Beer?

[GrumpyGregry]

Wine today. 3 glasses of blanc des blancs fizz and a bottle of Escale pinot noir. So far.

May have to stick to grape for the upcoming evening sess.

Quietly impressed I can still type on a bumpy train on a teeny smartphone.

Hic!

 

[User169]

Nice haul today. Stille Nacht 2015, St Bretta from Crooked Stave (100% Brett), Beavertown/Bellwoods collaboration an Armagnac barrel aged imperial brown ale, brettbrett DIPA from Wild Beer Co, Pinner throwback IPA from Oskar Blues and Salty Kiss from Magic Rock a gooseberry gose.

 

[User169]

Pinner Throwback IPA from Oskar Blues. Brewed at their N Carolina brewery. Decent enough pale ale with a lot of fresh fruity mango and grapefruit, but could do with more malt flavour.

Just reading this interview with the brewery founder - he went down the private equity route, rather than selling to a big brewer.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-oskar-blues-chose-craft-beer-over-1-billion-2015-11-20

 

[Aperitif]

Nice 'fir kin' tableclothage! And Pinner is just down the road from me. Standard issue Wilko sparkly red plates and M&S satsumas. Christmas. Ice rinks are melting and I'm still in a t shirt. 11°C Nothing like a still night I guess...

A billion $ - wow!

It wasn’t just for the money; they were branding experts. And Dan Fireman’s just a great f***ing guy. I was like “I can do business with this guy, you know? We can go out to his farm and blow up cars with 50-caliber machine guns, I wanna hang out with that guy.”

Is that what is meant by 'let's shoot some crap' - oft mentioned in old American films?

 

[User169]

Wild Beer Co's BrettBrett DIPA brewed with 100% brettanomyces. This is good. Intense juicy hop aroma, funky spice, orange citrus flavour, bready grains and a dry, bitter pine finish. It's a kind of fruity Orval. I'm going to have to buy a couple more and age them.

 

[MossCommuter]

Blimey! Your hob's clean. I never use mine and it's not that clean. I shall have words with the staff.

Glassage

 

[User169]

Blimey! Your hob's clean. I never use mine and it's not that clean. I shall have words with the staff.

Glassage

I'm at my sisters place - which also explains the glassware, although I think it's quite cool. Are you allowed to nick glasses from the rellies?

 

[rich p]

A pre-pub snifter of Beavertown Quelle. A dry hopped saison. Not a bad drop with a hint of lime and grass.
Nice can too although white text on yellow background is a bit tough on my rheumy old eyes.

 

[rich p]

I'm at my sisters place - which also explains the glassware, although I think it's quite cool. Are you allowed to nick glasses from the rellies?

It could be deemed insensitive if it belongs to your niece. But you must wrestle with your conscience, my son.

 

[Aperitif]

I'm at my sisters place - which also explains the glassware, although I think it's quite cool. Are you allowed to nick glasses from the rellies?

Bien sur.
Stop glugging so quickly DP - we can't keep up! (Well, I can't anyway...)

 

[MossCommuter]

Bien sur.
Stop glugging so quickly DP - we can't keep up! (Well, I can't anyway...)

I'm saying nuffink

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

A pre-pub snifter of Beavertown Quelle. A dry hopped saison. Not a bad drop with a hint of lime and grass.
Nice can too although white text on yellow background is a bit tough on my rheumy old eyes.
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I like how the artist has captured the moment of horror when seeing one of @Crackle's beer pours

edit - nice clear pic of your bulbs in the pot, not so good of the beer in the foreground

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sorachi Ace hopped Saison from M&S. Lovely crisp citrus beer with a sharp zesty finish. Yumtus.

 

[John the Monkey]

Merry X-Moose (Purple Moose Brewery, 5.0%)

Another festive beer from Wales. This is an odd one - it's quite chocolatey/smoky, but the flavours don't come across that intensely, at least not on this sampling. It's nice, but I'd prefer something a bit more forcefully cakey and rich in a Christmas beer, myself. One point worthy of note is that it's very lightly carbonated, making it a safe pour for even the most impatient of drinkers.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

 

[srw]

Wetherspoons at lunchtime, for leaving drinks for a colleague and a good gossip with a different colleague.

I had a few "Christmas Cracker" from some brewer or other. It was strong, sweet and rather good. And at 6% the first pint rather wrecked the afternoon - so it was probably a good thing I had a few more than the first. At some stage that beer ran out, so I was forced to move on to somethig else. No idea what, but at that stage frankly I didn't care.