Quite a choice.
I decided on a local (Unlimited Juice) hazy IPA
z
Quite a choice.
I decided on a local (Unlimited Juice) hazy IPA
z
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Had a fantastic weekend in Antwerp last weekend, managed to try 32 beers in 4 days!
Some highlights:
Wow, that's some achievement. Did similar in Bruges a few years age, dont think I tried so many but do remember the headache the following morning! Cheers, John B4
And now for something a little different, Dagmal breakfast stout from Tring:
For beer that has been "doctored" (it has been brewed with oats, coffee and lactose) it is actually very nice. Not sure I'd have it for breakfast though. Actually, it would probably wash down a bacon and egg butty quite well. Hmmmm.....
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Seeing as I am holiday I thought I would test my hypothesis.
I can confirm that the Dagmal does go very well with a bacon and egg sandwich.
When in Suffolk:
Just back from Chappel Beer Fest, very disappointed, most of the beers I would have liked to try had gone so just used up my card and came home. Apparently their Summer beer festival is similarly small (one shed only) it used to be a very large affair and I'd enjoyed it and went most years however post Covid it seems to have lost it's way. Only ones that took my fancy today were Earl Soham Gannet Mild and Green Jack Drifter. Cheers, John B4
Happy Weekend
Last nights quad of refreshment…
I'm enjoying stouts at the moment. This Tring Tea Kettle is another good one. It is quite smooth, without the harsh bite that you can sometimes get with a stout.
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Last nights parade…
Juice bombs to start off with. Both the Beak and Phantom Pales were superb, very well balanced and quaffable.
Dank juice wasn’t particularly dank, but it was most enjoyable and his the punchy ABV well.
Mrs Works was out with pals in London, so I had to feed myself with a steak & ale pie, too many chunky chips and some greenery. Old Ale from Long Man seemed a worthy partner to that and paired beautifully. I took it out of the garage about an hour before I drank it so it was at room temp, fabulous beer to sit by the fire with too that.
Another IPA which, if I’m honest, I didn’t really need. But Burnjng Sky make top drawer boz, so it was no hardship.
And the one I really didn’t need (at 2205hrs), but enjoyed anyway, another belter from Long Man which slipped down effortlessly.
Starting with this (from The House of Trembling Madness).
The Kernel Export India Porter. Super hoppy and strangely for a Porter, very dry. Not a suggestion of sweetness. I like this. Wish I'd bought more than two bottles.
Second beer. I'd rate it as OK. Nothing remarkable. I wouldn't seek it out again
Yorkshire Heart Blackheart
When in Rome ….
Well, just north of Monza actually (…which is a long way from Messina)…
z
Last edited by zelig; 4th March 2024 at 19:18.
Can't compete with the location but the beer is good!
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Augustiner Helles = the king of Helles.
Great choice!
Followed by......
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Continuing my theme of drinking Italian beer from the another region, today I am near Parma and drinking beer from Sardinia.
z
Doom Bar in Spoonies.
99p a pint to make way for the beer festival beers. Be rude not to try it.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Quality I was in spoons in Edinburgh last week a pint of Leffe and a fish supper with beans was like Ł13 absolute bargain.
Unfortunately I noticed a nice vintage omega for sale which was such a good price it would also have been rude not to try....the wife took it she loves it so all good I guess...lol
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picked it up in Livingston outlet. They found two case of the first gin the made 46% and Ł14 a bottle a real smooth drink
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Cheeky livener to break up the mid-Saturday afternoon shopping.
Lordy lord is it hot in Gran Canaria this afternoon (rhetorical question).
Luckily the pool bar is stocked with an endless supply of Cruzcampo Special. Fantastic.
Another new one to me, The Chiltern Brewery' Three Hundreds Dark Old Ale. Nice but tastes like it is over 6% rather than the 5% it is.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Well earned. Those cashews look good.
Called out Saturday afternoon for a couple in Horsforth brewery, had a couple of the North is Ace on cask then popped into the Hop Shack and had these back home.
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Sunday walk around Cow & Calf on Ilkley Moor then called for a couple at Granville’s on way home.
Started with Rudgate Chocolate Stout then North Shadows Play.
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Walked the dog up through Hunger Hills woods and called at Granville’s for a couple, Kirkstall Special Mild for me and the Vocation Death by Daiquiri got Mrs T.
I then had 2/3rds of the Northern Monk Patrons Project (forgot photo)
Then called in Kings Arms and had Kirkstall Mitigating Circumstances
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I enjoyed a couple of these on yesterday's flights. Very nice they are too.
Bought a case of Kronenbourg Blanc last week from Tesco. The stuff in blue bottles. Been hard to find here for ages, hope they are going to make it a regular stocked item in there.
Stuart
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Having nice pint or five of Pale Ale in the White Hart, Hope Street, Liverpool. An afternoon session before I get the last train back to London tonight.
Been drinking Peroni for years but found this whilst on a night out in Oxford yesterday, wont bother with the nastro azzurro again.
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I had Cruzcampo for the first time tonight. Quite nice and light.
Called at Hemsley Brewery on Friday on way home from Sleights, had the Yorkshire Legend Bitter, really good, and a bottle of Jacky Boy Stout to takeaway.
Had this also , freebee from work!
Saturday, had a stroll to Kings Arms and had a couple of Kirkstall Jasper and a Kirkstall Bitter.
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