Beer?

[John the Monkey]

Boak and Bailey - are Thornbridge's 330ml bottles a con?
http://boakandbailey.com/2017/02/are-thornbridges-330ml-bottles-a-con/

 

[rich p]

We're slipping onto page 2 chaps, and even though it's a school day - could do better. You can't always rely on Mossy...

Anyway, I had a tower of beers tonight in tinnies. It still seems weird and lacking in dignity but who am I to hold back progress

3 Guns and the regular grapefruit. The smoky Pale Ale was nice and nicely understated. Or subtle.

 

[stephec]

Boak and Bailey - are Thornbridge's 330ml bottles a con?
http://boakandbailey.com/2017/02/are-thornbridges-330ml-bottles-a-con/

Considering they're only about 20p less than the 500ml bottles that I used to buy then it's a yes from me.

I've not bought one since, shame as I like Jaipur.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Had one of these yesterday, very nice pale.

 

[User169]

Boak and Bailey - are Thornbridge's 330ml bottles a con?
http://boakandbailey.com/2017/02/are-thornbridges-330ml-bottles-a-con/

Here the 500ml bottles were very difficult to sell. It probably makes more sense to package in 330ml for the export market.

 

[John the Monkey]

Thornbridge make some nice beers - but 330ml is a pain - too small to share between Mrs M and I. I also think that there are brewers (for now, at least) still bottling IPAs at least as good as (f'rinstance) Jaipur or Kipling in 500ml. So for me, it'll be on to those beers, away from Thornbridge.

 

[Aperitif]

Thornbridge make some nice beers - but 330ml is a pain - too small to share between Mrs M and I. I also think that there are brewers (for now, at least) still bottling IPAs at least as good as (f'rinstance) Jaipur or Kipling in 500ml. So for me, it'll be on to those beers, away from Thornbridge.

Mrs M says "very tight".

 

[nickyboy]

This 330ml/500ml dilemma....

In my usual unscientific way I suspect it boils down to our deep-rooted psychology of what constitutes a "normal" quantity of a beer. Pints. 330ml just feels a bit.....small. Of course, like in the link @John the Monkey provided, there is a cut off on beer strength. I wouldn't drink a pint of 7% so I don't expect a bottle of the stuff to be 500ml

In the same way, 500ml is not popular on the continent it seems. Could never find a bar doing half litres when I was in Amsterdam

 

[John the Monkey]

Is one each too much?

Depends on what it is really. Mrs M, as the sensible one, would question the wisdom of 660ml of Jaipur when we could have bought 500ml of Oakham Inferno (f'rinstance). (We've already tried them both, we know we like them both). She'd probably be ok with 660ml of Nightmare on Bold Street though, as it's a bloody nice stout (she's a fan), and there's not much like it bottled in 500ml.

 

[John the Monkey]

Mrs M says "very tight".

 

[theclaud]

Good job I'm boycotting Thornbridge.*





*mostly

 

[John the Monkey]

Why are cask ends painted red?
http://boakandbailey.com/2017/02/qa-cask-ends-painted-red/

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Here the 500ml bottles were very difficult to sell. It probably makes more sense to package in 330ml for the export market.

And here was me thinking it was the southerners that were soft, turns out it's the continentals.

 

[MossCommuter]

Crackle pour

 

[MossCommuter]

I have the honour of drinking DIPA v12, released yesterday, in the brewery's tap room

There's a definite air of excitement about the whole thing.

The beer is noticeably cold and I think this might be the bitterest version I've tried.