Beer?

[User169]

Day trip to Calais next Saturday. Stocking up time. Lots of Flanders loveliness - la goudale, 3 monts, st angelus...

Anything else? FiL is driving so it'll be Auchan or Carrefour rather than anything fancy.

Oh, and lots of orval for cheap cheap prices too

Jenlain and Ch'ti are both from that area and OK.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Day trip to Calais next Saturday. Stocking up time. Lots of Flanders loveliness - la goudale, 3 monts, st angelus...

Anything else? FiL is driving so it'll be Auchan or Carrefour rather than anything fancy.

Oh, and lots of orval for cheap cheap prices too

Yes...
We rather like http://www.chimay.com/en/bieres-de-chimay.html?IDC=287 Chimay beer, but can only purchase the Blue label in the UK (at least at sensible supermarket prices. we do have a specialist shop that can get the red & yellow labels in but at twice what it costs in supermarkets and 3 or 4 times what it costs on the continent). worth considering IMO...

Edit: we prefer the red & blue labels. the yellow was a little like gnat's pee for us.

 

[ceepeebee]

Yeah, I like chimay but I've kind of drunk my way through it (where we go in France, the town of chimay itself is a relatively short trip so we've been and bought the cheeses washed in it etc). Having said that, it's a while since I had any cinq cents...

Ah just remembered, la geante should be available, nice bottle - big and with hardly any label, most of it is in relief glass.

 

[User169]

[QUOTE 2398580, member: 259"]The Triple (Cinq Cents) is a wonderful beer for making rabbit stew.[/quote]

 

[ceepeebee]

Had a few pints of five points brewery's red rye ale last night, it was lovely. 5%, lots of caramel, wee bit of zing, did lose its head a bit half way down but considering its their first commercial run I'm really impressed.

The brewer is the friend of a friend and was out with us, he wanted to make it stronger, but the feedback at 5 has been v v positive.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Orkney Dark Isle after 95km cycled today. much needed.

Dark Island is a beer you chew rather than drink. Proper tasty stuff!


GC

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Newcastle = 666

 

[rich p]

What do you do in a pub in deepest, darkest Wales, in the one and only pub, which serves no real ale, 3 types of smoothflow bitter, Carling & Fosters yellow piss, and no Guinness?

 

[ceepeebee]

What do you do in a pub in deepest, darkest Wales, in the one and only pub, which serves no real ale, 3 types of smoothflow bitter, Carling & Fosters yellow ****, and no Guinness?

Whisky, neat, no ice.

 

[rich p]

Whisky, neat, no ice.

I rarely, if ever, drink scotch in a pub - measures too small and prices too high nd not a session ale. I like to glug pints. This was after the forum Dragon ride and the group largely held their noses, swallowed their pride and drank Greene King IPA smooth.

 

[smutchin]

Batemans Mocha. That's... different.

Tbh, it tastes more of vanilla than coffee or chocolate. Very sweet. Hmm.

Still, I can afford to be experimental when it's £1.79 a pint in my local Spoons.

 

[Spartak]

Greene King IPA Gold ......... 4.1 %

Lovely

 

[ceepeebee]

Ok, new job acquired, so I'm celebrating

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nice one cpb - St Bernie's good stuff - no more skiving for you then!

 

[ceepeebee]

I have 2 weeks left of freedom left, I intend to ride my bike and drink some beer.

And TBM, the bernardus is a poisson rouge, the sodom and Gomorrah is one of the nicest beers I've ever had. First tasted it at the de molen festival last year (and I have a pass for this years' !!) and then a friend gave me two bottles for my fortieth, one for immediate consumption (waited for getting new job) and one for my fiftieth.

It's bloody gorgeous