Beer?

[Fab Foodie]

Against the rools but....mulling wine, cooling Champers Live from Kingsdown beach with @Hill Wimp

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Seeing out the year with oyster stout

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just starting on the Meths.....

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Bringing in the new

 

[nickyboy]

Holy Moley.....they had run out of Beavertown Gamma Ray when I got to the pub last night. So I proceeded to drown my sorrows by trying some weird and wonderful stuff in amongst the normal beers

Rhubarb IPA anyone?

Collaboration between Saint Germaine and Nogne O. Actually a pretty nice IPA with just a faint echo of rhubarb. It would be a cracker on a hot summer day

Lucky Jack Grapefruit Edition. Ironically as @Stephenite found Norway closed for alcohol sales, I found a Norwegian beer for sale in Glossop. Pretty decent version of the typical citrusy IPA. Nowt amazing but nice enough

 

[MossCommuter]

Gamma Leonid milk stout kicks off 2017 in nourishing style.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Post perambulate pint, Trelawny for me and half a Batemans Red Nose for Mrs McGinty. Trelawny was very good, Eng n Oz hops with 3 malts, really good biscuity taste and excellent bitter finish, and at 3.8% a good sesh beer. The Bateman was pretty non-descript.

 

[rich p]

Post perambulate pint

Do you sit in the buggy while Mrs3BM pushes, or vice versa? I'm not going to go into the nappy issue...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ignoring rich and his nonsensical muttering we move into Arbor dry hopped stout The Devil Made Me Brew It. Quite lively, pours semi Crackle head, nice stuff, it's more like a Kernel export porter. All the usual good stuff you'd expect. Scores high on the yumtus scale.

 

[srw]

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Now that my liver has recovered from its beating by bile I can start drinking (modestly) again. I picked up a bottle to have with a home-made curry this evening (I'm looking forward to the takeaway in the new year...), and Mr Waitrose's magic swiper gently beeped to say that it was 4 for £6. It was rude not to. Sadly, that lot will probably see me all the way to the end of the year.

...and then some.

Bottles two and three (the second stout and an Old Hooky) went down last night with a Chinese takeaway and Sherlock. And codeine, which resulted in some interesting dreams.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

I don't think I have ever drunk less over the Christmas period than this year. I am no including when I was a babe in arms of course although, it was probably close!

Here is a pint of local brew. A fine mild and that thankfully, the shop up the road still sells by the crate.

 

[Aperitif]

Great picture Hugh - thought I had stumbled into a Dali dreamscene. Is that a broken glass in the cabinet, or just one that's having a rest?

 

[Aperitif]

What was on the menu with The Cotswold Crunch, threegrainsmcginty? FWP Matthews finest! Their Spelt is very nice (© Mrs M) and their Tipo 00 allows for great spinners.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>thataway...I know

 

[theclaud]

I'm not going to go into the nappy issue...

Well thank fark for that.

HNY Beerpeeps!

 

[Aperitif]

Quite risque for revered Swansea person..."Smac My Brew Up" Enough to make one hop.
Will 2017 be a foam of weird beer names, or will there be a reversion to staid, nondescript? Hope not...or should that be hop knot?
I'll start:
"What knees" Red IPA