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• #9977
Boxcar brewery, Double Dark Mild.
Somewhere between a classic mild, and a Belgian Dubbel. 6.3% ABV. Dang tasty.
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• #9978
Big box, yikes 😂
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• #9979
I can't get enough of this
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• #9980
Big box, big cans, big percentages! I had the 440ml mango one in the bottom left, it's nearly equivalent to 2/3 of a bottle of wine in one can (you might not realise on taste alone...)
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• #9981
Pressure Drop can do no wrong
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• #9982
Tonight’s stout, they stole the Layer Cake recipe so it’s good.
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• #9983
Very tasty nitro low abv porter
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• #9984
St Stefanus blonde - délicieuse
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• #9985
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• #9986
Have been reading Mark Dredge's A Brief History of Lager (mostly very good, with slight reservations*), and was craving German food. Made Bratwurst and onions braised in beer (served with Rösti and red cabbage) tonight, and dug the most Teutonic things I could find out of the beer stash: Paulaner Helles and Franziskaner Weizen. Sadly I drank the last of the Weizenbock a while back.
*Not finished it yet, but sometimes he assumes Lager's superiority over existing beers rather than explaining it, and I think he's not always sufficiently critical about e.g. changes to brewing methods, particularly when talking about industrial lager - sometimes they're an improvement, but other times they may simply be cheaper, with a loss of quality.
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• #9987
What’s the best mail order company for Belgian beers please? My dad is having a tough time and I want to cheer him up.
Happy to help anyone out if they get a reward for referring me with a code or similar.
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• #9988
Most of the Belgian based ones have stopped shipping to the UK post-Brexit I believe. For UK based ones, I've always had decent service from Beers of Europe, who have a very good range normally;
https://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/beer/country/belgium?sort=popular&page=1
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• #9989
Not specifically Belgian beers, but I've had success with Beer Sniffers, pretty wide selection, delivery has been pretty fast.
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• #9990
So did I; however looks like usual suspects all sold out now.
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• #9992
Thanks for your help everyone. I’ve actually since decided to ignore you all and ordered him 12 bottles of Tynt Meadow.
Stick that up your pipe unelected bureaucrats.
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• #9993
😆
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• #9995
Glad you like. I'm one of the folks who has mentioned it, yes.
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• #9996
Dinner & Pudding
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• #9997
Tonight’s stout - decent enough but nothing special hit my taste buds
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• #9998
Yeah, I remember it being ok but nothing amazing; the whisky-barrel-aged version (Ola Dubh?) is rather tasty though.
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• #9999
Cloudwater Birthday DIPA tonight. It’s really good.
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• #10000
Interesting article looking at the (often overlooked) Black history of beer culture in the US
The dominant image of beer culture in this country has always been predominantly white, or more specifically European: German lederhosen and Oktoberfest, English and Irish pubs, kitschy “authentic” biergartens. While beer certainly has a place in many European cultures, these images monopolize the collective imagination.
But it’s disingenuous, factually incorrect, and socially irresponsible to peddle that lily-white narrative, because it discounts the Black brewers and entrepreneurs deep in the beer game.
Be interesting to see if theres a British equivalent...
Picked up a few stouts this week. Friday’s treat, Brew York Tonkoko - tonka beans, toasted coconut, vanilla and cacao. Tastes like you’d imagine.
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