Beer?

[John the Monkey]

One for those of you who do the whole social media thing;

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[John the Monkey]

Woodlands Brewery American Pale Ale (4.3% abv)

Bought a bit ago from Microbrewery Outlet's stall at a local food festival. A lovely aroma, which is weirdly vanilla/toffeeish when you think of the style of beer. The taste is mostly the bitter, slightly sour hops - I'd put these on the grapefruity side of the hop taste spectrum, but the vanilla note that characterises the aroma comes through, fading into the aftertaste which is mostly, but not completely, the dry hops, and lingers nicely.

I like this one a lot - I think "complex" may be overselling it a bit, but those vanilla notes alongside the grapefruity hops are a bit unusual, and very nice.

 

[rich p]

Woodlands Brewery American Pale Ale (4.3% abv)

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Bought a bit ago from Microbrewery Outlet's stall at a local food festival. A lovely aroma, which is weirdly vanilla/toffeeish when you think of the style of beer. The taste is mostly the bitter, slightly sour hops - I'd put these on the grapefruity side of the hop taste spectrum, but the vanilla note that characterises the aroma comes through, fading into the aftertaste which is mostly, but not completely, the dry hops, and lingers nicely.

I like this one a lot - I think "complex" may be overselling it a bit, but those vanilla notes alongside the grapefruity hops are a bit unusual, and very nice.

You're a poet JtM!

May God forgive me but my virus is pleading for a whisky mac. Who am I to fight it?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Punk IPA, slightly chilled to try out my new twin walled glass, keeps cold stuff cold and hot stuff hot, note the gap between the beer and the edge of the glass - smart enough!

 

[rich p]

Punk IPA, slightly chilled to try out my new twin walled glass, keeps cold stuff cold and hot stuff hot, note the gap between the beer and the edge of the glass - smart enough!

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Is it glass or plastic ?

 

[rich p]

p.s. What would you want to keep hot in a glass glass?

 

[Crackle]

p.s. What would you want to keep hot in a glass glass?

Your hoppy latte

 

[rich p]

Your hoppy latte

Better latte than never? - or better never than latte, as far as I'm concerned!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's glass, please direct all other technical queries to someone else.

 

[John the Monkey]

p.s. What would you want to keep hot in a glass glass?

Mochachinos.

Probably.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

 

[Aperitif]

Nice picture, Ed. Don't tell me...it has that distinctive taste of chocolate eclairs and...coffee. Happy Christmas the Beer thread. I'll be trying for a Kernel Tuesday and a variety Monday. depends how my French people take to it...

 

[User169]

Charles Wells/Dogfish Head mashup. Not at all successful. Standard issue brown beer with an odd faint citrus hint.

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Did a bit of reading to see what was going on here. Apparently, Dogfish Head make some kind of syrup from their 60 min IPA which is then added to one of C+Y's beers. Very odd and seems to have been a bit of a disaster judging by what you see on the internets. Would have been better for Dogfish Head to ship some of the real stuff to Europe.

 

[John the Monkey]

Staffordshire Brewery's Double Sunset Ale (5% abv)

Another local brew, from Leek. The first taste is fruity peach, with a bitter undertone. The bitterness is a bit more pronounced in the aftertaste which lingers, but not as much as some of the drier hopped beers I've tasted recently . Another tasty, nicely balanced, easy drinking sort of a beer, although that 5% abv is a bit rich for a session beer for me!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I've just realised that @John the Monkey pics all have 2 glasses with beer in them - surely he's not one of these strange chaps that has someone to share his beer with...jeezo, what is the world coming to.