Binned it and had a 6.5% orange and mango IPA that I’ve rated 5 out of 5. :drool:
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Budvar robbed.
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!
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.
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(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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Yeah, I've had that Roll With It from Tesco [I think it is 'special' to them] and it's top quality.
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:
If I can type the wife has picked me up twice. This is class. Yaah
She's picked you up off the ground....? :D
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apart from one exception I’ve had here, that abv can work in that style.
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.
I’m going on the coole swan.
The Coolevardier [good nod to the excellent Boulevardier, a Luca favourite IIRC] sounds interesting.
Picked up a couple of Soundwaves and a Northern Monk Hazy thing that were 'reduced to clear' today.
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/...red-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.
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 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.
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.
https://www.sirencraftbrew.com/item/...d-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.)
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.
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.simplethingsfermentation...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.
Christ.
Would struggle to get served 11 times in 2 hours in some places, nevermind drink 11 pints of Guinness in that time.
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.
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.
Well now, you definitely wouldn’t want to have been in a 3 yard radius of me the next day.