What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[dad_of_jon]

Eldest daughter came round for roast and beers - the one that buys me boxes of beer (she’s a good girl ). We’ve enjoyed a few this afternoon so I’ve been a bit quiet again today. Now on the dregs of my Galaxy/Citra ale because it’s only 5.2%. I’m not sure that drinking more of my 6.8% ale is a good idea!


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6.8% - that's pop isn't it?

 

[SamBrewster]

Harvey's imperial extra double stout:

Smells bready with raisins, tastes of Christmas pud. Nice but not sure I want to find another

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Now this is nice, a coconut milk stout that really is like a liquid bounty bar. It’s becoming a regular part of my commercial beer order - even at £4 a can. The first coconut stout I ever tried was subtly flavoured, this is a bit more direct!

 

[Clint]

H..is that the Brew York one?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

H..is that the Brew York one?

It is

 

[Drunkula]

Just had the last of the bird seed beers. 200 days bottled. It was a hella gusher and after having experiences with wheaty things going south with age I could tell just from the smell of the fountain of froth that it was alright. The typicaly smell of the kristalweizen yeast was right there. Had a taste and it's all ok. The slight clove and distant banana and then newly a sort of grapefruit. There is a slight tartness there a little like orange pith. Early doors I could have slammed the whole batch in one go but the tartness makes you slow down a bit. Overally a great experiment. I've got one left with the Belgian yeast left but I'm not having that yet.

 

[Clint]

It is

Had that in their tap room in York...they also do an imperial.
Looks like you got the imperial....they do an unimperial too..

 

[Drunkula]

Just had another one of my Greg Hughes Voss Rice lagers. Again it's sod all like a lager and I thought it was rubbish as first because it was like fruit juice but now it's developed into something that's not a beer but it still something amazing. With beers I usually take a swig and the flavours develop when you've tipped the glass away. This is spinning the dials milliseconds after you get it into your yowler. It's like a Christmas fruit bowl of tangerines, satsumas, orange peel and pith and the flavour doesn't just have a 5 second development cycle, it's like 20 or 30 seconds and what you're left with is this lingering slightly dry satsuma that's approaching a perfect level of leatheryness.

This would be a 10/10 for somebody I know but as incredible as it is I find it I can't give it more than an 5 because it's not "beer". It's got all the ingredients of a beer but it's not beer. I'm sure some of you think the same way about sour beers. I still have that separation even though it's gorgeous.

Maybe I need to expand what I think beer is. I'm at the end of this pint and it's full blown f*cking wow and I'm still rejecting its beer status. I'm beerist!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Just finished the last pint of my Bramling Cross bitter (not the best choice of hops for a bitter - too fruity). Now finishing the last of my Galaxy / Citra ale because I need two kegs for tomorrow when I’ll be kegging a brown ale and a saison.

The Galaxy / Citra ale looks nice but is not so bright now, I think because there’s almost no beer in the keg and it’s just starting to oxidise.

 

[Pennine]

Found this st Feullien saison at Tesco, surprisingly good actually. Nice and fruity and a slight pepperiness.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Started with my Cockerhoop clone and now on my Hoegaarden clone. With my Hoegaarden I never pour the crud into the glass. So ts crystal clear.

 

[dave_77]

Having a cheeky Belgian Pale to accompany the evening brewday

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

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What are you brewing Dave?

 

[SamBrewster]

In Sussex so lots of Harvey's.
This one BBE June 16 and to be honest tastes like it...

As exciting as this lucky dip of vintage beer is, it's also a little russian roulette

 

[dave_77]

What are you brewing Dave?

It's my version of a beer that I had from the beer52 online beer Festival box. Cream ale/Witbier hybrid..cream ale grist with orange peel/coriander and a small sorachi Ace dry hop, German ale yeast.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Hi Admin people
Can we split this threat as we are a homebrew forum; between what we have brewed and drunk and what we we have bought and drunk. Too many bought beers for gods sake.

 

[strange-steve]

Hi Admin people
Can we split this threat as we are a homebrew forum; between what we have brewed and drunk and what we we have bought and drunk. Too many bought beers for gods sake.

Are you being serious? It never ceases to amaze me how people can find the most trivial of things to moan about. I actually like seeing what commercial beers people are drinking, because there's a chance I've had the same beer and might be able to relate. To me that's more preferable than another post about somebody's homebrew that is soo much better than that commercial stuff.

 

[foxy]

This was mine last night, Plum Porter while in the Green House, (or Guzzle House as my wife calls it)

And in the kitchen an ESB while cooking, 'a left over roast chicken' Biryani

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Are you being serious? It never ceases to amaze me how people can find the most trivial of things to moan about. I actually like seeing what commercial beers people are drinking, because there's a chance I've had the same beer and might be able to relate. To me that's more preferable than another post about somebody's homebrew that is soo much better than that commercial stuff.

Who's moaning just stating the obvious that this a Homebrew Forum not what I bought at the Offie Forum.

 

[Mrhandsome]

Who's moaning just stating the obvious that this a Homebrew Forum not what I bought at the Offie Forum.

But we are in the 'General Beer Discussion' bit, not the 'General Beer Brewing Discussion' bit.

I'm with @strange-steve on this one. I like seeing what others are drinking. It may lead me to trying them or brewing other styles that I hadn't before, and expanding my enjoyment of beer/brewing in general.