What are you drinking tonight 2023.

[samale]

Door 17 last night was a nice Deya IPA

No 18 good Czech Amber lager

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A dark lager is on the brew list in the new year. I had Lervig julebock over the weekend. Really good

 

[samale]

My hazy Saison, just kegged a pale ale for Christmas

 

[Alastair70]

Bottled version of my Red. It’s a bit lively on the pour. I’m liking the extra roast a lot, the bitterness gives a nice bite and the caramel malts are spot on. The 2022 LAB iteration has lost its status as the reference recipe. This would do very well on CO2 as well as nitro.

 

[Twostage]

Bottled version of my Red. It’s a bit lively on the pour. I’m liking the extra roast a lot, the bitterness gives a nice bite and the caramel malts are spot on. The 2022 LAB iteration has lost its status as the reference recipe. This would do very well on CO2 as well as nitro.

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Using the Dove's farm flour bag as a reference point I'm guessing the jar with creamy goo until very recently had a sourdough starter in it ?

Looks like the mixer they use on bake-off. I keep toying with the idea but I like doing the stretch and fold of bread dough by hand and the one time I made shortcrust pasty in the food processor I got a thumbs down from the judges

 

[Dazzelknight]

Chocolate and coffee milk stout. GH recipe with a few extras thrown in ️

 

[Alastair70]

Using the Dove's farm flour bag as a reference point I'm guessing the jar with creamy goo until very recently had a sourdough starter in it ?

Looks like the mixer they use on bake-off. I keep toying with the idea but I like doing the stretch and fold of bread dough by hand and the one time I made shortcrust pasty in the food processor I got a thumbs down from the judges

Good spot. I’ve got a hand mixed 80% hydration whole meal sourdough retarding in the fridge. The mixer gets used for yeasty breads and other assorted kitchen fun, SD is strictly hands only!

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Good evening folks.

I don't like this one very much. Very astringent to the point of being unpleasant to my tastebuds, and lots of little floaties in it.

 

[Clint]

Mine was nice..no floaters!
Email Salt,tell em you got a **** beer.
Last Christmas I had some very over carbed beers from somewhere that totally escapes my memory!!! But I emailed them using the correct terminology...ie. gushers,overcarbed,tried chilling etc ...two days later I had a box of beer in the post.

 

[YeastFace]

Last day at work, have just put daughter's bike (Christmas present) together and now starting on a Thornbridge Crakendale in my new dimpled mug.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Off now for apart from 2hrs on Friday so thought I’d give my impy a try from the brew n swap, have to say it’s better in the bottle than the pet bottle.

Think I’ll try again with a higher mash temp and less carbonation next time.

 

[Jim Brewster]

Greene King Icebreaker in cans.
Not had it for a while and it seems the hops have been dialled right back, no longer is it a hoppy American pale ale, you used to be able to actually identify the hops, particularly Mosaic and Simcoe. Suppose it was inevitable!

Previous rating 7/10
Current rating 4/10

 

[Twostage]

Last day at work, have just put daughter's bike (Christmas present) together and now starting on a Thornbridge Crakendale in my new dimpled mug.

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Dimpled mug. Haven't seen one of those for a while.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Dimpled mug. Haven't seen one of those for a while.

Never liked beer in a dimpled mug for some reason, asked for a straight one if I saw a dimple one selected.

 

[obscure]

Sickly almost tastes like Vanilla Coke, the worst part is that underneath it you can taste what seems to be a pretty decent stout, but I can’t face finishing this.


So I dumped it and had one of these instead which is a very solid Bitter, so faith in Little Ox somewhat restored as they clearly can brew decent beer when the want to.

 

[dave_77]

Door No 19 was a lovely Brett Pale from Burning Sky

Now on to my Golden hopped with Talus , Perle, Athanum for the first half of the football

 

[Leon103]

Sharing this with the wife

 

[dave_77]

Beer no 20 from my advent box..cloudwater pale..another tasty beer

 

[Donegal john]

Irish ipa from the white hag brewery
Good solid beer hoppy malty and decent bitterness

 

[samale]

Beer no 20 from my advent box..cloudwater pale..another tasty beer
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You might want to drink a few more after that result

 

[531Man]

Dimpled mug. Haven't seen one of those for a while.

Show us your dimples!

I think they were considered a Southeners' thing.
These are ours from the early 80's.
Peculiar rule at the Cambridge folk festivals, you can't take glass into the arena, except official glasses bought at the bar marquee.
For I caution's sake I started by taking my lidded pewter pint pot, only to find glasses like these everywhere in the arena!
More recently I've taken it because it is appreciated by others and draws favourable comment.