Beer?

[MossCommuter]

The full list of yesterday in Dermott style (no particular order):

• DeMo, Amarillo DIPA, 9.2% - amazing, my third placed beer
• 3 Horne, Mangootje, 7% - horrid
• Binghams, Vanilla Stout, 5% - lovely beer, enjoyed this upthread and sought it out deliberately
• Offbeat, Unconventional Lime Pepper Saison, 4.5% - as opposed to conventional lime pepper saison - very nice, loved it
• Waen, Pamplemousse, 4.2% - OK, meh
• Wiper & True, Milkshake, 5% - Nice enough
• Wildside, Red Chilli Lime Lager, 4.8% - yak, the manager of my local became besotted with this so we'll have to endure it again
• Runaway, Winter Saison, 6.3% - very uninteresting, nothing stands out in my mind other than, meh
• Track, Double Sonoma, 8.2% - My champion beer, I went for seconds and thirds (and I think I might have declared my undying love to the brewer )
• Anspach & Hobday, The Griotte BA Syrah, 5.6% - a fag paper between this and the Track Double Sonoma, second placed for me. It's sour, as I mentioned previously and I really liked it. This is one of two beers I had second and third helpings of

I might go back today in the hope that they still have the last two on sale.

 

[MossCommuter]

You could use it to dry out, you old soak.

Gales HSB, lovely beer btw.

I won it throwing metal discs at a frog.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I won it throwing metal discs at a frog.

Serves him right, bleedin' French...

 

[rich p]

I'm away in deepest Surrey for the weekend. I had a couple of pints from the local microbrewery, Hogsback. Really nice proper ale, T.E.A. Traditional English Ale, I assume.
Could have had a little bit more life but a nice glass compensated!

And the view from my window of a black headed gull skating...

 

[nickyboy]

I'm away in deepest Surrey for the weekend. I had a couple of pints from the local microbrewery, Hogsback. Really nice proper ale, T.E.A. Traditional English Ale, I assume.
Could have had a little bit more life but a nice glass compensated!
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And the view from my window of a black headed gull skating...

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Nice one of a Diplodocus about to sit on a Parker Knoll recliner too

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I'm away in deepest Surrey for the weekend. I had a couple of pints from the local microbrewery, Hogsback. Really nice proper ale, T.E.A. Traditional English Ale, I assume.
Could have had a little bit more life but a nice glass compensated!
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Given that this is the first ever in focus picture of beer you have posted on the thread I am guessing the real target for your camera was the young lady in the distance...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nice one of a Diplodocus about to sit on a Parker Knoll recliner too

Leave it.

 

[MossCommuter]

Day Two in the big beer house.

Yesterday's superstars all sold out but still plenty to enjoy. I am definitely in a sour beer phase.

Anyway; one for the south coast contingent:

Every bit as good as it looks too

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hooky innit. Yumtz.

 

[srw]

Lindisfarne Scotch Ale from Aegir Bryggeri. Geographically confused, as Mrs W pointed out. It's a heavy - nice and sweet and strong. Despite over 90 years of experience between us neither of us managed to make the ringpull work, so we I was reduced to squeezing it out through a tiny hole in the lid. Another reason to prefer bottles.

Syd Strong's Cascadian Red Rye Ale. Dark, ryish, not very red, very bitter. But not overhopped - the alcohol strength counteracts the florality of the hops.

Weird Beard Smoked. Not actually a classic Rauchbier but something rather more subdued - a fairly pale brew with a strong hit of smoke on the nose but not much on the tongue.

Mrs Bell's Rhubarb beer jam. None of your fannying around with putting fruit into beer - put the beer into the fruit, and have it for breakfast. Not really a jam because it's not particularly set, and (says the label) made with wheat beer. Unlike most alcoholic additions to food it's a definite addition to the flavour, and after the first hit of surprise of finding a Hoegaarden flavour in your jampot it's a very attractive one. Mrs Bell apparently makes batches of whatever she fancies and takes them into our local farm shop, who sell them.

 

[rich p]

Okay, I was sold a flanker by the barman of my hotel and the actual microbrewery wasn't the Hogsbank one i mentioned before. The one I was hunting and found today was the Frensham brewery, which is a tiny brewery in some rural farm outbuildings. You can buy tapped off pints and consume in the yard or polybags of various sizes to take home. I got 2 pints of Owlswood porter @ 6% and Forager, a ruby ale at 4.5. The porter is deliciously malty and treacle but the bags make it look suspiciously like the contents of a colostomy bag...

 

[rich p]

That reminds me, I ought to donate blood again.

Aren't you too old yet...

 

[MossCommuter]

One third of a pint of Prairie brewery, "Flare" from Oklahoma.

£3.85

Yes, three pounds eighty five pence (1.61 Mossirlamis) for a THIRD of a pint.

That's £11.55 a pint.

It's nice, it's a sour beer that makes me think of goosegogs and, ok, it came all the way from Murrikah, but really, £11.55 a pint is a bit farking daft.

I'm only having one then I'm off to Spoons.

 

[User169]

One third of a pint of Prairie brewery, "Flare" from Oklahoma.

£3.85

Yes, three pounds eighty five pence (1.61 Mossirlamis) for a THIRD of a pint.

That's £11.55 a pint.

It's nice, it's a sour beer that makes me think of goosegogs and, ok, it came all the way from Murrikah, but really, £11.55 a pint is a bit farking daft.

I'm only having one then I'm off to Spoons.

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I like Prairies stuff, but it's so damn pricey.

 

[rich p]

Even you aren't too old. Provided you carry on doing it the upper age limit is relaxable, if that is a word.

Ah, I thought it was a 60 age limit. It must be that beard that makes you look as old as Confucius...