What are you drinking tonight 2024.

[Twostage]

Keg-conditioned Poes Boston Bitter, if it was an American who came up with this recipe he has done very well. A well-balanced Ordinary Bitter. Drink this till the cows come home.
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Great head and good lacing, a magnificent ordinary bitter.
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Another satisfying beer, a pale ale, Nancy Naylor Landlady, great aftertaste of Styrian Goldings. Delicious beer.
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A really good Ordinary is difficult to find. Looks like the recipe is on BYO, going to bookmark it

 

[Herms bay]

Another satisfying beer, a pale ale, Nancy Naylor Landlady, great aftertaste of Styrian Goldings. Delicious beer.

That looks good and TT is one of my favourite clone for a bitter. Where did you get the recipe for that one, did you use the Wyeast 1469?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I just found some beers in our under-stairs cupboard from the last box of Beer 52 beers my daughter gave me. I forgot they were there! I’m having a session that’s supposed to be a tropical fruit salad. It tastes ok, orange, melon, and coconut are dominant.

The glass was part of a prize haul from Attic when I placed in their own beer competition. They partnered with Charles Faram and competitors had to brew a beer using an experimental hop variety (supplied).

 

[YeastFace]

A couple of pre-train pints in The Victoria, Beeston.

Blue Monkey Cinder Toffee Stout.

Charnwood By George, ESB

My last work visit to Beeston before starting a new job in a week. Shall miss this pub.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Helles.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

This African inspired beer uses sorghum in the malt bill and is flavoured with marula. It’s a lovely colour and is crystal clear but the perfumed aroma/flavour isn’t really to my taste. The Teku glass however is, I put these on my Christmas list.

Speaking of Marula, and if you haven’t seen it, Google “marula drunk animals” for a bit of a giggle.

 

[Clint]

African Guinness is brewed with sorghum as I believe it is illegal out there in places to brew beer with barley.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

African Guinness is brewed with sorghum as I believe it is illegal out there in places to brew beer with barley.

I’d never heard that, do you know why - is this to preserve barley for food?

 

[Sneedhearn]

Trying a drop of my first all-grain brew, a generic IPA all-grain kit brewed just shy of 5 weeks ago.
Very pleased over all, a bit hazy and the head looks like soap suds but it tastes pretty good.

 

[Donegal john]

This is a beauty of a beer.

 

[foxy]

That looks good and TT is one of my favourite clone for a bitter. Where did you get the recipe for that one, did you use the Wyeast 1469?

I used Gordon Strong's recipe and Windsor yeast.
https://byo.com/recipe/timothy-taylor-brewery-landlord-clone/

 

[An Ankoù]

It looks to be wet which is typical Salisbury weather! SIPs can be heaving on the popular evenings. Slightly obscure Duke of York is CAMRA city pub of the year

https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/...-york-salisbury-awarded-camra-city-pub-year/#

Rude Giant has a taproom cum beer hall, I haven’t been yet.

Dark Revolution are mid move into a new unit. Think taproom still open in the old.

Locally- it’s the last weekend of the Wadworth taproom in Devizes as they move to their new unit away from the historic brewery.

Thanks @Caramel Ox. Landed in Portsmouth and reports of potholes greatly exaggerated as I didn't see any on drive to Salisbury. Traffic heavier than I remember, though.
Salisbury is an amazing place. A city dedicated to roadworks and various excavations, on the one hand, and pubs on the other. Millions of pubs all within walking distance. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven! Very much in the hands of our hosts the first day and consumed a goodly bellyful of HSB at the Ox Row. Lovely beer and perfectly kept. Haven't had HSB for decades. The Wise One stuck to the Neck Oil, which seemed pleasant enough in a hippy-hoppy way. Too much soiled nappy in there for my liking. There was also a lurid green offering, Stonehenge Ale, complete with tadpoles and other pond life. I steered well clear of that and the ubiquitous London Pride. The draught Cobra in the curry house, on the other hand, was pretty horrible and a tad too warm.
So. As I'm here for a week, I think a Best Beer in Salisbury review is called for.
It won't be Cobra!

 

[An Ankoù]

A really good Ordinary is difficult to find. Looks like the recipe is on BYO, going to bookmark it

What is Ordinary Bitter?
A truly excellent cask of bitter around the 4% mark is extraordinary in my book.

 

[Twostage]

What is Ordinary Bitter?
A truly excellent cask of bitter around the 4% mark is extraordinary in my book.

I used to know off by heart the ABVs for ordinary, best, special and extra special, I'd have to google it now .

I've always thought that (whilst it might be an accurate categorisation) calling something ordinary is denigrating, particularly when your taste buds are telling a different story.

 

[Twostage]

Sadly no picture but last night had a hand pulled Hawkshead's Mosaic Pale (gluten free). Really nice pint and absolutely crystal clear. Ordered a box of bottles (plus some Helles).

I was thinking of making a Mosaic pale and their website gives the recipe (not amounts) so I'm going to use that as a base (including the gluten free bit using NBS Clarity).

 

[Twostage]

A really good Ordinary is difficult to find. Looks like the recipe is on BYO, going to bookmark it

At first glance I thought crikey, that's a complicated recipe but its actually very simple on the ingredient side (four including the yeast), its the hop schedule that complicates it. I'm thinking of doing a stripped back test batch.

 

[dad_of_jon]

Sunday was a touring drive to Skye and back. Honestly pretty much all bar 7 or 8 miles of the 113 mile each way drive were incredibly scenic. We picnicked along the route as portree is mostly shut on Sunday. Ended up back in Inverness for a cheeky hotel drink before black Isle rooms again then the malt room. Oh my! Uber. I had a dram of balblair12 very smooth light and delicate. The iron brew from VC was delicious. The book kriek was good and the malt room collaboration was ok.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Not actually a Grolsch or even a Weizen, I’m just showing off another glass. The beer is my Pirate Pale which I’m having while making a beef chilli.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Baltic Porter. The glass was given to me by a young lady with impeccable taste!

 

[SMP Brewery]

Happy Thirsty Thursday, as it’s a holiday here tomorrow I’m starting off with my last and probably favourite Cromarty Beer, it’s sour without too much puckering on the first sip and it’s chewy and not got that overly sweet aftertaste either.