Beer?

[Aperitif]

Rich and coffe-ish?
This had (past tense again!)all that,and a big chocolate hit...would be good with something savoury...so I drank it with my socks in my hand...too flavoured for a session - it would be like settling down with a box of Milk Tray designed to make you wobble - but interesting stuff. 6.0%...Saturated fat, diglycerides of fatty acids, cocoa, butter, and all the usual beery bits and bobs. I'd drink a few again, but would need to find the correct flavour crisps for max impact.

 

[User169]

Mrs DP should go away more often - I'm getting loads of brewing done.

Next up an attempt at Three Floyds' Gumballhead - a lightish wheat ale with lots of Amarillo.

Heinde en Verre from DeMo to accompany. Not their finest - a sugary and strong and that's about it.

 

[theclaud]

Today's rugby beer is (ahem) Jaipur and Willams Bros Gooseberry Grozet! And our host promises home-made lamb biriyani. A lesser woman would be smug.

 

[Padraig]

My current beer of choice is Guinness West Indies Porter. Several bottles chilling as we speak, for the rugby later (Union, of course, not the ersatz Northern version they watch in this town). That beer is part of the Brewers' Project, to revive old recipes. Oddly, they also made a Dublin Porter, but I didn't like it at all. It was quite a bit weaker, and the local supermarkets were all discounting it like mad, so I'm guessing it wasn't popular. I saw a reference above to Wychwood's Dunkel Fester. Herself bought a few a couple of weeks back, from Aldi, I think. I didn't like that at all. The taste, compared to the West Indies Porter, seemed one-dimensional somehow. Best way I can describe it. Last summer, I got seriously back into Weissbier, which I first encountered when I was teaching in Munich. Aldi sell one called Schoefferhofer (don't know how to type an Umlaut) which is only £1.25 a bottle, and not at all bad. I'm led to believe that it was the first wheat beer brewed outside Bavaria. Anyway, rugger coverage just starting, so I'll catch you later.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Schiotz Mørk Mumme during half-time in The Bokke v Wales game.

(Cmon Wales!)

 

[smutchin]

It's that time of year again...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

York Brewery Guzzler, challenger and celeia hops, decent light session beer, good stuff.

Brewed within the city walls a stones throw from Micklegate Bar which is the royal entrance to the city and not some scandal involving @mickle.

 

[John the Monkey]

Aces High (Blackjack 5% abv, bottle conditioned)

Blimey. As you can probably see, this is a lively one - pouring in my usual measured way resulted in the @Crackle esque froth pictured.

Lovely fresh aroma at first, with a little biscuit in the taste, and then a lot of hops. They're peppery and slightly floral at first, finishing grapefruity into a bitter, lingering aftertaste. I like this one.

Mrs M says "Very nice."

 

[John the Monkey]

some further beer business, as Mrs M, the younger M, and I had a pub lunch.

1) Red Racer IPA (6.5% abv)
Beer Advocate bloody love this one, it seems, although I chose it largely on the strength of there being a bicycle pictured on the pump clip.
*Very* hoppy, with most of the fresher hop flavours making an appearance at some point. Predominantly floral and grapefruity, I thought, and above averagely bitter.

2) Titanic Brewery 7cs (as in "Seven Seas") (5% abv)
A bit gimmicky, maybe, in that it's brewed with seven hop varieties, all of which begin with C. However, I thought this one rather well put together - a base that's nicely malty, with the hops combining for a complex, sweet, floral/herby sort of a taste. This was Mrs M's favourite, closely followed by Red Racer.

3) Sixpoints/Adnams Bengali (6.4% abv)
Ratebeer reveiwers reckon this has a biscuity/malt taste, but I can't say I picked up much of that. I did get lots of hops, piney, grapefruity and floral. Of the three beers we tried, I think this is the most stereotypically "modern IPA". It's tasty, but I found myself missing the complexity of the first two we tried.

 

[User482]

The Fridays drank the bar dry of Lancaster Black this morning. Top work all round, people.

 

[John the Monkey]

The Fridays drank the bar dry of Lancaster Black this morning. Top work all round, people.

Don't blame them at all, lovely stuff.

Their Amber is top notch too, although I've only ever seen it at festivals.

 

[theclaud]

It's that time of year again...

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Ah - that was on offer on gravity at the Mumbles Ale House tonight. Not bad but I passed over it in favour of Oakham Bishop's Farewell and a nightcap of Oakham Green Devil, a splendiferous beer which has been my undoing this week.

The Grozet was gratifyingly gooseberryish, and that goes a long way, but I'm not convinced there is much substance underpinning it. Jaipur is not a bad match for biriyani.

 

[vernon]

A little off piste but an interesting read about the national collection of yeast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-34538212

 

[Aperitif]

An early start in the countryside! Work isn't all that bad when the weather is fair and the opportunity to pay homage to redtedmcginty's cap dethroner. I was offered this or an Estrella or a cup of tea for ellevenses. The results of the 11.15 at Suburbia were, in reverse order:
PG Tips
El Bottelon
A running Dog

And a snack for Dog lovers too! That have a sort of yeasty integrity, and I spent ages scraping my paws on the grass after having a pee.

Come on Ireland and Scotland...you owe England! (All those free prescriptions, universities and stuff...the least you can do is win the Rugby World Cup).

 

[Padraig]

We may struggle without O'Connell and Sexton, but let's be hopeful. My contribution to the Ireland match will be to drink nothing but Guinness West Indies Porter while it's on. Weissbier would seem oddly out of place.