UK beer in the new era

Had Beavertown's Brose - a rose-derived sour - at the brewery the weekend before last. AVOID.

The blood orange IPA, however, is even nicer off the tap.

I've a bottle of Brose but haven't summoned the courage to open it yet.

There's a limited run of Hamerton Earl Grey Black IPA out there right now and it's excellent.

So I drank the Brose. Kind of weird tasting, not as sour as I'd have liked and the rose was oddly sweet. Like a massively inferior Acid Jam.

WBC's Yadokai effort has finally been drunk then...it's very good. Also faintly redolent of Acid Jam, but obviously with a sake-meets-abbey-beer weight to it all. I wouldn't call it subtle, but it's arresting.

There's a limited run of Hamerton Earl Grey Black IPA out there right now and it's excellent.

― Matt DC, Saturday, May 6, 2017 1:02 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

enjoying this right now. it's really good and i say that as a sceptic of anything that isn't sour these days. in fact i prefer it to the beer tt is drinking right now, siren's new grapefruit sour. she disagrees. but what is indisputable is that siren won't come close to topping 'acid jam' for a good long while

we also have the brosé lying in wait, like some dismal portent of oversweetened doom

my mouth puckered just reading that, lj

"brosé"!!! is that pink wine for dudes????

it's a rose-themed ale from beavertown and it is BAD BAD BAD

oh timing!

it's by no means offensive and I'd even say a bit refreshing, but nothing special for a speciality sour - the sour base is nice but the 'rosé' flavour doesn't quite do enough to stand out. enjoyable though, and the sweetness doesn't kill it

but i'm a sour beer nut, and stevie, well,

sweet and bland is where i live, louis!

― A bear made of Tetris blocks (stevie), Friday, September 30, 2016 8:44 AM (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:P

rosé-themed, not rose-themed, btw

rose nectar sour would be one of those things you simply wouldn't know the greatness or shitness of until you tried it

but i'm a sour beer nut, and stevie, well,

haha, yes, true!

someone was telling me about a tangfastics-brewed beer the other day. oh brave new world with such things in it etc etc

oh god, beavertown's tempus project has seriously gone too far now

we've moved onto their 'appelation' bramley apple saison

my feelings are perhaps akin to what stevie's would be, except i'm supposed to like this stuff

tangfastics beer courtesy of mad dog, whom i've always been a bit skeptical of. would still taste, probably

yeah, i'm tempted too tbh

correction: 'applelation' ffs

aiui Haribo sicked their lawyers on Mad Dog and they had to recall all of the Tangfastics beer so you'll probably not find one now

I drank their granola breakfast stout last night, it was just OK tbh

Beavertown's X Trillium IPA is pretty good as IPAs go. Probably the most impressed I've been at Beavertown yet

! my local shop is not carrying it

I went to the Beavertown festival on Friday - it was p great. Ticket paid for all your beer, many, many breweries from all over the world present. Slightly weird being at an event where the event is drinking rather than anything else, but it was good nonetheless, I would go again.

My beer festival this year was Ales Tales, a Belgium-only festival. It was superb, obviously

brick brewery's rhubarb sour is a low-key pleasure, endlessly drinkable

OK, Partizan's Mango Ceylon Iced Tea saison, achieved with nothing but barley, yeast and hops, feels like a bit of a paradigm shift, in UK terms at least. Not the best beer I've had recently but one of the most boldly-realised

Rhubarb sour? Nice

Rhubarb sour sounds right up my street but I had a rhubarb cider recently that didn't taste of rhubarb at all, so I dunno.

Rhubarb does well with some sugar so maybe fermentation makes sense!

I assume rhubarb cider was fermented. Sorry I mean hard cider

Recevied some extras in an international trade:

Cloudwater NW DIPA Galaxy: well crafted, soft and delicate, holds a respectable position against the upper echelon of American IPAs.
Cloudwater Mormora Sour: a kettle sour with 2 infusions of Mormora coffee. Not disgusting, but certainly not something I'd seek out.

honorable mentions:
Modern Times x Cloudwater Roots of Coincidence Pale Ale: a colloboration brewed at the former in San Diego. Had notes of haribo grapefruit on the finish.
Mikkeller x Cloudwater Staring At The Pie NEIPA: also brewed at the former's San Diego brewery and billed as a "Key Lime Pie hazy IPA", what started out intriguing was plagued with some unwelcome flavors on the finish.

Please send any more Cloudwater cans you find to me ASAP.

Awesome stuff there

Pics of cans / bottles ?

No pics, sorry! I'm usually pretty good about pics too.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUzrjg2U8AAMuui.jpg

"neckstamper" "apa" (american pale ale apparently) - is, despite itself, very very nice

Wow, so the Beavertown part-takeover has really affected the quality of the drinks. Lupaloid and Bloody ’Ell both limp versions of their previous selves, tasting a bit Pilsner-y to my tastebuds.

You say it like they were ever all that!

We recently stumbled across (genuinely - didn't know it was on until we were in the middle of it) a mini craft beer festival in Deptford. Winning beer was, comfortably, the latest Redchurch sour (cherry I think?) which threatened to take the skin off our mouths

So much love for the Redchurch sours

tt is taunting me rn with offhand comments about how the pub she's celebrating half term with her colleagues in is serving Thornbridge sours ffs

Mine's a Lemsip :(

Get well soon, slugger

redchurch has gone into administration i think. a shame as the beers were great and i had some good nights in the brewery space over the years.

i haven't been big into many of their beers until now but pressure drop's 'play the dane' is a v good hazy ipa. i had a very good pohjala gose last week also.

agreed that Beavertown has dropped off. their pale ales (including the once ineffable Lupuloid) have that slight metallic tang that afflicts brewdog. not a huge diff between them now imo.

Yeah, used to be an easy-to-find (in Brighton at least) and reliable beer when you weren’t near somewhere with more choice, and I had hoped that now they were available in supermarkets in other places it would be a handy option, but…

fav UK brewery at the moment is Yonder (https://www.brewyonder.co.uk) - mostly saison/witbier styles with foraged ingredients, closest comparison is probably Wild Beer Co

Campervan Brewery Neon Blitz - Blueberry Berliner Weisse dry hopped - delish with a nice tropical bite

Not quite on the level of their Himalayan Gose but really nothing is

Speaking of Wild Beer, we've just opened a Dr Todd...

...and they have fucking taken things somewhere truly insane. Amazing. Beer of the year

Obviously RateBeer hates it. Fucking CAMRA squares