Beer?

[Pro Tour Punditry]

If you've time, try Bierrex on Pilgrim, Mossy, they've got a ton of stuff on tap.

XT 1, nice hoppy blonde beer from Long Crendon.

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Mrs M's father grew up in Long Crendon and her grandfather is buried in the churchyard.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The spoils of my visit to Kelso this morning

I had been intending to get a few session ales but ended up with (from L>R) 6.3%, 7.4%, 4.0%, 9.6%, 4.9% and 8.0%. Which I suppose will be a good "session" of sorts

 

[MossCommuter]

Clockwork Orange in Crown Posada. Very nice

Almasty Passion Fruit in The Red House. OK

The spoils of my visit to Kelso this morning

I had been intending to get a few session ales but ended up with (from L>R) 6.3%, 7.4%, 4.0%, 9.6%, 4.9% and 8.0%. Which I suppose will be a good "session" of sorts

OK for starters

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

OK for starters

I'm "on call" at work. Cannae be too pissed

 

[MossCommuter]

I'm "on call" at work. Cannae be too pissed

This is true...

... One cannot be too pissed

 

[Levo-Lon]

Im on holliday...just had a great Moussaka..and now enjoying beers...hot tub in a while with a couple more..
Badgers Glory..back on the waggon Tuesday..its an mtb holliday but ive succumbed to peer pressure ..or is that beer pressure..

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Happy Christmas!!!

 

[nickyboy]

Down the 'spoons in Glossop with son #2

Couple of pints of this were excellent. Howards Town is a small local brewery

Norhern Powerhouse pricing

Had a bottle of this bad boy. 7.2%...back home I need a bit of a lie down

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm "on call" at work. Cannae be too pissed

Blimey, still I suppose when there's a rush on after closing time they need all the burger flippers they can get.

 

[User169]

Kwaremont in the market square in Oudenaarde. Just as we got there, Lizzie Armistead popped up on the stage. This totally hit the spot after a 245km ride.

 

[MossCommuter]

Kwaremont in the market square in Oudenaarde. Just as we got there, Lizzie Armistead popped up on the stage. This totally hit the spot after a 245km ride.
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I think it would have hit the spot after the first forty clicks and at equal intervals thereafter

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Kwaremont in the market square in Oudenaarde. Just as we got there, Lizzie Armistead popped up on the stage. This totally hit the spot after a 245km ride.
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Good going @DP. Enjoy the well-deserved beer.

I so wish I was in Oudenaarde or Gent just now!

 

[srw]

Mrs M's father grew up in Long Crendon and her grandfather is buried in the churchyard.

I think that deserves an official Beer thread pilgrimage - the Buckinghamshire cradle of Scot Nat Nobbery.

You could probably construct a reasonably passable brewery crawl-cum-bike-ride in the area without too much difficulty. Red Squirrel outside Hemel, Haresfoot in Berko, Tring, Chiltern outside Wendover, Aylesbury brewhouse, XT at Long Crendon, Vale outside Brill and Oxfordshire in the cycling centre of the universe that is Marsh Gibbon.

Knock out Aylesbury (where the National Trust has its only pub) and that's a pretty fine ride.
https://goo.gl/maps/LHLTWTjvDh62

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I think that deserves an official Beer thread pilgrimage - the Buckinghamshire cradle of Scot Nat Nobbery.

He still gets the local church magazine sent to him, the nobber. Mrs M was mightily pleased when she married me and got a proper surname rather than the quite frankly ludicrously pompous one she'd been lumped with as a result of her father hailing from ludicrous-name-land

 

[John the Monkey]

Old Empire IPA (Marston's, 5.7% abv)

When Mrs M said we were getting some bits from the shops, I'd hoped to be heading for Waitrose, but we ended up in Aldi. Mrs M chose a Hobgoblin (very nice), and I went for this.

It's not anything earth shattering, but there's a pleasant malty sweetness, balanced by citrussy, possibly slightly floral flavours with a decent, lingering bitter finish.