Beer?

[tyred]

I've been looking forward to this for months

 

[Gunk]

What is it?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What is it?

I'm guessing that it's a draught Guinness.

 

[Gunk]

Or Murphy’s

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Or Murphy’s

True, could be, but I seem to remember @tyred has a liking for Guinness.

This isn't a Guinness ...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

☝is a full in your face 10% imperial stout, crammed full with coconut, cacao and vanilla with more than just a touch of a dry stout bitterness. There is absolutely nothing subtle about this beer!

 

[stephec]

This is my new favourite stout, oh my!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

This is my new favourite stout, oh my!

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Did that have a widget in the can? Siren did a "hard pour" version of their nitro Broken Dream but it sold out before I got round to ordering it.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It's a lemon, ginger and Szechuan pepper berliner Weiss from Barcelona. A bit of zing but not quite enough tang. Good ginger though.

 

[stephec]

Did that have a widget in the can? Siren did a "hard pour" version of their nitro Broken Dream but it sold out before I got round to ordering it.

No widget, it just pours nice and smooth.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

As it's that Oktoberfest time of the year, I thought I'd sample some of Anspach and Hobday's German-style beers. First off with a Rauchbier, dark and with a smoked peaty maltiness that's making me think of Islay whiskies.

 

[stephec]

I had a rauch in a place in Wigan a few years ago and couldn't really get on with it, really heavily smoked.

I had to force my pint down, and the half that my lad left as well.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I had a rauch in a place in Wigan a few years ago and couldn't really get on with it, really heavily smoked.

I had to force my pint down, and the half that my lad left as well.

This will take the smoke away....

Another A&H beer, completely outside the Oktoberfest tradition but very well brewed.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

This new normal business! This Talus IPA comes out of the can tasting of so much pine resin it reminds me of pub beers that still have a taste of detergent in the unrinsed glass. After that, it's a sweet and bitter hit of pretty complex flavours. Very full flavoured.

(The head owes much to the bumpy ride home)

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The blurb on the can says it's a light and fluffy pale ale. It certainly pours fluffy. Galaxy hops. Big rounded flavour for a pale, vague hints of CBD.