Beer?

[nickyboy]

Torrside Brewery in New Mills seems to be going from strength to strength.

I am Spartacus American IPA.6.8% and packed with bitter, juicy loveliness. All we need is @rich p to visit again and we can make a proper night of it

 

[John the Monkey]

Pray tell me, what is a fractional IPA? Do they only sell it in 1/2ves and 1/3rds?

Siren used to do a "Quarter IPA", which, if memory serves, was around 2ish % abv. I remember having some on a roasting hot day in Oxford, and it was extremely refreshing.

So a fractional IPA is one brewed at less than what the brewer feels is the typical strength for the style. Frank?

As for me, I was the designated driver today, so I had a couple of bottles of Vanderstreek's "Playground IPA" <0.5% abv

It's an alcohol free IPA, and quite a good one - possibly a little sweet and chemically, but better than Becks Blue, or coca cola.

 

[srw]

Pray tell me, what is a fractional IPA? Do they only sell it in 1/2ves and 1/3rds?

Perhaps it's been distilled?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Barry from Finance hits up Antwerp!

Fruity, hoppy with a good pithy tang. I like Barry

And this is a #W.OOOOOO.DDD. CW and Against the Grain collaboration it's a smoked brown. Nice maltiness and pleasant but I didn't buy any to take home.

Right, incompetent editing but I have better things to do than editing right now

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Safely navigated from London Bridge to Deptford, I'm sampling a Brick orange and fennel Imperial stout. Brick have a talent for making beers taste like things that aren't listed. It's a licorice stout!

(The can to the left is a CW Dance Like Everyone is Watching brought for purely sampling purposes)

 

[Daddy Pig]

Night away from the kiddies means its beer o clock for me...

First up a Cloudwater Dipa followed by a pint of simcoe single hop. Creamy and rather underwhelming although OK, but then again I've just drunk the DIPA which may have crushed all taste buds.

Looking forward to a tempest red eye later and possibly the chocolate fudge stout.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Boy, this Kernel Bière de Saison is sour enough to pour on my chips, not that I have any....

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I've not had a Kriek for ages and I've never drunk it from the keg. Tis very very cherry.

I may need a proper beer soon though...

 

[marinyork]

Kozel pils from the Czech republic

Edit: had a postmeister doppel bock after. Strong flavour. Lowenbrau on tap. One of the only pubs open in town on a Monday and an excellent italian bartender.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

First up a Cloudwater Dipa followed by a pint of simcoe single hop. Creamy and rather underwhelming although OK, but then again I've just drunk the DIPA which may have crushed all taste buds.


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Looking forward to a tempest red eye later and possibly the chocolate fudge stout.

Hmm, Cloudwater Dipa, you say? This is a Likeable Orange Liquid, a highly hoppy flavour bomb concocted with the Other Half. This may take me some time.....

 

[theclaud]

Boy, this Kernel Bière de Saison is sour enough to pour on my chips, not that I have any....

Schoolboy error.

 

[rich p]

West Side IPA, from the Lost Pier brewery on draught. Nicely balanced hippy bitter flavour and ready for the footie.
COYS!

 

[nickyboy]

West Side IPA, from the Lost Pier brewery on draught. Nicely balanced hippy bitter flavour and ready for the footie.
COYS!
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You may as well get totally bladdered and forget the match

 

[rich p]

You may as well get totally bladdered and forget the match

Useless bunch of twats!

 

[Daddy Pig]

Useless bunch of twats!

Did Ajax clean up...