Craft beer

[Gompo]

SimonTheSailor said:

Quite a few beers/brewery's are changing their labels/cans - bloody annoying

When I go to buy NEW beers and find out it's the same old st that I've drunk before I'm really annoyed

I'm not sure it's at all relevant to your annoyance but your post has made me wonder something. I drink craft beer every so often but it's not my staple so it's not something I've ever thought about.

Will a different season/'vintage' of hops (or even yeast and other ingredients) noticeably change the taste of beer year to year? Obviously it does with wine and cider.

[bad company]

I’m just back from the USA and used a big chunk of my baggage allowance to bring home Stone IPA & Lagunitas.

[RizzoTheRat]

Gompo said:

Will a different season/'vintage' of hops (or even yeast and other ingredients) noticeably change the taste of beer year to year? Obviously it does with wine and cider.

I asked this on a brewery tour the other week (Crooked Spider), they buy their hops ground and formed in to pellets, and the suppliers blend them to get a pretty consistent product over time.

[ecsrobin]

bad company said:

I’m just back from the USA and used a big chunk of my baggage allowance to bring home Stone IPA & Lagunitas.

you can buy both of those in the UK.

[bad company]

ecsrobin said:

bad company said:

I’m just back from the USA and used a big chunk of my baggage allowance to bring home Stone IPA & Lagunitas.

you can buy both of those in the UK.

Not easily anymore. Unless you know better?

[ecsrobin]

bad company said:

Not easily anymore. Unless you know better?

A quick google shows up a few stores in the UK with stock.

[Rollin]

bad company said:

I’m just back from the USA and used a big chunk of my baggage allowance to bring home Stone IPA & Lagunitas.

Got very drunk on pints of Stone IPA in Death Valley once. Nearly fell off the bar stool. Didn't realise it was 7% at the time

[bad company]

ecsrobin said:

bad company said:

Not easily anymore. Unless you know better?

A quick google shows up a few stores in the UK with stock.

I just looked. It’s almost twice the price of buying in the USA, good to know it’s available though.

[NSNO]

I had this on the weekend. Absolutely sublime and so smooth and balanced for a seventeen percent beer.

[sean ie3]

Not really a strong beer drinker but this at 10% went down nicely,

I've another of theirs at 8% in the fridge, this could lead to something.

[Zio Di Roma]

sean ie3 said:

Not really a strong beer drinker but this at 10% went down nicely,

I've another of theirs at 8% in the fridge, this could lead to something.

What is that then?

Chouffe Blonde is the only craft beer I drink and it is lethally punchy.

[sean ie3]

Packs a pleasant punch.

[Zio Di Roma]

sean ie3 said:

Packs a pleasant punch.

I have a fridge full of it. It is beer heroin. Just one at the start of the evening and I am fighting to stay awake, if I drink anything at all afterwards.

[bad company]

ecsrobin said:

bad company said:

I’m just back from the USA and used a big chunk of my baggage allowance to bring home Stone IPA & Lagunitas.

you can buy both of those in the UK.

I’m ready to buy some more but struggling to find either available now.

[ecsrobin]

bad company said:

I’m ready to buy some more but struggling to find either available now.

https://londonliquorstore.com/products/lagunitas-ipa-12-x-355ml?variant=40324828725386

Spar also sell it.

https://www.leftfieldbeer.co.uk/product-page/stone...

Edited by ecsrobin on Thursday 4th April 20:55

[badgerade]

bad company said:

ecsrobin said:

bad company said:

I’m just back from the USA and used a big chunk of my baggage allowance to bring home Stone IPA & Lagunitas.

you can buy both of those in the UK.

Not easily anymore. Unless you know better?

Lagunitas is fully owned by Heineken - not seen it in cans/bottles for a while but it does seem to be creeping into pubs. You can also get it from Beerwulf to go in the Sub or Blade keg dispenser thingies: https://www.beerwulf.com/en-gb/p/brewers/lagunitas...

[Master Bean]

£10 from my local bottle shop and £3 from Asda. Quite the difference but both are solid breweries.

[NWTony]

badgerade said:

Lagunitas is fully owned by Heineken - not seen it in cans/bottles for a while but it does seem to be creeping into pubs. You can also get it from Beerwulf to go in the Sub or Blade keg dispenser thingies: https://www.beerwulf.com/en-gb/p/brewers/lagunitas...

Randomly, Lagunitas is on draft on the Hull to Rotterdam P&O ferry.

[Master Bean]

Getting back to what "craft" beer is. One man in an industrial unit Brewing one beer at a time. This is from Swindon behind the old Renault building.




It looks like a hazy pale ale but tastes like a classic English Bitter. Bit weird.

[Bert Cheese]

The last of a Vault City batch purchased during dry January, saved till last and finally cracked open tonight.
A sticky texture with lots of blackberry covering the Bucky, not that sour really but still good stuff.