Beer?

[MossCommuter]

Guardians of the beer thread, I throw myself on your mercy.

Will you ever forgive me?

 

[John the Monkey]

.... references with The Tempest

"Beer not afear'd. The ale is full of peach notes...."

 

[srw]

It could be worse. You could have just employed someone whose previous employer was the brewer of millions of gallons of GYP - and none, as far as I can tell, of beer.

 

[srw]

He was a bit ...errr.... premature, wasn't he?

Half of it went over our worktop - and fortunately stayed there rather than ran down the cherrywood veneer drawer fronts from where it would have been trickier to mop. What remained was nice enough, but not hugely special. You could taste the rye - unlike the similar beer with M&S branding - but beyond that it was a bit meh. It might have been better younger, or colder.

Also a little lively, but all round a much nicer drink. Complex dark malt complements Fretwork playing Bach very well.

I'm doing my bit for family harmony (honestly) - creating some empty bottles so that my best beloved's 25 litres of fermenting home-grown apple juice has somewhere to be decanted to once it's cider.

 

[Crackle]

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He was a bit ...errr.... premature, wasn't he?

Half of it went over our worktop - and fortunately stayed there rather than ran down the cherrywood veneer drawer fronts from where it would have been trickier to mop. What remained was nice enough, but not hugely special. You could taste the rye - unlike the similar beer with M&S branding - but beyond that it was a bit meh. It might have been better younger, or colder.

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Also a little lively, but all round a much nicer drink. Complex dark malt complements Fretwork playing Bach very well.

I'm doing my bit for family harmony (honestly) - creating some empty bottles so that my best beloved's 25 litres of fermenting home-grown apple juice has somewhere to be decanted to once it's cider.

Right, I expect srw to get the same amount of slander as i get for that kind of pour, otherwise I'll report the lot of you for bullying, no exceptons.

 

[User169]

Brew day today. A SMASH saison - pils malt and Nelson Sauvin. Used a saison yeast/brett blend from San Diego via Sweden, so I'm going to leave it for a few months to let the brett work its magic. The idea will be to dry hop it with a load more Nelson Sauvin just before bottling.

Spontanbasil from Mikkeller/Lindemans to accompany. Not the most sour geuze, but pretty nice - the basil adds a fruity, herbal flavour.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

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Guardians of the beer thread, I throw myself on your mercy.

Will you ever forgive me?

Forgive you for your shite photography skills?

Hooky Gold pour moi.

 

[John the Monkey]

Iceberg American Pale (Titanic Brewery, 4.1% abv)

Another from local lads Titanic Brewery. This is more or less what you'd expect, pretty bitter and grapefruity, with some peppery flavour in the main taste. Nice lingering bitter aftertaste too. Nothing earth shatteringly different, but an excellent example of the type, and a jolly tasty beer.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Are you in a jungle?

Iceberg American Pale (Titanic Brewery, 4.1% abv)
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Another from local lads Titanic Brewery. This is more or less what you'd expect, pretty bitter and grapefruity, with some peppery flavour in the main taste. Nice lingering bitter aftertaste too. Nothing earth shatteringly different, but an excellent example of the type, and a jolly tasty beer.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Guinness foreign extra, nice sweet punchy stout, good hoppy malty roasty stuff going on and check the funky new look label. This stuff's a snip at £1.75 down yer Sainos.

 

[srw]

OMG. Filthy filthy filthy. "Fran" must, surely, have done this for a joke? A whole chilli thrown into a very dull pale beer - possibly even a mass-produced GYP. It's like drinking the vinegar out of a jar of pickled chillis. You can't taste anything other than the vinegary tang of uncooked chilli. After three sips it went down the sink - something I almost never do.

Now that's better. Not really stout - more like a sweet porter, but perhaps a bit darker. Another beer which knows how to use malt and hops - the malt gives the flavour and the hops are in the background. None of this yankee nonsense, please!

Possibly a mistake after several bottles, but it's really rather nice. It is to beer as port is to wine.

 

[John the Monkey]

Are you in a jungle?

If I am, would this post be a Junglist Missive?

 

[User169]

Bottled last Monday, but already carbing up nicely. Lovely color and so clear. Slight bubblegum flavour, but a decent a punt of citrus going on too. It's not bad, but I wish I had another bag of the GP75 hops - would be good to try it in combo with fuggles or Goldings and some English yeast.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Great looking beer DP!

 

[MossCommuter]

Great looking beer DP!

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