Beer?

[threebikesmcginty]

The Kernel IPA, found lurking at the back if the cupboard, out of date on 10/10/2015, pours with a fairly strident cracklehead, tastes OK, probably better than when 'fresh'.

 

[John the Monkey]

You'd be kwakers to use that though!

 

[MossCommuter]

There are so many great beers being drunk on these pages and i myself have started to buy beer at the posh end of the scale (i dont mean shopping in waitrose!) but it would be great to make sure i have a full array of glassware to maximise the enjoyment (also good ideas for xmas). There are so many shapes of glass, so how do you know what is the best glass to use for the beer.

DP et al, any insights...?

Any glass big enough is good enough

 

[Daddy Pig]

Any glass big enough is good enough

I have a couple of 1 litre steiner glasses and some straws...

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The eins stein theory.

 

[Daddy Pig]

The eins stein theory.

Is that like the heisenburg uncertainty principle where the same beer glass can appear in two places at the same time... also known as beer goggles...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Wildcard Brewery Ace of Spades London Porter.

 

[John the Monkey]

Lost Tastes in Beer (including that of pitch - a niche for @DP ? );

"...the prominent New York brewer who in 1891 wrote a history of American brewing, described two purposes for the pitching. The first was to ensure proper cleaning of the cask before reuse. The second was to avoid the “taste of the wood”. "

That second reason seems ironic, given the trends for barrel aging!

http://www.beeretseq.com/pitched-lager/

 

[User169]

There are so many great beers being drunk on these pages and i myself have started to buy beer at the posh end of the scale (i dont mean shopping in waitrose!) but it would be great to make sure i have a full array of glassware to maximise the enjoyment (also good ideas for xmas). There are so many shapes of glass, so how do you know what is the best glass to use for the beer.

DP et al, any insights...?

A good all-rounder is the TeKu glass..

http://www.baladin.it/en/products/teku

Most of the time I use big wine glasses. Dead cheap from Ikea.

 

[User169]

Check this out. Super rare bottle of Cantillon..

http://www.2dehands.be/overig/overig/alcohol/2003-cantillon-cuvée-l-archange-st-320345908.html

Current bid is 6666 EUR! Not sure if that's for a real, but there's a bid for 2000 EUR from someone I know is serious.

 

[MossCommuter]

Check this out. Super rare bottle of Cantillon..

http://www.2dehands.be/overig/overig/alcohol/2003-cantillon-cuvée-l-archange-st-320345908.html

Current bid is 6666 EUR! Not sure if that's for a real, but there's a bid for 2000 EUR from someone I know is serious.

Do people buy these to drink them or as an investment or is there something simply in the pleasure of ownership?

 

[John the Monkey]

More pitch;
http://www.beeretseq.com/the-arc-of-the-pitch/
http://www.beeretseq.com/pitch-perfect/

 

[User169]

Do people buy these to drink them or as an investment or is there something simply in the pleasure of ownership?

Varies.

The guy I recognize that bid around the 2000 mark would likely share it or trade it for something else that he wants to drink. There's a big beer trading scene and pretty much the only things from Europe that have trade value are Belgian sours and even then really only stuff from Cantillon and 3 fonteinen. You can use them to get rare barrel aged stouts and wild beers from the US.

This bottle though is super super rare, so I don't know what you'd trade it for. It's a ghost whale...

http://allaboutbeer.com/article/ghost-whales/

 

[MossCommuter]

Varies.

The guy I recognize that bid around the 2000 mark would likely share it or trade it for something else that he wants to drink. There's a big beer trading scene and pretty much the only things from Europe that have trade value are Belgian sours and even then really only stuff from Cantillon and 3 fonteinen. You can use them to get rare barrel aged stouts and wild beers from the US.

This bottle though is super super rare, so I don't know what you'd trade it for. It's a ghost whale...

http://allaboutbeer.com/article/ghost-whales/

thanks

You should have seen me opening a 75cl bottle that cost fifteen quid.

I can't imagine what I'd be like opening one that was worth two grand (or maybe seven!).

I think there's some bottles of a batch of homebrew I made as a teenager still lying round at my Dad's. I wonder what they're worth?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I've got an old bottle of Sweetheart Stout that's been at the back of a cupboard since the 80s and am open to offers