Canned beers

[zico martin]

14 minutes ago, rubenz said:

A crate of speckled hen was the ale of choice for last year. Reckon I might just go all out on the thatchers haze cider this year though 

yeah speckled hen was my tipple last time, decent when 'not cold' and often included in tesco crate offers!

[dingbat2]

Hoffmeister

 

Or Norseman

 

Can anyone else remember Norseman, does it still exist?

[mario man]

3 hours ago, balti-pie said:

Tanglefoot - its very sessionable cold, and it's more than ok not cold: as a premium best it's a decent strength.

Dark Star revelation - 5.7% of wonderful dark hoppy tastiness. The APA is probably a better beer, but revelation is stronger, and less reliant on being cool. Wicked looking cans too 

 

My mate bought a couple of casks of Dark Star last year, we took one with us each day (taking turns to carry, a fairly heavy load at the beginning of the day!) and it went down a treat

i also always take a few cans of Tanglefoot, sort of a tradition now. However there are so many ales in cans now I may have to do some taste testing in the lead up 

Edited May 18, 2016 by mario man

[fur_q]

13 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

I bloody love Tribute and drank my bodyweight (which is a lot) of this stuff in Newquay last year.  Never seen it in cans though.  Any idea which retailers I should be looking for???  This could be my Glasto breakfast drink of choice.

Only ever seen it in Waitrose, but you can buy cases from the brewery  website, somewhere in the region of £35 including delivery. 

[6t6o6m]

https://untappd.com/user/double_chocolate_stout/checkin/311750977

I'm taking 12 cans of this stuff to mix it up. 

[beardedbapple]

Speckled hen , tangle foot and also abbot ale are my choice in a can. Would love to buy brew dog punk ipa in a can at a reasonable price tho

[kh24]

Great thread! There defo seems to be more decent canned beer around just in this last year.  Quick scan of the supermarket websites has all the usual canned suspects (speckled hen, hobgoblin etc) but the following too from asda and tesco: 

Tesco all currently 4 for £6: Brewdog (Punk IPA) Brooklyn (East IPA - a personal fave), Vocation (Life and Death, Pride and Joy, Heart and Soul) also various Adnams and Anchor California Lager. 

Asda £6.50 x 4: Brewdog (Punk, Dead Pony, This is Lager), also at Asda Innis and Gunn Lager Beer (500ml x 4 cans £5.00), 

Special shout out for Vocation being a local-ish brewery to me. All of theirs mentioned above are delicious. 

[Homersexual]

I'm not really a beer drinker but I've recently discovered Hoegaarden and I like it a lot. It doesn't come in cans though. Any connoisseurs know of a similar white beer that does come in cans?

[Timberford]

Marks & Spencer are doing 25% off if you buy 6 beers at the moment and they've got loads of cans. So far i've picked up:

• Northern Monk 'Session IPA' (4.1%)
• Founders 'All Day IPA' (4.7%) 
• Hoppy Joe Red Ale (4.7%)
• Lucky Jack APA (4.7%)
• Fourpure 'Pils' (4.7%)

Also Majestics selection of beer is really good, I've picked up cans of:

• Brew Dog 'Jack Hammer' (7.2%)
• Purity 'Longhorn IPA' (5%)

No idea what these are like out of the fridge but should be fun finding out!

[4AssedMonkey]

1 hour ago, fur_q said:

Only ever seen it in Waitrose, but you can buy cases from the brewery  website, somewhere in the region of £35 including delivery. 

***ALERT***

staustellbreweryshop.co.uk

Buy 2 x 24 trays of Tribute and get a 3rd free and free delivery.  So that's 72 cans (500ml) of lovely pale ale for £76 delivered to your door.  Bargain.  Bought mine.

[dondo]

1 hour ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

I bloody love Tribute and drank my bodyweight (which is a lot) of this stuff in Newquay last year.  Never seen it in cans though.  Any idea which retailers I should be looking for???  This could be my Glasto breakfast drink of choice.

Following on from reading this thread have just ordered some Tribute direct from brewery as I too love it (and partly why Cornish Arms one of my favourite bars on site)

3 cases for price of 2 so works out about a quid a can 

https://www.staustellbreweryshop.co.uk/p/tribute-ale-24-x-500ml-cans-buy-2-get-3rd-free/

72 cans should keep me going!  Probably won't take them all and save some for WOMAD in July

 

[SophieBee]

Another vote for Fursty Ferret here - has been our beer of choice for the last couple of times we've gone and it drinks well whatever the weather, so I expect we'll be bringing a few of those along. I am feeling inspired by some of these suggestions though, I didn't know that some of those were available in cans. The choice of canned ales has really improved and it may be time to branch out a bit! 

[beardedbapple]

Definitely agree with the fursty ferret as well nice all rounder that is. Anyone ever seen bishop's finger in can form?

[Hovis]

7 hours ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

What do people recommend? Needs to be in a can (obviously, or maybe a minikeg/polypin), taste alright when not been in a fridge, and preferably, not cost the earth.

Real ale wise, I'm a big fan of cans of Tribute. 4.2%, still tastes fine when it's been in your bag for a while, and although not the cheapest ale, isn't too costly. If you're in or around Cornwall, you may be able to get cans of it fairly cheaply in your local supermarket/offy. If not you can get it delivered from the brewery.

We've also taken polypins of Doom Bar in the past to keep at base camp. Survives the sunshine surprisingly well, and makes a fine breakfast drink!

With 'craft beers', in previous years it's been more difficult to get them in cans rather than bottles, but they're increasingly available in the familiar cylindrical metal container. My picks for last year, based on taste when warm and affordability, were:

• Brewdog Dead Pony - 3.8% APA so perfect session strength, great citrussy taste (even when warm), and cheap for a craft beer - now £5.46 for 4 in Morrisons
• Thwaites Crafty Dan 13 Guns - 5.5% American IPA, more classic tasting hoppyness, tastes good away from the fridge and again good value - 4 for £6 in Morrisons
• Beavertown Bloody 'Ell - 7.2% Blood Orange IPA, delicious orangey goodness and at that strength enormously good fun, although you don't want to be carrying too many of these around if you want to last the day - £2.70 from BeerMerchants. Beavertown's whole range is great tbh, save for the disappointing session strength Neck Oil.

There are now lots of new craft beers this year. Vocation brewery's stuff in particular is all fantastic, passes the warm can test, and some of it is now on at 4 for £6 in Tescos.

I'm a big fan of Beavertown beers,  definitely recommend gamma Ray by them,  lovely hoppy pale ale which isn't effected to much by the heat.  

Love 13 guns as well 

I Just took cans of speckled hen last year but looking foreword to taking a more exciting mix this year.  

[maclauk]

A second recommendation for Weston's Wyld Wood in a box. Great volume per weight ratio. Drinks well when not properly chilled. Can be taken round in a box or decanted into empty water bottles at the festival. It's been the drink I take to Glastonbury for a decade now.

 

Also the celebration drink for having pitched the tent : M&S mojito in a can. Needs to be icy...

Edited May 19, 2016 by maclauk
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[morph100]

Are the 5 litre mini kegs too heavy to carry round? I'm in the Motorhome field so can knock a few pints off before lugging it round for the day...

[morph100]

Also do any breweries do mixed cases of cans?

[koj]

11 hours ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

***ALERT***

staustellbreweryshop.co.uk

Buy 2 x 24 trays of Tribute and get a 3rd free and free delivery.  So that's 72 cans (500ml) of lovely pale ale for £76 delivered to your door.  Bargain.  Bought mine.

Think you'd struggle to get it cheaper than this. Most of the supermarkets in Cornwall stock it but it's about £5.50 for 4 and hasn't been on any form of promotion since I started checking in Feb.

[Brave Sir Robin]

14 minutes ago, morph100 said:

Are the 5 litre mini kegs too heavy to carry round?

No, I did so last year. However, I wouldn't recommend it, the beer didn't really like being sloshed around like that. OK to carry to your first stage and put down but not for much more than that. Best left at base for breakfast/night caps.

14 minutes ago, morph100 said:

Also do any breweries do mixed cases of cans?

Don't know but some sites do, eg http://www.beerhawk.co.uk/craft-cans-mixed-case-15-cans. Over £50 on there is free delivery, and I think there are some discount codes knocking about.

[Jugtanion]

13 hours ago, kh24 said:

Great thread! There defo seems to be more decent canned beer around just in this last year.  Quick scan of the supermarket websites has all the usual canned suspects (speckled hen, hobgoblin etc) but the following too from asda and tesco: 

Tesco all currently 4 for £6: Brewdog (Punk IPA) Brooklyn (East IPA - a personal fave), Vocation (Life and Death, Pride and Joy, Heart and Soul) also various Adnams and Anchor California Lager. 

Asda £6.50 x 4: Brewdog (Punk, Dead Pony, This is Lager), also at Asda Innis and Gunn Lager Beer (500ml x 4 cans £5.00), 

Special shout out for Vocation being a local-ish brewery to me. All of theirs mentioned above are delicious. 

Great shout for all of these. Vocation Life and Death is my all time favourite beer, and I was going to get 24 cans from Eebria until I found it on sale for £1.50 a can in tesco. Not sure how I felt about that as the availability of it at tesco somehow made it feel less special, that said I'll be rolling around for 5 days with a belly full of it come 5 weeks time.

[Familiar2billions]

Great shout on the Tribute! Me and 2 mates ordered 3 crates of it last night so we're rather pleased with having 24 cans of beautiful beer each for only a quid a can. Our main aim was to make sure we had a much better beer selection this time round as we left it too late last year and just ended up buying a shed load of standard larger in ASDA the night before. Now i have my crate of Tribute to keep topping my bag up with i just need to get some 'treat' beers to enjoy straight out the cooler at my tent. The Sierra Nevada Torpedo is lovely out of a can and certainly a good kick starter at 7.2%, also rather pleased that a lot of the brew dog stuff comes in cans now too. I just wish Meantime would can some of their stuff... Having an ice cold London IPA as i emerge from my tent in South Park is the dream!

[evilduck]

Do any of the supermarkets sell Beavertown? I'm only after about 8 or so cans of assorted beers to take to supplement my alcohol supplies, so I don't fancy putting in a big online order.

[balti-pie]

Waitrose often sell local stuff, so depending on whereabouts you are they could well have some Beavertown. Mine has dark star and burning sky. 

[simonizer]

Does anyone know if/where you can get a 24 slab of Fursty ferret ?

 

[Brave Sir Robin]

16 minutes ago, evilduck said:

Do any of the supermarkets sell Beavertown? I'm only after about 8 or so cans of assorted beers to take to supplement my alcohol supplies, so I don't fancy putting in a big online order.

Not to my knowledge. You can buy 6 cans of Gamma Ray, or Smog Rocket, for about £15 delivered from Amazon, or a mixed case of 10 for about £30. You might find it a little cheaper in a good beer shop but it's pricey stuff wherever you can get it.