UK Weekend Beerage

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  1. EmperorBevis

    EmperorBevis Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,338) Sep 25, 2011 England
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    Holt's Manchester Brown Ale
    Is this half done or something?
     
    #1781 EmperorBevis, May 18, 2013
  2. EmperorBevis

    EmperorBevis Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,338) Sep 25, 2011 England
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    Wood's Pot of Gold, well worth the 99p
     
    #1782 EmperorBevis, May 18, 2013
  3. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    Started off with Daleside's Jewel of Ripon, and am now on Outlaw's Mad Hatter. Tasty - an IPA with jasmine and green tea, though the hops dominate this one.
     
    #1783 jazzyjeff13, May 18, 2013
  4. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    Boooo - shame. Still, I supose it's not really that surprising - look what happened to Hardcore at Sainsburys. I don't think the general public are into the really hoppy brews, and supermarkets probably just make decisions based on sales figures....

    In other news, Partizan's 9-Grain Porter. Nomalicious....
     
    #1784 jazzyjeff13, May 18, 2013
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  5. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    The legacy of the weirdy beardy type camra members. My friends dad - about 60 odd - complained that a regular bitter from a local brewery was "too hoppy". He, like many, seems to just like a general "beer" taste, in his ale.
     
    #1785 CwrwAmByth, May 19, 2013
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  6. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    Possibly, though I suspect CAMRA members aren't that keen on bottled beers anyway. I reckon the average 'adventurous' beer drinker will have tastes that encompass hoppy brews like SNPA, but not much beyond. Torpedo is a step too far....

    Finishing up the evening with a Vitus - yeah!
     
    #1786 jazzyjeff13, May 19, 2013
  7. Aye

    Aye Initiate (0) Jul 21, 2011 England

    Her indoors grabbed me a bottle of this from the bottle shop in York, working my way through the pale and hoppies to get to it atm.
     
    #1787 Aye, May 19, 2013
  8. ImperialStoat

    ImperialStoat Initiate (0) May 20, 2009 Ireland

    Huzzah. I have a bottle of this in the fridge.
     
    #1788 ImperialStoat, May 19, 2013
  9. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    From one of my books about Medieval England:

    "On Richard I's crusade the natives were astonished at the amount (of ale) the English consumed, and their custom of draining toasts to the sound of horns and trumpets. Similarly Gerald of Wales in 1199 emphasized their reputation for drunkenness and double-dealing. The author of the Dialogue of the Exchequer blamed the frequency of crime in England on "the innumerate riches of the kingdom and the innate drunkenness of the inhabitants.""

    Go history!
     
    #1789 CwrwAmByth, May 19, 2013
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  10. Aye

    Aye Initiate (0) Jul 21, 2011 England

    Available on cask at one of my usual haunts atm.
     
    #1790 Aye, May 19, 2013
  11. Zimbo

    Zimbo Pooh-Bah (2,305) Aug 7, 2010 Scotland
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    Beer history. Love it. Amazing how little things change in time.
     
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  12. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    The Neolithic Scots used to put hallucinogenic herbs and plants in their beer. One (possibly) actually contained an early form of cannabis!
     
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  13. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    ISO: Magic Mushroom Mild. Bet Marquis would love it....

    Just finished a Hambleton Stud, and am now on a Pyramid Hefe. Not brilliant.
     
    #1793 jazzyjeff13, May 19, 2013
  14. reprob8

    reprob8 Initiate (0) May 22, 2008 England

    just spent a week in the Lake District, many fine beers but the stand out was a sublime pint of Hawkshead Bitter at The Blacksmiths Arms @ Broughton Mill.
     
    #1794 reprob8, May 19, 2013
  15. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,036) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    I had the Adnams Tally Ho Reserve..weirdish but good and Harvey's IS...that blew me the feck away!
     
    #1795 Bitterbill, May 19, 2013
  16. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    Tiny Rebel's Urban IPA. TR has finally made an appearance in York....

    Hoppy stuff!
     
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  17. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    More Scandinavian craziness with Mikkeller coffe ipa. Along with the Baltic Frontier, I would say they have the edge on experimental beer.
     
    #1797 CwrwAmByth, May 20, 2013
  18. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    Though lots of countries get credit:
    A Danish beer brewed in a Belgian brewery using American hops and Ethiopian coffee from a Swedish roasting house
     
    #1798 CwrwAmByth, May 20, 2013
  19. jazzyjeff13

    jazzyjeff13 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,865) Nov 6, 2010 England
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    A good beer that one. I thought it was too crazy to work, but Mikkeller seem to have blended the components perfectly.

    So far I've had a St. Peter's Golden ale and am now quaffing a Daleside Stout....
     
    #1799 jazzyjeff13, May 20, 2013
  20. CwrwAmByth

    CwrwAmByth Grand Pooh-Bah (3,113) Jan 24, 2011 England
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    Yeah, it tastes wrong at first because you're so used to the coffee in a beer being in a stout, then it starts to merge and the coffee bitterness and hop bitterness work so well as one.
     
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