All Things Beer!

Out on Thursday for my leaving do from work and there was a pumpkin beer on - I asked for a taster and it just had no flavour at all so I had something else instead. I think the difference is that here they are just putting pupkin in, whereas in the States they also put in pumpkin spices.

Off to 2 Wetherspoons this afternoon to check out the beer festival and use my CAMRA vouchers.

That's the impression i got about the 2 pumpkin beers i've tried, too.
Sorry about your job TM..happened to me 2 years ago; i can vouch that alcohol helps, so enjoy spending your vouchers!

Oh btw, currently in Musselburgh in the best pub in Scotland...Staggs! Drinking Tempest Into The Light, and expecting Magic Rock Highwire in later.

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Last week I was drinking all kinds of yummy things from the Tring Brewery

Last night I was drinking some Caringorm 'Ginger Rodent' 

Last night I was drinking some Caringorm 'Ginger Rodent' 

Sounds interesting... i tend to like the gingery ones.
I only had 1 pint last night... Williams Joker.
But Saturday night we were on the Titanic Golden Porter...gallons of it!  And it was gooooooood.

A feature about Black IPAs in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/nov/13/black-pale-ale-dark-forces-rising

CAMRA branch meeting last night... Hawkshead NZPA (6%) and Windermere Pale (3.7%).  I stuck to the low gravity, as it was a school night.  So glad I did... my partner is feeling very rough this morning!

Out for a steak tonight, and had a couple of pints as well... Kelham Island Pale Rider, which 'before the flood' (literally!) used to be superb and now is just... not the same; and Windermere Pale, which was stunningly nice.

I've been enjoying a few pumpkin beers whilst in America-  Though, oddly, or not, I have found a few over the top and not liked them.  Hit or miss I guess, now that everyone does pumpkin beer.   

I have also been enjoying some local Massachusetts craft beers
 
Tonight I met my mate out at a lovely pub, apparently one of the top 100 bars for beer in America- 
I enjoyed a
Oskar Blues Ten Fiddy (really dark stout)
Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA

Tomorrow night I'm off to see my cousin's band play at a local dive bar, so whilst I am sure plenty of beer will be drunk, I am sure no good beer will be drunk at all 

Tomorrow night I'm off to see my cousin's band play at a local dive bar, so whilst I am sure plenty of beer will be drunk, I am sure no good beer will be drunk at all 

Snap. Next week I've got to go to a colleagues birthday do, and then our works Christmas night a couple of weeks later... both at places which don't serve cask ale.  Probably end up on Guinness. 

Fab night last night at Inn Deep... Williams Brothers Double Joker IPA (8.3%)!  I was over the moon because I'd previously only seen it as a keg beer and as I've mentioned ad nauseum, I don't drink keg beer... but last night it was cask and it was beautiful!!!

We're going back this afternoon to see if it's still on.
Only problem with this pub (apart from the DIRE and TOO LOUD music), is the beer is priced by gravity, so a strong beer like this works out very expensive... £4.50/pint.

But it's a rare find, so we are willing to pay for the privilege! 

Bring on the Christmas Beers!!!

Just today, my friend down in Crawley posted me 4 bottles of Harvey's Christmas Ale! 

The Harveys Christmas ale arrived today, but I've got to plank it away as it's an anniversary present for HB.  So I'm just having a bottle of Harviestoun Mr Sno'balls, which is kind of... inoffensive, but not really remarkable.

We don't often drink bottled beer, cos the selection is often not that great (and because cask is so much nicer!), but all the amateurus drinkerus out on their office parties, etc force us to stay in quite a lot in December/January.

However, a new beer shop has opened in Glasgow... Hippo Beers in Queen Margaret Drive.  Excellent selection!  We were in there last night, and in addition to the presents we bought for other people, we came away with a few treats for ourselves:

Delirium Christmas (10%)
Ayinger Celebrator Starkbier (6.7%... but i really only bought it because it has a plastic goat hanging around the neck of the bottle!)
Highland Orkney Blast (6%)
and the sole low-gravity offering, Thornbridge Wild Swan (3.5%)

We might drink a couple of these tonight, but tomorrow we are going to a barrel party... a friend has brought back a barrel of German bier, and we'll go round there and drink, eat and chat till it's gone.

It never fails to amaze me how many weird and wonderful beers you manage to track down and try, Tracey!!

You are a true beer junkie!! 

Glenn