for a beer and where was it?

Answer 1

Interesting to see that few people have mentioned the usual mass-market rubbish beers whose names so often appear when this question is asked.



The problem with naming beers is that there are just so many - over 4000 in the UK alone. But my favourite bottled beer is still Fuller's 1845 and my favourite draught beer is Dark Star Green-Hopped IPA (but all Dark Star beers are superb).



Sadly, some of the once great beers others have mentioned here, Boddingtons for example, are but a shadow of their former selves.



And the most I've ever paid? That was probably for some Belgian beer in Dubai - around about £8 for a bottle. But, hey, was I glad to be able to get a decent drink.

Answer 2

Surely it depends on where you live, everyone likes there own local beers. Personally I am from Lancashire in the North West England and you wont get better beer than something from allgates or thwaites, however I imagine if your from Southern England you would say a beer from Adnams is the best or another southern brewery. My personal favourite of all times has to be Allgates Pretoria. And the most expensive beer I have bought is in a bar in London where he was selling a beer in a 2/3 of a pint for £4, or £6 a pint !

Answer 3

Mitchells, Thwaites, Yates & Jackson, Hartleys, Brains SA, Wadworth XXX.



Most expensive was a specialist beer in a micro-brewery in Belgium (one of the few places outside the UK to brew hop-based beer rather than grain-based lagers). Can't remember the brew or the price, but it was mucho expensive.

Answer 4

Amtel and Wadworths 6X (they brew it in my home town of Devizes, Wiltshire) is the nicest beer I have ever tasted, the most I paid for was for a pint of Peroni (which is also a really nice beer) for £4.80 in Bath, Somerset.

Answer 5

All-time favorite: La Petite, house beer at Orval. Pure nectar.

Favorite American beer: Turbo Dog, flagship beer at Abita Springs.

Of my own brew: Fornicator, a double bock.



Alas, neither commercial one is readily available.

Answer 6

I think boddingtons off the tap was a really good beer. I think I paid about 7 bucks for it

Answer 7

Jennings Snecklifter

Adnams Broadside

Hopback Summer Lightning

Sarah Hughes Ruby Mild

O' Hanlon's Port Stout

Draught Gunness

Murphy's Stout

Beamish Stout. And many more that I can't remember (maybe I had too many of them!!)

Answer 8

guinness stout

murphy's irish red

Hertog jan, grand prestige/''karakter''/normal

amstel

probably €5,- for a glass of guinness on schiphol.