Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

It looks as if quite a lot of beer has swirled around your pint glass lately.

Are you calling me gay you bastard!

I'm sure thats a euphemism somehow...

They are kidding themselves over the Welsh Whisky thing though.

Penderyn is good, makes a change from the usual peatiness from every Scottish distillery and their dog.

I havnt had a drink for two months .

i havnt had a drink for two months .

get. The. Fuck. Away. From. Me!

Penderyn is very moreish.

I havnt had a drink for two months .

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Some excellent drinking on this page. I'm loving a cool bottle of this right this minute. Well done, Beavertown.

Great beer. Had their oil neck and saison 64 at the Duke & Que. Next time with extra pork.

Tonights...

Nice but doesn't taste of honey.

Again Tiny Rebel excells! Lovely hoppy beer.

Austrailian hops this time. Still lovely!

Had doom bar last night, reminded me why it's my favourite pint. Fucking excellent, makes me miss cornwall. Tastes like munching on gorse.

Just tasted Kernel London Sour, couldn't stomach more, but opted for a similar one in Timmermans Lambicus - a v.nice citrusy sour beer.

^ washed down with a nice O'Haras Irish Stout.

Just had two pints of cask pulled Sam Smiths Old Brewery Bitter in the Bay Horse in Tadcaster, a stone's throw (literal) from the brewery. Never mind all these fancy beers; for me, a Yorkshireman, its damn near perfection.

Doom Bar is often on tap at my not-even-remotely-local which usually leads to GF driving us home.

I did a service on a mate's bike whilst he was away in Germany a couple of months back and he returned with a crate of Bavarian style Weißbier for me, I now have the urge for more and happily Sainsburys are stocking Franziskaner Weissbier, which is nice. Whilst writing this I'm polishing off a tasty ERDINGER Weissbier, which has a poor reputation in Germany as a bit of a yob's drink, but it's pretty good. There's a dark version (ERDINGER Dunkel) which is heavier, which I'd recommend to any of you mighty ale drinkers here.

Chin chin

Erdinger dunkel is a classic. Chocolatey at times.

Just had two pints of cask pulled Sam Smiths Old Brewery Bitter in the Bay Horse in Tadcaster, a stone's throw (literal) from the brewery. Never mind all these fancy beers; for me, a Yorkshireman, its damn near perfection.

Had some of that down in Isleworth yesterday. Tasty, but served too cold, chilled, in fact, which took away some of the flavour.

Yes, a common complaint with ale. Of course Joe Bloggs seems to prefer not to taste anything so ale gets chilled with everything else in the cellar. Even the Tadcaster pub was serving cask a bit cold but I s'pose it could have simply been brass monkeys in the cellar rather than actually chilled. It soon warmed up in front of the blazing fire and the flavour really opened up.

I find Sam Smiths often tends not too travel well and acquires a slightly funky taste. However well worth seeking out if you are ever in West Yorkshire. I really want to go on a brewery tour there. It is brewed using a very vigorous, flocculent yeast popular in in Yorkshire which is actually a bit troublesome and tends to clump up so they invented these things called Stone Squares which allow the yeast to rise into a seperate vessel where it is periodically re-mixed with the fermenting wort. It worth the trouble as it lends the beer a creamy sweetness which is distinctive to the region. Think Black Sheep, Theakstons, Timothy Taylor and so on. In other words fucken delicious. That is all.

All this Yorkshire talk reminds me:
Anyone heard of Dent beer in Yorkshire? Had that 20 years ago there on cricket tour. Not been since. Was amazing (or perhaps tinted with taste of youth and good times away)

Yes, a common complaint with ale. Of course Joe Bloggs seems to prefer not to taste anything so ale gets chilled with everything else in the cellar. Even the Tadcaster pub was serving cask a bit cold but I s'pose it could have simply been brass monkeys in the cellar rather than actually chilled. It soon warmed up in front of the blazing fire and the flavour really opened up.

I find Sam Smiths often tends not too travel well and acquires a slightly funky taste. However well worth seeking out if you are ever in West Yorkshire. I really want to go on a brewery tour there. It is brewed using a very vigorous, flocculent yeast popular in in Yorkshire which is actually a bit troublesome and tends to clump up so they invented these things called Stone Squares which allow the yeast to rise into a seperate vessel where it is periodically re-mixed with the fermenting wort. It worth the trouble as it lends the beer a creamy sweetness which is distinctive to the region. Think Black Sheep, Theakstons, Timothy Taylor and so on. In other words fucken delicious. That is all.

Agreed.

Its getting easier to find pubs selling good beer. But its still not easy to find a landlord who knows how to keep, and serve that beer to a decent standard. I hate being served ale that is chilled. Seems such a waste.

Had a few in The Cock Tavern, North End Road, Fulham, on friday night. Its a Young's pub, although they do some Sambrook too. Well, kept and served at the right temperature.

Popped over to London yesterday and had a quick pint in the Black Frier's pub at the north end of Blackfriers Bridge.

A nice pint and some serious decoration going on in there!

Had couple of bottles of this yesterday. Beautiful stuff. Quite strong at 7.4% but really doesn't taste it. Lovely slight rumness to the after taste. Two were not enough.

Love that stuff.

Looks too cold ;-)

Yeah. Just came out the garage.