The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43010   Message #2273199
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Feb-08 - 08:14 PM
Thread Name: Beer-What beer is your current Favorite?
Subject: RE: Beer
By far the finest draught beer in Cornwall is Sharp's Doom Bar. A true cask-conditioned bitter produced by a brewery of real integrity. It is well-hopped (no crappy hop extracts) but is sweetly malty with pronounced fruit esters and fresh, green hoppiness on the nose. At 4.0% you can quaff it all night, unlike that horribly-headachey Abbot's muck and most of the brews from St Austell (though I can drink Tribute at a pinch). Skinners' beers (of Truro) are well worth avoiding in my opinion.   Sharp's also make a beautiful bottle-conditioned beer called Chalky's Bite (Chalky was Rick Stein's dog), and the beer, subtly flavoured with Cornish fennel, is a fabulous aperitif and is also wonderful with seafood. It should be treated with respect at 6.8%, but it's as clean and fresh as a whistle.