nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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- You want hills? We got hills
What with that and the Marble stuff you put away....all I can do is thank you for keeping the Northern economy afloat
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What with that and the Marble stuff you put away....all I can do is thank you for keeping the Northern economy afloat
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Gulf stream affect innit
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User169
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I had a mad old great aunt who lived in Deal who'd run a hotel in Nairobi back in the good old days. She once stayed with us and was snoozing next to me on the sofa, when she suddenly woke up, turned to me and barked: "Boy! Are we in Africa?" "Er, no, we're in Basingstoke"
As you were!
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
Barry Island IPA (Brains Craft, 6.0% abv)
I do wonder, at times, whether my tastebuds are knackered. I didn't get the citrus described on the label from this, finding it floral and herby instead - it is very dry, with the lingering aftertaste you'd expect, but has a subtle bready sweetness lurking underneath that lifts it a little out of the "American Pale Ale" run of the mill.
Bragging Rights (Brains Craft, 5.0% abv)
Now this is a bit more interesting - based, apparently, on an ancient Welsh style and brewed with honey, nutmeg and coriander (I assume the latter two are additions to the "ancient" recipe). This has an initial sweet tang, a bit like a cider lolly, before warming so that the honey taste comes through, in about the right amount for a honey beer (I'm not keen on those where it's all you can taste). I can't say that I picked up much of the other flavours, but it's not all sweet mellowness, and I assume that that's down in part to those. The finish is bitter, but doesn't linger to any great degree, and if this has a weakness, it's in that lightness.
Both beers were from the local Home Bargains, for a mere 69p a bottle - definitely worth trying at that price.
Mrs M says: "Very nice" x2
I do wonder, at times, whether my tastebuds are knackered. I didn't get the citrus described on the label from this, finding it floral and herby instead - it is very dry, with the lingering aftertaste you'd expect, but has a subtle bready sweetness lurking underneath that lifts it a little out of the "American Pale Ale" run of the mill.
Bragging Rights (Brains Craft, 5.0% abv)
Now this is a bit more interesting - based, apparently, on an ancient Welsh style and brewed with honey, nutmeg and coriander (I assume the latter two are additions to the "ancient" recipe). This has an initial sweet tang, a bit like a cider lolly, before warming so that the honey taste comes through, in about the right amount for a honey beer (I'm not keen on those where it's all you can taste). I can't say that I picked up much of the other flavours, but it's not all sweet mellowness, and I assume that that's down in part to those. The finish is bitter, but doesn't linger to any great degree, and if this has a weakness, it's in that lightness.
Both beers were from the local Home Bargains, for a mere 69p a bottle - definitely worth trying at that price.
Mrs M says: "Very nice" x2
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Was in Strasbourg today. Quite a nascent beer scene there.
Grabbed, at random, 6 IPAs from local Brewers.
Grabbed, at random, 6 IPAs from local Brewers.
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Started with the one the left first.
Nice head retention for a French beer. No real hop aroma, just cereal and strong caramel and candy sugar flavour with some Belgian style yeast spiciness and some back end bitterness.
Not really an IPA: more of a Belgian blonde.
Nice head retention for a French beer. No real hop aroma, just cereal and strong caramel and candy sugar flavour with some Belgian style yeast spiciness and some back end bitterness.
Not really an IPA: more of a Belgian blonde.
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Perle-Hop Mosaic USA from Brasserie Perle outta Strasbourg.
What the hell did they do to the mosaic? A tiny bit of the juiciness you'd expect from mosaic, but overwhelmed by raw cereal aroma and flavour.
What the hell did they do to the mosaic? A tiny bit of the juiciness you'd expect from mosaic, but overwhelmed by raw cereal aroma and flavour.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Imagine, if you will, a photo of a bottle of Honeydew, a Peroni glass with half of the Honeydew in it, and a large glass of soave (a soave più for the Handelians amongst you)
That was the scene @rvw would have posted last night had her phone let her - we went upmarket* and had dinner in Guildford Pizza Express as a reward for putting together an Ikea bed.
*I can't think of any other reason why Peroni costs £4 for a small bottle, and Honeydew £6 a bottle....
That was the scene @rvw would have posted last night had her phone let her - we went upmarket* and had dinner in Guildford Pizza Express as a reward for putting together an Ikea bed.
*I can't think of any other reason why Peroni costs £4 for a small bottle, and Honeydew £6 a bottle....
Snap!
I had exactly the same last night, couldn't get on with the second one but luckily I'd stocked up on the first.
MossCommuter
Guru
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- Salford
Paragon of all things frightfully middle claahs daahling, BBC radio 4 food programme, today was about British beer.
Nothing revelatory, at least not to the cognoscenti of the beer thread and covers much the same as this thread does from time to time.
Worth a listen though, even if Sheila Dillon does get on your wick.
Nothing revelatory, at least not to the cognoscenti of the beer thread and covers much the same as this thread does from time to time.
Worth a listen though, even if Sheila Dillon does get on your wick.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Local San Francisco Kolsch to start followed by this (insert brewer name when remembered) red ale, very nice 5.6%, vanillary notes not heavy in the hops, good stuff!
And I thought you were the northern powerhouse ..
