Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/feb/08/hop-shortage-could-be-the-making-of-craft-beer

Brodie's Bunny Basher on soon:

Croydon Craft Beer Festival tonight, the last one was really good and rather unexpected for Croydon.

The beer list this time is epic. Think the below is bottles and cans (which were really reasonably priced last time) and there is about 30 casks in addition too.

BBNo: 08/06 Oatmeal Stout 5.7%
Silky, creamy body with a smooth, milky, cocoa texture

BBNo: 09/06 Brown Ale chinook centennial 6.4%
Rounded caramel and dry cocoa notes

Burning Sky: Arise 4.4%
A session IPA with a finish that keeps on giving

Pressure Drop: Pale fire 4.8%
A pale ale with the addition of legendary English Hop X

Thistly cross Cider: Elderflower 4.0%
Fruity nose & dry on the palate.

Thistly Cross Cider: BA Whisky cask 6.9%
Matured in ex-Glen Moray casks - a dry & subtle cider.

Mikkeller: Gravol (Death is not the end) 5.0%
An experimental hoppy Brown ale with nuts & caramel tones.

ToOl: Gose to Hollywood 3.8%
Limited edition salty sour

ToOl: First Frontier IPA 7.1%
Citrus, grapefruit & caramel dominating followed by a piney hop finish.

Kees!Magic Rock Collab: Brew with friends 12.3%
Really complex, fruity and spicy.

BBNo: 17/02 Grisette Lemongrass 3.2%
Wai-iti hops & lemongrass all contribute to this softly fruity, dry ale

BBNo: Gose Classic 4.5%
A traditional take on this sour and salty style of German wheat beer

Brewdog: Jack Hammer 7.2%
Lots of spicy, citrusy, and peppery hops are complemented by a solid maltiness

Alpine: Pure hoppiness 8%
A West Coast Double IPA So mega-hopped it will take you to hop heaven

Wicked Weed: Tropic Most Gose 3.4%
Traditionally brewed with heavy use of wheat & spiced with salt & coriander

Green Flash: 30th Street PA 6.0%
A well-bittered and dry-hopped pale ale

Magic Rock Cannonball 7.4%
A massively hopped IPA, a hop bomb as they say

Magic Rock High Wire Grapefuit 5.5%
Mango, lychee & grapefruit flavors harmonise against a smooth malt base

Yeastie boys Gunnamatta 6.5%
Explosive bergamot orange and leafy aromatics of the ‘Earl Grey Blue Flower’ tea

Brewdog Hardcore IPA 9.2%
A big grapefruit aroma with some malts peaking through. Citric hop flavours with a balanced bitterness.

Zeffer Cider: Hopped up pippin Cider 5.8%
Unique, moreish cider bringing together Nelson apple varieties with hops from the same region

Siren Caribbean Choc Cake 7.2%
Hand-roasted cacao nibs gives makes this a dense, rich luxurious stout

Siren Undercuurent 4.5%
Part pale, part oats and part caramel barley. Her silky, creamy body will pull you under

Siren Liquid Mistress 5.7%
Biscuit-and-burnt-raisin malt base, with peach and grapefruit spark.

Siren Sound Wave 5.5%
Immensely hoppy and alive with grapefruit, peach and mango flavours

Arbor Argy Bargy Collab 10.4%
Dark, smooth barley wine with a hoppy edge

Arbor Yakima Valley American IPA 7.0%
An experiment to see how many hops could be put into a beer - quite a lot apparently!

Arbor Boomtown Brown ale 5.3%
Hoppy American brown Rye beer, hopped and thoroughly dry hopped with all the good C words

Wild beer Modus Operandi 7.0%
An old ale style flavourful beer with a smooth, rich, full body & complex fruit flavours

Wild beer Shnoodlepip Collab 6.5%
An incredibly unusual and complex sour ale, at every opportunity they have sourced an amazing ingredient or tried an alternative technique

Wild beer Wildebeest 11.0%
Ideal for contemplation and speculation, this is the liquid equivalent of the lotus position

By the Horns Wolfie Smith 5.2%
An amber ale with a fusion of flavours. Light caramel dominates with a big hop finish and a bitter bite

By The Horns Stiff Upper Lip 3.8%
A well balanced beer with a wonderfully crisp late bitter finish

360 Degree Project Gemini 4.3%
A twin-hopped session pale ale

360 Degree Mercury Seven 5.2%
A number of different malts are used to create a rich, spicy foundation, perfectly balanced with an abundance of hops

360 Degree Apollo IPA 5.6%
A complex malt profile, blended with the heavy use of New World hops creates a robust, full-bodied IPA

Yeastie Boys Stairdancer 4.4%
A light and breezy ’lawnmower beer’ where delicate golden malts are intertwined with orange and passionfruit hop notes

Yeastie boys Divine Hammer 6.2%
A rye amber ale with chocolate & biscuit notes, a clean & spicy malt backbone with a lingering bitterness

Left Hand Hard Wired Nitro Coffee porter 6.0%
Super smooth with chocolate malt, coffee & toffee notes

Camden Town Flue Faker 5.8%
Brewed with Pilsner & Special B malts & hopped with Saaz, a little beechwood-smoked Pilsner gives this beer a subtle smokiness.

Flying dog Counter Culture 6.0%
A malt-forward beer developed to fly in the face of mainstream tendencies

Victory Golden monkey 9.5%
An Abbey Tripel style beer, this golden, frothy ale boasts an intriguing herbal aroma. Strong, sensual and satisfying.

Vocation Heart & Soul 4.4%
A session IPA with a full body. Plenty of passion fruit, gooseberry, pineapple & mango on the nose.

Vocation Pride & Joy 5.3%
A classic, American style pale ale, its pale, crisp, very hoppy & aromatic

Vocation Life & Death 6.5%
A ballsy, US style IPA, expect flavours of tropical & citrus fruits, with a lingering bitterness set against a smooth malty backbone.

Kelpie Seaweed 4.4%
Grown on fields fertilised with seaweed, Kelpie is a rich chocolate ale which has an aroma of fresh seabreeze and a distinctive malty texture.

Roosters Baby Faced Assassin 6.1%
Brewed with 100% Citra hops the Baby-Faced Assassin is a deceptively quaffable India Pale Ale that shouldn’t be taken lightly

Roosters Fort Smith 5.0%
A big and bold American Pale Ale, brewed using Citra and Chinook hops from the USA

Victory Headwater Pale ale 5.2%
Lemon aroma and flavors intermingle with leafy, tea-like earthiness as the flowing appeal of American hops unfolds in Headwaters

Thornbridge Jaipur 5.9%
A citrus dominated India Pale Ale, its immediate impression is soft and smooth yet builds to a crescendo of massive hoppiness accentuated by honey

Augustiner Edelstoff 5.6%
A bright export beer, brewed with the noblest raw materials. This high-class product of the Old Bavarian brewing art

Anchor Brotherhood Steam 5.6%
An excellent lager brewed with smooth, full-bodied malt flavor with a lingering, fresh hop finish.

Bacchus Kriekenbier 5.8%
Beautiful balance between sweet & sour with aromas of ripe krieken cherries

Boon Gueuze 7.0%
Lambic style beer aged in oak casks & blended. Timeless classic

Boulevard Tank 7 8.5%
A straw colored, medium bodied beer with an earthy, spicy aroma a soft, sweet malt flavor & a prominent hop bitterness.

Boon Framboise 5.0%
Lambic style fruit beer that's the missing link between beer and wine

Mongozo coconut 3.6%
An exotic beer brewed using Mongozo Quinua with the refreshing taste of coconut

Nogne Imperial Stout 9.0%
Dark, rich and intense this beer is sure to please even the most demanding of Russian Tsars

Schneider Weisse Aventinus 8.2%
Darkruby colored wheat doppelbock with a creamy fine head

Rochefort Trappistes 10 11.3%
Strong plum, raisin, and black currant palate, with ascending notes of vinousness and other complexities.

Westmalle Dubbel 7.0%
A reddish brown trappist ale, malty and fruit, featuring a 3 week secondary fermentation. This ale has a full, pale yellow head

Hitachino Nest White ale 5.5%
Brewed in the tradition of a Belgian style white beer with coriander, nutmeg, orange peel and orange juice

Nogne Pale ale 6.0%
A refreshing light and hoppy ale

Waterloo Tap opens tonight

Quite a list there... would love to try the Green Flash

Beavertown Skull King is back up here, 1 can per customer only at my LOL. Drinking mine tonight I think.

^ turns out i put it in the fridge yesterday too. #coldone

Can of Wild Beer Co 'Fresh'. Light, clean, easy drinking.

@stevo_com The new Sourced Market on Wigmore Street is open today.

Wicked - walked past it a couple of times last week and it looked nearly ready. Will take a gander today. On public transport today so can carry more than usual. It is also my birthday.......

They also have this deal on

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Had a brief look round. Nice selection of beer! Held my nerve as going to Meat Liquor tonight so will call back another time

Has anyone tried the Beavertown blood orange IPA?

^ Last year yes, looking forwards to this years.

Not had this years yet, hoping to pick a can up tonight

Came into sourced market for train beers and ended up staying for a drink as they have Cannonball on tap. Good bar area (downstairs), 8 taps includes wild, thornbridge, kernel and beavertown and all within 30 seconds walk of my office. Oh dear.

It arrived. 2 can ration up here in the North. At my LOL at least, anyway.

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When I went in the other day it wasn't immediately apparent that the downstairs was open.

Yeah they need a sign.

Did a beer swap with a Belgian homebrewer last night, he gave me a 10 year old bottle of Chimay Blue.

I've got a 15 year old bottle of Chimay Blue in my house. Was never sure if it'd be drinkable anymore.

These things get better with age. We had a 10 year old Westmalle Tripel last year which was amazing.

Visited a few pubs last night & today.

Castleton - Ye Olde Nags Head (Thornbridge NZ Pale, forget name begins L)
Millers Dale - The Anglers Rest (Adnams - Southwold)
Earl Standingley - The Quiet Woman (Thwaites - Nutty Black)
Just arrived at Buxton Tap House, this is called BlueWolf, Black Sour aged in wine barrels. Will be trying the Extra Stout and then taking home a bottle of Yellow Belly.

Nice pub crawl, hard to get too pissed too.

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Need that Blue Wolf

^ was nice, different.

Realised train was a slow bus replacement so got bottle extra stout as well as yellow belly so I wouldn't be arriving home tomorrow. Now they're getting nicely shaken up on the A6.

Thornbridge SHAFF, not in any particularly adventurous setting however - unless it kicks off in chorlton the next few mins.