What are you drinking 2024.

[obscure]

Well it’s not alcoholic but I’m still drinking Greek Coffee and eating Baclava on a bench watching the sunset on the Aegean Sea.

Also it’s surprisingly hard to find places doing Greek Coffee with Expresso increasingly being the standard (which is not the same)

 

[SMP Brewery]

Just got time for a Cheltenham Gold.

 

[Alastair70]

Suns out. Barbeque time!

 

[micklupulo]

In the pub at Machynlleth with an Evans and Evans Seascape and Hobsons Twisted Spire both in wrong glasses. I wish my tan was as good as my wife's!

 

[Leon103]

Wife brought me this whilst I was gardening. Bloody stunning.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Jamaican pattie (jerk beef) and Pirate Pale - I think these might be made for each other

 

[obscure]

A local Rosé with smoked pork. Rosé is a nice dry one with a nice after taste and very refreshing on a warm night.

 

[Appleton Brews]

My Elderflower Saison

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

NEIPA for me and a small Imperial for my wife.

 

[Caramel Ox]

This was sadly missed during my London trip last week so making up for it:

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I like the regular bottled version of Oakham Citra but spotted this in Sainsbury’s. They make a point about “powerful” T90 hop pellets which made me smile but actually this is a really good beer, the aroma and flavour of Citra is pretty impressive. Well done Oakham! . Go and buy some if you like the bottled version, I think you’ll love this one.

 

[Caramel Ox]

I like the regular bottled version of Oakham Citra but spotted this in Sainsbury’s. They make a point about “powerful” T90 hop pellets which made me smile but actually this is a really good beer, the aroma and flavour of Citra is pretty impressive. Well done Oakham! . Go and buy some if you like the bottled version, I think you’ll love this one.
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In their recipe in the modern homebrewer they have boil additions which are half pellet and half whole hop eg
https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/oakham-green-devil-ipa/

It does seem to be a bit of an obsession!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

In their recipe in the modern homebrewer they have boil additions which are half pellet and half whole hop eg
https://www.themaltmiller.co.uk/product/oakham-green-devil-ipa/

It does seem to be a bit of an obsession!

It seems to work for them. I only use leaf these days in mash hopping and keg hopping.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

A little taste of my latest batch of English Porter. It’s been conditioning for 2-weeks and unsurprisingly tastes just like an English Porter but is still a touch disappointing. My last batch was 0.6% stronger and was more flavourful, I had a problem with my grain mill leading to a more coarse grist in the latest batch and consequently lower efficiency and less flavour extraction. We have friends coming round Saturday and one chap is a Porter evangelist and loves my older batch (I do still have some) so it will be interesting to see what he thinks.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

The Full English, my best bitter.

 

[obscure]

I fly back to the UK tomorrow do house white followed by the obligatory Raki. Being a while since I’ve had a proper do nothing holiday but Greece is certainly a good place for it if you like decent food, and remarkably good value wine. Of course then I went and spent €100 on a few bottles of good quality desert wine to take and with me.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

NEIPA next

 

[Alastair70]

This bottle of Porto 6 cost me £75.
I entered, and won the visitors prize at a comp at Malone Golf Club yesterday.
Green fees there are well over the ton, I got to play Belfast best parkland course in 22C sunshine (apologies to Belvoir and R.B. members if any are lurking). And I came away with a bottle of wine. Win win all round, I’ll savour every drop.

 

[Harald]

In the evening a Märzen from the Simmseer Braumanufaktur (D).

 

[Donegal john]

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I fly back to the UK tomorrow do house white followed by the obligatory Raki. Being a while since I’ve had a proper do nothing holiday but Greece is certainly a good place for it if you like decent food, and remarkably good value wine. Of course then I went and spent €100 on a few bottles of good quality desert wine to take and with me.

I will miss your nightly food and raki update. Mostly because I miss raki