Beer?

[User169]

This ^^^ sounds right up my street; my taste in beer is much the same as my taste in women - intense, dark, full-bodied and bitter .

Sadly, where I've looked so far, this beer seem to be 'out of stock' .

Very difficult to get hold of anything by Cigar City in Europe. The only things I've had from them were bought brought back by people visiting the US.

 

[theclaud]

Siren Craft Brew's Caribbean Chocolate Cake. Extremely complex. Cacao nibs, Cypress wood and Lactose added to a conventional recipe. It says it's brewed by a Berkshire brewery in collaboration with Cigar City brewing, and despite being told to serve it chilled I didn't.

It's bloody gorgeous - the bitter chocoloate adds a wonderful layer over the beer, while the lactose and the cypress give it a bit of Christmas. I was vaguely intending to try and cut down on the lactose (yes, seriously), but I think the amount in a small bottle of beer is probably immateria.

Sounds good. I was impressed by the Liquid Mistress, despite the marketing bollocks (underneath all the sexy stuff they are Anley Ales of Finchampstead).

Last night I was persuaded to pedal four sandblasted miles to the Christmas Pub Quiz at my erstwhile local. Quiz was as terrible as expected, but the beer was nice (I stayed on Tiny Rebel's One-Inch Punch, what with it being a school night). We did pretty badly at the quiz IIRC, coming somewhere near the bottom of the heap. For some reason we got prizes anyway! I might be reporting back on one or more of these tomorrow...

 

[User169]

Sounds good. I was impressed by the Liquid Mistress, despite the marketing bollocks (underneath all the sexy stuff they are Anley Ales of Finchampstead).

Last night I was persuaded to pedal four sandblasted miles to the Christmas Pub Quiz at my erstwhile local. Quiz was as terrible as expected, but the beer was nice (I stayed on Tiny Rebel's One-Inch Punch, what with it being a school night). We did pretty badly at the quiz IIRC, coming somewhere near the bottom of the heap. For some reason we got prizes anyway! I might be reporting back on one or more of these tomorrow...

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The one on the left is in a recycled Thornbridge bottle! Is that caught by the boycott?

[I'd be really interested to hear what the elderflower saison is like]

 

[theclaud]

The one on the left is in a recycled Thornbridge bottle! Is that caught by the boycott?

[I'd be really interested to hear what the elderflower saison is like]

Hadn't noticed that! Clearly boycott-safe, like all my drinking practices .

The Elderflower is first on my target list.

 

[Aperitif]

Sounds good. I was impressed by the Liquid Mistress, despite the marketing bollocks (underneath all the sexy stuff they are Anley Ales of Finchampstead).

Last night I was persuaded to pedal four sandblasted miles to the Christmas Pub Quiz at my erstwhile local. Quiz was as terrible as expected, but the beer was nice (I stayed on Tiny Rebel's One-Inch Punch, what with it being a school night). We did pretty badly at the quiz IIRC, coming somewhere near the bottom of the heap. For some reason we got prizes anyway! I might be reporting back on one or more of these tomorrow...

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Nice photo, although webbing's slack, and there's too much plastic and packing in your 'Vegopolis' diorama, Claudine.
See? Everyone is ripping off DP's typography these days...whatever next? Bar/house principles!

"My aim is a passionate longing for rigorous spatial design..without painterly intoxication of any sort." ~ Lyonel Feininger

OK, so Lyonel can do without the intoxication...bet he'd think twice if he was holed up in downtown Mumbles with a bunch of pub quiz savages.

 

[MossCommuter]

The one on the left is in a recycled Thornbridge bottle! Is that caught by the boycott?

[I'd be really interested to hear what the elderflower saison is like]

Please explain the boycott - I think it was instituted in my absence and I cba reading all the way up there ^^ to work it out

 

[User169]

See? Everyone is ripping off DP's typography these days...whatever next? Bar/house principles!
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I noticed a cider producer down the road from me using a similar typo livery the other day, so 2016 might have to see a bit of a rethink. I don't really like many labels, but the following are good I think:

My mate Roel's brewery which a sort of woodcut effect..

Hill Farmstead - I think this is some kind of reference to philosophical illusions..

I like 't Ij's ostriches..

 

[Aperitif]

I'll have to think about labels...hmmm.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Im currently enjoying a bottle of London Pride while debating what to cook for my good lady...

 

[MossCommuter]

Give her the same as you make for the bad one

 

[threebikesmcginty]

DP, you could worse than get teef on the case, he is a brilliant artiste, I've seen his work, it's quality stuff.

I noticed a cider producer down the road from me using a similar typo livery the other day, so 2016 might have to see a bit of a rethink. I don't really like many labels, but the following are good I think:

My mate Roel's brewery which a sort of woodcut effect..

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Hill Farmstead - I think this is some kind of reference to philosophical illusions..

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I like 't Ij's ostriches..

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I'll have to think about labels...hmmm.

 

[User169]

Please explain the boycott - I think it was instituted in my absence and I cba reading all the way up there ^^ to work it out

IIRC, it was originally mooted by ceebeepee and related to the business shenanigans of the wife of the guy that runs Thornbridge.

Google "A4e" and you can readallaboutit.

I noticed today that Thornbridge no longer have the fancy embossed bottles.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Coincidentally some numbskull gave me this today, as it's obviously a fair representation of all things dutchish it would make a great label! No!?...

 

[User169]

DP, you could worse than get teef on the case, he is a brilliant artiste, I've seen his work, it's quality stuff.

It's just a hobby at the mo 3bm and I'm not in the position to pay a professional! (Unless he doesn't mind being paid in home brew!)

 

[MossCommuter]

UPA



Complete with beardy hipster publican.

Quiz night for me too tonight so it's a good idea to keep fluid intake up.