Author Topic: Beer! (Read 87720 times)

ian · « **Reply #725 on:** 27 November, 2019, 08:45:36 pm »

It's a real thing, named after the brewery's proximity to, ahem, Little Lickinghole Creek (where it forks into Tarred Rat Creek). Between Richmond and Charlottesville. They sure know how to name things thereabouts. I hate to think what they were doing for entertainment back in the day.

Anyway, nice beer.

Jakob W · « **Reply #726 on:** 03 December, 2019, 06:41:13 pm »

The big Morrisons in town has Siren Broken Dream at £1.75 a can, so I picked up a couple. Good for these dark winter nights...

ElyDave · « **Reply #727 on:** 14 December, 2019, 06:05:21 pm »

Homeopathic beer this evening - Wellraiser hopped water.

A freebie from Ocado, no sugars, no calories, no real flavour. There's a slight hoppiness there, but without the beery body it's oddly disconcerting.

By all laws of homeopathy, should I now be pissed as a fart?

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #728 on:** 16 December, 2019, 08:16:11 pm »

Lidl's Purple Panther porter. Not bad at all, especially at £1.09 a bottle.

Lidl's Woodgate vintage cider is Westons' in disguise and very drinkable, although at 7%+ it's not a quaffer. £1.19 a bottle.

sg37409 · « **Reply #729 on:** 20 December, 2019, 01:10:33 pm »

Hi - Has anyone had any experience of a Krups Sub home-tap system ?

I didnt even know these things existed. They seem to have good reviews

ian · « **Reply #730 on:** 20 December, 2019, 05:34:41 pm »

I'm not sure what they achieve, beer is fizzy out of the can or bottle and there seems limited beer support (Heineken, oh my inner beer snob recoils). I suppose if you want to pour pints at a party.

For bigger parties, you can hire Lindrs (or similar) which are awesome as they use standard kegs and you can get models that compress the gas so you don't need a separate supply, so connect to the keg and go. You can even get 10l Keykegs these days. Still a bit much for a night in front of the TV though.

(A friend of my wife's had one in his garage, which he's converted into a bar. Hmmm.)

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #731 on:** 20 December, 2019, 05:46:08 pm »

I just looked them up. Seems like a lot of money for very cold beer and not much of a choice (though Beer Wulf had Wild Beer and Brewdog offerings which surprised me but most of the rest was guff).
Most of what's on offer I don't see what the advantage would be over just drinking it tinned.

sg37409 · « **Reply #732 on:** 20 December, 2019, 07:15:15 pm »

The beers seem expensive. Chouffe was 18 quid. Lagunitas also. I like a hieneken occasionally but wouldn’t have 2 pints at one go.

I don’t think it’s just a colder beer you’d get. It would hopefully be closer to a draught beer

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #733 on:** 20 December, 2019, 09:31:35 pm »

Yes but I'd still rather have good beer out of a tin than not very good beer on draught.

Rowan · « **Reply #734 on:** 09 January, 2020, 11:27:27 pm »

On the home brew stout these days, so much better than anything commercial - it dose not generate hangovers anywhere near as easy, it's tastier, richer and only about 50p a bottle.

ElyDave · « **Reply #735 on:** 21 January, 2020, 06:33:19 pm »

A Bad Kitty vanilla porter with lunch today, very nice, chocolatey, rich, vanilla there but subtle and not sweetly dominating. I wouldn't normally indulge at lunchtime, but it was a day off and lunch in Cambridge at Stem and Glory. They have some other interesting beers as well

Ham · « **Reply #736 on:** 22 January, 2020, 12:59:29 pm »

Recently in Istanbul, I was told by a local work colleague about a micro brewery in the area I was staying - Beşiktaş, a non-touristy but close to painfully-almost-trendy area, especially if you go to the carsi

(the market place centre, which I did). As I passed by the "Craft Beer Lab" I noticed the brewing vats on display. I thought, not unreasonably in my view, that this indicated I had found said microbrewery.

The staff at the door confirmed that they did not brew their own, but they also confirmed that they sold beer for drinking. Sounded good to me. So I headed down into the bowels where the bar was.

What EXCITING beers did they have on tap?

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My selected tipple was from a local brewery, and very pleasant indeed

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #737 on:** 27 January, 2020, 10:07:12 pm »

Well, we didn't have a lot of walking distance venues to choose from in Maspalomas since the 2nd one on our list had closed but we kept going back to B2 Burger Bar because they had not only Belgian, but Canarian craft beer.

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Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #738 on:** 27 January, 2020, 10:10:53 pm »

And

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Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #739 on:** 27 January, 2020, 10:14:09 pm »

Neither of us had heard of the style Catharina sour before, so that was edutainment.

Pingu · « **Reply #740 on:** 28 January, 2020, 08:33:45 am »

And they had Punk IPA on draft

ian · « **Reply #741 on:** 31 January, 2020, 08:52:43 pm »

Verdant Mary Lou. Hoppier than a rabbit on a trampoline.

Pingu · « **Reply #742 on:** 01 February, 2020, 11:01:40 pm »

Life in a Scotch Sitting Room

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71 Brewing in Dundee.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #743 on:** 05 February, 2020, 11:43:13 pm »

That's an interesting address. Not far from me is a road called Aylesbeare. I'm disappointed that no-one thought to open a pub there.

jsabine · « **Reply #744 on:** 06 February, 2020, 09:14:28 am »

I'm not certain that I'd want a beer based on an ill ursine.

andrewc · « **Reply #745 on:** 17 February, 2020, 02:30:21 pm »

https://twitter.com/neptunebrewery/status/1229366716720975872?s=20 Bounty, Chocolate and Coconut Stout....... Fairly local to me so I'll keep an eye out.

andrewc · « **Reply #746 on:** 17 February, 2020, 10:02:44 pm »

https://twitter.com/JohnnyXGaskell/status/1229498182226317312?s=20

Excellent repurposing of beer barrels

cycleman · « **Reply #747 on:** 18 February, 2020, 07:06:51 am »

Larger dispensers

Pingu · « **Reply #748 on:** 20 February, 2020, 10:40:46 pm »

Smoked malt FTW. This week I have been spoiled

Schlenkerla Eiche at Six Degrees North, Windswept Clavie at Krakatoa and De Dochter van de Korenaar Bravoure & Charbon at home

ian · « **Reply #749 on:** 20 March, 2020, 09:01:42 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 27 January, 2020, 10:07:12 pm

Well, we didn't have a lot of walking distance venues to choose from in Maspalomas since the 2nd one on our list had closed but we kept going back to B2 Burger Bar because they had not only Belgian, but Canarian craft beer.
...

I think got many of those in La Palma the other week. One of the breweries was on the other side of the island but someone put a bloody huge caldera in the way.

In other news, I think tonight is the night for some special beers. Prepare the beer coffin, I am going in. (Warming up with a pleasing Mondo Oatmeal and Raisin Stout.)