summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
One of my gripes as well.
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Beer, revisited
- Thread starter SerenityNigh
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I've found in my experience most Hyde's beers are bland.
In my eyes a session ale is less than 4% or, if it's a nice beer, slightly above it. As I've said before, I keep away from the high 4%s and very rarely drink 5% plus.
I don't see the point about having only a few pints and then feeling it when you can have a fair few pints, not be chatting utter wham and be steady on your feet.
I took February mostly off from drinking anything because I've noticed a) in dying come Monday and b) I'm drinking a bit too much STRONG beers.
I reckon back in January I probably had between 11-13 pints of 8% DIPAs. Beyond delicious and completely deceptive but holy hell do they catch up fast.
Another reason why I like session ales. When I'm out in the pub, we drink at a fairly decent rate so at the end of it if I had drunk 4.5%+ beers it would all add up.
Next day I usually feel fine unless I've drank a sizeable amount, whereas those who've been on the stronger stuff often feel like they've been hit by a truck.
Personally, it doesn't add up to me really but each to their own I guess.
I’m the same mate, I generally try to stick below 4% for all the reasons you mentioned, plus you don’t get that horrible anxious feeling all day that the Irish call “ the Fear “.
The other issue I've been having are the New England IPAs. The hazy stuff just makes me feel like death the next day. West Coast IPAs tho? Had 8 pints on Sunday and felt a bit "off" yesterday.
The medical term for it is veisalgia coming from the Nosk word kveis, which translates as uneasiness following debauchery, combined with Green algia (pain).
Usually if I've had a real sesh, then only a pint (or three) and some real stodge, be it curry or whatnot, helps bring back my equilibrium and removes the 'fear'.
@riddick those cloudy beers, along with the darker red ales, are notorious for causing absolute mayhem to your head the next - must be the hops in them!
Talking of red Ales, do you remember Red Erik that they used to sell in the Dispensary when it was a Cains pub ?
It was only 6% but was like taking drugs.
When Dom had it, he ran the Erik Challenge, whereby anyone who beat the previous “ most pints of Erik drank “ didn’t have to pay a penny.
I was in there when a scaffolder from a nearby development drank 10 pints of Erik during a Friday afternoon session and had to be carried out unconscious - but got all his ale free.
Apparently he was in bed for 3 days and never made work on Monday lol
Think we've talked about this before... that stuff was the pinnacle of loopy juice! Real barmy ale! Yes it was pretty strong but for whatever reason it was a killer.
Choosing to drink ten pints of Red Erik literally sounds like you've signed your own death warrant. I apparently drank six once in Kelly's (Smithdown) and my god...
Think I bounced off everything on the journey home, collapsed on my living room floor and repeatedly asked the missus to ring me a taxi to get home as I lay there.
The barmaid in the Tap wouldn't serve you more than one or two because of how it made people go - even a few pints would cause your eyes to go blood red.
When at Belle Vale, we would buy cases for the lads in the office but it came with a warning not to have one and then drive home or at home alone with the wife.
Fond memories really of Red Erik and Faxe, with its take home two pint cans! To be fair, lots of fond memories of when Cains was a great brewery with their FA etc.
We drank it as it was a very cheap way to set the night up.
Three pints and you could go onto halves for the rest of the night !
If I ever had mates from out of town visiting I’d always introduce them to it, just to sit back and watch the effect it had on them !!!’
I can only image! I would normally only have one or two simply because it was like you were starting on +5 pints for each one you consumed - madness!
It was also the same with the FA where newcomers would be sat on their stool, enjoying this mighty fine nectar and claiming they didn't understand all the fuss.
They felt fine they would often claim! That was until they actually stood up of their stool, usually to go the pisser, where without fail their legs would go to jelly.
Knew a fair few people who'd end up going on their arse as they stood up or, even worse, just sliding of their stool in a drunk stupor as it finally kicked in.
On another note, I really miss Cains Bitter. Since they've disappeared, I still can't think of a proper bitter that I've had which has even came close to it!
A well kept London Pride is the only one I can think off - very few and far between though.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I'm as happy as a pig in Anfield, a new pub has opened five minutes' away ; previously I lived in a swamp of crap pubs.
I drank :
And a brewery I haven't come across - from Maghull.
All very well kept, which is half the battle. I'm very mellow, time for some sloe gin
I drank :
And a brewery I haven't come across - from Maghull.
All very well kept, which is half the battle. I'm very mellow, time for some sloe gin