**** Official middle-aged man's Craft Beer thread ****

[Bozza]

I seem to have migrated from cider to craft.

Long Blonde from Long Man has been my beer of choice in The Cyclist session ahead of each of the last two mid-week games, I was on Brighton Bier pale ale in The Set and when we had friends round on Saturday night I went for nearly the whole range of Firebird beers along with a couple of Goodwood organic lagers.

Possibly related, although I'd not considered it until writing this post, I've not shaved for a while and have the makings of a beard.

 

[vegster]

I seem to have migrated from cider to craft.

Long Blonde from Long Man has been my beer of choice in The Cyclist session ahead of each of the past two mid-week games, I was on Brighton Bier pale ale in The Set and when we had friends round on Saturday night I went for nearly the whole range of Firebird beers along with a couple of Goodwood organic lager.

Possibly related, although I'd not considered it until writing this post, I've not shaved for a while and have the makings of a beard.

Try the Long Man APA when you see it rather delightful, then you might like to try the Sony Experia Z5 Compact with unbreakable screen.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I seem to have migrated from cider to craft.

Long Blonde from Long Man has been my beer of choice in The Cyclist session ahead of each of the last two mid-week games, I was on Brighton Bier pale ale in The Set and when we had friends round on Saturday night I went for nearly the whole range of Firebird beers along with a couple of Goodwood organic lagers.

Possibly related, although I'd not considered it until writing this post, I've not shaved for a while and have the makings of a beard.

Hmmmm. Is it a hipster or real ale beard you're growing?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I seem to have migrated from cider to craft.

Long Blonde from Long Man has been my beer of choice in The Cyclist session ahead of each of the last two mid-week games, I was on Brighton Bier pale ale in The Set and when we had friends round on Saturday night I went for nearly the whole range of Firebird beers along with a couple of Goodwood organic lagers.

Possibly related, although I'd not considered it until writing this post, I've not shaved for a while and have the makings of a beard.

But welcome to the world of craft.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Sounds fantastic. Oddly, the Shnoodlepip was available at the Dripping Pan at last year's REMF; not quite to my taste but very interesting and innovative.

That's random. Similarly I first had the Dourdough on draft in Worthing.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Stone RuinTen Triple IPA

 

[big nuts]

Had the Brewdog Elvis juice for the first time this afternoon, hit the spot nicely.

Brought back home a Bison APA & IPA, a Island Record session IPA and a bottle of Burning Sky Easy Answers.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Just tried a bottle of Sam Adams new "Porch Rocker". Not too shabby at all. Slightly too sweet for me but very quaffable and a good summer session beer. Will go down nicely at the July 4 barbies

 

[lasvegan]

Just tried a bottle of Sam Adams new "Porch Rocker". Not too shabby at all. Slightly too sweet for me but very quaffable and a good summer session beer. Will go down nicely at the July 4 barbies

Had one this afternoon. Is it a beer or a shandy? 4.5%...

Nice though, a little on the sweet side.

 

[Questions]

Pretty much went through the Brewdog card at home for the game yesterday.
Vagabond - Hop Fiction - punk IPA - and then of course the Elvis juice.
I feel a little delicate I admit but must get out of bed soon.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

I want to set up a home bar - somewhere I can pull those pints etc. There are plenty of home bars you can order on the Internet made of various materials and styles (traditional, cocktail etc). Ideally, I'd like to see and feel what I'm buying for quality, robustness etc before purchase and just wanted to check if anyone knows any place that sells them? I'm not a DIYer, by the way.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Mikkeller George Bourbon Barrel aged Imperial stout. 12%

This is an old favourite of mine, it's as good as it gets.

 

[big nuts]

Pretty much went through the Brewdog card at home for the game yesterday.
Vagabond - Hop Fiction - punk IPA - and then of course the Elvis juice.
I feel a little delicate I admit but must get out of bed soon.

Had a bottle of Hop Fiction for the first time last night and absolutely loved it.

 

[Questions]

Mikkeller George Bourbon Barrel aged Imperial stout. 12%

This is an old favourite of mine, it's as good as it gets.

Just got back from Florence and returned to the Archea bar and microbrewery and they had Mikkellers Jackie Brown on as a guest beer. Have to admit I wasn't over fussed with it. It wasn't the hoppiness or the slight sourness, it's just with Brown ales I still expect a bit of sweetness to open with.
Very cheap at 5 euros for a 50cl on tap though.
Their own Dopplebock was stunning and even two of them at 7.8 didn't get too heavy.

It's a great bar is Archea.......and far from the madding crowd.

 

[Official Old Man]

MicroPubs
Just returned from a trip to Burton (again), the home of brewing. In thing there right now is the micropub. Three have opened in the last few months alone. They are just small shops with a beer, cider & wine license (no spirits). One doesn't even have a bar and another just a small counter. The ale is straight from the barrel which are racked in a separate glass fronted room with air con to keep cool. Most of these pubs (!) have only 3 or 4 ales and a couple of ciders but the ale is changing constantly with an 'on now, racked and coming soon' board.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Aldi are doing a selection of 18 craft ales at the moment £1.25 a bottle. Just been and replenished my stocks.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

 

[Albumen]

Firebird Paleface is a bit punchyzesty.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Probably scare mongering but could Obamacare put some craft brewers out of business ? New legislation will require brewers to put more information including a detailed calorie count on their labels

 

[Peter Grummit]

Right, I need your help NSC beer monsters.

I want to take a couple of dozen cans of decent beer to Glasto, in the 4-5% range. Some need to be blonde beer as that's what my missus goes for. I need to be able to pick them up in the Brighton/Lewes area tomorrow.

What and where would you recommend?

Cheers!

PG