Beer, revisited

[dholliday]

Croatian beer is decent...enjoying one now.

cans are behind draught & glass bottles, but sometimes you have to make do with what you can find:





@summerisle remember this picture?

 

[summerisle]

Croatian beer is decent...enjoying one now.

cans are behind draught & glass bottles, but sometimes you have to make do with what you can find:

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@summerisle remember this picture?

I can barely remember yesterday, you'll have to help me out. lol

 

[dholliday]

I can barely remember yesterday, you'll have to help me out. lol

you posted that retro-ad in one of our picture-threads...a few years ago! me & my beer-loving half instantly loved it. printed it out and it's been on our kitchen wall ever since.

 

[summerisle]

you posted that retro-ad in one of our picture-threads...a few years ago! me & my beer-loving half instantly loved it. printed it out and it's been on our kitchen wall ever since.

Aah, my halcyon days. lol Still doesn't ring a bell. Never mind, I'll have forgotten by tomorrow.

 

[ste d' indica]

Outstanding wheat beer from Brighton's Unbarred Brewery. Im sat at a nice bar in Bath called the Kingsmead St Bottle, bit tucked away which is always good here.

 

[ste d' indica]

Oh yes!





Not exactly a winter beer but Exmoore Beast on tap, ave it! 6.6% of actually relatively light porter with a nice hit of licorice and dark treacle. Lovely beer.

 

[summerisle]

Oh yes!


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Not exactly a winter beer but Exmoore Beast on tap, ave it! 6.6% of actually relatively light porter with a nice hit of licorice and dark treacle. Lovely beer.

I do like Exmoor beers, but I've never had that, just a little jealous.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Cigar City - sounds like an abandoned gold mining town. lol

Their stouts are the stuff of legend

 

[ste d' indica]

An absolutely delightful pint of nutty, malty bitter in The Bank Tavern in central Briz, a fine hostelry indeed. I am off work this week BTW, not just decided to take up daytime drinking in a quest to get myself sacked... again.

 

[ste d' indica]

Phone died on my beer excursions yesterday but wound up on an afternoon session in The Llandogger Trow, a 17th century dockside ale house, that had been a sorley neglected property for a long time under Brewer's Fayre. I'd heard rumblings of a change of ownership and sure enough Bloomsbury are steering the old ship in a new direction. With some 30+ beers on the bar including a solid core of German lagers and a nice line in rum based cocktails.








Had a pint of Timothy Taylor Mild, another brown ale, and a Blood Orange IPA.

I'm really pleased to see its coming back to its rightful place as a must visit on the competitive Bristol pub scene after closing in 2019, and its no doubt that the explosion of the other King Street power houses has forced it to up its game.

If you're local, visiting or revisiting @Lanolin please drop by and have a tankard. This 350 year old tavern is steeped in legend, Blackbeard is said to have been a regular, Robert Louis Stevenson based the Admiral Benbow on the Llandogger and Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe after drinking with Alexander Selkirk here. Its also haunted by some 15 ghosts. I'll be returning for their twice a month sea shanty night and their motto is:

Drinking rum at 10 am doesn't make you an alcoholic, it makes you a pirate.

Now that's a pub.

 

[summerisle]

Phone died on my beer excursions yesterday but wound up on an afternoon session in The Llandogger Trow, a 17th century dockside ale house, that had been a sorley neglected property for a long time under Brewer's Fayre. I'd heard rumblings of a change of ownership and sure enough Bloomsbury are steering the old ship in a new direction. With some 30+ beers on the bar including a solid core of German lagers and a nice line in rum based cocktails.


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Had a pint of Timothy Taylor Mild, another brown ale, and a Blood Orange IPA.

I'm really pleased to see its coming back to its rightful place as a must visit on the competitive Bristol pub scene after closing in 2019, and its no doubt that the explosion of the other King Street power houses has forced it to up its game.

If you're local, visiting or revisiting @Lanolin please drop by and have a tankard. This 350 year old tavern is steeped in legend, Blackbeard is said to have been a regular, Robert Louis Stevenson based the Admiral Benbow on the Llandogger and Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe after drinking with Alexander Selkirk here. Its also haunted by some 15 ghosts. I'll be returning for their twice a month sea shanty night and their motto is:

Drinking rum at 10 am doesn't make you an alcoholic, it makes you a pirate.

Now that's a pub.

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Looks great that.

 

[ste d' indica]

Italian pils from Moor in a 'live' stylee. Really nice with a lemony, yeasty, wheat beer sort of flavour, bit like a lemon risotto (but better than sounds!).





Crackin art deco can as well.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

My general go to these days is a hazy or New England IPA. This one (Faith by Northern Monk) is pretty decent, and most of the supermarkets stock it now. I also love a good sour, but I get the feeling that the ones I’m getting in the supermarkets are the thin edge of the wedge. Got a decent local independent bottle shop, but no sours - it’s all local IPAs and stouts/porters. I’ll be well up for some of that in winter, but right now, I’m craving a decent sour. Any recommendations, and more to the point, where to get them? ?

 

[ste d' indica]

So much going on with this wee fella I barely know where to start. Milk chocolate and salted caramel on the nose, a little marshmallow as well, sharp slightly astringent black toffee taste, with a bit of cola, then it dries with a raisin hit and a touch of coffee. Delicious.
Powerful jedi.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

Been getting the majority of my weekend beers from Tesco for a while now, but increasingly, I’ve been going to Sainsburys. These are two good reasons… ??