Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

I don’t understand this craze for sickly flavoured stouts at all. I’ve only enjoyed the cherry one from Vocation.

Anything with marshmallow, pastry, maple syrup etc stops tasting like beer. It’s so unsubtle.

Give me a Theakstons Old Peculiar any day.

Me either, fall into a pub in that area and no doubt it’ll be an Adnams boozer

Heck yes.

Feel like this belongs here.

https://www.beerhawk.co.uk/goose-island-bourbon-county-stout-2020

Amen.

After all the IPA nonsense, it seems "they" have moved on to ruining Stout now.

Just ordered a case of Grain's Blackwood Stout.

Give me a Theakstons Old Peculiar any day.

Dangerous stuff. Bradford University used to have it on-tap. Weird how the brewery got sold, Black Sheep got set up, then the other brothers bought Theakstons back from S&N though.

Local brewer has just released a 12% triple NEIPA. It’s amazing.

Any stout under double digits ain't worth my time these days.

La Chouffe has a special place in my heart. Place I was at tonight had 50% off and I didn't buy any because I'd loaded up on other shit and now I feel like I've sold my soul to the craft devil.

Who is the local brewer? I've had a few TIPAs this autumn. They basically taste the same as an IPA, DIPA but you fall asleep on the sofa quicker.

Polish guy in Swindon. Worked for a few bigger breweries after his university days as a micro brewer on-campus.

Rusty Garage on facebook. Super good unfiltered and unpasteurised, un-everythinged.

Can bring some to London some time if I have space to carry.

He warned me he had two small triples and fell asleep in front of the tv yesterday. I didn’t believe him and after 500ml I’m drowsy AF.

After all the IPA nonsense

I like the IPA nonsense. I’m a fully paid up member of the wanky beer club, I just don’t get the flavoured stout thing.

I hadn't noticed the crazy flavour stout thing being a thing till now but come to think of it I did try something mentioning maple syrup recently and thought it was all a bit much. I am definitely taking to the more traditional coffee/chocolate type stouts though, and besides the Aldi one mentioned above which really is worth checking out for the price, I've got a definite liking for Siren Broken Dream "Breakfast Stout" (6.5%). Lovely stuff.

Some of the sweeter stouts taste like 1980's medicine, they can be interesting though it is a bit of a lottery.

I still prefer the upright standing spoon style imperial stouts that taste near to creosoted leather, got another Systems Theory on the go tonight as no work tomorrow and it ticks all those boxes.

Ace. See you in Edale. I'll try make it a bivvy night too if the stars align.

More of that IPA nonsense. TDH TIPA from a brewery I hadn’t spotted before from New Jersey. First trip to Caps & Taps today, good shop. Had the Saint Mars of the Desert Belgian style beers that someone was looking for a few days back too

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Ha!

TBC I respect the "craft", but I'm a session drinker and the novelty of IPA nonsense is short-lived: anyone drink more than two of those in a row?

This is lovely. Just enough sweetness to balance the hops, not too dry, not too sickly.

I definitely wouldn’t recommend 2 in a row. I usually prefer good pales/IPA’s to the more ridiculous DIPA’s these days but unfortunately the government decided to close the pubs on my birthday. This one was a little sickly sweet by the end of the can to be honest

That microbrewer I said about above needed a proper ‘open’ sign. Decided to make one on the vinyl cutter for him.

Shame he is in Swindon not London, you lot are missing out. The triple IPA is amazing.

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Happy birthday!

I guess it's just that I love pubs (swilling pints & chatting shit at the bar), rather than the (what I grumpily see as) rather pretentious "hmmm £6 a half, is that shoelaces and custard on the nose?" etc etc.

Cheers!

Rarely bother with the 10% type stuff at the pub as it doesn’t work out well and more often than not stick to breweries I know these days unless they come with a recommendation.

waves

That's neat, thanks for the info. If I'm over that way I'll definitely track him down.

great to see you back on here dude.

let me know how the Blackwood goes down. I am not a million miles away from Grain these days and been meaning to get involved with their drive thru