Beer

[Inchlaggan]

That got your attention in the Flies and Tying Section, didn't it?
My soon-to-be neighbour is building his new home beside me.
I have been helping out with little errands and the loan of various items from the workshop where he is amused by the amount of fishing tackle on display.
It turns out he is a bit of an expert on beer and a home brew fanatic, no bad thing in a neighbour.
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He has presented me with a beer to try, the first and only one I have ever come across dedicated to fly-fishers, and rather nice it is too. Just the thing to have to hand for a session at the bench.
Here you go, you should be able to get it at your local supermarket.

http://www.hall-woodhouse.co.uk/beer/blandford-flyer

Any other drinks dedicated to fly-fishing?

[Fishtales]

Take your pick

http://www.dryflydistilling.com/

[Wildfisher]

are brown beers specially deigned for dry fly fishing?     :worms

[Clan Chief]

Interesting! Funnily enough for some time now I have been enjoying a bottle of red wine now and a again and a bottle which caught my eye a while back is this one. I have no idea which is a good bottle or otherwise as I buy what ever is on offer for a fiver at the supermarket. The label on this one caught my ettention and I rather enjoy drinking it too. Oh and by the way the tail looks a bit big on that fly.  :lol:

[Allan Crawford]

It turns out he is a bit of an expert on beer and a home brew fanatic, no bad thing in a neighbour.
Still not a suitable post for this section? Just wait!

Great neighbour to have 

[Wildfisher]

Well I don't know  about fishing  connections but I am sitting here supping a bottle of Greene King Abbot Ale - one of the finest beers in the world imho.

I suppose we could make a contrived connected with the Abbots Barton Fishery on The Test, even although  it is brewed in Suffolk.  :lol:

If you have not tried it do so, it is superb and many supermarkets sell it, sometimes on special offer (get it before Wee Eck bans that practise). You can say what you like, but the English brew some the best ale in the world.

[corsican dave]

i would have to put in a strong vote for worthington's white shield as possibly the best bottled beer in the world, but even as an english-man i have to admit that the belgians know a thing or two about fine ales: corsendonk would be top of the heap for me with liefman's frambosen or kriek not far behind.

incidentally, the anderson at fortrose (black isle) is an absolute gem for the belgian beer afficionado. frambosen on draft :shock: check it out sometime, but be prepared to book a room  :lol:

sorry, no fishing in this post

[Wildfisher]

25 odd years ago I did a lot of brewing, proper beer, mashing malt etc. I used Worthington's White Shield to culture yeast. Buy a bottle, let it settle drink all but the bottom inch + sediment and use it as a starter. It made real beer with none of the off tastes sometimes associated with home brewing. Can you still get White Shield? Only place I ever found t was in The Prince Of Wales in Aberdeen. A wondrous beer indeed.

[Clan Chief]

i have to admit that the Belgians know a thing or two about fine ales:

I particularly like Leffe Blond and Braun. Best ever in my opinion!

[corsican dave]

25 odd years ago I did a lot of brewing, proper beer, mashing malt etc. I used Worthington's White Shield to culture yeast. Buy a bottle, let it settle drink all but the bottom inch + sediment and use it as a starter. It made real beer with none of the off tastes sometimes associated with home brewing. Can you still get White Shield? Only place I ever found t was in The Prince Of Wales in Aberdeen. A wondrous beer indeed.

morrisons inverness.!presumably elsewhere too. not the cheapest: around £2.50, which is top end for morrisons. i'll lay in a few bottles for the reiff stravaig in august