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deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
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Armonmy Way
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Sampling a plum and ginger cider tonight. Very nice it is too :smile:
I can imagine those flavours going well together. There was a time when you'd have got booted off this thread for a post about cider but I slipped in a post about mead more recently and nobody sent me off to the ''Mead?'' thread.

I'm currently sipping my 2nd Northern Monk IPA, the first was a Quarantini IPA and now it's a Safehouse IPA.
 

SkipdiverJohn

Deplorable Brexiteer
Location
London
There was a time when you'd have got booted off this thread for a post about cider

Nothing wrong with cider, so long as you steer clear of the gassy industrial chemical stuff like Strongbow. I got my hands on some Gwatkins last year that had red berries in the mix and it was absolutely lovely - and I'm not even a big fan of fruit flavoured beers as a rule. This stuff was just too drinkable to leave alone though, which wasn't good because I had to ride a bike afterwards.
 

bitsandbobs

Über Member
What's the oldest but still drinkable beer you have consumed? I've just finished a bottle of Proper Job that I found in my overspill beer crate in the back bedroom. Normally I try to drink the oldest beers in stock so they don't get out of date, but somehow this and a couple of other PJ's got missed. It's best by date was November 2015! :eek:
Not one to be easily deterred, I decided to drink it anyway. When opened, it was extremely gassy, the equal of a any keg lager, and even though poured very slowly it had a head like an ice cream cone. I left the last half an inch in the bottle as there was a lot of solids in it. I was bracing myself, expecting it to be foul - but surprisingly it was still drinkable. Not the best Proper Job I've ever tasted by a long way, but it wasn't actually bad at all, which considering it was brewed in 2014 is a good result! The hop flavour was noticeably attenuated, much less prominent than normal. I bet the alcohol content was well above the official 5%, if the amount of gas is anything to go by. Clearly quite a bit of secondary fermentation took place during the last six years.!

I've tasted some 20 year old geuze which was very drinkable and I have a bottle at home which is 10 ten years old. A decent geuze should last a few decades.

I've got a beer I brewed 3 years ago which is sitting in a fermenter in my bedroom waiting to be bottled.
 

stephec

Legendary Member
Location
Bolton
What's the oldest but still drinkable beer you have consumed? I've just finished a bottle of Proper Job that I found in my overspill beer crate in the back bedroom. Normally I try to drink the oldest beers in stock so they don't get out of date, but somehow this and a couple of other PJ's got missed. It's best by date was November 2015! :eek:
Not one to be easily deterred, I decided to drink it anyway. When opened, it was extremely gassy, the equal of a any keg lager, and even though poured very slowly it had a head like an ice cream cone. I left the last half an inch in the bottle as there was a lot of solids in it. I was bracing myself, expecting it to be foul - but surprisingly it was still drinkable. Not the best Proper Job I've ever tasted by a long way, but it wasn't actually bad at all, which considering it was brewed in 2014 is a good result! The hop flavour was noticeably attenuated, much less prominent than normal. I bet the alcohol content was well above the official 5%, if the amount of gas is anything to go by. Clearly quite a bit of secondary fermentation took place during the last six years.!
I bet you didn't venture too far from a toilet?
 

SkipdiverJohn

Deplorable Brexiteer
Location
London
I bet you didn't venture too far from a toilet?

Funnily enough, I suffered no adverse reaction at all afterwards in the lavatorial department. I suspect the outcome might have been different though if I'd drunk the last mouthful in the bottle that was full of sediment. It was even murkier than the dregs of a bottle of Worthingtons White Shield, a beer laxative par excellence.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
Siren have been playing around with their award-winning Broken Dream. I missed their first variation but got
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an order in on time for the 2nd. Twisted Breakfast Stout. Rum and maple wood. I'm glad I got a few in!
 

bitsandbobs

Über Member
I hope it's got a high OG - otherwise I wouldn't have thought it would keep very well!

I guess it's around 6 or 7%. Mind you, it's not just the ABV. Geuze is only 5% and will keep for a very long time, but it's mashed with a big slug of unmalted wheat to produce a lot of dextrins in the wort.
 

bitsandbobs

Über Member
Were getting some super beer from the UK in Belgium right now. Not sure what a Pavement Licker is, bit this is Pavement Licker from Verdant. No one in Belgium can do beer like this and this one was canned only three weeks ago. Not cheap.

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deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
Were getting some super beer from the UK in Belgium right now. Not sure what a Pavement Licker is, bit this is Pavement Licker from Verdant. No one in Belgium can do beer like this and this one was canned only three weeks ago. Not cheap.

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Verdant beers are pretty hard to find but they've done a few excellent ones, the rest are merely pretty good.
 

Landsurfer

Veteran
It's got to be Adnams Broadside .... on draft ...
I had an email conversation with their head brewer about the considerable difference between the tastes and flavours of the draft and bottled Broadside ....
" Their completely different beers" ..was the bottom line .....
He pointed out that you cannot bottle a draft beer ... it won't keep, so the bottled version of any draft will always be an essentially different taste..
What a nice chap ....
 
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