Beer?

[theclaud]

Just about to pop this one. If you don't hear from me within 24h, please alert the emergency services. Ta!

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Are you sure you are supposed to drink that and not drizzle it on your salad?

 

[User169]

Are you sure you are supposed to drink that and not drizzle it on your salad?

It might well refresh the parts of a salade a la crankers that other beers wouldnt.

 

[Crackle]

I think I may have some of that in the larder next to the pumpkin oil (sell by date 2011 but what the hell)

 

[theclaud]

Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout tonight, preceded by Oakham Citra and Gales' Firecracker. The poor focus is not drunkenness but sabotage.

 

[User169]

A Beavertown + Naparbier collaboration saison aged in Jerez barrels, courtesy of @threebikesmcginty, along with the glass.

This is just my kind of thing.

Apple and farmyard funk with the sherry coming through in a long fino-like finish. Looks good too with a lovely persistent white head.

Probably the best new beer I've tasted in 2014. A triumph!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Tonight I am drinking no beer - Friday night floodlight rugby beckons.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Smite me down I've been to a wine tasting, generally piss-poor but the port was nice.

 

[User169]

Smite me down I've been to a wine tasting, generally piss-poor but the port was nice.

MODS!!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

MODS!!

Call off the dogs I'm back, a beer chum just brought round an Oddbins BIPA, pretty good stuff, best drink all night although the Arberg we got the guy in wine shop to open was pretty good.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sadler's Red IPA, 5.7%, Yank Amarillo, Cascade and Citra hops, pretty good stuff, clean fresh slightly malty taste with a nice hoppy finish but not too overpowering. Bought the BIPA too, let you know later.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Beavertown Black Betty, bit lively, looks like a regular @Crackle pour.

 

[John the Monkey]

Beavertown Black Betty, bit lively, looks like a regular @Crackle pour.

Crikey! Do let us know what it tastes like once you get through the froth

Mine;

Giesbaargs "Muurken" - (MATCHING GLASS ALERT) bottle conditioned, 7% abv
"The Beer of the muur, and therefore every true cyclist, the local beer of every beer lover."

It has a definite, sweetish Leffe blonde sort of undertone (EDIT - there's actually slightly more to it than that, the hops really mask it though - I think that undertaste is a bit warmer and more malty), with a powerfully bitter, hoppy main taste that's the only taste to linger into the lasting aftertaste. Not subtle, but tasty, if hops are your thing, and the connection to Geraardsbergen (Giesbaargs being the local slang for the town) is a draw too.

The brewer says that drinking it is a protest against the Tour of Flanders missing the Muur van Geraardsbergen out too, so there's another reason to get a bottle.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Crikey! Do let us know what it tastes like once you get through the froth

'kin disgusting, bought it on the cheap, getting towards out of date, uber fizzy, binned it in the end.

 

[User169]

Mashing Pumpkins 2014 from Jopen/SNAB.

Not a big fan of pumpkin ales, but this ones very well done. Nice and spicy, but keeps the bubblegum in check.

 

[User169]

The brewer says that drinking it is a protest against the Tour of Flanders missing the Muur van Geraardsbergen out too, so there's another reason to get a bottle.

Sadly, that's a lost battle for the time being, but it won't stop me tracking that beer down!