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Flabby Chick wrote:

Fezzik wrote: You have no idea what "smooth" is until you've sampled Boddington's from a pub in Manchester.

Never on this board has anything been said that is as true as the above statement.

That's not true. I distinctly remember someone calling Acecombat a cat molester.

Flabby Chick wrote:Boddies and Worthies ?? How do you get hold of them in the States? .

Both beers are very accessible at any good beer store.

I forgot about the can with the widget thing at the bottom, i was talking about the draught bitter.

Bitters are too malty for me. Most of the beers I like are light on the malt, heavy on the bitterness and huge on the hop flavor. What I really like about the Goose Island is it's got all that plus a nice dollop of dark roasted barley that throws a nice lightly smoky, chocolatey, coffee kinda thing into the aftertaste.

The bitters just dont have enough of that flowery hop flavor to me. Although, my homey rook (from London originally) tells me that fresh English bitters out of the tap are an entirely different story from what we're exposed to here in the states.

I do know that most of the imported beers are pasteurized before bottling which effects taste and the long ride over the ocean in a hot cargo container finishes the job of killing most of the characteristics that make a beer good.

That's why I stick with really good, fresh, locally brewed Goose Island. Quality ingredients and a killer recipe makes me real happy. And if I really want something special, I can take a ride down to the restaurant/pub there on premises and sample some of the cask conditioned ale they serve through an old fashioned hand pump at cellar temperatures. Good stuff. Probably the closest I'll come to the smoothness Fezz and Flabby speak of. mmmm, now I'm thirsty.

Based on the positive feedback received from this thread, I ran out and got some Boddington's. Pretty good, for beer...

Hefeweisens ..! are one of my Favorite. Clear when warm, cloudy when cold. They get all suspended full of yeasty-beasties when cooled, ... and I include a chunck of lemon twisted in...

Double post .. !