Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

I was the guy passed out on the sofa with the workmates still on the Teams chat last night.
It seems 4 cans of DIPA after 3/4 bottle of bourbon is quite enough for mr hippy.
Oddly enough didn't feel that rough this morning. Maybe my brain is hungover so much nowadays it's finally given up complaining.

I've got the Fullers Vintage 2020 and Imperial Stout lined up for this afternoon's pre-nap drinks

Starting to feel like Christmas!

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Cor!

I shall be officially in the Christmas spirit of things when the cap comes of this guy

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That's another "cor!" from me: St B Trippel was my Friday tipple, when pubs were open.

Yes, absolute Christmas banger that!

Why have I never had proper German lager before? This stuff is perfect for swilling in front of mindless telly.

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Try their Rauschbier also - it's, erm, interesting...

It’s the best! I think I may as well set up a standing order to Bavaria Brau in the new year.

The site is down for Christmas it seems, but their boxes are a great combo, good price and come fast.

https://bavariabrau.com/

Yeah, I always prefer my beer to taste like past date smoked sausage!

Look out for this stuff, god tier lager.

Hahaha! And the 8% oak-smoked is even more special.

So grim, I bought every German beer from Kris Wines for an oktoberfest party I had about 6 or 7 years ago (yes I drink non münchen beer at my Oktoberfest parties before the German beer police come after me 😂) and the smoked stuff was definitely educational. Camden brewery had one on tap à couple of years ago and they successfully managed to make it just as rank as the Germans.

It's nice stuff, but not what I'd call 'proper German lager'--it's a speciality beer. The Augustiner that @tb posted is. It's worth pointing out that most things that would be called 'lager' in Britain wouldn't be called "Lager" in Germany. It's not a broad category there.

Local brewery to me Pilot Cocoa Morello Chocolate Milk Stout with Morello Cherries 7.1%

Cheeky little end of WFH day tipple

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7% IPA w/ HBC 472 (what a sexy hop name), Motueka, Azacca, Mosaic

Just before I switch to wine, 8% shouldn't be this easy to drink.

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Is any common German beer style not lagered? Weissbier maybe?

I’ve only tried proper smoked beer once - it was definitely one of those your glad you’ve tried but aren’t necessarily in a hurry to try again. Am I right in thinking that’s more or less how beer would have tasted hundreds of years ago when smoking was the only way to dry stuff out in wet climates?

The cat is purring.

This was nice, not my fav tripel but still pretty good

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A world away from the stouts etc that get posted here, but this was a truly exceptional beer I had last night. Tommie Sjef is a bit of a cult name in the Netherlands for his wild ales. He's almost more like a natural winemaker than a brewer. This one was a 'blend of several barrels of beer with different ages (1 up to 2 years old), which were macerated with different types of grapes — three in total: Olasz Rizling (white), Muscat (white), and a little bit of Kékfrankos.'. It was somewhere between a sour beer and a dry rosé. Perfect to have alongside some other wine (only comes in 750ml bottles too). Pretty hard to find but not impossible (he has a weird thing about not letting anyone mail his beers, so it's restricted to physical stores).

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To a degree - I've had beers made with wood-fired malts before (e.g. Goose Island's Obidiah Poundage), and the woodsmoke is pretty subtle; I think smoked malts might be partially cold-smoked.

I'm afraid I'm completely clueless about brewing, sorry. I just know what things are called.