boring brown bitter

[london calling]

After reading TiredMartins blog for a while I thought I should try a few beers that I would not normally drink to see if they were as bad as I thought.He raves about Bass a beer that I ignore as I never could find anything special about it.
I tried to drink them first pint of the night and only in pubs that sell lots of it

these were good and I would drink again
youngs -special
st austell-tribute
fullers -esb

these were okay
sharps -doombar
harveys -sussex (this could have ended up in top or bottom category as it has a strange taste to me
tt -landlord (too sweet)

not for me
ruddles -bitter
mcmullens -county
palmers -copper ale
badger -best bitter
fullers -pride (very malty with little hop presence)

worst beer
sheps -spitfire

And the beer that got me started
Bass (surprisingly good and I could have swore it had American hops in it but very variable as I have had good then great pints of it on different nights.

any BBB drinkers out there?

[Tris39]

After reading TiredMartins blog for a while I thought I should try a few beers that I would not normally drink to see if they were as bad as I thought.He raves about Bass a beer that I ignore as I never could find anything special about it.
I tried to drink them first pint of the night and only in pubs that sell lots of it

these were good and I would drink again
youngs -special
st austell-tribute
fullers -esb

these were okay
sharps -doombar
harveys -sussex (this could have ended up in top or bottom category as it has a strange taste to me
tt -landlord (too sweet)

not for me
ruddles -bitter
mcmullens -county
palmers -copper ale
badger -best bitter
fullers -pride (very malty with little hop presence)

worst beer
sheps -spitfire

And the beer that got me started
Bass (surprisingly good and I could have swore it had American hops in it but very variable as I have had good then great pints of it on different nights.

any BBB drinkers out there?

I tend to go for more of a pale ale or something from Hammerton, Purity, XT, Five Points or Thornbridge (not their Curse of the Cucumber stuff); I also quite like Ghost Ship.

I'm quite partial to Landlord and don't mind Special if on good form, likewise Tribute and Spitfire in limited quantities, Sussex too; Ruddles or Badger I'd avoid as both remind me of the 1980s.

Worst beer? Doom Bar, which doesn't seem to have seen a hop, tasting a bit astringent. I was told by a quite reliable source that it's stocked so liberally (in London at least) because of its low wholesale price. I've also really gone off Pride which for me is just Doom Bar in a red satin basque with suspenders and black fishnets.

[london calling]

I tend to go for more of a pale ale or something from Hammerton, Purity, XT, Five Points or Thornbridge (not their Curse of the Cucumber stuff); I also quite like Ghost Ship.

I'm quite partial to Landlord and don't mind Special if on good form, likewise Tribute and Spitfire in limited quantities, Sussex too; Ruddles or Badger I'd avoid as both remind me of the 1980s.

Worst beer? Doom Bar, which doesn't seem to have seen a hop, tasting a bit astringent. I was told by a quite reliable source that it's stocked so liberally (in London at least) because of its low wholesale price. I've also really gone off Pride which for me is just Doom Bar in a red satin basque with suspenders and black fishnets.

None of the first six beers meet the bbb rules.

[Tris39]

None of the first six beers meet the bbb rules.

Not even when 'brown' is substituted with 'bland'?

[london calling]

Not even when 'brown' is substituted with 'bland'?

That's a given.

[NickDavies]

None of the first six beers meet the bbb rules.

Why? I am yet to divine what the rules are.

Would I be right in thinking that Pride joined the BBB list the other week by virtue of its change of ownership from a family concern to a multinational? I'm sure there are people who reckon it isn't the same already.

[Mobyduck]

Why? I am yet to divine what the rules are.

Would I be right in thinking that Pride joined the BBB list the other week by virtue of its change of ownership from a family concern to a multinational? I'm sure there are people who reckon it isn't the same already.

Pride was boring long before the other week.

[Aqualung]

Pride was boring long before the other week.

You're right there, I had loads of it when doing the Fullers 200 Passport over 25 years ago and it's put me off it for life. The trouble is that ESB gets a bit heavy handed when trying to chase round a long list of pubs.

[oldboots]

Why? I am yet to divine what the rules are.

very simple, they are beers that trendy (mainly young) drinkers who suffer from neo-phillia dislike because they

1. are drunk mainly by old men
2. are usually clear
3. do not contain New World hops (or very many hops in some brews)
4. are mainly long established from usually long established breweries (see neo-phillia)

easy

[Mobyduck]

very simple, they are beers that trendy (mainly young) drinkers who suffer from neo-phillia dislike because they

1. are drunk mainly by old men
2. are usually clear
3. do not contain New World hops (or very many hops in some brews)
4. are mainly long established from usually long established breweries (see neo-phillia)

easy

Haven't been called trendy or young for a while.