Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

unsophisticated my arse!
p.s. WTF is a palet?

Free free to add commas and grammar and stuff to the above.
I cba

Blow it out you ass...

 

[rich p]

palete

WTF is a palete? Are you teasing me?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

WTF is a palete? Are you teasing me?

Bollocks. Palate. Daffodil.

 

[rich p]

Bollocks. Palate. Daffodil.

I actually LOL-ed and that's a rare thing!

 

[woofer]

Beer for them as wants it. Who wants what?

Timothy Taylors Landlord Please :-)

 

[theclaud]

What flavour crinkly crisps are they?

More importantly, what kind of nobber eats crisps out of a dish at home?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

More importantly, what kind of nobber eats crisps out of a dish at home?

Yeah, what a twat!

 

[Aperitif]

I actually LOL-ed and that's a rare thing!

Me too. I think Ed deserves a beer.
I drank Meantime IPA 7.5% last night...£12.50 per 750ml bottle. Stupid prices.
Stupid me...didn't take a photo. It arrived in a champagne bucket too.

 

[rich p]

More importantly, what kind of nobber eats crisps out of a dish at home?

A futile ploy to stop me eating a whole family pack without getting some exercise walking out to the kitchen

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Duvelishness

Twattishness

 

[John the Monkey]

M&S Amarillo Single Hop

The last of the single hop we have in the beer box, which makes me sad - these have been really nice. Anyway, the Amarillo is good, in the way that the other single hops are good. Not a lot of complexity, but a strong, and tasty flavour. In this case, it's a citrus bitterness with some sweetness in it - as the label says, "Tangerine" comes close to describing it. Really nice, and one of the ones I'd definitely pick up again from this range.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

Youngest M says: "It was alright, yeah, decent." (while doing something on her 'phone).

 

[rich p]

A couple of bottles of Kernel Table - one at 3% and one at 3.2%.
I still like this and the flavour belies its low abv.

 

[nickyboy]

Here's the selection purchased this afternoon

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The only one I've had before is the Dobber which was excellent so I'm looking forward to trying these

I've managed to drink all these over the past three nights. Here's what I think of them:

The Marble beers are well known and always get great reviews. Excellent, no surprise there. Definitely buy them again

Lindow Cheshire Stout was disappointing. A pale imitation of the real thing. In truth, Revisionist Dark Pale Ale is as good and half the price

Saltaire Pale Ale also disappointing. Nothing wrong with it but, again, Revisionist range is as good and much cheaper

The real surprise was Here Be Monsters Dark Fury. Excellent Stout. Very similar to Titanic Stout if you've ever tried it. It's brewed by a one man band in Holmfirth up the road who only started last year. He has a range of beers that are genuinely hand made (each batch is a little bit different due to messing around with blends of hops and malts). Definitely give the others a try

 

[srw]

The first fire of Easter was laid, if not lit, as I walked past the church, so I think Lent and abstinence is over.

From left to right, and in drinking order, three counties go head to head.
From Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire Ales' Triple B - an imeccable light bitter (3.7%)
From Berkshire, West Berkshire Brewery's Good Old Boy - a very full-flavoured and complex Best that gave much more than its 4% would imply.
And from Oxfordshire (though the wrong end of the county), Hook Norton's Flagship IPA - a 5.3% India Pale Ale that was the perfect accompaniment for the reunion edition of Goodness Gracious Me.

And if that wasn't special enough, the whole thing cost rather less than a fiver from Waitrose - £1.57 (!) for the IPA, £1.87 for the Triple B, and an exorbitant £2.24 for the GOB.

I feel like doing one of those displays that wine journalists do to point out how little of your £5 bottle of wine is spent on the booze.

 

[srw]

And the answer is....

On the £1.57 500ml bottle of 5.3% Flagship, the VAT is 26p, and the alcohol duty (at 18.37p per %abv per litre) is 49p. Which leaves 82p for the bottle, Mr Waitrose's costs and profit and the beer.