Pride is one of the few beers that tastes good from a can.
That's still no excuse to drink it.
Pride is one of the few beers that tastes good from a can.
No beer tastes good from a can - if London Pride does then there must be something wrong with it!
No beer tastes good from a can - if London Pride does then there must be something wrong with it!
I'm sure the purists would agree with you, however I've no interest in lugging around a bag full of bottles.
I'm a purist and I disagree, there are plenty of beers now that taste good from cans. However, none of the decent traditional British beers I can think of fall in to that category. Nor any of the mass produced lagers either.
I agree in so far as a lot of the new craft beers taste quite good from their mini cans.
I also agree that a lot of trad beers don't taste their best from a can.
But for me, LP seems to hit the spot.
Those craft cans seem very different, a lot more rigid for a start which presumably means they don't need the excess CO2 which normal canned beer has to stop the can denting
IMO Deuchars tastes better from a can than from tap, although whether that counts are a traditional British beer I don't know. I drank the stuff by the gallon when I lived in Edinburgh though. Shame you can't really get it down here.I'm a purist and I disagree, there are plenty of beers now that taste good from cans. However, none of the decent traditional British beers I can think of fall in to that category. Nor any of the mass produced lagers either.
I passed through Liverpool St at the weekend and saw they had an Opening Soon sign outside a new Fullers pub on the mezzanine level. The area isn't short of watering holes but it's always nice to have a little more choice.
IMO Deuchars tastes better from a can than from tap, although whether that counts are a traditional British beer I don't know. I drank the stuff by the gallon when I lived in Edinburgh though. Shame you can't really get it down here.
The Signal Box at Euston, finally opened a few months ago after about 5 years of "coming soon"! So perhaps this will be the same?!Soon? No sign of any work taking place, just a large empty shell at the moment.
I agree in so far as a lot of the new craft beers taste quite good from their mini cans.
I also agree that a lot of trad beers don't taste their best from a can.
But for me, LP seems to hit the spot.
If you are paying around £5 or more for a small can of beer then it damned well should taste good!
Those craft cans seem very different, a lot more rigid for a start which presumably means they don't need the excess CO2 which normal canned beer has to stop the can denting
IMO Deuchars tastes better from a can than from tap
IMO Deuchars tastes better from a can than from tap, although whether that counts are a traditional British beer I don't know. I drank the stuff by the gallon when I lived in Edinburgh though. Shame you can't really get it down here.
IMO Deuchars tastes better from a can than from tap, although whether that counts are a traditional British beer I don't know. I drank the stuff by the gallon when I lived in Edinburgh though. Shame you can't really get it down here.
It's reasonably common in London - a couple of my locals have it on permanently.
Nope you're definitely right, everyone in Edinburgh at least pronounces it Dookers.I see it all over in my travels. It always amuses me when people order Dooshers as I've always been told it's Dookers (like zookers rather than lookers), but maybe I'm wrong and they are right and all laughing at me!
Takes me back to a time when I was less discerning about what ale I poured down my gullet
Trophy and Tankard were dire but were better than Greenall's (another fairly large regional brewer that thankfully packed in the brewing side)
I could also find Mann's Brown Ale but you would struggle to find it in a pub.
IMO Deuchars tastes better from a can than from tap, although whether that counts are a traditional British beer I don't know. I drank the stuff by the gallon when I lived in Edinburgh though. Shame you can't really get it down here.
It is Caledonian and its pronounced Duke ers.Oddly enough I had a few pints of it on pump in Neath earlier this year.
Most Heineken Star tied pubs will have it, I think? Or is that Caledonian. Whichever it is its terrible by the time it gets to Swansea...
and its pronounced Duke ers.
A "live" beer report for pub fans - I'm currently supping an excellent pint in the Waterloo Tap and can confirm the good things said up thread. Only £4.10 a pint too, which isn't bad for London.