Temperature keeps raising its head here. British beers are generally best not warm (as is often supposed by those overseas) but at cellar to room temperature, nobody who lives here would mistake either of those for warm!

That said many UK lagers are improved by deep chilling, it takes away the awful taste.

To all our overseas friends who think they don't like UK beer I would invite them to come and try it in situ, the stuff you receive in cans and bottles is seldom even an approximation of the real stuff.

Recommendations? Almost any of the non-national names, go to a free house (ie not tied to a particular brewery) and sample until you find a good fit, this may take a while as even a small pub may have a dozen brews on at a time, and yes, you can taste differences.

One local micro-brew I loved when I lived in North Lincs was Willies from Cleethorpes. Decent, sensibly priced, and the best slogan for years "We like our Willies pulled by hand".