Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

Brewdog/Beavertown collab Coffee & Cigarettes

£10 for a 300ml bottle:

https://www.brewdog.com/item/2048/BrewDog/BrewDog-Vs-Beavertown---Coffee--Cigarettes.html

WTF?

It is cask aged and 12%, time costs money

Agreed, but it's still overpriced.

Plenty of wine out there for significantly more £/ml around the same ABV.

No one is forcing or expecting you to buy it.

Hop Burns & Black are now going to start charging a 50p per bottle corkage if you drink in from this weekend.

Brewdog selling some of their shares to an unnamed investor. 'Significant Investors' can transfer some of their shares to a new preferential share class which the new investor will get, equity for punks investors are stuck with the old ones.

http://www.cityam.com/260968/looks-like-brewdogs-land-big-new-investor-make-major-shake

And plenty of great wine at significantly less £/ml, but I don't think it's really a comparison worth making as the cost and labour required to run a vineyard makes the production of Wine more expensive anyway. Also, I know I'm not being forced to buy anything and if you're happy to buy it all good, I just personally feel it's overpriced.

The duty on beer when the abv reaches 7.6% abv or higher shoots up. It's the normal £19.08 per hectolitre general duty plus an extra £5.69 per hectolitre on top. This plus added costs of the raw ingredients (which have shot up since Brexit especially if you're using malt from Europe or hops from anywhere other than the UK which is most breweries) and the staff costs (Beavertown have around 38 staff if I remember rightly) mean making beer is probably not as cheap as people think. Also some breweries based in railway arches are currently having to deal with National Rail's ridiculous rent hikes. Yeah there's probably an element of hype in this which may put the price up but most beers of this strength are similarly priced (Buxton/Omnipollo's Yellow Belly is £9 in a lot of places). People will pay it. I'm not going to as I have a strict no giving money to Brewdog rule.

@hippy get the lawyers, this was neither sour or hoppy

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And I'm not from Berlin!

Silly bloody Kiwis

They're trolling you.

Don't you mean "trelling" me?

Ah'm nay ixpeert an iccints.

Does anyone work at a brewery? Need some advice please

No but know plenty who do if that helps, can pass questions on

Isotonic's Tempel Brygghus Gose is rather nice.

No idea how you pronounce it but lovely none the less.

This was excellent, brewed in Donegal, a late St Patrick's Day treat.

I also had a sip of the Beavertown cherry heavy sea water thing at the weekend, almost certainly the worst beer I've ever tasted.

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almost certainly the worst beer I've ever tasted.

Does not compute

Apologies, I've been drinking

Nah i get it, i thought it was great but can see why it is not everyones cup of tea

Kegged a homebrewed Nelson Saison today. First time I've kegged anything, beer on tap in my house is cool.

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A dedicated beer fridge!

Big fan of Kinnegar brewery, they make some lovely stuff.

Yeah I bought a separate smaller fridge but turns out the compressor takes up too much room internally and I can't fit my keg in so have had to swap and use the usual big fridge for beer. Oh well.

I was meant to be bottling the beer from the keg using a Blichmann Beer Gun but I'm missing a connector hence why all the empty bottles are sitting in there.

Thistly Cross elderflower cider is my latest squeeze