What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Welcome to the weekend people!

I’m going to start this evening with an English Pale Ale.

 

[LesTom]

What hops did you use

Cashmere hops; I get a melon flavour from them whereas my wife thinks they have a lemon flavour

 

[LED_ZEP]

Tapwater.

But, I hear you ask: "Gerrit, it's Friday, aren't you having your allotted 2 pints tonight?"
And I answer: "I would, if I did not have to pick up my youngest from the trainstation around 1-ish tonight."

Start practising a good limp and send an Uber.

 

[NormanHurst]

Electric Bear Guava version of their standard APA. I normally run a mile from fruit beers but this is subtle, dry snd utterly smashable. Lasted about 5 minutes after last work video call of the week.

 

[Pennine]

German Porter for me tonight.

 

[strange-steve]

I picked up this little lot in Tesco earlier, deserved a little something for going shopping with the missus. Where do I start?

PS The Vocation says under "hops" on the label Citra BBC and simcoe. If like me you don't know what BBC is then I don't recommend you google it, I've had to delete my browser history.

 

[Pennine]

I picked up this little lot in Tesco earlier, deserved a little something for going shopping with the missus. Where do I start?

PS The Vocation says under "hops" on the label Citra BBC and simcoe. If like me you don't know what BBC is then I don't recommend you google it, I've had to delete my browser history.

I've had my eye on the roaster coaster, Vietnamese coffee stout???

 

[obscure]

I’m on my second pint of my Big Lamp bitter clone sometimes you just want an easy drinking session beer.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I’m on my second pint of my Big Lamp bitter clone sometimes you just want an easy drinking session beer.

I find a nice bitter easy drinking and despite the name they are often very smooth too!

 

[strange-steve]

I've had my eye on the roaster coaster, Vietnamese coffee stout???

In my experience a coffee stout is always either really good or really bad so we'll see. It'll be up first when it's chilled.

 

[Pennine]

Found a bottle of the belma marzen. Age isn't making this better I may dump... It's pretty though.

 

[Pennine]

And it's gone. Onward we go.
This ones ok I'm getting the galaxy Conan thing though. Very creamy and fruity.

 

[strange-steve]

Well here we are, Roaster Coaster is up first and I only noticed after pouring that it's 9% abv! The thing about nitro beers is that they always look spectacular, and this is no exception, but tend to disappoint when it comes to flavour. When I see nitro I just think of Guinness, John Smith, Boddingtons and the like. However, pairing the nitro with a huge flavourful beer like an impy is quite frankly a stroke of genius. This is very good indeed. As smooth as silk but huge fruity, roasty, chocolatey flavours with a nice hint of vanilla. The coffee is quite subtle, which is fine by me, but adds a nice depth of flavour. This is going down so easily and it's quite amazing that you can get beer this good in Tesco now.

 

[Tanglefoot]

Slaked my thirst with a Scottish Heavy ( or two ) after digging footings all day for new studio in the garden
( to keep rest of the family happy ! )

now supping another old malty favourite, Ringwood Forty Niner

 

[yrhendystu]

Ginger Ninja. My latest hard soda. This one has a very unusual taste, I was worried it would be too sharp (and I love sharp!) as when I tested during bottling the lime was overpowering but now it's fine. I used the Wilko Aussie special edition IPA slurry as a base. Dumped a load of Lidl premium lemonade on top, added some blended ginger and limes. Dumped in a litre of orange juice, topped up with a little sugar (to add to the sugar in the lemonade) and left it ferment out.

It's about 4%, you can taste the bitterness from the hops in the slurry and also the orange/lime. My mother in law said it tasted like cider but I'm not sure about that. I'll try and add a pic on mobile. It's very cloudy. Mrs Stu says it looks like dishwater.

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[hop-a-long]

Another one leftover from last years holliday in Scotland. To bad I can't go back for more this year.

 

[Pennine]

Well here we are, Roaster Coaster is up first and I only noticed after pouring that it's 9% abv! The thing about nitro beers is that they always look spectacular, and this is no exception, but tend to disappoint when it comes to flavour. When I see nitro I just think of Guinness, John Smith, Boddingtons and the like. However, pairing the nitro with a huge flavourful beer like an impy is quite frankly a stroke of genius. This is very good indeed. As smooth as silk but huge fruity, roasty, chocolatey flavours with a nice hint of vanilla. The coffee is quite subtle, which is fine by me, but adds a nice depth of flavour. This is going down so easily and it's quite amazing that you can get beer this good in Tesco now.

Wow I have been tempted to try out a nitro setup and that pic is selling it. Would love to try it with a neipa.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Time to try something from someone else, in this case @Clint

Citra Saison, 6.1%

The bottle cracked with a nice “pssst”, very effervescent through the pour forming a nice airy white head. Very clear, pale golden colour. To the bottom of the pint a thin head is still present.

Aroma is typically spicy, a little pepper, a little fruit but maybe not as much as I expected for Citra?

Flavour is nice. Slightly bready malt, fruity, mild peppery spice, no alcohol taste, no diacetyl, no astringency.

Clean finish, light to medium body and very mild bitterness. Soft mouthfeel.

Very drinkable and I’ve just remembered it’s 6.1% as I finish the pint!

Great job!

 

[Leon103]

Well here we are, Roaster Coaster is up first and I only noticed after pouring that it's 9% abv! The thing about nitro beers is that they always look spectacular, and this is no exception, but tend to disappoint when it comes to flavour. When I see nitro I just think of Guinness, John Smith, Boddingtons and the like. However, pairing the nitro with a huge flavourful beer like an impy is quite frankly a stroke of genius. This is very good indeed. As smooth as silk but huge fruity, roasty, chocolatey flavours with a nice hint of vanilla. The coffee is quite subtle, which is fine by me, but adds a nice depth of flavour. This is going down so easily and it's quite amazing that you can get beer this good in Tesco now.

I like this a lot, picked up four this week because of the sale

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

You knew I’d be on the bitter before too long

It’s not a nitro head but not bad for a King Keg and a puff of CO2!