Beer?

[User169]

Third, was a 5.6% Golden Ale. I forget the name, but it used NZ hops which gave a refreshing bitterness that balanced the broadness of the flavour. A really good summer session beer.

This is a place to come back to.

Another good report, FM. Baird's brews really look the business.

The golden ale is seemingly Shohei's First with motueka, nelson sauvin, cascade and wakatu!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Thornbridge Jaipur IPA has had some good press in this thread so I thought I ought to give it a go, have to say it's a perfectly balanced* beer, spot on with the hop quota, excellent!


*use of the word 'balance' is poncey beer geekery talk I know.

 

[GM]

Chilling in the Euston Tap. Dude's just requested a "beer". Slightly confused barman says "we have lots of beer".

I was in the Euston Tap last night, had a couple of pints of this

BTW it's a great little pub!!!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Another good report, FM. Baird's brews really look the business.

The golden ale is seemingly Shohei's First with motueka, nelson sauvin, cascade and wakatu!

That's the one. I am going to have to get some more of this before it vanishes... their seasonal brews don't last long.

On the report, the one thing I didn't mention was the weird interpersonal stuff that went on. Sitting just diagonal to me were what I took to be a Japanese couple on a date. She looked kinda cool (interesting hair) and also very lovely. He looked dull and his conversation was clearly not doing much for her - from the snippets I caught, he was as boring as he looked. Anyway, she kept giving me the eye whenever he wasn't looking her way (which was, inexplicably, quite a lot), smiling and giving me other come-ons. If I was still a single man, I might have done something bold (or stupid), but instead I just enjoyed the pleasant weirdness of the experience...

 

[User169]

Thornbridge Jaipur IPA has had some good press in this thread so I thought I ought to give it a go, have to say it's a perfectly balanced* beer, spot on with the hop quota, excellent!


*use of the word 'balance' is poncey beer geekery talk I know.

Try their "Raven" Black IPA - straight into my desert island list,

 

[User169]

I was in the Euston Tap last night, had a couple of pints of this

BTW it's a great little pub!!!

Not the greatest location, but a nice building, helpful bar staff and fantastic beer!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Not the greatest location...

Talking of which, I had the pleasure of a visit to Amazingstoke today, sheesh...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Another Jaipur. Couple of other brewery errands the other day so was forced to buy some Windsor and Eton beer, trying that this w/end, nice little modern brewery, really friendly folk, offered a cold glass of their lager, would have been churlish to refuse, it was most welcome and not bad at all.

 

[GM]

Not the greatest location, but a nice building, helpful bar staff and fantastic beer!

Yes defiantly good beers! My Son is the beer connoisseur of our family, and he was raving about the Sierra Nevada Hoptimum what he had there. Today he went to www.oldchimneysbrewery.com in Norfolk, and was impressed with their Good King Henry Special Reserve.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Advance notice: this week's Tokyo craft beer bar will be the Watering Hole in Yoyogi (that's run through Google Translate for maximum amusement!). It's run by a guy who won the world homebrew competion and was consequently investigated by the Japanese police because homebrewing was illegal at the time in Japan. He's now got his own pub, and his own microbrewery, Tharsis Ridge (he's either an astronomy buff or an SF fan...), next door. That's not producing commercially yet, but the place looks good and has nice organic food too.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Beer festival yesterday, didn't keep any notes so just trying to piece together the beer list in my tiny mind - will report back when all the information has downloaded.

Edit:

Wood Farm 1823 dark mild
Something or another porter
Flowerpots Inn bitter
London Fields Hackney Hopster
Ballards Golden Ale

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Windsor and Eton Conqueror black IPA, the 5.0% version, also bought a smaller bottle of the 7.4% one too. Excellent beer, summit and cascade hops with 5 speciality malts make for a very distinctive ale, might have to try the stronger one next, purely on a scientific basis natch.

 

[rich p]

Windsor and Eton Conqueror black IPA, the 5.0% version, also bought a smaller bottle of the 7.4% one too. Excellent beer, summit and cascade hops with 5 speciality malts make for a very distinctive ale, might have to try the stronger one next, purely on a scientific basis natch.

I just ahd a Corona with a lime wedge in the neck - classy me!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I just ahd a Corona with a lime wedge in the neck - classy me!

Feckin common scum you are, rich.

 

[rich p]

Feckin common scum you are, rich.

feck off tosser.