cynical fouls like that gotta be a red
cynical fouls like that gotta be a red
regardless of the thread!
It's not an Irish brewer I don't think
Crumbled and took the free box from Beer 52 to reactivate my sub.
My homebrew brown ale is fucking unreal.
From the grainfather? Your own recipe? I have one more kit left and then toying with the idea of doing an all grain sticky toffee concoction for Christmas.
I had a recipe and then a lad I know in my favourite brewery told me to add chateau cafe into the mix. Biggest change I’ve found is water, get an RO filter.
Interesting. I have heard that about the water, seen some facebook groups going csi with their tap water
It’s handy enough once you’re using something like Brewfather for recipes. You can’t trust the water in my area even if you knew the numbers so the RO gives a great base.
Had a couple of crackers last night, the best being a Pohjala cognac barrel-aged imperial porter. Glorious stuff.
Popped into a local brewery after a walk, had a nice El Dorado IPA. Another idea for brewing there.
Visited my local brewery and picked up some more of that god-level watermelon IPA, another IPA of theirs and a Kolsch-style lager
Love a Kolsch. I’ve one of these ordered that should land Monday or Tuesday.
Just opened this. Absolutely worth the money. Fucking hell, what a thing.Originally Posted by Ian
I’ve a load of imperial and barrel aged yokes in my beer press at the minute and I’m never going to touch them. If I was anywhere near you Ian you could have the lot.
What've you got? And how much would shipping cost?
Normally can’t ship alcohol in or out of here. I’ve had Belgian ones destroyed (ie robbed and drank by customs) before.
What's a beer press?
And posting beer is generally prohibitively difficult/costly due to weight, size, and the fact it's booze, in my experience.
Oh, well that sucks.
I’ve 5 cans of pointy shoes (one 2019 and 4 2020), a Heaney bourbon aged, a brehon creann beatha imperial, some barrel aged brown ale, an apex imperial oatmeal, and some of those Norwegian 3 bean ones. I just find these days I can’t stand anything that touches whiskey.
We call a cupboard a press. I have no idea why
Well I've thought for a while I should correct the fact that I've never been to Ireland.
I’m half intrigued by the brown ale but I know I’d end up tipping it.
Well anyway, while I'm nursing the fuck out of it because it's 13.5% and I'm on-call for work this Amundsen one is fucking spectacular.
The Co-op seemed to be having some sort of £1 a can promotion on White Hag and Buxton stuff today, so I went a bit mad. They seemed to have it by the slab as well so I might try to get some tasting done and return for a bigger hit on anything good.
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I bet the walk back to the car was fun, carrier bag ready to snap.
I'm a twit
Buxton and White Hag are both ace so that's a steal you've got yourself there, Niko.
I've got a new Trembling Madness order coming today.
Insulated bag for life type thing, it was satisfyingly full. Also I pushed them back to the car in the trolley.
Didn’t know White Hag were known much outside of here. Fucking love some Púca.
Most of the stuff I've had from them is via online shops from Beerhawk and the like but I've picked a few up in actual shops.
I noticed them the last time I was in the shop as I'd come back from the UK with a bit of a chip on my shoulder about the lack of any decent beers in the shops over here, but both the co-op and waitrose seemed to have upped their game quite a lot recently. Those White Hag cans are usually £2.50 a pop though, which I baulked at slightly. £24-£30 a case could be clear the shelf territory.
Those 330ml cans are what puts me off buying their stuff most of the time. Also, the last beer of theirs I had was a coconut version of that pastry stout called the Dark Druid in a blind tasting and it was fucking woeful.
There aren't many things that as a strong flavour are a definite nope from me in a beer but coconut is one of them.
That's my order arrived. Forgot that one of them was a rum and maple wood variant of Broken Dream.
This one was like eating 5 bounty’s at once.
Sounds incred.
I'm a twit
From that haul the Moor Top and the Irish Red Ale are quality, although I think I've had the Moor Top before. Tried the Hibiscus Puca sour thing and I'm still not really sure about sour beers. I don't really get them. It's a bit like drinking a traditional sour, but without any of the alcohol kick that the 'hard liquor' gives so it ends up being a bit like something between an intense (in flavour) Americano (cocktail) and a non-alcoholic drink. I dunno. Even a 330ml seems too much of it to me. Fortunately the wife seemed to quite like it so I'll probably fob those off on her.
Gonna try the Buxton Porter and the pastry stout thing later.
You think you’ve had it before? Get on Untappd, man! We can be friends.
Or ratemybeer or whatever that old janky website losers like webly still use, is called.
I'm a twit
Too much beer under the bridge to start something like that, this thread will have to serve as a historical record.
I definitely recall the finish of the can (sort of matt) although it may have been the skyline I've had previously.
Same as that for me. All untappd ever had to to was allow you to enter a history when you signed up and they wouldn’t so I couldn’t be bothered.
Gotta start one day though. Like in 10 years you’ll be saying the same, but could have 10 years worth of beers in your history.
I'm a twit
I’ll never be starting one because I can’t put in a history.
Ratebeer is objectively shitter than Untappd but I've too many ratings to change now.
TTH Untappd crew. Gotta get involved.
The Buxton porter (Gatekeeper) and the Salted Caramel Pastry Stout thing are both good.
I particularly liked the porter.
The latest Wicklow Wolf special that they base on Apex (their oatmeal stout) is a tiramisu
The last couple of them (S’mores and 4 Bean) were class.
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And a tiramisu imperial floating about.
That sounds awesome.
Picked up some Ballykilcavan this morning. The Wicklow Wolf one wasn't in yet but I seen some of the S'mores so got a couple.
Tiramisu Stout
The White Hag New England Pale (Atlantean?) is one of the best examples I think I've had, really really good.
The Little Fawn session ale is nice as well.
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