Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

Just to annoy 3BM. Actually not to my taste - a bit n the sweet side...

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You wanna pint to swill that stuff down proper.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Apols to marmers, forgot the important bit, I think we can all agree it's a good un.

 

[Aperitif]

Posted here, not for the banalité of the beer, but to show my "granite is so yesterday" worktop - en plein air - with four glasses purchased from K-Town's finest establishment, the PDSA shop. Cost? £4 the lot. One of your English pounds less than the price of two bottles of the illustrated. I bought one Leffe and one, right?
Included also, the avant-garde 'closure' to please our 'Nicola of the Glen'. (The taste is thoroughly disagreeable, and only pursued for the integrity of the thread.) To drink, I got some Guinness West Indies Porter. Lovely.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I have suffered an horrific experience this evening, nothing the like of which has been encountered in the 1st world...

I popped into Tesco this evening to get dog food* and spotted "Tesco Finest" American Double IPA, brewed by Brewdog, so decided that I'd have a couple bottles of the 9.2% potential loveliness.

Schoolboy error was made, I forgot to check the bottle cap - and have just removed a bottle to discover a plain black cap.

A plain black cap.

A. Plain. Black. Cap.


The horror.

Why use funky proper caps on Brewdog and then let the side down just because it's brewed for Tesco?

*it's the only reason I still go to Tesco

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I have suffered an horrific experience this evening, nothing the like of which has been encountered in the 1st world...

I popped into Tesco this evening to get dog food* and spotted "Tesco Finest" American Double IPA, brewed by Brewdog, so decided that I'd have a couple bottles of the 9.2% potential loveliness.

Schoolboy error was made, I forgot to check the bottle cap - and have just removed a bottle to discover a plain black cap.

A plain black cap.

A. Plain. Black. Cap.


The horror.

Why use funky proper caps on Brewdog and then let the side down just because it's brewed for Tesco?

*it's the only reason I still go to Tesco

Fück the cap, that's top notch beer.

 

[Aperitif]

I have suffered an horrific experience this evening, nothing the like of which has been encountered in the 1st world...

I popped into Tesco this evening to get dog food* and spotted "Tesco Finest" American Double IPA, brewed by Brewdog, so decided that I'd have a couple bottles of the 9.2% potential loveliness.

Schoolboy error was made, I forgot to check the bottle cap - and have just removed a bottle to discover a plain black cap.

A plain black cap.

A. Plain. Black. Cap.


The horror.

Why use funky proper caps on Brewdog and then let the side down just because it's brewed for Tesco?

*it's the only reason I still go to Tesco

You do know that it is a Limited Edition Closure - to celebrate the New Zealand cricket tour to ENGLAND. Keep it - they are valuable.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Fück the cap, that's top notch beer.

I remedied the situation by selling them to Mrs Marmion and then getting her to gift them to me, thus keeping up my never drink a beer I have paid for with a crap cap on it approach...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Fück the cap, that's top notch beer.

And you're right, very good.

 

[John the Monkey]

I remedied the situation by selling them to Mrs Marmion and then getting her to gift them to me, thus keeping up my never drink a beer I have paid for with a crap cap on it approach...

You're the Jimmy Carr of beer caps.

Apols to marmers, forgot the important bit, I think we can all agree it's a good un.

100%. I'm very fond of Harviestoun's cross little mouse. On the Schiehallion label (named after a Scotch mountain) he's dressed in climbing gear, bless him.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yumtus...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Tomorrow's proper beer caps all sorted:
Rochefort Trappiste 10
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Westmalle Dubbel
Westmalle Tripel
Gouden Carolus Tripel
Tripel Karmeliet

Followed by an ACDC tribute band. And a kebab.

#planning

#blootered

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Tomorrow's proper beer caps all sorted:
Rochefort Trappiste 10
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Westmalle Dubbel
Westmalle Tripel
Gouden Carolus Tripel
Tripel Karmeliet

Followed by an ACDC tribute band. And a kebab.

#planning

#blootered

Need any helpers?

 

[User169]

St Bernie have recently released a oak-aged version of Abt 12 - that sorts out tomorrow! No cap though - strictly cork and cage.

 

[John the Monkey]

Multivariate Beer

I was toying around with the idea of multivariate beer, along the same lines as Data Cuisine. I wanted to represent county demographics with beer ingredients. The higher a value, say, population density, the more hops I use, or the higher the median household income the more of a particular grain.

(From Flowing Data)

 

[nickyboy]

Tonight I shall be drinking £5 worth of Shepherd Neame Double Stout* Obligatory cap porn photo to follow

* presupposes I can persuade Mrs N to pick up junior after his "gathering" has finished. "Gathering" for you old timers is the modern parlance for a party with fewer than 30 invitees.