Tito's 6 times distilled American vodka.
Really (really!) quite smooth, so much so I'm not sure if I like it or not.
Tito's 6 times distilled American vodka.
Really (really!) quite smooth, so much so I'm not sure if I like it or not.
Innit.Originally Posted by Giggles
Beer
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I remember bringing that home from Austin the first time I visited. Did the factory tour and all. It's not bad for vodka.
It's unquestionably good for the £21 delivered I got it for.
Yeah but it's still vodka which is just fuel for raging alcoholics.
Not really. It's a great drink. Had it with a slice of lemon, ice and some real lemonade. Fantastic.
Hmm?Beer
I'm giving this yeast intolerance thing a go for a month to see if it makes any difference or if it is indeed mumbo jumbo.
A week in, even if it is legit I think I'd rather just consume it and feel like shit.
Oof, that sucks.
Gin and Magics alco juice are my only options now
The food options are far worse than the alcohol ones.
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Are there not yeast friendly beers?
Apparently a lot of the 'macro' beers like Heineken and Carlsberg are pasteurised which kills nearly all the yeast in them but anything bottle conditioned is a big no, which rules out all the smaller batch IPA's, porters, etc. There's none of them totally free of it though so I'm going to give it the month to see if there's a difference.
The process also rules out wine and the likes of vinegar and soy sauce, etc. Anything fermented too. Cheese
Giggles, you can now only drink the most commerical and un-hipster of lagers, this must be a dream come true in some ways?
I would have drank the normal ones on a night out anyway, but I always liked one of the strong ones at home.
I can see more after a while anyway. Could be the best thing I ever did, could be a complete load of bollocks, or could be somewhere in the middle where I just need to stop eating bread or something to keep it at a certain level. I'm still of the mind it's (b) but I paid €200 to have it done so I might as well try it out.
Phobos and Deimos from the Atom Brewery (?) - 7% Rye IPA - strong kick of alcohol to start with but was quite pleasant from thereon. Would recommend.
Only one I've had by them was a brown ale called "Bunsen" which was also good. A brewery to keep an eye out for.
I'm going to a festival called "Beer Makes Glasgow" on Saturday that was meant to be being organised by Hippo until they went into liquidation but some other breweries have picked up the slack, as I understand it.
I've also just got my second Beer52 box. First I got because it was a fiver, this because when I went to cancel they gave me a tenner off so eight cans and bottles for £14. Probably gonna fuck it off for definite next month but there's some nice looking stuff in it including a couple of Sierra Nevadas that I've not had before.
I have a small suite of their various sciencey named ones, although not Bunsen I don't think. Schrodinger's something and a few others I can't presently recall.
So those Atom ones were as follows:
Pulsar, 4.4% Pilsner, nice (it was a hot day), clean and refreshing.
Schrodinger's Cat, 3.5% US Amber, meh, not much to it really which I guess is a product of the abv to an extent.
Quantum State, 4.2% Session IPA, decent, but quite strong for a session IPA, I would say, not as good as something like Dead Pony Club.
Also had a mint and green tea saison from some Northern Irish brewery which was interesting.
Currently on the Elvis Juice.
Just been given half a dozen beers so on the slate for this week are:
Lorita, 4.7% passion fruit pale ale
Nine to Five Wizard (Brewdog), 7.5% India Pale Weizen
Truth (Rhinegeist), 7.2% IPA
Hop Fiction (Brewdog), 5.2% American Pale
Tangerine Session IPA (Brewdog Prototype), 4.5%
Brouwerij'tij, 7% IPA
That Lorita sounds like it could be nice. I've had a few by Amundsen who make that and they've been a mixed bag but there's some good stuff.
Between a Beer52 delivery and birthday beers I've got some good stuff ready to go. I was also at the Beer Makes Glasgow festival on Saturday and had some great stuff there, The highlights were a barrel-aged cranachan stout from Drygate, a 10% stout from Gallus and a heather/honey saison that would have been perfect for a roasting day in a beer garden.
The Lorita is quite tangy. Probably too sour for my liking. Top marks for the can though.
I'm slowly but surely getting into the sour stuff. I'll have to try The Kernel's London Sour again at some point and see if it still makes my face crumple.
It was vaguely reminiscent of Blue Moon, which I've found a bit off in the past.
The tangerine IPA and the Hop Fiction both get a thumbs up.
I've ventured into 7% country with the Brouwerij'tij and I just find that the alcohol in these types of beer can be a bit overpowering. It has the feel of a tripel. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a Duvel as much as the next man when out and about on the continent but I'm not sure I can get on board with this one. Not sure it bodes well for the next two seeing as they are 7.2% IPAs . . .
I dunno if I'm becoming more attuned to that and therefore don't notice it or if it's just I've had enough really good ones where they genuinely mask it. I've had 10+% beers that I really don't think taste mega-boozy.
Yeah, it's not specifically the strength, as in other beer types (usually darker) stronger doesn't seem to make as much difference. It seems to be specifically in the strong pales (which I have now learned tripels are) that I notice it. I'm not talking Delirium levels (although looking that up I thought it was stronger than 8.5%), it just seems that a lot of the lighter flavours you get in a pale ale get nuked when the alcohol content gets to 7%. Maybe these other two will prove me wrong, although I don't think I'll try one tonight.
Can't believe this is exclusively a thread for beer paedos. Come on guys!
'Beer Children' was the Chinese title for 'NEDS'
Fucking love sour beers, lambics 4 lyf.
The 9 to 5 wizard was good (Brewdog have done well out of this batch) and the Truth (as a strong IPA there has to be a Jack Nicholson joke/reference in there somewhere) isn't bad either.
I've not had the Nine to Five Wizard but it sounds right up my street.
Last night I was drinking too much of Peerless' "Penny Red Rye."
Got some good shit for tonight too.
Couple of Brewdog Jack Hammer's tonight.
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Is Brewdog popular daawn saaaf?
There's a couple of brewdog pubs in Aberdeen, obviously since that's where they basically started, but not sure whether there's many elsewhere or whether it's just the chains selling their bottled (and now canned) beer.
I've never been in a brewdog pub. The one in Norwich looked rubbish.
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They're big everywhere now. Glasgow has two, London has loads and I think they're in double figures for bars in other countries. And they're opening a brewery (which will then have a bar and restaurant and stuff) in Ohio.
Guy I worked with was suggesting I should buy shares in them back in 2014 so I guess I missed a trick there.
There's one here in Stockholm ffs.
Pub chains? I was at a Wetherspoon's and it was god awful. Terrible idea
I copped a hazelnut/caramel flavored whiskey (moonshine) from some shit today, the girl at the stand was cute and the free sample tasted good enough so I said fuck it and splurged but a 1-sip sample is different from having to drink an entire sesh purely of Nutella-tasting whiskey
Because of the pubs being the same or just because you hate Wetherspoons?
Brewdog is very different to Spoons. But the bars do all have pretty much the same look as each other.
Cigar City's Maduro Brown Ale is fucking delicious.
I had some Mezcal tonight. Was nice.
Idk, i like the idea of each place having its unique dark vibe. Feelig you're part of something original when you go out instead of at an adult McDonald's.
Wetherspoons is great. It's cheap, they've got plenty of beers (for the real ale wankers too) and the food is decent for the price. It's a national institution.
Obviously if you expect some sort of hipster 'experience' you're going to be disappointed.
Brewdog can fuck off though.
I had breakfast at a spoon's in south Croydon yesterday. Top qual and no wankers poncing around, just real people (some well on their way to the great licky window in the sky but still real people). 10/10.
All day brunch and a pint of Tickety Brew.
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There are two weatherspoons near me. One is really nice, quite a nice building and decent people, the other is hell. Proper dregs of society (5 digit salary type).
Great one in the city actually, old bank conversion.
I'm glad you didn't beef with no fake bitches, only real dawgs, kapeesh
Wetherspoons varies so much. There are some I'm genuinely happy drinking in. There are others where I'd rather just get stabbed (probably by the staff) and be done with it.
They all look like large ballrooms from the 1950s.
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