posh beers and ales and stuff thread

  On 11/4/2017 at 9:59 PM, cwmbrancity said:

careful with surrounding occultists, they could start buying you drinks & the next thing you know yer waking up on Canvey Island with faint memories of being goat raped somewhere in wood near Colchester

flol, apart from the 'goat rape' bit that sounds like a fine evening out imo

Quite good

  On 11/4/2017 at 9:59 PM, cwmbrancity said:

careful with surrounding occultists, they could start buying you drinks & the next thing you know yer waking up on Canvey Island with faint memories of being goat raped somewhere in wood near Colchester

Not quite. Got chatting to a very lovely Swedish-Japanese lady. We went for drinks and pizza. Parted ways at 2am, having exchanged numbers.

Win.

Cracked open a 3 year old Orval. Was more smooth than the younger ones, to my unrefined palate. A great beer.

Very hoppy, nice malty sweetness. 

As with almost anything unibroue makes, this one is absolutely amazing. Mine was a 2014. The oak comes through fairly strong, along with some spices and hints of fruit (like dates or raisins or something). 

Highly recommend it. Think I might have posted this one before though, soz if I did.

Had the two yellow ones before, both fucking lush. Interested to try the 'umami stout'. It has miso, shitake and seaweed in it.

beer is summat else these days, envious @ the range of flavours, choc stout looks lush

gone are the pubs with Badger Bitter on tap

  On 11/10/2017 at 12:58 AM, cwmbrancity said:

beer is summat else these days, envious @ the range of flavours, choc stout looks lush

 

gone are the pubs with Badger Bitter on tap

Yeah it's a good time to be a beer drinker, just the fact I can go to a couple of websites and have world-class German and Belgium beers delivered to my door within a couple of days is nothing short of a miracle. Being sort of middle-aged I remember having almost zero access to nothing. I thought I was seeing things the first time I found Theakstons Old Peculier in a supermarket. That was a big deal. I have the camra beer almanac from 92 and there's only a couple of hundred UK beers in it. The whole industry was hanging on by a thread. 

what websites?

beers of europe

beerhawk

the mrs. got me a nice present to hold all of my trappist and other belgian beer caps.  gonna hang it on the wall in the dining room.

i know, i know, some of the trappist beers on here are not from Belgium, but gimme a break.

ha! That's pretty rad. great idea

  On 11/10/2017 at 8:12 PM, beerwolf said:

 

  On 11/10/2017 at 12:58 AM, cwmbrancity said:

beer is summat else these days, envious @ the range of flavours, choc stout looks lush

 

gone are the pubs with Badger Bitter on tap

 

Yeah it's a good time to be a beer drinker, just the fact I can go to a couple of websites and have world-class German and Belgium beers delivered to my door within a couple of days is nothing short of a miracle. Being sort of middle-aged I remember having almost zero access to nothing. I thought I was seeing things the first time I found Theakstons Old Peculier in a supermarket. That was a big deal. I have the camra beer almanac from 92 and there's only a couple of hundred UK beers in it. The whole industry was hanging on by a thread. 

 

theres a pub in Nottingham called The Lion thats a real ale/local beer shrine to quality brewing & distilling, their cider & perry list alone is a thing of wonder (summat about chilled cloudy cider/perry on summer weekend is divine), but its their a&r for want of a better description for scouting local & small batch British brews thats miraculous, always changing weekly casks & prob my favourite pub in England cos its actually really chilled & a human zoo of punters....a must if yer ever north of Brum 

the internet has changed access to scouting, like you said if you rummage delivery is a piece of piss, prob cheaper too as a pub pint these day must be £3:50/4 quid odd?

giving up booze just as the US & British quality beer range exploded was typical fkn timing

It's Saturday night! (GMT)

It's freezing! (Brass Monkey Weather)

What Beastly Beer are The Beer Drinking Knights Of The Noble We Are The Music Makers Of The Roundtable Drinking?

Bottle of Fantome Saison and Jaipur X from Sterk in Amsterdam. Smuggled four of the Xs into an IDFA film to share t'other night.

  On 11/25/2017 at 7:15 PM, beerwolf said:

It's Saturday night! (GMT)

 

It's freezing! (Brass Monkey Weather)

 

What Beastly Beer are The Beer Drinking Knights Of The Noble We Are The Music Makers Of The Roundtable Drinking?

hail beerwolf the wicked

me and the wife had to work today and now she is playing some zelda and i'm checking out some wicked tunes and we are sharing this awesome bottle of chateau D'Ychouffe, tastes like sweet white grapes combined with la chouffe hmmmm, it's delicious!!

that sounds delish. Doesn't look like it's sold here though =/

it's 40% grape must and malted barley, tastes great, realy special!

if you realy want this i think you can buy it here http://www.achouffe.be/en

I had great intentions of having a good yarn about beer with my music mates, but I've been on the Trappist and I'm floundering and can't be bothered flol

Goodnight..

  On 11/25/2017 at 10:07 PM, beerwolf said:

I had great intentions of having a good yarn about beer with my music mates, but I've been on the Trappist and I'm floundering and can't be bothered flol

 

Goodnight..

no prob, have a fag or a wank and listen to some good tunes and enjoy the ride

will do 

I had a Sierra Nevada pale ale, followed by a Robinson's Old Tom followed byThe Kernel India Pale Ale Chinook Mandarina Bavaria <--- this shit is so good

I'm still here (just about) and cracked open a Harviestoun Old Engine Oil, an excellent Scottish stout.

Had a few St Bernadus, and a few Triple Karmeliet and two bottles of Weihenstephaner Heffe Weisbier (and two bottles of Black Fox cider...)

Sound like some proper posh cunt in his manor house quaffing fine ale while peasant's toil the far distant fields of my estate. I just love my ale mate, and in this day and age I don't have to put up with your fucking inbev/millersab/heinekinschmeinekin nonsense

Stick it in a pipe and smoke it

i like your style, beerwolf.

had a Rochefort 10 yesterday to celebrate the arrival of sub-freezing temperatures.

i've had this in my basement for a good six months, just waiting for the holiday season to enjoy.  never tried this one before, really looking forward to it:

11% ^^^

that's truly a savage strength!!