Yes and no, for I am not a thief. (Also I'm pretty sure you can get them for nowt.)
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.
£2.10 for a pint of John Smith's up here.
So people are getting ripped off everywhere then.
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.
You can get the former for the price of the latter [and some] here.
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.
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.
Yeah, the Badger thing is ok at best.
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-...r-british-pubs
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.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
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It’s Molsons slightly better than normal generic dirt to go up against Moretti being the same thing for Heineken isn’t it?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good read. I was wondering where the hell it had come from. It's actually pretty good for what it is
Was it Milk Made you had? Because yeah, it's Fine.
Got my first Leann Follain in ages today. Fucking savage.
Yeah, that was the one.
Yeah, they overdo the lactose a bit methinks.
Man, I've not had one in ages.
Apparently a nitro can version coming for Christmas
Oh yeah, I'd be into that.
What's in there?
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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.
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I want someone to make me one.
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.
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https://www.weebeershop.co.uk/produc...ack-fika-fuel/
This is lovely stuff.
I’m having some mediocre paint-by-numbers beers I picked up on the way home.
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.
I think I have a Vault City something-or-other as well
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:
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Do I wanna pay £50 for a beer that I probably won't like?
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£50? For one beer? Absolutely not. It sounds delicious to me but fuck that.
I mean, I've got shitloads. You buying from anywhere in particular?
You have been specially selected.
Could probably shift it to Foe for £100.
I politely declined and got an out of office reply. #smalltime
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@simplypints on Instagram is doing a Lager World Cup with a beer from every WC country and I’ve so much time for it.
Kicked off today with Stella vs Corona. Stella currently leading with 59% of the public vote.
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Is simply pints onlyscrans?
Any good indie breweries in Saudi Arabia?
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