Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

Just remembered "Rule of Thirds" a mashup by Siren Beavertown & Magic Rock, will be looking it up to try properly.

They had this on in the Beagle recently.

NYE Consumption;

First Chop x Shindigger- Pip
To Ol x Buxton- Carnage
Quantum- SK3
Mad Hatter- Toxteth IPA
Runaway- IPA
Runaway- Pale Ale

We shared a bottle of Carnage NYE, another one I'd like to try on a quiet night.

Munchner by Tickety Brew at raffa cc mcr right now.

Alesmith IPA & Speedway Stout were particularly good at brewdog clapham last night. Beavertown holy cowbell was pretty good and rule of thirds is great.

I'm tempted to hit a BD just to try some of the AleSmith stuff. I remember having a large bottle of theirs as a treat a while back. Very nice.

The clapham junction one has a tap takeover on at the moment, around half the taps were Alesmith. All bar 2 of them were over the 10% mark

Hmmm... Local Brew Dog has This. Is. Lager on at £4.35 a pint.

The 'spoons up the the road has it at £2.85 a pint. Much hipster tax, so bad. :(

Yeah, I think all the London BDs had a TT on Xmas Eve or was it NYE? One of the two..

BDSB had 9 on tap..
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That, plus 'spoons has much buying power. I'd pay the extra for brewdog's music selection and lack of 'spoons crowd d'misery.

Minus points to BD for serving everything too cold and not having any real ale either. But that's up to them.

Holy shit, I just found four bag-fulls of beer that I'd hidden around the kitchen while desperately trying to make space over xmas. Fucking winning!

That should last you til Monday then.

Monday? Wishful thinking.

Actually there's stuff like Abt 12 in there so, you might actually be right.

Just bottled up this kit:

Evil Dog 7.1%

Now sitting in the cellar clearing, going to be a drunk end to January...

^ I'm just about to buy a kit, ie. the hardware. Any recommendations?

Thinking of starting with that Razor Back IPA, whoever makes that.

A 27L food grade bucket and lid, a 27L pressure barrel, airlock, stirring paddle, hydrometer and a syphon is a good start.

Youngs are a big name in homebrew. However get to know your local shop and join a homebrew club (if you can stand the geeks'n'beards thing...)

I will be moving onto BIAB when all the bit arrive to convert a Barco boiler I got for free.

There might be pictures of the build and brews if people are interested?

Yep, but maybe in the homebrew thread?

Wish I had more space so I could give it a go here.

Sure, I'll put it in the appropriate thread.

Have you not looked at BIAB (or extract)? It's only one container really...

Nope, never seen it until your link. I ignore most homebrew stuff because of space constraints in my kitchen. I was tempted by one of those small (gallon?) kits but being tempted was about as far as I got.

Get some demi john gallon jars and do some Juice wines then.

particularly disappointing ales I have imbibed over festive period

Cairngorms Brewery - Trade Winds. Disgusting
M&S Cheshire Chocolate Porter - Foul
M&S Mosaic Pale Ale - Bland and insipid
M&S Belgian Blond - Rank and wee ish

oh dear ^^^
back on the Orkney dark island then, wish I could join you
been slurping the Murphys, Oyster and Guinness and blacks like theres no tommorrow since NYE