What are you drinking 2024.

[Leon103]

Beers from earlier.
Family cycle ride into town for pizza.

Nice couple of pollys beers

 

[Leon103]

Kids want to sleep in caravan tonight so will need some beer. Märzen is first up

 

[SMP Brewery]

Sock Monkey of redundant Willy warmer ?

Present from friends I’m now worried

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Starting with an Old Pecuiler then a Celebration ale to follow.

 

[LesTom]

A fine showcase for the Citra hop

 

[Sadfield]

No fava beans, but pan fried lambs liver and this Italian wine... Ffffffffff.

 

[Sadfield]

Had to join the Easter Saturday hoards at Home Bargains today to get a new storage box for my speciality malts. This local brew book ends the experience nicely.

 

[Alastair70]

Not quite in the same league as @531Man, but there’s a bit of point noir in the mix. And very tasty too.

 

[Clint]

Pi55pots...

 

[Leon103]

This is very nice

 

[Rodcx500z]

Pi55pots...

Good evening young sir

 

[Leon103]

This seems slightly better. Columbus and mosaic, proper old school.

 

[531Man]

Just managed to squeeze in a glass of my Camden Amber ale before the bank holiday steak...... and that French red to accompany.
Cheap compared with prices for cru Burgundy in UK.

That's what you get for €20ish when there's a Carrefour over the road.
Heaven on Earth.

 

[dave_77]

De la Senne Triple for the last

 

[Clint]

Oooof! We've had a few tonight! Just right to wash my curry down...not any particular style,I spent a couple of hours defrosting tomatoes, skinning,deseeding and reducing to a thick delicious sauce...oven roasted onions and chicken marinated since yesterday. Wasn't too shabby.

 

[foxy]

Leftover lamb biryani tonight while listening to the footy and drinking an Extra Stout, tend to get carried away with sport so one stout ended up as three.

Footy team won 106 -30 away, a great result, so a couple of the original American IPA's Ballantines XXX Pale Ale. An American friend of mine tells me that originally this was a 10% ABV beer initially. From what I have read it was just over 7% mine is around 6% but now it has been in the bottle a while tasting very nice. No citrusy hops in those days bittering hop was Cluster.
Looking through history there was a healthy trade of beer from the UK crossing the Atlantic to the USA and hops from the USA going to the UK.

 

[Twostage]

Decided it was time to test the Biere de Guarde (wasn't planning to do them all in one go).

From left to right is Huey (Blonde, spelled wrong on the label), Louie (Amber), Dewie (brown) and the base brew which I assumed would be like a lager.

Started with the lager which was flat. I'm assuming that I didn't put any sugar in when bottling, it was a massive bottling session. So I need to check another.

The blonde was really nice, the Missus approved "Very drinkable" and was surprised when I told her it was 7.7%.

I did the brown next as it was the lowest ABV of the three at 5.9% (probably below spec for a BdG). Tasted nice, thick mouthfeel. Needs to mature, though, I think.

Decided to save the Amber until tonight.

 

[Herms bay]

Suns out, time for a little home made cider. 7.5%abv. gently does it!

 

[scottydog.]

Nice Belgium Dubbel to watch the football.

 

[eyuptm]

No fava beans, but pan fried lambs liver and this Italian wine... Ffffffffff.


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Having a friend for dinner??!!