What are you drinking tonight 2021?

[dan125]

Couldn't resist jumping on the Putty bandwagon.
It's not really any different to their other dipas but it's a very very good one.
Ripe tropical fruit and the signature soft mouthfeel.
Lovely

 

[Nidger]

Couple of cans of perlenbacher pils and since I had the taste for lager I decided to drink the last bottle of coopers lager I had left.

I know, a faux Pas again on my part with a greasy glass but in my defense someone took my glass that was clean and I took that from the cupboard, thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it

Anyway I really really like this lager. I'm not as hopeful for the Geordie lager I've just bottled and I'll be interested to see how the Cooper's cerveza I've got brewing turns out.

I'll also be interested how the cerveza and the next Cooper's lager turn out using their yeast rather than the proper lager yeasts I've used.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Yep! Summer Breeze

 

[BrewMeHappy]

A few Tom Caxton real ales. Does anyone have a flake?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I want a couple of pints of what AA’s drinking obviously made with magic truffles

 

[labrewski]

had a sample from my first attempt with a pb 12 days in looking good

 

[chrisb8]

Silky as a Cashmere Codpiece from @Hazelwood Brewery

This was too fizzy for me again straight out of the bottle so I stood it to one side while I prepared tonight's bolognese and had a pint of my Rabbit Island pale. Now it's more like it, dark and silky like...well whatever takes your fancy @Clint! There's not much aroma but the taste is plum porter with a distinct roasted coffee to follow. I'm guessing there's little hops in this and the chocolate malt really pulls it all together. Perhaps not quite as much body as I would like but the flavour is very well balanced and easy drinking. Rich creamy head remained right to the last. Cheers Les, thanks for the swaps

 

[EveryoneKnowsADave]

Yep! Summer Breeze

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That looks like a quite ideal tipple

 

[EveryoneKnowsADave]

View attachment 40595had a sample from my first attempt with a pb 12 days in looking good

Certainly does

 

[EveryoneKnowsADave]

Silky as a Cashmere Codpiece from @Hazelwood Brewery View attachment 40594
This was too fizzy for me again straight out of the bottle so I stood it to one side while I prepared tonight's bolognese and had a pint of my Rabbit Island pale. Now it's more like it, dark and silky like...well whatever takes your fancy @Clint! There's not much aroma but the taste is plum porter with a distinct roasted coffee to follow. I'm guessing there's little hops in this and the chocolate malt really pulls it all together. Perhaps not quite as much body as I would like but the flavour is very well balanced and easy drinking. Rich creamy head remained right to the last. Cheers Les, thanks for the swaps

I find this interesting. Porters and stouts are fairly close in the family tree I believe. But for me, they are a world apart in terms of favourites and I think it's the carbonation. I love smooth creamy stouts, heavy mouthfeels and long lingering back of the throat aftertastes. For me porters have the taste but not the longevity, is it the bubbles that do that?

 

[dave_77]

Just drowning my sorrows after the hammers take their usual medicine against Liverpool
So I'm going to have a beer sent from a Liverpool fan @samale Belgian Stout.
Carbonation is just right, jet black with a nice creamy head. Roast and coffee aroma and same comes through in the flavour. Belgian, hmmm if you search for it I can taste some fruitiness at the end which I'm assuming is the yeast character. Nice level of bitterness and really drinkable ( I'm trying to let it warm up to see if anymore Belgian character comes out). Really good what was the yeast and the FG?

 

[samale]

Just drowning my sorrows after the hammers take their usual medicine against Liverpool
So I'm going to have a beer sent from a Liverpool fan @samale Belgian Stout.
Carbonation is just right, jet black with a nice creamy head. Roast and coffee aroma and same comes through in the flavour. Belgian, hmmm if you search for it I can taste some fruitiness at the end which I'm assuming is the yeast character. Nice level of bitterness and really drinkable ( I'm trying to let it warm up to see if anymore Belgian character comes out). Really good what was the yeast and the FG?
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I used WLP 530 if I was to make it again I would try it at a higher fermentation temperature. It's a lovely stout and very easy drinking for 8.5 % abv. I am working so don't have my notes but I think it finished 1.018

 

[pilgrimhudd]

@Pennine wee heavy, this is exactly the sort of beer I like, malty, a little bit of earthy hops, some fruit esters, perhaps a little undercarbed as you said but not overly so. I love it, thanks for sharing.

Oh and at 8.4% dangerously easy drinking!!

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Just drowning my sorrows after the hammers take their usual medicine against Liverpool
So I'm going to have a beer sent from a Liverpool fan @samale Belgian Stout.
Carbonation is just right, jet black with a nice creamy head. Roast and coffee aroma and same comes through in the flavour. Belgian, hmmm if you search for it I can taste some fruitiness at the end which I'm assuming is the yeast character. Nice level of bitterness and really drinkable ( I'm trying to let it warm up to see if anymore Belgian character comes out). Really good what was the yeast and the FG?
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Thought you were the Liverpool fan Dave, West Ham are my Premier league side. My brother is a massive fan, only been once, watched you lot tonk us (Argyle) 5-0 Sheringham scoring 2 pens I think.....

 

[dave_77]

Thought you were the Liverpool fan Dave, West Ham are my Premier league side. My brother is a massive fan, only been once, watched you lot tonk us (Argyle) 5-0 Sheringham scoring 2 pens I think.....

No no no. Been a west ham forever.my dad's side of the family had season tickets up until a couple of years ago so been lots to both stadiums and seen us lose to Liverpool lots
Argyle, Plymouth?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Fancied an English Bitter.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

No no no. Been a west ham forever.my dad's side of the family had season tickets up until a couple of years ago so been lots to both stadiums and seen us lose to Liverpool lots
Argyle, Plymouth?

Yeah Plymouth, we were flying high in the championship then, our glory days!

 

[dave_77]

Finishing the night with my Trappist Single.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Enjoyed that so having another.

 

[Pennine]

@Pennine wee heavy, this is exactly the sort of beer I like, malty, a little bit of earthy hops, some fruit esters, perhaps a little undercarbed as you said but not overly so. I love it, thanks for sharing.

Oh and at 8.4% dangerously easy drinking!!

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Glad you enjoyed it, I thought it was a great recipe too.