haven't had magic rock in ages. their "big top", which they've stopped making, was an all-time favourite.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
had my first schlenkerla of the winter at the weekend:
http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html
SCHLENKERLA.
tt loves that stuff. idgi. it's probably the one extreme beer flavour i just can't do
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
obviously, blackheath oddbins have it too. best shop in south london probably
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
it is pretty intense/obnoxious but i love it once winter comes along.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
I struggle with rauchbier, and I think we've established I'll drink anything.
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
imago's crown now, I'm afraid.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
in a blind taste test i reckon all of you would approve of the seafood gooseberry gose mentioned upthread. all of you. each one.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
You silly sausage.
― Tim, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
have any of you even tasted Hawkshead's stuff before? not sure i have
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
p.s. the last two, most ilx-friendly, motherlode beers are incoming
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
over a caprese soup
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
Burning Sky (with Liberty Brewing Co) did 'Descent into the Maelstrom', which is a bit of a misnomer, because the strong, well-hopped initial taste gives way to a refreshing sweet citrus glow. probably the least impressive beer so far but not *bad* per se
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Last but not least, Beavertown / Tempus Project - Universal Mind, a strong but well-balanced smoky porter - I know I just called out smoked beer as undrinkable but this dials it back enough and undercuts it with sweet earthy rich tones (those marsala barrels kicking in) and a lasting taste. Very flavoursome - I certainly approve. If you like smoky beer then this is a killer (especially at over 10%).
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
― mahb, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:04 (seven years ago) link
Rolled the dice on a can of this at the weekend - first time in ages I've poured a beer away half-way through (sure I remember liking some of their beer in the past, mind):
http://www.northernmonkbrewco.com/sites/default/files/styles/400_by_600/adaptive-image/public/beer/nmbco_-_tom_joy_nm1386_.jpg
Made up for it with some very palatable Five Points dark beers (also learned that the Five Points Railway Porter makes really top-drawer cottage pie liquor).
― Tim, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Oh and the Orbit Altbier (amusingly named "Neu") is delicious. I like Orbit beers a great deal.
― Tim, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
am finally drinking a tropigamma
wtf. ban hops
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
would you like some beer with your hops sir? and perhaps some slightly incongruous fruit?
tt has an einstok white. fucking furiously envious
tropigamma isn't gigantically hoppy.
einstok beers are shit.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
but if you want to drink budweiser pale ale and praise it cos it's from country x your options are various.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
a big grapefruit-hop hybrid that didn't even have any grapefruit in it
einstok is really nice and has a slight sour buzz that makes it all come together
nothing like any sort of budweiser
so heated rn
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
i didn't like tropigamma at all - but cos it was too fruity, not too hoppy. they named it after tropicana and even to look at it it's really dense and unbeerlike.
had gamma ray again this evening - always great. neck oil also. wasn't hunting them down they're just good basics.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
gamma ray is not unpleasant i agree
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Kernel raspberry London sour tonight over crisps - extremely refreshing, fine saison base, the sour and the fruit perhaps lacking some of the depth and intensity of their damson sour but still a fine effort. I recall it from that craft beer festival a few months back, where it had a starring role - bottled perhaps less stellar but I must emphasise still an extremely tasty light sour
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Thursday, 8 December 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
A kind word for Belhaven's Scottish Oat Stout, tonight over popcorn - it's really really tasty and actually rather sophisticated, dulling the usual stout sweetness and giving it a rounded, bitter quality.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 9 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
I really liked Tropigamma! But not as much as their blood orange thing over the summer, which the bloke at the great offie in seven sisters says sold as quickly as he got it in (and he also admitted buying a case for himself)
― There shouldn't be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets (stevie), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
tt just returned from the black heart with four bottles of trolltunga (see OP)!!!! oh my god
it's so, so great. get it while you can. everybody's doing gooseberry sour now but this is the north star. three cheers for buxton/lervig!
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 23 December 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
what did you drink it "over"? i have to know.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
one of papa john's finest pies
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 25 December 2016 09:33 (seven years ago) link
you had a papa john's on xmas eve? is everything okay?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 25 December 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
yeah I had a bottle of Trolltunga a couple of days ago and thought it a v good example of the form
drank a Blacklight Banana by Siren yesterday which is a sweetish imperial stout. claims to feature coffee beans "stored in bourbon barrels" pre-roasting which I struggle to believe would make any discernable difference tbh. decent anyway
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 25 December 2016 10:39 (seven years ago) link
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, December 25, 2016 9:42 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
night of the 22nd!!
last night we were lazy after present-wrapping so had crisps with dips lol
and ya the blacklight banana will have been appreciated, it's not bad at all
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 25 December 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link
got a big haul of mostly american and scandinavian beer at an off licence in dublin yesterday. to-ol's christmas stout is nice, slight note of orange and cardamon but mainly just a good winter drink. have a few mikkellers and some seasonal sierra nevadas also - might be a basic admission but i love the sierra nevada christmas beer.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 25 December 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
At the Toll Gate, Turnpike Lane, last night: Long Man Old Man old ale. Very good. I've realised that I'm more or less certain to love anything calling itself 'old ale' (whereas, for example, anything called 'ruby ale' I tend not to like very much).
― dubmill, Sunday, 25 December 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Partizan's saison kriek one of the best of its kind I've had recently. tt bought a bottle the other day and we're drinking it now - extremely refreshing, quite dry, really noticeable if understated sour kick, fruit very subtle. Low alcohol content might raise suspicions but this is pulled off very smartly
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
not UK per se but I am looking at a Mikkeller Spontanberliner w/ Passion Fruit and I wholly recommend etc etc
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.flhr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16797653_1381153738617820_5068002515587798665_o.jpg?oh=af2156377b04e0017b1d0e20a762b947&oe=5935AC31
Wild Beer's new brewery mockup looks like the postapocalyptic version of Spurs' corporate hospitality area
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
never noticed before that their logo is EVIL OVERLORD
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
pity that one lone ghost sitting on the edge of the fire pit
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
isn't drinking beer supposed to be fun
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
it looks like a community centre.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
a lot of the places craft beer breweries choose to decorate or host are really awful, like crappy mdf tables etc. give me a pub with a few good taps anytime.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
when it's a little venture in a repurposed quasi-industrial space then I can appreciate ramshackle furnishings but the pretentious back to clean and hard basics realness of brew dog frinstance is a fucking atrocity
― ogmor, Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
i like the purity bar in birmingham
― nxd, Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
'the english restaurant' in spitalfields is my new favourite pub of all time
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 5 March 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
such a lovely place
they have many belgian classics - i'm currently drinking a bottle of the straffe hendrik quadrupel which i bought at the barman's recommendation - it's excellent and if we're extending this thread to the continent then i'd advise trying it (should you be a fan of strong, complex ale)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 5 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Beavertown's Tempus project is shaping up very nicely indeed! Screw Tropigamma, this is where it's at. Their Moonshiner berliner weisse and their El Mariachi gose are both *excellent* - refreshing and intensely flavoured. Just get the price down next time
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 13 March 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
Fierce Beer from Scotland have done a nice tropical sour, the Tropical Tart - refreshing and authentically tangy with good fruit and a nice nutty aftertaste. Also pretty cheap as these things go
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link