Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

And I also spotted that next weekend Traquair are hosting "Beyond Beer - A Feast of Fine Ales, Fine Food and Craft Brewing" with 25 Cask Ales available. £10 to get in which includes a half pint of Traquair Referendum Ale - I just need to convince Mrs Marmion that it makes sense to allow me to go and to pick me up at the end of it.

Can't see why she wouldn't think it was anything other than a good idea. She'd give you the £10 too if she was a decent sort.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Not a regular beer for me but do I like this cold on a hot day when it's all about thirst quenching.

 

[Crackle]

Not a regular beer for me but do I like this cold on a hot day when it's all about thirst quenching.

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Mix that with guiness, Hoe to the bottom, Guiness on top and you get what my mate calls a Widnes sunrise. You have to have been to Widnes though.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The Jacobite Ale certainly packs a punch! A big rich spicy liquorice-chocolatey ale.

I can always just kip in the hedges if Mrs Marmion doesnae give me a lift hame next week.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3199297, member: 259"]This one's a novelty. One of the big supermarkets here did a limited edition batch of three beers, using exactly the same recipe, but matured in three different types of oak barrels - Hungarian, French, and American.
They've used Brettanomyces yeast, which you get in Geuze and cider. It's called Brett on Wood, which I suppose means it's mainly pitched at economists.
This one's the Hungarian oak one, in 75 cl bottles with a champagne cork. Very nice refreshingly sour beer at 7%. Sorry about the quality of the picture, but @Crackle sold his camera to someone else.


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Full report required on these, mort.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

And I also spotted that next weekend Traquair are hosting "Beyond Beer - A Feast of Fine Ales, Fine Food and Craft Brewing" with 25 Cask Ales available. £10 to get in which includes a half pint of Traquair Referendum Ale - I just need to convince Mrs Marmion that it makes sense to allow me to go and to pick me up at the end of it.

It appears that it also includes a branded half pint glass and not just the contents...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3199560, member: 259"]The Hungarian oak is winning against the American oak, which was too whiskey-ish for my taste. To be brutally honest, I wouldn't buy them as a day-to-day beer, but they're good as a one-off. What's interesting is that the supermarket (Delhaize) is going to be doing a limited edition brew every few months, so I'll try and catch them all.

I can't keep up with all this ale, but I suppose I'd better get a few to sell on eBay! send to my cyclechat chums[/QUOTE]

Can't fault the sentiment, a noble gesture.

 

[User169]

Kismet from Long Dog. Not a bad Golden Ale.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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If they'd sold out of Daily Telegraph's I'd have bought that too.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I recently discovered Innes & Gunn, oak aged like whisky. Very nice indeed.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The Traquair House Ale is the 2nd beer of the night - it doesnae pack as big a punch as the previous one but lovely malty oaky beer nonetheless. I have probably drunk these beers in the wrong order...oh well.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I have decided to give up this biking thing ....... Yes ...horses are the way ahead ..my lovely wife is right !

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Bear Ale is very good as well, a nice fruity ale. I'm not sure I did drink them in the wrong order; I'd usually go from lightest/fruitiest to full/dark, but it's actually quite good to start with the big hitters and end on something a bit lighter.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I have decided to give up this biking thing ....... Yes ...horses are the way ahead ..my lovely wife is right !

Oh FFS! I didnae see this before posting my last comment on Bear Ale.
That'll teach me to go to the loo and keep CC open.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Tonight I am mostly drinking to dull out the pain of my parents visiting for a few days

I may need more than I have available...

Ossian from Inveralmond Brewery please help me