Beer?

[nickyboy]

Brewdoggy bike tours to Belgium....

http://ledomestiquetours.co.uk/brewdog/

My word that looks tempting. £350 including a "communal supply of Brewdog beers to drink over the weekend". Hmmmmm....Mrs N's birthday that weekend, how to persuade her the best option is to let me go cycling and drinking beer in Belgium

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My word that looks tempting. £350 including a "communal supply of Brewdog beers to drink over the weekend". Hmmmmm....Mrs N's birthday that weekend, how to persuade her the best option is to let me go cycling and drinking beer in Belgium

Surely Mrs NB would want to come along too!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Brewdoggy bike tours to Belgium....

http://ledomestiquetours.co.uk/brewdog/

Looks pretty good apart from the bike bit.

 

[User169]

My word that looks tempting. £350 including a "communal supply of Brewdog beers to drink over the weekend". Hmmmmm....Mrs N's birthday that weekend, how to persuade her the best option is to let me go cycling and drinking beer in Belgium

It looks pretty good value, altough I'm not sure I'd manage 85km after a tasting at De Struise.

 

[rich p]

Surely Mrs NB would want to come along too!

I'll put a frock on and go with Nicky...

 

[rich p]

One of my birthday beers - a Cloudwater Vic's IPA. Bitter and hoppy. V nice.
And my daughter couldn't be arsed to bake a cake...
And I'm older than 4...

 

[User169]

Great paper on beer yeast genomics. The authors show that beer yeasts are genetically and phenotypically distinct from wild populations (and from bread and wine yeasts) and were domesticated via human selection and trafficking. Also, domestication took place well before there was any understanding of the existence of microbes.

http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31071-6

 

[User169]

The van option will probably prove popular.

This is their eisbock - 40% or so.

 

[nickyboy]

Great paper on beer yeast genomics. The authors show that beer yeasts are genetically and phenotypically distinct from wild populations (and from bread and wine yeasts) and were domesticated via human selection and trafficking. Also, domestication took place well before there was any understanding of the existence of microbes.

http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31071-6

You started to lose me at "genomics"

 

[MossCommuter]

You in a frock and him in slacks?

And sandals?

 

[MossCommuter]

On the recent tour of Harvey's Brewery in Lewes, the beer I liked most was called Wild Hop. https://www.harveys.org.uk/wild-hop-takes-top-prize-in-hop-awards/

In the pub a while back an old boy reminisced how he'd go with his dad down Brewery Lane on the other side of town to pick wild hops that were the last vestige of the brewery that gave the lane its name. They used to take the hops home and his dad made beer. Being new to the area I was mad keen on his story and learning a bit of local history. He also assured me that along the riverbank there were even to this day some hops surviving.

Armed with his directions I jumped on the bicycle to see for myself.

It was of course all total bollocks. There was never a brewery, there were no hops growing and there wasn't even a farking Brewery Lane.

Oh, how I laughed.

 

[rich p]

Armed with his directions I jumped on the bicycle to see for myself.

That was where you went wrong Mossy....

...you shudda hopped on your bike....

 

[MossCommuter]

That was where you went wrong Mossy....

...you shudda hopped on your bike....

Booooooooo

 

[John the Monkey]

That was where you went wrong Mossy....

...you shudda hopped on your bike....

 

[John the Monkey]

In the pub a while back an old boy reminisced how he'd go with his dad down Brewery Lane on the other side of town to pick wild hops that were the last vestige of the brewery that gave the lane its name. They used to take the hops home and his dad made beer. Being new to the area I was mad keen on his story and learning a bit of local history. He also assured me that along the riverbank there were even to this day some hops surviving.

Armed with his directions I jumped on the bicycle to see for myself.

It was of course all total bollocks. There was never a brewery, there were no hops growing and there wasn't even a farking Brewery Lane.

Oh, how I laughed.

I do wonder how practical it would be to grow one of the dwarf hop varieties (they still grow pretty bloody big). Despite not brewing beer, I think it might be a nice nod to my bibulous hobby.