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Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
My Christmas homebrew is now in bottles for conditioning, I've made double liquorice stout and brutal 8.2% ginger beer.

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threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
Anyone else have particular favourites for winter?

The Kernel are now a year round favourite for excellent stouts and porters.

The Ridgeway Brewery have the Elf beers at this time of year, the Insanely Bad Elf is a lovely barley wine, quite strong at 12% but sold in smaller bottles.

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Ridgeway also produce Christmas specials such as Santa's Butt and Reindeer Droppings but I have trouble bringing myself to buy beer with ridiculous names.
 
Ridgeway also produce Christmas specials such as Santa's Butt and Reindeer Droppings but I have trouble bringing myself to buy beer with ridiculous names.
oh god yes, see also: terrible bloody labels. If you're making great beer - take some pride in your labels too! It's a whole package. My local shop had some apparently good beers that I over-looked as I just wasn't going to pick up a bottle that looked as if it had been lifted from a Haight Ashbury head-shop circa 1968.
 
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User169

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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.

Tried both of these. I liked the seaweed one, although i hadn't realised it was a porter, but there did seem to be a salty tang. Didn't like the heather one at all - only managed a couple of slurps. Got a couple more of williams bros to try- an elderberry ale and the profanity stout.

One of the local bars now has Kernel on tap, so will try to slope off for an hour this arvo!
 
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User169

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Couple more Williams bros sampled:

Elderberry ale - another stoutish type beer. Ok, with a little fruit, but i wouldn't have known it was elderberry.

Profanity stout - now we're talking! Highly hopped, but more of a dark IPA. Best Williams bros beer i've tried.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
An Italian weissbier (sadly I've forgotten the name) during a meal at Ristorante Umberto in Naples. Made with herbs from Sorrento. Phenomenal, with a real citrussy kick. Knocked any Northern European or German equivalent into a cocked hat.
 

rvw

Guru
Location
Amersham
An Italian weissbier (sadly I've forgotten the name) during a meal at Ristorante Umberto in Naples. Made with herbs from Sorrento. Phenomenal, with a real citrussy kick. Knocked any Northern European or German equivalent into a cocked hat.
Called Lemonale, if I remember right.
 
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User169

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One of the highlights of the beer year this weekend - Cantillon's Zwanze Day. Each year Cantillon brews a limited release beer which is available for one day at various venues around the world. The beer used to be available on the open market, but they got frustrated seeing it all on ebay the next day. So, in the UK on saturday, you can sample this year's offering - a rhubarb lambic - at the Earl of Essex in London. I'll be heading up to Amsterdam to see if i can grab a glass.

Meantime, De Koninck this evening - Antwerp's house beer.
 
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