What are you drinking tonight 2024.

[Leon103]

Quince saison. Will need to go back and top the glass up, lively. A lot different to the others. I like it, hard to detect the underlying saison though
Thanks @dave_77

 

[YeastFace]

Offered to share this with my better half, but she politely declined (something to do with us having to be up early)

 

[samale]

Offered to share this with my better half, but she politely declined (something to do with us having to be up early)

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Always time for 1 more ,

 

[YeastFace]

Always time for 1 more ,

Weird shaped can, like an energy drink.

At 12% I think this may be my nightcap.

 

[samale]

Weird shaped can, like an energy drink.

At 12% I think this may be my nightcap.

That's definitely your last, or it's a silent journey tomorrow.

 

[YeastFace]

Having an Augustiner on the side for thirst.

 

[dave_77]

Offered to share this with my better half, but she politely declined (something to do with us having to be up early)

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Cool label

 

[stubrewworx]

My strong bitter. About 20 days in the bottle. First brew for a while to have a head!

 

[samale]

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My strong bitter. About 20 days in the bottle. First brew for a while to have a head!

For breakfast

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My strong bitter. About 20 days in the bottle. First brew for a while to have a head!

At 06:24 that's a great start to the weekend.

 

[531Man]

Sorry all, missed yesterday's Summer Solstice post.
Too much sun sand and.............. well you know the rest!

Home made lunch, bought beers.
Then lovey carafe of white wine from the restauranteur's village, SW Cyprus. Had with Sea Bream.
We got a sunset and moonrise from the same table.

 

[531Man]

Last lunch, if a little late - well we are on holiday!

lunch beers:
The IPA is only acceptable with food IMHO.
The IPA is sooo bitter due to being intensively hopped.

 

[obscure]

@Twostage was kind enough to share a bottle of his Abbot Ale ‘clone’, and while I’m lousy at giving tasting notes I will do my best.

It poured fairly smoothly with a big head as you can see which settle down into something a bit more modest (which then proceeded to stick around. Colour was a little darker than I expected but clear without haze.

Taste wise carbonation is fairly gentle a tad higher than a cask Abbot would be with a lot bit of bite from the CO2 but as is the way with any bottled beer. It has a nice almost creaminess to it, hops are clearly their but don’t overpower the flavour from the malt, which gives it a nice sweetness, I was drinking this while cooking and I think I enjoyed the second half more than the first as it had started to loose some of the ‘fizz’ which meant the flavour of the malt came through much better.

How close it is to Abbot is difficult to say for certain (Tesco online was out of Abbot or I would have purchased a bottle for direct comparison) but it’s certainly a nice beer which I wouldn’t send back if I received in a pub or restaurant. Thank you again to Twostage for sharing.

 

[Caramel Ox]

I have 2 cans of unfiltered Utopian so attempting to capture the yeast. Not sure I’m that confident, but it’s a free go and also not bothered if I end up using cml Hell as the fallback.

 

[dave_77]

Lovely Italian Pils from Donzoko

 

[Twostage]

Last lunch, if a little late - well we are on holiday!
View attachment 101032lunch beers:
The IPA is only acceptable with food IMHO.
The IPA is sooo bitter due to being intensively hopped.
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That is a potent mix of hops and a strong brew too. I would have thought the three Cs would swamped the Nelson Sauvin.

 

[LesTom]

Absolutely fantastic stout, this is so good.

 

[SMP Brewery]

As the sun has got his hat on a quick couple of beers at the pub. First up a Campden Pale.

 

[NormanHurst]

3 pints of Butcombe watching the 1st XI win now at home.

 

[dave_77]

My Italian pils next