UK Weekend Beerage

I had a little comparison of BrewDog Punk IPA vs Hardcore IPA. Punk is my go to IPA because it's not a hop bomb and I can enjoy it. I really liked the Hardcore and the 9%+ I couldn't even guess it was that high. I've got some winners in the fridge for this weekend. Might tap the Cantillon Rose.

 

Boundary Brewing had their 1st Birthday last Sat, just recovered enough to post about it lol.
On tap over the course of the evening/night was:
Boundary Big. Ass. Stout. 9.26%
Boundary Chloe Dance. Raspberry Sour. 5.8%
Boundary and Galway Bay Brewery Border Hopper. Brett IPA aged in Chardonnay Barrel. 8.8%
Boundary Push & Pull: L.I.C. IPA 5.5%
Boundary Dêtre: Deux. Saison 6.7%
Otterbank Brewing The Vikings Are Coming. Pine Needle Berliner 4.9%
Otterbank Brewing Brett Wit. Orange & Coriander Wit, keg conditioned with Brett. 5%
Simon Lambert & Sons Pale Ale. Citra & Huell Melon. 4.8%
Simon Lambert & Sons Rosehip Schwarzbier. Black Lager aged on Wexford Rosehips. 4.4%
Simon Lambert & Sons Papaya Pale Ale - Session pale aged on 8 tropical fruits. 3.9%
Simon Lambert & Sons Honey & Red Tea - Amber ale, Wexford honey, South African Rooibos Tea, Vanilla pods. 3.9%
The White Hag Irish Brewing Co. Beann Gulban - Heather Sour (Aged in French Red Wine Barrels) - 7.5%
The White Hag Irish Brewing Co. Tuireann Ban - White IPA - 7.2%
The White Hag Irish Brewing Co. Fionnabhair - Wit Beer - 5.0%
The White Hag Irish Brewing Co. White Sow - Oatmeal Cocoa Stout Coffee - 5.2%
The White Hag Irish Brewing Co. Black Boar - Imperial Oatmeal Stout - 10.2%
The White Hag Irish Brewing Co. Meabh Rua - Imperial Irish Red Ale - 8.2%
Galway Bay Brewery 303 Tarte. Pale Ale/Kettle Sour Hybrid. 4%
Galway Bay Brewery Heathen. Black Berliner Weisse. 3.5%
Galway Bay Brewery Diving Bell. Salted Caramel Wee Heavy. 9%
Galway Bay Brewery Kompadd. Hopfen Dunkelweizen. 8.2%

It was a great night, the next day wasn't so great.

 

From Aldi Scottish Ale Festival for the weekend...

2 x Cromarty - Rogue Wave,
2 x Tempest - Cascadian,
2 x Inveralmond - Rascal London Porter,
2 x Windswept - Weizen,
2 x 6 Degrees North - Wanderlust wheat,
2 x Caledonian - Three Hop Lager,
2 x Eden - Shipwreck IPA,
2 x Laig Bay - Independence IPA,
1 x Top Out - Altbeir,
1 x Hebridean - Berserker.

All of those for less than £30.

Obviously got there a day late as the shelf had been cleared of Williams - Double Joker IPA and BrewDog - Jack hammer, both priced at £1.89.

 

I didn't see them either. Hopefully more turns up

I got a few of the beers there, having the tempest one at the moment. Tasty as always

 

Having one of those right now. Nice hoppy flavour without being overbearing and good session ale at 3.9%.

Inveralmond - Rascal - myself and Mrs. K both really enjoyed this, dark malt and mild chocolate flavour.
6 Degrees North - Wanderlust - both liked this too, combo of weissebier and a sour.
Eden - Shipwreck IPA - not like an IPA at all, in fact it reminded me of Pilsner Urquell.
Laig Bay - Independence IPA - this was almost like a DIPA, similar to something by BrewDog,
Top Out - Altbeir - thinnest Altbeir I've tasted, won't buy again,
Caledonian - Three Hop Lager - almost a hint of raspberry, a bit like Thrappledouser?, liked.

 

Got to love rocketfuel homebrew

Is the Caledonian 3 hop lager in a 355ml bottle? Interesting if it is, would suggest they are going to try and push into the 'murican market with that size. It says it is in the wee booklet I found at aldi earlier today

I'm drinking a Skye Tarasgeir, peat smoked pale ale. It's actually quite well done and I normally hate peat smoked beers. The only other peated one I like is the one Loch Lomond made that I can't remember the name of

Also had half a bottle of wine with my dinner

 

Yeah I had a taste of that while ago when visiting the old man. Was pleasantly surprised by it but only had a sip as was driving. It was almost at its BBE too, so I imagine it would be a rather good fresh on cask/fresh bottle. Pretty good effort for a Marstons brand

 

Disappointed that my local morrisons was out of lagunitas ipa so I popped into my local wetherspoons to get it, saw they also had pauwel kwak as well so had one of those.

 

Didn't know that, do you boycott karmeliet too?

Now drinking a little valley hebden's wheat.

 

Ah. Kwak is ok, not as good as la chouffe. I was just interested as they had it at a spoons so I thought that was impressive. Also they had chimay blue, la chouffe, Sierra Nevada porter and a generally improved beer range.

 

Yes, 355ml bottle.

Didn't get the Skye Tarasgeir, but might pick one up next visit.

 

Continuing my adventures in Dutch beers :

Jopen Ongelovige Thomas
Berghoeve Brouwerij Tevreden Oordeel
Reuz Black IPA

All pretty good the Oordeel being a nice double IPA.

Have ordered some Polish beers from here :

http://www.ebrowarium.pl/beerbycountries-c-22.html

Not bad @ £2.50 a shot for 500 ml bottles. Looking forward to sampling some before trip to Krakow in August.

 

I think Adrian Tierney-Jones hits it on the head with his description of Hobgoblin "Hobgoblin is a collaboration between the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz and a caramel-flavoured gush of insignificance".

 

An excellent weekend in Sheffield for GBBF meeting, much beer consumed at Sheffield Tap, Thornbridge Brewery & Kelham Island Brewery along with many excellent pubs visited.