[SpanishJuan]

Stuck in Limbo????? Beer Festival 21, 22, 23 October 2010 at the Pyramid, Warrington

[Grubes]

The grove in Huddersfield is having a meet the brewer evening on the 2nd of november. 
The company thats coming is brew dog.

If you have not been its a nice pub with a fuck load of different ales.

[SpanishJuan]

different ales is good. but brew dog is a bit wank. they have brewed twothree good beers and they dont do two of them any more. Drop the Punk shiiite and just do more dogma *squint focus on keyboard* qualty brews. less of the cheap publicity bollocks and strong beer wank.

have I ever told you how much I love all of you...


I do...


No Shiiite...


tonight I have mostly been dinking

maiden's cross - Frodsham - 3.8%
Chinook - Goose Eye - 4.2%
Expresso Stout - dark Star - 4.2 %
lemongrass & ginger - leatherbritches - 3.8% (sulphery and rank chucked half a pint away)
california Common - Knops beer company - 4.6%
wobbly bob - Pheonix - 6.0%
Old stoatwobble - Spectrum - 6.0 % (nice)
Hazelnut and Coffee Porter - Saltaire - 4.6% (exactly what it says it is... smoooth hazel nut and coffeeeeee..... lovely)
then california common - knops beer company - 4.6% (nice and smoooth)

you'ze lookin at my bird... well don't...

I feel sick...


I like you though.. you're my mate you are... night

[Falling Down]

  

[andy_e]

Chinook - Goose Eye - 4.2%

Very good one, this!

[Paul B]

Drop the Punk shiiite and just do more dogma

Well put.

Enjoyed a pint of Absolution with lunch at the Red Lion, Litton (also ate; not blow away but mine was the least interesting at the table).

[andy_e]

Enjoyed a pint of absolution at the hunter's after an epic trip down from norwood with steep icy roads and some serious driving! Well earned I feel.

[TobyD]

Cracking pint of Golden Newt  at the Lister's in Malham. Just the ticket when your fingers are burning from hauling on tiny undercuts and sidepulls

[Norton Sharley]

New Thornbridge run pub in the offing

The Greystones is certainly a vast improvement over the Highcliffe which it has replaced and the beer is well kept.  Sampled some t'other evening.  Prices are a bit extravagant though and I'm not a fan of Thornbridges marketing policy.   But since they sell good beer ... 

[tomtom]

Had a couple of pints of this last night... very good. Tasted like a milder guinness - rather like Whitbred best mild used to taste (but that was greater than 20 years ago!)

[dave]

New Thornbridge run pub in the offing

The Greystones is certainly a vast improvement over the Highcliffe which it has replaced and the beer is well kept.  Sampled some t'other evening.  Prices are a bit extravagant though and I'm not a fan of Thornbridges marketing policy.   But since they sell good beer ... 

Fuck me this was totally under my radar, and it is my local as fas as distance goes. The highcliffe was a fucking dreadful boozer, all carling extra cold and bigscreen premiership bollocks, good riddance i say. I hope this new reboot is a winner.

[richieb]

Alright beer lovers. Just wanted to tip people off about this boozer in the Trossachs with on board real ale minimarket and online shop.
http://www.theladeinn.com/microbrewery/index.php

Now I'm a proud Yorkshireman brought up on Tim Taylors but I have to say I've been well impressed with the Scottish ale scene since moving up and the lady running this place reckons they have the biggest selection anywhere.

If you like it pale I can recommend the 'Waylade', one of the house ales.

[iain_cbr]

Has anyone mentioned Wigan's finest micro brewery, Prospect?

THE finest beers to be had. Look out for em at your beer festivals. Gold Rush is fookin champion! It was just one woman in her mother in law's garage but she's gone all commercial now and has an employee.

http://prospectbrewery.org.uk/

[Will Hunt]

That Wooly Jumper is nay too bad. A nice dark beer that I could actually stomach.

[SpanishJuan]

I had a few good pints of Clootie Dumpling by the ORKNEY BREWERY


really nicely balanced beer, in fact it was marvelous. Anyone had any of the other brews they do?

[Dirty Lion]

Orkney brewery's Raven Ale is very good. Well worth a try

[iain_cbr]

On tap at local Wethers is SantiFreeze. Cracking brew.

[slackline]

Coming soon to a pub near you....²/₃ of a pint

[Will Hunt]

Om nom nom nom. Currently at Arcadia in Leeds. Nice taste of coffee but not too strong or off-putting (I usually can't stand the taste of it)

[tomtom]

Coming soon to a pub near you....²/₃ of a pint

I dont think thats as bonkers as it sounds.... whenever I've been in Oz, Ive thought that a schooner's about the right size... A half's just daft - gone in no time, but conversely a pints sometimes too big and will sit there and get warm/flat before its finished..

(thats probably the reason for smaller beer measures in warmer countries - to stop it warming up before its finished..)

I await my smiting from all and sundry... MTFU comments etc...   

[moose]

2/3pint is a pretty sensible measure for the stronger beers that craft brewers are so keen on.  A full pint of a US-style IPA or imperial stout, like Thornbridge's Halcyon or St Petersburg, often feels a bit much - in both alcohol and intensity. But half pints are just a bit too thimble like.  Two-thirds of a pint is a nice compromise; most strong Belgian and US beers come in, and seem to suit, 330ml or 355ml bottles, which is the same ballpark (2/3pint=3870ml).

.....and tonights beers are Harviestoun - Old Dubh (aged in casks used to age 18yo whisky), Anchor - Porter (US interpretation of the classic London style) and maybe a Belgian if I'm still awake (Rochefort 10, Kasteel Bruin......hmmmmm)

[dave]

I'd actually be up for 1/3 or 1/4 pint glasses for beer festivals - would allow you to get round more ales before being shitfaced.

[moose]

I've had 1/3pint glasses at a fair few beer festivals - I think a bright spark CAMRA realised a few years ago that 1/3pint was still a legal measure.  The Wetherspoon's beer festival uses them too - instead of a pint you can get 3x1/3pintsof different ales.  Only 'problem' at festivals is that you end up only drinking superstrength beers... and it can all add up quite nastily!

[andy_e]

Absolution's on in the old bar at Leeds uni union. get in.

[Jim]

1/3 of a pint (or nip) has been used at the beer festivals for a few years now