Do you remember the best beer you’ve ever had?

This,. https://estrellagaliciausa.com/1906-red-vintage/
My favourite beer previously was brother beer to the above, Estella Galicia, I can't stand the stuff they give you in Wetherspoons and it tastes totally different from what I drink in Spain, I wouldn't be surprised if the Spoons stuff was brewed over here which is usually a good way of making a good continental beer taste rubbish.
1906 red label really surprised me when I drank it last September, for a very strong drink it has a lot of diverse flavour as well being smoothish, my partner who usually hates strong beer tasted it and took to it straight away. If you are in Spain and spot it in a bar give it a go.
 
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Not a beer expert by any means but I had a pint of some kinda IPA in a micro bar in Stockton a few years back and it was fantastic...so in the next bar I had an IPA and it was akin to beck water.
Told you I was no expert!
 
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It must be 40 + years since I was in a Sammy Smith's place. Eston California Club? And the famous Linthorpe hostelry next to Kirby College.
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They do a few decent bottles though their draft is average at best, and it's very rarely at its best
 
exeterboro said:
This,. https://estrellagaliciausa.com/1906-red-vintage/
My favourite beer previously was brother beer to the above, Estella Galicia, I can't stand the stuff they give you in Wetherspoons and it tastes totally different from what I drink in Spain, I wouldn't be surprised if the Spoons stuff was brewed over here which is usually a good way of making a good continental beer taste rubbish.
1906 red label really surprised me when I drank it last September, for a very strong drink it has a lot of diverse flavour as well being smoothish, my partner who usually hates strong beer tasted it and took to it straight away. If you are in Spain and spot it in a bar give it a go.
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I said the same earlier. There cannot be a better cold lager.
 
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They do a few decent bottles though their draft is average at best, and it's very rarely at its best
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I have said before I do like beer you cannot taste the following day. However I quite often buy the 4 for £6 bottles. I will have a look for it.
 
After working the Cruise Ships I'm pretty well travelled, and I always firmly believe where ever you are in the World, eat and drink the local stuff, preferably with the locals! Some places pretty much any beer will do, someone mentioned Halong Bay earlier, had a pretty bang average bottle of something there, but the view! At a push, I'd probably go for Nirvana Nut Brown Ale at Steamworks in Vancouver. Place with it's own microbrewery downstairs and more than decent views out the windows while you sup!
 
I’m either easily pleased or a philistine but my favourite bottled lager is an icy cold Corona 🤤 preferably in Benidorm 🤪
 
Coluka - In Bollington its more likely to be Old Tom its brewed by Robinsons in Stockport. The locals drank in in 1/3rd pint glasses, no one told me and I was drinking it in pints - coming out of the pub I was all over the place.

O/Pec in the early 80s seemed to good anywhere you could get it, strong in flavour, colour and alcohol.

Beers in Slovakia were excellent, especially as a summer drink.

Jennings I liked too especially near their Cockermouth brewery.
 
Not really, all I remember is waking up in a $4000 a night room in caesar Palace, with a tiger in the bathroom a random baby, my tooth missing and I had lost my mate Doug who just happened to be the bachelor on the bachelor party. I had a terrible HANGOVER! 😂
 
I remember one of the best occasions, which me and my mates still refer to called the "glory period", to this day.

Supping ~24 bottles of Stella, in ~4 hours, on our way from Lyon Airport to Val D'Isere in 2004. We were off skiing and had about 8 mates in our group, out of a bigger group of about 50. We stopped off for a booze pickup on the way, and all got a crate each.

We didn't even realise we had drank so much, but it was like two gulps and it was gone, the sound of popping bottles was relentless. We chilled the crates on the roof rack, and had to stop every 20-30 minutes to get a new crate down and put the empties back up. It was only the next afternoon, after a days skiing and a bit of Apres-Ski, when we realised we had drank the lot. One lad went to get a crate for a top up for when we were getting changed to go back out, and said they were all empty :LOL:
We had a break down on the way to the resort also, so had to get rescued by another group, then by the time we got to the resort and walked in the bar everyone looked at us lot and laughed, we were all wrecked compared to the other groups on the same trip.

I know Stella's not the best, but back then and on that trip it just tasted different, it flew down, and everyone was in top form.
 
I don't know about the 'best'......

Yet whenever I see a San Miguel it stakes me back to my first lads holiday in Ibiza. Just sitting on the hotel balcony drinking a 'foreign lager' in the sun and two weeks away from home.

I think it was around 1992 so these lagers were not available in pubs. So it was a proper holiday in the sun lager ☀️.

I guess more great memories than 'best'.
 
Best individual beer was probably drinking some random German thing, outside some bar, straight after work in Vegas, about 10 miles from the strip as the sun was setting, and the place was lighting up. First beer before getting changed and ready to go out.

Balcony beers on holiday are always good too.
 
When I studied in Germany for a year, I had some very good friends who were also international students: Swiss, Poles, French, Finns, Venezuelan...

In the evening, we would sit in the banks of the Rhine and drink Schöfferhofer (Kristall) from the bottle and watch the river. You shouldn't drink Weizenbier from the bottle, but we didn't know / care about that.

They were great days. Goes to show how context changes scenarios. If you were walking near Teesport and saw some youths in a group drinking beers at night, you might feel a bit intimidated. But this felt different because we were on the continent! Pic below.

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