Favorite UK beer

I've practically been a JW Lees' rep on here recently, so...JW Lees' Harvest Ale. Honorable mention to Meantime Naval College Old Porter, Coniston's Bluebird Bitter, and Thornbridge Bracia.

 

What we can get State side in bottles:

Fuller's Vintage
Any of the JW Lees variations
Any Ola Dubh variation
Traquair House Ale and Jacobite

What I have had cask conditioned across the pond:

Adnams Broadside
Fuller's London Pride
P.G. Steam
Orkney Dark Island
Deeside Talorcan Stout
Ossian
And a bunch of others I know I am forgetting

 

Right now it's Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome.
I also enjoy Fuller's 1845, ESB, Belhaven Wee Heavy and fresh Innis & Gunn (from a unopened case) throughout the year.

 

Fuller's Vintage Ale along with Sam Smith's India Ale, Nut Brown Ale, Oatmeal Stout or Taddy Porter.

 

Taddy Porter

 

Anything by Meantime Brewing.

 

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Olde Suffolk, Thekston's Old Peculiar, Wychwood Hobgoblin and St. Peter's Old Style Porter to name a few. The UK comes in a close second next to Belgium for making the best beer in the world....in my opinion of course.

 

Anything from thornbridge (ESP. Jaipur ipa) ... Anything from dark star (ESP. Hophead and fresh hop)...Fullers chiswick, Bengal lancer, and black cab stout, AND London Porter (on cask if I can find it)... Brodies kiwi and citra...

When I'm in the UK, I tend to stick to cask offerings...don't see the point in drinking bottles when countries have a burgeoning craft cask scene that's amazing...

 

I was a little disappointed with that one. It's not that I disliked it, I just thought it could have been better for such a good brewery.

 

I can never pass up on Coniston Bluebird Bitter.

 

In terms of what we can get here, Fuller's 1845, Vintage Ale, and the recent reincarnation of Courage Russian Imperial Stout are all excellent.

In England, my favorites are Black Sheep Riggwelter, Special Ale, and Best Bitter, as well as Wylam Angel.

 

Fullers Vintage.

 

Here? Fullers 1845

On cask in England? Charles Wells Bombardier

 

Another good one I had was Isle of Skye's "wee beast"

 

Oops. I thought this was a thread about what beers you drink when watching University of Kentucky basketball games. Sorry.

 

Was a big fan of cask Thornbridge Kipling. Chiswick Bitter as well. Don't really drink much of anything from the UK that gets sent to the US as it's never fresh enough to be worth drinking.

 

Bateman's XXXB- but don't drink it too cold. Or slowly. Too bad it's priced so high, because it's such a fab quaff- great yeast sig on that one.

FWIW- in the States, Yards is doing a bang-up job of making Brit-style beers that are way more affordable.

 

Sam Smith's Oatmeal and Imperial Stouts, along with their Taddy Porter.