threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Good grief, it's in a tin!
Beer?
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ceepeebee
Veteran
- Location
- Some imaginary Flanders
What was the verdict? From reviews I fear I'd be calling too hoppy....
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User169
Guest
Yeah, that was a bit strange! Also, the can has strict instructions not to pour into a glass, but to drink direct from the can. Savages!
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User169
Guest
I loved it. Just my sort of DIPA: not too much malt, serious hoppage, but not overly grassy. A lovely orange and grapefruit flavour.
Went to the Burnley beer festival last night and it was very good. Not on the same scale as the world-famous Colne beer festival like but nevertheless it was good. We go the half-pint strategy which means we can sample a wider range and it's easy to determine an obvious north-south divide. We found some, but not all of the southern beers to be 'metallic' or sometimes 'chalky' tasting while the northern ones were more to my taste buds. An oddity which received very mixed views was the 'Book 'em Danno' from Thwaites which was a pineapple/wheat beer!
ceepeebee
Veteran
- Location
- Some imaginary Flanders
It's the grapefruit flavour that bugs me, I mean I like grapefruit, but it's not what I want in a beer...
Drinking straight from the can seems just wrong.
Drinking straight from the can seems just wrong.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
That's for park alchies not sophisticated gluggers like what we are.
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User169
Guest
Don't worry chaps. It was supped from rather swish De Molen tasting glasses.
ceepeebee
Veteran
- Location
- Some imaginary Flanders
This Buxton imperial black really is great, goes down like a session beer but its something daft like 7% very tasty too
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Just booked tickets for a beer evening at our local brewery, the guy hosting for the evening wrote your book. He also writes, occasionally, for the Pint to Pint column in The Telegraph, so he can't be all bad...
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Another Northmaed, Brune this time, 6%er. Very dark, pours with a nice creamy head which disappears quite quickly - malty, caramel, 0 hop, very little bitter. Nice but not overly challenging, similar story to the Blonde. Hoping for a bit more from the 11% Siecles de Normandie.
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User169
Guest
Cool opener!!
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
While no-one's looking, a cheeky La Trappe Dubbel, fabulous!
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Went to Craftheads in Shibuya on Wednesday night. As I was disappointed to have broken down again with a hamstring problem in training and will therefore be out for a month, I got very drunk. This was a very convenient (although expensive) place to do so because it specializes in both Japanese and US craft beer (with a particularly excellent selection of rare bottles from Founders, Three Floyds, Epic and others) and small batch bourbons and ryes... it was also one of the nicest bars I've been to in terms of atmosphere - the right level of lighting, a lovely long and deep polished wood bar, cool staff, a mixed crowd of customers and racks of glinting bourbon bottles... very good food too - I had a fine plate of smoked stuff (bacon, oysters, octopus and quail's eggs) that went really well with a nice stout from North Island Brewery in Hokkaido in the far north of Japan.
As for the rest of the beer, it was a mixed experience. I tried some of the last of the summer specials and the first of the autumn brews. I had one of the flat-out worst beers I have had in Japan, Dancing Moon fruit beer from Harvest Moon (that's the Disney-based brewery that made the really nice rauch I had a few weeks back). The fruit it contained was unidentifiable, the most I can tell you is that it was a vile concoction that reminded me of nothing other than those horrible pear-drop sweets you used to get back when you were a kid. On the fruit beer front, in contrast, there was a really refreshing although entirely un-beer-like pink grapefruit beer from Johana Beer, Toyama. I had a very palatable saison (Miyamae Blonde) from Shigakogen brewery, Nagano, one of the older craft breweries in Japan. Then there was another mediocre brew, a rauch from Fujisakurakogen, which while it smelled smokey had almost no smoke in the mouth at all. However, the evening was entirely redeemed by the stout mentioned above and an excellent Imperial Black Ale (or black IPA), again from Shigakogen. Like others on this thread, I am now firmly of the opinion that black IPA is one of the best developments of recent years.
Overall - a really nice place and I will be back, but I'm not convinced that they chose all their beers very carefully.
As for the rest of the beer, it was a mixed experience. I tried some of the last of the summer specials and the first of the autumn brews. I had one of the flat-out worst beers I have had in Japan, Dancing Moon fruit beer from Harvest Moon (that's the Disney-based brewery that made the really nice rauch I had a few weeks back). The fruit it contained was unidentifiable, the most I can tell you is that it was a vile concoction that reminded me of nothing other than those horrible pear-drop sweets you used to get back when you were a kid. On the fruit beer front, in contrast, there was a really refreshing although entirely un-beer-like pink grapefruit beer from Johana Beer, Toyama. I had a very palatable saison (Miyamae Blonde) from Shigakogen brewery, Nagano, one of the older craft breweries in Japan. Then there was another mediocre brew, a rauch from Fujisakurakogen, which while it smelled smokey had almost no smoke in the mouth at all. However, the evening was entirely redeemed by the stout mentioned above and an excellent Imperial Black Ale (or black IPA), again from Shigakogen. Like others on this thread, I am now firmly of the opinion that black IPA is one of the best developments of recent years.
Overall - a really nice place and I will be back, but I'm not convinced that they chose all their beers very carefully.
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User169
Guest
Probably my go-to style at the moment. The Kernel's "Scanner Darkly" is the best one I've tasted, but still have Dieu du Ciel's to try!
