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question, ask me anything, beer, drinking, things i know a lot about,
pterodactyls asked: What's the best beer you've had lately? The worst? The most mediocre?
Hmm, I’ve mostly been drinking the bog-standard beers recently, round at mates’ houses and whatnot. They pretty much all qualify as mediocre, I guess. Easy to drink a lot of, let’s put it that way, but not the most thrilling liquids to ever pass over my tongue.
I reckon the most interesting one in the last few months was Negra Modelo, which I think is a Mexican beer. It’s really dark, with a malty, heavy taste, and nothing like the Coronas and Sols of that region. It’s got that burnt, charcoal taste that I would usually associate with a good stout, but it’s not at all creamy. A really solid beer, but I wouldn’t do a complete session on it.
The worst? I’m getting thoroughly bored of the beer I usually drink at my office’s standard lunchtime pub: London Pride. It’s an ale, which I quite enjoy because it’s not gassy, but it’s dull and not particularly flavoursome. I might have to switch to Guinness from now on…
My all-time favourite beers include Tusker (from Kenya), most German Hefeweizens, Duvel (from Belgium), and a really good British ale called Old Speckled Hen. Oh, and I tried Blue Moon for the first time whilst in the States last year, and loved that.
