Just had an early doors (thats what they call a pint on the way home from work round here) pint of Kelham Island Brewery, Pride of Sheffield. 4:00%abv. A nice pale bitter worth drinking. £2.22 a pint.

Not that I was on me way home from work like.

I was gonna give up drinking beer when we went decimal and they rounded the price up from 1 shilling and ninepence in real money to 10p a pint!!

would that be the wonderful Pale Rider Champion beer of Britain 2004.

What a great beer, just payed £1.39 at Wetherspoons as part of they real ale festival.

fosters in the smallies £1.65 all year round

After the recent price hykes my local has Carling as the cheapest lager at £2.75 per pint, John Smith's as the cheapest beer at £2.40 per pint and Guinness at £3.05 per pint. There are other lagers and beers at more than that. The kids say these prices are reasonable as in town ( Donny) they are more than that. My dad would turn over in his grave.

i just wouldn't pay it

i can get pissed for a tenner in my favourite watering hole that also sponsors the football club i play for.

it doesn't get any better than that

If I lived in Hartlepool I would join you, ( no that is not a threat ) but I live in a large village so we are a captured audience. Some of the other watering holes are dearer. It's getting ridiculous.

No 'Pale Rider'is a stronger brew Maybe 5.2abv but a good drink if you want to fall over quick. The brewery pub called the Fat Cat at Kelham Island in Sheffield is worth a visit with some good home cooked food there and the full range of Kelham Island beers available.

I'd get the wife to drive.

I'm a bit puzzled about the popularity of John Smiths and other beer flavoured alcoholic beverages that get talked about on the bunker. If you enjoy it drink it but there's a lot of Tetley's Smoothflow, John Smiths and Theakstones here, all of which to me are absolutely shite.

I know I've been away a long time but beer drinking used to be Hartlepools No1 passtime cos there was nothing else to do. Recent visits reveal that it's lost it's title as beer drinking captital of the western world cos there's a lot of pasteurised fizzed up keg ale sold at inflated prices.

Is there no where in the NE where the micro breweries have taken a hold.

There are plenty of small breweries round this way but a lot of them tend to be too smartarsed innovative for their own good with some of the poncy things they put in their beer.

This one's beers however are absolutely mint (and I don't mean mint flavoured like some of the avant garde microbreweries'!).

Couldn't agree more. Get a pint of cask Strongarm out of somewhere like the Causeway. It's so superior to a pint of kegged Strongarm from elsewhere its untrue.

The problem is one of education. Not many people know what proper real ale is these days, or they associate it with the negative CAMRA image of fat, bearded baldy bores (which is very wrong). The big breweries have a lot to answer for.

I fully concur Mr PIN, I have been going into the Causeway since I was about 10 when Anne and Dave Bell ran it. One of the best pints, if not the best pint, in town. It is getting a bit pricey now though, I worked there around 12 years or so ago and it was £1.30 a pint nowadays it is around £2.40

There is always the Hans Piejio Cheng on Xingu Lu Bei Ar Li.

Happy hour 12 noon until 8.30pm and only 18 yuan for a two pint jug. You can have either a porter style or wheat beer and it's very very nice.

The boiled lamb is nice also.

You mean boiled mutton, probably. You wouldn't have to boil lamb, it's tender

Yeah but it comes to the table raw and you cook it yourself. There's probably photographs somewhere!!

I had a pint of Coach House Cheshire Gold last night, a bit strange cos when you sniifed t it smelt of toffee. It tasted alright but was at £2:50 was expensive.

With the family legend of me father drinking fourpenny blob he wouldn't be a happy bunny.

This free house pub we've got called the Helter Skelter does four guest ales plus a bitter from the local Wheatwood Brewery. You get a good range in, I looked the other night and there's a sign above the bar saying they've done over 5000 different brews from 1100 different breweries since 2006.

It's a good early doors pub (*see first post if explanation needed) if you fancy a couple of pints before having your tea. There's a good mixed company in there, office workers, builders, some young'uns drinking lager etc. Batemans is a regular brew they put on, Triple x being a good 'un.

There's the Phoenix Brewery in Hyde which is popular. They do a brew called Phoenix Arizona thats a bit like Exhibition in the olden days and when that goes on in the Skelter the barrel is there one night and gone the next.

I've not noticed anyone putting anything daft in the beer apart from say at Chrismas when some breweries have had a shot at putting cinnamon in say, but that gets left.

Check out a new Mirco Brewery Leeds Brewery started June 2007.
Had a wonderful couple of pints of Ascension 3.9 a nice floral ale with aromatic hop varieties and rye malts which leads to a nice delicate and pale golden beer.

Ey I had a nice pint last night.

Saltaire Breweries Blackcurrant. A nice light coloured pint but 4.8abv on the Richter scale so only a couple of pints were taken. I'm generally apprehensive about people buggering about putting fruit flavours into beer but this really worked. Really nice pint.

There was a feller at the bar, when he tasted it he phoned his mate to come down and try it. His mate must have asked if it was going to be on the next night but when he asked at the bar they said no and he had to pass on the bad news.

I'm not a fan of fruit beers but Williams Roisin is superb.

I have to say that the all-round best pint I have had the pleasure of is Caledonian Deuchars IPA. It's ace with a curry, as there's no fizz in it. It's also smart with Chinese/Thai etc.

Stouts are my bag though, but they're hardly available in cask form anywhere. I'm lucky enough to live near a pub that always has at least one stout and one mild on at any one time.

And I'm going there tomorrow! Second time in the pub since the bairn was born. I reckon I'll be on me back after two pints.

Well if you do the deal right, at least it'll pay for your beer, eh?