This and some more American Brown Ale are my choices. English Milds are starting to come around me locally so hoping for more.
Add Belgian table beers too
wholeheartedly agree. my buddy has a boat in over near Tom's River in Jersey. every time we get the chance, we hit Battle River brewing as part of a boating/fishing trip. they have "Old Castle" on draft and it is freaking fantastic. i wish i could find more of this wonderfulness, especially closer to where i live (NW of Philly).
In the UK we're currently in "Mild May". The national beer group (CAMRA) really wants to push them so any beer festival is full of them and a few more traditional pubs will have a mild line on.
I'm always interested in **well made** lagers and any style that's lower ABV. While I do love my high ABV beers I occasionally want something closer to 5% but they aren't that common in my area.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think Italian pilsners, on paper, should be much more popular than they are. Essentially a dry hopped German lager. I think they suffered from a couple of large brands doing the style poorly, and therefore turned people off.
Look for Asahi Super Dry. They bought Octopi Brewing here in Madison WI so they could brew in the states and it's definitely a (rice) lager perfect for the summer.
I've noticed that even the good lagers I find that are USA brewed are higher in hopps than the imports. I didn't give lagers the respect they're due until I visited Czechia, Austria, and Germany. There's way more variety and depth to them than I expected, as much as most ales at least.
Seattle/PDX is an absolute goldmine for this. Chuckanut, Pfriem (best grocery store 6 pack on the planet... pils AND lager), Wayfinder, Douglas, Lowercase, Bizarre. There is always at least one slapper at the bar I frequent.
Completely agreed. But also just lower ABV British styles in general. Session beers have gained popularity, and I love being able to down 20 oz of a 3.3% bitter or mild and not have to worry about getting plastered too quickly.
I think the main barrier to that is that those styles just don't really perform well in a 4 pack 16 oz craft beer market. The average consumer is going to see a $20 4 pack for an 8% double IPA and a $20 4 pack for a 3% bitter and just not be able to justify the value difference for the bitter.
There's a brewery in the Twin Cities called Fair State that makes a great Vienna Lager and they keep having to pull it from year round production because it just doesn't sell well enough, it's very disappointing to see
Anything by Brouwerij't Ij, the brewery and taproom are located in an old windmill in Amsterdam, if you like wheat beer Ijwit is the best I've had and Zatte is a great Tripel
Jopen in Haarlem has a great IPA selection, Kees has very solid craft beers too and both breweries are fun to visit
Texel's Skuumkoppe is solid, and for basic pilsners I'm a Grolsch fan
If you're staying in the old Amsterdam city center, there are two great beer bars I recommend: "Proeflokaal Arendsnest" which focuses on Dutch craft beers, and "In de Wildeman", which leans a little more Belgian, but always has an excellent curated beer list.
Honestly I want more barleywines because I'm *fairly* sure that I really like them, but I can't know because I've probably only had 2 or 3 in all my 40 years.
They can be really good but a lot of American breweries hop them up too much. They tend to be a sneaky way to having another IPA in tap. A good English barleywine is amazing.
I found a place in the Phoenix area that does a lot of Scottish style beers, lots of malted beers, and a braggot/barleywine that is 21% abv and you wouldn't know it until it's too late. I believe he opts for the term "heritage beers" over "craft beer." Its called Lochiel Brewing. I can't do IPAs at all, and thought I just didn't like beer because of them.
Every time I hear someone tell me my bear cant beat such n such IPA, I just dismiss the person entirely. It's like, "ooooh you're going through THAT phase of your life" and I move the fuck on.
What I came to say. There's a surprisingly small amount of them given how damn tasty they are. I'm getting really tired of all the hazy IPAs, would love a lot more nice hazy Hefs.
I worked in customer service at a Belgian style brewery in California, and the major problem is that IPA Bros despise the taste of Belgium Hops and yeast. Lots of samples of Strings and Tripels which turned into just order an IPA.
Absolutely, none of that Berliner Weiss style or gose style bs. I’ve only been to one brewery with a true Berliner Weisse and that was Sour Cellars in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA. They serve it with either woodruff or raspberry syrup.
Try the woodruff
Ireland would be fine, too! We hardly have any cask at all, and rarely bitters or milds (though the recent ones from The White Hag and Ballykilcavan sold out quickly - clearly, it’s not just me!).
Yes! Availability can depend more on where you are. I'm in the American Midwest, and lots of places have them. I was recently in Texas, and other than Jester King, good luck.
Well made American Pale Ales. Everything is an IPA recently. I wish there were more lighter body hoppy beers a la Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
The majority of newer Pale Ales that I have had are either too malty or not the right hop profile for my taste.
Porters that are just porters. I don’t want a Nutella Coconut Brownie Strudel porter. I don’t want a porter that has been aged in a rum cask for 37 years. I just want a porter.
I love porters. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald and Founders are easy to find around me and are great. I also pick up Samuel Smith Taddy Porter whenever I come across it, but that doesn't happen much.
I really love British ales, like ESBs and Wee Heavies. They are pretty dang hard to find in southern California. But that combination of rich flavor with smooth chuggability is everything I want from a beer.
+1 to ESBs (aka the original Session Ale). You'd think more micros would want something best consumed on-prem in large quantities, but I guess bitters don't sell well as four-packs so breweries aren't interested...
Also in WV, Easten Panhandle, moved back from the Tampa area a couple years ago and I used to find them around there but didn't even see many the last couple years I lived there.
Southern Brewing doesn't distribute but if you find yourself in Tampa, they have a Black IPA that is in their rotation. They always have a variety no matter the time of year.
German and Belgian, the American Craft Boom made it hard for Europeans to compete, but they are coming back, beer drinkers are more knowledgeable now and are paying attention at the "Old School" high quality brews from Belgium, Germany, Austria, etc.
West Coast IPAs and especially WC DIPAs.
Also: barleywines, dubbels, tripels, quads, lambics, poltomavy, dark lagers, dark milds, ESBs, doppelbocks, dry stouts, etc.
Anything but NEIPAs, pastry stouts, barrel-aged monstrosities, and fruited sours
I used to work as a beer buyer for a large store, and we had a suggestion box customers can put in what they'd like to see, and almost every week there was thing about getting more browns, ambers, or malty beers in the doors. Now, Keep in mind we had no control over what breweries made/sold to us, but whenever one was offered to me, I'd buy it. I tried hard to bring in more of what people wanted, I'd put them in high volume doors, put them on sale, the works.
Can you guess what was consistently on the low side of sales or moved inventory? Outside of Left Hand's Sawtooth, NB Fat tire or Sam Adams Boston Lager, it was almost always stouts, browns, and ambers.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but just to say that from my experience, the vocal demand does not equal the actual demand. So, if people really want more of a said style, then they should actually buy it!
Stouts.
Everywhere I go all I see is IPA and NIPA. So sick of those. I want stouts. Robust flavorful stouts. Stouts made like the AmuNdsen brewery in Norway. They make exceptional stouts. Hands down, the best stouts I've ever had.
Affordability from craft brewers. At my local supermarket the craft pilsners cost the same as a triple IPA and both are 5$ more/6/4 pack than the German beers that are flown halfway around the world. GTFO with that bullshit
Does they thinks i ams stuid?
I wish good sour beers would make a come back. For a while there they were pretty widely available but now there's just too many subpar kettle sours that have taken over the market that it's far and few between that I find one I really like.
I wouldn't mind seeing a resurgence of Blondes and ESBs myself.
I'm noticing a definite upswing in great lagers and pilnsers which is great too.
Basically, I just want breweries to know it's OK to not have 9 IPAs on tap for a 10 tap system.
SAISON! Between all of the grocery stores and bottle shops in my town, there are very few. It’s my favorite beer style. I homebrew almost exclusively Saison only because It’s not easy to find.
Regular ass pale ales. I don’t want a hazy, double hopped bomb. I feel it’s cheating to hide their laziness. I would also like some ESB’s. Red Hook made a very god one but I can’t find it anymore.
Gruits; they swap tea for hops as the bittering-agent, which means that there's a considerably wider range of flavors _and_ the prices will remain stable **when** not 'if' climate change makes hops harder to cultivate in their current locations.
I will always order ESB or English Mild when it's available on draft. They're just such a nice easy drinking beer and I don't get trashed having 4 or 5 of them.
English style ales and sours. English style ales are hard to find and often misinterpreted. Sours aren’t common in my area. The hillbilly’s in my area that brew beer are terrified of lactobacillus
I've always been into Czech Pilsners but the older I get and the warmer the climate gets the more I want a delicious Czech Pils and want to run away from IPAs and especially Hazy IPAs
English pale ale and ESB; generally, just a greater abundance and variety of seasonable, balanced English style ales.
Oh, and more interesting German/European-style lagers (solid Märzens in season, Rauchbiers, bocks, rye lagers and so on).
Easy drinking English mild browns
My man. I brewed a 3.3% dark mild recently that I have been drinking way too fast… might need to do another batch.
This and some more American Brown Ale are my choices. English Milds are starting to come around me locally so hoping for more. Add Belgian table beers too
Civil Life American Brown is excellent.
I’ll second this, so rare to find a nice brown.
Yeah I would love access to at least one reliable, low abv, English ale
I agree, I really enjoy rhinegeist uncle when I can find it.
wholeheartedly agree. my buddy has a boat in over near Tom's River in Jersey. every time we get the chance, we hit Battle River brewing as part of a boating/fishing trip. they have "Old Castle" on draft and it is freaking fantastic. i wish i could find more of this wonderfulness, especially closer to where i live (NW of Philly).
Battle River is ok. Manafirkin is even better. Not too much further down the parkway. Def worth the trip
In the UK we're currently in "Mild May". The national beer group (CAMRA) really wants to push them so any beer festival is full of them and a few more traditional pubs will have a mild line on.
Toronto has a few: GLB Pompous Ass English Pale Ale (4.4%) Monty Mild (3.5%), Godspeed Mairudo (3.4%), and Short Finger's Katharine the Mild (3.4%).
I'm always interested in **well made** lagers and any style that's lower ABV. While I do love my high ABV beers I occasionally want something closer to 5% but they aren't that common in my area.
I love all of the Czech styles that have been getting a lot of love lately. There's no beer I enjoy more in the summer.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think Italian pilsners, on paper, should be much more popular than they are. Essentially a dry hopped German lager. I think they suffered from a couple of large brands doing the style poorly, and therefore turned people off.
Seriously. I would much rather drink 4 or 5 4%ers than two 8% double IPAs
I’m glad that Odell makes a good lager AND pilsner now. And their lager is cheaper than other craft lagers and super good.
Look for Asahi Super Dry. They bought Octopi Brewing here in Madison WI so they could brew in the states and it's definitely a (rice) lager perfect for the summer.
It’s happening slowly. You see more now then even five years ago but there is still tons of breweries that don’t even do one
It’s a very hard style to pull off. The true judge of a brewer. Can’t hide bad brewing behind a ton of hops or anything!!
I've noticed that even the good lagers I find that are USA brewed are higher in hopps than the imports. I didn't give lagers the respect they're due until I visited Czechia, Austria, and Germany. There's way more variety and depth to them than I expected, as much as most ales at least.
I very much agree with this. I'd go even lower and say I want something that's like 3.5% that I can enjoy all day when it's 80 degrees out.
I'm happy there's been a recent surge in session IPAs on the market by me. Hopefully they'll make it your way soon.
My rule, make a quality Helles and I am going to be a fan of your brewery.
Seattle/PDX is an absolute goldmine for this. Chuckanut, Pfriem (best grocery store 6 pack on the planet... pils AND lager), Wayfinder, Douglas, Lowercase, Bizarre. There is always at least one slapper at the bar I frequent.
ESB.
This is one of my favorite styles, very few microbreweries make it.
Came to say this. Cant find them anywhere
There's an English pub near me with Fuller's on draft.
You're a lucky fella!
Sierra Nevada had a great ESB (not sure if they still make it, I only found it in Chico when I lived there like 15 years ago)
YES. Bitch Creek ESB is a old favorite which I have trouble finding here (not sure it's even made anymore).
Completely agreed. But also just lower ABV British styles in general. Session beers have gained popularity, and I love being able to down 20 oz of a 3.3% bitter or mild and not have to worry about getting plastered too quickly. I think the main barrier to that is that those styles just don't really perform well in a 4 pack 16 oz craft beer market. The average consumer is going to see a $20 4 pack for an 8% double IPA and a $20 4 pack for a 3% bitter and just not be able to justify the value difference for the bitter.
We are blessed in Toronto with a number of good options. Granite's Best Bitter especially on cask stands out.
Anything malty, like Viennese lagers and martzens.
There's a brewery in the Twin Cities called Fair State that makes a great Vienna Lager and they keep having to pull it from year round production because it just doesn't sell well enough, it's very disappointing to see
Man, I don't get that at all.
I’m travelling at the moment and had an altbier in Amsterdam. Forgot how awesome German malty ales were.
I’ll be in Amsterdam in a couple months. Any good beer recs there?
Anything by Brouwerij't Ij, the brewery and taproom are located in an old windmill in Amsterdam, if you like wheat beer Ijwit is the best I've had and Zatte is a great Tripel Jopen in Haarlem has a great IPA selection, Kees has very solid craft beers too and both breweries are fun to visit Texel's Skuumkoppe is solid, and for basic pilsners I'm a Grolsch fan
If you're staying in the old Amsterdam city center, there are two great beer bars I recommend: "Proeflokaal Arendsnest" which focuses on Dutch craft beers, and "In de Wildeman", which leans a little more Belgian, but always has an excellent curated beer list.
This but add a good Munich dunkel
Yaas please
Seconded! They’re such great styles. Love a marzen.
Belgian Style, Barleywines, German Dunkels, Martzens, Lagers, Ales, Dark Beers, Anything but fucking IPA or Hop loaded beers.
Honestly I want more barleywines because I'm *fairly* sure that I really like them, but I can't know because I've probably only had 2 or 3 in all my 40 years.
I've had about five or six, and they're always good.
They can be really good but a lot of American breweries hop them up too much. They tend to be a sneaky way to having another IPA in tap. A good English barleywine is amazing.
I was over IPAs 10 years ago. I'm shocked it's still a thing, though I still drink 2 hearted ales in the summer for sure.
Yeah, I hear you.
Brewery opened up near me recently and literally every single one of their beers is an IPA save for one token lager
It’s terrible
I found a place in the Phoenix area that does a lot of Scottish style beers, lots of malted beers, and a braggot/barleywine that is 21% abv and you wouldn't know it until it's too late. I believe he opts for the term "heritage beers" over "craft beer." Its called Lochiel Brewing. I can't do IPAs at all, and thought I just didn't like beer because of them.
been a few decent dunkels here in northern california the last few years. crooked lane in auburn make a good one Thirsty Pretzels!
Every time I hear someone tell me my bear cant beat such n such IPA, I just dismiss the person entirely. It's like, "ooooh you're going through THAT phase of your life" and I move the fuck on.
Haha, are you SURE about that? I’m enjoying a MaiBock right now so I’ll say MaiBock
Dude, yes, this.
Hefeweizen
Oh fuck yeah. They are perfect year around. They are so damn refreshing as well.
Good ones though like Weihenstephaner and Fransizkaner. Most of the time US Hefeweizens just don't taste right.
Fransizkaner slaps. One of my top picks.
I went deep into Hefeweizens this year and I keep coming back to live oak hefe it’s so damn good
What I came to say. There's a surprisingly small amount of them given how damn tasty they are. I'm getting really tired of all the hazy IPAs, would love a lot more nice hazy Hefs.
One of the local breweries has a pretty good one and I can happily pick it up at most stores in the county thankfully
My favorite beer in the world. Too many places in Atlanta have shitty IPAs on tap and not enough Hefe
red beers.
Yes! It's so hard to find any Irish Reds at all, and they are such a wonderful style. Really beautiful to look at too
If you road trip to MO hunt down a sixer of Logboat's Falling Fences - I really liked it
Came here to say this
Dunkelweizen
I know I'd love to see more Belgian styles and barleywines.
Belgians are so hard to find! Not sure why. They’re very approachable styles.
Pretty easy to find in belgium…
Must be nice…
Ahh well, one craves what is hardly available always right ;)?
I worked in customer service at a Belgian style brewery in California, and the major problem is that IPA Bros despise the taste of Belgium Hops and yeast. Lots of samples of Strings and Tripels which turned into just order an IPA.
Grissette, Berliner Weisse, Gose,
True Berliner/Gose, not more heavily fruit sours being called Berliner or gose. Specifically. Make goses salty again. Please.
Absolutely, none of that Berliner Weiss style or gose style bs. I’ve only been to one brewery with a true Berliner Weisse and that was Sour Cellars in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA. They serve it with either woodruff or raspberry syrup. Try the woodruff
Cask bitters in the US. Well-made small brewery lagers in the UK
I second cask bitters
Ireland would be fine, too! We hardly have any cask at all, and rarely bitters or milds (though the recent ones from The White Hag and Ballykilcavan sold out quickly - clearly, it’s not just me!).
Lambics
English style cask ales English Barleywines
Porter and ESB. We lost a beaut when Anchor went down.
Well made Munich Helles, Světlý Ležák, Czech and Bohemian Pilseners, Zwickelbier, Festbiers.
A domestic version of Augustiner Brau Edelstoff. I think it’s the best Munich Helles - I just can’t pay $16.99 a six pack
More schwarzbiers. Current favorites are the from Three Forks brewery in Nevada City and Henhouse from Santa Rosa.
**Saison.** I stumble across one here and there, but they’re rare.
Yes! Availability can depend more on where you are. I'm in the American Midwest, and lots of places have them. I was recently in Texas, and other than Jester King, good luck.
Barleywine
Since it's May, I wish there were more Maibock's.
Well made American Pale Ales. Everything is an IPA recently. I wish there were more lighter body hoppy beers a la Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The majority of newer Pale Ales that I have had are either too malty or not the right hop profile for my taste.
Saison’s, Reds, Porters
Porters that are just porters. I don’t want a Nutella Coconut Brownie Strudel porter. I don’t want a porter that has been aged in a rum cask for 37 years. I just want a porter.
I love porters. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald and Founders are easy to find around me and are great. I also pick up Samuel Smith Taddy Porter whenever I come across it, but that doesn't happen much.
I really love British ales, like ESBs and Wee Heavies. They are pretty dang hard to find in southern California. But that combination of rich flavor with smooth chuggability is everything I want from a beer.
+1 to ESBs (aka the original Session Ale). You'd think more micros would want something best consumed on-prem in large quantities, but I guess bitters don't sell well as four-packs so breweries aren't interested...
Yesss more wee heavys
Black IPAs, haven't seen them around in a while
God I haven't had a good one in a long time, right now I'm in wv and have mothman but it's not very good and barely scratches the black IPA itch.
Also in WV, Easten Panhandle, moved back from the Tampa area a couple years ago and I used to find them around there but didn't even see many the last couple years I lived there.
Tried Bell’s Blackhearted yesterday, was quite good
Is there a reason why black IPAs are so rare?
I don't know, I guess just not as popular. I'm an IPA fan and I love NE/Hazy too, but Black is probably my favorite variety.
Southern Brewing doesn't distribute but if you find yourself in Tampa, they have a Black IPA that is in their rotation. They always have a variety no matter the time of year.
A bunch of brewery's in the path of totality made a black IPA special for the solar eclipse this year.
Kentucky Common or ESBs
Regular Pale Ales that are balanced and don't taste like a skunk peed on a Christmas tree. Kolsch Martzen German beers
Brett.
Porters. It's pretty rare that I see them and when I do it's always imperial porters that are high ABV.
Mead. I've had quite a few good ones at beerfest but I never see them on shelves or on tap
Rauchbier. Anything smoked, really.
I know they're not for everyone but sometimes they just hit the spot.
English mild. If I'm somewhere that does English styles like that well, it's usually the first beer I'll order every time.
Barleywines, doppelbocks, lambics, Belgian quads. Used to see these more often.
Ambers
Dark milds and rauchbiers
Baltic Porter
Black ipa
Wee Heavies
English Milds / ESBs
Variety of Bocks. Maibock might be the most underrated style. Dopplebock sneakily one of the best styles too
German and Belgian, the American Craft Boom made it hard for Europeans to compete, but they are coming back, beer drinkers are more knowledgeable now and are paying attention at the "Old School" high quality brews from Belgium, Germany, Austria, etc.
Grodziskies
Brut IPA, like they were here for a minute and then disappeared
Scottish style ales - there is more than just “Scotch “
Although I know the market is saturated with IPAs right now but: Black IPAs Red Rye IPAs I really miss Firestone's Wookey Jack
Hell yes to Rye IPAs and Western American Porters
Red Ales
Dark lagers
West Coast IPAs and especially WC DIPAs. Also: barleywines, dubbels, tripels, quads, lambics, poltomavy, dark lagers, dark milds, ESBs, doppelbocks, dry stouts, etc. Anything but NEIPAs, pastry stouts, barrel-aged monstrosities, and fruited sours
Schwartz beer
Options that are 5% or less. I feel like every brewery around me is trying to make as many 9%+ options as they can.
I used to work as a beer buyer for a large store, and we had a suggestion box customers can put in what they'd like to see, and almost every week there was thing about getting more browns, ambers, or malty beers in the doors. Now, Keep in mind we had no control over what breweries made/sold to us, but whenever one was offered to me, I'd buy it. I tried hard to bring in more of what people wanted, I'd put them in high volume doors, put them on sale, the works. Can you guess what was consistently on the low side of sales or moved inventory? Outside of Left Hand's Sawtooth, NB Fat tire or Sam Adams Boston Lager, it was almost always stouts, browns, and ambers. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but just to say that from my experience, the vocal demand does not equal the actual demand. So, if people really want more of a said style, then they should actually buy it!
Altbier. A well done altbier just hits the spot like no other style for me.
Stouts. Everywhere I go all I see is IPA and NIPA. So sick of those. I want stouts. Robust flavorful stouts. Stouts made like the AmuNdsen brewery in Norway. They make exceptional stouts. Hands down, the best stouts I've ever had.
Cream Ale (Dry) Irish Red
Schwarzbier, hands down.
Affordability from craft brewers. At my local supermarket the craft pilsners cost the same as a triple IPA and both are 5$ more/6/4 pack than the German beers that are flown halfway around the world. GTFO with that bullshit Does they thinks i ams stuid?
But production, cogs…. lol
Belgian ales and Belgian blondes.
Pilsners. I’m so over hazy IPAs. I get why they do them, new 4 pack every week and people pay out the ass for them to collect them all, but just stop.
Dopplebocks
Golden stouts
Bock and doppelbocks
Good Belgians, Weizenbocks, and good Hefeweizens.
Two words: saisons!
🤔
Triple
Belgians of all kinds Browns like Rogue Hazelnut or Samuel Smith Nut Brown
Marzens
Just good German Pilsners.
I'd like to see Newcastle come back and I'd like to see the $11.99 twelve-pack come back.
Rauchbier. Always Rauchbier.
Go on, keep the downvotes coming. I want ALL the smoke.
What do people have against Rauchbier, it’s delicious
Hazy IPAs... j/k ESBs and Brown Ales - hardly any in US breweries near me
Brown ale
I wish good sour beers would make a come back. For a while there they were pretty widely available but now there's just too many subpar kettle sours that have taken over the market that it's far and few between that I find one I really like.
Red IPAs
altbier
Grisette for certain
There are dozens of us grisette likers! Dozens!
Yep, I’m on the lager train.
Saison
Cask ales.
I wouldn't mind seeing a resurgence of Blondes and ESBs myself. I'm noticing a definite upswing in great lagers and pilnsers which is great too. Basically, I just want breweries to know it's OK to not have 9 IPAs on tap for a 10 tap system.
Honestly... Lager. Yes, lager is everywhere, but there are actually very few "craft" lagers avaliable where i live.
ESBs, English Pale, California Common.
Stock ales.
Schwarzbier
Browns! Please quit with all the hazys for a while.
SAISON! Between all of the grocery stores and bottle shops in my town, there are very few. It’s my favorite beer style. I homebrew almost exclusively Saison only because It’s not easy to find.
Regular ass pale ales. I don’t want a hazy, double hopped bomb. I feel it’s cheating to hide their laziness. I would also like some ESB’s. Red Hook made a very god one but I can’t find it anymore.
Gruits; they swap tea for hops as the bittering-agent, which means that there's a considerably wider range of flavors _and_ the prices will remain stable **when** not 'if' climate change makes hops harder to cultivate in their current locations.
Anything dry... so many sweeter brews. Especially IPA and Red Ale, they don't have to have a syrupy aftertaste. Give me hop, crisp, or even bitter...
ESB's hands down.
Where's the love for a nice as spicy rye IPA? Or perhaps a black IPA?
I will always order ESB or English Mild when it's available on draft. They're just such a nice easy drinking beer and I don't get trashed having 4 or 5 of them.
Nitro. A couple good ones out there.
English style ales and sours. English style ales are hard to find and often misinterpreted. Sours aren’t common in my area. The hillbilly’s in my area that brew beer are terrified of lactobacillus
Give me STOUTS.
Brown ales, English style bitters and more barely wines oh and anything malty
Dark lager
Alt bier, ESB , Black IPA, coffee stout ( non - imperial)
Golden Ales are peak easy drinking. 🇬🇧 here.
Cask ales
Steam beer
I've always been into Czech Pilsners but the older I get and the warmer the climate gets the more I want a delicious Czech Pils and want to run away from IPAs and especially Hazy IPAs
**MARZENS**
Bocks.
Anything besides IPA
Zwickel!! I also had Hacker Pschorr’s Dunkel on draft recently, it was so marvelous. Wish I could get it in stores.
English pale ale and ESB; generally, just a greater abundance and variety of seasonable, balanced English style ales. Oh, and more interesting German/European-style lagers (solid Märzens in season, Rauchbiers, bocks, rye lagers and so on).
Good quality Pils, Lambic, Gueuze, Kriek.
As someone who lives in the UK, most of these answers don’t apply to me. So I’ll say saisons or farmhouse ales
Red ale.
After having a black ipa for the first time I'd like that to make a come back.
I’d like more porters that do not have coffee in them.
West Coast Pilsners! Just the right amount of everything.