posh beers and ales and stuff thread

That Banana Bread Beer is amazing, I could very happily sit and drink 3 or 4 of those without feeling sickly! It is quite rich and sweet but the subtle hopiness kinda balances that sweetness out; I find it really easy to drink anyway. Wouldn't be something I'd choose as a session beer though,

 

I'm currently waiting for it to get warm so I can start drinking this again; I picked up a bottle not too long ago but it doesn't taste right in the winter. Usually I find ginger style ales too sickly and rich, but this one is awesome!

 

  On 3/30/2013 at 10:23 PM, chassis said:

Lets give this one a go

 

Oh fuck, I'm only through my second bottle and Im tipsy as fuck. 8% what do you expect.

 

Taste is dark as fuck, would recommend.

yeah, the Banana Bread Beer is really good. definitely worth having if you see it anywhere on tap, which i found a lot nicer than the bottle (although that's pretty much always the case).

  On 3/30/2013 at 10:51 PM, Aserinsky said:

I'm currently waiting for it to get warm so I can start drinking this again; I picked up a bottle not too long ago but it doesn't taste right in the winter. Usually I find ginger style ales too sickly and rich, but this one is awesome!

have you had crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer? i like to mix two of them with a bottle of buckfast in a big pitcher for a sort of tramp version of dark and stormy. it is quite delicious.

A lot of people have told me about this Banana Bread Beer, and its delicious taste. For some reason I've always swerved it (I tried banana beer in Tanzania and it was foul, perhaps thats got something to do with it lol) I think I might get some today.

Edited March 31, 2013 by beerwolf

  On 3/31/2013 at 1:43 AM, kaini said:

 

  On 3/30/2013 at 10:51 PM, Aserinsky said:

I'm currently waiting for it to get warm so I can start drinking this again; I picked up a bottle not too long ago but it doesn't taste right in the winter. Usually I find ginger style ales too sickly and rich, but this one is awesome!

have you had crabbie's alcoholic ginger beer? i like to mix two of them with a bottle of buckfast in a big pitcher for a sort of tramp version of dark and stormy. it is quite delicious.

Yeah I've had Crabbie's quite a few times, tends to disagree with me for some reason. Their ginger wine is decent though, works well as a mixer. Plus that tramp version of dark and stormy sounds delicious, now I've gotta see where I can get hold of a bottle of Buckfast to try this out.

The first time I saw that Blandford Flyer I got quite excited 'cos I used to love Blandford Fly:

 

 

It was really rich and gingery, to the point where it would burn your tongue the way decent ginger beer does.

But it obviously wasn't very popular because it started to disappear from shops and I would snap up any bottles I stumbled across.

 

Then I saw Blandford Flyer late last year and nigh on wet myself with excitement. I bought several bottles and triumphantly took them to a friends house.

 

I was so disappoint.

 

It's like they showed the bottle some ginger and then poured sugar into it. I get the feeling Badger are trying to make it more popular by making it so sweet but I wish they hadn't discontinued the original Blandford Fly.

 

tl;dr: I done liked a drink and wish 'twern't different.

not exactly posh but I like em

 

 

drunkest easter morning I've had in a while

I took a beer tour in Seattle Saturday and we went to Hale's. They served Supergoose DIPA on nitro! It was ... okay. Overall, not that impressed with Hale's, although it doesn't suck!

 

Most interesting brewery on the tour:

 

One pint of beer.

Here's the most quintessential German beer I drank recently paired with the most quintessential German cassette I recently aquired:

 

Edited April 19, 2013 by joshuatx

Just picked that up on vinyl last week.... good idea...

Just got into an argument about whether Rogue's Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon beer is the worst beer ever or not.

 

I agree it's not subtle, but I think that's the point. They argued that any beer that has to inject its flavor so heavy-handedly is wasting the basic beer ingredients that could have made that flavor on their own.

Just recently discovered this ale. Brewed down my ends.

 

Glorious glorious IPA...

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 7:34 AM, encey said:

Just got into an argument about whether Rogue's Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon beer is the worst beer ever or not.

 

I agree it's not subtle, but I think that's the point. They argued that any beer that has to inject its flavor so heavy-handedly is wasting the basic beer ingredients that could have made that flavor on their own.

 

I had Rogue's Oatmeal Stout last night and that was very much a good "traditional" beer, and I think it was aimed at doing that. I'm with you, it's called Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon after all!

I'm super curious about the Voodoo Doughnut, but I'm afraid I'll hate it and have wasted a purchase...

  On 4/19/2013 at 5:09 PM, StephenG said:

Glorious glorious IPA...

 

had this last night, love it. killer deal for $6 a bottle. Edited April 19, 2013 by uptown devil

Yeah Hop Henge is great, I have yet to be disappointed by anything Deschuttes...

Us English watmm lads should all meet up at the British Beer Festival at Olympia London. Drink ridiculous amounts of beer and talk about music all day. Could be a good mission.

Edited April 19, 2013 by beerwolf

I'm in. I go to a smaller one in St. Albans every year. It's such a good day out.

Yeah I do plenty of beer festivals too, seems so popular nowadays,10/15 years ago they were few and far between. Only been to Olympia once before but it was a good day out.

 

I'll put up a new thread a bit later and put the word out. Find out what day is best for everyone and start from there.

It just tastes very strongly of wood chips and smoke -- it's a bit overpowering and somehow artificial tasting, but that's what I expected! I love smoky beers, so I'm all for it, even if it's coarse.

 

edit: in re voodoo

Edited April 19, 2013 by encey

  On 4/19/2013 at 8:00 PM, uptown devil said:

 

  On 4/19/2013 at 5:09 PM, StephenG said:

Glorious glorious IPA...

 

had this last night, love it. killer deal for $6 a bottle.

 

 

It's incredible! I've read online the %ABV varies. My bottles were 10.4%, apparently some are 8.5% and some are 9.1% ? All the same label other than that.

 

One of my favorite

  On 4/19/2013 at 9:16 PM, encey said:

It just tastes very strongly of wood chips and smoke -- it's a bit overpowering and somehow artificial tasting, but that's what I expected! I love smoky beers, so I'm all for it, even if it's coarse.

 

edit: in re voodoo

 

Hmm, perhaps I'll pass I was hoping maybe it had a stronger maple aspect to it... woodchips though? no thanks