Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

You could probably ring Beavertown themselves, if not, Bottle Shop take bulk orders for things

The Albion is a new pub in Kingston centre. Worth a visit if you're around. Great selection led by their own "Big Smoke" beers brewed in their mother pub, the Antelope in Surbiton (also worth a visit).

The Black IPA was great and I enjoyed the creatively named Jazz Cabbage by Masons too. Here's this week's tap list:

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Ah, from the Tap House.

I got some of their Axe Edge in that BD order.

Good haul today.
Wormwood dark ale and Wormwood Golden ale. Fine West London ale.

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Shame - nice beer.

still; plenty of others out there :)

Are they homebrew from someone you know or did you have them filled from a brewery in Wormwood?

I live next to wormwood scrubs.got hops in the garden so brewed my own. Just bottled them. They'll be good for Christmas.

You want a bottle? Be good to get a second opinion as I think they're awesome specially the wormwood dark

I'm always looking for new beers. Can maybe swap ya a bottle/can of something I have here?

Sure thing. I'll PM you re local meet up. Will bring you a dark and a golden. See what you think

Test tasting at Wests this Thursday? :)

In Glasgow Thursday

Probably a question for the HB thread, but did you just use your own hops for aroma, or bittering too? If both, did you guess the bittering content?

Used the hops for both. Large handful at start of boil then smaller amount at 50mins then @59 mins.

1st batch was a guesstimate and wasn't bad. Bitter and fragrant enough. Upped the bitterness for batch 2 (the bottles in the picture)

This year's Fullers vintage ale is in Waitrose for £4.99

Not very vintage if it's this year's. :)

@Psy has declared it to be Barley Wine season. That is all.

Not very vintage if it's this year's. :)

And I thought for you any beer was vintage that was brewed more than two minutes ago.

Any beer in my reach more than 2min old is a 'survivor', not sure about vintage.

Belgian beer culture has been recognised by UNESCO as world heritage

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2831952

Picked up a couple of cans of Marble's new black IPA and a couple of their festive(?) beers - an imperial russian stout and a bourbon barrel aged something sour. Something to try at the weekend.

DIY beer tasting at work later too, need to pick up a few bottles for that. Looking at what we've got already there's a mix of very average supermarket beer, a few festive wildcards and stuff from Buxton (popular the last few times this has run). Nothing Belgian and nothing sour so I guess I'll start there...

I got bought a bottle of vintage about five-six years ago and finally opened it last Christmas... it was pretty damn epic!

Can't remember which year it was but one sold for £500 recently. I have a 2014 stashed away.

£500 for a bottle of Fullers?

The 2006 I somehow kept for 6 or so years was shit.

AKA IPA 6.2%
At the Shilling Brewing Co, Glasgow
Big North Hops

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