Bored with the usual dull beers? Try Excalibur

**SMOKEU** · 25th September 2009, 10:22

Fuck paying for beer. Homebrew rules.

**ready4whatever** · 25th September 2009, 10:41

Anybody tried Mata beer made from the BOP? I find the feijoa flavour bloody good

**slofox** · 25th September 2009, 12:08

NZ Boutique beers: Emersons, Three Boys, Renaissance, Wigram, Tuatara, Moa, Dux

Belgian: Rochefort 8, Rochefort 10, Chimay, Duvel, Leffe, Maredsous, Nostradamus, Westmalle, Timmermans lambics.

UK: Fullers range, Wychwood range, some Greene King, some Marstons...

Other: Coopers range (Aus), various Austrian brews....several others from time to time.

All good beers with a wide spread of flavour profiles. Most of these put the local commercial swill to shame.

The big boys lost the plot many many years ago and have still to find it again. Their brewing philosophy is ruled by the beancounters who care not a jot for quality - just money. They work on quantity sales and therefore produce the least offensive product they can at the cheapest price. They promote over-consumption in order to maximise their profits. They go out and get bogus copyrights covering generic terms (Radler springs to mind) and then use it to threaten tiny little microbreweries like Green Man who dare to produce a style that conforms to the generic description. Big money bully boys is what they are. Bastards. Fuckem.

Microbrews rule...

**The Pastor** · 25th September 2009, 13:36

Originally Posted by Danae

Try pirate beer

Green bling for you!

Originally Posted by Danae

That stuff is nasty XD An experience, but nasty. Not sure, but it has a picture of a pirate on the front.

OI DO NOT SPEAK ILL OF THE BEER OF PIRATES. NOW I WANT MY GREEN BACK YOU FILTHY BLASPHEMER!

Pirate beer is best served 50/50 with captian morgons.

**CookMySock** · 25th September 2009, 13:51

Originally Posted by MD

Maybe it's the years catching up but I must confess I find drinking beer..well, bloody boring these days.

Have a wee toke instead.

Steve

**SPman** · 25th September 2009, 16:05

Mmmmmmmm.....beer!

Mikkeller from Denmark.......Nøgne Ø,- strange but rather moresome, Nelson Sauvin Single Hop IPA is very pleasant, and Black Hole - a 13% Imperial Stout - thick, syrupy and coffee chocolatey in taste......sort of combining 2 in 1.

American beers, IPA's and Double IPA's - oh yes - virtually anything by Stone, Russian River or Dogfish breweries, espec. Ruination Ale, or Pliny The Elder!

If you can find any out this neck of the woods, of course.........