Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

...Or of things for breakfast that are friend in bacon fat.

Friend in bacon fat!

 

[MossCommuter]

I was up at in that The Hague yesterday. Picked up a bottle of Clara from Hill Farmstead and a 2009 Stille Nacht.

Hill Farmstead is one of the most highly rated breweries in the world atm. The guy that runs it has effectively capped production at 3000 barrels per year and only brews so he can continue to live on the farm in Vermont owned by his family for generations. All the brews are named after various relatives/ancestors and are imaginings of what he'd like to have drunk with them. Clara was his great great aunt.

The Clara is made in an obscure style - a Grisette - a sort of urban saison. Whilst saison was for farm workers, Grisette was for their coal mining freres. Grisette was also used to refer in France to a lower class woman - grey as in the cheap material she'd have worn - with a definite implication of prostitution. Makes you wonder what Shaun Hill intended to imply of his ancestor.

Sorry for banging on!

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Off topic but when I lived in Rotterdam a colleague (also from the UK) had a guest over and they got the train to Den Haag, jumped in s cab and asked the driver to take them to the best restaurant, money no object.

He drove them back to Rotterdam

 

[theclaud]

Friend in bacon fat!

Ha! I'm a typo-corrector by inclination, but I think I'll leave that one.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ha! I'm a typo-corrector by inclination, but I think I'll leave that one.

Because it's true?

 

[theclaud]

Because it's true?

I flatly deny covering any of my friends in bacon fat, or fantasizing about doing so.

Slightly OT, but a friend of mine tells a story about his grandmother (IIRC), whose husband was inclined to spend Sunday afternoon getting plastered in the pub while she slaved over the dinner. When he finally got in and slumped and drooled on the sofa, the rest of the family would eat dinner, and then she would smear a bit of lamb fat on his lips. He would eventually wake up and angrily demand 'Where's me dinner?', and she would respond, 'You've eaten it, ye daft bugger!', upon which he would lick his lips, grumble a bit in acknowledgement, and fall asleep again.

 

[MossCommuter]

I flatly deny covering any of my friends in bacon fat, or fantasizing about doing so.

Slightly OT, but a friend of mine tells a story about his grandmother (IIRC), whose husband was inclined to spend Sunday afternoon getting plastered in the pub while she slaved over the dinner. When he finally got in and slumped and drooled on the sofa, the rest of the family would eat dinner, and then she would smear a bit of lamb fat on his lips. He would eventually wake up and angrily demand 'Where's me dinner?', and she would respond, 'You've eaten it, ye daft bugger!', upon which he would lick his lips, grumble a bit in acknowledgement, and fall asleep again.

You swore you'd never tell!

 

[MossCommuter]

P45



Hoppiness!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Gales HSB. Yumtus. SNM.

 

[Levo-Lon]

So i go to the local and they have Everards Tiger.....
I got tears and shoot galore when i got home as i was 10 mins late for a roast dinner..did i care ..no, not a bit.tiger is worth the grief..

 

[rich p]

A bit of Californian sunshine on a dreary winter's afternoon. Really nice, peppery and a hint of citrus this Stones saison

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Beans on toast for tea again, rich?

 

[John the Monkey]

Black Wych (Wychwood, 5% abv)

Another from the folk that bring you Hobgoblin. This is a decent porter, a bit of smoke upfront, with the caramelly flavour I've come to think of as being characteristic of this range coming through, but with rather more bitter flavour in the main taste. Nice, I think.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Black Wych (Wychwood, 5% abv)
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Another from the folk that bring you Hobgoblin. This is a decent porter, a bit of smoke upfront, with the caramelly flavour I've come to think of as being characteristic of this range coming through, but with rather more bitter flavour in the main taste. Nice, I think.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

I was a bit underwhelmed by that one, it was OK, not good enough to want to repeat the experience though.

 

[rich p]

Beans on toast for tea again, rich?

That shallot

It wasn't though; I followed up with a Jaipur.

 

[MossCommuter]

Gales HSB. Yumtus. SNM.

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I didn't know that was still a thing

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