Hi I'm Colin and I'm an Ale Virgin...

Pea0n said:
Try something lighter like Speckled Hen or Bishops Finger. Spitfire is a bit more citric, very nice. The Fullers ales might be better for a beginner, try Discovery or if your feeling brave some Black Sheep :D

Of course these are all from bottles, my advice would be take a trip to spoons and buy some of the half pints of the ales there. Although leave them all 30 mins before drinking as they serve them cold...philistines. Just remember what sort of thing you like and try similar things. The VERY best bit of advice I can give is that ALL ales are different, just try everything you can lay your hands on :)

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Speckled hen? That's 5.2 off the tap :p

Spitfire is nice though, I agree with the Fullers comment, London Pride is always nice...Could try Ruddles county maybe as well?

Indeed, don't judge ales by one ale only :) They have very different tastes sometimes, altohugh not everyone likes them.

People always describe them to me as 'flat coke' for some reason :p
 
When on a trip to the local brewery with 6th form a few years ago we were recommended to use two pint bottles, one chilled, one room temperature and pour from each bottle into a pint glass equally.

Don't know whether thats any good or not ??

I normally drink mine chilled (the horror) but generally only buy at home at christmas, if out for a meal i tend to have a random ale of some sort.
 
Pea0n said:
Try something lighter like Speckled Hen or Bishops Finger. Spitfire is a bit more citric, very nice. The Fullers ales might be better for a beginner, try Discovery or if your feeling brave some Black Sheep :D.....


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Or if you are REALLY brave, Black Sheeps older (and much better) cousin, Theakston's Old Peculier.
 
My favourite ale is Tangle Foot, tastes lovely.

All the Badger stuff is really nice. Another one to try is Banana Bread Beer :D, though if you drink any other ale afterwards it will taste of bananas.
 
A few of my favorites in order are:

Sharps DoomBar
Greene King's Abbot Ale
Thwaites Double celebration

I recommend trying Banana Bread Beer. Won't be to everyones taste but it's certainly an experience. ;)

I'd say try a variety of different falvour ale's, some are malty (which I like), some are fruity and some are mild (organic ones are in my experience)
 
There are many many different ales, it's worth a trip to a Morrisons if you have one near you as they do a very large range which constantly changes so you can sample many different types.

A couple I've discovered recently are Olde Trip and Twisted Thistle. I personally favour IPAs as I like a nice hoppy brew and a good IPA is by definition quite hoppy.
 
Entai said:
Or if you are REALLY brave, Black Sheeps older (and much better) cousin, Theakston's Old Peculier.
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Theakstons.
Love Theakstons ales. Used to drink the Theakstons Best bitter when i worked on campus, £1.12 a pint. Them were the days, friday lunch in County college bar, drinking Best or Beamish.

Jennings do some nice ales btw.
 
Some more suggestions:

Adnams Brewery:
Adnams
Adnams Broadside
Adnams Explorer

St Austell Brewery:
Tribute (my current fav - drank loads on holiday in Cornwall this summer :D)
Tinners
Proper Job

Timothy Taylor: Landlord
 
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Ahhhhh proper beer :)

Badger ales - all of them are great. Especially Tanglefoot and First Gold. If you like sweeter golden beers, try Golden Glory.

My absolute favourite is Timothy Taylor Landlord pale ale - this is indescribably awesome. It's the ale that weaned me off crappy lagers. Followed closely by Bombadier.

Don't forget foreign beer too, like Leffe blonde. Very nice with meat.
 
caff said:
Ahhhhh proper beer :)

Badger ales - all of them are great. Especially Tanglefoot and First Gold. If you like sweeter golden beers, try Golden Glory.

My absolute favourite is Timothy Taylor Landlord pale ale - this is indescribably awesome. It's the ale that weaned me off crappy lagers. Followed closely by Bombadier.
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Bombardier is awesome :)

I pretty much hate all largers that are largely available in England...Only ones from abroad can I enjoy, mainly the Dutch/German kind.

But Ales are amazing :) As I started drinking them before any larger.

Oh Leffe is awesome! Although I do get funny looks sometimes when I drink it from some of my mates ;)...."What the hells that??!!" - (They continue to drink they're Carlsberg)
 
Delvis said:
Oh Leffe is awesome! Although I do get funny looks sometimes when I drink it from some of my mates ;)...."What the hells that??!!" - (They continue to drink they're Carlsberg)
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When I see someone drinking Carlsberg, I look at them with the same expression :)

I do admit I've put away a huge share of stella and carling when I was younger though. I think consumers need to open their eyes to the diversity of beers available. I noticed Neil Morrissey is doing a fly-on-the-wall "I'm starting a pub" TV documentary staring next week, which hopefully - like all those bleeding cooking programs - will encourage people to try real ale and home brews.

There aren't many tap lagers I enjoy these days. If I can't see any proper ales, I'll go for a bottle of San Miguel :) It's a nice bottled beer.
 
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Shortly after joining uni, i went on a mission to drink more beer that isn't lager here is my collection so far

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from left to right

Newcastle Brown Ale
Spitfire
Bombardier Burning Gold
Bombardier
London Pride
Adnams East Green - wasn't too fond of this
Bishops Finger
Abbot Ale
Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc
Old Speckled Hen
Erdinger
Old Empire - wasn't too fond of this either
 
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