What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[Mrhandsome]

Late start for me today, I fancied a lie in!

Had a disco forklift truck whilst bottling my user upper Schwarzbier. Very fruity, but not quite what I was expecting.

Now I'm chilling out with the first bottle of my Kveik NEIPA. It's bloody lovely! Hopped with Citra, Mosaic, and El Dorado and around 6.5% but you couldn't tell.

My best brew to date.

 

[Pennine]

i moved on to a red ipa, its ok definitely not a repeatable recipe without some tweaks. anyone have experience with caraaroma? get some woodiness with it?

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Simple Pale Ale based on GH recipe. Sometimes nice to go back to basics and this hits the spot. So basic it is my cheapest brew yet, hence the name. Also the song rocks.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Well I don’t know about the rest of you but I definitely left it too long to take cover and now stranded under the gazebo in lashing rain!

At least I have beer

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Mrs Threepwood was good to me on a trip to Morrisons earlier. At the other end of the spectrum from my simple Pale Ale, but absolutely delicious.

 

[Ajhutch]

bought this at tesco yesterday, is quite delicious although a bit sweet and shockingly only 4.5%. it has way more flavour than that would indicate. it makes me think they back sweeten it. definitely a good geuze for the first timers but is no cantillon.

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Interesting. How much was it?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

After a couple of those soft, smooth, flavoursome ales I remembered it’s 6.8% so time to slow things down with this 4.4% bitter.

 

[strange-steve]

Just having a 4 year old bottle of my Westy 12 clone that I found at the back of the shed. A bit of oxidation but not so much as to be unpleasant.

 

[Pennine]

Interesting. How much was it?

i think it was under 2£, definitely worth a try.

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

After a couple of those soft, smooth, flavoursome ales I remembered it’s 6.8% so time to slow things down with this 4.4% bitter.

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I hope thats a reflection in the glass and not some super mould in the bottle!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I hope thats a reflection in the glass and not some super mould in the bottle!

Beer worms climbing out!

I hadn’t noticed that but yes - light refraction from the bottle. Either that or the beer worms have already left!

 

[Pennine]

Was hoping for a little nostalagia but this is god awful. Not sure if it is the new brew dog owners but would recommend skipping this unless you are in the US. Crystal malty and not hoppy at all, nothing like the good ole days doing beer miles with stone ipa. Not sure what happened over here...

 

[strange-steve]

Was hoping for a little nostalagia but this is god awful. Not sure if it is the new brew dog owners but would recommend skipping this unless you are in the US. Crystal malty and not happy at all, nothing like the good ole days doing beer miles with stone ipa. Not sure what happened over here...

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I haven't had one in a couple of years but I used to love Stone IPA!

 

[Tanglefoot]

Lunchtime glass or two of my elderflower wine with the family on holiday

 

[Pennine]

Had to dump and move on.
Quite impressed with this one, I really am enjoying the mosaic eukanot combo. The yeast is not my favorite, likely conan but a really solid tasty beer.

 

[Pennine]

I haven't had one in a couple of years but I used to love Stone IPA!

Me too I used to buy by the case from the brewery in Escondido, this was not the same beer at all.

 

[NormanHurst]

Back home and first taste of Brew #5, a Citra-dominated pale ale bottled about 3 weeks ago. Clean and fresh with some orangey notes and a kick of dry bitterness on the finish. Not bad at all.

Also had a taste of the Dry Stout that has just been cold crashed. Promising in a straightforward roasted stout-y sort of way. Hopefully very drinkable and a good basis for future experimentation.

 

[obscure]

Verdant Even Sharks Need Water (6.5%)

Like most Verdant beer this is fairly hazy, hopped with Citra and Galaxy I would say it was closer to an IPA than a NEIPA, a lot of bitterness and very refreshing

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

It definitely feels like time for a sweet stout. Dessert!

 

[Clint]

Dare I say it.....?