What are you drinking 2024.
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Asda sell it.. little sprinkle of coriander give it something different..almost like a more bitter witbier but without the spicy yeast
You lucky blighter, make sure you give them a proper close inspection and thorough going over
A little late, this was last night's my not yet fully cleared Bitter.
Very tasty with a loooong hoppy finish.
Then it was on to a gorgeous Rhone from Carrefour, Calais end of last year trip.
Oh, had with Roast pork that had a good deal of gorgeous crackling.
That's my salt ration for the month fulfilled in one hit!
Just been out for dinner, lovely steak a huge bottle of Keo and wine. Back at the brewery for NEIPA and Baileys (and the obligatory overpriced roses!).
All I have is my freshly brewed hazy 'Pail Ale' to give it it's official name. Mango madness yeast used for 1st time. It went freaking bonkers in a few hours at 35° ripped through in 48hrs attenuated super low 1.004! Bloody tasty mind. Azacca, Sabro and Strata hopped to hell helped.
Son came back from a short break in Bruges.
Brought us this from The Halve Mann brewery there.
SWMBO'd glass is the top half ish of the bottle,
I get the bottle conditioned cloudy latter pouring.
Spicy overtones on fruity flavour.
Very good at 6%.
Having a 3 month old lageris it’s very nice yeast was midland hops progess and jester I think
New Zealand pale ale which is trying to be an ice cream float.
I wasn’t too keen on the Bohemian first time but I have discovered the cold spot in my keezer to put the lagers in. It’s a bit subtle for my tastes.
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Westmalle extra .. guaranteed refreshment
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cheers
loved the beers you sent me in a swap, better get cracking mateView attachment 100043hope your all well, long time since I last came on, moved to Cornwall and soon to be back brewing
Fuzzy Growler
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Cheers bud, yours were great too.loved the beers you sent me in a swap, better get cracking mate
My mates just opened a brewery & taproom and he's give me a few packs of sample hops...
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Should make a lovely NEIPA
Fuzzy Growler
Landlord.
That's the plan Leon
Had a mate round yesterday evening, for a first proper tasting of the beers I kegged back in April: London Bitter (5.3%), Witbier (5.1%), Dubbel (6.8%) and Bière de Garde (7.2%)
Let's just say I'm taking things steady today
We had a couple of commercial bottles for comparison: really interesting and something I'd recommend - I think it's easy to be too critical of your own brews.
OK they weren't really direct comparisons, but we tried the London Bitter against Old Hooky and the Belgian-style ones against the lovely La Chouffe.
I was looking forward to the Old Hooky because I haven't had it for years - but it was seemed 'thin' and terribly fizzy. Is it my imagination, or did it used to be stronger than 4.6%? I'm sure that when I used to drink this in the Cotswold pubs it was quite malty, but this certainly wasn't. Maybe it's different in bottles. Interestingly it also had the same aftertaste that I thought was a fault in my beer, so I think I can relax about that now.
After sampling my Belgians we cracked open the La Chouffe, no complaints about that - what a great little beer
. What pleased me most though was that mine had a similar "Belgian" character to it - perhaps it's down to the Dingemans malt? Either way, really happy with the results.
We finished on the Bière de Garde - no comparator for that and as it's the first time I've used Saison yeast I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
Earlier samples had tasted pretty rough and ready but it now seems nice and smooth with a distinctive bone-dry finish: dangerously drinkable, and we had a couple of (small!) glasses of that before deciding we'd better quit while we were ahead!
No photos from last night but here's the empties
Let's just say I'm taking things steady today
We had a couple of commercial bottles for comparison: really interesting and something I'd recommend - I think it's easy to be too critical of your own brews.
OK they weren't really direct comparisons, but we tried the London Bitter against Old Hooky and the Belgian-style ones against the lovely La Chouffe.
I was looking forward to the Old Hooky because I haven't had it for years - but it was seemed 'thin' and terribly fizzy. Is it my imagination, or did it used to be stronger than 4.6%? I'm sure that when I used to drink this in the Cotswold pubs it was quite malty, but this certainly wasn't. Maybe it's different in bottles. Interestingly it also had the same aftertaste that I thought was a fault in my beer, so I think I can relax about that now.
After sampling my Belgians we cracked open the La Chouffe, no complaints about that - what a great little beer
. What pleased me most though was that mine had a similar "Belgian" character to it - perhaps it's down to the Dingemans malt? Either way, really happy with the results.We finished on the Bière de Garde - no comparator for that and as it's the first time I've used Saison yeast I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
Earlier samples had tasted pretty rough and ready but it now seems nice and smooth with a distinctive bone-dry finish: dangerously drinkable, and we had a couple of (small!) glasses of that before deciding we'd better quit while we were ahead!
No photos from last night but here's the empties
Decided we want a few small dishes as a sort of tapas/meze. Always with a beer or two in this case a Pale Ale and Ginger beer. A good live group is on tonight so we’re settled in for a good night.
