I had this one last night...
Gouden Carolus Christmas beer. Expensive but damn tasty. It's probably the most complex beer I have ever drunk. Every sup was like an explosion on your tastebuds with different flavours going off everywhere. It was as interesting a drink as a very fine wine, if not more so. I wouldn't drink it all night, but I'd have one and savour it.
Ooh, I've never had the Carolus Christmas beer, but their normal stuff is some of the sweetest beer I've ever had (definitely on the "explosion" side).
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That's the present I've bought for my brother and father.
The box in the middle is some perfume for my mother and she gets a bottle of my favourite beer as well: the Weihenstephaner Vitus.
For my sister I've found an old pram she had when she was a kid. In it I've put a few fruit beers, a bottle of beer that's in a champagne bottle and a sparkling rosé wine. My brother has abducted one of her favourite stuffed bears ("Dotty:" he's a dalmatian,) and I'm going to include him clutching an empty bottle of beer and looking a little drunk.
got a bottle of 120min IPA and Miles Davis Bitches Brew from Dogfish Head for Christmas both of which I want to put away and age for quite some time, what would the best place to put these be? (or what is the ideal temperature?)
keep them cool, and in a dark place. So a cubbard in a garage or something. depending on where you live.
The word you're looking for is cupboard?
Perseverance Ale ~ Russian Imperial Stout
Jason said that unless I gave a review for this stout he sent me as my Secret Santa, he'd go wake up the bears and feed them my Kindle. Or something. So, here we go:
Brewed with tree blood (birch syrup) and bee vomit (fireweed honey), rocking 9% alc/vol and being 651 ml (1 pint, 6 fluid ounces for you backwards types) I half expected it to taste like black bread soaked in an idustrial grade solvent, on account of the history of russian imperial stouts - that is to say, being consumed by russians.
I'm not really a stout drinker either, but that might change: it was actually quite a nice stout - in my limited experience.
I don't know what birch sap really tastes like, but I assume that was what I was picking up a hint of each time I drank. There was also a slight honey aftertaste to it. I shared a glass of it with my dad on Christmas day. Not a very verbose man at the best of times, he informed me it was "quite good" and finished the whole glass in short order, so I'm going to take that as absolute approval from someone who knows more about stout than me.
Apparently it isn't really a summer drink (the court of Catherine the Great not exactly being known for beach volley-ball) but since we were having a pretty cool spell for a change I don't think it mattered. That being said when winter hits here I'll add stouts to the shopping list next year.
If you can raise the king's ransom necessary to import beverages from Alaska, you should probably investigate the Alaskan Brewing Co.
~ Fin ~
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On a thread-related note, I tried some non-alcoholic beer the other day and it actually tasted pretty good. If I can remember the name I'll link it. It was Austrian, I think...
So, some years ago a pub near me had this awesome ale that I at that time named 'the best I've ever had', unfortunately the pub closed (it had an absolutely awesome collection of beers and it was indeed a sad day). My problem is that Systemet (where Swedes buy their beer) doesn't carry this particular beverage, and while I just had them order some 5 a.m. Saint (from Brew Dog) for me, it was in their 'order online' catalogue, which my particular beer is not. So I searched for it online and found it, http://www.rogue.com/beers/dead-guy-ale.php, but the brewery doesn't sell it online.
Does anyone know of any good online shop that ships to Sweden? (Most I can find only stock shit beer).
Coming soon(tm).
<3 Entrox.
My fav beer, very easy to drink given how strong it isSo tasty as well.
I saw this beer at the grocery store : http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/dieu-du...-mortel/11461/
When I read "Strong stout with coffee", I knew I had to try it.
It's... impressive. Darkest beer I've ever seen, it's ink black. Very thick. Not as bitter as I expected and very drinkable. Smooth, earthy, molasse-like and I can easily taste the coffee.
It's quite an experience, give it a try if you like dark beers.
:Jealous: Quebec's craft beer community is amazing. If only the BCLC would carry Dieu du Ciel and a wider ranger of McAuslan products.
Has anyone been to the Brew Dog bar in Camden? Was thinking of going for my birthday for some sort of beer tasting extravaganza.
Ooh, there's a BrewDog bar in Camden? I'm sold. Their stuff's not bad at all; I've heard it described as more of an American style brewing tradition, and many of their beers seem to have a bit of that sour hoppy taste I tend to associate with US stuff, but they're still good.
I tried some of BrewDog's Tactical Nuclear Penguin a couple of years ago, their 32% beer. I really didn't expect it to be good at all, but it was actually quite nice; a great cross between strong beer flavor and burning whiskey booziness.
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Tonight was pretty cold and I was going to some party that I wanted to drive home eventually from so I swung by the bottle-o and had a look at the sixes and pints they had. I passed on the Little Creatures single batch longneck because it looked like a warm weather beer and opted for something I've been meaning to try for a while but never got around to (probably because with winter comes working weekends and not getting out to parties every weekend), the Monteith's Pilsner.
Turns out the party was next week and man was that a good thing because this beer is delicious and I really doubt I would have stopped at two. It's pretty hoppy and quite bitter but smooth and pleasant. It's substantial and malty without feeling like you're eating a loaf of bread. This is probably going to be my go-to sixpack until the sun peeks it head south of the equator again.
PS: I miss summer so much.
Last spring in Belgium:
Totally not a tourist thing, but was pretty decent.
http://rogue.com/beers/st-rogue-red.php
My current favorite. Not extreme in any way, just a good amber with a lot of floral hoppiness.
Will probably get some for the company picnic today.
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Awright, I have just tasted the worst beer I've ever had:
Imagine you don't like (a certain type of) whiskey; it tastes really smoky and awful, and you can't understand how anyone in their right mind would want to drink it. Now imagine you want to communicate that feeling to people in a beer.
This is that beer.
(For context, I'm not much of a whiskey drinker, mostly through lack of experience, and thought this was awful. Two of the guys I was with are big-time whiskey drinkers of all types, and also thought this was awful. None of us were able to finish the beer.)
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