What are you drinking tonight 2022?

[Hazelwood Brewery]

A few pints of Mild while enjoying this glorious sunshine. Happy!

 

[NormanHurst]

When in Athens, do as the Athenians do...

 

[Leon103]

I didn’t post last night because I spent the evening (along with 10 other people) on a video-call with the owner/brewer of Wilderness Brewery. They are based in Wales and mostly focus on mixed-fermentation and barrel-aged beers. We tasted and discussed these four beers last night.

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Nice beers. For me the bottled biere de garde and the “so emotional” saison were the stars. The brewer, James, publishes his recipes but unless you’re going to buy a wine barrel and age your saison for a year or two, maybe just buy a can.

Lucky boy. Their beer is amazing and they are an hour from me. I have 4 of their beers in the garage but haven't opened the box yet because of a dispute with the supplier

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My last bottle of Tribute

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Another taste of my first Altbier, backlit by the sun. It’s barely cleared at all since it was kegged (just 5 days ago ) but is still nice.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My Tokyo lager decent Carb but no head retention but tastes good.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Saison. Clean, cold, beautiful spicy lemon notes from the coriander.

 

[Applesnmore]

Cider for me, own brew, made with a Norman type apple and fermented with WLP775 yeast which preserves a lot of the appley flavours and aroma. Fermented out but doesn't leave a dry finish like champagne yeast does.

 

[Tanglefoot]

Had a couple at our newly reopened pub, now owned by the village.
Sad to say first pint of local IPA was definitely not right due to cellar management, next pint of hazey pale was ok
but have to say neither a patch on my own brews.
Had a decent pint of Cornish cider though.
Nice to sit out in the garden with family and friends enjoying the sun.

 

[LesTom]

Really enjoying this, lovely and juicy

 

[Leon103]

Had 2 post ride pints. Moho a Welsh pale ale.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I fancied one of these.

 

[samale]

Saison. Clean, cold, beautiful spicy lemon notes from the coriander.

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Just checked my Saison, it's down at 1.004. time to cold crash and dry hop

 

[dave_77]

One beer tonight....it's a big one..from @DocAnna
12% imperial Stout with Whiskey. Aroma has Dark fruits and dark chocolate ,whiskey is coming through
It's dark, coffee/tanned head which had good lacing. Low carbonation. Mouthfeel is silky smooth initially then the whisky alcohol comes through at the end. The alcohol is obvious but smooth and no astringency and not hot, just obvious like a nice smooth scotch. flavours are like black forest gateau with whiskey. Dark chocolate with dark fruits with whisky coming through. I really enjoyed it, glad I'm only having the one tonight maybe the alcohol from the whiskey comes through a little too much, I like whiskey so I'm happy but it's fairly dominant. Tasty, thanks for sharing.

 

[Pennine]

One beer tonight....it's a big one..from @DocAnna
12% imperial Stout with Whiskey. Aroma has Dark fruits and dark chocolate ,whiskey is coming through
It's dark, coffee/tanned head which had good lacing. Low carbonation. Mouthfeel is silky smooth initially then the whisky alcohol comes through at the end. The alcohol is obvious but smooth and no astringency and not hot, just obvious like a nice smooth scotch. flavours are like black forest gateau with whiskey. Dark chocolate with dark fruits with whisky coming through. I really enjoyed it, glad I'm only having the one tonight maybe the alcohol from the whiskey comes through a little too much, I like whiskey so I'm happy but it's fairly dominant. Tasty, thanks for sharing.
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Sounds great wish I could try that one!

 

[Pennine]

I didn’t post last night because I spent the evening (along with 10 other people) on a video-call with the owner/brewer of Wilderness Brewery. They are based in Wales and mostly focus on mixed-fermentation and barrel-aged beers. We tasted and discussed these four beers last night.

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Nice beers. For me the bottled biere de garde and the “so emotional” saison were the stars. The brewer, James, publishes his recipes but unless you’re going to buy a wine barrel and age your saison for a year or two, maybe just buy a can.

I'm curious how did this work, was it offered by the brewery? Sounds like fun.

 

[Pennine]

Needed some inspiration for the next brew, this is a Belgian pale made with orval dregs. I think the next one in will do westmalle yeast and add the orval supplements after.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I'm curious how did this work, was it offered by the brewery? Sounds like fun.

One of us went to another beer tasting of Wilderness beers and asked James if he would join us on a Zoom call to talk about his beers. We then all bought the same 4 beers for the call. Easy as that.

 

[DocAnna]

One beer tonight....it's a big one..from @DocAnna
12% imperial Stout with Whiskey. Aroma has Dark fruits and dark chocolate ,whiskey is coming through
It's dark, coffee/tanned head which had good lacing. Low carbonation. Mouthfeel is silky smooth initially then the whisky alcohol comes through at the end. The alcohol is obvious but smooth and no astringency and not hot, just obvious like a nice smooth scotch. flavours are like black forest gateau with whiskey. Dark chocolate with dark fruits with whisky coming through. I really enjoyed it, glad I'm only having the one tonight maybe the alcohol from the whiskey comes through a little too much, I like whiskey so I'm happy but it's fairly dominant. Tasty, thanks for sharing.
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Wow thanks, this has aged well but I agree the whisky is far more prominent now than it was early on, I've just a handful of these left now . Thanks as always to @Pennine for making the original version of this . Reading this, I'm very tempted to try the beer again this weekend and maybe even try another batch.

 

[samale]

One of us went to another beer tasting of Wilderness beers and asked James if he would join us on a Zoom call to talk about his beers. We then all bought the same 4 beers for the call. Easy as that.

Was this for your local homebrew club.