That is a fantastic selection @cafcbrown. I love Rochefort, Kwak, Chimay and St Bernadus. Sorry to see Duvel and Goudale going down the hoppy route, but that's progress I suppose - OK if they keep their original recipes going as well.
Not long back from France Goudale still doing the 7.2% blonde.
Tonight’s pregame drink - Casacade Mayan Bourbonic - 11.2%. Sour imperial Porter, aged 2 years in bourbon and wines casks with dates, and the cocoa, cinnamon and cayenne added.
Sourer than they give it credit for, with a little heat and nice light chocolate flavor. I expected it to be quite heavy, but it’s really easy to drink.
I'm off alcohol pending a surgical procedure, and have had no beer for almost six weeks. It's awful! So I've had a look into alcohol free stuff. Gave this a try, £5 for 4 in tesco, and it may be just that I've missed a beer but I really like it. Very hoppy, great piney/citrussy aroma and backs it up with decent flavour. Very nice chilled and I'd happily drink this all evening if I were driving. Recommended. Several others in their range including stout and brown ale but they dont seem to be so widely available.
As a PS, I've also found Guinness 0.0 to be decently tasty too. I think the bitterness in this and the one above covers the lack of alcohol much better than you find with low/no alcohol lagers, but I'm not really a lager fan in any case
I hope you are recovering well, Hans. I've never been a fan of low/no, preferring orange juice if I can't drink. I have a friend though who when driving would prefer these beers, he says it makes him feel more a part of the group if it looks like he is drinking the same thing as the rest. He likes Adnam's Ghost Ship 0.5% - might be worth a try.
Cheers @stig. I've found ghost ship 0.5% to be pretty good too, but most low/no beers really lack decent bitterness and often have a cloying malty aftertaste which I don't enjoy. Big Drop doesn't quite match a real beer but it's as close as I've found, and MUCH better than most AF alternatives. The ingredients list is very clean too. I hate sweet drinks like coke and I'm already glugging fruit juices, so an enjoyable near beer is a valuable thing at the moment. I'm still allowed red wine in very limited quantities, and am scouring Google to find evidence of the health benefits of stouts and porters. Mrs Idle is currently in charge and favours a very strict regime.
Brooklyn Special Effects would be my recommendation for a low/no. Really tasty
Thanks. Think my local supermarket has it, I'll ask her to get some
https://steadydrinker.com/ Is a website with hundreds of reviews of these style of beers on there. I found it useful when I was doing my own period off the booze.
Happy Friday. A couple of night in Portland, Maine. Novare Res Is having a Tilquin day tomorrow - at least 10. Quick beer at Bissell Brothers and pick up some cans. This one is Reciprocal, all Australian hops, 7.3%, very smooth and fruity. It claims 80IBU, but I can’t find them. Maybe my tastebuds have given up.
No pix for the next two, as they all look the same (pink or not pink).
Saison Lambic Fruits Res Bois was a blend of unnamed fruits. The fruit was a bit more pronounced, but still not overpowering. This one was a bit more acidic.
After a couple of Tums to keep everything vaguely under control, Coing, which uses quince. I’ve only had quince in jam, so I was expecting something a bit sweeter. Nope, if anything a bit more acidic than the last one with a dry finish. And I still don’t know what quince tastes like.
Had a few beers in the Porterhouse in Covent Garden yesterday, the Oyster Stout was particularly nice. Also had a red beer (nitro) which wasn't bad either around £6 a pint which isn't to bad for where it is.
Went to a real ale pub yesterday, not done that for ages. I've been totally sucked in to the crazy world of craft beer, so tend to drink over crazy, over priced and over strength beer and sours and I love it. However, had a few pints of Wibblers All Change last night, 4.2% and only £4.40 a pint (only as id beend thinking in the City on Friday night Jesus my poor bank account) and it was lovely. Felt proper old school.
Skeptical of @SporadicAddick's assertion, I just had a google. Turns out only the branding is the same, it's been relaunched under new British ownership, but is brewed in Germany under the purity laws and has won an iwc gold medal for best lager. I don't think it's going to taste like the old 3% stuff I drank as a 15 year old. Will keep an eye out for it.
Skeptical of @SporadicAddick's assertion, I just had a google. Turns out only the branding is the same, it's been relaunched under new British ownership, but is brewed in Germany under the purity laws and has won an iwc gold medal for best lager. I don't think it's going to taste like the old 3% stuff I drank as a 15 year old. Will keep an eye out for it.
I think we agree, hence my line "better than it used to be"...This is very different from the weak UK brewed piss of the 80's. It's also a premium price relative to other lagers but IMO deservedly so.
ps, I think its online only - you won't see it in supermarkets or in pubs. pps, the picture is from my kitchen - looking forward to tapping my 5L mini keg...
Got carried away in the beer shop. Got a vocation Imperial stout with coconut, clearly infringing Bounty bars (and was 10%) and a farmhouse lambic type beer. Both delicious if hideously overpriced.
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$14 for 8ozs will stop you drinking too much.
Several others in their range including stout and brown ale but they dont seem to be so widely available.
I hate sweet drinks like coke and I'm already glugging fruit juices, so an enjoyable near beer is a valuable thing at the moment.
I'm still allowed red wine in very limited quantities, and am scouring Google to find evidence of the health benefits of stouts and porters. Mrs Idle is currently in charge and favours a very strict regime.
A cracking drop, Burton is going to be hazy tomorrow.
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At 7.4% this is being avoided!
NEIPA 6.5% by Amundsen Brewery in Oslo. Bags of tropical, fruity flavour but still beery enough too.
ps, I think its online only - you won't see it in supermarkets or in pubs.
pps, the picture is from my kitchen - looking forward to tapping my 5L mini keg...
https://www.hofmeister.co.uk/age-gate?source=https://www.hofmeister.co.uk/