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Prompted by my Saturday night down the Greenwich Union - not actually a student union but a shiny modern pub that sells all sorts of weird and wondeful beer, like chocolate lager and the like, all I think brewed on the premises or nearby.

And also the ZeroDegrees bar round the corner from me that has a big futuristic thing up the top that makes nice but insanely strong beer of all kinds. Tastes lovely, gives you the worst hangovers imaginably.

Are these places a good idea? If so, are there any other decent ones I should try?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

there is one downtown where the woolworth's used to be as a kid (before all the american woolworth's closed), and their beer is shit. (and overpriced.) cool copper vats tho.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

There are tons of these in Milwaukee. Usually the beer is really good, but a little pricey for a poor-ass college student like me. Give me my dollar bottles of Blatz, please.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I just typed "poor-ass." Sorry.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, I was just going to say, they're all over the place in Madison & Milwaukee. Most pretty good.

Give me my dollar bottles of Blatz

Kirsten, you are a true Milwaukeean (Blatz vs. Huber FITE!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hopback Brewery have their own boozer down in South Wimbledon/Colliers Wood IIRC, I really want to visit.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, Huber! That's a tough call. Throwing Schlitz into the mix would make for the Fight of the Century.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

There's one right across from UCI which serves various forms of higher grade California sports bar food (pretty good desserts). Happily, the beer is actually pretty damn good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

they are ok. i like the ones where you can get a take home 2gallon jug for a reasonable price.

― kephm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a good one in Prague, but I can't remember what it's called. It's just off Wenceslas Square. The mash tuns are right in the middle of the pub. Of course the whole place smells like Marmite.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Firkin pubs with their own attached breweries were responsible for possibly the shittiest beer I've ever drunk. Very nasty stuff.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering when someone was going to mention the dreaded Firkin microbreweries. Horrible places.

The demise of Firkin pubs across the nation's high streets is possibly the least lamented occurance of all pubdom.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: Mono in Glasgow produce froach (sp?) on site. It tastes pretty good, they generally have cool djs and they have a record store inside. It can prove to be troublesome on occasion.

― hmmm, Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever kind of beer I had at Mono was really, really too bitter. I didn't like it much, but the food was good.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Les Brausseurs (sp?) in Brussels had lots of small cylindrical copper vessels one on top of each other. They didn't look big enough to brew much beer. I wonder if it was all just for effect.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

back in the day before it got bought out the Rat and Parrot in Sheffield was a king of these, bloody marvellous. Now it's a shadow of it's former self. And not at all full of Camra men like the (still pretty good) Black Cat down at Kelham Island

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(pssst, have you ever been to the Nomad, Kirsten?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, yes! There are always smelly dogs in there!

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

One thing I really do like about The Nomad is the personal mug with your name on it thing. I don't have one, but I like the idea of it.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Jordan, do you live in Milwaukee or Madison?

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, that's the joint. I remember one guy there introducing me to a dog and telling me stories about all that she (the dog) had been through, getting shot by the police and stuff.

I rarely go there when I'm just hanging out in Milwaukee, but my band plays there a lot and it's always really fun.

xpost, I live in Madison but I'm from Milwaukee.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool, you should let me know when you're playing there next.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i can rarely stomach these places; however, I take a huge exception for Pizza Port in Solano Beach and Carlsbad who finally got northern california distribution on their beers at none other than my local bar.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Will do!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Who decided they were 'micro'-breweries anyway? I mean they're not that small. Are there minibreweries?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

eeurk. there's one in uptown here, 'the herkimer,' and the beer is fucking gross. luckily they don't try to distill their own booze so rail drinks are still safe, but jesus, their pale ale looked and tasted like corona strained through a loaf of sourdough

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That is possibly the most disgusting description of all time. Good job!

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i work in a brewery in Harrsionburg, VA. amazing beer all day long. 2.75 pints for happy hour isn't too horrible either. though i do go for 3 dollar pitchers of Keystone Light at a shitty country bar everyone once and awhile. I say classic. never been to a bad brewery.

― brock (brock), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Fraoch (correct spelling!) Heather Ale used to be brewed down the stairs from my old flat in Glasgow, next door to Uisge Beatha. I have no idea if the two enterprises were connected but they used to sell the beer in the pub. The brewery is now a posh furniture shop.

Have they really moved the brewery to Mono?

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's actually to Mondo. It's only a d away.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha. Again.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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