Beer?

[Aperitif]

J (Call me Antonio) Fletcher

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Lunchtime swifty, Hook Norton Red Rye, lovely beer with a wonderful bitter finish. Totes yumtus.

 

[theclaud]

Lunchtime swifty, Hook Norton Red Rye, lovely beer with a wonderful bitter finish. Totes yumtus.

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[Ignores nobbery]

Is it another case for @WeWantPlates?

 

[User169]

I guess I should report back on 'beer in Brussels', except that I didn't really have a lot of time to myself. I got dragged to places with people and drank... stuff. To be fair, some of it was good: I had a couple of interesting gueuzes from Cantillon, I enjoyed a Duvel Hop 2015, and there were some less good things. I had a very good time in all, but in wasn't the kind of good time a beer connoisseur would appreciate. What kind of good time it was will be left to my never-to-be-published tell-all diaries, and your imagination. Sorry.

I've got a ticket for a tasting day at Cantillon in May. They let 60 people in at half hour intervals and then you can stay as long as you like. I think we're in the third tranche. Line up as follows:

• Grand Cru Bruocsella [unblended lambic]

• Gueuze 1996 [looking for to this the most - 20 years old!]

• Lou Pepe Kriek

• Rosé de Gambrinus [rasberries]

• Fou’foune [apricot]

• Vigneronne [white grape]

• Lambic d'Aunis [red grape]

• Zélige-Cantillon [another grape]

• Cuvée Saint-Gilloise [made for local footy team]

• Zwanze 2012 [Rhubarb]

• Aspérule Lambic [woodruff]

• Iris Grand Cru [100% barley, so not a lambic as such]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[Ignores nobbery]

Is it another case for @WeWantPlates?

Yeah, a piece of roofing slate or some such nonsense with a little wooden border around it, just the sort of thing for cultivating horrendous diseases. At least the mains arrived on a friggin plate.

 

[User482]

[Ignores nobbery]

Is it another case for @WeWantPlates?

Never mind that: the butter appears to be in a little portion-control packet. I would've expect a man of 3BM's calibre to insist on home-churn with a pot of Halen Môn flakes.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I had to goog Halen Mon, that's brought my middle-classiness down a few points!

All this talk of Oakham pressured me into buying some. Scarlet Macaw; Amarillo and Summit hops give this a great flavour and there's a super sharp bitter finish. It's good stuff. I've got a Bishop's Farewell too, hope it's better than a bishops finger!

 

[ianrauk]

Happy Friday folks!!

 

[User169]

Still haven't found the trip hop, but got this from Flying Dog which is made with the same hop, HBC-291.

 

[ianrauk]

Order?

As is....left to right.

Your suggestion?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I shall be abandoning the beer thread this evening in favour of going to watch the Dad's Army movie; I am imagining there will be similarities between the characters on the Beer Thread and Walmington-on-Sea.

@rich p and his dicky bladder as Godfrey
@Crackle as Air Raid Warden Hodges
@threebikesmcginty as Sgt Wilson
@DP as Joe the spiv
@Aperitif as Jonesy - they don't like an old pun
@theclaud as Catherine Zeta Welshbint's character
@John the Monkey as Capt. Mainwairing
Mrs JtM as Mrs Capt.Mainwairing


We're doooomed.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Leaving you the role of verger?

Yeh, the obvious choice. If only there had been a miserable Jock character...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

As is....left to right.

Your suggestion?

I'd drink the stronger and more flavoursome stuff first because as the evening wears on you're not going to be so discerning. So maybe Hob, Pec, Bish, then a refreshing Bay and Dew and finish with the trad bitter Bomber.

 

[rich p]

We're doooomed.

We're all doooooooombarred , surely...

 

[Crackle]

I shall be abandoning the beer thread this evening in favour of going to watch the Dad's Army movie

I was looking at the times for that only today. I reckon it'll be a lone trip as no one in my house will want to watch it, though I may bribe someone with a dad paid for Deadpool trip, when it comes out. And a Subway.