UK Weekend Beerage

Winding up the weekend with White Hag's Bran and Sceolan - a juicy Irish IPA. Tasty....

 

Is it me or has St Austell's Proper job improved since they've slapped on that Cornish IPA slogan? A lot more crisp and less bready.

 

I had a bottle of Big Job the other month. Whilst it was okay the clean industrialised feel wasn't to my present tastes of hazy juicy bangers.

 

I've never been a fan but I swear it's improved in the last couple of weeks. Everyone go out and try one, just to prove my palate hasn't degraded!

 

Last night was a couple of Valhalla IPAs from Yorkshire Heart, a Wolf Rock red IPA which wasn't as nice, and finished off with a Yorkshire Blackout (better on tap than in bottle). For the rest of the weekend, there's a Boundary Filthy Animal, two Northern Monk Patrons Project (5.03 & 7.03), and an Evil Twin Even More Jesus, which is scaring me a little

 

I was in London at the weekend for the beavertown extravaganza event. I really enjoyed it and had about 15 100ml pours of mostly top quality and strong beer. There were some complaints I saw on social media about the Friday about stuff selling out quickly and long lines but the big lines were as you'd expect - cloudwater, omnipollo, trillium and other half. Most other breweries had small queues and that included other top quality like Mikkeller, alesmith, Buxton, de Mullen etc and even breweries I'd not heard of still had good beers.The only beer I did not like was a Brett pilsner from Arizona wilderness which was a flavour profile combination that should be avoided.

 

Tonight I'm drinking Brett the hitman tart by marble. Brett tastes much more favourable in this beer.

 

Great Friday night @ Bristol Craft Beer Festival :

Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion, Easy Jack
Verdant Even Sharks Need Water
The Kernel Damson Sour
Lindheim Coolship Plum
Mikkeller SpontanTripleBlueberry
Siren Turkish
Lervig Hazy Days, Tasty Juice
Beerbliotek Not Guilty The OJ IPA, No Style without Substance
Deya Lemon Soda
Wiper and True/Stillwater Malted Milk Stout
Tempest Marmalade on Rye
Burning Sky/3 Floyds Burial Vault
North Brewing Full Fathom 5
Beavertown/Trillium Beaverillium IPA

Only touched the surface but still recovering . Really well put together event, only gripe the Beer Merchants bottle shop bizarrely had to close @ 8pm due to some issue (felt sorry for them) but still snaffled bottles of Lervig 3 Bean Stout, Black Acid and Omnipollo Sellasie for the cellar.

 

As they ought to be at the nearly £21 a pint you paid for them.

 

homebrewed centennial hopped brown ale - rather good if I may say so myself
WEST heidiweisse - the excellent hefeweizen from west, in silly 330ml bottle
a passion fruit pale ale from Old Worthy - so-so
Out of Range - east coast IPA from Loch Lomond, nice. from aldi no less too

 

It's Friday night so I'm drinking a Swiss IPA from La Nebuleuse....

 

Nice Zwanze Day @ Moor, Bristol yesterday :

Cantillon Fou Foune, Rose de Gambrinus, Nath, Gueuze and Zwanze .

Had a fair few bottles on offer, Gueuze, Rose de Gambrinus , Iris and Kriek.

Also put on a barrel of De Struisse XXXX 2016.

Zwanze beer this year was a restrained subtle tea based lambic. Personally I liked the apricot fused Fou Foune and raspberry Rose de Gambrinus but all were top notch.

 

Sounds like an awesome experience - Cantillon beers are always great. I tried Fou Foune a few years ago during a trip to Brussels and I still think it's one of the most amazing beers I've ever sampled....

 

I had a great time at Zwanze at the Kernel in London, but just FF, RdG, and the Zwanze beer on tap. No bottles. I would have loved to try Nath. There were 4 Kernel beers and a few more guest beers as well.

 

I was at zwanze day in Manchester at beer merchants. Had fou foune and mamouche on tap in addition to the classic and zwanze and a couple from boon and tilquin. Apparently there were a few bottles but wasn't really looking. Reports are some of them are up for trade already.

 

I have spent the last two days drinking Batham’s Bitter, the best beer in Europe.