Beer?

[John the Monkey]

Lymm Bitter (Lymm Brewing Company, 3.8%, Bottle Conditioned)

This is a lively one, as you might be able to tell from the glasses in the background - pour with care!

If you do, your effort will be rewarded with a good take on the traditional English bitter. The aroma is wonderful, clean and herby, with a bit of caramel. Once the beer comes up from cellar temperature, it's bready, with some spice and herbs from the hops, and a slightly lingering bitter aftertaste. It's more subtle than the locomotive of taste that last night's stout was, but really lovely. Not at its best cold, so take care there too.

Mrs M says: "Very nice."

 

[John the Monkey]

Hoppy but not horribly so .

I still think they missed an obvious win by not calling this Hopgoblin.

 

[John the Monkey]

I just bought 4 bottles of 0% beer for my Saturday night television. Is that acceptable behaviour for a man in his mid 30s?

Eh, more interesting than drinking coke (hopefully).

 

[Crackle]

So I went to Tesco to get some bin liners and came back with a couple of these (plus bin liners)

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A ppp.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

 

[MossCommuter]

I just bought 4 bottles of 0% beer for my Saturday night television. Is that acceptable behaviour for a man in his mid 30s?

No

Next question

 

[User169]

A couple of my own. The first is a 100% Maris Otter pale ale. Nice and dry and very juicy - still needs to "evolve" a bit in the bottle. The second is 50:50 MO: wheat. Lovely colour and very drinkable.

 

[nickyboy]

There are one or two decent boozers in Llandudno but Spoons is big enough to accommodate us all.

The Cottage Loaf is cool but too small for all of us. And too posh for some of you

Yeah...I'm hoping there might be a dozen or so of us stopping Saturday night so the Cottage Loaf will be too small. The one we went to last year was OK but now't special. I reckon a massive cavernous place like Spoons will fit the bill. Plus it probably has the best beer choice in Llandudno and definitely the best prices

 

[ChrisV]

Just tastes like beer.

Nuff said.

 

[srw]

The Bavaria alcohol-free "Weissbier" is actually reasonably acceptable, as long as you drink it cold and don't expect it to taste like beer.

 

[stephec]

Hoppy but not horribly so .

Do you have a Wychwood fetish today?

 

[stephec]

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Just tastes like beer.

Nuff said.

That's probably the most beer flavoured of all the non alcoholic jobbies.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Beer and the protourpunditry pen

 

[ChrisV]

Was £2 for 4. A pleasant alternative to the endless cups of tea I normally suffer.

 

[srw]

Why call it beer then? It should have its own name surely?

Fair question.

Bavaria seem to call the lager-alike "malt" rather than "beer", but they do use the B word for the wheat stuff. Whereas most alcohol-free beers are partly dealcoholised full-strength beers, the Bavaria ones seem to be made from the ground up.

And in digging around online I found what is probably a completely pointless drink - alcohol-free whisky.

http://www.alcoholfree.co.uk/whissin-750ml-p-521.html?cPath=2_66_62