Beer, revisited

[PhilM]

@summerisle Neptune are a really good brewery and a lot of their beers are getting into the local supermarkets.

 

[summerisle]

I assume this is not good ; but, as I'm pissed, a simple precis would be nice.

The Vultures Are Circling. Again.

“Just when you thought it was safe…….” Here go the Small Brewers Duty Reform Coagulation. Again. Forget the ABInbevs, Molson Coors of the world. In a UK context THIS is Big …

beersmanchester.wordpress.com

 

[PhilM]

Brilliant beer that I’m enjoying tonight.

 

[Super Kevin sheedy]

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Brilliant beer that I’m enjoying tonight.

Wetherspoons?

 

[PhilM]

Wetherspoons?

Edinburgh off Picton High Street.

 

[bigjonny]

Edinburgh off Picton High Street.

Where I was born bred and grew up, couldn't get a decent pint in those days.

 

[COYBL25]

Edinburgh off Picton High Street.

Seems to keep weird opening hours, never open during the day ?

 

[COYBL25]

Where I was born bred and grew up, couldn't get a decent pint in those days.

There’s virtually nothing left there now.

Even the Thatched House is all boarded up.

 

[COYBL25]

Last nights offering :

Dartmoor - Legend 4.4%

So nice I stayed on it all night and didn’t bother with anything else,

Sweet taste, similar to a high strength ale - like Old Peculiar, but with out the mad alcohol content.

Nice to see a beer from the South West up here too.

 

[ste d' indica]

In the Ship & Mitre this evening....

 

[COYBL25]

In the Ship & Mitre this evening....

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Sounds a bit sticky ?

 

[ste d' indica]

Sounds a bit sticky ?

Surprisingly not too sweet, not sickly sweet at all. It's a bit like a darker, slightly sweeter Liquid Mistress. Is good, but half' s enough.

 

[summerisle]

I'm like a bee to nectar when I see this.

 

[summerisle]

Nice, strong and very drinkable. According to the label, only brewed under a full lunar moon.
#neverhappens

Best bottled beer I've had in years. Lots of breweries babble on about fruitiness, but you can smell the fruit as soon as you open the bottle. The taste is gorgeous, full of damsons. Can't recommend it highly enough.

 

[PhilM]

Seems to keep weird opening hours, never open during the day ?

I think it's certain days (Monday and Wednesday spring to mind) where he doesn't open in the day at all, where the rest I think it is around 2pm that it opens.

Nevertheless, the cellar man Graham keeps a really good pint of ale with a fair selection always on and a cider too. It's a friendly enough place as well.

With regards to the High Street, it's changed an awful lot since I first had to walk around there and it was thriving: not all great pubs, but a great selection.

There's only really the Cock n' Bottle, Barley Mow's, The Clock, The PA, Crown Vaults and the Eddie left, with only one serving a good pint so more will go.