Beer?

[Flying_Monkey]

Yesterday I had a rather excellent special release from a Canadian micro I'm getting to like more and more, Sawdust City. This was the Blood of Cthulhu Imperial Stout, a robust and 9% but with a lot of extra tartness (and dark red colour) coming from cherries, cranberries and raspberries. It looked a lot redder than in the picture, just like the blood of an evil elder god really...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

 

[Aperitif]

No Property Gazette tonight as Camden's Daughter is still training bar staff or kebbabistas...not sure. Not open though. In the words of The Stereophonics "Maybe Tomorrow"

Anyway, I thought I would pop around to see my Sister. Gave her the ten minute warning and arrived to find a selection! Mein gott! She had been stockpiling ale for me.
I recovered my composure and went for a sample. Firstly, a cocoa finished Stout - like Guinness with smooth edges and a nice smell. Good for the first drink of the day and left me wanting another (three or so) and therefore muddied the waters somewhat.

And then it was an 'added excitement' Hobgoblin - which I find a little ordinary. This one was strong but a dry finish...Probs. my mud was clinging to my tongue. Ok.

I spent a while being serious and helping uncover the mysteries of the world wide wait and took a token beer away with me.
Ok again - for power lemonade. The Dead Crow Rum Beer was lightweight, sweet and tasted of polish. (No, not Tyskie - more like Pledge.)
My Sis did a good job - thank you, Julie. She even said 'oh, say hello to Rich when you next chat to him' I told her that would be aeons hence...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Nice mat teef!

 

[rich p]

No Property Gazette tonight as Camden's Daughter is still training bar staff or kebbabistas...not sure. Not open though. In the words of The Stereophonics "Maybe Tomorrow"

Anyway, I thought I would pop around to see my Sister. Gave her the ten minute warning and arrived to find a selection! Mein gott! She had been stockpiling ale for me.
I recovered my composure and went for a sample. Firstly, a cocoa finished Stout - like Guinness with smooth edges and a nice smell. Good for the first drink of the day and left me wanting another (three or so) and therefore muddied the waters somewhat.
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And then it was an 'added excitement' Hobgoblin - which I find a little ordinary. This one was strong but a dry finish...Probs. my mud was clinging to my tongue. Ok.
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I spent a while being serious and helping uncover the mysteries of the world wide wait and took a token beer away with me.
Ok again - for power lemonade. The Dead Crow Rum Beer was lightweight, sweet and tasted of polish. (No, not Tyskie - more like Pledge.)
My Sis did a good job - thank you, Julie. She even said 'oh, say hello to Rich when you next chat to him' I told her that would be aeons hence...
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Great Gingham, Matman!!!
My regards to a lovely lady Teef.

 

[User169]

Seen this @Delftse Post?

http://www.durdenparkbeer.org.uk/publications.htm

Might be interesting to try some old recipes.

Much stronger than "traditional" English real ales are these days: the William Black's X Ale recipe would end up at about 7.5-8% using modern yeasts. One of the porter recipes would end up over 10%.

Pretty heavily hopped too. 1oz per gallon minimum which is about 5x the hopping rate for something like London Pride!

Longer mashing and conditioning times than used now for pale ales. I guess the malts may not have been so good quality as now so they had to mash longer to get decent conversion and the taste must have been for mature ale.

I'm waiting delivery on some English hops, so might give one of the recipes a go with some of those.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Much stronger than "traditional" English real ales are these days: the William Black's X Ale recipe would end up at about 7.5-8% using modern yeasts. One of the porter recipes would end up over 10%.

Pretty heavily hopped too. 1oz per gallon minimum which is about 5x the hopping rate for something like London Pride!

Longer mashing and conditioning times than used now for pale ales. I guess the malts may not have been so good quality as now so they had to mash longer to get decent conversion and the taste must have been for mature ale.

I'm waiting delivery on some English hops, so might give one of the recipes a go with some of those.

I think you should do this in period costume, second from left I rec.

 

[User169]

So Fyne Ales are ready to go in Rotterdam tonight..

No. 14 to start and then work my way up to No. 2.

 

[Aperitif]

'Ich Bin Ein BerryLiner'
Kennedy's Ale - made with fermented doughnuts.

 

[Aperitif]

The Rotterdam Beer Society - Founders Day

 

[GrumpyGregry]

War Pigs

#16... Give a hug or feck off!

#14 was my fave.

 

[User169]

War Pigs
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#16... Give a hug or feck off!

#14 was my fave.

This review on ratebeer from Tim Webb is quite amusing..

"Ok, I am the wrong demographic, but there is no "Only under-40s" sign on the door. Take this as an alternative view. This loosely-converted abattoir has all the atmosphere of a pre-makeover McDonalds - does that count as retro nowadays? - with partially controlled children and authentic plastic sauce bottles to make it even more real. No, you can’t have a sampler. No we don’t sell that beer in a small (23cl) measure, only a large (40cl) measure? No you can’t pick the meats on your ’any three meats’ Texas Smorrebrod - we do that. No you don’t pay here you pay there. And yes it really is that price. Great food, provided you are (1) young American, (2) wished you were a young American or (3) don’t know much about cooking. The too-loud hits of the 70s may also be part for the retro vibe, in the same way that UK real ale pubs briefly played Victorian chamber music in the 1980s. Like everything except incest and folk-dancing, you just have to try this place once, though for me it will only be once."

I just can't warm to Mikkeller. I don't really have anything against the gypsy brewing approach and it's not like he tries to hide it, but I like a bit more terroir in my beer.

FFF Dark Lords on the other hand - totes yumtus!

 

[nickyboy]

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The Rotterdam Beer Society - Founders Day

I'm a bit disturbed by the fact you think I'm a good 6 inches shorter than Rich.

Otherwise a pretty good likeness (at least until I shaved the 'tache off, voting went 34-15 in favour of removal)

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/christmas-mustache-stay-or-go.172207/

 

[GrumpyGregry]

This review on ratebeer from Tim Webb is quite amusing..

"Ok, I am the wrong demographic, but there is no "Only under-40s" sign on the door. Take this as an alternative view. This loosely-converted abattoir has all the atmosphere of a pre-makeover McDonalds - does that count as retro nowadays? - with partially controlled children and authentic plastic sauce bottles to make it even more real. No, you can’t have a sampler. No we don’t sell that beer in a small (23cl) measure, only a large (40cl) measure? No you can’t pick the meats on your ’any three meats’ Texas Smorrebrod - we do that. No you don’t pay here you pay there. And yes it really is that price. Great food, provided you are (1) young American, (2) wished you were a young American or (3) don’t know much about cooking. The too-loud hits of the 70s may also be part for the retro vibe, in the same way that UK real ale pubs briefly played Victorian chamber music in the 1980s. Like everything except incest and folk-dancing, you just have to try this place once, though for me it will only be once."

I just can't warm to Mikkeller. I don't really have anything against the gypsy brewing approach and it's not like he tries to hide it, but I like a bit more terroir in my beer.

FFF Dark Lords on the other hand - totes yumtus!

Hilarious.

Grumpy Clarkson wannabees often react that way to all manner of things as they are done in cph, especially if they haven't come to terms with the costs, for someone on UK wages getting screwed by the exchange rate, involved in drinking out with the trendy folk, on cph wages (around double), in and around the meat packing district. His reviews tell you more about him, I fear, than the bars in cph he has drunk in.

Not sure terroir is a cph brewing thing, even amongst the craft brewers. Lots of the house styles are pretty interchangeable.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

No. 14 to start and then work my way up to No. 2.

Why exclude #20 and #15?

 

[User169]

Why exclude #20 and #15?

Had both of those before! Turns out I can't go in any event.