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BigPhil... do you have restrictions on what beers you can stock or are you well and truely a "free house" i.e free of tie too?


If so, could I recommend the Pilgrim Brewery run by Dave Roberts in Reigate, Surrey. He's a top bloke with a great range of beers from his award-winning micro-brewery. He's an old acquintance so I always give him a plug. His beers really are ace though.


Cheers, and I'll check out the all new Prince Albert when you're up and running.

Hi David

Yes we are a true free house.


We are actively looking for local ( kent , surrey, sussex ) small breweries to source our ales from.


as for lagers we are thinking paulaner , okachim , becks vier , and my Girlfriend wants the strawberry beer Frulli in as well, if only for her and her mates. all to be confirmed when we take the place in 2 weeks , after a small clean up and refurb ( nothing too extreme)

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Timothy Taylor's Landlord, Harvey's Sussex Bitter,

> Young's Special, Fullers ESB, London Pride,

> Wadsworth's 6X...I could go on with more bitter

> but we'd be here all night. A nice cold pint of

> Guinness. Tinned or draft Red Stripe and tinned or

> draft Stella Artois.


Good choices Jah, all of these but not so keen on draft Stella or canned Red Stripe these days. The former as a result of too many bland 'laaarger' pints and the latter as a result of too many carnival weekends where warm Stripe from a street vendor and a skunk spliff has sent me home from the party early.

BigPhil Wrote: We agree on the anything from burton on trent is def off the list


Say it ain't so. That knocks out Marston's Pedigree - one of my favourites.


For me Harvey's, Timothy Taylor - Landlord and Ram Tam although I haven't seen the latter for about ten years. Funnily enough I had a Courage Best for the first time in decades a couple of weeks ago and it wasvery good.


The key is often how well it's kept. It can be the best bitter in the world but if you don't clean your pipes properly....

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> the Banks's Mild Ale of the Wolverhampton & Dudley Brewery


I had some of this stuff knocking around a few years ago, but I didn't care for it much. But I ended up sticking a can in a "beef and ale" casserole and it worked a treat.



Brendan Wrote:

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> Young's Waggle Dance is lovely.


Yes it is. Waggle Dance and Honeydew are both good (maybe Honeydew is a bit less sweet), it's the closest I get to drinking old man's beardy beer.

Just in case anyone is worried or unsure.... I am not the decision maker at Prince Albert when I become the manager there.


The owner will be making all the decisions


i am simply getting some feedback from this and other sites which is helping me get a feel for the area. ( i havent lived here for 6 years now)


there is no point in anyone getting up in arms over what at the moment is nothing.


any is free to PM me if they want to discuss anything


cheers


Phil

Brendan Wrote:

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> Young's Waggle Dance is lovely. But out the bottle

> not on tap as too few people drink it so it always

> tastes manky.



I'm a bit of a fan of Youngs Beers .... I had about 6 pints of Waggle Dance on tap a few years ago and I had never been so pissed or ill .... how I managed to get home from Wandsworth that night is anyones guess , but get home I did . apparantly I fell off my chair in the pub about three times .... I don't remember a thing .

Now that Henieken is no longer the 4.x % swill it was a few years ago, it's a decent pint


(I'm a fizzy pop man. I'm sorry. I wish I liked ale... but I don't)


As Keef said Becks is vile - but as a 4% drinking lager it's preferable to the competition. Very few draught lagers get me excited... poor as the service is, the M&B pubs (Plough, Dog, Phoenix etc) have the best selection and usually very well kept


As a sidenote, BigPhil is an example to any newcomer (business related or not) in how to join a forum. The Albert is not the easiest pub for me to get to but his whole demeanor makes certain that I will be visiting in the coming weeks

Apart from John Smiths I think that Carlsberg is just pointless. 3.7% isn't enough. I remember drinking 15 tin of this 'beer' and it didn't even get me pissed (well perhaps a bit) and the next morning my farts were soooo powerful I could feel them blowing against my ankles.

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