Beer?

[User169]

Amarillo from DeMo. A fairly pokey 9,2% DIPA. Nice piney finish.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Williams Bros Red Ale, all the way from Alloa. Always a good beer from this brewer, tried any of theirs @Marmion?

Tonight's wee selection, including Caesar Augustus from the aforementioned Williams Bros.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I kicked off with the beer on the left - Top Out Schankerl as I fancied the idea of a Bavarian style wheat beer as a change from my norm of snakebite and blackcurrant. Quite "cloudy" (I'm not good at all the technical terms) and very floral but also a bit banana-ish. Not unpleasant but not what I was expecting, the kind of thing you could drink chilled after cutting the grass on a warm evening and it would quench your thirst; tonight was not a warm evening and I didn't cut the grass. There's a live band playing in a marquee at the rugby club a field away from me and I fancy something a bit more in keeping with a live band in a tent.

I'll try the golf themed stuff next.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The Caesar Augustus was more enjoyable but it was neither one thing or the other, which is probably why it's called a "hybrid"; much the same as hybrid bikes it failed to satisfy - it started off with some nice deep aromas but the taste was very short-lived. It started off with promise but then disappeared.
The Eden brewery offering was nothing too great either.
So, I decided to get stuck into the cider and not bother with the Stathaven Festival Ale; but had it tonight. I should have bought 4 bottles of it rather than bothering with the rest. A proper beer, a good head, proper beer smell and proper beer taste.

I'm now off to have another Mor Tea Vicar?, which I commented on a few weeks ago - only 1 bottle left

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

...only 1 bottle left

Or not. It would appear my daughter's friend drank it last night...jeezo.

 

[User169]

Impressive tap list at the local today. Putting aside the pils and Guinness, there are ten Dutch beers, five of which are imp stouts, two of those being barrel-aged!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

They named one after me, Stout Git.

 

[User169]

Decided to kick-off with Uiltjes bourbon BA RIS. A bit raw from the barrel, but a bit of hop freshness still in there.

 

[User169]

They named one after me, Stout Git.

In Dutch, that means "naughty goat", so it seems they got you in two languages!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Gales HSB, nice English ale, it's very good.

Note matching glass...

 

[rich p]

I had this cool delightful concoction to slake a cyclist's thirst in the deep south Cevennes...Savernes in NE France. Tolerable but don't rush out to buy it

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Visited those very nice chaps at W & E today, bought a stack of beer and they gave me a glass! First up Kohinoor, a 5.5% IPA, very nice, just hoppy enough, nice finish.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Shlurp...

 

[User169]

Very much approving of the glass!

 

[User169]

Something a bit special.

Fullers Vintage Ale 2008 as supplied by @threebikesmcginty

Very yeasty, dried fruit, but still some citrus hoppy flavour. Thats really good!