Beer?

[Spartak]

Visited the SW CAMRA pub of the year last night.... The Fleece at Hillesley.

A very nice pub with great ale & food on offer.

Great pint of Welsh Pale from the Glamorgan Brewing Co.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Visited the SW CAMRA pub of the year last night.... The Fleece at Hillesley.

A very nice pub with great ale & food on offer.

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Great pint of Welsh Pale from the Glamorgan Brewing Co.

Do they bump up their prices so you can get a proper fleecing?

 

[User169]

Planes usually have absolutely useless beer options.

Step forward Brussels Airlines. Amazing choice, managed to drink several of these. Best was Chimay.

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Spot the supplier! Every beer on that list is an AbInBev beer with the exception of Chimay.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Instead of Stoptober, I'm doing Hoptober and I got it off to a good start at the Euston Tap yesterday, with a pint of Hobson's Mild (eminently smooth and quaffable) and a half of Chorlton Lemon and Lavender Sour. That's the first time I've had lavender in a beer, but Chorlton have never disappointed me so far and it sounded interesting. It was! The lavender added a pleasing floral note without being overly obtrusive...join the Lavender Hill Mob today.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Instead of Stoptober, I'm doing Hoptober and I got it off to a good start at the Euston Tap yesterday, with a pint of Hobson's Mild (eminently smooth and quaffable) and a half of Chorlton Lemon and Lavender Sour. That's the first time I've had lavender in a beer, but Chorlton have never disappointed me so far and it sounded interesting. It was! The lavender added a pleasing floral note without being overly obtrusive...join the Lavender Hill Mob today.

I've had a few Chorlton sours this year. None of them have been strongly sour, they're a good deal more subtle than many other breweries' versions. They also used sage to good effect in their Blackberry and Sage sour, which I had back in August.

 

[theclaud]

Visited the SW CAMRA pub of the year last night.... The Fleece at Hillesley.

A very nice pub with great ale & food on offer.

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Great pint of Welsh Pale from the Glamorgan Brewing Co.

The Fleece is run by pals of mine, who formerly ran the Mumbles Ale House!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Anspach and Hobday have a tap takeover at the local and it's all Oktoberfest themed. Das Rauchbier is rich in smoked malt (though maybe less smoky than their old smoked brown ale). Good. Das German Session IPA - not quite a German name - is excellent and die berliner Weisse is a rather good sauer. It's far too early to be enjoying beer in my book but I did, nevertheless.

 

[Daddy Pig]

Peanut Butter Jelly Porter...

Wierd... Jammy on the nose which comes across slightly sour in the mouth with peanut butter thrown in for good measure but reasonably subtly.

It seems to work well as a Porter. Those crazy Scots up at Fierce brewery...

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Peanut Butter Jelly Porter...Wierd

Really? Who'd have thunked it

 

[theclaud]

Spoilt for choice. So I had one of each.

 

[User169]

La Chouffe in a tin..

 

[User169]

Bike themed beer. “A bloc” is riding on the rivet. Seriously good flavour for a 1.2% beer. Alpine herbs too ftw.

 

[Stephenite]

A Belgian has started up a microbrewery not far from our place in Telemark. First off is Fjonebryggeri's Belgian IPA. Cloudy but light and fresh.

 

[srw]

Alpine herbs

Those well-known Indian flavourings.

It hasn't taken long for "IPA" to lose any meaning it ever had. Only a few years ago it stood for a pale strong beer, that was probably extremely hoppy if it wasn't Greene King. Now, with black and red IPAs and this sort of low-ABV thing with added herbs, and all the fruit variations, it just means "beer".

 

[User169]

Those well-known Indian flavourings.

It hasn't taken long for "IPA" to lose any meaning it ever had. Only a few years ago it stood for a pale strong beer, that was probably extremely hoppy if it wasn't Greene King. Now, with black and red IPAs and this sort of low-ABV thing with added herbs, and all the fruit variations, it just means "beer".

I only take it to indicate a highly hopped beer these days. It used to mean bitterness too, but not so much anymore what with NEIPAs and 0 IBU IPAs.

Personally I think it should be a pale ale - black IPA is just daft.

On the whole though I’m enjoying all the new variants and it’s always a mistake to get to hung up on labels. “Saison” or “ grisette” anyone?