sidcow Posted December 6, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 6, 2020 6 minutes ago, Xela said: Butty Bach is one of my favourite 'traditional' ales. Citra, I have to be in the mood for. I like Citra and will always buy Oakham Ales where I can because of what they have done with The Bartons Arms, easily the finest pub in Birmingham and one of the finest pubs in the country which without for them would probably now be a hollow shell of a ruined building. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, sidcow said: I like Citra and will always buy Oakham Ales where I can because of what they have done with The Bartons Arms, easily the finest pub in Birmingham and one of the finest pubs in the country which without for them would probably now be a hollow shell of a ruined building. I quite like some of the Oakham range. When we were allowed such things as holidays back in 2019, I stopped around the Oakham area. I was close to pubs filled with their ales. Some are lovely. Funnily enough, I also stayed in the Wye Valley last year and sampled their range as well! *hic* Edited December 7, 2020 by Xela 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted December 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2020 One of my favourites MILLIONAIRE SALTED CARAMEL + CHOCOLATE + MILK STOUT 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted December 9, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) No I haven’t died, or worse stopped drinking beer, just got behind on the updates. Day 6: A cocktail, WTF? Ok they did say there would be a cocktail but still, WTF. It was fine. The Polish sour was very good. Day 7: I was grateful for this on Monday. Both pretty much NA at around 4%, a lovely gose and one of our favourites - a forest (very piney) APA. Day 8: Aren’t pale ales just worse IPAs? Not this one! Very good, and the colourful German NEIPA was even better. Day 9: A fruity gose and a small session IPA. Is it Monday again? Looking forward to these but we’ll probably go wild and add another can into the mix tonight! Edited December 9, 2020 by fightoffyour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 3 minutes ago, fightoffyour said: I agree that the 'Gose To Hollywood' is great, that's definitely one I go back to quite regularly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 07/12/2020 at 17:12, Xela said: SALTED CARAMEL + CHOCOLATE + MILK STOUT She's well into these atm. Walking home after dinner last night the realisation hit that she was drinking 10% beer out of a can, outside, in public. We used to mock these sort of people This is the favourite. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post markc Posted December 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2020 First visit to the Morrison's in stirchley this evening, instead of Sainsbury's or the co-op. Impressed with there range of ales in there so I treated myself to a few☺☺ 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Tonight 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 A remarkably nice Sangiovese from Aldi. Very tasty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 3 hours ago, markc said: First visit to the Morrison's in stirchley this evening, instead of Sainsbury's or the co-op. Impressed with there range of ales in there so I treated myself to a few☺☺ Let us know what you think! I have the Gem and the Oxford Gold quite often as 'support beers' between the special events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted December 12, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 12, 2020 On 09/12/2020 at 20:47, Xann said: She's well into these atm. Walking home after dinner last night the realisation hit that she was drinking 10% beer out of a can, outside, in public. We used to mock these sort of people This is the favourite. There is no love reaction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted December 12, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 12, 2020 (edited) Day 10: nice DDH IPA and a Brett IPA (BIPA or is that only Brut?) Day 11: Saison and a BA imperial stout Day 12: Coincidentally both 8.3%, a moccachino brown ale and a DIPA. Would’ve started on these already if I didn’t have to go for a drive. Oh and we enjoyed a few more last night. Festive tea towels are out too. Edited December 12, 2020 by fightoffyour 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 On 12/12/2020 at 01:02, HanoiVillan said: Let us know what you think! I have the Gem and the Oxford Gold quite often as 'support beers' between the special events. Don't expect a " I'm getting nettles or burnt Dunlop tyres aromas" type of review., but going from left to right Shepherd Neame. A very pleasant warning ale. Just about to change the predictive text from warning to warming but at 6.1 percent very drinkable. 7/10 Butty Bach my go to 9/10 St Peter's gatekeeper. Not for me lovely looking bottle though. 4/10 Oxford Gold. Another pleasant beer 6/10 Backyard Blonde. Don't normally like the citrus tasting beers but this one was very nice could have easily had a couple more 7/10 Yorkshire blonde really enjoyed this one will be going back for more 8/10 Gem Bath ales, like quite a few of the beers, the first time I've had this and won't be the last 7/10 Backyard Gold. Excellent, the backyard beers I found very similar to the Joules beers at the boldmere tap.. 8.5/10 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiffGreens Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Cracked open a couple of my stash for a virtual Christmas party over the weekend. Tiny Rebel's "Welcome to the Party Pal" Spoiler A nice tropical-fruity (though the good lady insisted all she could smell was the hops) number. Enjoyed it enough to regret not buying more than one can. Would happily run over shot-out-window-glass for another/10 Tiny Rebel's "Stay Puft: Honey Glazed Ham" Spoiler Pro: It smells a lot like like honey glazed ham like it probably ought to do. Con: WHY? I'm not sure whether this is just not my thing as it's not rotten apples in a can, but I'm at a loss as to why this came to be. There are certain foods; like the durian or those cans of fermented fish that have to be opened underwater lest anyone within a mile spontaneously vomits, that are considered by some to be great despite the horrendous stench. Not this, this thing just stinks, like properly made the house reek of smokey-treaclely-over-salted-meat (like someone decided to fire up a meat smoker indoors) after about 5 minutes and I'm sure I could still catch a whiff of it all over again the following morning. It didn't redeem itself with anything approaching a decent taste, where my palate was just overwhelmed with the smokey salt. Vile. I'm hoping the 3 other varieties (Irish Coffee, Chocolate Mint, Eggnog) are decent, otherwise I'm going to be seriously miffed at spending potential cider money on this... Pretty sure leaving an open can of this somewhere would be considered a breach of the Geneva Conventions/10 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bickster Posted December 15, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted December 15, 2020 Tonight a stout flavoured with stout things so it tastes like stout 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 I'd never tried Butty Bach until it was mentioned here. I got one at the weekend. Pretty decent. It's a nice palate cleanser between more exotic beers 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 I had 2 of these 3, Crazy Lines #01 and Heat. Heat is new from this brewery and absolutely banging. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Heat sounds right up my street. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Yes, that does sound good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 On 13/12/2020 at 20:49, markc said: Butty Bach my go to 9/10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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