Beer?

[srw]

Marshmellow from Oxfordshire [sic] Ales of Marsh Gibbon

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I am continuing my dark ale weekend tonight, and this is tonight's first:

which is exceptionally good. Malty and sweet and a very satisfying "dry" afters

 

[User169]

Slight point-of-order. Rich is drinking the Nocturnum version which is a fruity quad. I think 3bm is referring to DT which is a more astringent tripel, so diff beers. I like both of them, but DT especially.

The CC overnight ride from Brussels to Brugge a couple of years ago passed the front door of the Huyghe brewery which brews them! Shame they werent open at 2am!

 

[Crackle]

I've dot a dold and cadn't taste anydink.

 

[srw]

A round-up from the last couple of days.
M&S single hop Cascade (Castle Rock Brewery) - drunk fridge-cold, which was probably too cold. Not that interesting, but I don't think that was just the temperature.
M&S single hop Citra (Oakham Brewery) - like being socked around the mouth by a lemony hoppy stem of nettles. Brash yankee forwardness without an ounce of subtlety.
M&S Hibiscus wheat beer (Adnams) - drunk fridge-cold - yum yum yum. Just the right balance of fruitiness and bitterness. I could quite easily drink this one all day. Tastes a bit like what you think fruit teas ought to taste like - but they invariably disappoint.
M&S single hop Sovereign (Elgoods of Wisbech) - my favourite of the single-hop beers, with a lovely toffeeish flavour. I guess that means I'm a malt man, not a hop man. It made revewing my work emails go more quickly than they might otherwise have done.
Oxfordshire Ales Marshmellow - wierdly, the first bottle of this I tried did taste like marshmallow, though that might have been pyschological. This second one was a very good slightly sweetish bitter with a lovely blend of flavours. How they get away with calling themselves "Oxfordshire" Ales, when the brewery is over the border in Bucks I really don't know.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

More deep darkness

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Slight point-of-order. Rich is drinking the Nocturnum version which is a fruity quad. I think 3bm is referring to DT which is a more astringent tripel, so diff beers. I like both of them, but DT especially.

I didn't look properly, my bad!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That marshmallow beer is a good one I think.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

my bad

The last person who typed that to me in an email got told he was a daffodil - take it as read that the same applies to you

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The last person who typed that to me in an email got told he was a daffodil - take it as read that the same applies to you

Up yours, Marmers!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hook Norton Twelve Days, quid a bottle if I haven't already mentioned it, it won best porter in the world beer comp or whatever it was, remarkable really as it isn't porter.

 

[rich p]

Hook Norton Twelve Days, quid a bottle if I haven't already mentioned it, it won best porter in the world beer comp or whatever it was, remarkable really as it isn't porter.

A quid!!!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

From black to dark red, Broughton's Old Jock

 

[Flying_Monkey]

With a couple of friends, I drank that Flying Monkeys Chocolate Manifesto that I bought the other day. Is is really the best desert beer in the world? Everyone seemed to think it was probably the best sweet beer that they'd ever tasted, myself included.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The final beer of the night is the wonderful Orkney Dark Island:

My top beers of recent weeks (in reverse order for you reality TV nobbers):

1) Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
1) Brew Dog Libertine Ale
1) Orkney Dark Island