Titanic Draught

Our next beer is Titanic Draught which scored a great 79 placing joint 4th overall! Very good score but needs some votes too, just comment a score out of 100...

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Beer update

Found some cracking beers in Derbyshire, however, due to  backlog of beers to be added to the leader board you'll have to wait to find out what they are! Any guesses?

Light Rale

Our next beer is Light Rale which scored a BBB score of 68. With this score it has tied with two other beers in 20th place, so we need you to vote and separate these great beers.

Unfortunately we couldn't find a picture for our latest beer so here's a picture of some great British mountains...!

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Leader board ties

So many of our beers are now tied for places in the leader board and the only way to separate them is for you to vote. That's right, WE NEED YOU! Simply comment a score out of 100 on the post for whichever beer you wish to vote on!

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KNDL strikes next week

The beer logistics company Kuehne and Nagel Drinks Logistics have announced they will strike next Wednesday over jobs and conditions. The strike will last 24 hrs followed by an overtime ban and will cause disruption to countless pubs and outlets if it goes ahead.

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The Cherry Trick

This is an excellent bar trick but may require a bit more preparation... Ideal for bar staff!

Derbyshire

Any good beers in Derbyshire? Hopefully we will find a few more local guest ales to add to the leader board...

Estrella Damm

With a score of 78, the Barcelona favourite, Estrella Damm placed 7th in our leader board. Not a bad score at all...!

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Apologies

Sorry for the recent lack of posts. Will be going down to the cellar, changing the barrels and getting the posts flowing again...

Guinness

From The Generous Britain, Loughborough.

A big name today in our next beer to join the list...Guinness! Unsurprisingly, being such a popular stout, it managed to crack the top ten with a score of 79. This score placed it in joint 4th place and needs some public rating to really distinguish it from the other beers!

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Shugborough Farmers Half

From The Generous Britain, Loughborough.

This next beer scores a reasonable score of 60 placing it 24th overall.

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Cold beer in the sun? Don't drink and drive!

Police charge more than 400 people in summer crackdown. Keep enjoying the beers, the weather is good enough to walk home!

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Open a beer with paper!

Time for another video... Perhaps one you could fool your friends with again.

Think you know where your beer is from?

Here at BBB we accept all beers from around the World if we can buy them in old Blighty, but just how many come from where you think?

Fosters? Down under they have hardly heard of it...

See the full story here.

San Miguel

San Miguel, not a British Beer but available here and so eligible for the board, scores a great 69 placing 16th in the board.

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Cornwall

Any good beers in Cornwall? Will be trying to add many more beers to the list soon...

1698

From The Grange Farm Inn, Oadby, Leicestershire.

Our 25th beer is the great 1698 scoring an even greater BBB score of 76, which places it in joint 8th! This three-way tie needs you to vote to separate these great beers!

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A 'Best Beer Ad'

I wonder why this was uploaded as 'Best Beer Ad Ever'? ...and why it was banned?

Now on Facebook!

Now you can follow us on Facebook too!

Best Brit Beer on Facebook

Titanic Cappuccino

From The Grange Farm Inn, Oadby, Leicestershire.

Beer number 24 is the lovely coffee flavour of Titanic Cappuccino. Placing 7th with a well deserved BBB score of 77, it really is a complete change to the normal flavours but works remarkably well. Definitely worth a try!

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Did you know? #17

This is an obvious one...

Beer is composed of (mostly) water, a starch, a yeast and a flavouring agent. The starch, such as malted barley, is turned into alcohol, the yeast which does this fermentation is often the brewers own culture and the typical flavouring agent is hops.

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Welland Valley Beer Festival

The Welland Valley Beer Festival in Leicestershire ran from 7th-9th June this year and was a great success. Loads of pubs, vintage buses and, most importantly, loads of great beer!

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See more here. 

Old Golden Hen

From The Grange Farm Inn, Oadby, Leicestershire.

Our 23rd beer to enter the board is Old Golden Hen! This refreshing ale got an excellent score of 74 which meant it gained a top 10 spot in joint 9th place!
Have you tried Old Golden Hen? Then why not tell us what you thought, comment your score /100 below...

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Sun Inn in Kislingbury

5 Families have bought and restored the Sun Inn in Kislingbury, Northamptonshire, for their local community.  It required a lot of work to get it operational but many members of the community volunteered and helped out where they could. Sounds like a nice place for a pint!

For the full story click here.

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Did you know? #16

Archaeologists speculate that beer was a very important part of forming civilisations, more than previously believed.

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Hobgoblin

The latest addition to the list is Hobgoblin which scored an excellent 72 placing it 13th and only just missing out on a top ten spot by 2 points!

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Twitter update

Like our new look on Twitter? Check it out if you have time before the pub!
Best Brit Beer on Twitter!

Cains Brewery Protest

38 workers made redundant by the brewery stage a protest over their treatment. Apparently they were forced to close due to a drop in orders from supermarkets and "deeply regret" the job losses. However, this hasn't stopped them in going ahead with plans to spend £50m on a 'Brewery Village' to turn the site into a tourist attraction. The irony is that this development could create up to 800 jobs! What do you think about these plans? Maybe these ex-employees could be given a place in the 'Village'?

For the full story click here.

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Need a beer opening?

A slightly different flavour on this next beer related video, in a change from bar tricks, we thought we'd show you some insane (and some stupid) ways to open your beer. Please excuse the terrible music and incredibly American style video but some of these open-ings really are quite epic!

(But please don't try these at home).

Old Peculier

Old Peculier joins the leader board with a score of 73 placing this great ale joint 11th. If you think it should have made top 10 then comment your score (/100) and we will recalculate it's position!

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Great Yarmouth Lacons Brewery revives historic ales

A 'sleeping yeast' has been woken after more than 50 years in order to make these historic ales in Great Yarmouth. The brewery closed down in 1968 after having been there for over 200 years! Luckily the yeast had been held in a deep freeze at the National Collection of Yeast Cultures until now. Lets hope we can try some and get them up on the leader board!

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For the full story click here.

Did you know? #15

Barack Obama is the first US President to brew beer in the White House!

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Did you know? #14

Some of the earliest known writings refer to the production of beer. In fact there was a hymn prayer to the Mesopotamian goddess of beer, Ninkasi, which was also used to remember the recipe in a mostly illiterate culture!

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Now on Twitter!

Now you can follow us on Twitter too @BestBritBeer!

Frederic's Ginger Beer

Another ginger beer enters the leader board now in 16th place. This time GB Frederic's Great British Alc. Ginger Beer, missing out on a top ten spot by a few points... However, a really nice beer and not too overpowering on the ginger front; would go well at any summer picnic/BBQ event.

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The Apprentice

Did you enjoy The Apprentice: episode 2 this week?
Both teams had to create a new tasting beer, some more successful than others. Shame we wont be able to try them and see where they'd have placed on the leader board.
If you missed it, catch up on the action here.

Beer bottle routine

What's better than one bar trick? ...Well four of course!

This is the 'Beer Bottle Routine' from our friends at EasyBarTricks.com, guaranteed to win you some drinks at the pub...or at least make someone laugh!

Reading Beer Festival: Campaigners Fight for British Pubs

Campaigners at the Reading Beer Festival say that pub companies are causing local, privately owned pubs to be forced out of business through high beer prices. However, pub companies claim they aid landlords.
In this BBC report they bring up the issue of the economy and how the number of jobs in these companies benefits Britain, but is the economy just a handy tool to say "let us continue to make money, whatever the cost"?

Did you know? #13

In Germany there is a beer ice-cream Popsicle. But you may still want a cold beer in the sun with it as the alcohol content is significantly lower.

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Pedigree

Rutland Beast snatched 10th place not long ago and has since been knocked off by Pedigree which scored 74...just one point in it! If you think this needs changing then vote for your favourite. 

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Peroni - discriminating?

The company behind Peroni have denied a Skegness Hotel the permission to serve one of their drinks on tap. 

The Crown Hotel accuse the company of stereotyping and many say they have never heard of another beer doing this. However, a similar thing has been happening in several Lincolnshire outlets.

Read the full story here.

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Bottle balancing

This next bar trick is a bit like the famous 'table cloth' trick and really could win you quite a few pints with a bit of practice!

Rutland Beast

From The Foxton Locks Inn, Leicestershire.

The Rutland Beast lived up to its name and scored a beastly 73 knocking Victory Ale off the top 10 position after only a short few days...how long will it last?

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Did you know? #12

If you want to avoid a beer moustache you can stick your fingers in the foam, or head, of the beer.

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Victory Ale

Victory Ale scored a respectable 68 placing it 10th and just securing a place on the leader board! How long will it stay there for?

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Forces trial 'super-strong drink' bans

The recent trial of banning super strong booze in a Suffolk town has lowered crime and anti-social behaviour by 50%. Many other boroughs have expressed an interest in trialing a similar scheme. What do you think?
Read more here?

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Did you know? #11

Beer is possibly the oldest of alcoholic beverages in the world and is now considered the third most popular drink after water and tea!

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Amazing egg balancing!

This magic egg trick is sure to win you drinks from your friends...as long as you don't mind taking an egg to the pub!

McEwan's Champion

This strong 7.3% ale goes excellently sat by a fire on a snowy Sunday, but is equally good every other day of the week too! This is why it enters the leader board 4th with a BBB score of 79!

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Bottle Kicking 2013

Bottle Kicking is a local Leicestershire tradition taking place on Easter Monday between to villages, Hallaton and Medbourne, whereby they essentially have a massive scrum to try and get the keg of beer (bottle) across their respective score line. The tradition is over 200 years old and has only been cancelled once in that time.

See more on the origins here.

It is best of three games although

Isle of Man Real Ale Festival

 Last year a three day real ale festival began in the Isle of Man town, and capital, Douglas and this year has proven to be even more popular. In it's first year it attracted over 1000 drinkers and proved so popular that they even ran out of beer!

Did you know? #10

It is rumored that, in the 13th century, children were baptised with beer rather than holy water!

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Gale Pale Ale

From The Little John Inn, Hathersage, Derbyshire

Just what is needed after a long walk in the snow and wind on the Derbyshire Dales, Gale Pale Ale doesn't disappoint. It enters the board with a BBB score of 64 placing 13th, unfortunately missing out on a place in the top 10 board but certainly worth a try!

UK Budget 2013!

A great year for British Beer; a 1p drop in tax and cancelling future automatic beer duty rise! Check out the full story here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21876455

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Bottle cap trick!

Another great bar trick to wins some beers from your friends!

Did you know? #9

As we mentioned before beer has been written in the history of the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamia. It possibly even dates back to early Neolithic or 9500 BC making it one of the oldest prepared beverages on Earth!

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Old Speckled Hen

The next beer to join the list is Old Speckled Hen and takes 4th place with a score of 79! Another excellent beer!

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Save the economy...buy British Beer!

Help the UK recover from the recession by buying British beer. Just one of the ways the government is suggesting that we can help our economy is to buy British products and get the multiplier effect really going on our Great island! Is there any better excuse to go to the pub?

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Did you know? #8

By 3000 BC the Egyptians were brewing at least 6 different beers!

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Psychic lemon

Another bar trick to help you win pints off your mates!

Tiger

Next to hit the board is Tiger beer taking 4th place with a BBB score of 78! Pretty good, but if you want to change it, comment a score and we shall recalculate!

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Did you know? #7

A Gill is a unit of measurement equal to a quater of a pint (142ml) and is still in use in the Isle of Man and Japan where they measure units of spirits in fifths of a Gill.
The quarter-gill was the most popular unit size in Scotland and is still in use today in Ireland. In southern England they call this a 'Noggin'.

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Abbot Ale

A high entry this time with Abbot Ale scoring 80 and placing joint 2nd! Of course with that it pushes another off the top 10 position securing it's place near the top, unfortunately missing the number 1 spot by just one point! Want to change this? Just comment a score...

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Isle of Man new alcohol measurements scrapped

Currently draught beer must be sold in pints, half pints or the lesser known one-third measurement.
They had planned on introducing a quater and two-third pint size after the liquor trade asked for the changes, however, the OFT (Office for Fair Trading) found that people were "unanimously opposed to the changes".

In the Isle of Man they also measure spirits in quarters of a gill, as they do in Japan, unlike the UK's 25 or 35ml size. Personally I like that they are keeping the old, traditional measurements, what do you think?

Read the full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-21699776

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Freezer

A great trick to amaze your mates and maybe win yourself a few beers in bets!

Hathersage

There's nothing like a good long walk and a stop in an old pub. And on that note, are there any beers near/in Hathersage, Derbyshire that you think deserve to be on the board?

Did you know? #6

What do you call a collector of beer bottles?
(No, it's not a joke)

A labeorphilist.

Carlsberg

This, our 11th entry has finally knocked one of the beers from the top 10 spot. Carlsberg enters our table with a score of 65 placing 8th and so knocks Steamin' Billy Bitter from the board. To see the full board go to our Full Leader Board page where we will continue to display all the beers sampled, and if you want to get your favourite back into the top 10 you can vote there too!

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Real Ale/Craft Beer, know the difference?

Want to know the difference between Craft Beer and Real Ale? Here's a helpful article which delves into the details that set the two apart...

Independent - Dish of the Day

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Did you know? #5

Before 1850, when beer began to be stored and sold in bottles, people would have to walk to their local tavern with special buckets to fill and carry home where they could store it!

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Peroni Nastro Azzuro

Again another beer that does not hold its origins in Britain yet bought here and so qualifies for the board! Being such a popular beer you would expect it to be a high scorer...and it doesn't disappoint with a score of 74, placing it 5th in the table. If you think it deserves higher, or should be taken down a few pegs, comment a score and we will recalculate!

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