Gone off the box and have a [special edition] Vocation Roll With It DDH IPA which is good.
Gone off the box and have a [special edition] Vocation Roll With It DDH IPA which is good.
Just had my first bubble tea. I’m a fan.
Had a Northern Monk Passion Fruit Lassi IPA at the weekend. Outrageously good and one of my favourite beers. Need to go back to the shop and pick up a bunch more
I think the beer shop near my work has that in. Might need to check it out if it's that good.
Received an email regarding preorder discount for the Brewdog advent calendar. Errr, nope! (If any randomer finds this post via Google or whatever, do not get the Brewdog Advent Calendar.)
Might start browsing for some alternatives though - I don’t have Ian’s brother in law to trade one with.
Thankfully some of the less terrible beer websites have messages saying it’s too early to provide much information. For example, Beerwulf just says 14 exclusive beers (IPAs, lagers, pale ales & more) and it will be 24 beers from 24 brewers, which sounds like a nice mix but I’d worry there’s nothing too exotic in there. I want NEIPAs and milkshakes and stuff that I’ve definitely never even seen, nevermind tasted)
Last years Beer52 advent calendar offered 24 fresh craft beers from 14 different countries with 16 different styles from the likes of Browar Stu Mostów, North Brewing Co, Lervig, Fierce Beer, To Øl, Peninsula, and many more. Certainly an option.
Virgin Wines actually list all 24 beers (https://www.virginwines.co.uk/beer-advent-calendar) and after checking the first 7, consider my interest piqued
Anyone know of any that aren’t in the first 5 Google results, who deserve my money this December?
I think Beerhawk and Beer52 did ones which had all calendar-exclusives, if I were buying one I'd be doing something like that.
Totally forgot about this though, I'll need to check if me and my brother in law are doing it again and get started.
My brother got me a Don Papa dark rum and it’s absolutely tremendous. Highly recommend if that’s your thing.
Now that Beavertown are as good as dead, were they much of a thing the past few years? I remember their stuff being very good back in the day and a few I bought earlier this year were very good.
What happened there? Neck Oil seemed to pop up on draught in quite a lot of my local spots the last year or so.
Heineken bought the last 51% they didn’t already have.
Their basic stuff is still basically the same and they never had a massive turnover of more interesting things anyway.
Neck Oil was always class but then again so was Lagunitas before the accountants “optimised” the recipes.
Their glasses are (were?) very good.Originally Posted by Giggles
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I'm on IPApricot by Pilot first. It's not up to their usual standard but it's a decent one to kick me off for the evening.
I’m out now. Still “are”
https://www.sirencraftbrew.com/item/...c-Turmoil.html
Is delicious. Quite sweet so it's a sipper (well, that plus the strength) but it's really good. Treated myself to it as I had a voucher for a Siren order.
Twitter thread recommending different advent calendars:
They’re all bad because the selection will never be as good as you, or someone you always drink with, would select.
I’m not fussy and would prefer to get stuff I’ve not had before, so prefer buying it ready made for me. I appreciate I might be in the minority with that opinion though.
The Hop Burns & Black one seems popular but not sure about paying £133. I like that they don’t list the beers though. I like surprises.
Been alerted to this Brewexport advent calendar. All import american beers, so will never have had them before.
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Picked up a few Wiper and True beers the other day. An IPA called Sundance which was alright, and a Milk Stout going by the title of Milkshake with a golden space shuttle logo which is really rather good. Maybe Broken Dream good.
I really like their Small Beer. Feel like you could drink unlimited cans of it one sunny Sunday while sorting the garden out.
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Wiper and True's Milk Shake is a really decent milk stout.
It's red ale weather now so I've got myself a slab of Pikeman Red.
Went to get a couple more. Just realised on drinking that I managed to get one, but their near identical branding meant the second was actually a Sundance IPA, which is fine until you start trying to pour it into the end of the last stout.
Went to get a couple more. Just realised on drinking that I managed to get one, but their near identical branding meant the second was actually a Sundance IPA, which is fine until you start trying to pour it into the end of the last stout.
Excellent work.
The CBC lads have done another very good doc. Well worth a watch.
English IPA is about the top of the tree for me if I had to pick one style I love.
I’ve got myself some Impossibrew
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Like every 0% that ever came before it, guaranteed to be shite.
Non alcoholic stuff seems so bloody pointless. Is there anyone in life that needs to pretend to drink?
Nah there are some good ones. Mash Gang are pretty good.
Not sure what this one’s “you’ll feel the buzz” gimmicks all about though.
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Big Drop stuff is alright as well. Personally I'd still rather just not have a beer I think but there's still a very clear difference between yer old Kaliber type shit and the breweries trying to do it right.
Easy to say when you’ve no option to have a drink. Plus beer is delicious.
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Low alcohol beer isn’t beer though. I’d much rather have a coke or lucozade too if I was driving or something.
I don’t get that. Beer tastes much nicer.
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Indeed it does. Wishy washy metallic 0% beer doesn’t.
Youre getting the wrong ones. Sure the ones that are [existing beer] ZERO are crap like Becks Blue or Erdinger Alkoholfrei, but the ones brewed just to be standalone non/low alcoholic beers are good.
This one is delicious. Looking forward to feeling the ENHANCED calming effects from the nootropic plants or whatever it claims.
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Probably cancer. Everything gives you cancer.
I've had a few non-alcoholic beers, and some are alright. Lucky Saint, for example, I've actively chosen in a pub when I saw it on draught.
First pint of my trip down to That London I went for a 3.8% Dark Star Hophead which is decent but unexciting, but I knew it wouldn't last long after all the walking in surprisingly pleasant weather.
Also @Giggles what's up with the term 'bottle shop'? Thought I'd ask here rather than do a tedious beer chat in the Travel thread.
Off licence.
Bottle shop is what they call off licences in Australia, where they have fucking weird laws about the sale of alcohol (not allowed in supermarkets for example).
An off license is somewhere you go to buy stuff that just gets you pissed. A bottle shop has stuff I might actually want to drink.
Wanky beer shop?
If you like?
But not necessarily. I know ones which do all sorts (decent beer, wine, spirits, etc.) which I don't think of as an offy and wouldn't brand themselves as such. Not that they'd likely call themselves a bottle shop either, that distinction may be entirely made up by me.
The offys I've been to have basically just been the booze aisles of a supermarket condensed down and with less good options of everything.
I'm not really precious about it anyway, "bottle shop" just seemed to be an odd cloud for Giggles to be yelling at.
Ian, this is Giggles.
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I mean I hit post and realised I'd typed all that about it so maybe I'm vaguely muttering at clouds or something.
Anyway, popped into the Brewdog in Hammersmith. Their selection is pretty poor. Have got London Black by Anspach and Hobday though which I've enjoyed so one good beer and move on methinks.
Never heard them called anything other than an off licence, or maybe off-sales, even the ones that don’t sell macro beers. Bottle shop definitely falls into the wanky side of craft beer.
Anyway, it almost exclusively comes in cans now.
Speaking of wanky, on my way to get dinner somewhere I dipped into a place for a beer that has fairly standard pub vibes but in amongst the selection of local pale ales they have Westmalle on tap and serve it in the big goblets and everything.
I presume you had one and the glass is currently about your person?
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