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Your favourite beer or cheese from small producers we have may not have heard of
Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Go easy, this is my first list.
If the title is not self explanatory then please see the following thread http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/140787 which should go part way to explaining it (though it might not help at all).
Please give the name of the Beer/Cheese as well as country of origin. An explanation of why it is so good and a website would be a bonus.
Please, no international brands or mass produced cr*p. Abominiations such as American B*dw**s*r will be deleted out of hand but please also avoid such things as the infinitely superior Czech Budweiser Budvar which most of us will know.
So, what floats your boat and should be floating ours?
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Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Youngs Double Chocolate Stout (UK)
Youngs is a London brewery which would normally taint it irreperably in my northern eyes, but the superb quality of their bottled beers makes it hard to deny them a place. I have tried this beer on many people who claim not to like stout and I have not had a single one fail to love this.
http://www.youngs.co.uk
http://www.youngs.co.uk/ProductPage.aspx?pageID=11&&productI...
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Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Abbeydale Black Mass (UK)
Another strong dark beer (6.66%) but I love them. This one is a bit better placed geographically, coming from Sheffield and deliberately brewed to give a bitter chocolate taste and a very specific specific gravity.
http://www.abbeydalebrewery.co.uk
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Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Dent Brewery T'owd Tup (UK)
Yorkshire dialect for 'The old ram' the 3rd in a trilogy of strong dark beers is brewed in the tiny village of Dent, now (thanks to the boundary commission) in Cumbria. A strong 6% stout with a bitter finish and my eternal ruin whenever I camp in Dent. I just cant resist drinking this pint for pint with my friends who are drinking 3.5% bitter. Always a mistake.
www.dentbrewery.co.uk
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Board Game: YINSH
[Average Rating:7.67 Overall Rank:69]
Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Yarg (UK)
A Cornish cheese with a nettle coating. Hard, made from cows milk and eaten young. Delicious and fantastic to look at as well with its smashing green rind!
http://www.cornishyarg.co.uk/lyhner.html
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Get up, get up, get up, get down, fall over.
United Kingdom
Bolton
Lancashire
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Garsdale (UK)
Just Wensleydale with Garlic. The Wensleydale Creamery is well known. Based in Hawes it is the only cheesemaker in Wensleydale. Their products, particularly the Wensleydale and Cranberry are well known and sold in a lot of supermakets in the UK, but this one only seems to be available in and around Wensleydale. Cracking.
http://www.wensleydale.co.uk/
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Board Game: Domaine
[Average Rating:7.12 Overall Rank:270]
Olivier Lamontagne
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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Dominus Vobiscum (Québec)
This beer is exclusively at Baie-St-Paul, and can be found in specialised groceries in Quebec. Its taste can be compared with Unibroue's Fin du Monde, but a bit more spiced.
http://www.microbrasserie.com/
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Westmalle Tripel
Oh boy. Two glasses of this will blow your head clean off, but the first time I drank it it was love at first smell nevr mind taste.
Delicious and very complex.
http://www.trappistwestmalle.be/en/page/tripel.aspx
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Olivier Lamontagne
Canada
Montreal
Quebec
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La Barberie
La Barberie offers a wide variety of beers, and offer personnalised beer service. Many of their beers are made with fruits, but they also offer the best red beer in Quebec, and an excellent Stout.
http://www.labarberie.com/
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Pilsner Urquell
Maybe it's quite well known compared to some others on this list, but NOT well known enough!
It was the very first lager brewed anywhere and it is still the best. It's not quite as good now as it was 10 years ago - they replaced some of the oak vats with steel and it took just an edge off it. Having said that, it's still wonderful stuff - full of flavour and made from fine ingredianets and the wonderful Czech Saaz hops.. You haven't tasted "lager" until you've tasted this or another one of the classic Czech beers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilsner_Urquell
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Charles Hasegawa
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Fort Collins, CO - USA is home to a huge number of micro-breweries. The naturally soft and clean water is perfect for brewing. The New Belgium Brewery makes a number of fine beers, but my favorite has to be Fat Tire (amber ale).
http://www.newbelgium.com/beers_ft.php
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Tom Bigwood
United States
Golden Valley
Minnesota
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Summit Grand
Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota makes uniformly excellent beer. The discerning residents of Minnesota drink a huge amount of their Extra Pale Ale. My personal favorite, though, is their slightly hoppy, slightly malty pilsner, Summit Grand.
http://www.summitbrewing.com
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pronoblem baalberith
United States
Pleasantville
Massachusetts
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The first three are not that rare...
La fin du Monde from Unibroue (Belgian style from Canada): http://www.unibroue.com/english.cfm
Maytag Blue (a beautiful salty blue cheese that has little veins in it, mostly white... not that hared to find):
http://www.maytagdairyfarms.com/aspx/welcome.aspx
Dogfish Head (their 60/90/120 IPAs are the best IPA offerings in the Americas):
http://www.dogfish.com/
BBC (only available locally in growlers or 22oz bottles):
http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/
Paper City (local brewer that has some regional distribution, their Winter Palace Wee Heavy Scotch Ale is my favorite of their offerings - on Fridays they have bands play at the brewery - $6 admission, all you can drink, raffle for a few cases, the place is packed with women and you can take home a 4-pack of your choice on exit. Great event.):
http://www.papercity.com/
Amherst Brewing Company (the cask conditioned cascade IPA, only on tap obviously, is their best. Their others are only available in growlers locally):
http://www.amherstbrewing.com/
Bobolink Dairy (grass fed organic cheeses... I've been lucky enough to sample some Cave-Ripened Cheddar and ale-washed Foret, both > $20/lb):
http://www.cowsoutside.com/
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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Castle Rock Brewery
This is one of my local breweries. They make excellent ale! You can catch a lot of it in local pubs or at beer festivals.
One I drank in Sept was Harvest Pale (I like Hoppy beers). It realy is most delicious and the fact that it isn't very strong meant I could drink quite a few pints of it!
http://www.tynemill.co.uk/
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Michael Webb
United States
The City of Steel
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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J.W. Lee's Harvest Ale, preferably aged in Lagavulin casks
If you like sweet, malty beers, then Harvest Ale is a fantastic beer to look around for. It's a British beer, but it seems to be fairly available in the States.
Harvest Ale is an English style Barley Wine, with wonderful caramel and brown sugar notes with a tonne of dark fruits. The company also has released a short series of special cask aged variations including Calvados (apple liquor) and Sherry, but my personal favourite, by far, is the insanely tasty Lagavulin cask aged ones...the peaty, oaky flavour of the Lagavulin cask adds a tasty dimension to what is already one of my very favourite beers.
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Michael Pennisi
United States
Carpentersville
Illinois
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Three Floyd's Scottish Ale is a strong and potent brew. If you don't care for the aroma of hops, stay away.
The Three Floyds Brewery is in Hammond IN.
http://threefloyds.com/
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I am not a beer drinker, I have tried...oh how I have tried but I just cannot make myself like it. The only beer I find somewhat tolerable is:
Mort Subite Framboise Labic (Belgian)
Cheese on the otherhand... wait no actually not that much different. I do not like cooked cheese at all and only tolerate most cold cheese. But, I actually quiet enjoy a good Wensleydale with cranberry and Wensleydale with apricot from England.
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Board Game: 5 Star
[Average Rating:5.75 Unranked]
Steffan O'Sullivan
United States
Plymouth
NH
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. -- Groucho Marx
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Grafton 5-Star Cheddar Cheese from Vermont. Aged five years. Only for those who likes cheese that bites back when you bite it. Which I do.
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Board Game: Goblin
[Average Rating:6.30 Unranked]
Jim Patching
United Kingdom
Cardiff
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I'm partial to a bit of Hobgoblin from the Wychwood Brewery - http://www.wychwood.co.uk/.
Their beers always have very colourful labels!
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Chris Hladik
United States
Edmond
Oklahoma
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Mackeson's XXX
This list needs more stouts; everything else is just canoe beer. Mackeson's XXX Milk Stout is very smooth and tasty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackeson's_Brewery
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David Seddon
United Kingdom
Congleton
Cheshire
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The title says it all:
Liberty Ale
Certainly one of the best US beers I've tasted, Fine stuff.
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