Vocation Pride and Joy too. Available in Morrisons ffs. I still cant quite believe that.
I'm on La Chouffe tonight after going into a french supermarket looking for rose jam as requested by my beloved but coming out with a fine selection of Belgian beers for me instead.
One current and one former yacf member will remember an evening in Amsterdam in 2008 when much La Chouffe was consumed under the assumption that it would be a standard 4 to 5 %. A mistake one only makes several times.
I have vague memories of earning a La Chouffe keyring for over-consumption.
Vocations
Heart & Soul is scrummy too. We liberated a pile of cans from a Coop at the end of our South Downs walk at the weekend and made merry on the train home from Eastbourne.
As for
Le Chouffle strength brew, I remember (barely) the time we rolled up at a little restaurant in Shepherdstown, WV and for some reason they had an entire large keg of
Chimay Blue which they were serving by the 16oz glass. Well, when in West Virginia. There's a Bavarian theme hotel there. Honestly, that shit was real before we hit the Chimay.
Then there was the time in Nashville when we discovered a beer called
Golden Monkey. Should have checked the ABV on that one. I ended up in an Uber with two burlesque dancers and a man called Dan who had apparently misplaced his guitar somewhere in Tennessee. He couldn't be more precise than that.
And let's not do
Pliny the Elder in Monks Cafe, Philadelphia. I've said that lots of times now. We shouldn't get on to Belgish war stories.
In the alternative spirit of low ABV semi-sobriety, I'm drinking a 2.8% micro-IPA, Gipsy Hill's
Carver and it really is rather good.