They were never very good at head.
They were never very good at head.
I don’t know what this sentence means.Originally Posted by Giggles
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.
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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.
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Not usually a stout fan, I used to drink Guinness regularly. Lancaster Black stout is great though.
Day one is a bloody winner:
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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
Yesterday was a 12% barrel aged imperial stout that I couldn’t finish.
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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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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I saw Northern Monk had some sort of Christmas Edge beer, but, being an 'edge' it was 2.8%, which put me off.
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.
Yeah that sounds grim. This one's a bit more subtle than that.
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].
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.
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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 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. 8% but looks right up my street.
I’ve also befriended a woman from Wigan on Untappd who has the same advent calendar.
^4.75
It’s delicious.
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Where would one procure that beverage?
Another brewery here went today, not all that relevant, but in the chatter about it I heard Siren are supposedly also in trouble
Production costs?
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.
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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.
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.
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 so none for tonight, plus I'm out tomorrow, so gonna have a stockpile of three for Saturday.
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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:
I'm also a sucker for a chocolate orange but ehhh stout. Failed to finish another one today, this time one called Obscurum. 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, which looks disgusting but sounds amazing.
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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-bre...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”Baz’s Year In Beer: https://yearinbeer.untappd.com/share...WXe11B9MJIZ1So
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Ratebeer do similar. It usually just makes me hate how much I must have spent.
Chocolate and peanut butter stout today
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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
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Can't remember if it's Fierce who do / did a Snickers-themed one too. Probably worth a go if you spot it anywhere.This is like drinking a Snickers omg
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?
Vocation have that box set of one’s themed off bars too. Definitely a snickers in it.
Nope, too hard to clean the walls.
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.
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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.
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