What are you drinking tonight 2024.

[531Man]

Unlike some I put my beer somewhere cool to condition, it takes a little longer but does become crystal and bright. While the bitter has been conditioning for some time the Nancy Naylor has had only 10 days of conditioning but will become clear, one of the previous batch.
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Boston Bitter is a really pleasant bitter, full title Poes Boston Bitter after Edgar Alan Poe who died at age 40 of alcoholic poisoning, I did read somewhere that Mark Twain's favourite ale was Bass, though Poe's time line is slightly earlier he could have been drinking Bass IPA (which would have been fairly strong in his day) in preference to the pumpkin ales the colonials were making. A Bass clone is another I have conditioning at the moment.
https://byo.com/recipe/poes-boston-bitter/#:~:text=This beer is named for,extract weight comes from grain.

Sorry to take this thread back in time.
As a student in the 70's Bass bitter (Red triangle on the handpump),
and the cask - NOT the keg - Worthington E bitter were both greatly enjoyable sessionable handpumped real ales, and entirely different.
For a golden, blessed while.
Each randomly found throughout Britain, experienced on many a YHA based pub crawl.
On a different named beer topic, cask Whitbread Trophy was hilarious as a National but regional brew.
All those smaller regional breweries under the Whitbread wing brewed one for the local trade. Each was a good IPA type beer, but entirely different from any other brewery in the country.
Whitbread Fremlins Faversham was my hoppy-forward favourite Trophy.
But then again, I am a true Man of Kent.
Trophy from Whitbread Tiverton was an entirely different malty beast, Flower's of Cheltenham elegance and balance.
Can't remember any others atm - anyone else care to chip in.

 

[samale]

Cold IPA in memory of big John

 

[Donegal john]

Cold IPA in memory of big John
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RIP he was some man for one man.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Sorry to take this thread back in time.
As a student in the 70's Bass bitter (Red triangle on the handpump),
and the cask - NOT the keg - Worthington E bitter were both greatly enjoyable sessionable handpumped real ales, and entirely different.
For a golden, blessed while.
Each randomly found throughout Britain, experienced on many a YHA based pub crawl.
On a different named beer topic, cask Whitbread Trophy was hilarious as a National but regional brew.
All those smaller regional breweries under the Whitbread wing brewed one for the local trade. Each was a good IPA type beer, but entirely different from any other brewery in the country.
Whitbread Fremlins Faversham was my hoppy-forward favourite Trophy.
But then again, I am a true Man of Kent.
Trophy from Whitbread Tiverton was an entirely different malty beast, Flower's of Cheltenham elegance and balance.
Can't remember any others atm - anyone else care to chip in.

I may be way of the mark here but i use to love stones bitter in the mid late 70s, i know it's not hand pump but it was a really good pint

 

[Twostage]

Belgium dubbel from @The-Engineer-That-Brews. As soon as I opened it there was an aroma of caramel. The taste was the same. Really nice flavour. I would have preferred more carbonation but that could be because I took it straight out of the fridge. I’d like the recipe.

 

[531Man]

Right, on to tonight's short sequence.

Cypriot native grape Mataro, apparently the same as French Mourvedre.
Went down well with pork kebab Souvlaki in doughy split pitta bread.

Next up Kataifi (sweet syrup filled Shredded Wheat with ground spiced nuts ).
What could possibly be better than a local Sweet Muscat of Alexandria desert wine.
Yum!
Naff plate, but that's old school Brit. Cyprus for you.

 

[531Man]

I may be way of the mark here but i use to love stones bitter in the mid late 70s, i know it's not hand pump but it was a really good pint

Ha Haa!
Not at all.
A cask of Stones bitter lubricated a well remembered student party in Sheffield I attended.
A barrel, as a carry - in from the brewery?
We were students!
Stunningly good beer.
There was something about a Police raid of the garden, but I don't remember clearly anything about that.

 

[Rodcx500z]

The tropical England pilsner is coming along nicely good job I have 350grs left

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Belgium dubbel from @The-Engineer-That-Brews. As soon as I opened it there was an aroma of caramel. The taste was the same. Really nice flavour. I would have preferred more carbonation but that could be because I took it straight out of the fridge. I’d like the recipe.

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Cheers mate, and sounds like you’ve earned that!

 

[Rodcx500z]

Not had one of these for a while and good to see they have not messed with it

 

[pilgrimhudd]

@SMP Brewery next up for me, despite knowing it might be a bit lively I poured it and had to get the towel out....

Lovely sweet saisony aroma (i cant describe this very well at all), great carbonation, looks the part. Tastes as you'd expect, a nice saison, much drier than my last effort and dangerously easy drinking! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Rodcx500z]

Last one tonight

 

[Bzee]

The tropical England pilsner is coming along nicely good job I have 350grs left View attachment 100854View attachment 100855

I love the tropical England mix of hops great idea to put in a pilsner

 

[SMP Brewery]

Lovely sweet saisony aroma (i cant describe this very well at all), great carbonation, looks the part. Tastes as you'd expect, a nice saison, much drier than my last effort and dangerously easy drinking! Thanks for sharing!

Nice one, it had a 30 min addition of Styrian Dragon plus some in the whirlpool I had some Citra left so chucked that in the whirlpool as well.
I think that it’s a style that’s better bottle conditioned (presuming you get the amount of sugar right ). I just can’t seem to get it right in the keg.

 

[dave_77]

Nice pilsner, got a box from trembling madness today.

 

[matt.]

Two-tone, toe-tapping, ten-malt-porter. Monstrous amounts of fresh malts create a beer as black as the earl of hell to which some big piney hops are added to give a robust bitter finish.

5.8% / 500ml

Says the blurb. I'll be diving in with Mr. Hill at the Portuguese v Czech kick off. Stay tuned.

 

[Davegase]

My new favourite Munich helles.

 

[The-Engineer-That-Brews]

Nearly there with our son’s ‘A’ levels and I think I deserve a little treat: glass of my Dubbel…

 

[Davegase]

Nice pilsner, got a box from trembling madness today.
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You can see some of those bottles have been back to the brewery a few times !!

 

[531Man]

Hot day Classical sightseeing.
Lunched on Calamari and Keo lager.
Did the job.

Interesting and useful thumb race moulding to the glass.
Avoids olive oily fingers and cold wet slippery glass mishaps.
Greek+ salad with two beer sharing and tasting.
SWMBOd prefers the Lager style, I prefer the Pale ale. Result!
Jack Sprat would eat no fat........ etc.