craigb
Do you like Old Speckled Hen ....?

A lovely drop, one of my favourites in fact.
 
Another favourite, well hopped and full of flavour:
 

 
Gawd I miss the odd pint of decent ale. It's been four and a half years since a change in medication precluded yours truly from imbibing any alcohol

 
 
@Craig, if you come across any of these, I can personally and heartily recommend a glass or two:

• Badgers Tanglefoot (so called by the brewer who created this delectable ale when subsequently discovering its adverse effects on his ability to walk in a straight line!)
• Adnams Broadside (full of flavour dark ale)
• Wells Waggle Dance Honey Beer (extremely quaffable)
• Green King Abbot Ale (very smooth)
• Wychwood Hobgoblin Ale (as James would say, "very noice")
• Shepherd Neame Bishops Finger (goes well with Stinking Bishop cheese ........ probably)
• Shepherd Neame Spitfire Ale ("The 'Bottle' Of Britain")
• Timothy Taylor's Landlord Strong Pale Ale - (good 'session' beer)
• Sharps Doom Bar - (named after a Cornish sand bank)
• Marston's Pedigree Pale Ale (a delicious variation on their famous draught Pedigree beer)

 
 

SteveStrummerUK
 

• Sharps Doom Bar - (named after a Cornish sand bank)

 
 

 
That's my current favourite, lovely stuff. Have to wait until I can get to Morrisons in Stranraer (25 miles away) for it though.

 

jamesg1213

SteveStrummerUK
 

• Sharps Doom Bar - (named after a Cornish sand bank)

 
 

 
That's my current favourite, lovely stuff. Have to wait until I can get to Morrisons in Stranraer (25 miles away) for it though.

Our local Morrisons has a great selection of decent bottled ales mate. They put Sainsbury and Tesco to shame on that front.

BobF
Bars started declining here when our society got serious about impaired driving.

Combine this with the 'liquid lunch' becoming unacceptable in the workplace, supermarket pricing for drinks, and people living further and further away in the suburbs from where they work in the city and furhter away from their friends/workmates.

Yeah but, the US customary system has one set of units for fluids and another set for dry goods. The imperial system has only one set defined independently of, and subdivided differently from, its US counterparts.
 
The Winchester measure was made obsolete in the British Empire but remains in use in the US. The American colonists adopted a system based on the 231-cubic-inch wine gallon for all fluid purposes. This became the US fluid gallon.
 
Note that one avoirdupois ounce of water has an approximate volume of one imperial fluid ounce at 62 °F (16.67 °C). This convenient fluid-ounce-to-avoirdupois-ounce relation does not exist in the US system. So whilst the imperial gallon, quart, pint and gill are about 20% larger than their US fluid measure counterparts, the fluid ounce is about 4% smaller.
 
Many Canadian brewers package beer in 12-imperial-fluid-ounce bottles, which are 341 mL each. American brewers package their beer in 12-US-fluid-ounce bottle, which are 355 mL each. This results in the Canadian bottles being labelled as 11.5 fl oz in US units when imported into the United States. Because Canadian beer bottles predate the adoption of the Metric System in that country, they are still sold and labelled in Canada as 341 mL. Canned beer in Canada is sold and labelled in 355 mL cans, and when exported to the US are labelled as 12 fl oz.
 
then there's Celsius, centigrade and Fahrenheit. And don't even get me started on the English language. Even our meters... metres? are different....
 
just sayin'.

Do you actually notice the difference between 341 mL and 355 mL, especially after drinking a few cans?

soens
Yeah but, the US customary system has one set of units for fluids and another set for dry goods. The imperial system has only one set defined independently of, and subdivided differently from, its US counterparts.
 
The Winchester measure was made obsolete in the British Empire but remains in use in the US. The American colonists adopted a system based on the 231-cubic-inch wine gallon for all fluid purposes. This became the US fluid gallon.
 
Note that one avoirdupois ounce of water has an approximate volume of one imperial fluid ounce at 62 °F (16.67 °C). This convenient fluid-ounce-to-avoirdupois-ounce relation does not exist in the US system. So whilst the imperial gallon, quart, pint and gill are about 20% larger than their US fluid measure counterparts, the fluid ounce is about 4% smaller.
 
Many Canadian brewers package beer in 12-imperial-fluid-ounce bottles, which are 341 mL each. American brewers package their beer in 12-US-fluid-ounce bottle, which are 355 mL each. This results in the Canadian bottles being labelled as 11.5 fl oz in US units when imported into the United States. Because Canadian beer bottles predate the adoption of the Metric System in that country, they are still sold and labelled in Canada as 341 mL. Canned beer in Canada is sold and labelled in 355 mL cans, and when exported to the US are labelled as 12 fl oz.
 
then there's Celsius, centigrade and Fahrenheit. And don't even get me started on the English language. Even our meters... metres? are different....
 
just sayin'.

Interdasting!
 
Personally when I buy barley pops I go for 500ml "tallboy" cans of Bavarian Purity Law type stuff (surprisingly cheaper than domestics and sooooo much better). These pour quite nicely and pretty much to the top of a standard pint glass (or at least I think they are proper "pint" glasses... my collection were given to me by bar owner buddies and I only have a few).
 
Now though a lot of these "tall boys" are being shipped out as 440ml and another slightly larger measure that escapes me right now. I'm guessing to save on fuel costs (just like all our foodstuffs packaging getting smaller but still costing around the same... SCAM).
 
Of course these "Import" cans have a whole slew of wacky liquid volume measurements printed on them.
 
lulz... hoomans can't agree on nuffin'.

soens
 
And don't even get me started on the English language. Even our meters... metres? are different....
 
just sayin'.

 
UK English retains some spellings that originate in French. US English doesn't. We both know what each other means.
 
Most of the time.

jamesg1213

soens
 
And don't even get me started on the English language. Even our meters... metres? are different....
 
just sayin'.

 
UK English retains some spellings that originate in French. US English doesn't. We both know what each other means.
 
Most of the time.

What did he say?