Beer?

[Aperitif]

Didn't know they had Chilton Railways up there.

I'm off to buy some beer, M&S here I come...

Bargains there. 3 for sick squid x 2 then 25% discount on gottled geer/wines etc My beer from there today was pants. And socks.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Red Kite from Vale Brewery, excellent bitter, malt and hops in all the right places.

 

[smutchin]

Hmmm. It's good but... Lurking in there somewhere is a very decent imperial stout but the bourbon flavour is too dominant. You could probably get the same effect much more cheaply by depth-charging a shot of JD in your Guinness.

The Magic Rock Cannonball IPA on the other hand was superb, went down a treat. Wish I'd spent the £15 on another five cans of that instead.

 

[MossCommuter]

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Hmmm. It's good but... Lurking in there somewhere is a very decent imperial stout but the bourbon flavour is too dominant. You could probably get the same effect much more cheaply by depth-charging a shot of JD in your Guinness.

Whisky/rum/beer mash ups are never very nice.

Fact

 

[MossCommuter]

Ever wanted a concise definition of the word 'meh'? It's the feeling one gets on drinking a pint of this:



Meh

 

[srw]

Red Kite from Vale Brewery, excellent bitter, malt and hops in all the right places.

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I did some shopping in Wendover's Budgens earlier today. Nothing from the Vale Brewery, but I did find several shelves full of beer from the Chiltern Brewery. I had their Three hundreds Dark Old Ale earlier - a very moreish, well-balanced strong bitter. At some stage I've got bottles of Bodger's Barley Wine and Lord-Lieutenant's Cream Porter to investigate.

But for now I've gone south, and opened up the Old Man from the Long Man brewery in Sussex. It's a touch hoppier than the Bucks beer, but it's very good given a relatively benign 4.3% alcohol. Goes very well with home-made pork scratchings, too.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Oh this is yumtus, it's got a great malty flavour and then a hoppy taste kind of creeps in and takes over. Good stuff.

Hob needs a wipe, soz.

 

[User169]

Lip up fatty!

 

[smutchin]

Oh this is yumtus, it's got a great malty flavour and then a hoppy taste kind of creeps in and takes over. Good stuff.

Definitely my favourite of the M&S single hop beers. Good call.

 

[smutchin]

Whisky/rum/beer mash ups are never very nice.

Fact

I liked it, I just wondered what was the point of it...

Oh Christ, I'm having existential angst about barrel-aged imperial stouts. I shall have to hand back my membership card to hipster club.

 

[User169]

When in that Lndon...

 

[rich p]

My young brewing chum tells me that somebody is making a whisky, aged in beer barrels. The world's gawn mad.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

End* the night on a classic.

*maybe...

 

[vernon]

Rounding off the day with a Flying Dog Bonzo imperial porter.

Rich, dark and heavy - just like me... with a nail to the bed 9.2% alcohol content. Sweet dreams everyone.

 

[User169]

Got the fire brigade on standby for any crax incidents....