What are you drinking tonight 2023.

[Donegal john]

We’ll. this years gimp mask from Otterbank brewing and blending. A Pinot noir barrel aged imperial Brett stout. The Pinot noir shines through on this with the typical Brett funk and dryness on the finish. Only 9.9%
Very little carbonation on this one but that brings out the tartness of the wine barrels.
Damm good “different” beer from the master brewer and man on the label Declan Nixon.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Trying this one from a local brewery, 6.6% dipa with citra and galaxy and something else I can't remember. Nice aroma and initially nice hopy taste but it's got a bit of a hot alcohol taste to it which gets a bit overpowering. A pity because the stout I had from them recently was lovely.

The Eagle eyed might notice my clock has gone, finally gone to the clock man to get fixed!

 

[531Man]

Hi all,
STILL trying to catch up with the OOD Beer52 deliveries, so here are this evening's,
all in one.......

All June and July 2022 and all beautiful and hoppy and enjoyable.

Except for the Stout which is April '22 and is all coffee and chocolate and was really appreciated on this rather chilly evening.
Good Night all.
And mind how you go.
(who remembers Dixon of Dock Green?)

 

[dave_77]

Porter to finish the night

 

[foxy]

Good Night all.
And mind how you go.
(who remembers Dixon of Dock Green?)

Did he play an organ?

 

[foxy]

Yes, of course. This link will take you there…

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/media/rye-ipa.965/full
You don’t need to use Golden Promise, any pale ale malt will be fine. I only used Golden Promise because I had a lot available. The Crystal 225 is mostly for colour adjustment. The timings for the mash were mostly because I was multi-tasking, you could probably half the time for each stage if you wish.

PS ignore the maths error on the Ca ppm!

Malted or flaked Rye?

 

[foxy]

My single tonight. while noticing stocks are low on other beers. Though loving the struggle of will power.
KIPA

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Malted or flaked Rye?

Malted because I want that spice to come through but you could use either.

 

[531Man]

Did he play an organ?

No, the only thing that he played with was his truncheon.
He was a local beat old-school Police Sergeant.
Good natured, firm but fair.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

It is the anniversary of us getting together tomorrow so we thought we'd come to town for some lunch and a couple of drinks.

We are in Ask Italian and drinking an espresso martini and a revelation hoppy IPA.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

We are in the house of trembling madness and we've managed to grab a couple of Verdant Putty's on draft. It's really good! Like biting into a juicy, dank peach!

The other two floors are crammed full of people but we've managed to find some secret rooms in the basement that nobody seems to know about! We had to put the lights on ourselves!

 

[SMP Brewery]

I too will be drinking some putty, as I was driving got a take out.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Same venue. Now we have a Vault City Iron Brew Sour and a Verdant 'Big stupid westy'.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

@Hazelwood Brewery 10.8% Nitro Imperial
Oh... my... gawd... this is heaven in a glass.
This is really the last one of the swaps from Mr H in his role as one of my incredibly generous Secret Santas, but confession time I've been putting off opening it because I've been a bit scared of it. But in reality I'm glad I delayed because this is a fabulous beer that really deserves special attention.

Other Impy's I've had at this ABV have been a bit like swigging lighter fuel (I imagine), with everything a bit over-dominated by the burn. But this is Sooooooooo smooth - it's chocolatey, creamy, goodness with every sip.

The only downside is that (a) I've only got the one; and (b) I'm only a third the way down the glass, and I'm already losing control of my meagre faculties... (c) thank Gawd I've only got the one...

How can I describe this. You can tell it's strong, but it's strong in the same way as a very well matured big bodied red wine. The first thing that gets you is the mouth-feel... it's just immense: like black satin in a fast mood. Then you get a premonition of the strength; that "Ooops we're in trouble here chaps" feeling, where it doesn't so much slap you in the face as give you an enormous cuddle and then pick your pocket while you're wondering what happened. Flavourwise, it's got just the right amount of roast malt to freshen up your tongue without feeling like someone swilled out an ashtray with your pint.

Mmmmm - I quite like this. Can you tell? Whether I'm going to be in any shape to cook tonight's dinner is another question.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

@Hazelwood Brewery 10.8% Nitro Imperial
Oh... my... gawd... this is heaven in a glass.
This is really the last one of the swaps from Mr H in his role as one of my incredibly generous Secret Santas, but confession time I've been putting off opening it because I've been a bit scared of it. But in reality I'm glad I delayed because this is a fabulous beer that really deserves special attention.

Other Impy's I've had at this ABV have been a bit like swigging lighter fuel (I imagine), with everything a bit over-dominated by the burn. But this is Sooooooooo smooth - it's chocolatey, creamy, goodness with every sip.

The only downside is that (a) I've only got the one; and (b) I'm only a third the way down the glass, and I'm already losing control of my meagre faculties... (c) thank Gawd I've only got the one...

How can I describe this. You can tell it's strong, but it's strong in the same way as a very well matured big bodied red wine. The first thing that gets you is the mouth-feel... it's just immense: like black satin in a fast mood. Then you get a premonition of the strength; that "Ooops we're in trouble here chaps" feeling, where it doesn't so much slap you in the face as give you an enormous cuddle and then pick your pocket while you're wondering what happened. Flavourwise, it's got just the right amount of roast malt to freshen up your tongue without feeling like someone swilled out an ashtray with your pint.

Mmmmm - I quite like this. Can you tell? Whether I'm going to be in any shape to cook tonight's dinner is another question.


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Thank you for the lovely feedback TETB. That comment about picking your pocket made me laugh out loud. I’ve no idea what it means but it’s brilliant!

 

[Clint]

What's this forum coming to? Gimp masks and that Donegal fella having a pull in his shed!

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Don't want to leave this place as its so good and we have a proper seat now.

I have a Pastore brewing Banana Daiquiri sour, and Jim has Pentrich 'Fear of Sleep'.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

A couple i haven't tried before to start (friday)

After last night experiment above I've decided to go back to two of my favourites to start tonight.

 

[pilgrimhudd]

A year old exmoor gold which is rather showing its age but I think that's the last of them and then on to a sessionable hazy pale with citra and mosaic from black flag Brewery in Perranporth. Far better than the one I had last night.

 

[Alastair70]

User Upper American Pale, more of. Hybrid Pale/Amber, but there’s enough Simcoe in there to pull it all together. I’ll fire one over to @dave_77 for the Jan comp.