Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

Lovely work, they look smashing. You're friends are going to love it.

Good skills using the parti-gyle technique too... very old school - did you and your assistants get smashed on the "small beer" that followed the barley wine? :-)

Thanks, the wedding is on Saturday, voluminous praise ought to be forthcoming.

The best bitter got served at a bonfire party and bodes well for the main event.

Chapeau. In case you weren't aware (I'd missed it) there is a homebrew thread on here.
What batch size do you typically brew in out of interest?
Olly

Chapeau. In case you weren't aware (I'd missed it) there is a homebrew thread on here.
What batch size do you typically brew in out of interest?
Olly

So there is, thanks for that.

Generally do a 23 litre brew, that one was a 2 x 25 litre mash partigyled into 25 each of barley wine and best bitter, ie. I did the same mash twice, each time using the first runnings for the stronger beer. I'll have to put up a photo set of the full all-grain brew process at some point.

Today's choice.

The royal oak near borough station . A Harveys pub does a lovely pint of Harveys best bitter.

You can take jugs and pint glasses over the road to Simply Indian and enjoy it with excellent food also. The restaurant'll return them for you.

This kind of symbiotic relationship makes me happy.

Stroud Brewery do a Maris Otter Vintage Ale, can't wait to try the bottle I got...

My favourite malt.

Satisfying my sweet tooth today :-)

can we have a beer tasting ride?

All of mine are.

^ I don't believe I've tried that before. Any good?

It's pissing down and blowing a gale outside, a couple of big chumps of oak on the fire and this to drink. All seems to go pretty well together.

That's enough of a recommendation for me ;-)

Festive beer shop next week I think.

You need to get your oak from the log store at the end of your bike shed.

Hint, hint........

I'm not burning good carving timber. It's bloody expensive :-)

Funnily enough, that's exactly where it came from. A mate dropped off nearly a ton of offcuts from his carvings.

Offcuts, phew!

My favourite malt.

It's nice. 2quidish at Unicorn.

Saw the Whitechapel but wasn't sure on own brand brew... will put my concerns aside.

The Old Tom I'd bought for Xmas boozing is mostly gone already...

Whitechaple is OK, it's one of those brewed for a supermarket jobbies, if you look on the label it'll have the brewery somewhere.

can we have a beer tasting ride?

Tour of the London CAMRA branch pubs of the year?

Had the Fyne Sanda Black IPA 5.5% at the Euston Tap on Tuesday.

Recommend it.

Another porter by the fire. This one is heavy on the liquorice but surprisingly refreshing. Should have bought more.