British beers and clear bottles

Most of the newer breweries still do cask, it's rare for them to be bottle and/or keg only.

When brewdog started they did cask, and it was outstanding, excellent hoppy beers. There's plenty out there, a lot of the lower abv hoppy blondes you get now are great on cask.

It's very rare to find a beer that's better in a bottle than it is on a well kept cask. Although it's rare to have a beer in a bottle that tastes of sick when it gets old, so swings and roundabouts I suppose


edit- I see you said there you like the bigger beers, so I guess it might well not be for you in the main. Keep at it though, it'll click eventually once your palate matures, then you can have even more beer to enjoy

 

Thanks my friend says mordue produce some of the best he's had and he's a real real dude
Oh and thanks for the immature palate comment its reassuring to know I still have some aging to do

 

There is a bar in Newcastle called Bacchus which specialises in cask and keg as does the free trade inn
Maybe ill stray from the craft next time I'm in

 

That did sound a bit patronising, apologies There is a reason that so many people like cask beers though, as well as the more in your face newer american inspired ones

 

Pretty sure it's not allowed through USPS, so there's that...

 

Man

I was getting excited there for a few hours

 

I shit you not, Hoppy_McMalt. Although I haven't had this from a bottle in three years.

 

I've seen this beer mentioned here and there on the forums, and it gets a solid review, but the clear bottle scares me. Furthermore, last time saw it, I couldn't find a freshness/bottling date anywhere on the bottles (and instead opted for Shipyard Pumpkinhead... I truly regret that decision). I had also read where the brewers of the beer mentioned that pouring it agitates the volatiles, and this combined with the low IBU's mask or destroy any "skunk" that may be present.

Those of you with experience with Innis and Gunn, can you verify this? I really want to try it, but like most beers in green or clear bottles it's very off-putting to me.

 

Innis And Gunn has VERY little hops in it. Hops are what lead to the Skunking of beer. This is why the clear bottles have little to no effect on the beer.