I hate Northern Beer

[Hornblower]

Actually, I don't like the North much at all. Does that make me a bigot? Back to the point, I spent a night in Birmingham last week (yes I know that's the Midlands and not the North but by the North I literally do mean anywhere north of Watford) and I went to a pub with a dozen real ales (The Wellington I think it was called) and they were all piss poor bordering on undrinkable, 2 other pubs visited proved no better. A night out in Manchester the week before was equally dissapointing on the beer front, how anyone can drink Boddingtons and all those similarly tasteless 'creamy' beers astounds me. I couldn't wait to get back south and have a decent pint of Harveys, Youngs and Fullers.

 

[severnside gull]

havent been in a pub in Birmingham for a while but plenty of micro breweries around the midlands producing excellent beers that would satisfy the most discerning (or bigoted) southern pallet

 

[maffew]

I went to a pub with a dozen real ales (The Wellington I think it was called) and they were all piss poor bordering on undrinkable, 2 other pubs visited proved no better

crikey, you tried them all?

good work

the midlands is much better for its local ciders than ales

 

[readingstockport]

So you went to a pub and drank crap nitro-keg pseudo boddingtons which hasn't been brewed at Strangeways for god knows how long and complain it's shit. this may surprise you but most beer drinkers in the north would agree with you, that shit was produced for the southern drinkers. In t'north beer drinkers still drink Robinsons and are quite content with it.

Bodingtons is now brewed in wales and scotland, not at it's home.

 

[maffew]

havent been in a pub in Birmingham for a while but plenty of micro breweries around the midlands producing excellent beers that would satisfy the most discerning (or bigoted) southern pallet

ahh you live in Bewdley. Know it well, you must be the only albion fan there

 

[Hornblower]

So you went to a pub and drank crap nitro-keg pseudo boddingtons which hasn't been brewed at Strangeways for god knows how long and complain it's shit. this may surprise you but most beer drinkers in the north would agree with you, that shit was produced for the southern drinkers. In t'north beer drinkers still drink Robinsons and are quite content with it.

Bodingtons is now brewed in wales and scotland, not at it's home.

I hads 2 pints of Robinsons as well and found it thin and gutless.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Boddingtons hasn't been the same since they closed the Strangeways brewery. If you are going to limit yourself to that, you might as well drink John Smiths creamflow which does taste repulsive.
Alternatively...
http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/county/C111
http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/county/C8
http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/county/C29
http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/county/C118
http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=257548
http://www.camranorthcheshire.org.uk/

...and the list goes on and on.......

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

I know a particular pub in Crewe with marvellous beer

 

[Uncle Buck]

But ale is rubbish...

 

[Mackenzie]

There's nowt wrong with Robbo's!

 

[Les Biehn]

I have to say I find the Stella up north very similar to the Stella down south. However it makes me even more likely to hit a woman if I am drinking it up north.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Oooooooooohhh! Boddingtons from Strangeways - definite ambrosia. Would give Harvey's Sx a run for its money.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

beer in newcastle is far superior to that in brighton

 

[Stat Brother]

In t'north beer drinkers still drink Robinsons and are quite content with it.[
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Is that straight orange, or have they managed to get Fruit & Barley, that far north.

 

[Willow]

When in the Midlands, I do enjoy a few cans of Banks Original. Lovely drop of mild, that.

 

[house your seagull]

next time in manchester pop into corbieres and have a pint of pacific from salford, nice southern style ale (in which i mean they don't drink it ice cold with a creamy head). there's 2 micro brewaries in the city i know of and they are pretty good i think.

 

[Les Biehn]

next time in manchester pop into corbieres and have a pint of pacific from salford, nice southern style ale (in which i mean they don't drink it ice cold with a creamy head). there's 2 micro brewaries in the city i know of and they are pretty good i think.

Corbieres is good, f***ing small though.

 

[The Large One]

beer in newcastle is far superior to that in brighton

Can you back elucidate on that statement, or better still, back it up...?

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Can you back elucidate on that statement, or better still, back it up...?

errrm

that i've tried both?

pinion:

 

[readingstockport]

Don't be daft, they stick to the straight stuff. none of this pncy southern F&B