Beer?

[Aperitif]

Beer, hello...

Minature Welsh Nobber

 

[Crackle]

Jeez…… .

 

[John the Monkey]

Beer, hello...

Quite right - I had a cursory look for the "Christmas Cracker" mentioned earlier, and it could be from Woods, Wickwar, Tetley, Spitting Feathers, Leyden or Wye Valley (the latter a @Fnaar friendly "Dorothy Goodbody's Christmas Cracker" no less) among others. To say it's a popular name for festive seasonals would be a bit of an understatement.

 

[Aperitif]

Jeez…… .

Pah for the course.
IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT BECAUse you let yore dog pour your beer...

 

[Crackle]

He can get his own beer

and you should all stop drinking this

Meanwhile, my local beer shop was out of everything I was going to buy. I left it a day late it seems, now I'm hoping my Xmas list delivers.

 

[Aperitif]

Merry Christmas to dog lovers everywhere. 'King Goblin...strong, malty today, but nothing too special. Pleasant and tasteful with an unexciting nose (and that's just Crackle's dog). Says on the back of the bottle 'return for refund'.
I'll empty it first, shall I?

Wishing you all splendid health, and, among the malt easers in 2016, the odd rye smile.
To close, here's a picture of Rich in full celebration mode...be good!

 

[User169]

A raid on M&S today. Sierra Nevada Torpedo.

 

[Aperitif]

^ Complete with 'Jus de Crac' - *like* (That tablecloth is nice - reminds me of a card I made last year...)

 

[Crackle]

A lively pour this one, bottle conditioned. Rye, Wheat and Oats. Initially smelt and tasted really hoppy and not like a stout but I think I'd overcooled it and as it's warmed the hoppiness has gone and a vanilla smoothness has come through.

Merry Xmas beer peeps (We started tonight being as there's a strong Germanic influence in our household).

 

[User169]

Lagunitas IPA. Another brewery that did a deal this year - this time with Heineken.

Lovely biscuity malt to cut the hops.

IPA glass Christmas pressy!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

A lively pour this one

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

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And WTF is that contraption? Candles and arse-spanking paddles? 50 Shades of Crax.

 

[Aperitif]

A lively pour this one, bottle conditioned. Rye, Wheat and Oats. Initially smelt and tasted really hoppy and not like a stout but I think I'd overcooled it and as it's warmed the hoppiness has gone and a vanilla smoothness has come through.

Merry Xmas beer peeps (We started tonight being as there's a strong Germanic influence in our household).

Nice photo, big head.

 

[Crackle]

And WTF is that contraption? Candles and arse-spanking paddles? 50 Shades of Crax.

A peculiar German (maybe European, I don't know) contraption, that spins all the usual nativity characters at a rate which would cause nausea in the hardiest fairground rider; well until the candles burn down.

 

[Aperitif]

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One of last year's ideas...'tablecloth card'