Beer?

[MossCommuter]

So there might be "fewer brash hoppy IPAs" in Britain soon, due to a hop shortage . http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/08/hop-shortage-could-be-the-making-of-craft-beer

Oh gawd...

First it was rose-hips and sea buckthorn and as if that wasn't bad enough we're going to get bog-myrtle, sage and lingonberries. I have no idea WTF lingonberries are but I know I don't like them in my beer.

Come back Holt's Mild - all is forgiven.

 

[rich p]

lingonberries

klingonberries are an arse to get rid of.

 

[rich p]

Next up, Brewdog Jack Hammer Ruthless IPA. Extremely bitter with some very wanky copy on the label. I like it.

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I love that Jack Hammer.

 

[User169]

Oh gawd...

First it was rose-hips and sea buckthorn and as if that wasn't bad enough we're going to get bog-myrtle, sage and lingonberries. I have no idea WTF lingonberries are but I know I don't like them in my beer.

Come back Holt's Mild - all is forgiven.

More gooseberries would be good!

 

[John the Monkey]

First it was rose-hips and sea buckthorn and as if that wasn't bad enough we're going to get bog-myrtle, sage and lingonberries. I have no idea WTF lingonberries are but I know I don't like them in my beer.

Purple Moose do a seasonal with Bog Myrtle, and it's rather nice.

 

[MossCommuter]

Purple Moose do a seasonal with Bog Myrtle, and it's rather nice.

the whole bloody place has gone mad

 

[stephec]

Oh gawd...

First it was rose-hips and sea buckthorn and as if that wasn't bad enough we're going to get bog-myrtle, sage and lingonberries. I have no idea WTF lingonberries are but I know I don't like them in my beer.

Come back Holt's Mild - all is forgiven.

Holt's mild?

I remember the days when I used to have a pint of mixed in Holt's pubs.

 

[User169]

Purple Moose do a seasonal with Bog Myrtle, and it's rather nice.

One of the reasons that hops started to replace things like bog myrtle (as a component of gruit), is that puritan protestants saw hops as having a beneficial sedative effect in place of gruit-induced lasciviousness.

Edit: bog myrtle is "gagaleer" in Dutch which is prolly how you end up talking after too many swifties.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm pretty sure we get a hops shortage scare story every year.

 

[MossCommuter]

Holt's mild?

I remember the days when I used to have a pint of mixed in Holt's pubs.

Holt's have four mainstream cask beers only distinguishable by their colours.

Seasonally they brew "Maple Moon", "Bah Humbrew" and "Humdinger". They are indistinguishable, even by colour.

 

[MossCommuter]

One of the reasons that hops started to replace things like bog myrtle (as a component of gruit), is that puritan protestants saw hops as having a beneficial sedative effect in place of gruit-induced lasciviousness.

Edit: bog myrtle is "gagaleer" in Dutch which is prolly how you end up talking after too many swifties.

errrm... remind me...

...where do i get this gruit stuff again?

 

[John the Monkey]

We've missed national Gruit Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit

 

[theclaud]

gruit-induced lasciviousness.

This sounds like a tradition worth resurrecting.

 

[rich p]

I fondly recall my old Dad saying to his maiden aunt, " I'm going to the bog Myrtle".

 

[MossCommuter]

Gruity