Beer?

[Rickshaw Phil]

I'll just have some Diet Coke.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

I'm not old enough for anything else

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I'm not old enough for anything else

Awww, shame. One soft drink suitable for a beer thread coming up.

 

[ceepeebee]

Smutchin - if you can get anywhere near Borough Market, Utobeer have a very big range of the Nogne beers, and they're not all silly expensive - that was a special that I had.

right now though I have no immediately drinkable beer so I'm on the warm milk, dark rum, maple syrup and cinnamon mugs. Dangerous stuff.

 

[Spartak]

Cotswold Spring Stunner

http://www.springbrewery.co.uk/our-beers

My local Post Office is now selling 3 x 500ml bottles of Cotswold Spring beers for £5-50

 

[User169]

My dad said it was excellent. This is perhaps unsurprising as it turns out it was in fact made under license by my dad's favourite local brewer, Mr E.Gadd of Ramsgate.




d.

My local(ish) brewery, De Molen, recently brewed a fresh hop beer together with Gadds. I had some on draft the other day -very nice!

 

[User169]

I've been drinking this recently. A real thirst quencher, quite English in style although made with US hops.

The guy thats sells it gets it brewed on a contract basis, but is crowd- sourcing funds to build his own brewery. I think he's raised 90000 eur so far and is aiming for 150000.

 

[User169]

Tried Mikkeller's "Salty Ocean Weed" this evening. Made with seaweed apparently - it's supposed to have a slight salty tang which i can just about get. ok i supopose and much better than their single hop sorachi ace I tried a couple of weeks ago. I wondered if it had gone off, but the bar was a bit dark and I couldn't see the date on the bottle.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Tried Mikkeller's "Salty Ocean Weed" this evening. Made with seaweed apparently - it's supposed to have a slight salty tang which i can just about get. ok i supopose and much better than their single hop sorachi ace I tried a couple of weeks ago. I wondered if it had gone off, but the bar was a bit dark and I couldn't see the date on the bottle.

The excellent Williams Brothers Brewery in Scotland make a Kelpie Seaweed Ale, haven't tried it in a while but I'm sure I preferred their Heather Ale.

 

[User169]

The excellent Williams Brothers Brewery in Scotland make a Kelpie Seaweed Ale, haven't tried it in a while but I'm sure I preferred their Heather Ale.

I've seen that in the local beer shop - I'll have to give it a go now!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The excellent Williams Brothers Brewery in Scotland make a Kelpie Seaweed Ale, haven't tried it in a while but I'm sure I preferred their Heather Ale.

Yeah, it's good, but the Fraoch is definitely their best - and Beer Advocate seems to agree with us. I quite like their Grozet (Gooseberry wheat beer) too.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

It's almost my favourite time of the year: the release of this year's winter beers. I mean, seriously, who doesn't love those huge, complex, imperial stouts, triples, porters, etc...? It's a fine balance though, some of them are so heavy they are anti-social, but I found that one of my favourite little Canadian breweries produces something that satisfies the connossieur as well as people who thought they didn't like dark beer: Muskoka's Winter Beard (double chocolate cranberry stout). I took bottles of this to all kinds of parties last year and it always went down really well. Anyone else have particular favourites for winter?

 

[ceepeebee]

tbh I like to drink stouts and porters all year round, not being that fond of over-hopped beers I take the malty where I can get it.

I'm on a St Peters mild right now, completely solid and dependable. Some friends and I are having a stash tasting in a couple of weeks and my stash is v v v depleted, may have to go on a forage sometime soon.

 

[smutchin]

I got some of the Goose Island Christmas special in last year. A big spicy Belgian-style brown ale. It was magnificent. If they do another this year, I'll probably get some of that again.

d.

 

[Spartak]

Hobgoblin Ruby Ale