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Is it ice cold?

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They have Hobgoblin also. MrBEVS will be right over.

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Oh come on admit it you had the beer on the far left :):)

Which pub in Brockville is that taken in. The Union Jack Pub?

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I don't drink beer, but I always like the creative handle thingers different beers use on the tap.

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This looks like a great selection. Looks like the old speccy is keg though.....

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Yummy! Both Morland's OSH (once brewed in Abingdon) and Wychwood's Hobgoblin (Witney) remind me of many misspent hours in my youth - those two, plus Hook Norton's Old Hooky, are among my favourite beers and bring back fond memories of Oxfordshire summers on the river or the cricket field... in fact, I'm pretty sure the first glass of beer I ever drank was a half-pint of Hooky that my dad, the next batsman in, had had to leave behind in the pavilion at Hook Norton when a wicket fell. I would have been about six.

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Yes...the old speccy will be keg...I have never known British cask ale being shipped across the pond..... its still nice though.

To Magnum's comment....its still a tasty beer even if it is fizzy and ice cold! and to Bristol's point its still waaay better than the dish water on the left... which sadly we have all had to endure from time to time....its a bit like the Canadian version of Carling,,,,...just insipid! I never know why they call it Canadian!! Its an insult to Canada! with the good Canadian beers coming available now, and importantly some excellent cask ales getting more popular now too!! There is worse than Canadian though I guess... you could go a step further to the dish water side and have the Coors Lite, which is bland nothingness dish water! lol

I am heading to the UK in a couple of weeks....soooooo looking forward to some great ale again! Im looking forward to some Titanic brewery's Plum Porter.....such deliciousness! and some of my home town's brew...Batham's bitter! :thumbsup:

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As Paul_Shepherd says, it'll all be kegged "electric beer" over here, a cask ale wouldn't fare well on the transatlantic journey (unless it were a very hoppy IPA - that's what IPA was first brewed for, after all...). There are one or two good local cask ales around here - the Old Credit Brewery's Amber Ale is available in cask if you look hard enough, and is also sold in the brewery shop bottled "live" - that's just around the corner from my work and on my route home, so it's occasionally necessary to stop in and pick up a handful for the weekend :)

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In the mid 90's I attended a family wedding and they had Old Speckled Hen on draught at the pub where the wedding was held in Warwickshire. Lovely cask ale at the wedding that went down well...actually too well. The wedding ended and I was not the driver back to the B and B. :):)

The next day early in the morning we had to be at Heathrow by about 11:30 and after leaving the B and B we popped into a shop for some food for the journey and to avoid Heathrow prices. They had bottles of Old Speckled Hen and I bought 4 and jammed them into my suitcase. When we got back to Canada I had them and the difference in taste between keg and bottle was quite large and not in a good way.

As some other posters have said, there is a large variety of craft ales here compared to 20 years ago and the imported beers from the UK really aren't worth the bother after they've traveled so far etc. It is best to drink what is local and have the UK beers when you're back in the UK.

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As Partiall Discharged says, the bottle version and the cask does taste quite a bit different.... but even the keg version of old speckled is still way better than that beer on the left!...... as you say...tastes like real beer!

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Nice head....Smooth tasting... Hmm....makes me wonder if it was Nitro injected instead of CO2....??

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Nice. I used to love Worthington's Creamflow, don't know if there are any pubs here that have it.

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At least there's some Heineken otherwise I'd of thought I was in some terrible 1990s lower county pub listening to Malcom and Ray talk about their squash game.

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Missed my invite!

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On the way out of Blighty at Heathrow they have a Fullers Pub. I was really impressed with their Frontier lager. if that comes to Canada we'll be sorted!

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...567acfb17b.jpg

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Since we're on the subject, I must confess that this is actually not bad. I wouldn't normally touch anything from a can (except one of those with a widget) but it seems okay for this.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...deca6fbb2d.jpg

Anyone know what the red one's like?


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...da3e9b48b1.png

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Nice...will have to give that one a try when I am over there.... I see your getting your last fix of a British favourite.... :thumbup:

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A friend of mine was drinking the blonde the other day....he was heaping praise on it....I dont think hes tried the red though.

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Double parked?

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Have you gone to this place?

https://buslcider.com/

They have a bakery across the road and are wanting to build a brewery nearby.

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I recall being here last year

BEER MENU (btw Astrolabe and Dr Feelgood are highly recommended) with a friend of mine for dinner and drinks..I had one pint with dinner and then a lighter alcohol level beer and it went down so well but I was the driver and we'd been there about 2 + hours but I didn't want to chance it so I asked for a non-alcohol beer. The server who knew me asked me if I really wanted it and I confirmed. Having tasted it I regretted it and should have had a soft drink.

I've never had a non-alcohol beer I liked. It's akin to decaf coffee..like kissing your sister/aunt/cousin (well in the Deep South not much of a difference :)

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Heineken. I've never had one that I enjoyed.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/th...ken-1646080885

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O'douls isn't bad at all - it's my low alcohol beer of choice. Heinekin is disgusting.. my son says that Grolch and Becks are tolerable. I've had Prohibition, it's ok..

Lots to choose from - although most pubs only stock Odouls / Prohibition / Becks / Heinekin

https://justbeerapp.com/beers/styles/low-alcohol-beer

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Bought a pack of Molson Exel the other day, in Giant Tiger of all places, as it was even less than the PC. Tinned not bottled. Tasted as good to me. Chilled in a nice tall glass with a salad is fine.

Not sure what it would be like one after the other.

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I think if I am going for a no/low alcohol beer and Im just having the one....Id prefer to go for a radler.... more tasty and more refreshing.. there are some nice ones around now. Great after cutting the grass! back in the days, when I had a lawn to cut....I guess I shouldn't complain. But I enjoy a radler on a hot and thirsty day.

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Calling FL for some quip about southern softie shandy drinkers :rofl:

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LOL Hmm....to that I reply with the saying "people in glass houses......." and all that.

In my younger days before I had credible ale reputation, we used to get invloved in the "POWER shandy" drinking challenge, which is half a pint of generic lager topped up with a Smirnoff Ice cooler, or alcopop as they call them in the UK.... we used to call it being "iced" and you were expected to drink it in one go as a result of losing a bet. They were not for the softie faint hearted..... Foolish but fun days. ahhh sigh.....

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I bet you checked out the Guitar on the top shelf, What is it?

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Godin?

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That guitar is too nice to be sat on a shelf in a pub, deserves to be played. worth a bob or two as well.

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Clearly your name is Trevor and you drive a company saloon car. ;)

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It is really hard to compose a sentence if asked to use beer and Southerner in that sentence without insulting the Southerner. They should stick to their Pimms and Campari and leave the beer for proper men.