Since going around Europe and sampling some of Croatia and Germany's best offerings, lagers and import lagers available here universally taste like piss.
The difference between peroni and carling and fosters is now just different levels of not tasting good.
As such, I've been rethinking my drinking. The nicest beer I'd tried was a zagreb brewed one, a dark one, followed by the wheat beer from the same brewery, closely followed by a Munich wheat beer. Maybe the English have some beer talents, but they lie elsewhere from lager?
Yes, they do. Ales, beers and bottles with funny names on pretty much all taste better than the urine I've gotten used to previously. At the moment, I'm loving the paler-golden-ambery ones in general, although I had a very nice ruby ale the other day too.
My favourites so far are brewed in Cambridge of all places, and have funny names such as the atom splitter.
we also do some good ciders. European countries do not, at all - the ones I tried were all really nasty. The local market occasionally has local ciders and beers available - 2 quid a pint isn't so bad, cheaper than a pub and really delicious stuff.
I'd like to have a go at brewing my own again from a kit - I've done a cider and a lager, neither were great but not awful. I might try wherry next
apparently, it's an easy one to get right.
Any other beer drinkers here? Any locally brewed recommendations?
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Can drink that shit like water!
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generally i read a recipe for an extract brew and then do it my own way. Its working for me
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I like cider.
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For homebrew, Woodforde's Wherry kit is a good start. My starting point and although not as good as going malt extract it is leaps and bounds better than the kits me and my dad made back in the 80s/90s
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Not kits though (nothing against them they are generally good, Wherry is excellent) but from scratch i.e soaking the grain to get the sugary wort then boiling with the hops etc and its is excellent, you get to know exactly what is in the brew.
General favorites are IPA`s around 5% but the sky is the limit, my better half just got me this, loads of different recipes to try.
http://www.theworks.co.uk/p/drink-books/home-brew-beer/9781409331766
There are some decent German lager recipes in there which are on my list to have a crack at.
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I generally like most things from Eden Brewery & The Borders Brewery.
Brew Dog has really taken off recently, but their beer is a bit hoppy & harsh for many- it's MILES better than 99% of the mass produced crap in the supermarket though.