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My American amber, this is a nice Beer. Looks well
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Still here folks! I’ve not brewed anything recently and been drinking the same beers. That together with Christmas preparations, meeting up with family and friends, other family stuff (eg helping my grandson revise in the evenings for his driving theory test), and binge watching a box set or two has kept me busy.

As I said to @dave_77 who told me people had noticed I’d been quiet (not entirely sure how to take that 🤔) I’ll have a word with myself about my tardiness and see you all later.

Cheers! 🍻
 
A Thomas Hardy's Ale "The Historical", vintage 2019, No. 3936.
The vintage matured in Scottish whisky oak barrels, which give smoky notes of wood.
This bottle was allowed to age for 5 years, other bottles of the vintage were allowed to age longer in my cellar.
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The beer is perfect at a drinking temperature of 13°C.

An absolute reference for me.
 
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A well earned can of Tribute after a dreadful few days...strap yourselves in....
Last Wednesday fridge freezer in the kitchen was making a racket. Phoned British gas homecare...no engineer til Monday! Friday I got home from work and fridge even worse. Fresh stuff felt a big warm so got the brew thermometer out..18c! Binned the lot! Furious now! On to BG...still no one til Monday...Monday comes..fridge knackered,new one required. Monday dinner time delivery for a new one from Currys was Wednesday, Monday teatime...thus is now Dec 27th! Plus how it goes with BG,if it can't be fixed you get a divvy up based on age of appliance,so about £100 towards a new one. Fine..which could take upto 5 days to appear. Not fine. So I decided to knock that palaver on the head and visit a local supplier.
In the meantime Mrs Clint decided she wanted the nice shiny free standing one rather than another integrated. I explained the difference...which involves taking out the integrated cabinet etc and making level the floor as we had not long had the floor tiled and it just cleared the base plinth. Yeah OK then she says...that was me last night...dismantling kitchen cupboards and tiling the floor..which I got done! New fridge freezer being delivered tomorrow. Phew!
As an upside...the much scorned brew fridge in the garage was set to 3c and has enabled us to keep a small supply of fresh stuff handy. It's seen in a different light now.
 
A well earned can of Tribute after a dreadful few days...strap yourselves in....
Last Wednesday fridge freezer in the kitchen was making a racket. Phoned British gas homecare...no engineer til Monday! Friday I got home from work and fridge even worse. Fresh stuff felt a big warm so got the brew thermometer out..18c! Binned the lot! Furious now! On to BG...still no one til Monday...Monday comes..fridge knackered,new one required. Monday dinner time delivery for a new one from Currys was Wednesday, Monday teatime...thus is now Dec 27th! Plus how it goes with BG,if it can't be fixed you get a divvy up based on age of appliance,so about £100 towards a new one. Fine..which could take upto 5 days to appear. Not fine. So I decided to knock that palaver on the head and visit a local supplier.
In the meantime Mrs Clint decided she wanted the nice shiny free standing one rather than another integrated. I explained the difference...which involves taking out the integrated cabinet etc and making level the floor as we had not long had the floor tiled and it just cleared the base plinth. Yeah OK then she says...that was me last night...dismantling kitchen cupboards and tiling the floor..which I got done! New fridge freezer being delivered tomorrow. Phew!
As an upside...the much scorned brew fridge in the garage was set to 3c and has enabled us to keep a small supply of fresh stuff handy. It's seen in a different light now.
Heroic little brew fridge! 💪
 
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