Beer?

[nickyboy]

It doesn't matter anyway, we said we'd boycott Thornbridge because of their unsavoury A4e practices and it turns out that was just me, everyone else carried on as usual.

Having tried their LEroica ale I'm quite happy to join your boycott

 

[rich p]

Schneider Weisse at Ray White's gaff le Manoir innit.

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Try the Tap 6 too !

 

[srw]

Schneider Weisse at Ray White's gaff le Manoir innit.

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But Schneider Weisse is dull industrialised stuff. Probably the best of a bad bunch if you're in a typical bierkeller and there's no Starkbier on the list, but nothing to write home about.

Munich does produce good stuff too - the airport has its own brewery, with outlets in the central courtyard and also Airside in terminal 2. There are unfiltered Dunkel, Weiss and Helles, as well as a pretty good filtered Pilsner. In the days when I flew Lufthansa rather than BA I used to try and get to the airport early enough to have a beer outside, then another one inside the terminal. These days I have to put up with the tiny terminal 1 building serving non-Schengen countries with its two shops and one low-quality food hall.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Had a couple of Breakspeer beers with the pub meal tonight..ok I guess,but we only poped out for a quick feed at the local. Weak at 3.4% but car freindly I spose

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Try the Tap 6 too !

I only posted that to show off where I was troughing down, shallow moi?

 

[rich p]

I only posted that to show off where I was troughing down, shallow moi?

I thought it was a Harvester in Ilkeston.

The Tap 6 Unser Aventinus is a seriously beautiful dark ale though!

p.s. He's not really French with that faux, exaggerated accent, you know. He comes from Barnsley.

 

[rich p]

I only posted that to show off where I was troughing down, shallow moi?

BTW, I assume it was on expenses or was it a special treat for you 60th?

 

[srw]

Yesterday was interesting. With only a couple of days to go I rather spectacularly broke my no-drinking-during-Lent-except-by-prior-agreement resolution. The longest-serving member of my team was leaving, so we went out to the Lamb in Ledenhall Market, and I had

Brains SA (OK, but not very well-kept - everyone else in the pub was drinking the Youngs Bitter)
Youngs London Stout (very good - proper depth of burnt malty flavour to counteract the heavy hopping. What Guinness should be but never is)
A bottle of Double Chocolate Stout (as predictably delicious as ever)
A small bottle of Ram Rod (good - a fruity contrast to the chocolatey stout)

And then in the evening I stopped off in M&S for bread and milk, and somehow a bottle of Cornish IPA (St Austell Brewery) found its way into my basket. A very good beer, rather bitterer than my usual taste, but it went extremely well with my cold roast lamb sandwich.

 

[nickyboy]

He comes from Barnsley.

I'm not so sure but there's one litmus test to prove one way or the other

Was this on the menu: cotelette d'agneau de Barnsley?



Can take the man out of Barnsley etc etc

 

[threebikesmcginty]

BTW, I assume it was on expenses or was it a special treat for you 60th?

I was getting on for 60 by the time we finished, 4 hours to get through 7 courses, good though. Bit of an effort to make it to the pub with the beer chums in the evening.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh yeah, Duvel is £1.75 a bottle in Sainos folks, buy buy buy!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh yeah, Duvel is £1.75 a bottle in Sainos folks, buy buy buy!

Just had one, it's pretty good. All the better for being in a matching glass.

 

[theclaud]

I stole a glass from the F**kwit & Firkin (or whatever it's called) last night.

 

[nickyboy]

I stole a glass from the F**kwit & Firkin (or whatever it's called) last night.

Rite of passage innit?

I still have a pint glass I got Mrs N to stick in her handbag 25 years ago. Beer tastes better in a lifted glass, hope you'll find the same

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I haven't stolen a glass for year, nicked a Brewdog one for DP and I pinched one in Germany last October.