I like this — what should I try next?

Common starting points

Beers a great many people have had, and which lead somewhere interesting.

• Guinness Draught — Guinness. The nitrogen-dispensed Irish dry stout that is, for most of the world, what "stout" means — and a much lighter, drier beer than its colour suggests.
• Old Speckled Hen — Morland. A malt-forward strong bitter with heavy toffee character, and a clear case of a beer outliving the brewery that created it.
• Hobgoblin — Wychwood. A dark, toffee-and-chocolate strong bitter that reached national supermarket distribution when the category was contracting.
• Chimay Blue — Chimay. The most widely distributed Trappist dark strong ale, and for many drinkers the first Belgian beer of any depth they encounter.
• Hoegaarden — Brouwerij Hoegaarden. The beer that revived witbier from extinction and made it one of the most widely brewed styles in the world.
• Samuel Adams Boston Lager — Samuel Adams. A Vienna-style amber lager that introduced a great many American drinkers to a beer with malt character, and a useful bridge out of mass-market lager.
• Abbot Ale — Greene King. A full, fruity strong bitter with unusually wide British distribution, and for many drinkers the default "premium bitter".
• St Austell Tribute — St Austell. A Cornish golden ale that became one of Britain’s best-selling cask beers, and a good example of the modern pale, citrus-tinged bitter.