Ale, Beer, Stout appreciation

Ive really got into that late red stuff recently. Also, my corner shop has suddenly started stoking all this obscure German stuff which is great..

http://mikkeller.dk/the-brewery/

The Cascade is a very nice pint, or two.

Liverpool Organic, Imperial Russian Stout. Abramovic bathes in it, allegedly.

Tonight I shall be sampling an Adnams ghost ship pale ale..

Had a second pint of Truman's Seek and Save last night

Was really good the first time at Sebright Arms a week ago, less great at the Marksman last night, had a metally aftertaste. Similar to their Runner, sometimes it's amazing, sometimes below par, guess it just shows how important it is that the pubs looks after the beer?

My homebrew lager. Possibly not strictly on topic, but it is bottle conditioned, uses no adjuncts, and is hopped with pure Saaz, so it would probably qualify to sell in the Southampton Arms or whatever

Wychwood brewery will be at The Creek Inn, Peel, for TT week real ale fun.
Good job I'll be pulling the pints and not drinking them (honest).

Anyone using the http://www.beerdog.com/ app? Friend has just recommend it. Going to check it out.

I think JCGarcia used that when we were at the Craft Beer place

Yes JC uses it. I think you pay for it?
I downloaded (the free) cask marque app http://www.cask-marque.co.uk/
Not very good as many pubs don't participate (according to joe)

I use Untappd - beerdog looks similar but more convoluted.

La Trappe Quadrupel, it is actually a Dutch trappist beer and tastes lovely, we did however encounter one problem: after four of them we noticed this:

As we were already feeling unnaturally confident, we had another 3, needless to say the following day cycling was taken off the activities list.

You were entrapped.

On a recent cycle tour of The Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France My brother and I discovered this is Brugge:

La Trappe Quadrupel, it is actually a Dutch trappist beer and tastes lovely, we did however encounter one problem: after four of them we noticed this:

As we were already feeling unnaturally confident, we had another 3, needless to say the following day cycling was taken off the activities list.

your eyes were filtering out all colour bar orangey yellow ?

Liverpool Organic, Imperial Russian Stout. Abramovic bathes in it, allegedly.

Before or after bottling?

^This is the 2nd best beer in the world. After this

Which is unavailable outside Belgium

A pedant speaks: that's westy 8, note the blue cap. The one everyone raves about is 12, the yellow cap. There's also a green cap which is nothing special.

I've had it a few times and have several bottles at home now. It's an excellent beer, but opinions are usually split on whether it's better than Rochefort 10. It gets a lot of hype because of its rarity. I can say with confidence that it's not worth 5 times as much as Rochefort 10, which is roughly the price difference.

The whole idea of declaring one beer "best in the world" is pretty silly anyway. At most you could say it's best of its style. Beer nerds end up excited about really OTT styles like belgian quad and Russian imperial stout. There's just as much honour in making a fantastic best bitter, but nowhere near as much glory.

The best beer in the world is the beer in my pint. Unless it's shit, then it's the beer I'm gonna have next.

le chouffe surely ? or maybe thats just the most expensive beer

Westvleteren 12 is #1 and #2 on the big beerspotting websites, for those who don't follow this sort of thing

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/top-50/
http://beeradvocate.com/lists/popular

La Chouffe isn't that expensive.

Everyone knows best beer in the world is free beer.

Westvleteren 12 is #1 and #2 on the big beerspotting websites, for those who don't follow this sort of thing
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/top-50/
http://beeradvocate.com/lists/popular

Meh. Herd mentality.

The best beer in the world is the one the drinker likes the best at a given time.

Meh. Herd mentality.

The best beer in the world is the one the drinker likes the best at a given time.

Indeed. Note that 70% are Imperial stouts, and 20% lambic/gueuze; and 90% are American. It's ridiculous.

ETA Oh and here's ratebeer's England top 50.Total number of milds, ordinary or best bitters? Zero. There's scarcely a beer on that list under 5% ABV.

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/country/england/240/

yeah why are 70% of the top beers stouts
and russian stouts to boot
anyone seen a russian stout let alone drunk one ?

yeah why are 70% of the top beers stouts
and russian stouts to boot
anyone seen a russian stout let alone drunk one ?

It's a style that's based around the premise that if some is good then more must be better, and is consequently very popular with Americans. They're strong, dark and heavily hopped, and they aren't really brewed by many big UK brewers. Fullers past masters double stout would be an example, or Guiness extra stout (the 8% one).

Westvleteren 12 is #1 and #2 on the big beerspotting websites, for those who don't follow this sort of thing

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/top-50/
http://beeradvocate.com/lists/popular

Love your pedantry Tom. I was there too in my younger days. Now tend to agree with the subjective view and currently this pint of castle rock sheriff's. Beer (abv 3.4) served by the ginger Aussie in the fox in dalston is tops

would the beer taste different if it wasn't the ginger aussie ?
does he / she put their finger in the pint while serving it to give the extra special flavor or something ?