Daddy Pig
Veteran
Beer festival all done and actually I was left a little disapponted sadly, maybe with all the specialist beer I've been drinking over the last year has left me wanting a bit more than ordinary. (All beers by St Austell unless marked!)
First off was a Ruby Mild @6% really quite ordinary if not bland (4/10) - Sarah Hughes it was most definitely not!
2. Coastal Brewery American pale (PAPA) 4.5%. Too much bitterness for a pale with none of that smooth mouthfeel I'd normally expect. I usually love their beers but what a miss! 3/10
3.Chocolate Orange milk stout (monkey wrench) 4.1% Bath Ales. Another miss, oily mouthfeel and no orange coming through 3/10
4. Mocha Chocca Lotta 6% - salvation at last. Huge coffee nose (where's my croissant - ok pasty will do) and chocolate coffee surging through my mouth 8/10
5. Nut Just Your Average Porter 5.5%. Coconuts. Pure evil 2/10
6. Cherry stout 9%. Aged in Brandy barrels matured in morello cherries. V. Sadly a big miss again. Far too bitter a finish, brandy and cherries were hardly there. Could have been great. 3/10
7. Excalibur 5.8% (Tintagel). Dark and malty, delicious rich and deep 7/10
8.Sulis Xmas Bock 6%. Very clean and refreshing with a wonderful sweetness that lingers. 7/10
9. Rye Caramba 7%. Hazy with the Rye, some hops but not strong enough imho to cut through the rye. Could have done with a Belgium yeast but sadly... 5/10
10. Triple C 4.7%. IPA using citra, Chinook and Comet hops, good hop freshness with a lot of dry hoping but no real bitterness made for a very refreshing ale. 7/10
11. Silvertip (beerd brewery) 4.7% NZ pale which again was too bitter for a pale. Pretty bland tbf 4/10
12. Armageddon 9.4% imperial vanilla milk stout. I saved the best until last which was sneaked out to drink on the way to the train station. Really good ale with a real hit of vanilla from the bourbon casks coupled with a deep chocolate on the nose. Super smooth 9/10
What a day and I wasn't even too badly pished by the end...
First off was a Ruby Mild @6% really quite ordinary if not bland (4/10) - Sarah Hughes it was most definitely not!
2. Coastal Brewery American pale (PAPA) 4.5%. Too much bitterness for a pale with none of that smooth mouthfeel I'd normally expect. I usually love their beers but what a miss! 3/10
3.Chocolate Orange milk stout (monkey wrench) 4.1% Bath Ales. Another miss, oily mouthfeel and no orange coming through 3/10
4. Mocha Chocca Lotta 6% - salvation at last. Huge coffee nose (where's my croissant - ok pasty will do) and chocolate coffee surging through my mouth 8/10
5. Nut Just Your Average Porter 5.5%. Coconuts. Pure evil 2/10
6. Cherry stout 9%. Aged in Brandy barrels matured in morello cherries. V. Sadly a big miss again. Far too bitter a finish, brandy and cherries were hardly there. Could have been great. 3/10
7. Excalibur 5.8% (Tintagel). Dark and malty, delicious rich and deep 7/10
8.Sulis Xmas Bock 6%. Very clean and refreshing with a wonderful sweetness that lingers. 7/10
9. Rye Caramba 7%. Hazy with the Rye, some hops but not strong enough imho to cut through the rye. Could have done with a Belgium yeast but sadly... 5/10
10. Triple C 4.7%. IPA using citra, Chinook and Comet hops, good hop freshness with a lot of dry hoping but no real bitterness made for a very refreshing ale. 7/10
11. Silvertip (beerd brewery) 4.7% NZ pale which again was too bitter for a pale. Pretty bland tbf 4/10
12. Armageddon 9.4% imperial vanilla milk stout. I saved the best until last which was sneaked out to drink on the way to the train station. Really good ale with a real hit of vanilla from the bourbon casks coupled with a deep chocolate on the nose. Super smooth 9/10
What a day and I wasn't even too badly pished by the end...
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for sparklers from me
. I've stocked up on Fell Robust Porter and Nectar at Black Hand Wines (aaaahhhh, fine wine!) in Penrith. Cheers!
