Beer?

[deptfordmarmoset]

I just drank an HSB DDH IPA. When I asked the barman what DDH stood for, he asked his colleague who answered Hop Stuff Brewery. We already knew that. Eventually we got the answer Double Dry Hopped. It was a new 7% HSB beer, using Mosaic hops. And at £9 a pint, with highly crafted prices. Damn good stuff, though! They're an impressive little brewery, tending to avoid deep bitterness but favouring rounded fruity fronts. At 7%, it doesn't make for extended sessions so not much use for my 2018 new beer collection.

Other recent newcomers: Adnams Broadside (A full-bodied beer would be an understatement), a Ringwood Circadian and a St Austell Proper Job,which I bought partly because I'd been subjected to a Tescos visit and I needed a reward but mostly because I keep on seeing pictures of it on this thread. It's probably not much like the draught version but good nevertheless.

As the last three were bottles, and under a pint, I'm counting them as 2 to take my tally to 67.

 

[MossCommuter]

I just drank an HSB DDH IPA. When I asked the barman what DDH stood for, he asked his colleague who answered Hop Stuff Brewery. We already knew that. Eventually we got the answer Double Dry Hopped. It was a new 7% HSB beer, using Mosaic hops. And at £9 a pint, with highly crafted prices. Damn good stuff, though! They're an impressive little brewery, tending to avoid deep bitterness but favouring rounded fruity fronts. At 7%, it doesn't make for extended sessions so not much use for my 2018 new beer collection.

Other recent newcomers: Adnams Broadside (A full-bodied beer would be an understatement), a Ringwood Circadian and a St Austell Proper Job,which I bought partly because I'd been subjected to a Tescos visit and I needed a reward but mostly because I keep on seeing pictures of it on this thread. It's probably not much like the draught version but good nevertheless.

As the last three were bottles, and under a pint, I'm counting them as 2 to take my tally to 67.

This is HSB

Beer from my youth

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

This is HSB

Beer from my youth

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Aye, Fullers do one too. But in Hop Stuff Brewery the initials stand for, well, Hop Stuff Brewery.

 

[MossCommuter]

Aye, Fullers do one too. But in Hop Stuff Brewery the initials stand for, well, Hop Stuff Brewery.

Fuller's bought George Gale's

I did a sandwich year at IBM in the, ahem, past and my BFF lived in Horndean. In those days, after being brought up on Tetley's and Boddies, we thought it was bonkers strong!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Fuller's bought George Gale's

I did a sandwich year at IBM in the, ahem, past and my BFF lived in Horndean. In those days, after being brought up on Tetley's and Boddies, we thought it was bonkers strong!

I'm now having doubts about Fuller's HSB. I think it might be ESB. There are worse companies to be taken over by than Fuller's. For a long time it was London's best brewery by far and their beer hasn't got worse, it's just that there now seem to be so many upstart young crafters who've overtaken them.

 

[srw]

I'm now having doubts about Fuller's HSB. I think it might be ESB. There are worse companies to be taken over by than Fuller's. For a long time it was London's best brewery by far and their beer hasn't got worse, it's just that there now seem to be so many upstart young crafters who've overtaken them.

HSB is currently on tap at the *mumble* and *mumble* (stupid name, whatever it is) inside Paddington station.

I've had a very pleasant late afternoon drinking cask ESB and bottled London Porter with a US mate who's over from the land of bland Rheinheitsgebot. If I'd wanted a craft-style fizzy keg or a new world hoppy pale rhet have those in abundance.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm now having doubts about Fuller's HSB. I think it might be ESB. There are worse companies to be taken over by than Fuller's. For a long time it was London's best brewery by far and their beer hasn't got worse, it's just that there now seem to be so many upstart young crafters who've overtaken them.

HSB is top stuff and I like Fuller's (although not keen on ESB, I think they changed the recipe), I don't think there's anything wrong in brewing beer without stuff in it. Adnams Broadside that you menched earlier is top shelf too, a fave of mine amongst unbuggered beer.

 

[Daddy Pig]

Nitro beers in a can... a thing of the past or are they back in?

Just tryng a nitro coffee milk stout. Good stout and the nitro is actually quite subtle and adds a creaminess to the experience. Very different to the nitro ales of the 90's...

 

[Daddy Pig]

Brewdog spouting more bollocks...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43300969

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Brewdog spouting more bollocks...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43300969

Bikes for women cynically followed a pink and shrink it process. The latest version seems to be pink it and drink it.

 

[SteveF]

A New Zealand amber ale, rather hoppy and refreshing ...

 

[Crackle]

This is like a beery cream soda, tastes of Alpine trucks and surly youths knocking on your door.

 

[User169]

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This is like a beery cream soda, tastes of Alpine trucks and surly youths knocking on your door.

S’got molasses in.

[molasses diversion alert...

A company I worked for used molasses as a feedstock, so we had massive silos of the stuff. One day, there was a funny rumbling sound from outside. Turned out one of the silos had collapsed in on itself and tons of molasses were flowing over the site. Cars in the car park were lifted up and were floating around on the stuff, crashing into each other. I think one even ended up upside down.]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

S’got molasses in.

[molasses diversion alert...

A company I worked for used molasses as a feedstock, so we had massive silos of the stuff. One day, there was a funny rumbling sound from outside. Turned out one of the silos had collapsed in on itself and tons of molasses were flowing over the site. Cars in the car park were lifted up and were floating around on the stuff, crashing into each other. I think one even ended up upside down.]

I was googling looking for what a molasses flood looks like and found this, yours sounds pretty tame by comparison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

Related search alert, the great Beer flood of 1814, @rich p will no doubt remember it well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

 

[User169]

I was googling looking for what a molasses flood looks like and found this, yours sounds pretty tame by comparison.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

No one killed thank goodness. It did though get into the surrounding canals and it wasn’t entirely cool PR when loads of dead fish started floating through town.