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niko_cee
27-08-2022, 05:38 PM
Gone off the box and have a [special edition] Vocation Roll With It DDH IPA which is good.
Just had my first bubble tea. I’m a fan.
Raoul Duke
29-08-2022, 08:40 PM
Had a Northern Monk Passion Fruit Lassi IPA at the weekend. Outrageously good and one of my favourite beers. Need to go back to the shop and pick up a bunch more
I think the beer shop near my work has that in. Might need to check it out if it's that good.
Received an email regarding preorder discount for the Brewdog advent calendar. Errr, nope! (If any randomer finds this post via Google or whatever, do not get the Brewdog Advent Calendar.)
Might start browsing for some alternatives though - I don’t have Ian’s brother in law to trade one with. :worried:
Thankfully some of the less terrible beer websites have messages saying it’s too early to provide much information. For example, Beerwulf just says 14 exclusive beers (IPAs, lagers, pale ales & more) and it will be 24 beers from 24 brewers, which sounds like a nice mix but I’d worry there’s nothing too exotic in there. I want NEIPAs and milkshakes and stuff that I’ve definitely never even seen, nevermind tasted)
Last years Beer52 advent calendar offered 24 fresh craft beers from 14 different countries with 16 different styles from the likes of Browar Stu Mostów, North Brewing Co, Lervig, Fierce Beer, To Øl, Peninsula, and many more. Certainly an option.
Virgin Wines actually list all 24 beers (https://www.virginwines.co.uk/beer-advent-calendar) and after checking the first 7, consider my interest piqued
Anyone know of any that aren’t in the first 5 Google results, who deserve my money this December?
I think Beerhawk and Beer52 did ones which had all calendar-exclusives, if I were buying one I'd be doing something like that.
Totally forgot about this though, I'll need to check if me and my brother in law are doing it again and get started.
My brother got me a Don Papa dark rum and it’s absolutely tremendous. Highly recommend if that’s your thing.
Giggles
10-09-2022, 03:08 PM
Now that Beavertown are as good as dead, were they much of a thing the past few years? I remember their stuff being very good back in the day and a few I bought earlier this year were very good.
What happened there? Neck Oil seemed to pop up on draught in quite a lot of my local spots the last year or so.
Giggles
10-09-2022, 03:16 PM
Heineken bought the last 51% they didn’t already have.
Their basic stuff is still basically the same and they never had a massive turnover of more interesting things anyway.
Giggles
10-09-2022, 04:35 PM
Neck Oil was always class but then again so was Lagunitas before the accountants “optimised” the recipes.
Now that Beavertown are as good as dead, were they much of a thing the past few years? I remember their stuff being very good back in the day and a few I bought earlier this year were very good.
Their glasses are (were?) very good.
I'm on IPApricot by Pilot first. It's not up to their usual standard but it's a decent one to kick me off for the evening.
Their glasses are (were?) very good.
I’m out now. Still “are” :thbup:
https://www.sirencraftbrew.com/item/767/SirenCraftBrew/Titanic-Turmoil.html
Is delicious. Quite sweet so it's a sipper (well, that plus the strength) but it's really good. Treated myself to it as I had a voucher for a Siren order.
Twitter thread recommending different advent calendars:
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Giggles
20-09-2022, 06:27 PM
They’re all bad because the selection will never be as good as you, or someone you always drink with, would select.
I’m not fussy and would prefer to get stuff I’ve not had before, so prefer buying it ready made for me. I appreciate I might be in the minority with that opinion though.
The Hop Burns & Black one (https://www.hopburnsblack.co.uk/products/the-hbb-big-beery-advent-calendar-202224-can-box) seems popular but not sure about paying £133. I like that they don’t list the beers though. I like surprises.
Been alerted to this Brewexport (https://brewexport.co.uk/products/2022-advent-calendar-3-payments) advent calendar. All import american beers, so will never have had them before.
niko_cee
22-09-2022, 08:34 PM
Picked up a few Wiper and True beers the other day. An IPA called Sundance which was alright, and a Milk Stout going by the title of Milkshake with a golden space shuttle logo which is really rather good. Maybe Broken Dream good.
Wiper and True
I really like their Small Beer. Feel like you could drink unlimited cans of it one sunny Sunday while sorting the garden out.
Wiper and True's Milk Shake is a really decent milk stout.
Giggles
23-09-2022, 04:29 PM
It's red ale weather now so I've got myself a slab of Pikeman Red.
niko_cee
25-09-2022, 05:50 PM
Wiper and True's Milk Shake is a really decent milk stout.
Went to get a couple more. Just realised on drinking that I managed to get one, but their near identical branding meant the second was actually a Sundance IPA, which is fine until you start trying to pour it into the end of the last stout. :cab:
Went to get a couple more. Just realised on drinking that I managed to get one, but their near identical branding meant the second was actually a Sundance IPA, which is fine until you start trying to pour it into the end of the last stout. :cab:
:D
Excellent work.
Giggles
30-09-2022, 03:45 PM
The CBC lads have done another very good doc. Well worth a watch.
English IPA is about the top of the tree for me if I had to pick one style I love.
I’ve got myself some Impossibrew (https://impossibrew.co.uk/products/impossibrew®-pale-2-0)
Giggles
22-10-2022, 01:30 PM
Like every 0% that ever came before it, guaranteed to be shite.
Shindig
22-10-2022, 01:41 PM
Non alcoholic stuff seems so bloody pointless. Is there anyone in life that needs to pretend to drink?
Like every 0% that ever came before it, guaranteed to be shite.
Nah there are some good ones. Mash Gang are pretty good.
Not sure what this one’s “you’ll feel the buzz” gimmicks all about though.
Big Drop stuff is alright as well. Personally I'd still rather just not have a beer I think but there's still a very clear difference between yer old Kaliber type shit and the breweries trying to do it right.
Easy to say when you’ve no option to have a drink. Plus beer is delicious.
Giggles
22-10-2022, 04:30 PM
Low alcohol beer isn’t beer though. I’d much rather have a coke or lucozade too if I was driving or something.
Low alcohol beer isn’t beer though. I’d much rather have a coke or lucozade too if I was driving or something.
I don’t get that. Beer tastes much nicer.
Giggles
22-10-2022, 05:20 PM
I don’t get that. Beer tastes much nicer.
Indeed it does. Wishy washy metallic 0% beer doesn’t.
Indeed it does. Wishy washy metallic 0% beer doesn’t.Youre getting the wrong ones. Sure the ones that are [existing beer] ZERO are crap like Becks Blue or Erdinger Alkoholfrei, but the ones brewed just to be standalone non/low alcoholic beers are good.
This one is delicious. Looking forward to feeling the ENHANCED calming effects from the nootropic plants or whatever it claims.
Shindig
23-10-2022, 12:46 AM
Probably cancer. Everything gives you cancer.
I've had a few non-alcoholic beers, and some are alright. Lucky Saint, for example, I've actively chosen in a pub when I saw it on draught.
First pint of my trip down to That London I went for a 3.8% Dark Star Hophead which is decent but unexciting, but I knew it wouldn't last long after all the walking in surprisingly pleasant weather.
Also Giggles what's up with the term 'bottle shop'? Thought I'd ask here rather than do a tedious beer chat in the Travel thread.
Giggles
26-10-2022, 02:26 PM
Off licence.
niko_cee
26-10-2022, 02:26 PM
Bottle shop is what they call off licences in Australia, where they have fucking weird laws about the sale of alcohol (not allowed in supermarkets for example).
An off license is somewhere you go to buy stuff that just gets you pissed. A bottle shop has stuff I might actually want to drink.
niko_cee
26-10-2022, 04:28 PM
Wanky beer shop?
If you like?
But not necessarily. I know ones which do all sorts (decent beer, wine, spirits, etc.) which I don't think of as an offy and wouldn't brand themselves as such. Not that they'd likely call themselves a bottle shop either, that distinction may be entirely made up by me.
The offys I've been to have basically just been the booze aisles of a supermarket condensed down and with less good options of everything.
I'm not really precious about it anyway, "bottle shop" just seemed to be an odd cloud for Giggles to be yelling at.
:D
I mean I hit post and realised I'd typed all that about it so maybe I'm vaguely muttering at clouds or something.
Anyway, popped into the Brewdog in Hammersmith. Their selection is pretty poor. Have got London Black by Anspach and Hobday though which I've enjoyed so one good beer and move on methinks.
Giggles
26-10-2022, 05:34 PM
Never heard them called anything other than an off licence, or maybe off-sales, even the ones that don’t sell macro beers. Bottle shop definitely falls into the wanky side of craft beer.
Anyway, it almost exclusively comes in cans now.
Speaking of wanky, on my way to get dinner somewhere I dipped into a place for a beer that has fairly standard pub vibes but in amongst the selection of local pale ales they have Westmalle on tap and serve it in the big goblets and everything.
I presume you had one and the glass is currently about your person?
Yes and no, for I am not a thief. (Also I'm pretty sure you can get them for nowt.)
Coral Beer and Pina Coladas mostly.
Previously times in London I HAVEN'T properly noticed the London Prices thing. Seeing it a lot now, especially for the increasingly ubiquitous Beavertown.
Innattentively bought an £8.40 pint by the Kernel earlier which was a bit eye watering. Very decent stout but it wasn't some barrel aged Imperial thing, just a mad overpriced beer.
Shindig
28-10-2022, 07:33 AM
£2.10 for a pint of John Smith's up here. :cool:
So people are getting ripped off everywhere then. :(
Shindig
28-10-2022, 07:50 AM
It might just be more representative of the area, to be honest. Tiny town, lots of pubs on the main drag and they all do business.
That definitely contributes. I can get a £2.50 pint then go ten minutes down the road and get the same pint for £4. Alright, the second pub might have a fireplace and some arty shit on the walls but so what. I grew up in dives so it doesn't bother me.
niko_cee
28-10-2022, 08:36 AM
You can get the former for the price of the latter [and some] here. :moop:
niko_cee
11-11-2022, 05:09 PM
Tonight's menu contains Lemon-Dayz [a cloudy lemonade IPA] by Magic Rock, as well as a Phoenix IPA from Buxton and a Broken Dream.
The lemon one is alright. Slightly weird up front, sort of sherbert lemon-like] but saved [from being a Jubel style nightmare] by being sufficiently bitter at the end.
I've spent the better part of a month trying to get a "next day" delivery from Trembling Madness because DX are an absolutely disgraceful delivery service it would seem. To the point that while TM were banging their head against the wall trying to get them to deliver to my flat they told me they'd switch back to Parcelforce because of this. :D
Order's cancelled now but they're refunding me and giving me a £15 voucher on top for my trouble so fair play. Got to get my brother in law's advent calendar finished up.
I don't have anything desperately exciting in for tonight. Couple of Northern Monk IPAs, a couple of other ones I forget what they are and a new milk stout from Badger which I'll set my hopes low for.
niko_cee
11-11-2022, 05:49 PM
Yeah, the Badger thing is ok at best.
niko_cee
11-11-2022, 06:19 PM
Not had a Buxton for a while and this Phoenix thing is top notch. For me they're up there with Siren and Deya as Tier 1 sources [of beer].
Buxton are really good, never had a duffer from them.
This was a fun education:
https://www.timeout.com/uk/food-and-drink/what-is-madri-lager-and-how-did-it-take-over-british-pubs
Jimmy Floyd
11-11-2022, 07:32 PM
I read that a while back, at first thinking 'Ah, the cynical bastards!' but on reflection, good luck to Madri and the pubs who do well out of it. Never seen anyone unhappy with a pint of the stuff.
I read that a while back, at first thinking 'Ah, the cynical bastards!' but on reflection, good luck to Madri and the pubs who do well out of it. Never seen anyone unhappy with a pint of the stuff.
Me at Wigan Athletic vs Gillingham. It’s shite.
Giggles
11-11-2022, 08:17 PM
It’s Molsons slightly better than normal generic dirt to go up against Moretti being the same thing for Heineken isn’t it?
Jimmy Floyd
11-11-2022, 08:22 PM
It might be shite if you have your own beer website and note down all the ones you've drunk, but for the common man (I've picked this phrase up from Indian English and love using it), if he has a better night having five Madris than he does having five Coors Lights then good luck to him. Plus pubs need to sell gallons of this stuff to stay afloat, not everyone's going for the connoisseur's choice.
niko_cee
11-11-2022, 09:18 PM
Madri always struck me as being extremely cynical [the places it seemed to appear in first were major red flags] but then it's all a big game so who cares. They obviously lawyered it carefully enough so the Estrella people couldn't come after them. Does the job on a hot day, sometimes. Jimmy's Common Man [Clapham Omnibus and all] loves a 'European style lager'. At least Madri rolls in under 5%.
My local is a bit of a dive so stocks the usual Fosters, Carling, Coors. Obviously I’m too posh for those and they got on the Madri bandwagon a couple of months ago after the landlord buckled under the pressure of the brewery to chance a lager north of £3. It’s nice enough to not have to drink Guinness all the time now.
Jimmy Floyd
11-11-2022, 09:44 PM
I can't remember when I last saw Carling on tap. Maybe in a spoons. In the shittest pub I go to they have Coors on tap but no one buys it. Think southerners are just more willing to spend money, even the drooling old men with a life expectancy of next week who can barely string a sentence together.
There’s literally people in my local that drink Fosters because it’s 5p cheaper than anything else.
niko_cee
11-11-2022, 09:49 PM
Surely no one buys Coors because it is both shite, and culturally long term shite, sort of in the same way that Heineken suffered in the UK for decades on the back of their 70s/80s low volume pisswater offerings.
I've probably said before but one of the OG Camra pubs over here used to also stock Carling on tap and it was consistently their best seller [like outstripping everything by multiples with many other main line lagers on offer]. Most people go for familiarity. You'd be mad to go against it. [Pub now sold and no longer stocks Carling].
Coors is somewhat popular in both my local and my cricket club. One of the few lagers that gives me a bad head, whether it be via one pint or ten. Fuck knows what they put in it.
Jimmy Floyd
11-11-2022, 10:01 PM
My club has Asahi on tap, look at us. At £4.50 it's by far the cheapest pint in town but the kids still eschew it in favour of rum and Rio served from a 2 litre jug. It's great to watch young lives being ruined.
Coors gets a lot of undue stick for me, strange physical reaction from Ben as its weakness is what attracted me to it initially. The 2 that I don't like having a sesh on are Hells and Neckoil, both leave a real aftertaste up to 12 hours after.
This was a fun education:
https://www.timeout.com/uk/food-and-drink/what-is-madri-lager-and-how-did-it-take-over-british-pubs
Good read. I was wondering where the hell it had come from. It's actually pretty good for what it is
Yeah, the Badger thing is ok at best.
Was it Milk Made you had? Because yeah, it's Fine.
Giggles
12-11-2022, 07:05 PM
Got my first Leann Follain in ages today. Fucking savage.
niko_cee
12-11-2022, 07:11 PM
Was it Milk Made you had? Because yeah, it's Fine.
Yeah, that was the one.
Yeah, they overdo the lactose a bit methinks.
Got my first Leann Follain in ages today. Fucking savage.
Man, I've not had one in ages.
Giggles
12-11-2022, 07:37 PM
Yeah, they overdo the lactose a bit methinks.
Man, I've not had one in ages.
Apparently a nitro can version coming for Christmas :drool:
Oh yeah, I'd be into that.
Got to get my brother in law's advent calendar finished up.
What's in there?
I'll let you know when it's complete. Not got my spreadsheet on my phone to easily put what I've got at the moment just now.
Giggles
12-11-2022, 08:51 PM
I want someone to make me one.
What's in there?
Cloudwater Smoked Lager - Lager
Squawk Corvus - Stout
Gweilo Peanut Butter & Raspberry Jam - Pale
Brew York Tonkoko - Stout
Pilot Hellzapoppin! - Lager
WANDER BEYOND POD - Black IPA
WILD HORSE X RIVINGTON PEDALLING SQUARES - Porter
TRACK MADE IN THE SHADE - Porter
WILD HORSE MR MILLS' CIRCUS - Stout
Siren Lumina - IPA
Tiny Rebel 10th Birthday - Quad
Brewdog Rattle & Rum - Stout
Vocation Maple Glaze - Stout
Northern Monk Scafell - IPA
Vault City Strawberry Sundae - Sour
Left Handed Giant x Clifton Chilli Club The Holy Trinity Imperial Stout - Stout
To Ol Blizzard (In A Beer Mug) - NEIPA
Atom Spiral Galaxies Lime & Lemondrop Sour IPA - Sour IPA
Lervig Jule Bock Dark Lager - Dark Lager
Simple Things Fermentation Seasonals Belgian Christmas - Belgian Ale
Pomona Island And The Crowd Goes Mild - Mild
New Bristol x Wander Beyond Christmas Pudding & Clotted Cream Imperial Stout - Stout
UnBarred Caribbean Quad - Quad
Brass Castle Disruptor - NEIPA
The order is purely the order I bought them in, I'll sort the actual order next week when I pack it up. Copied the styles column too as names alone aren't always very clear for seeing what sort of mix I've gone for. It's weighted toward the darks because we both like those best for the most part but I tried not to go too mad with that.
Couple of cheats for double breweries but they're part of collabs so I've decided it's okay.
https://www.weebeershop.co.uk/product/brew-york-whisky-flatpack-fika-fuel/
This is lovely stuff.
Giggles
18-11-2022, 07:32 PM
I’m having some mediocre paint-by-numbers beers I picked up on the way home.
Raoul Duke
18-11-2022, 08:29 PM
Visited the Uiltje bottle shop near me and picked up some supplies, including a mental Hallowe'en beer which is blueberry pumpkin-spice latte sour. Not bad
Similarly I had a Vault City blackcurrant choc chip waffle thing early. It was good, but Vault City know what they're doing with this shit.
Raoul Duke
18-11-2022, 09:26 PM
I think I have a Vault City something-or-other as well
igor_balis
18-11-2022, 09:27 PM
Anyone got some big mega recommendations for milds/porters/stouts?
So I've bought an advent calendar and just received this email:
Hello Baz!
I have exciting news! In case you weren’t aware, by buying the Advent Calendar you were entered into a lottery to win an opportunity to buy 2021 Timberbeast from Great Notion! You won!
I’ve included the details below. If you’d like to buy this beer, please respond to this email.
2021 Timberbeast
Description: This is an impy stout aged in bourbon barrels for 20 months with Madagascar vanilla beans and Coava coffee. Great Notion says, “This beer was made especially for our most loyal customers and has never seen distribution, so hopefully this suits your fancy.”
ABV: 15.6%
Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Untappd Rating: 4.45
Price: £50
Thank you so much!
Cheers,
Shannon
And a photo:
https://i.imgur.com/fGJEn4z.png
Do I wanna pay £50 for a beer that I probably won't like? :baz:
£50? For one beer? Absolutely not. It sounds delicious to me but fuck that.
Anyone got some big mega recommendations for milds/porters/stouts?
I mean, I've got shitloads. You buying from anywhere in particular?
niko_cee
19-11-2022, 09:44 AM
You have been specially selected.
Could probably shift it to Foe for £100.
I politely declined and got an out of office reply. #smalltime
ClBmVq5D2PS
@simplypints on Instagram is doing a Lager World Cup with a beer from every WC country and I’ve so much time for it. :nod:
Kicked off today with Stella vs Corona. Stella currently leading with 59% of the public vote.
Giggles
25-11-2022, 05:42 PM
Is simply pints onlyscrans?
Jimmy Floyd
25-11-2022, 05:51 PM
Any good indie breweries in Saudi Arabia?
Giggles
25-11-2022, 05:59 PM
They were never very good at head.
Is simply pints onlyscrans?I don’t know what this sentence means.
He’s some bloke from Manchester with a bad haircut who seems to just drink beer everyday. Recently went to Chicago and documented all his drinks in the form of instagram stories. It’s interesting enough to click through, just like the majority of my timeline. Nothing amazing but nothing offensive.
His wife (he got married in vegas last month) is also an Instagram person (I’d say influencer but she just seems to go on holiday?) so it’s either good money to document your entire life and somehow keep people interested, or they got money from somewhere else that’s allowed them a life of dicking about doing what they like.
And good one Jim. I see I misunderstand the concept but it’s still beers from loads of different countries pitted against eachother.
Anyway, enough of this guys wiki, who’s gonna win the lager World Cup? My moneys on Stella but Staropramen look to have a very easy route to the final. Sad that Kingfisher didn’t qualify.
Giggles
25-11-2022, 06:46 PM
Yes that’s him. His main original account is @onlyscrans.
Got an Abor sour called Cherry Fizz Balls. It's the least tart sour I've had in ages. Which I suppose makes it stand out given most sours now they're trying to turn your face inside out.
My advent calendar arrived today. Need to find fridge space for 24 cans. :uhoh:
Lofty
26-11-2022, 07:15 PM
Not usually a stout fan, I used to drink Guinness regularly. Lancaster Black stout is great though.
Day one is a bloody winner:
https://i.imgur.com/5jTqbXc_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium
My brother in law has bantered me good by getting me a Brewdog pale for day 1. It's their Ald IPA and to be fair it's pretty solid.
I got him Vocation Maple Glaze, a maple and coconut stout. No idea if it's good, don't like coconut so I didn't get one for myself.
Day 3 has given me my first ever TIPA: 11% Gravity Palace by Definitive Brewing Company (https://akr.st/oj1WLk)
Yesterday was a 12% barrel aged imperial stout that I couldn’t finish. :baz:
:D
Pussyyyyyy.
Yesterday I gave: a To Ol strong NEIPA type thing. I got Loch by Orkney, a barley wine / strong ale sort of affair, and it was pretty decent.
Today I've been given Oskar Blues bourbon barrel aged Ten Fidy (12.5%.)
So far, what you gave has been better than what you've drank. :(
Also, turns out black stout shits are real. :sick:
In better news, this day three jobby is another cloudy mango juice looking beer (exactly the aesthetic I was hoping for when I spent £150 on 24 cans of beer) and it's delicious.
Eh, I think it's been pretty even so far. The Loch was nice and today I gave him Lervig's Jule Bock which he'll probably like more than I would. And I'm sure I'll enjoy the Ten Fidy when I crack it open shortly.
Giggles
04-12-2022, 04:31 PM
While looking for something else, I just found a 24 box of Tropical Torpedo that I had forgot about after I’d drank two of them :drool:
So yesterday I got Ya Jammy Bas by Cold Town, who are a fairly average brewery and this one just has too much lactose. Today I got a much better one. Fuzzy by the excellent Cloudwater. 4.2% but has a really good flavour to it. A pale you could quite happily drink for an afternoon.
Yesterday I gave one called Corvus by Squawk, a cherry stout which I bought down in Manchester. Had one myself and it's rather decent. Today it was "Belgian Christmas" by Simple Things Fermentations.
Cherry stout sounds good on paper but I once had one that tasted like someone poured a bottle of VK into Guinness.
niko_cee
05-12-2022, 08:56 PM
I saw Northern Monk had some sort of Christmas Edge beer, but, being an 'edge' it was 2.8%, which put me off.
Giggles
05-12-2022, 09:10 PM
I see Wild Beer have gone tits up.
Oh really? That's a shame. Though now you mention it it's ages since I've seen their stuff anywhere.
Cherry stout sounds good on paper but I once had one that tasted like someone poured a bottle of VK into Guinness.
Yeah that sounds grim. This one's a bit more subtle than that.
niko_cee
05-12-2022, 09:34 PM
I would be surprised if many/most don't go out of business in the next year or so.
Wild Beer still seem to have a significant presence in Waitrose, and as I've never been a massive fan of their stuff here's hoping that gets replaced with [more] Buxton or Siren stuff [assuming they have to buy off breweries with scaleable production].
Giggles
05-12-2022, 09:45 PM
Starting to see them drop off here too. We only really seen the explosion during covid but now that people are back to pubs it’s going to be hard for breweries to survive.
Mine's just cold coffee today. Grim.
Me and Baz just having opposite opinions again. Dunno what you had but I do like a cold coffee thing.
I got a decent Loch Lomond black IPA today, and gave a Vault City strawberry sour, which I've had and you could definitely smash through a few.
Me and Baz just having opposite opinions again. Dunno what you had but I do like a cold coffee thing.
I got a decent Loch Lomond black IPA today, and gave a Vault City strawberry sour, which I've had and you could definitely smash through a few.
It was called Cream + Sugar Please (https://untp.beer/zBB72) so the coffee flavour wasn’t exactly a surprise. However, the % was as it was nowhere to be found on the can. 4.9 apparently. Minging, anyway.
Today looks a hit, it’s a hazy DIPA with a trendy can design, called Binge Thinking (https://untp.beer/8QQWM). 8% but looks right up my street.
I’ve also befriended a woman from Wigan on Untappd who has the same advent calendar.
Where would one procure that beverage?
Giggles
07-12-2022, 07:41 PM
Another brewery here went today, not all that relevant, but in the chatter about it I heard Siren are supposedly also in trouble :uhoh:
Where would one procure that beverage?The advent calendar is from Brew Export but they don't seem to have it for sale individually: https://brewexport.co.uk/search?q=answer
Might be worth messaging them on Instagram to see if they have any left.
If Siren go under I'll be gutted.
Today I gave Brewdog Rattle and Rum (rum and oak chip stout) and I got this year's Fairytale of Brew York, by Brew York. It's a stollen milk stout this year. Rather decent. Not massively exciting and it's a Christmassy stout so you know what you're getting but it's very drinkable all the same.
Giggles
07-12-2022, 08:30 PM
Production costs?
That’s what I’ve seen to be the reason in most cases, especially energy. Pubs won’t sell the stuff here either so they’re all up against it relying on cans.
niko_cee
07-12-2022, 09:17 PM
Siren going would be sad, but probably unsurprising. The only business approach to craft brewing is the Beavertown* one, ie create a brand and flog it to one of the big boys. There's a reason brewing is a bit of a global stitch up, must be run on incredibly tight margins, which small guys can never hope to get near, and then you go and double, or triple or whatever the cost of anything and a £4 can suddenly needs to sell for £12 to be viable? Good luck.
*maybe Brewdog.
Today I got Track / Glasshouse's This is the Edge. It's very decent indeed. Not groundbreaking but if you like a fruity, hoppy, IPA-y thing then yeah.
Today I gave.... TBC. He's away and I'm fucked if I can remember what order I put them in.
I forgot to open mine this morning and don't fancy warm Do Mighty Things (https://untappd.com/b/the-brewing-projekt-dare-mighty-things-citra/2236835) so none for tonight, plus I'm out tomorrow, so gonna have a stockpile of three for Saturday.
If you did want it tonight a quick blast in the freezer (or in this weather, outside) would see you right.
Wednesday:
Gave - Pilot's Hellzapoppin. Their "Mexican style corn lager." A really decent lager.
Yesterday:
Got - Unbarred Caribbean Quad. I'd had this before and it's really good.
Gave - Wander Beyond's Pod. An imperial rum and raisin black IPA.
Today:
Got - 26th Anniversary Imperial IPA by Stone.
Gave - Siren's Lumina. Siren are good obvs but that was decent a "decent cheap beer so I could spend elsewhere."
Speaking of Siren they're not doing Caribbean Chocolate Cake this year but doing another 'CCC' set. I'm having the collab with Cycle called "Candour." A 7.8% stout described thusly: 'A thick, rich stout with caramelised dark sugars and layers of Belgian chocolate flavours, interwoven with biscuity vanilla wafer notes.' It's fucking mega. One of the nicest beers I've had in ages.
Today I got Tiny Rebel Sleigh Puft - Terry's. A chocolate orange stout. It's nice, but I'm a sucker for a chocolate orange.
I have this one I mentioned previously:
Dunno if it was a pricing fuck up, a measure fuck up or if they just don't give a shit but I went for a sneaky pre-train pint after work today and the place had on a Tiny Rebel tap takeover. I naturally went for the barrel aged "Belgian Birthday Cake."
Which was 11%, and they gave me a pint of it for £3.50.
Today I got Tiny Rebel Sleigh Puft - Terry's. A chocolate orange stout. It's nice, but I'm a sucker for a chocolate orange.I'm also a sucker for a chocolate orange but ehhh stout. Failed to finish another one today, this time one called Obscurum (https://untappd.com/c/1229317595). Not coffee flavoured this time but just, well, not nice tasting.
Got a bit of a backlog, including a Lemon, Coconut, Raspberry, White Chocolate, Cake Batter Jream (https://untappd.com/b/burley-oak-brewing-company-lemon-coconut-raspberry-white-chocolate-cake-batter-j-r-e-a-m/5032892), which looks disgusting but sounds amazing.
I'd definitely give that a bash.
Today I got another Cold Town one (a raspberry "sour", it's a bit meh) and gave this: https://untappd.com/b/wild-horse-brewing-co-mr-mills-circus/3562258
Got Citra Crush by Brass Castle today. Absolutely my sort of thing, a DDH IPA with grapefruit and lime and stuff.
I gave Scafell by Northern Monk, so today might be the first day we've properly matched on styles.
Untappd do a Spotify Wrapped style “Year In Beer” :cool: Baz’s Year In Beer: https://yearinbeer.untappd.com/share/ZDIwNTI0OWZjOGJmNWQ2Zi0zMlZxK0xITGc4UWlycFFUZVRsUn h3PT0=?fbclid=PAAabGntAGVYi0dB3IvosChCU-CqcJmZekcSAvXJ23PKuhXWXe11B9MJIZ1So
Ratebeer do similar. It usually just makes me hate how much I must have spent. :D
Chocolate and peanut butter stout today :uhoh:
Yesterday:
Gave Made in the Shade by Track, a fairly standard but very decent porter.
Got Pfeffernuse Stout by Anspach and Hobday. A Christmas stout basically. Biscuit, cinnamon, all that jazz. Quite nice.
Today:
Gave Cloudwater's Smoked Lager. Wouldn't be my cuppa but he's into smoked beers so fingers crossed.
Got Jar Nektar, a saison by a Scottish brewery called Hybrid. I've only had two of theirs which I thought were fine about six years ago when I rated them and was much less of a fussy bitch than I am now so not setting my hopes super high.
This is like drinking a Snickers omg :drool:
This is like drinking a Snickers omg :drool:
Can't remember if it's Fierce who do / did a Snickers-themed one too. Probably worth a go if you spot it anywhere.
On the subject of peanut butter....
Today:
Gave Gwei Lo's Peanut Butter Raspberry Pale Ale. Wouldn't be my thing but I reckon he'll like it, I've enjoyed the Gwei Lo's I've had.
Got Big Bock Energy by Heist. It's decent. Expected it to be a bit heftier for a 7+% doppelbock but it's nice.
Any red wine drinkers here?
Giggles
16-12-2022, 08:27 PM
Vocation have that box set of one’s themed off bars too. Definitely a snickers in it.
Giggles
16-12-2022, 08:27 PM
Any red wine drinkers here?
Nope, too hard to clean the walls.
Vocation have that box set of one’s themed off bars too. Definitely a snickers in it.Oh yeah my mate got that for his birthday. Might enquire.
That's an issue with this advent calendar, none of the beers can really be got again.
It's definitely made me a fan of Brew Export though, and will absolutely be ordering from them in the future.
Also another mate (brother of the aforementioned) recently had the option to buy cans from 4Ts brewery with 2 weeks best before date for 10p each. He bought all 350 they had. :lol:
niko_cee
16-12-2022, 08:40 PM
Just cracked a 2014 chateau-neuf-du-pape in anticipation of an early Christmas lunch [beef] tomorrow. I don't have overly high hopes as I'm more of a new world pleb/aged[ish] old world wine can be a bit of an acquired taste, but it's in the decanter and I'll give it a whirl a bit later.
Just cracked a 2014 chateau-neuf-du-pape in anticipation of an early Christmas lunch [beef] tomorrow. I don't have overly high hopes as I'm more of a new world pleb/aged[ish] old world wine can be a bit of an acquired taste, but it's in the decanter and I'll give it a whirl a bit later.
Good stuff.
I asked in here because we got a 2000 Rioja earlier and it was exceptional. The wife has got me on espresso martinis now like a true chav.
Giggles
16-12-2022, 09:43 PM
A chav is better than whatever a red wine drinker is.
niko_cee
16-12-2022, 09:58 PM
Good stuff.
I asked in here because we got a 2000 Rioja earlier and it was exceptional. The wife has got me on espresso martinis now like a true chav.
I started off with a white russian so I'm going in reverse to you. The white russian was better. Haven't got through the sort of fortified taste I always feel these sort of wines bowl in with yet, although it is improving.
I had a really good Rioja the other week, wouldn't have been that old but it had a bit of age on it.
Give me a decent Australian red any day of the week though.
Jimmy Floyd
16-12-2022, 10:30 PM
I find it very difficult to drink the frog stuff compared to new world. It's like sticking on Netflix versus firing up a cine projector to watch some boring old toss with no dialogue.
Shindig
16-12-2022, 10:34 PM
Is there anything about the French you do like?
Jimmy Floyd
16-12-2022, 11:09 PM
Is there anything about the French you do like?
Camembert
Their roads
Almost all of their architecture (Corbusier can do one)
Cézanne
The Pyrenees
Reblochon
Camus
The glorious pathos of Jean Van De Velde
Claude Makélélé
The pantomime villainy of Jean-Marie Balestre
Montmartre
The Normandy countryside
Comté
REALLY French people - like, people who are astoundingly French. Houellebecq and upwards.
That Fred bloke off the telly
La Haine
Yann Tiersen
Philippe Auclair
Edith Piaf
Claude Debussy
Brie
Amélie
MC Solaar
Voltaire
The fact that François Hollande had that affair
Allo Allo
The Bayeux Tapestry
Manu Chao
Onion soup
Literally everything to do with Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Jacques Santini's eyes
Having the cheese course before dessert
Café culture
Roquefort
Philippe Sella
The 1997 Ligier
The smell in one of their myriad town centre food markets
Aligot
Cardinal Richelieu as played by Peter Capaldi in 'The Musketeers'
Lupin
Bonnie and Clyde (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v66HiF91gjQ)
Lake Annecy
1998 World Cup
Pierre Gasly
Orangina
Off the top of my head.
I am prepared to say that anybody who doesn't like Philippe Auclair probably has something very, very wrong with them.
Any red wine drinkers here?
Yeah but I am to red wine appreciates probably what a Tennents die hard would be to a beer wanker like me. Maybe not as bad as that but I don't really tell the difference that much. I like a rioja though.
Absolutely nothing wrong with an Espresso Martini though. Lovely, just too drinkable for the price.
Giggles
17-12-2022, 10:28 AM
Some of you do those beer52 things don’t you? Some car channel I watch has an offer on it at the minute too (just pay postage I think) using ‘salvage’ in the link.
I did a for a bit before realising I'd rather pick my own.
niko_cee
17-12-2022, 10:48 AM
Don they usually give you 1 for free but sign you up for further deliveries which you have to pay for and often people forget to cancel?
Basically. That said when you do phone to cancel they're super chill. They literally just asked me why and then they thanked me and cancelled my subscription, which it's annoying when you can't just do it online but at least they're not dickheads on the phone. Or weren't back then, at least.
You can cancel via email.
Oh can you? Well that's much better then.
You can cancel via email.
What’s the email address to cancel? :eyemouth:
Giggles
17-12-2022, 11:47 AM
That’s a cunt trick not having it on the website.
It's literally in the "Contact Us" section.
Giggles
17-12-2022, 12:49 PM
It's literally in the "Contact Us" section.
I mean not having a cancellation link on the site and making you phone.
Oh. Yeah, it's annoying. Not so bad if they'll do it by email but there should still be a button.
Today I gave Totonko by Brew York. A decent tonka bean stout, and tonka stouts are ace.
My brother in law won today (or I did, depending how you look at it) as he gave me a stout which was a collab with the bloke from the excellent Old Chimneys brewery. 11% impy. Absolute winner.
igor_balis
18-12-2022, 12:55 AM
What about Saint-Saëns, Jimmy Floyd? Organ symphony is great.
Jimmy Floyd
18-12-2022, 01:41 AM
Bit much for my taste, but if you asked me whether I've been gettin' into m' Chopin, particularly the ballade in G minor, then it could have been a different story.
igor_balis
18-12-2022, 02:03 AM
Bit much for my taste, but if you asked me whether I've been gettin' into m' Chopin, particularly the ballade in G minor, then it could have been a different story.
As a proud Pole this sickens me. He's awesome, but he's as Polski as Apple Pierogi.
Take it to the France thread, twerps.
Jimmy Floyd
18-12-2022, 02:11 AM
I've been to his grave and I didn't smell a single dumpling on the metro in, only the nauseating stench of Gauloises. Frogger.
Don't make me tap the sign.
niko_cee
18-12-2022, 08:42 AM
The french red was very much better on day 2, which is good and all but I can't be dealing with that sort of lead time normally.
Any red wine drinkers here?
:wave:
:wave:
:wanker: Call yourself a manc?
Best put the ;) in.
I drink it from a pint glass.
I drink it from a pint glass.
Proper Stone Roses stuff. All forgiven.
niko_cee
19-12-2022, 10:07 PM
Kirkstall's Tangerine Porter is decent. Sufficiently festive, without being over the top or sickly/artificial tasting.
niko_cee
20-12-2022, 08:55 PM
Today's supermarket specials were Siren - Golden Ember Red IPA [very good] and something passionfruity by Seven Brothers which was also pretty good.
Saw Pilot's "New York Sour" in the shop. Having that, in the basket it goes.
Poured it and then properly inspected the can just there and turns out it's a 10.5% bourbon barrel aged sour.
And absolutely delicious.
Magic
23-12-2022, 09:35 PM
Crabbies.
Tomorrow is a sad day. Final day of the best advent calendar ever. :(
My daughters Polly Pocket one has a door for 25. Oh how I wish.
phonics
23-12-2022, 09:59 PM
Tyskie with the occasional Jamesons and Coke inbetween.
Shindig
23-12-2022, 10:03 PM
I'm getting back into the Aberlour. I err ... also won a bottle of Presecco at a work raffle.
My daughters Polly Pocket one has a door for 25. Oh how I wish.
“Back in my day” that was the norm but I haven’t seen a 25 for about 20 years now.
Giggles
24-12-2022, 06:52 AM
I’m sort of glad I made my own because of what the off licenses put into their ones. That said, it was all gone by the 15th because I knew what was in it anyway.
My final can is a 10% chocolate peanut butter porter. :yn:
Giggles
24-12-2022, 09:04 AM
I’d say most sets will be along similar lines and thankfully I won’t be anywhere near one of them.
My day 24 from my brother in law is this, as a nice gentle follow up to last night's...
https://brewcavern.co.uk/product/christmas-tart/
ScousePig
24-12-2022, 05:07 PM
Kirkstall's Tangerine Porter is decent. Sufficiently festive, without being over the top or sickly/artificial tasting.
I live in Kirkstall.
I don't really frequent this thread but my partner's mum always buys me ales/ipas for when I come over at Christmas so I currently have a Saltaire blonde (also very local to where I live) on the go.
Been substituting milk in my coffee for Bailey's the last couple of days. Just had a lightbulb moment a few minutes ago and did a reversal: a glass of Bailey's and ice with a shot of espresso chucked in. :thbup:
6.30 on Christmas eve and I've not even had a drink yet because I've got the guts ache. Fuck's sake.
That last calendar beer could be kill or cure. :D
Been substituting milk in my coffee for Bailey's the last couple of days. Just had a lightbulb moment a few minutes ago and did a reversal: a glass of Bailey's and ice with a shot of espresso chucked in. :thbup:
That was my morning drink while on holiday in October. Also discovered Baileys and Kahlua, for the evenings.
Baby Guinness that if you pour them carefully.
My final can is a 10% chocolate peanut butter porter. :yn:
Binned it and had a 6.5% orange and mango IPA that I’ve rated 5 out of 5. :drool:
ClBmVq5D2PS
@simplypints on Instagram is doing a Lager World Cup with a beer from every WC country and I’ve so much time for it. :nod:
Kicked off today with Stella vs Corona. Stella currently leading with 59% of the public vote.
Birra Moretti won.
niko_cee
29-12-2022, 09:41 AM
Didn't realise there was a second side to the draw. Cute that they credited Spain with Madri.
They should have just found one entrant from each country. Forza Cerveza Imperial!
Giggles
29-12-2022, 10:20 AM
Didn't realise there was a second side to the draw. Cute that they credited Spain with Madri.
They should have just found one entrant from each country. Forza Cerveza Imperial!
They credited Italy with the winner too. They’re all mostly just made up shite or shadows of their former selves.
Giggles
13-01-2023, 07:58 PM
I did all my scoffing at the Guinness nitrosurge thing, and even if it does reinforce the stupid 2-part pour myth, it really is the tits.
Dunno if this is true of most Brewdog pubs these days but the selection in the Doghouse in Glasgow used to be consistently really good. Was in today and have to say the last few times I've been in it's been about as underwhelming a selection as you can imagine for a place that has about 25 things on draft. Far less guest stuff is basically the problem, and extremely pale-heavy.
Giggles
14-01-2023, 07:39 PM
:drool:
(Not that I’d ever set foot in brewdog)
I dunno if it varies from bar to bar based on management or what but Doghouse at least used to get some genuinely interesting shit in on tap from breweries I'd never seen in cans/bottles, let alone on tap. Dunno if it's a budget thing or if they're just more determined to sell their own stuff.
There's an Innis and Gunn one in Glasgow city centre now, might try that next time I'm doing somewhere like that. When I was in their Ashton Lane one last year the choice was pretty good.
Anyway, I'm currently having "Time Flows Through Me" by Left Handed Giant. A nutty, chocolatey stout. 7% and really good.
Jimmy Floyd
14-01-2023, 07:50 PM
Probably basic bitch stuff in this thread but I've been getting a Vocation - Roll With It IPA from Tesco the last few weeks and loving it. I say IPA, on the can it says DDH Pale Ale. Not sure what that means.
Giggles
14-01-2023, 08:08 PM
The breweries don’t even know at this stage where the line is between them, though it’s normally an abv thing. You can’t go wrong with Vocation anyway.
Probably basic bitch stuff in this thread but I've been getting a Vocation - Roll With It IPA from Tesco the last few weeks and loving it. I say IPA, on the can it says DDH Pale Ale. Not sure what that means.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eRRab36XLI
Have some optics on my wall and decided this year I’m sick of looking at the same filled bottles given I barely drink.
So I’m currently working my way through a half bottle of Jim beam, something I’d never tried previously nor would’ve ever bought.
Smelled terrible so drowned it in Pepsi max and seems better. Reckon this bottle must be about 8 years old left behind by a previous flat mate. Up after that might be a plastic bottle of Spanish Smirnoff that i suspect is from circa 2014 also. That sounds like a hospital visit though, so I might just drain the optic direct into the sink…
Probably basic bitch stuff in this thread but I've been getting a Vocation - Roll With It IPA from Tesco the last few weeks and loving it. I say IPA, on the can it says DDH Pale Ale. Not sure what that means.
More hops, basically.
But as Giiggles says, the words a bit meaningless these days.
IPAs were extra hoppy so they'd survive the trip to India so taking a less hoppy beer but double-hopping it probably just leaves you with a normal IPA? I dunno.
Still, Vocation are good so I approve.
niko_cee
15-01-2023, 01:24 AM
Yeah, I've had that Roll With It from Tesco [I think it is 'special' to them] and it's top quality.
Giggles
20-01-2023, 08:02 PM
I am out nothing wild but haven’t even as full in year. Class. Other people are so much better when you’re fducked.
I look forward to the sober explanation of what all that was meant to mean. :D Got the second half of it, and that you're out, but that second quarter of the post I haven't a clue.
I've had a few nice things tonight already, but currently on "Blue Monday" by Baron. Just a nice, punchy IPA.
Got some hefty stouts and porters waiting in the wings though. :drool:
Giggles
20-01-2023, 08:06 PM
If I can type the wife has picked me up twice. This is class. Yaah
She's picked you up off the ground....? :D
Giggles
20-01-2023, 08:21 PM
11 portera she has indeed. Didnt need to get this bad.
"Magic Mountain" by Arbor. A 6% IPA that you could happily sit and smash a handful of (and regret it later) if you were out sitting in the sun. Lovely stuff.
niko_cee
27-01-2023, 06:40 PM
Haven't bought any beer in ages but got some sort of NEIPA by the Rooster mob [I think] as it was reduced to clear at £1 a can earlier. Not cold though so am having a massive white russian, no dry january here.
Also got about a grand's worth of [I assume] fancy wines the other day as a result of an underspend on a party.
Fucking love a white Russian. I really ought to get the stuff so I can just make them myself.
Giggles
27-01-2023, 08:02 PM
I was working in the UK during the week and went to an Asda. Absolutely shite selection, I got one vocation can and one tiny rebel can and the rest of it was the usual rubbish.
Giggles
27-01-2023, 08:04 PM
They tiny rebel can was strange but kind of nice. Couldn’t put my finger on the fruit taste off it.
Asda is comfortably the worst supermarket for beer in my experience.
niko_cee
28-01-2023, 05:10 PM
Hadn't clocked that the 'Go Backer' NEIPA rolls in at 3.6% [discount sticker was over the ABV] and, as such, I can't recommend it, and if you paid the £3 a can that it apparently retails for you'd probably want to stab someone.
For what it is it's probably alright, it's just too light. I want a lot more bang for my buck.
Giggles
28-01-2023, 06:13 PM
Apart from one exception I’ve had here, that abv can work in that style.
niko_cee
28-01-2023, 06:36 PM
Yeah, it's not terrible, so perhaps the stabbing thing was a bit OTT, it's just a bit meh. This one is quite fizzy as well, which seems to blight lower ABV things.
Off the beer now, onto a Negroni.
Giggles
28-01-2023, 06:50 PM
I’m going on the coole swan.
niko_cee
28-01-2023, 07:18 PM
The Coolevardier [good nod to the excellent Boulevardier, a Luca favourite IIRC] sounds interesting.
niko_cee
03-02-2023, 04:46 PM
Picked up a couple of Soundwaves and a Northern Monk Hazy thing that were 'reduced to clear' today.
Giggles
03-02-2023, 04:49 PM
Did Asda again this week and they had two extra ones also. So I’ve got myself a Siren Huntington California IPA and a Tooth & Claw One Eye IPA. Never heard of the latter brewery but it’s all NZ hops so should be nice.
Not had any Tooth & Claw but I have heard of them. I'm waiting for a Siren delivery otherwise I'd be onto my first of the evening by now.
Some good looking stuff in there though. I wouldn't normally spend this much* but had to try this: https://www.sirencraftbrew.com/item/995/SirenCraftBrew/Nitro-Barrel-Aged-Shattered-Dream.html
* On a can. Because as a stupid double standard I'll happy pay a fiver for a short measure of something fancy in a pub but then get arsey about it when I'm buying a can at much better value.
niko_cee
03-02-2023, 05:41 PM
That looks nice.
I'm the same in the juxtaposition of my bargain basement approach to beer shopping in the supermarket [although I do go for a Broken Dream at £2.90 a can every now and then] whilst 'happily' paying £5 a pint for absolute piss whilst out.
Absolute piss might be harsh, this (https://untappd.com/b/butcombe-brewing-co-stateside/3696087) is the standard beer I get over here, which isn't too bad.
Blimey, it's a very long time since I've had anything by Butcombe but I remember them being alright.
I got a load of Broken Dreams at £2.20 a pop in my Siren order which isn't a bad guzzlin' beer to have in.
niko_cee
03-02-2023, 05:55 PM
440s or 330s? I nearly bought a box of them off their website but clocked at the last minute that they were 330s which soured the deal.
had to try this: https://www.sirencraftbrew.com/item/995/SirenCraftBrew/Nitro-Barrel-Aged-Shattered-Dream.html
Not a surprise but this is incredible.
https://www.sirencraftbrew.com/item/999/SirenCraftBrew/Oringin-Story-Limited-Edition.html
This is also reet good. (Another pricey one, but they got me with the 'ONLY X CANS REMAINING!' upsell plus my love of impys and chocolate orange.)
Giggles
03-02-2023, 09:56 PM
Opened the tooth and claw and then the wife said she was going visiting. So I got 2 hours in the pub. 11 pints of stout and I feel sick as a dog :cool:
It's BEER O'CLOCK. Got some interesting shit to come later but have Siren's Glowing Embers for now, a red ale. Pretty punchy for a 4.7% but had that first* because of the strength as I reckon this first one will disappear pretty quickly today.
* I used to save my nicer beers for later in the evening but it occurs to me this is stupid because it means your mouth is more likely to have started dying depending what you've had. So after this it'll be some big glorious stouty thing no doubt.
Opened the tooth and claw and then the wife said she was going visiting. So I got 2 hours in the pub. 11 pints of stout and I feel sick as a dog :cool:
I definitely didn't read this. Was this x pints in the pub plus what you had at home coming to 11 pints? Two hours turned into a sesh? Presumably not 11 pints in two hours???
Picked up a Pinot Noir “Cycles Gladiator” from Costco for like a tenner and it’s absolutely tremendous.
I've said this in here before but it's still the case that for all my beer wankery I'm still a bit "wine tastes like wine." I can tell the difference between stuff I like and don't and know very broadly which styles those tend to be but that's about it.
I'm on this now: https://www.simplethingsfermentations.com/product-page/british-strong-ale-8-2
I wish more breweries would have a go at doing brilliant bitters because I can't think of many other examples of "craft" (yeah, I know) bitters other than Siren's coffee one where somebody makes something that looks and tastes like a bitter but... like.... really nice. It's mostly still the realm of 300 year old English breweries who last changed their recipe in 1860 and see no need to change now. And all taste largely the same.
Because Boddingtons will never be beaten.
Giggles
10-02-2023, 08:58 PM
It's BEER O'CLOCK. Got some interesting shit to come later but have Siren's Glowing Embers for now, a red ale. Pretty punchy for a 4.7% but had that first* because of the strength as I reckon this first one will disappear pretty quickly today.
* I used to save my nicer beers for later in the evening but it occurs to me this is stupid because it means your mouth is more likely to have started dying depending what you've had. So after this it'll be some big glorious stouty thing no doubt.
I definitely didn't read this. Was this x pints in the pub plus what you had at home coming to 11 pints? Two hours turned into a sesh? Presumably not 11 pints in two hours???
11 Guinness in the 2 hours down the town. I only had a couple of cans before I went though.
Would struggle to get served 11 times in 2 hours in some places, nevermind drink 11 pints of Guinness in that time.
Giggles
11-02-2023, 01:44 PM
11 pints of nice Guinnness in 2 hours wouldn’t be a stretch with no gas or anything. In fact you’d want to be doing 8 or 9 at least or it’ll get skanky sitting about.
niko_cee
16-02-2023, 07:22 PM
That's some going, although I guess Guinness is quite smooth. I guess the Irish must have the metabolism to deal with that but I can only imagine what it would do to the bowel movements of lesser folk.
Was nearly tempted by some Ghost Ship 0.5% today as it was 90p a bottle or something on offer, but then saw I could get 4 cans of actual Ghost Ship for a fiver.
Giggles
16-02-2023, 08:24 PM
Well now, you definitely wouldn’t want to have been in a 3 yard radius of me the next day.
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