One of the world’s favourite alcoholic beverages, beer is a versatile and refreshing drink that can be enjoyed in so many different ways; it’s a drink for everyone and for almost any occasion.
And there is so much choice available nowadays! From cool and crisp bottled lagers, to fresh and fun fruit beers, to real ales, stouts and bitters. Whatever your tastes and whatever your preferences, you can find the perfect beer for any situation.
For traditional real ale fans, beer can be much more than just a drink. Real ale trails involve jumping on a train or bus and stopping off at various charming pubs in countryside and town locations up and down the country. It’s a fantastic way to both explore the country and enjoy a variety of local, hand-pulled beers. We’d recommend sticking to halves rather than pints if you don’t want to peak too early or end up falling asleep on the train and missing your stop on the way home however!
For the non-traditionalists among us, or those who simply fancy a change, today’s wide variety of premium bottled lagers is ideal. If you’re not partial to pints, bottled beer hits the spot just nicely, and is a more fashionable and contemporary way to enjoy beer. The taste should be cool, crisp and refreshing. Foster’s Gold is a good example of premium bottled beer done right; it looks good and it tastes even better.
Of course, no discussion about beer would be complete without mentioning fruit beers. If you’ve got a sweet tooth or just feel like something a bit fruity, you can choose from banana beers, strawberry beers, pineapple beers and peach beers, to name but a few. If you can think of the fruit, someone somewhere will have made a beer out of it!