posh beers and ales and stuff thread

  On 1/3/2022 at 6:44 PM, d-a-m-o said:

Look like it's a new beer from a big industrial brewery who wants to compete with Duvel.

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Yesss that's the one!! It's brilliant

  On 1/3/2022 at 10:19 PM, milkface said:

Yesss that's the one!! It's brilliant

Try this one (you probably know it but just in case...) fav belgian beer by far !

  On 1/3/2022 at 4:00 PM, scumtron said:

I have a few Cantillons in my beer callar, but they are hard to get by.

Jealous.

  On 1/3/2022 at 10:35 PM, d-a-m-o said:

Try this one (you probably know it but just in case...) fav belgian beer by far !

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I wasn't sure about Orval the first time I had it, but it's really grown on me and has become my favorite Trappist beer. There's nothing else like it IMO.  My wife calls it the "foot beer" because sometimes the young ones can be a bit funky, but not like geuze funky, its own brand of funky.

I’m sure Orval is designed and brewed with a yeast that improves over time, so is not at its best fresh. Somewhere in this thread there’s a discussion about it. 
 

This is my local brewery Rebellion and this is their best beer Winter Royal which I’m drinking after a bike ride. Early and on an empty stomach I can feel the effect after 2!  
 

big gulp

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Found a really nice bar/bottle shop in Aveiro, Portugal last night. This Portuguese  8.8% berry sour was superb.

As was this 7.1% 24 month barrel aged Raspberry sour.

Found a really cool and cheap place in the city that sells french local and nationwide beers to buy some for my uncle and ended up getting a bottle or two for myself.

5.2%

8.5% and tastes amazing

anddd

The range of Lyon beers (6.6%)

  On 6/23/2022 at 3:44 PM, perunamuusi said:

As was this 7.1% 24 month barrel aged Raspberry sour.

 

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Looks amazing. Summer is my season for sours.  I'm trying to explore geuzes a bit more now that the selection in my area has been expanding.  Love the sour/funk mix.

  On 6/23/2022 at 3:00 PM, zkom said:

 

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how was that, and/or was that your dessert?

me personally, am not a huge fan of the concept of combining milkshakes with beer. but there's apparently a market for it.

although I do enjoy this one from time to time, but can't drink too many as I get a headache after a few. something about the sweetness mixed with beer doesn't compute well in my head/stomach I suppose.

  On 6/23/2022 at 9:07 PM, zero said:

how was that, and/or was that your dessert?

It's not as sweet as you might think. Tastes more like a regular imperial stout with a hint of banana. So it's not like some pastry stouts that are super sweet and thick. Not too bad but I'll probably pick something else the next time.

It wasn't a dessert really, I just went out for a single beer and selected a 10.3% 0.44l imperial stout.

Bison in the barrel room from Estonia's  Põhjala brewery.

13.5% Double Baltic Porter brewed with bisongrass and aged in apple brandy barrels.

One of the best I've ever had!

£8 for a third.

  On 7/5/2022 at 10:27 AM, perunamuusi said:

Bison in the barrel room from Estonia's  Põhjala brewery.

13.5% Double Baltic Porter brewed with bisongrass and aged in apple brandy barrels.

One of the best I've ever had!

£8 for a third.

 

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Just had a mooch about on their website. Whoever does the graphic design for their labels is very good at their job. Absoloute stunning art work. 

Haven't had it yet, from werewolf brewery in camden, should be 'interesting'

The brewery is pretty neat

Oude geuzes were made for summer...

Think the back of my hands need a shave  

  On 8/26/2022 at 8:09 PM, beerwolf said:

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Love it.  I am seriously in love with geuzes.  Why did I find them so late in life??