Beer or lager?

[Alan Whicker]

Taylor's Golden Best is a mild, and it's the biggest selling pint in the Keighley area (Where Taylor's is brewed). This is an anomaly (might be because it's not called Mild) - but mild is making a quiet comeback (apparently).

 

[Alan Whicker]

Madonna's favourite apparently!

She claimed to drink it at the Dog And Duck in Soho didn't she? I know she ordered loads of it for her wedding to Guy Ritchie. Best advertising Taylor's have ever had!

 

[User482]

Ale in the UK, lager in Belgium.

I'm forced to concede that the Belgians are extremely good at making beer. They do a range of styles (e.g. Geuze, Tripel, Trappist) and I don't think I've ever had a duff one.

 

[Cranky]

Ale in the winter, lager in the summer, red wine any time!

 

[Alan Whicker]

Ale in the UK, lager in Belgium.

I'm forced to concede that the Belgians are extremely good at making beer. They do a range of styles (e.g. Geuze, Tripel, Trappist) and I don't think I've ever had a duff one.

Not 'alf. One of my happiest booze memories is going through about ten of the beers at Bar Garre in Bruges. My wine-drinker of a wife patiently made do with hot chocolate as I got slowly inebriated.

 

[User169]

Ale in the UK, lager in Belgium.

I'm forced to concede that the Belgians are extremely good at making beer. They do a range of styles (e.g. Geuze, Tripel, Trappist) and I don't think I've ever had a duff one.

Probably a question of terminology, but I don't think that any of those styles you mention would typically be lagered. Tripels and Trappists are all top fermented ales I think and geuze is a type of lambic.

 

[User482]

Not 'alf. One of my happiest booze memories is going through about ten of the beers at Bar Garre in Bruges. My wine-drinker of a wife patiently made do with hot chocolate as I got slowly inebriated.

My wife and I decided to order a "degustation de biere" when on a trip to Brussels. The waiter seeemed surprised that we wanted one each, probably because it involved six different beers each, in significant quantity and significant alcoholic strength.

We staggered back to the hotel to sleep it off.

 

[User169]

Not 'alf. One of my happiest booze memories is going through about ten of the beers at Bar Garre in Bruges. My wine-drinker of a wife patiently made do with hot chocolate as I got slowly inebriated.

There's a cracking beer festival on in Bruges this weekend.

http://www.brugsbierfestival.be/en/beer_festival_bruges-1.html

Check out the awesome list of beers available.

(And they even have a creche!)

 

[User482]

Probably a question of terminology, but I don't think that any of those styles you mention would typically be lagered. Tripels and Trappists are all top fermented ales I think and geuze is a type of lambic.

I'm sure you're right. I guess I think of them as lagers because they're a different style of beer to that produced in the UK. Anyhoo, they're excellent.

 

[Brock]

Mild is, regrettably, in danger of becoming extinct.

I think mild is alive and kicking, I've had lots lately from various breweries. CAMRA made a concerted effort to promote it with their 'Mild Month' in May.
It's just a question of finding the pubs that care about beer.

 

[Globalti]

The only time I will drink cooking lager is when on business in Africa (as now in Nigeria - just about to have my first Gulder of the weekend) and there's no choice, or a bottle of Harviestoun Schiehallion, which is a "real" lager.

The rest ought to be poured straight down the sewers.

 

[User169]

I think mild is alive and kicking, I've had lots lately from various breweries. CAMRA made a concerted effort to promote it with their 'Mild Month' in May.
It's just a question of finding the pubs that care about beer.

That's great to hear.

I've mainly lived in S England and East Anglia and think I last saw mild in a pub in the '80s.

I'm in the UK next week, so will see if I can find some.

 

[peejay]

I think mild is alive and kicking, I've had lots lately from various breweries. CAMRA made a concerted effort to promote it with their 'Mild Month' in May.
It's just a question of finding the pubs that care about beer.

Will make more of an effort to try and find a pint of mild next time I'm out. The trouble is once I've found a pub serving good beer you will struggle to get me into another.

 

[Gromit]

I'd love to have some more of the ginger beer we were drinking in the pub last Thursday. That was really lovely. I like a good beer I do.

 

[rich p]

Mild is available in some of the boozers round these parts but I wouldn't bother drinking though. It's weak and tasteless. It looks like it ought to taste like a lighter version of a winter old but is invariably insipid. I guess it used to be better or maybe still is in some varieties.
As a yoof we drank mild because it was cheap not because it was good but that may have been Watneys fault!