Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

Everything I've had by Ampersand has been awful, drain poured a load of them last year.

It's Christmas

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Back at The Cavern of the Curious Gnome. As I've previously stated they have a great line up.

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And the other 3 pages.

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I eventually when for a Samichlaus Classic...

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I was so sad this has lactose in! Is it good?

Today's pick ups. Putting them both in the back of my parent's booze cupboard to forget about for a few years.

BA Barley wine from Cat Asylum brewing company in Newark. And Fuller's Imperial stout. No idea if the Fuller's is any good but we'll see in about 5 years.

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Yeah. Delicious.

Are you vegan or lactose intolerant? If the latter, my wife uses those lactase tablets to good effect... though not to drink milk stouts.

Ha, both now.

I know the super lactase drill well, doesn't work with Bailey's. Or a whole cheeseboard. 😂

The Villages stuff was pretty average. The Howling Hops one was, as expected, great:

This was good though. In the world of trendy micro breweries the old school places do some good beers.

St Peters does consistently good beers.

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This was curious / tasty

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They had a pale ale called 'Bidon' in the summer that was very good on draft but less so in a bottle. I like choosing local breweries but will probably give then a miss from now on.

Nailed drinksbythedram box of mezcal last night before Mashtag 2015 and Aloha from the EFP Advent. Mashtag was pretty nice, the Aloha was the kind of stout I like but the coconut gets a bit much for me pretty quickly. They had another coconut stout in the box, called Coconut Shy I'd like to do a side-by-side comparison with but I'd already caned that.

Mixed selection from asda, Intrigued by the black sheep and plum porter looks interesting

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Up North. Way north. Had to try this, for reasons.

This stuff is not bad @hippy

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LOL

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Today's Trappist.

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haha yeah that's me mate Santa's beer. Sells it to a lot of tourists. Makes a killing :)

haha

The beer that keeps on giving.

Digging this.

I'm not a massive sour fan but this was also fucking grouse...

This on draught was the best though.

£7.20 / half

Gone local. Malty af

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Took part in beery secret santa on twitter. You get drawn a name and have to send them a beer. I got sent some scottish crackers.

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