My sister gave my husband and I large bottles of English beer for Christmas. Peter drank his at New Year’s and I finally got around to drinking mine (I didn’t want to waste it by drinking it when I wasn’t in the perfect beer mood).
It’s fabulous. It’s the most amazing beer I’ve ever had since tasting Peter’s, which was the best I’d had since the Czech beer in Prague…
Anyway, I highly recommend Daleside Brewery’s Morocco Ale and Wychwood Brewery’s Hobgoblin. I’m pretty sure my sister bought them for the labels (Hobgoblin has a hobgoblin with a bloody axe; it’s beautiful). Nonetheless they are spectacular, complex beers–not too hoppy, not harsh, full of flavours like molasses and apples.
So they’ve now bumped a few Canadian microbrews out of my top five. Oh well.
Most of my beer is bought for the label, and I’m always happy with it. My hubby only likes the local brew, though. Not a microbrew, just a regular cheap beer with a 1/2 century local distribution.
Ma Parrot-
Congratulations on having a relative who can pick a beer. I recently met a large quantity of cousins (I can’t keep track of the 1st, 2nd, once removed, etc. stuff) who apparently only know of beer in cans, with two varieties. Yes, Regular and Light.
Labels are probably the second coolest reason to buy a beer. The first is the ability to re-use the bottles for homebrew (no twist-off caps, please).
Ma Parrot-
Congratulations on having a relative who can pick a beer. I recently met a large quantity of cousins (I can’t keep track of the 1st, 2nd, once removed, etc. stuff) who apparently only know of beer in cans, with two varieties. Yes, Regular and Light.
Labels are probably the second coolest reason to buy a beer. The first is the ability to re-use the bottles for homebrew (no twist-off caps, please).