Boddingtons...

[Paul_D]

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upstairs for a game of Darts!...accompanied by a cold pint of Boddingtons...mmm

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Awaar likes it!....Sorry mate, I think it has to be (along with John Smiths smooth) the most unpalatable Beer you can get in a pub nowadays. Apart from those of you who drink straw coloured, fizzy Gnats wee wee (on both sides of the 'pond') what do you lot have to say?

[chesters1]

cant be as bad as orangyboom(sp?) was 20 years ago ,weak strange tasting muck only fit for pee heads,mixed with cider or turps it was fine (hic)

[terryk]

Best pint of real ale: Fullers London Pride, closely followed by Greene King IPA.

 

Those fizzy nitrokeg beers are much the same as drinking Alka Seltzer.

 

Chhheeeeers............T

[ayjay]

Just about anything is better than Boddingtons; and in no particular order, some of my favourites would be, Adnams Best, Youngs Special, Fullers ESB, Ringwood Best, Greene King Abbott Ale, Wadworth 6X, Hall and Woodhouse Tanglefoot.

 

That'll do for now, it's making me thirsty.

[Gaz51]

And there's me thinking all southerners were shandy drinkers!!!

 

From what I've seen and tasted of beer served down south, you're doing it all wrong. Beer is supposed to have a good collar on it(head).

Up here our pint glasses are oversized to accomodate the head.

Where pint pots are used it is not unusual for people to request a short measure in order to maintain the nice head which should be seen on a pint.

 

Boddingtons, Tetleys and John Smiths are perfectly palatable beers brewed in the north and when served as should (with a head) are nectar.

Wothingtons smooth is another beer much liked up here.

 

To get the best from a pint though it has to be hand pulled, a barmaid who knows her stuff will pull a pint to fill the glass then the head will form. Upon drinking the head will stick to the glass maintaining the head right down to the bottom of the glass.

It does seem customary nowadays for hand pulled beers to be TOPPED up when left to settle for a while. A practise I generally refuse as it loses the head.

 

The main thing is to enjoy the beer however you prefer it.

[awaaar]

I love beer - full stop!...I have had good pints and bad pints of most lagers/beers...I was in a WM's club sat night for a 50th, Bods was lurvly, and £1.65 a pint - get in!

[Tyke]

London pride is a very nice hoppy beer.

Timothy taylors landlord is a cracker too.

Old speckled hen and fullers esb mmmmmmm nice and strong.

Old peculier seems to have gone downhill these days.

And Stella is crap unless you get the imported stuff and not the gnats **** they make in the UK

[ayjay]

I think you have managed to name my four worst nightmares in beer Townlad.(Boddingtons Tetleys John Smiths and Worthington)

 

I'm sorry but those creamy heads are not natural or necessary for a pint of bitter.

[Gaz51]

They are oop North John. You can't beat a decent collar on yer pint.

[Paul_D]

Too right John. It isn't just me then who dislikes smooth flow Beers! Oop North too!

 

Taylors Landlord, now you're talking.