Tonight Matthew, I am enjoying a Gooseberry Sour from Manchester’s excellent Track Brewing Co and Copenhagen’s Broaden & Build...
It’s like liquid sorbet. Smooth, sweet and tart. Refreshingly different.
I've got a bottle of St. Austell Brewery's Proper Job on the go, whilst I enjoy Guinness' Hop House 13 the Proper Job is exactly what it says on the tin. Or bottle
Picked these up from my local beer shop tonight; two different Wylam's, two Burnt Mills and a Polly's Brew Co (formally Loka Polly). I'm looking forward to trying out those I haven't tried before however the real prize is getting my mitts on some more of Wylam's Jakehead!
I've got some Jakehead!
Siren Broken Dream , breakfast stout ! , coffee/chocolate/smokey bitter finish - one from my son who’s into craft beers - posts on instagram archie_drinks
Really nice drink
Cheers all
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Red House Newcastle. This is delicious. If it wasn't a lunchtime, I could polish off quite a few.
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I’ll have to wait till daddy driving duties are done
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Rivertown Pale Ale not so pale
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Got home from work, been busy on clean up duties at The Cube student accommodation fire in Bolton, wife treated me to a pub tea. Currently drinking Black Perle, ( spelling is correct ) , a coffee flavoured stout ,and rather nice it is too.
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Trying this tonight. One of a mixed batch from beer52.
A very fruity, hoppy American style IPA. Nice but nothing special.
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Last night.
Another newbie from the lads at Falmouth’s finest, snappy, bitter, hoppy, a tad vegetal... need another to be sure. Fortunately I have 3...
And this from Cheltenham’s DEYA is one of the best hazy IPA’s I’ve had all year. Smooth as silk. If you see this, buy it!
Today.
A cheeky half at Craftbeer Co Covent Garden before my haircut. Thornbridge Etherow “hoppy bitter” on cask. I find their canned and bottled efforts muted, but on cask, Thornbridge shines. This was no exception.
Dinner at Borough Market with a mate then a cheeky tin at The Rake. Tried something completely new, Cliff Jumper IPA from Kentucky’s Country Boy Brewing. Smooth, fruity and subtley hopped.
And finally, a celebrated Double IPA from Verdant (again), loving up to its billing. Tropical fruits abound in this Citra-packed stunner.
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Had this last night , another of my son’s recommendation,
Very creamy/vanillary with hint of chocolate, really good ! Magic Rock @Huddesfield.
S Works , Verdant is one my son’s favourite brewers, he went to their bar when on holiday in Cornwall recently and I brought him a tin of a collaboration with Garage Brewing when me & Mrs T were in Barcelona
Mick
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Zambezi Lager whilst watching an African Thunderstorm
A couple of very quick pints of Whitstable Bay pale before I rush off for the train. It's, erm... drinkable at least.
Just the one bottle tonight
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I am the On-call engineer for our site this week so it's no beer. However Mrs Sish kindly picked up this low alcohol number... but it's actually not that nice. A bit thin in terms of taste and mouth feel. The Ghost Ship low alcohol is a much more acceptable beer substitute.
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Out for an 8mile walk which takes me in and out of town, so popped in for a warm up and fluid replacement . . .
No stout so . . .
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Should anyone here want to venture into the wonderful wierd world of craftbeer, I can provide referral codes for Honest Brew https://honestbrew.co.uk who stock an interesting and eclectic mix from lots of U.K., European and some US breweries.
The referral code will get you one months free membership (which provides discounts vs non membership on anything you buy) plus a £10 bonus credit for your first order.
Well it's been a filthy wet day so I'm staying in the warm and having an evening of darkness. On the pub front, the landlord of the Dun Cow in the city has renegotiated his rent and is no longer tied to his overlords for beer purchasing, so after a little pressure from several of us we have Raven appearing on his spare pump this coming week. Here's away for the first of the evening, don't care for the revamped labels but the contents are first rate . . .
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Cannot beat a few glasses of Jupiler on Perfect draft.
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Few good old pints of moretti tonight !
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This. Nice!
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Wow, this is a lovely beer. It just gone to the top of my favourites. Its like drinking nectar and goes down too easily. Luckily the pub close by in Conwy always has it on tap.
Been a good weekend for trying some new beers.
Track Brewing Co from Manchester celebrated their 5th birthday with a special series of five brews.
I’ve sampled the first two this weekend, a 3.0% Table Beer and a 4.0% Strawberry and Lemon Sour. The former stands toe-to-toe with Kernel’s, which hitherto has for me been the king apparent. Hazy, smooth, stone & citrus fruit, crisp, dry and moderately bitter. Lovely. The sour was like a strawberry lemonade sherbert, bloody marvellous.
And a completely new brewery to me - Pretty Decent from Waltham Forest - who’ve done a collaboration brew with our local independent wine and beer shop.
A Belgian-style IPA with a bunch of adjuncts that twist it away from any notion of IPA that you’d expect. Close your eyes and your taste buds will tell you you’re drinking a Belgian ale or a fruited Porter. Feint hints of cherry on the nose carry to the tastebuds. Sipping smooth and fruity with chocolate cacao notes, the cherry-choc lingers on the tongue and palate, with a dry, subtly bitter finish. Not for everyone, but I very much enjoyed this.
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Have you tried Black Betty from Beavertown? If you like those you may find it to your taste.
https://www.beavertownbrewery.co.uk/beer/black-betty/
https://shop.beavertownbrewery.co.uk/collections/beer
"I contacted them to protest, but to no avail. Philistines."
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Nothing can quite compare to one of those. The storm I mean. Got caught in two when I was in Sourh Africa. I was quite relived to find shelter quickly, I didn't fancy getting stuck in my tinny little hire car. I appreciated the beer I had once I got back to my accommodation.
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Finally getting to try a Raven Milk Stout after seeing many pints drunk on here , very pleased when I spotted it in the local shop
Sorry about the glass nothing more than tumblers in our holiday let
Sunday night is now no/low abv night for me. I like a Sunday beer but not the Monday morning grogginess.
Brewdog Punk AF is my regular (not shown) but I’ve wanted to try Big Drop beers for a while as they appear to be getting a good rep.
Their lager was, well, a bit weird to be honest. The nose was of berries, feint strawberry to be precise, and the taste was less like lager and more like a weak fruit tea. Probably not one I’ll rush back to!
I've been on Lagunitas DayTime for a while - I could drink that all the time.
I'm out tonight for the first time in about two months so I'll let you know what I'm drinking when I get there