Obscure beers

[collateral]

Annoyingly the UK brewed Sam isn't anything like the proper stuff, and they just put the price up. Bum.

Anyone know where I can buy Rogue this side of the water?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Brewed by "de garre" bar in Brugge & unfortunately not available anywhere else. Depending in which guy brews it its between 12 & 15%.

Once you've tried it, you'll be going back there as often as you can

[Gwagon111]

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Edited by Gwagon111 on Saturday 18th May 17:49

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Gwagon111 said:

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Very nice tipple!

[collateral]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Gwagon111 said:

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Very nice tipple!

I'd give that a crack on the strength of the name alone!

[Gwagon111]

collateral said:

I'd give that a crack on the strength of the name alone!

The pink elephants on the glass, and the bottle, together with the name of it, should tell you all you need to know .

[collateral]

Gwagon111 said:

collateral said:

I'd give that a crack on the strength of the name alone!

The pink elephants on the glass, and the bottle, together with the name of it, should tell you all you need to know .

Nice! I hadn't noticed l'elephant til you mentioned it.

What's the score with that Backbone stuff?

[Gwagon111]

collateral said:

What's the score with that Backbone stuff?

That, was an epic tasting real ale, all the way from the U.S. of A. I didn't think they could produce something like that. It was one of about 30 obscure ales / craft beers, from around the world, which featured in a month long 'real ale' festival, which was on at some of the Wetherspoons pubs near me. Some of them were one or two were some were absolutely . The Delirium Tremens is a favourite of mine, I always have a few of them whenever I'm in Parson's Green .

[wainy]

Gwagon111 said:

The pink elephants on the glass, and the bottle, together with the name of it, should tell you all you need to know .

I "lost" a night in Brussels once when they had that on tap..

[Swervin_Mervin]

Baryonyx said:

bigdom said:

You can pick it up in Waitrose, although I believe JS & Tesco stock it, its very good.

You can also get this from Fenwicks. And the Viru above, you can also get from Tesco.

You can get this pretty much anywhere these days tbh. Not that obscure. Their Porter is nice but rarely seen.

Tonight we've had Popperings Hommelbier, Vedett White, Oakham Ales' Scarlet Macaw, Thornbridge White Swan and a big bottle of Marble's Early Grey IPA.

yum

[Evoluzione]

Yum yum

[Colonial]

Not really obscure, but not the easiest to track down in the UK

[Swervin_Mervin]

Oooh, I like Coopers but not seen the Pale Ale.

Tonight we've been testing out the Bottle Stop's range of German bier. Sehr gut!

[Slink]

Evoluzione said:

Yum yum

you can get a beer in a box the size of a wine bottle?

whats it taste like? any good? im partial to hoppy ales, so do you recon i would like this?

[Flibble]

Hard to find as they don't bottle it and it's seasonal in barrels. Only seen it once up in Glen Coe.

[Lefty]

This is superb

[AJS-]

Managed to get through a box of these at the weekend (with help!) and it was very good. A bit cloudier and fuller than most of the larger type beers you get in Thailand, and half the price of Coopers!

[Colonial]

AJS- said:

Managed to get through a box of these at the weekend (with help!) and it was very good. A bit cloudier and fuller than most of the larger type beers you get in Thailand, and half the price of Coopers!

I found some of that at my local bottleshop.

I agree. Very good drop.

Been having Beer Leo lately for some reason.

S'ok

[AJS-]

I have drunk a lot of Leo over the last few years. Enjoyable, especially in hot weather, but it's nice to have a change, and Lao is a good change. The other options here are usually Singha or Heineken, neither of which do much for me! Asahi or Tiger are slightly better alternatives if you can find an upmarket 711!

[Evoluzione]

Slink said:

You can get a beer in a box the size of a wine bottle?

What does it taste like? Any good? I'm partial to hoppy ales, so do you reckon I would like this?

It's very expensive (£15) very exclusive (limited run of 7000), very smooth and very strong (10%).

I loved it, if it wasn't so expensive I would buy more. If you like Old Peculier you will like this as it's just like a stronger version, with strength comes taste (imo), personally I prefer quality over quantity.

We went up and did the two local breweries tours (on separate occasions), the OP from Theakstons is sublime from the taps in their bar, better than from any pub and certainly better than from a bottle which I don't like.

Read more here:

http://www.blacksheepbrewery.com/beers/progress_li...

http://protzonbeer.co.uk/beers/2012/12/black-sheep...