Beer?

[Flying_Monkey]

Only had a couple last night and I think this will be the way from now on - I'm going back on a stricter diet and much less beer so I can get back to racing weight. I can certainly recommend the first one I had last night - a quite unique 'white IPA' called 'Sorry' from Yo-Ho Brewing Company. It was actually somewhere between a wheat beer and and an IPA - all kinds of weird tropical fruit flavours and a nice hoppy finish. Most excellent.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Kick off with a Camden Pale Ale from Sourced Market at St Pancras, fab London beer section, also got some Kernel, Pressure Drop, Five Points, Signature Brew and Beavertown, oh yumtus!

 

[User169]

Kicking off with 2.5 from Emelisse. Does what it says on the tin - 2.5% table beer. These table beers seems to be the latest trend in brewing.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Kicking off with 2.5 from Emelisse. Does what it says on the tin - 2.5% table beer. These table beers seems to be the latest trend in brewing.

I've tried the Kernel table beer which weighs in at 3.2%, it wasn't bad but you just knew it wasn't all there!

Finished off last night with a Five Points Railway Porter and Signature Brew Dark Heart which describes itself as an Edwardian ale, lovely smokey oaky dark beer, the 5P was an excellent porter too, some Kernel rivalling stuff appearing down in that London.

 

[User169]

Good stuff. I've posted a review of the Four Candles.

Your review was included in a top ten list on Saturday..

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/sep/02/uk-best-pubs-and-microbreweries-readers-tips

 

[User169]

Italian craft beer at the weekend from Brewfist.

Not hugely original, but all nicely made. Their black IPA was the best of the ones I tried.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I had a stout from a new company, Samurai Surfer (great label!), on the weekend. Very interesting: it had hints of that imperial stout depth without being anywhere near as high in alcohol (7%). As such, you could say it was a thin and disappointing imperial but I'd rather see it as an export stout in like that old Jamaican classic, Dragon. And really quite good for all that. I have their Red Ale to try this weekend, as well as a limited summer weiss...

I'm not really sure about the brewery. It is a 'micro' but it seems to have been set up by a bigger Tokyo brewer and isn't really an independent. Mind you, my second-favourite Quebec micro, Unibroue, is now owned by Suntory (who at least tend not to interfere unlike some of those other international brewing conglomerates we know and hate)...

 

[User169]

Velduil from newish brewery Het Uiltje (little owl). An American-style pale ale, with good citrus and pine, its the perfect summer session (or school night) beer.

 

[User169]

Mind you, my second-favourite Quebec micro, Unibroue, is now owned by Suntory

What's the bestun FM?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What's the bestun FM?

Labatts

 

[ceepeebee]

25 sleeps to borefts....

 

[Flying_Monkey]

What's the bestun FM?

The small but perfectly formed, Dieu du Ciel!

I've checked and their only registered distributor in Europe is this place in France - they seem to do a whole lot of Dieu du Ciel! (and Unibroue too), and they might ship to Belgium (and maybe even the UK), so worth a try.

 

[Aperitif]

The 'Péché mortel' and 'Solstice d'hiver' look ready to beat a retreat in one's head the 'day after'. Phew!
Slightly OT @Flying_Monkey, have you seen the work of Carl Randall? It may interest. He won a travel bursary from the BP Portrait Awards in 2012 and followed the Tokaido highway to record detail en route. I now have a nice book of illustrations - they are very interesting drawings. There's a video on the NPG website and he has a neat website too.

Sorry imbibers - back on topic and to 'mingle' two things; I once or twice have suffered a cut nose being forced to drink large quantities of this Sapporo stuff. The can design is good - just like a glass!

 

[User169]

The small but perfectly formed, Dieu du Ciel!

I've checked and their only registered distributor in Europe is this place in France - they seem to do a whole lot of Dieu du Ciel! (and Unibroue too), and they might ship to Belgium (and maybe even the UK), so worth a try.

These bad boys better be good FM! Just ordered one each of:

Chaman (Imperial Pale Ale)
Rigor Mortis Abt (Quadrupel)
Pénombre (Black IPA)
Péché mortel (Imperial Coffee Stout)
Solstice d'hiver (Barley Wine)
Aphrodisiaque (Cocoa and Vanilla Stout)

Unfortunately, they didn't have any Unibroue beer. From what they say on the website, it seems that Unibroue don't export to Europe any more in view of US demand.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

These bad boys better be good FM!

Even I haven't had all of those, but I am pretty sure you won't be disappointed! Peché Mortel is one of my current Top 10 and the Aphrodisaque is every bit as sexy as it sounds. I'm interested in hearing about the Chaman and the Pénombre in particular.