Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

In Ballast Point tasting room

Let's start with 10% Tongue Buckler...

I love the Magic Rock branding, a cycling jersey would be ace

Yeah I hope it happens. I was also told (in a haze so hope i didn't dream it all) that each character on the MR art represents a member of staff. Anyone who gets a new job there gets one drawn for them. Pretty cool if so.

Just bottled thirty pints of 8.8% scotch ale last night. I'm thinking I'm going to actually have to blow it all by having a party as there's no way I can drink it all. Going to start kegging in 5L mini kegs which will save space in the future at least.

Sounds like the mega-merger is going ahead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34784926

In some ways, I think this will push more people towards the craft scene / real-ale scene. I suspect that's one of the reasons why craft beer took off in the US, as their beer was pisswater.

Will gladly help with the scotch ale!

Drank some terrible pumpkin ales, PBR and a Bud Lima-a-rita while in the US...

Just about redeemed myself in a couple of places though... New World Brewery in Little Ybor had a great selection (and had a "Fancy Beers" heading on the menu, listing mostly strong Belgian bottles...). Barcade in Brooklyn also had strong selection of beers - Founders reDANKulous and Harpoon Boston Irish Stout (Nitro) were both delicious and responsible for some embarrassing loses on the arcade games...

Vegan Ethiopian White Russians at Bunna Cafe in Brooklyn were absolutely delicious too.

Can anyone recommend a beer that tastes similar to Duvel but has a much lower alcohol %?
I love this stuff but it's getting too strong for me to drink regularly.

Go for Belgian Blondes like Leffe (6%ish) and Vedett Extra Blonde (5%ish) or De Koninck (5%ish)

I'd say go higher with Belgians, just drink a little less...

... or make Duvel Shandy?

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Date, time, address?

Cloudwater DIPA

Good. Not too boozy for a 9%er. Strong flavours.

In the Local. Yard House closed.

SO MUCH BEER!

Karl Strauss brewpub...

There was chat of some sort of homebrew fair at the Northcote pub in Leyton. Will see if that ever comes to anything and I can unload a shit-tonne of beer for people to have.

My colleague dropped this in earlier, brewed by Dancing Duck in Derby:

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Dancing Duck are great, their pubs are really good too, Ay/ Ey up is my go to session ale when I'm in that part of the world.

I went into Beermoth to ask about the cafe, but didn't really find out much more than what I already knew. They want to serve stuff on draught, it will open "at some point in December", and they are going to put more information out on social media as things develop.

And Bundobust seem to be opening a place in Manchester too. It looks like I'm really late to the party on this one

https://twitter.com/BundobustMCR

Beer and vegan food... in Manchester... :O

Had this on keg in MKs last night, good stuff. The new Beavertown/other half collab IPA was also good

@Psy was just talking to me about some reusable kegs the bottle shop are trying to unload. Told him to give you the details.

PubKegs. Google them. Would require a little bit of infrastructure investment, but they're 20L and reuseable.We are considering releasing them into the homebrew market. I'd be interested to see if you could use them.

I'm from there so long overdue a trip back that allows pub visits. Bet it's not on in The Bless though?

Cool, thanks for the tip.

Eden Revenge, continuing the drinkable 9%ers theme. (Going very well with Ben & Jerry Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice cream).