Beer?

[srw]

I'd like that ... but I don't like it.

I think a need a stiff drink now. Fortunately there's a bottle of Glenmorangie next door.

 

[ChrisV]

When I bought it the woman came across to the self service checkout to authorise the sale. They've not told the till its alcohol free.

 

[rich p]

I'm having an Arbor love-in lately and Marble is always good.
The Boomtown Brown is malty hoppy and full of flavour for 5%

 

[subaqua]

Do you have a Wychwood fetish today?

a box of 6 for £8 in Tesco . I may well have another box of that tomorrow when they open again

 

[srw]

Easter lunch with my mother-in-law is postponed due to sickness, so while Mrs W pops over I'm putting my feet up with the bottle of Old Hooky.

That's proper beer that is. Rich and malty with a good slug of hops, but not too many and not too archly camp. Reserved true Brit hops, not loud and in-your-face Kiwi or Yankee colonials.

 

[martint235]

Not really a sunny afternoon drink but hey ho

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As it's Easter I'll be having 8 or 9 of these.

 

[Maverick Goose]

This week's Booths expedition has come a day early due to the bank holiday.

I've upheld my vow of not repeating myself, apart from the pilsner which is for Mrs Stephec.


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Every man appreciates a Good Body! Calling Dr @Fnaar! Calling Dr @Fnaar!

 

[nickyboy]

I'm having an Arbor love-in lately and Marble is always good.
The Boomtown Brown is malty hoppy and full of flavour for 5%
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Manchester Bitter should be on draught Friday April 22 Rich. I know you said you probably can't make it but, y'know.....

 

[PenttitheFinn]

a nice cold bud please barman.

That's not beer

 

[theclaud]

I had a look at the faceache page for TC's local minipub (the one that won the local CAMRA prize). Its beer list ran from "hoppy" to "extremely hoppy", and from "golden" to "pale". Which in my book is a shame - there's more interest in beer than just bitterness.

Pah! I leap to the defence of the Mumbles Ale House. He keeps Butcombe Bitter on more-or-less permanently for those fancying a straight-up no-nonsense English Bitter, and Wye Valley Butty Bach for those who like their beer to be good without being interesting. And the week before last he had two very different stouts on simultaneously. As the new kid on the block in Mumbles he consciously chooses beers that are different from those you are likely to find in the other two decent boozers. The Park Inn up the road keeps excellent beer but has a lucky-dip approach to rotation and tends not to think quite so carefully about what the whole 'portfolio' is offering at any given moment, so it's not unusual to find five biscuity offerings on at once. And biscuity happens to be my least favourite thing in a beer, although I don't mind it in a biscuit. The Pilot only has a couple of guests on at a time because it is usually serving three of its own beers, which are mostly OK but you wouldn't chuck an Oakham or a Celt out of bed to fit them in. The Alehouse is the only place that is really paying attention to hops, which only appear all the same to people who don't like hops very much. At any given moment he will be offering most of the following: a low-strength session beer with tons of flavour (like Cereal Killer or One-Inch Punch); a single-hop masterpiece like Oakham Citra; a red, brown or rye ale; something complex and full-flavoured like Arbor Blue Sky Drinking or Oakham Bishop's Farewell; a crazy tropical hop-frenzy thing, and either a porter or a stout. Occasionally even a mild, which no one else seems to bother serving. Yesterday I mostly settled on the crazy tropical hop-frenzy thing - a session IPA from Arbor callled Shangri-La, but I was a bit torn between that and Antares - a mahoosively malty and suitably bright red beer with a surprising dry finish from Dark Star. My dad made sensible use of his brief visit by trying everything above 4%, then going round again to make sure.

 

[srw]

What can I say? It was shut when I was over there, so I'll take your word for it that they have taste as well as numb taste-buds. I was just going by the list on the Facebook page.

My dad made sensible use of his brief visit by trying everything above 4%, then going round again to make sure.

A very intelligent man. I can see where his daughter gets her taste and (I was going to say discretion) approach to life from.

 

[User169]

Gent-Wevelgem beer. Decent enough Belgian blond.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Flagship IPA, sweet and fruity aroma with Admiral hops and a longish bitter finish.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

 

[theclaud]

Flagship IPA, sweet and fruity aroma with Admiral hops and a longish bitter finish.

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I've got a bunny too! I have bitten its ears off.