Beer?

[User169]

Raven Black IPA. Crikey this stuff is good. Lovely sweet, toasty malt with piney hops. Super smooth. Another classic from Thornbridge.

 

[User169]

Black Horse Reserve Special Dark Ale.

Interesting brew. A sort of hoppy porter.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Black Horse Reserve Special Dark Ale.

Interesting brew. A sort of hoppy porter.

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How are you getting on with that book DP? I picked up the MJ 500 classic brews from a charridy shop recently, good fun for a browse and tick off a few as 'tried'.

 

[User169]

How are you getting on with that book DP? I picked up the MJ 500 classic brews from a charridy shop recently, good fun for a browse and tick off a few as 'tried'.

Its quite good fun -marked off the odd one or two!

 

[User169]

Troubador Westkust Imperial Black IPA from Brouwerij Musketeers.

Really dig this one. Not very much on the nose, but to taste I get spicy Belgian yeast, restrained hopping and a subtle coffee hint in the finish. Good to see the Belgies kicking out modern beer styles, but still retaining their own traditions.

 

[smutchin]

Dad's birthday yesterday - after assembling his new bike for him and taking him out for a test ride, we went for a pie and a pint* of Gadd's Summer's Day at the Four Candles...

Can't think of many better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon.

http://gaddsbeershop.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/summers-day.html

http://www.thefourcandles.co.uk

*read: three pints

 

[User169]

, we went for a pie and a pint* of Gadd's Summer's Day at the Four Candles...

Fork handles? Funny name for a pub.

My local brewery, De Molen, made a beer with Gadds. It was one of those green hop brews: not bad at all.

 

[smutchin]

Fork handles? Funny name for a pub.

http://www.thefourcandles.co.uk/page10.htm

It's a great pub. Usually has three ales on the go at a time, plus white wine for the ladies and nothing else. Flat-rate pricing of £3 a pint. Quality bar snacks.

My local brewery, De Molen...

You make me sick.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

This week's Tokyo craft beer bar will be the Vivo! Beer and Dining Bar in Ikebukuro. It's near where my wife used to live when I first met her, and I hear the food is excellent, which will make a change after last week!

 

[User169]

Jack Hammer from Brewdog. Not exactly subtle or balanced, but probably the closest they've come to their self-avowed punkness. Super tropical aromas. Hugely grassy and astringent to taste. Pretty fine!!

And I managed to get my bike in the background.

 

[ceepeebee]

Hello all, been a while as I've been working too hard for not enough money which leads to not enough beer.... Have had a few - 3 monts, a few duvels, a very disappointing Hart or two (way over carbonated)... Some cracking 5points beers that I can't recommend enough.

However, a tax rebate has just landed which means that I'm on for the Borefts festival, yay!

Plan is - Over on the ferry on the Thursday night, cycle to Utrecht on the Friday (was thinking up the LF1, right at the LF4 all the way over). Night out in Utrecht with a few friends who have booked a house through Airbnb. Go off for another ride Saturday morning, meet up with more chums and head over to Bodegraven for the festival.
Sunday (here's the potential slip-up), ride back to Hoek in time for the ferry (need to be there by 1.30pm... train may take the strain for some of it).

DP in particular - are you going? Shall we meet up? and also - do you see any other potential problems in that plan?

 

[User169]

Hi cpb. Utrecht to Hoek by 1:30 is doable, but day after Borefts could be more problematic! I'd have a train backup ready, just in case.

Planning to be there this year.

 

[User169]

Hoppin Frogs imperial dark IPA. More of a hoppy porter, but pretty fine. Hellish pricey though - 14eur for a bomber!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

This week's beer report will be brief. I didn't go to Vivo! in the end. I was really not in the mood, so I just went back to Goodbeer Faucets, which was pretty packed this week. Had a nice pizza again (they do have other things on the menu!), but all the beers they had on that I had really wanted to try were already finished. So I settled for a perfectly done and very refreshing Swan Lake Weizen (5%), followed by a real smack-my-face-up IPA from Iwatekura, which was a more than adequate substitute for the East-West IPA (a collaboration between the USA's Ballast Point and Japan's Coedo) that I had wanted. I made a mistake with my final choice though. Once again I saw something interesting from the US on the menu, a Coconut Porter from Maui Brewing Company. This time the ethanol was all in the initial nose, most unpleasant, and the coconut flavour just seemed to be wrong. It does not work in a porter. This was actually just a badly thought-out beer, based more in a marketing gimmick (hey, Maui is tropical, let's put coconut in our beer!) than in good beer-making, and it put me in a bad mood...

I'm going off on holiday to the coast next week - I will try to get hold of some interesting bottles, but there will be no report as I'll be entirely offline.

 

[ceepeebee]

Hi cpb. Utrecht to Hoek by 1:30 is doable, but day after Borefts could be more problematic! I'd have a train backup ready, just in case.

Planning to be there this year.

Yeah, I'm thinking that hopping on a train to den Haag might be the way forward, followed by a refreshing blast down the lf1. Should give me plenty of time.