{"id":940,"date":"2008-07-08T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=940"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:50:18","slug":"british_beer_re-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/07\/british_beer_re-2.html","title":{"rendered":"British Beer Recommendations #2 (with some overlap)"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Jess.<\/em><\/p>\n

Beer recommendations — hmm. If your friends are coming to London, then I’d recommend anything by the Fullers <\/strong>brewery — the one I suggested to your dad is called London Pride <\/strong>(it is a bitter beer, so quite dark and strong-tasting) but they do a wheat beer called Discovery<\/strong>, one called Honeydew <\/strong>as well — both of those are very nice. You’ll usually find them in bottles rather than draught\/tap.<\/p>\n

Here in the UK there is a weird system where the majority of pubs are tied to a particular brewery so they can only sell that brewery’s beer. So there are some pub chains where the beer isn’t that great — Wetherspoons pubs are generally to be avoided, they are nasty, and Sam Smiths’ pubs are often cheap but the beer tastes cheap as well.<\/p>\n

Or there is always cider. Last summer it was very trendy to drink cider out of bottles (magners or Bulmer) with ice — a bit weird, no?<\/p>\n

I would recommend to your friends to check out a website called Beer in the Evening<\/a>. It has good pub reviews, maps, etc. I’d trust it, for sure ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Jess. Beer recommendations — hmm. If your friends are coming to London, then I’d recommend anything by the Fullers brewery — the one I suggested to your dad is called London Pride (it is a bitter beer, so quite … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}