Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

Quick 1/3 of Libertine Black IPA, in the right glass to get a nose full of hoppy fulfilment too!

Iggy Pop and The Velvets on the stereo as a bonus!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Managed to edit my first post before someone pointed out I'd typed 'oatmealy stoat' - a mistake weaselly made!

 

[Crackle]

Managed to edit my first post before someone pointed out I'd typed 'oatmealy stoat' - a mistake weaselly made!

The first pic in the pub is a stoat and the second a weasel. Stoats are bigger.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Not to be confused with fursty ferrets!

 

[User169]

BrewDog O'Clock in Newcastle, I've had tasters of Dead Metaphor, Libertine, Cocoa Psycho and Tokyo*, all very good even the outrageous Tokyo* at +18% which seemed to have too much taste, too many flavours! Settled for a half of the DM at an acceptable 6.3, nice thick oatmealy stout, served slightly too chilled if I'm being fussy but very nice all the same.

Not heard of Dead Metaphor - I'll look out for that one. Also want to give Cocoa Psycho another go.

I recently tried two new ones - Santa Paws (scotch ale) and Hoppy Christmas (pale ale). Neither was that good and I poured the Santa Paws away after a couple of swigs. Someone told me that both were brewed for the Brazilian market, but by the time they were ready it was too late to send them to Brazil in time for Christmas and so they've decided to flog them in Europe. Not their finest offerings.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

There seemed to be dozens of new varieties of brewdog bottled beer. Can't really see the point, maybe they're trying too hard, they're only appealing to their own customer base surely?!

 

[Crackle]

Busy evening, so I needed a quick release....

 

[User169]

3 new Dutch beers for this evening: zundert, NLs new Trappist beer; marshmallow winter beer from Emelisse; and puike pale ale from a newish brewery in Amsterdam.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I am missing Tokyo's last beer fest of the year on Sunday because I am going to be running up mountains. Not sure I made the right choice here...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I am missing Tokyo's last beer fest of the year on Sunday because I am going to be running up mountains. Not sure I made the right choice here...

You've made the right choice, glugging beer at a Tokyo beer festival sounds rubbish.

 

[smutchin]

3 new Dutch beers for this evening: zundert, NLs new Trappist beer; marshmallow winter beer from Emelisse; and puike pale ale from a newish brewery in Amsterdam.

OMG! Slight Proustian moment... Sorry for going OT, but... DP, my parents have the complete set of those Dutch houses from the days when my dad's job required him to fly with KLM several times a year (all the genever inside them has long since evaporated). We're talking a good 20 years ago. Do they still do them?

 

[rich p]

Harveys brewery in Lewes had a late night open evening (along with the rest of the town) yesterday. I spent a fair bit of time in their yard admiring the dray horses and even longer in their shop sampling freebies and in their pub paying for their Best Bitter, the Christmas Ale (7%) and the Old.
The 7% tastes very strong, unlike a lot of Belgian beers which sneakily hide their potency. The Old was pretty easy to drink with a nice subtle malty flavour.

 

[User169]

OMG! Slight Proustian moment... Sorry for going OT, but... DP, my parents have the complete set of those Dutch houses from the days when my dad's job required him to fly with KLM several times a year (all the genever inside them has long since evaporated). We're talking a good 20 years ago. Do they still do them?

Smutch - yes, KLM still does them! Got the ones in the photo on a trip to california a couple of years ago. Theres even an app nowadays with info on all of the houses that theyre based on and so you can keep track of which ones you still need to complete the set.

 

[rich p]

p.s. This was some of the night's entertainment! Bloody noisy when they played inside the pubs...

 

[smutchin]

Smutch - yes, KLM still does them! Got the ones in the photo on a trip to california a couple of years ago. Theres even an app nowadays with info on all of the houses that theyre based on and so you can keep track of which ones you still need to complete the set.

Blimey. Seems they've added quite a few more to the collection since my dad's frequent flying days. He also had the British Caledonian chess set. And I used to use airline bags to carry my school books in, long before they were fashionable - the same hipster c***s who used to mock me for it were paying through the teeth for the same bags 20 years later.

Anyway, I digress... back to the beer... funnily enough, it's probably the several pints of Jack Frost I had at lunchtime that's making me come over all nostalgic like this... #friday