Those Wild Beer Co sours are fine (though not, I think, the best WBC beers) but like Matt I've had enough not-good UK sour beers that I've given up on buying them. UK Craft Beer continues to suffer from a structural requirement to brew something re-tweetable and therefore stunty IMO. Anyway, wrong thread I guess.― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 12:29 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 12:29 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My findings are that some of the retweetables are indeed unworthy. But others pull it off. While WBC themselves haven't quite topped their seasonal sour blends (as said already, Modus Operandi is a great red beer and they do a killer saison) with a recent lemon beer falling well short, The Kernel have made a great raspberry sour (tasted at the London Craft Beer Festival) and a stellar damson sour (tasted the other day), each with a complex and distinguished palate and none of the niggly blandness you get with most sours the likes of *cough* Siren come out with. The best beer tt and I had at the LCBF full stop was a Buxton*/Lervig collaboration called Trolltunga, a gooseberry sour that sang to your throat on the way down and invited maybe a few too many refills. (Speaking of Norway, Aegir pulled off a brilliant red sour AND a great gose - watch out for them). Six Degrees North have a sour beer offshoot/affiliate called Lindsaymans (probably a play on Lindemans) whose regular 'goze' was good, but when mixed with raspberries turned into something outstanding.
*I was surprised given how other Buxton sours I've had have only been decent
Anyway, we don't just need to talk about sour beers; we can talk about boring hoppy hop-filled hopmonsters as well, to your taste. Or mead.
― imago, Friday, 23 September 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
glad this thread exists.
here are some uk beers i like, or foreign beers that i buy in the uk:
omnipollo - this swedish brewery is prob my favourite in recent months. i've yet to have anything of theirs that wasn't great. really good strong ipas. mikkeller - obvious choice but actually kinda hard to get in london - i feel like the increased prevalence of local london breweries has led to fewer interesting choicesbeavertown - but if we are going to have fewer choices i'm happy with these becoming v prominent. so much better than terrible camden or meantime. kernel - still p much the best pale ale, not just in the uk eithersiren - i always think their beers are underrated - not had the sour you mention thoto ol - have liked most of their beers that i've hadweird beard - as mentioned on the other thread, always interesting
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
never seem to see good ambers or black ipas anymore, which i find annoying. speaking of which, it's a pity brodie's beer seems to be so hard to find in london. for a while it was like the only place you could get it was the old coffee house in soho.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
in homage to my presence in the landscape i favour stout esp.of a coffee or chocolate tendency
i have also realised that the reason i like fruit beers is that they remind me of fruit juice -- which i mostly like better than beer
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
My experience of 'sours' is so far limited to a mouthful of something or other someone at the Craft Beer Co. said I simply must taste. It didn't immediately seem like something I'd want to drink, but maybe I should give it another chance.
I also don't much like heavily hopped beers. I really prefer old-style bitters with a malty taste (e.g. Harvey's Sussex Bitter, which is a favourite), and also stouts and porters. Last week at two different branches of Wetherspoon's I had Dorking Brewery Black Noise (porter) and that was really nice.
Golden ales I tend to steer clear of, because the concept seems boring, but I have found myself pleasantly surprised by a few of them. I had something called Sunbeam a few weeks ago and it was delightful.
― dubmill, Friday, 23 September 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
never seem to see good ambers or black ipas anymore
beavertown black betty is still around, no?
had a great double coffee stout from high wire.
have been trying to get hold of a kernel single hop just to prove how unrefined my palate is but no joy yet. nb i haven't tried very hard.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Friday, 23 September 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah black betty is the first good one i've had in a while - had it in the gun on well street, nice little pub.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
a lot of things marked as black ipa taste like stouts to me. i like stout fine but it's not the same.
There were two or three at my local deli for a while, all decent and unstoutish, but I can't remember the others, will see if they're still there.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Friday, 23 September 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
As hinted at by the quote at the top of the thread, my interest in beet has changed a lot in the last couple of years - this is partly, I imagine, as a result of my no longer being in that line of business, but also I've just been drinking less beer in general (getting more interested in dear old wine and spirits as it goes, also interested in reducing my personal stocks of lard).
All of that has meant that when I have a beer drink it's likely to be one of two or three that day (rather than ten), so if my drink is not a good drink that's much higher impact. That means I'm less inclined to take a chance and more inclined to cleave to the reliably delicious. And I have never had a UK craft beer I like more than a well-kept pint of Harvey's Sussex Best; that's exacerbated by the fact that the last few prevailing trends in craft just haven't been to my taste (can't be doing with extreme bitterness of hopmonsters, most sours and barrel-ageds I've tried just taste nasty).
On a positive note, I really like Orbit beers, my only reservation about them is their persistent referencing of alt-rock. But their Kolsch, Nico, is just stellar without being in any way unusual. I like some of the beer made by my old mates at Five Points (who've been going round being called / calling themselves normcore) when not too hoppy...
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeah this thread is about beet, isn't it?
Beavertown is okay but every pint is just exorbitantly expensive even by craft beer standards and the little cans look like they are for children.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
where are you drinking - it is like a fiver afaik which seems to be standard for craft beer.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
It's a fiver minimum but tbh I still object to paying even £5 for a pint. A lot of the stuff that's onsale in that price range doesn't really merit it, a lot of generic metallic tasting/overhopped American-style pale ale. It does the job okay but there's just so much of it that's basically the same.
The craft beer I like and don't resent paying extra for is the stuff where you can tell the brewer's put a bit of effort in to make it taste of something, like the smokier or oakier end of the spectrum, which isn't something you really get with Brewdog or the millions of things that taste like it. There's a sea of mediocre cask ale out there but like Tim I still think a really great cask ale can be better than almost anything, but you have to wade through a lot to get to it - I think I just prefer booze that's been kept in wood rather than metal.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
I have to assemble some furniture later today but I'm definitely rewarding myself with a beer shop afterwards.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Moor Raw! Could drink that all day out of their tiny cans.
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
i kinda miss the days when i could drink my first draft of budweiser and announce "it's the king of beers!" to one and all and actually mean it -- you have ruined me and that's a fact
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
not to go all camra v people with beards but i'd correct "sea of mediocre" to "sea of vile".
i like pump ale but personally give me an average pale ale over some of the dire sweaty sock stuff that passes for real ale in most pubs, any day of the week. since craft got more popular there does seem to be nicer pump ale as well, for sure, but god the standard ones are horrendous.
not sure "it's all the same" is ever a convincing dismissal either.
the price thing is less weird to me, beer in dublin was always really expensive growing up, i guess i began drinking in pubs at the height of the boom. also like if i drink 1000 pints before i die the extra cost of buying what i like might be £500 or something. sorry next of kin.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
xp More or less like anyone else but richer and less useful. Sounds like a king to me.
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
It's weird to me that Camra are now the non-beardy ones.
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah that just occurred to me
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
weird and surely false
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
Yeah it's just beards all the way down now.
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
beards v beards and tattoos
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
UK beard in the new era
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Spending a year drinking a different beer every day ruined good old standby pump ale for me, now if I see the doom bar badge my heart sinks. Or maybe I just don't like doom bar.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Friday, 23 September 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
the stuff where you can tell the brewer's put a bit of effort in to make it taste of something
I've had some really nice beers from a brewery called Clouded Minds. Their Hazelnutter (Hazel Nutter?) is described as an American brown ale but also contains hazelnuts. I had it several times at the Toll Gate in Turnpike Lane last year. It was lovely but I haven't seen it since.
Or maybe I just don't like doom bar.
It's terrible. Tastes anonymous and even watered down. I don't think I ever drank it when it was independent but it may have changed since the brewery was taken over.
― dubmill, Friday, 23 September 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
I didn't notice much difference but I never liked it much.
A lot of those regular on-everywhere cask ales really are bad, I agree (these days if given the choice of Doom Bar or Adnams best I'd choose not to bother) but not all - I will very happily drink Tribute, for example.
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
It's not all the same but a lot of it might as well be - I think I'm trying to separate the beer that actually feels *crafted* from the more generic stuff that gets sold as 'craft' beer and doesn't usually justify the price. The difference between what, say, Anspach & Hobday put out and a lot of yr standard Peckham Pales, which can be perfectly nice and drinkable but don't taste radically different to similar beers being brewed all over London. And that's not mentioning the godawful London Fields Brewery type stuff that really is just overpriced shit for yuppies who don't know any better. But you get fake artisan bullshit in almost everything so why should beer be any different.
I agree that the craft beer thing has improved the quality of cask ale available, or at least prompted pubs to be a bit more discerning about what they get in.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah i agree there's some boring stuff. i think the big offenders in blandness are like meantime and camden tho. i barely distinguish the taste of those from a heineken or whatever. they're not awful just v bland.
i forget to mention redchurch brewery upthread - i love their beers and their taproom was one of my favourite places to drink when i lived in bethnal green. great music.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
my favourite pump ale is prob timothy taylor - landlord.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
There are some good Meantimes but the standard pales and lagers they sell in most places are pretty generic.
Redchurch is pretty great, and I like Kernel as well. In general the biggest benefit of the whole craft beer boom has been the widespread availability of 3% session beer that doesn't taste like piss water.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Sometimes a bland lager is exactly what you need though: entirely reliable and it doesn't impinge on anything before it hits your bloodstream.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fs4LusZmrlU/T33viXfCjqI/AAAAAAAAAMM/tztwNKUmZuM/s640/sam-smith-vegan.jpg1.jpg
(can't find a picture of the genuine 3D article: scrubbed from the internet)
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Yeah a bland lager on a really sunny day works in a way that no other beer does in that situation.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
I mistakenly had a sour recently and it was viscerally upsetting , they are creeping in gradually and insidiously much the way that the volume of horrible music creeps up whenever I go into a shop, while heavily hopped beers encroach like overpriced city carpentry classes .
I like ambers the best, genial and rambling! but I am in need of new recommendations
― saer, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
they definitely have their place
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― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
A huge variable with cask ale is how well it is kept. There really is a massive difference between a beer that's in top condition and the same beer, but poorly kept. It may not taste absolutely foul but it can taste really mediocre and may lead to the conclusion that that beer is intrinsically bad. Mind you, while I've had a good pint of the usually to be avoided Adnam's Broadside, I've never ever had a good pint of Doom Bar.
― dubmill, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link
Haha I was in a pub last weekend and accidentally bought a sour and basically ordered another pint straight away. They're not clearly labelled a lot of the time, last night in the pub I nearly ordered one and the barman just said "I wouldn't if I were you, it's fucking disgusting, buy a good beer instead".
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
I hope you tipped him
― mark s, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
a friend of mine will sit and pints of sour beer. it disgusts me. like 5/6 in a sitting.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
I wonder how it's possible to tell when a disgusting sour beer goes off?
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Every so often something comes along in life and I think this is a prank, but these sours, with names that don't indicate anything to do with there being sour times ahead, you have to be alert, but at the same time alertness is an opponent of reverie, if i have to be alert to the foul play ahead then the moment is killed
Landlord is a safe pair of hands, to guide you through the glen
― saer, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
Anyway I have a number of entirely unresearched and unproved (ie TRUE) theories about craft beer:
1) that (as hinted at above) many breweries have twitter / facebook shares as the core of their marketing plan, and in order to make that interesting to people they are forced into pursuing wacky combinations2) that the scale of production in smaller craft brews is such that it's possible to get enough people to buy 1 bottle / enough pubs to buy 1 cask to justify doing a brew; the difference in volume between a test brew and a proper brew is very small (in fact I have heard of some breweries only having test brew kit3) that regularly brewing artisanal beer to the same recipe (or few recipes) is a bit effing boring, and trying to sell repeat orders of the same brews to retail outlets is even more boring, and that messing about with recipes is more fun4) the combination of the above make this industry unusual in the context of the new wave of urban artisanal industries because unpredictability is not only rewarded but actually programmed in to the approach, and drops in quality aren't all that damaging: if you didn't like your bottle of loganberry porter from Bristleface in Beckenham, that doesn't mean you won't like their ginger and yuzu saison.
Taken together, these conditions are likely to produce a very uneven beer "scene" (but one that's very good fun if you have the energy, opportunity and cash to keep up with it).
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link
always baffled & amused by lambics & other sours more than anything but imago being a partisan suddenly makes sense of them as maximalist monoliths to be held in awe
I'm not much of a beer connoisseur & I'm still pretty fond of the stodgy cask ales I have long been used to: wainwright, old peculier, landlord, pedigree, hobgoblin &c. but I have generally enjoyed all boom in IPAs & microbreweries despite the dross. been hooked on the beavertown tang lately, esp neck oil. feel sorry for everyone drinking in london
― ogmor, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
enjoyed all the boom
― ogmor, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
but these sours, with names that don't indicate anything to do with there being sour times ahead, you have to be alert, but at the same time alertness is an opponent of reverie, if i have to be alert to the foul play ahead then the moment is killedLandlord is a safe pair of hands, to guide you through the glen
IRL lol, partly because these sentences reminded me of some short fiction I read recently (by Gert Jonke fwiw).
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
Or maybe Saramago.
Saeramago.
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
kinda feel like a beer now
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 23 September 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Oh man alive I have a bottle of good sherry in the fridge and I have been wishing the work day away just thinking about it.
https://www.grandcruwijnen.nl/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/400x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/e/m/emilio-hidalgo-oloroso-seco-villapanes.png
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
But before that I've gotta get busy with an icy tumbler of this:
https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/vinemedia/wp-content/uploads/20150211015652/Casa-Mariol-Vermut-Negro.jpg
― Tim, Friday, 23 September 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
Magic Rock and Cloudwater both victims in the UK craft beer wokeism wars (not fond of the term but hey it's the world we live in) - the former over their investment by Lion which sees people just shout GENOCIDE JUICE whenever they get mentioned, the latter over alleged racism towards Stacey at Rock Leopard and also from connections with serial pariah James Watt (BD made Cloudwater's supermarket line).
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Saturday, 5 March 2022 09:53 (two years ago) link
Anyway from Mike's list Schöfferhofer is amazing and I always have half a dozen in the beer fridge. Also that Berliner is very solid.
I'm not personally a fan of Black Sheep (well not Riggwelter, but then I'm not a fan of the beer that begat it either), but a nice cask pint is always a pleasure. The deya/verdant lineup is great.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Saturday, 5 March 2022 10:04 (two years ago) link
Yeah, the one beer on our pumps that I would never, ever drink is Black Sheep. Then again, it's the only cask ale that my partner Kevin ever drinks. Just not my thing at all, but then he doesn't care much for the hoppy stuff. It's the only cask ale that we never swap out, and it has a lot of fans.
The cask pump on the far left - currently Vocation Heart & Soul - is reserved for gluten-free. Oddly, it's often my favourite pump.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 5 March 2022 10:14 (two years ago) link
I'm a massive fan of Cloudwater (I've even got the t-shirts and branded socks to prove it) - absolutely love their beers, both the plethora of TIPAs, DIPAs, IPAs, Pales & other cans and their fancier Barrel Project stuff. I hadn't heard of issues with Rock Leapard, what's the story there aldo?
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:13 (two years ago) link
Ah aldo I never knew any of that :(
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:13 (two years ago) link
Rock Leopard, I mean.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link
My main beef to date with Cloudwater is how unbelievably expensive it is
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:15 (two years ago) link
I was just about to post exactly this
― wins, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:16 (two years ago) link
I’m assured the prices do accurately reflect the production costs of all their wacky adjuncts but idk man
― wins, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:17 (two years ago) link
I buy directly from them and pricing seems fair for what you're getting. There are certainly cheaper breweries, but I don't think it's a huge price difference and CW quality is top notch. £8 for one of their TIPAs is money very well spent for me. Are they expensive from other retailers?
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
Their Pales are £4-5, IPAs £5, DIPAs £6, TIPAs around £8 and Imperial Stouts £8-9. Barrel Aged stuff is £17-18 for 750ml. That's about par for the course, no? Very similar pricing structure at say Overtone, Neon Raptor, Verdant, Pollys etc etc etc.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:32 (two years ago) link
Howling Hops has very comparable pale ales (imo) for much less money. I’ve stanned for them before here I think and they are local to me so I may be biased but they’ll do a mixed 12-pack for just north of £40. Their 9.5ABV stout is £6.50.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:34 (two years ago) link
I'm a self-confessed massive Cloudwater fan, so apologies if I'm too defensive, I am genuinely interested. Just don't want to have to get my "I <3 CW" tattoo removed. Other breweries are available...
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 5 March 2022 11:38 (two years ago) link
Sorry, was out all day yesterday.
Cloudwater were already in some people's bad books for trying to move to an exclusively B2C model in the first waves of lockdown, but then in June last year Stacey brought messages into the big Facebook group (the one we're both in, Krakow) where Paul referred to him as an Uncle Tom. To be slightly generous to Paul it's not a view he appeared to have but one he ascribed to someone else (memory say it's Watt, as this was a squabble over BD and CW contract brews and where they happened) but using it was utterly needless.
Anyway, when called out on it Paul doubled down and made excuses rather than apologies and it drove wholesale admin change in the FB group and that was why the name of it changed too.
CW farm out all their supermarket line to Brewdog as contract brewing in Ellon, so if you're Watt-phobic then that's something else to consider.
As this thread has demonstrated though, it seems to have been largely forgotten.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 6 March 2022 09:49 (two years ago) link
I've been a real fan of CW over the years and although nothing touches the era of the V series DIPAs the New Zealand series in 2019 was brilliant. I sort of lost touch a bit when they changed their labelling so that you couldn't work out what things were without taking cans out of the fridge and reading the back (meaning putting glasses on, trivial I know but hey) and completely lost track of what they were putting out over lockdown so should probably take a look at some point.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 6 March 2022 10:06 (two years ago) link
I remember all that Aldo, but unless I'm mistaken it wasn't Paul from Cloudwater, it was an entirely different Paul in said group, one of the admins at the time. It was at the time of the Brewdog & Cloudwater controversy, hence them being at least mentioned in the fallout from it all, but I don't believe they were involved per se.
Rock Leopard continue to work with Cloudwater, as far as I see. Their collaboration Step Up was re-brewed and released again not long ago and Rock Leopard have released a bottled, barrel aged beer that Cloudwater seem to be the only place stocking and could perhaps have been picked from CWs barrel stock given the sound of it.
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 6 March 2022 11:03 (two years ago) link
You know I've just done a search and you're right. I may have been besmirching Paul J unnecessarily in that case for which I apologise.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 6 March 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link
Yet another E London craft brewery, Pretty Decent Beer Co, has made some really nice oat/wheat/barley/hops beers. They all have stupid names. “You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Oat” NEIPA is fantastic. They do quantity discounts.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 March 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
Just ordered another 12 pack from Pretty Decent.. less than £40
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 27 June 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
I'm on their monthly subscription, recommended.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 27 June 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
There's an article in the Times this morning including news that Wild Beer Co. apparently called in administrators on Friday, which is pretty shocking and sad news if true.
The article in question, avoiding their sign-in requirements: https://archive.ph/Lr8CP
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
:/
Beavertown and Brewdog must die
― imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
(obv they can't and won't)
― imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Shout out to Deviant & Dandy's No Figgity imperial stout while I'm here btw. Tonka bean in beer won't be for everyone and it definitely fits aldo's 'bloggable' description but it hit the spot for me
― imago, Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
thought I saw the brewdog expose doc because it was linked in this thread, apparently not. if you want to hate brewdog even more then knock yourself outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XamxzvGm8YQ
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 4 December 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link
aldo's 'bloggable' description
No recollection of what this is.
Tonka is fine but I've drunk far too many Low Key beers to get excited about it any more.
Had a lovely afternoon a couple of weeks ago with Roberto from Cult of Oak where we cracked open 6 (count 'em) of his near-impossible to find beers. Then he offered me a couple of bottles to take away, one of which was one of the last three in existence, which is when the afternoon got expensive.
Having been unable to buy Holy Goat releases after coming off the preference list, I'm prepping a Year One vertical at my local in January sometime including all the super rare ones like the Hanging Bat exclusives.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Tempted to do a Foehammer/Goblin Cleaver back-to-back tonight as iirc they were very similar and according to the can have less than 1% between them.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 4 December 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
i like beer
― conrad, Sunday, 4 December 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
D'you like coffee?
― the pinefox, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:18 (one year ago) link
i don't like coffee beer
― conrad, Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
I'm supremely jealous aldo re. Cult of Oak, that sounds amazing. I want to come to your Holy Goat tasting. Where's your local?
― brain (krakow), Sunday, 4 December 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
For reference the beers were Lexington I and Ii, Cannae, Lysander, Mega Colab Rum & Raisin and Blood of the Golden Spurs ON KEG.
Beer In Hand in Hereford is bit far even for that kind of vertical. I also might be doing the only UK Rexday next year as me and Stu are the only people with bottles.
Speaking of which I am in Glasgow next weekend.FAP?
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:17 (one year ago) link
I can conclusively report Goblin Cleaver stomps all over Foehammer, which it makes taste thin even at 11%.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 4 December 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Sorry aldo, I left your question hanging there.
I'm buried in the midst of December retail servitude and can't really face any additional socialising this weekend, much as I'd love to. Just pretty exhausted, sorry.
― brain (krakow), Friday, 9 December 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
No worries, it was pretty short notice and December is a busy month.
On the way back down the road dropping in to Top Out (in their second last week of trading) and Tempest to pick up their barley wine drops.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 9 December 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
New Bristol Brewery have done some things with cinder toffee and stout that shouldn't be legal. Now I am about to go on a hike and I'm drunk! Hurray
― imago, Friday, 17 February 2023 13:05 (one year ago) link
Happy birthday imago!
― nxd, Friday, 17 February 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
Ty I'm about to do the THORNBRIDGE BREWERY TOUR BITCHES
― imago, Sunday, 19 February 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
^which ruled
Anyway, props to Little Earth Project for not only being the first brewery I've seen to name a beer after a Half Man Half Biscuit song, but to have said beer, In A Suffolk Ditch, be a fully credible and very barnyardy fruited wild red ale
― imago, Sunday, 24 September 2023 11:55 (six months ago) link
Think Pomona Island had a HMHB beer but I can't remember what it was called. Their Songs About Fucking beer was their peak I think.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 24 September 2023 12:00 (six months ago) link
Lmao, someone at Pomona Island has very ILXy tastes, I was very impressed that they recently named a beer after a bit from Severance ("This Music Dance Experience Is Officially Cancelled"), although it was a drab-looking IPA so I didn't actually get it
― imago, Sunday, 24 September 2023 12:12 (six months ago) link
enjoy your sourpatch kefir porters
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:40 (six months ago) link
observation based on being in glasgow for 1 day
scotland is way less obsessed with IPAs than england is
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 19:42 (five months ago) link
Where have you been beer-wise, for the purposes of this thread?
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:23 (five months ago) link
Drygate Brewery and West Brewery - so, two craft ale taprooms (although this one is def going for 'beerhall', shame Oktober isn't until tomorrow)
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:30 (five months ago) link
(my 'guess the city' was Cumbernauld btw. fuck me that central building is something eh)
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
I know this won't go down well on this thread, but I'm quite addicted to Brewdog "Lost Lager" in Blood Orange. It's on a three 8-packs for £23 offer at Morrisons and say no more!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 23:04 (five months ago) link
they probably just add whatever chemical additive goes into vimto orange, yet it works.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 23:06 (five months ago) link
to be fair there is probably a brewdog beer out there I'd enjoy, but it will always be a mystery which one
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 23:09 (five months ago) link
a Dill Pickle Gose at Pretty Decent Brewery/Taproom in Forest Gate.
they added dill and cucumbers to the brew apparently.
wasn't bad, but then again I had to psyche myself up before I took each sip.
that's increasingly the way with flavoured craft beer IMO.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 5 October 2023 12:24 (five months ago) link