What's your favourite beer when you have a "night in" in front of the telly?

[FrenchieBoy]

I am not a big drinker and rarely go out for a drink but I do enjoy the occasional drink now and then. My first choice is a single malt but with pennies being tight I like to settle for a couple of bottles of beer a couple of evening each week. I prefer one of the "real ale" tasting types of beer like Hobgoblin or Old Speckled Hen but recently I found that Lidl's are doing Bishops Finger which ios 5.4%Vol @only £1.20 per 500ml bottle and it tastes pretty good to me - In fact I have a couple (Or three) bottles of Bishops Finger for this evening which I have just started on.
What's your favourite bottled beer for when you just want a couple with your feet up in front of the telly Guys?

 

[malmick]

Like all of the beers you’ve mentioned and absolutely love single malt but don’t keep the latter in any more on a regular basis. Right now my go to bottled beer is Shipyard Pale Ale. It’s supposedly a Yankee brew and is very much to my taste, well hopped.

Single malt wise my long time favourite is Highland Park 12yo. In recent years I’m tending towards Bunnahabhain 12yo.

 

[Yorkie]

Hi
I am not really a drinker but I do enjoy a glass of Mackeson stout.
Going back in time I enjoyed Websters 'Sam Brown' and their 'Velvet Stout'.

 

[Fair Hill]

Don't know if Lidl in England do it but the bottled O Shea's stout available here in Lidl Ireland is very good out of the fridge.

Don't actually know who makes it, but it's as good as a cold bottle of Guinness.

By the way for the uninitiated, cold bottled Guinness compared to Guinness on tap is like comparing chalk and cheese.

 

[rms364]

Butty Bach [emoji481][emoji108]

 

[Sika98k]

Guinness West Indies Porter, great stuff.

 

[paul o']

San Miguel but its got to be ice cold

 

[Bigcal]

Peroni man myself! But like paul’0 says has to be ice cold!!

And Frenchie u may want to be careful telling people how many bishops fingers u indulge on a Wednesday evening .... people may start to talk haha

 

[Bigcal]

Thursday sorry

 

[Hereford]

(ironically) Corona (ice cold, as above) - loving the Krakken at the moment in a Dark & Stormy but for the single malt I don’t skimp and treat myself to the Macallan 12yo Sherry Cask

 

[kes]

When you want a drink without being befuddled - it may be heresy but Tsing-Tao is a great drink cold.
Normally ice cold Guinness on a summers eve, a good bitter shandy when the weather is doing anything really.
Dalwhinnie for a real drink - a good age though.
Rather less than I used to drink - a pint or 3 fingers is enough for me these days.

 

[TomT3]

Love ales Frenchie and over the past few years have got into my craft beers so really what ever tickles my fancy -brewdog ranges although mainstream are nice.

there is nothing more comforting for me than a nice ale in a proper pint glass though-whether it be at home in the pub or by the lake if I’m away fishing for a week! I’ve always enjoyed the badger ale-first ferret and the cranbourne poacher to name but a few. I do like a nice cold hop house 13 to.

let’s not forget the wines either a nice Sauvignon blanc, Malbec and Rioja all go down well to!

 

[Odders]

Hobgoblin IPA mixed 50/50 with Shipyard Low Tide 0.5% ABV American IPA.

The last bottle of my favourite Single Malt cost me £169 (Port Ellen) about 5 years ago, plus my liver was telling my doctor something unpleasant, so these days, it's a bottle of wine a week & the above mentioned (surprisingly good tasting) beer mix the other six nights..

 

[Smelly Yeti]

Brewdog ‘Punk IPA’

 

[hammo]

Weissbier.
Erdinger, Hoegaarden or Franziskaner.

 

[Chanty Wrassler]

Lidl's are doing Bishops Finger which ios 5.4%Vol @only £1.20 per 500ml bottle

Except for viewers in Scotland, where thanks to Tsarina Nikola the First (Minister) and the Scottish National Socialist Party minimum pricing policy, it costs rather more

 

[Fair Hill]

hammo, check out Friar Weisse from the Franciscan Well Brewery in Cork City if you ever get the chance. I did some construction work in the brewery years ago, it's a very good Weissbier.
I think it has been taken over by Coors since, but as far as I know it is still produced in relatively small batches to the same recipe, mighty stuff altogether to cure a hangover on a lazy day.

 

[VSS]

I don't have a telly, but I do brew my own beer. After a couple of pints of that I doubt I could focus on a telly anyway.

 

[flatliner]

I'm quite partial to a Birra Moretti.

 

[John Gryphon]

By the way for the uninitiated, cold bottled Guinness compared to Guinness on tap is like comparing chalk and cheese.

Hooray! I am initiated and wholeheartedly agree but must add that the pint is to be poured in an Irish Pub IN IRELAND!
I went straight for a Guinness one night in Dubai on a 42C night,it was good too BUT its not the same as being poured in Ireland.
The Guinness cans are acceptable but I wont ever buy Guinness made under licence elsewhere as it has turned out to be poop.
Right now I have a Coopers Pale Ale open.